[Sitemaps] Creating Sitemap.xml for Non-WordPress Websites

Posted on November 2, 2009 by Inderjeet

Sitemap.xml file is an integral part of a good and optimized website. Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. By creating and submitting Sitemaps to search engines, you are more likely to get better freshness and coverage in search engines. Sitemaps are also preferred to be the first step while doing SEO (Search Engine optimization)

Creating a Sitemap.xml for a WordPress blog can be very easy. You just have to download a effective plugin and upload it on your wp-includes>>plugin folder and activate it and you are good to go.

But generating a sitemap.xml file for non WP sites like portals and forums etc. can be a bit tricky and cumbersome job. In this article today I will list some of the ways and tools on how to create sitemaps for your websites. You can generate sitemaps for your websites by using either of the following ways depending upon the requirements. Continue reading →

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Pidgin Chat client for Linux, Unix and Windows : Login to Multiple Chat Networks

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Inderjeet

Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It helps you connect with your yahoo, gmail, aim, MSN and more network buddies all at the same time. I am currently using the latest version of Pidgin on my Ubuntu machine (Pidgin 2.6.3).

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Pidgin is available for download for Windows, Linux and Unix platforms at Pidgin Download and for OsX it has a substitute called http://adium.im/ Continue reading →

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How to Install MySQL GUI Tools in Ubuntu

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Inderjeet

MySQL GUI Tools are a very good way to run queries and manage all aspects of your database is a very easy and interactive manner. You can manage users, processes, big tables, optimize queries all using these tools.

There are many ways to install MySQL GUI Tools in Ubuntu. The easiest way to add is running the some commands in the shell.

To Install all the Packages (MySQL Admin+MySQL Query Browser+MySQL Migration Toolkit)
Architecture independent files for MySQL GUI Tools
sudo apt-get install mysql-gui-tools-common

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How to Solve (Fix) Wi-Fi and Internet problems in Ubuntu

Posted on October 25, 2009 by Inderjeet

Configuring Wifi and Internet in Ubuntu.

I have been personally dealing with this problem from past 1 week. But didn’t get the time to solve this because of busy schedule. Some days back I installed Ubuntu on my machine and started playing with its features. Accidentally I somehow removed the Network Manager of Ubuntu, which is the default Gnome Network App in Ubuntu. At this time I didn’t knew how to solve this problem as my internet is not working now.

I tried searching from other machine but wasn’t able to get an effective solution. I tried many commands and tutorials but all in vain. These are some of the commands I tried.

  1. sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart – To restart network Daemons in Ubuntu and configuring the Interfaces
  2. sudo ifdown eth0 – To stop eth0 interface
  3. sudo ifdown wlan0 - To stop wireless Lan Interface Continue reading →

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Not able to access phpmyadmin in ubuntu – 404 Not Found Error

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Inderjeet

I just installed the LAMP (Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP) structure on my Ubuntu machine. Installing the structure is pretty easy. But getting it all running seamlessly is the another thing. After installing the things I typed http://127.0.0.1 (http://localhost/) on my Browser and it said “It Works”. But when I tried to open the phpmyadmin (http://localhost/phpmyadmin/) which is used to manage your MySQL backend and tables it shows the 404 Not Found error.

By Default your www directory is created here /var/www and the phpmyadmin configuration files are stored in /usr/share/phpmyadmin. So the trick involved here is to point your the later location or directory from your former directory. To do this open your terminal and run the following command.phpmyadmin_ununtu

sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www

This will create the pointer to /usr/share/phpmyadmin in /var/www

Now open the http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ and you are good to go. If you still face any problems feel free to ask and comment.

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How to Install Tweetdeck Twitter Client on Ubuntu (Linux)

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Inderjeet

I have recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty on my machine. Let me introduces Ubuntu to people who don’t know about it.
It is a Open source OS from Canonical, which can be downloaded free from web. It is available as both server and desktop editions.

After installing Ubuntu I have had to install day to day applications which I used everyday. One of them is tweetdeck which is a Twitter client. For Installing Tweetdeck on Ubuntu (Linux) machine, there has to be a correct install for Adobe Air suite on your machine.

These are the following steps that should be followed:

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  1. Go to http://get.adobe.com/air and download latest version of the Adobe Air (Adobe AIR 1.5.2 Installer).
  2. After downloading AdobeAIRInstaller.bin on your computer. Right click the file and got to Properties, then got to Permissions and check the box stating Allow Executing File as Program. (Properties>>Permissions). This will make sure the when the file is double clicked it is executed right. Continue reading →

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All in One SEO Plugin for WordPress – What you Really Should Know

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Inderjeet

All though the wordpress blogs are 80%  all ready on-page optimized for Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing, but there are still some ways to further optimize it to gain rankings and to remove some basic defects.

The most useful tool that comes in handy is the All in One SEO Plugin for WordPress.

This is one of the plugin I can’t live without. Some basic facts about this plugin.

  • Canonical URLs
  • Fine tune Page Navigational Links
  • Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality
  • Provides SEO Integration for WP e-Commerce sites
  • Nonce Security
  • Support for CMS-style WordPress installations Continue reading →

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Submitting Sitemap to Google – Google Webmasters Central

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Inderjeet

Sitemap is an integral part of any good website or blog. I must say that search engines love to see it. Sitemaps is also a good way of getting all your web pages indexed. While doing SEO the Sitemap is a great tool for SEOs.What sitemaps tell the search engine about your website is about the frequency of of changes in the pages of your website, the links to be indexed by the Search engine, the priority of the changes to different pages across the website.

Some of the types are:

  • XML Sitemaps
  • HTML sitemaps
  • ROR or Archievd Sitemaps
  • Mobile(XML) Sitemaps

Some of the Google Guidelines about why you should have the sitemaps as part of your website. Continue reading →

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