The Fastest Possible Ways to Improve Alexa Rank

Certainly Google Page Rank or PR is the most effective and reliable way to estimate the value of a website or blog. No other method is as dependable as PR. But recently Alexa Ranking is becoming a popular ranking method. 

In PR system a site is valued in a scale from 0 to 10. The higher the PR the higher is the rank. In this system thousand of websites might have a same rank. For example, both Google and Facebook's rank is PR 9. 

But in Alexa Ranking the sites are ranked from 0 to last. The lower the position the higher is the ranking. Though Alexa Ranking is still not as popular as PR even many advertisers are interested in it. And hopefully it will be a popular ranking method in the near future. 

Today I will tell you about the best effective ways to improve the Alexa Rank of your site. If you follow these methods properly I'm sure you can easily take your site from 10,000,000 to 100,000 within just 1 month! 

I'm recommending you the following 8 tips. 

1. Update your site regularly. I mean write new posts on a regular interval. Otherwise your rank will fall.
2. Create Back Links of your site in those sites which have more traffic. 
3. Insert Alexa Traffic Widget in your site. Know more. 
4. Use Alexa Toolbar in your browser when browsing your site. And all tell your friends to visit your site with Alexa Toolbar installed.fatemayesmen.blogspot.com Toolbar can also increase your rank. Know more. 
5. Claim your site in Alexa. Know more. 
6. Create an Alexa Toolbar for your site. Know more. 
7. Place a Review Widget in your site. And write reviews of your site in Alexa. Tell your friends to write reviews of your site.  Know more. 
8. Submit your site in different search engines to increase links. Know more. 

And don't forget that visitors are the king! Try to increase your site's visitors. Make sure that your site is: 

• Fast
• Easy to navigate and user friendly
• Good Looking
• Responsive (If user ask something)
• Useful (Contents should be popular)

Get Weather Forecast by Windows 8 Weather App!

If you're a regular visitor of this site then you might know that several posts have been made about Windows 8. Several times I mentioned about Weather Forecast app of Windows 8. 

Previously I wrote about Windows Reader. Today I will try to give you a detailed information about Weather app. 

This app is named as Weather or Bing Weather. And specially made for Windows 8. And it is not readily available for Download. It is bundled with Windows 8. 

If you're connected to online you can view the world weather through this weather app. It collects information from the server and shows you updates. You can get 10 days weather forecast with historical data. You can also search your desired location and get information of it. 

How to use it? 

This app is very handy to use and easy to navigate. To use this app press the Start Button and click on weather app tile. Immediately it will run full screen. 

• To find a particular city- Click right button of your mouse and then hit on places button from the top. Then hit on + button and type the name of the city and choose it from the list. 
• To see the world weather- Click right button of mouse and choose World Weather. Then click on your desired location in the map and get the necessary information.
• You can also view the historical data, hourly forecast and 10 days forecast of a particular location by this app.

10 Exceptional Features of Windows 8

Use Alexa Toolbar Get Higher Ranking on Alexa !!

Alexa is a popular ranking site. The main feature of Alexa ranking is that, it ranks the sites from 1 to last. Just few months ago, Google was top in the alexa ranking. But few days ago it loses its first position to Facebook. 

Though alexa ranking doesn't matter much for a site. But day by day alexa ranking is getting importance. Sometimes it is very difficult to compare some sites if they have same Page Rank in Google. But in alexa ranking there is no chance to get same position. 

When you use Alexa Toolbar in your browser (only Firefox, Google Chrome and IE) it sends data to their server. It measures how much time do you spend on a site. And how much time you gave on that site. It also shows you the ranking of a website in search result. 

It measures the rank of a site based on: 

• How much time a person spend on a site
• How much pageviews does he made
• How many people visit the site within a particular time
• From where the visitors come to the site 

All of the above data are collected by Alexa Toolbar. So if you visit your site with Alexa Toolbar installed on your browser, then I can guarantee that your alexa ranking will increase significantly. 

Suppose your alexa ranking is 20500000. If you use alexa toolbar and browse your site your ranking will be less than 300000 !! And if some of your friend visit your site with alexa toolbar, your ranking will be less than 10000 ! 

So why do you avoid this chance? Install it now in your browser. 

To install the alexa toolbar visit this site- http://www.alexa.com/toolbar. Then click on Install Alexa Extension. Then follow the steps that appears in your browser. 

And if you're using Google chrome then you can directly click here. Currently, you can use this toolbar only with Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Make sure you're using updated version of each browser. 

My personal choice is Google Chrome if you wanna use Alexa Toolbar. Because it will allow you to use the toolbar both as standard view and and toolbar view. 

Don't forget to inform your friends about advantages of alexa toolbar. Because the more people visit your site with alexa toolbar, the higher will be your ranking!

