The seven simple rules to get more traffic for your website or blog

There are some important rules to follow when you want more traffic and want your  pages to be indexed by search engines. Follow these simple rules and see the difference.

Rule 1: Build your website or blog keeping the target audience in mind.

It is important to keep the website simple and easy to use for the users. Your website content should be so good, that it should compel the user to visit it again. Create a good first impression.

Rule 2: Provide a sitemap.

Providing a sitemap helps the user to find what he or she really wants.If you have a blog (registered with blogger), you can submit your atom feed to Google.

Rule 3: Every page of your website should have an accurate and a precise title tag.

Giving your website page a title tag makes it more appealing to users. Even Google considers this very important. The title tag should reflect the content present on the page.Please do not use inaccurate or unnecessary keywords in your title.

Rule 4:  Use a meta tag.

The meta tag is extremely important, as it gives a brief description your website. It is important to use unique description for every page of your website.


Rule 5:  Build your page URL with some thought

It really helps if you have descriptive categories and filenames for the documents on your website well organized. In addition it helps search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to crawl pages easily. This is important as a URL is also shown in the search results by a search engine.

Rule 6: Use the anchor tag.

The HTML anchor tags to navigate through a website easily. Popular websites like Wikipedia use the anchor tag wisely. It helps easier navigation of your site.

Rule 7: Follow good HTML standards.

Every HTML tag of your page should be closed properly. Follow the general standards and good practices. This will help you tremendously in the long run as your website or blog grows. This link is extremely useful.

VLC for an Android is finally a complete media player

VLC for Android has come a long way from its beta version. Gone are the days when it was buggy, slow and had a horrible interface.






VLC plays both audio and Video files, unlike the well renowned MX player which only plays video files.

The good part about VLC is that it does not contain any irritating advertisements and you get everything for free.

Audio Playback

VLC playing an audio file on Android device

VLC contains all the necessary features like playlist management, a very working equalizer, lock-screen controls and album art.

Video Playback

Playing an episode of Better Call Saul using VLC android

The video player functionality for android devices is as smooth as that in desktop. It contains the essential subtitle management options, cropping video screen sizes, and locking the screen when a  video is playing. 

A functioning equalizer by VLC Android

VLC for android has borrowed heavily from MX player here and hopefully it contains all the good stuff minus the irritating advertisements.

Facebook now allows 4 digit pin to register your new device

Whenever you log in to your Facebook account from a new device, you can now add a special 4 character pin.

This 4 character pin is required in addition to your password.





So, if you enabled log in alerts in Facebook and log in using a new device, you will now get an additional option to add a 4 digit pin.

4 digit Facebook pin

Facebook pin setup

Wooplr: A social search engine that helps you find great products

 

Wooplr helps you to find amazing products near your area.
It is similar to Yelp in many ways and it was founded by Ex-McAfee employees.

The Concept

People who use Wooplr share products which they have bought or find interesting. Currently the service covers major cities of India like Mumbai, Delhi,  Pune,  Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

The Web interface


The Wooplr interface is similar to Pinterest and is divided into categories.
You can like a product (Love it in Wooplr terms) which is similar to Facebook. You get notifications like Google Plus, Trends like Twitter.

In short, Wooplr has managed to get the best features of social websites and combine them together in an interface which is intuitive.

The Mobile Interface



As with all social websites, Wooplr has both Android and iPhone applications.

The Android app is very easy to use and is similar to Path's mobile application.
The service too has a mobile web interface which is a little sluggish since it use
s Jquery Mobile.

Player Pro : A professional music player for your Android phone

 

There are a lot of music players present at Google Play.
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Player Pro is not free but if you are willing to pay a small amount, you will have one of the best apps ever made to play music.

Interface

The Player Pro has a typical dashboard interface, playlists, genres and folder views which is seen in most modern players. The current playing song is always displayed at the bottom of the screen.

Features

Equalizer

The equalizer is powerful and comes bundled with a set of presets.
It is very easy to use and highly customizable.


Player Pro also has a separate DSP pack at Google Play for free.






Widgets

You can choose between 5 different home screen widgets with a wide range of configurable options.



Also there are 2 different lock screen widgets (4x2 and 4x4) with a wide range of configurable options: unlock slider selection, skip tracks using volume buttons, swipe gestures, background selection, controls selection, time display, skin selection, etc.



Built -in Sleep Timer

Shake to Switch

How to download VEVO videos on YouTube not available in your country

It is really frustrating to get a message on YouTube that states Vevo has decided to block videos for your country or Vevo is not available in your country. However with the help of a trick in Firefox you can access and download those videos.



What you will need to carry out the trick

1.  Firefox Web Browser
2. User Switcher addon for Firefox

Step 1: Configure User Switcher

In Mozilla Firefox, select Tools. Click  Default User Agent and click iPhone 3.0. Now Firefox will act as an iPhone.

Step 2: Visit the Vevo video channel  on  YouTube

Consider a VEVO channel for Beyonce: beyonceVEVO.

Hover your mouse pointer on a video you want to download and press right click Copy Link Location. Now open Notepad or  any other text editor and paste the contents (Press control + v on windows).

You will get something like this

 To do this you have to make three changes to the above URL in notepad
1. Delete m. before youtube.com at start
2. Delete client=mv-google#/ in middle

3. Delete client=mv-google at the end


So the final URL will be like

            
Step 3:  Download YouTube video

Go to Keepvid.

Copy the modified URL from notepad and paste it in Keepvid site and press the Download button.
Now download the videos by  clicking on any of the the four links shown in green.

How to Activate WhatsApp Voice Calling

 

 WhatsApp's voice calling feature is now available to all Android users. The world's most popular messaging app with over 700 million monthly active users only introduced this feature recently and rolled it out gradually to its Android users.


 If you are not an Android user, you'll just have to wait a little longer to get this feature. But if you use Android, and haven't yet activated voice calling on

 WhatsApp, what are you waiting for?
The process isn't as simple as updating WhatsApp to start using the voice calling features. It involves a couple more steps that you need to follow. We've described these below, so take a look to enable voice calling on WhatsApp for Android.

1. Download the latest version of WhatsApp for Android from here. The latest version on WhatsApp's website is 2.12.7, but if you're downloading from Google Play, ensure that your device has version 2.11.561. Older versions don't support this feature for all users.
2. Once you have the latest version of WhatsApp installed on your Android phone, ask someone who has WhatsApp calling enabled to make a WhatsApp call to your number.
3. Multiple users have reported that giving a missed call doesn't work. You'll have to receive the call and wait for a few seconds before disconnecting to activate WhatsApp voice calling.
4. When the feature is enabled on your smartphone, you'll see a new three-tab layout on WhatsApp, one each for Calls, Chats and Contacts.