PageRank or Alexa Rank? Which One Is Important

PageRank or Alexa Rank? Which One Is Important?

 Google Page Rank and Alexa ranking are two different ways determine your site's performance. Here is a little description of the two,

Google Page Rank 

Google Page Rank is a rank from 0 to 10. It is the way Google observes a website. It is mostly dependent upon how many quality backlinks the site has. However there are many other features that also count. Sometimes Google ban people from the ranking due to several reasons like copied content and black hat SEO tactics. . It is calculated from an algorithm (can be seen here :Wiki PageRank. )

Positive Aspects:

1. A good way to observe sites performance as it uses quality backlinks as a major factor. Follows an algorithm (attach algorithm link here Wiki).
2. Can ban websites with copied content.
3. Ranked by the biggest search engine in the world i.e GOOGLE
4. Mostly Page Rank is considered a major factor when buying or selling a site.
5. Calculated by Google itself which is major site that sends traffic.
6. Offers a toolbar named 'Google Toolbar' to check the Alexa ranking of a site

Negative Aspects:
Updated very late (3-4 months)
People can buy quality backlinks and get good Page Rank.
They do not provide a toolbar for their own Google Chrome

Alexa Ranking 

Alexa is a web directory and  provides free traffic metrics, search analytics, demographics, and more. Alexa ranking depends upon how many visitors you get daily.
Positive Aspects:

1. Updated sooner
2. Calculation is based on a dependable factor i.e visitor count.
3. Offers a toolbar named 'Alexa Toolbar' to check the Alexa ranking of a site.

Negative Aspects:
You can use a software and get as robot visits to your site and increase your hit count.

Conclusion:

Observing both the two factors it is seen that none of them actually is a perfect way to describe the success of a website. Both of them have their pros and cons. However PageRank gives an idea of how popular a website is in internet in building reputation and Alexa gives an estimate idea of how much traffic a website is receiving. In short both are important to receive handsome sponsorship and attract tons of Advertisers

Add +1 Button To Homepages To Increase Traffic

Add +1 Button To Homepages To Increase Traffic

 This is an important step that you must take the sooner possible. Google has expectations with this new social networking plugin and future ranking listings will be mostly based on personal recommendations based on your blogs and sites. We already added the +1 buttons below Posts in blogger and now it is time that you add one especially dedicated to the number of +1'ds made on your homepages. You can see this button added to the right of my navigation menu so that users could easily +1'd the homepage.

How to add +1 Button to Homepage?
Select a HTML/Javascript widget and paste the following code inside it,

<g:plusone href='http://www.blogtechworld.com' size='standard'/> 

If you want one like mine then use this code,

<div style='float:right'>
      <p style='font:12px bold arial, verdana; float:left; margin:5px; 15px;'>Liked us?</p>
<g:plusone href=' www.blogtechworld.com' size='standard'/>
</div>

Make sure to replace my blog link with yours.
2.   If you have previously added the +1 buttons to your blog then you can skip this step else continue. 

• Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
• Backup your template
• and search for this

</head>

and just above it paste the following code,

<script src='http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js' type='text/javascript'> {lang: &#39;en-US&#39;} </script>

  3. Save your template and you are done!

Which Social Networking Buttons Should You Use On Blogs

Which Social Networking Buttons Should You Use On Blogs?

Web Traffic a word heard everywhere and to achieve it, web owners will try every possible method to push themselves to a better level. In order to achieve web traffic the simplest and most effective solution is the use of Major Social networking websites. With the rapid advancement and development of Internet, more and more bloggers and webmasters are getting addicted to social tools and services for the purpose of inorganic traffic flow. Social networks are expanding widely and every year we hear of another name. By far there are over 350 big and small social connecting sites. Just a month ago we heard of Google+ and God knows how many more will evolve in future.

The question here is that which social buttons should you use in order to increase the number of your unique visitors and thereby daily page views. It really destroys readers interest when he sees too many buttons on your site, eating their internet speed with their heavy load time. Providing efficient and easy navigation to user should be our goal. If you add each and every social media buttons like Digg, reddit, delicious, Twitter, technorati, Facebook like button, Facebook send button, Google +1  button, linkedin, stumbleupon and so on then obviously you are increasing your web blog load time discouraging both visitors and search engines. Readers enjoy fast load time and search engine robots enjoy crawling data at a faster rate. According to Google new webmaster guidelines, all websites with slow load time are penalized by Google and will be ranked low in SERP (Search Engine Result Page). So lets select the best traffic value buttons for your blogs.
Give Priority To Big Social Networks
By big I mean social networking websites with extremely high traffic and audience value. Use social buttons which have the greatest number of online registered users for example Facebook. It has around 750 Million active registered users. The probability that your visitor is a Facebook user is near to 90% so make sure you Keep Facebook at the top of your priority list. Second comes Twitter with 175 Million users.  Third comes the new social Giant though new but soon it will expand like fire and this new giant is of course Google+. Fourth comes LinkedIn with over 100 Million active users.