How to Change the Drive Letters

Few days ago my PC got some problems. And I need to reinstall my Windows 8. After installing a fresh Windows, I got surprised! Drive D was missing from my drive list! 

What happened actually? D drive was automatically named as E. And all the drives' names were replaced by the next letter. Such as E with F, F with G and G with H. Though I don't the actual reason maybe it is caused by the new Windows, but I can show you how to get rid of this change. 

If you face the same problem, or just want to change the name of your drives, you can follow my instruction. 

1. Right click on My Computer icon from desktop and select Manage.
2. Now hit on the Disk Management from the left panel.
3. Here you will get the list of your drives.
4. Then right click on any drive that you wanna change, and hit on Change Drive Letter and Paths.
5. Now Click on the Change and Select another letter for this drive from drop down list. 
6. Finally hit on the OK button for twice. Open your Explorer to see the change.

Find your IP Address and Get Detailed Information about any IP Address!

Many days ago I wrote about how to find your IP address. And in this post I'm gonna write something more for you. If you read this post carefully, you will be able to know

• How to find IP address
• How to collect detail information about an IP including its location, ISP etc
• Whether it is blacklisted or not
• How to Trace Email

Not only the above, but also you can do many things with the sites I'm sharing with you right now.

There are many sites available in the web for doing these tasks. But I am recommending you only the following sites:

1. WhatIsMyIPAddress.com
2. IP-LOOKUP
3. WhatIsMyIP.com

But my personal choice is the first one. I mean What Is My IP Address. Let's start our operation. 

Click here to start. And let the page load in your browser. Now you will notice your IP at the screen as below.

Here you can see the detailed information about your own IP. If you wanna know something about any other IP then type its address in the Additional IP Details box and press on it. It will show you the full information about it.

You can also check whether an IP is blacklisted or not. Click here to start this operation. And you should type the IP address if it is not your own IP in the check black list box. 

If you wanna check from where an email is sent to u then click here. 

And you'll get the all services here at a glance provided by this site. 

Guidelines before and after Getting AdSense!

This topic might be very useful for those who wanna place AdSense Ad in their websites or blogs. In this post I'm giving you some guidelines that maybe useful for you to get Adsense and to maintain it after getting this. 

If you carefully follow these guidelines, it will be easier for you to earn some cash from Adsense. Otherwise you may suffer just like me! Regular visitor of this site should know that I've already rejected 4 times from AdSense Program! And waiting to be rejected for the 5th time! 

Let's start our AdSense concern. AdSense provide a specific set of rules for publishers. You can find it here- AdSense Program Policy. But very few of them read this carefully and consequently they suffer and lose their account. 

So I will try my best to make the rules clear to you. Let's start. 

To Get AdSense (Before getting Ad): 

• Your site must be easy to navigate. And it should be user friendly. 
• It shouldn't contain any types of illegal, matured, adult or violent contents.
• It shouldn't redirect users to unwanted websites.
• It shouldn't contain any copyrighted material.
• It shouldn't contain any types of hacking, cracking or gambling related contents.
• It shouldn't contain any 
• Don't place any third party Ads (Although AdSense allow this). 
• Your site should have sufficient visitors. But make sure that it doesn't get traffic only from a certain source. And never participate any paid-to-click program to increase your site traffic. 
• And finally try to publish the unique contents that drives more traffic. 

After Getting AdSense- Be Careful 

• The very first thing you need to do after getting AdSense is to be careful. Because your AdSense account maybe disabled at any time! 
• Never click your own Ads. And not a single click to test. 
• Never encourage others to click the Ads by any means.
• Never try to make artificial clicks.
• Place the Ads in a way so that it does't disturb the visitors.
• The Ads should be distinguishable from your site's contents.
• And finally follow all the rules that you did before getting AdSense.

If this post is useful for you then please let me know it by your valuable comment.

10 Exceptional Features of Windows 8- Upgrade to Enjoy!

I've already written more than 3 posts about Windows 8. But all of these were related to preview versions. And I'm writing this post just after installing the Final Version in my PC. 

1. Built in Security for your overall PC protection! 
2. Built in Reader to view your PDF and XPS files! 
3. Live tiles that let you know the latest weather forecast, news updates, sports updates and so many.
4. Touch friendly and drag and drop interface that eases the use of mouse. Don't be afraid. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts for Windows. 
5. Efficient use of hardware.
6. Task Manager with new useful features. (Shift+Ctrl+Esc)
7. New apps for view image and video, using camera.
8. New apps for Mail, Messaging and connect with people. You can also integrate your Facebook account with Windows Mail. 
9. Great way of multitasking. Quickly switch between the apps. Press Alt+Tab or just move your mouse at the top left corner of the screen to switch the app. 
10. New Start Screen! That irritates many users. This is the most important visual change of Windows 8. But if you use this for a week, you will enjoy this. This new start screen will be useful for searching apps, files and settings too. Just press the Start Button and type your query. Immediately you will get the result! 