Social Networks That Counts Second

nnNow lets look at the traffic value of some other social networking sites that comes in our second priority list.

These names include Stumbleupon with 7 Million users, Digg with approximately 1 Million registers users and reddit.

Now here goes the order of priority from best to least best:

1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Google+
4. Linkedin
5. StumbleUpon
6. Reddit
7. Digg

You must Keep the first 4 buttons as the main social sharing buttons on your blogs and keep others on Addthis Share button which contains over 350 social networking sites. This way you keep the load time performance of your blog high and will receive a handsome traffic in return.

What buttons do we use?

You can see Twitter, Facebook Like, Stumbleupon and Google+ buttons as our main focused buttons on OUR Blog and that is contradictory to the priority list I shared above. I have skipped Linkedin because it is mostly used by business professionals and my site does not address them therefore I have used stumbleupon instead. So you should decide yourself which buttons are more important for your blog's growth and success.

You can use the following social networking widgets for customizing your blogs:

    * Add Social Networking buttons below titles
    *  Social Networking widget below posts

I have published many widgets on social networking buttons. You can use the search box above to choose the best widget design for your blog.

 

 

Create a Contact Form With File Upload Option

Create a Contact Form With File Upload Option

The contact form that I am using on this blog is from emailmeform and it is all free but customized using CSS. I previously published a post on how to customize contact form provided by emailmeform but later due to change in the coding provided by them the styling do not work for new forms so today we will learn to create a simple contact form with no company Ads and along with an upload option that will allow your visitors to send you files straight from your website. The files can be a text file, video, audio, pdf, gif, png, anything. Follow these steps

Create a Free Web Contact Form

Sign up for a free account at emailmeform
Once you are registered click the "Add a Form" button and choose the form builder option

Keep your form simple with some important fields only like Name, Website URL, Email, Age, Country, Subject and Message. The form builder looks like this,

The form builder has blue buttons at left and display at right. When you click a button on left the effect is displayed on right. Now kindly follow as I instruct for keeping things simple and for creating a simple but informative contact form.
Follow this order:

1. Click the Name button in advance section
2. Next click Web site
3. Next Email
4. Next Hidden Field. Now click the hidden field section on the right and rename it as Age
5. Next click Hidden Filed again and rename it as Country
6. Next click File Upload (Optional you can leave this option if you don't want users to send you files via email)
7. Now From the Basic section click Paragraph Text & click it to rename it as Message
8. To make a specific form option a must to fill then simply click that row and select required as shown below

Your contact form now must look something like this:

9. Click the Form Title and add some message there for your visitors. For example you can write :

We Love To Hear From You
Feel free to ask for any help. We will catch you back as soon as time allows

I just hope you may have found today's tutorial helpful. If you need any help please do not hesitate to post your question. Have fun buddies! :)

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PHOENIX BIOS Beep codes

This document gives troubleshooting tips for PHOENIX BIOS Beep codes when you hear beep codes and your desktop board does not boot up successfully.

PHOENIX BIOS Q3.07 OR 4.X

Beep Code	Descriptions / What to Check
1-1-1-3	Verify Real Mode.
1-1-2-1	Get CPU type.
1-1-2-3	Initialize system hardware.
1-1-3-1	Initialize chipset registers with initial POST values.
1-1-3-2	Set in POST flag.
1-1-3-3	Initialize CPU registers.
1-1-4-1	Initialize cache to initial POST values.
1-1-4-3	Initialize I/O.
1-2-1-1	Initialize Power Management.
1-2-1-2	Load alternate registers with initial POST values.
1-2-1-3	Jump to UserPatch0.
1-2-2-1	Initialize keyboard controller.
1-2-2-3	BIOS ROM checksum.
1-2-3-1	8254 timer initialization.
1-2-3-3	8237 DMA controller initialization.
1-2-4-1	Reset Programmable Interrupt Controller.
1-3-1-1	Test DRAM refresh.
1-3-1-3	Test 8742 Keyboard Controller.
1-3-2-1	Set ES segment to register to 4 GB.
1-3-3-1	28 Autosize DRAM.
1-3-3-3	Clear 512K base RAM.
1-3-4-1	Test 512 base address lines.
1-3-4-3	Test 512K base memory.
1-4-1-3	Test CPU bus-clock frequency.
1-4-2-4	Reinitialize the chipset.
1-4-3-1	Shadow system BIOS ROM.
1-4-3-2	Reinitialize the cache.
1-4-3-3	Autosize cache.
1-4-4-1	Configure advanced chipset registers.
1-4-4-2	Load alternate registers with CMOS values.
2-1-1-1	Set Initial CPU speed.
2-1-1-3	Initialize interrupt vectors.
2-1-2-1	Initialize BIOS interrupts.
2-1-2-3	Check ROM copyright notice.
2-1-2-4	Initialize manager for PCI Options ROMs.
2-1-3-1	Check video configuration against CMOS.
2-1-3-2	Initialize PCI bus and devices.
2-1-3-3	Initialize all video adapters in system.
2-1-4-1	Shadow video BIOS ROM.
2-1-4-3	Display copyright notice.
2-2-1-1	Display CPU type and speed.
2-2-1-3	Test keyboard.
2-2-2-1	Set key click if enabled.
2-2-2-3	56 Enable keyboard.
2-2-3-1	Test for unexpected interrupts.
2-2-3-3	Display prompt "Press F2 to enter SETUP".
2-2-4-1	Test RAM between 512 and 640k.
2-3-1-1	Test expanded memory.
2-3-1-3	Test extended memory address lines.
2-3-2-1	Jump to UserPatch1.
2-3-2-3	Configure advanced cache registers.
2-3-3-1	Enable external and CPU caches.
2-3-3-3	Display external cache size.
2-3-4-1	Display shadow message.
2-3-4-3	Display non-disposable segments.
2-4-1-1	Display error messages.
2-4-1-3	Check for configuration errors.
2-4-2-1	Test real-time clock.
2-4-2-3	Check for keyboard errors
2-4-4-1	Set up hardware interrupts vectors.
2-4-4-3	Test coprocessor if present.
3-1-1-1	Disable onboard I/O ports.
3-1-1-3	Detect and install external RS232 ports.
3-1-2-1	Detect and install external parallel ports.
3-1-2-3	Re-initialize onboard I/O ports.
3-1-3-1	Initialize BIOS Data Area.
3-1-3-3	Initialize Extended BIOS Data Area.
3-1-4-1	Initialize floppy controller.
3-2-1-1	Initialize hard-disk controller.
3-2-1-2	Initialize local-bus hard-disk controller.
3-2-1-3	Jump to UserPatch2.
3-2-2-1	Disable A20 address line.
3-2-2-3	Clear huge ES segment register.
3-2-3-1	Search for option ROMs.
3-2-3-3	Shadow option ROMs.
3-2-4-1	Set up Power Management.
3-2-4-3	Enable hardware interrupts.
3-3-1-1	Set time of day.
3-3-1-3	Check key lock.
3-3-3-1	Erase F2 prompt.
3-3-3-3	Scan for F2 key stroke.
3-3-4-1	Enter SETUP.
3-3-4-3	Clear in-POST flag.
3-4-1-1	Check for errors
3-4-1-3	POST done--prepare to boot operating system.
3-4-2-1	One beep.
3-4-2-3	Check password (optional).
3-4-3-1	Clear global descriptor table.
3-4-4-1	Clear parity checkers.
3-4-4-3	Clear screen (optional).
3-4-4-4	Check virus and backup reminders.
4-1-1-1	Try to boot with INT 19.
4-2-1-1	Interrupt handler error.
4-2-1-3	Unknown interrupt error.
4-2-2-1	Pending interrupt error.
4-2-2-3	Initialize option ROM error.
4-2-3-1	Shutdown error.
4-2-3-3	Extended Block Move.
4-2-4-1	Shutdown 10 error.
4-3-1-3	Initialize the chipset.
4-3-1-4	Initialize refresh counter.
4-3-2-1	Check for Forced Flash.
4-3-2-2	Check HW status of ROM.
4-3-2-3	BIOS ROM is OK.
4-3-2-4	Do a complete RAM test.
4-3-3-1	Do OEM initialization.
4-3-3-2	Initialize interrupt controller.
4-3-3-3	Read in bootstrap code.
4-3-3-4	Initialize all vectors.
4-3-4-1	Boot the Flash program.
4-3-4-2	Initialize the boot device.
4-3-4-3	Boot code was read OK.

IBM BIOS Beep codes

This document gives troubleshooting tips for IBM BIOS Beep codes when you hear beep codes and your desktop board does not boot up successfully.

Beep Code	Descriptions
No Beeps	No Power, Loose Card, or Short.
1 Short Beep	Normal POST, computer is ok.
2 Short Beep	POST error, review screen for error code.
Continuous Beep	No Power, Loose Card, or Short.
Repeating Short Beep	No Power, Loose Card, or Short.
One Long and one Short Beep	Motherboard issue.
One Long and Two short Beeps	Video (Mono/CGA Display Circuitry) issue.
One Long and Three Short Beeps.	Video (EGA) Display Circuitry.
Three Long Beeps	Keyboard / Keyboard card error.
One Beep, Blank or Incorrect Display	Video Display Circuitry.