Facing problem to view My Computer Icon on Desktop? Click here. 

Activate Final Version of Windows 8 (All Versions)

Claim Your Site in Alexa: Increase your Ranking!

A common tendency of bloggers and web masters is to increase their sites' ranking. The most popular ranking system is Google Page Rank. A page is ranked from 0 to 10 in Page Rank system. 

And another method is getting popularity day by day. Yes, I'm talking about Alexa Traffic Rank.  This ranking system still not as popular as Page Rank. But in the future it will be very popular. Couple of days ago I wrote about the importance of using Alexa Toolbar. 

And today I'm gonna show how to claim a site on Alexa. Definitely, if you claim your site in Alexa, it will give you a higher ranking in return! 

Okay let's start our mission. 

1. At first create an account on Alexa following the normal rules as you usually do. 
2. Now follow this link to claim your site. 
3. Type your home page URL (ie. http://munnamark.blogspot.com)  in the Get Started box and hit on Claim Your Site.  
4. Now you will get the sign up option. Choose the Free option. 
5. There will be 2 options. Follow any method that is suitable for you. 
6. Then hit on Verify button. 

If you are facing problem to verify then read more about the 2nd option. 

Option 2: (Tutorial for blogger)

• Sign in to your blog and go to the design.
• Hit on the Template button from the left panel.
• Click on Edit HTML and proceed.
• Now copy the verification ID you got from option 2. Your ID will be looks like this-  1EQnm0p93wIjUt6s49kputZxfXQ
• Paste this ID anywhere in the head section as the image shows below. 
• To find the </Title> press Ctrl+F and type </title> then search.

Dot Net Framework 3.5 Not Installing on Windows 8? Fix it Now!

You may face a common problem while using Windows 8. Microsoft .Net Framework 3.5 is not installed with Windows 8. And several programs may ask you install this. And you can't install this from your PC. It will ask you to connect to the net and use Windows Update. 

By default Windows 8 comes with .Net Framework 4.5 and it doesn't include 3.5. When you try to install .Net 3.5 that you previously downloaded from web the you will see the following message. 

And you will get the same message while installing some some programs that is developed using .Net 3.5 platform. And you will not able to run those programs on your PC! This is a very bad job by Microsoft. A great trouble for Windows 8 users. 

But today you will get the solution. You've install this using command line. I mean you have to use Command Prompt. And surprisingly you Windows 8 DVD includes the .Net Framework 3.5! 

Now start the work:

1. Enter your Windows 8 installation disk on DVD Drive.
2. Now run Command Prompt as Administrator. (Hint: Press Start > Type cmd > Now right click on Command Prompt and hit on Run as Administrator from the bottom)
3. Now copy the following command and paste it in the command prompt window. Or type the following line in command prompt. Press Enter (To paste the command in command prompt, click the right button of mouse and select paste)
4. Now .Net Framework will be installed within few minutes. 

DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:h:\sources\sxs

Remember: h is the drive letter of DVD drive. Change it with your DVD drive letter. 

Don't forget to share this troubleshooting tips with your friends.

Place Alexa Traffic Widget on Your Site- Get Higher Ranking!

This post is a part of serial tutorial on Alexa. Earlier I wrote about- 

• Creating Alexa Toolbar for Your Site
• How to Claim a Site in Alexa
• Benefits of Using Alexa Toolbar

And in this post I wanna tell something about Alexa Traffic Widgets. If you're a regular visitor of blogs and websites you might notice some widgets than shows Alexa Traffic Rank of that site. But this widget doesn't only show the ranking of that site. It does something more . . . 

Guess what? Helps to boost the ranking. 

How? When someone visit a site and if there is Alexa Widgets, then Alexa got information of that site usage information from this widget. Thus it can increase your rank.  

Okay, I'm gonna stop the discussion and start the procedure. 

Method 1: 

1. Visit Alexa Rank Widget page. 
2. Now copy and paste your site URL in the box and hit on the Build Widget button. (ie. http://munnamark.blogspot.com)
3. After pressing the button you will get 3 widgets. You can choose any of them. Copy the HTML code from any of the boxes. And then paste it in your site. 

If you are having trouble to understand the process then follow- 

Method 2: 

  

To use this one, use the following code:

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://www.munnamark.blogspot.com"><script type='text/javascript' src='http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/a?url=http://www.munnamark.blogspot.com'></script></a>

To use this one, use the following code:

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://www.munnamark.blogspot.com"><script type='text/javascript' src='http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/b?url=http://www.munnamark.blogspot.com'></script></a>

To use this one, use the following code:

<a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://www.munnamark.blogspot.com"><script type='text/javascript' src='http://xslt.alexa.com/site_stats/js/s/c?url=http://www.munnamark.blogspot.com'></script></a>

Copy any of the above codes and paste it in your site in appropriate place. I'm gonna show you the way for Blogger only. 