AMI BIOS Beep codes

This document gives troubleshooting tips for AMI BIOS Beep codes when you hear beep codes and your desktop board does not boot up successfully.

Beep Code	Descriptions
1 short	DRAM refresh failure
2 short	Parity circuit failure
3 short	Base 64K RAM failure
4 short	System timer failure
5 short	Process failure
6 short	Keyboard controller Gate A20 error
7 short	Virtual mode exception error
8 short	Display memory Read/Write test failure
9 short	ROM BIOS checksum failure
10 short	CMOS shutdown Read/Write error
11 short	Cache Memory error
1 long, 3 short	Conventional/Extended memory failure
1 long, 8 short	Display/Retrace test failed

Customize Windows XP Bootable CD

Enterprise computer system or helpdesk administrators could make life easier by customizing original Windows XP bootable CD to include latest service pack.

Home users too, will be happier as reinstalling time shorten by using an Windows XP bootable CD integrated with latest XP service pack files.

Not a really complicated work to make a new bootable Windows XP CD that integrated with XP SP2 or latest XP service pack files. Here are the steps, which may served as reference to make a new Windows 2000 bootable CD integrated with Windows 2000 SP4 service pack files.

1. Go to My Computer, click on Tools menu, click on Folder Options, click on View tab, go to Advanced Settings, double click on Hidden Files And Folders, select Show Hidden Files And Folders option, deselect Hide Extensions For Known File Types checkbox, deselect Hide Protected Operating System Files checkbox.

This step is to turn on options to show hidden files and shown file extensions.

2. Assuming the D:\ drive has more than 1GB free disk space. Create a folders on D:\ drive, namely D:\NewXPcd folder name.


3. Open CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive where the XP bootable CD is inserted. Press CTRL+A to select all folders and files of XP bootable CD-ROM. Press CTRL+C to copy the selected files and folders. Paste the copied contents to D:\NewXPcd folder created earlier.

4. Download the full Network Installation version of XP SP2 to D:\ drive where the NewXPcd folder exists. After download completed, rename that single executable file (Windowsxp-kb835935-sp2-enu.exe) as XPsp2.exe filename.


5. Click Start button, click Run menu, type

D:\XPsp2.EXE /integrate:D:\NewXPcd


in the Open textbox, click OK button to start. When a message confirms that the action is complete, click OK.

6. Almost done. The D:\NewXPcd folder should contains the Win51ic.SP2 file. If this file exists, XP SP2 service pack files has successfully integrated.

However, simply burn an image of this folder contents would not able to make a bootable CD-ROM, as the original boot code from the original Windows XP bootable CD does not exists in the folder.

Microsoft doesn't provide a tool to extract the boot code, but suggests to use a third party tool called Bart's Boot Image Extractor (BBIE) to do the job.


7. Create a new folder at D:\ drive, namely D:\BBIE folder name. Download a copy of BBIE program and save it into D:\BBIE folder. If it is a zip file, extract the contents to the same folder.

8. While the original Windows XP bootable CD-ROM still inside the drive (assuming it is E:\ drive), go to Start button, Click on Run menu, type cmd in the Open textbox, click OK button to bring up Command Prompt windows.


9. Type cd D:\BBIE and press ENTER. Type bbie E: to get BBIE creates the Image1.bin image file inside D:\BBIE folder. Copy the Image1.bin to D:\NewXPcd folder.

10. Lastly, choose Nero or any others CD burning software to burn an bootable image format of the D:\NewXPcd folder contents to a blank CD, to make a new Windows XP bootable CD-ROM integrated with SP2 or the latest Windows XP service pack. 

BIOS Beep Code Definition

When power turn on, most computer system will first executing Power On Self Test (POST). If POST encounters any errors, it will generate beep tones (via the functioning chassis speaker), known as BIOS beep code, to alert the operator.

Different manufacturers might define different BIOS beep code definition. It is better to consult respective manufacturer for precise BIOS beep code definition.

Most of the BIOS beep code of an IBM compatible PC are related to random access memory (RAM) or central processing unit (CPU).

RAM related problems could be due to faulty RAM chip or improper RAM contact with RAM slot.

1. Disconnect power cord from power supply.
2. Unplug the RAM module carefully.
3. Clean the contact with non-static cloth.
4. Restore the RAM module carefully to the slot firmly.
5. Power on to perform POST testing again.
6. If that doesn't work, replace a known good RAM to eliminate RAM possibility.

CPU related problems could be due to a faulty CPU, overheat, or improper CPU contact with CPU slot.

1. Disconnect power cord from power supply.
2. Unplug the CPU with care.
3. Blow away dust found in the CPU heat sink and slot with a blower. Don't blow by mouth to prevent moisture accumulated within the contacts!
4. Restore CPU to the slot with care.
5. Power on the computer system for POST testing again.

Secure Your WorkStation with Deep Freeze

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