Sign in your Blogger Account > Design > Layout > Add a Gadget > HTML/ JavaScript > Paste the above code in the content box > Save > View or Blog.  

Don't forget to replace the URL http://www.munnamark.blogspot.com with your site's home page URL. 

Activate Windows 8 Just by Double Click (All Versions)

Couple of weeks ago the final version of Windows 8 has been launched by Microsoft. Versions are- 

• Windows 8
• Windows 8 Pro
• Windows 8 Enterprise

These are the main versions which have other segments too. ie. Pro N, Pro VL, Enterprise N, Enterprise VL etc. 

If you've any trouble to activate Windows 8 you can solve it just by double click. Have any doubt? Try it now! 

Whatever the version of your Windows 8, a single activator can activate any all versions. Follow the steps below:

1. Download the zipped file from the link below.
2. Now extract the file. (It can also work in zipped condition)
3. Then double click on the file Windows 8 Activator.exe. 
4. Now within 2/3 seconds your PC will be restarted.
5. After restarting you will get some message about activation. Hit OK button in the all boxes that appear. 
6. Enjoy the benefit of full version. 

Download Link

If you can successfully perform this task, then your Windows activation status will be as image shows below:

Also read these posts if you face any problem with these issues:

• How to Install .Net Framework 3.5 on Windows 8
• How to Show My Computer Icon on Windows 8
• Built in Antivirus in Windows 8

How to create Password Reset Disk for Windows XP

Anytime you may forget your password. Or someone who knows your password may change it to challenge you! 

That’s why Windows XP has a system to create a reset disk for forgotten password. No matter how many times the password has been changed. This disk will allows you to reset the password until you re install Windows XP on your system.

And if you're using Windows 7 or 8 then Read This. 

And don’t be confused. This reset disk only work with your computer. It will not work in any other system.

To create a reset disk, all you need is just a USB flash drive and your current password (if any).

Let’s start-

1. To open Control Panel Press Start + R > Type Control > Press Enter
2. Double click on User Accounts and Choose Administrator
3. Now select Prevent a forgotten password from the left panel\
4. Press Next > Next > Type Current Pass (if any) > Next > Next
5. Finish

Caution: Anyone can change your password using this disk! So, keep it in your safe. 

Create Password Reset Disk for Windows 7 or 8

Measure Your Site's Speed with Google Page Speed

Page speed is an important factor to increase the traffic of a site. Survey shows that most of the people ignore the sites that takes more than 3 seconds to load. Though the loading time depends mostly on the net speed. But excessive use of flash, JavaScript, Images can down the speed of any page even on a fast network. 

In this post I'm gonna tell you how can you measure your site's speed. There are several methods. As a standard way, I'm talking about Google Developers.

Let's test the speed now.

1. Visit this page- Page Speed. 
2. Now type your site's URL in the box (ie. http://munnamark.blogspot.com) and hit the analyze button. 
3. Within few seconds you will get the result as below: 

The page Marks PC Solution got an overall PageSpeed Score of 94 (out of 100).

With this report, you will get some tips about how to optimize your site's loading time. Here are some tips to speed up your side: 

• Avoid unnecessary Java Scripts.
• Try to use compressed images.
• Try to avoid flash contents if possible.
• Do not place any unnecessary gadgets in the page

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Create Automatic Screen Shots of Your Tasks with Steps Recorder

Dear readers! Couple of months ago I wrote about how to create screen shot by snipping tool. Snipping tool is an easy way to capture image or screen of any window. 

If you're interested to know more about snipping tool then click here. 

Snipping tool is a manual tool to capture image. But today I will discuss about Steps Recorder which is an automatic tool to capture image or screen. You can use it for different purposes. Say for example, you can use it to make tutorial of something. When are writing about how to do something then you can use this tool to record the process with your written instructions. 

Steps Recorder is built in with Windows 8. But it was also available in Windows 7 named Problem Steps Recorder. Only the name of this app has been changed everything remain same. 

To start and use the recorder follow the instructions below:

1. Windows 8 users, Press Start and simply type Steps then choose the Steps Recorder. And windows 7 users Press Start + R > type psr > Press Enter.
2. Now it is active. To start the record press Start record. (Shortcut key- Alt + A)
3. Now do your normal job that will be recorded. 
4. Remember, when you click on something it will be recorded. And you will see a red button with every record.
5. Anytime you can pause or resume the recorder.
6. Once your task finished stop the recorder. (Alt+O)
7. When save box appeared press the Save button. (Alt+V)
8. Give a name to the file. The file will be saved with .zip extension.
9. When you open the saved file, it will opened with your browser. 

And while using this app, you may find many useful tricks. Don't forget to share your ideas with us. Comment below! 

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