What Is Success....?

What Is Success....?

This past weekend I was browsing through my RSS reader, and I came across an interesting post titled What is success? Impact.

The author is basically questioning what should be considered success (on a professional level), and he comes to the conclusion that success should be measured as the positive impact his work will have upon the lives of other people.

The article caught my attention because I have the exact same opinion.

Obviously I don’t think there is right or wrong as to how we define success. The term itself is a subjective thing, so what success means to you might be different from what it means to me or other people, and this is perfectly fine.

That being said, I think it is useful to discuss about such definitions, because it helps us to analyze whether or not we are moving in the right direction.

For example, most people tend to equate success with money. That is, the more money you make, the more successful you are. But under this definition one could argue that a drug dealer who makes millions of dollars annually is a very successful person. I don’t agree with this. I could give you that such drug dealer is a savvy businessman, but I wouldn’t call him successful, because the impact he has on the life of other people is actually a very negative one. The same thing could be said about online spammers, scammers and so on.

Now take Linus Torvalds as another example. He is the founder of the Linux movement, which created one of the most successful open source projects to date, and enabled millions of people to use a free and very reliable operating system. I am not sure how rich he is, but even if he was broke I would call him a successful person, because he had a huge impact on the lives of people from around the world.

Note that these things are not mutually exclusive either. In other words, it is possible to make a lot of money and have a positive impact in the lives of many people at the same time (and often times they go together). Just think about Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page and Sergei Brin.

But, I suspect that these folks were first and foremost motivated by the possibility of making something big that would impact many people. As Steve Jobs say, by the possibility of putting a dent in the universe. Sure, they were no philanthropists, so the money was welcome too, but I don’t think it was the only nor the main thing they were pursuing.

Which leads us to one question: are you working to make as much money as possible, or to make as big an impact as possible?

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What Is Success....?

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What Is Success....?

This past weekend I was browsing through my RSS reader, and I came across an interesting post titled What is success? Impact.

The author is basically questioning what should be considered success (on a professional level), and he comes to the conclusion that success should be measured as the positive impact his work will have upon the lives of other people.

The article caught my attention because I have the exact same opinion.

Obviously I don’t think there is right or wrong as to how we define success. The term itself is a subjective thing, so what success means to you might be different from what it means to me or other people, and this is perfectly fine.

That being said, I think it is useful to discuss about such definitions, because it helps us to analyze whether or not we are moving in the right direction.

For example, most people tend to equate success with money. That is, the more money you make, the more successful you are. But under this definition one could argue that a drug dealer who makes millions of dollars annually is a very successful person. I don’t agree with this. I could give you that such drug dealer is a savvy businessman, but I wouldn’t call him successful, because the impact he has on the life of other people is actually a very negative one. The same thing could be said about online spammers, scammers and so on.

Now take Linus Torvalds as another example. He is the founder of the Linux movement, which created one of the most successful open source projects to date, and enabled millions of people to use a free and very reliable operating system. I am not sure how rich he is, but even if he was broke I would call him a successful person, because he had a huge impact on the lives of people from around the world.

Note that these things are not mutually exclusive either. In other words, it is possible to make a lot of money and have a positive impact in the lives of many people at the same time (and often times they go together). Just think about Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Larry Page and Sergei Brin.

But, I suspect that these folks were first and foremost motivated by the possibility of making something big that would impact many people. As Steve Jobs say, by the possibility of putting a dent in the universe. Sure, they were no philanthropists, so the money was welcome too, but I don’t think it was the only nor the main thing they were pursuing.

Which leads us to one question: are you working to make as much money as possible, or to make as big an impact as possible?

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Basic SEO Settings For Wordpress Which We Forget

Basic SEO Settings For Wordpress Which We Forget

Actually there are a lots of things which we you might be doing for Search Engine Optimisation, but we most of the times forget that there are few basics which can produce very good results for you. Few of my Secrets I am Sharing with you.

    All In One SEO Pack :-  install all in one seo pack plugin in ur wordpress and after writing a post, always fill in the meta title, keywords, description, etc etc fields, Slugs are automatically prepared by this plugin, just develop habit of spending 3 minutes more before publishing a post to write the kewords, description, etc, this plugin will help you with columns to write the above fields.

    PERMALINK SETTINGS :-  this is what we always never care of  whenever you see any post of mine, you will see that the url posted on the address bar is comprised of the title of the post separated with “-” (hyphen signs), these links are known as permalinks.  This wil help you a lot in automated SEO and increasing rankings in Google and major search engines, cos its the URL which is the first key to SEO, well i belive in it personally, dont know what othere say or think.

How to Change Permalinks in wordpress?

     3. Google Analytics Plugin :-  installing a google analytics plugin helps not you but the Search Engines to trace ur website and index it inside them. this tool will also help you in getting the reports of the traffic coming inside.

     4. Google Sitemap Plugin :-  According to all major SEO’s I have heard always that Sitemap is the first guideline of google, so having a sitemap in your website will help the major search engines again, if you have read my earlier posts i had written the post about websites navigation or website’s architecture..

   if you havent read it yet go here: http://diwakardhyani.in/website-architecture-and-on-page-optimisation/

    5. Installing a Social Media Sharing Plugin :-  If you remember or have read the previous posts i had mentioned to use Social Media this is the best off page optimisation and has a weightage of +3. like you can see mine too.. there is a plugin with the help of which the article can be liked or shared.

     6. Privacy Settings :- Site Visibility: Select “Allow it for search Engines”

what else…. Buddy…     Dare to Dream… and please let me know that you are loving my articles.. hehe

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Basic SEO Settings For Wordpress Which We Forget

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Basic SEO Settings For Wordpress Which We Forget

Actually there are a lots of things which we you might be doing for Search Engine Optimisation, but we most of the times forget that there are few basics which can produce very good results for you. Few of my Secrets I am Sharing with you.

    All In One SEO Pack :-  install all in one seo pack plugin in ur wordpress and after writing a post, always fill in the meta title, keywords, description, etc etc fields, Slugs are automatically prepared by this plugin, just develop habit of spending 3 minutes more before publishing a post to write the kewords, description, etc, this plugin will help you with columns to write the above fields.

    PERMALINK SETTINGS :-  this is what we always never care of  whenever you see any post of mine, you will see that the url posted on the address bar is comprised of the title of the post separated with “-” (hyphen signs), these links are known as permalinks.  This wil help you a lot in automated SEO and increasing rankings in Google and major search engines, cos its the URL which is the first key to SEO, well i belive in it personally, dont know what othere say or think.

How to Change Permalinks in wordpress?

     3. Google Analytics Plugin :-  installing a google analytics plugin helps not you but the Search Engines to trace ur website and index it inside them. this tool will also help you in getting the reports of the traffic coming inside.

     4. Google Sitemap Plugin :-  According to all major SEO’s I have heard always that Sitemap is the first guideline of google, so having a sitemap in your website will help the major search engines again, if you have read my earlier posts i had written the post about websites navigation or website’s architecture..

   if you havent read it yet go here: http://diwakardhyani.in/website-architecture-and-on-page-optimisation/

    5. Installing a Social Media Sharing Plugin :-  If you remember or have read the previous posts i had mentioned to use Social Media this is the best off page optimisation and has a weightage of +3. like you can see mine too.. there is a plugin with the help of which the article can be liked or shared.

     6. Privacy Settings :- Site Visibility: Select “Allow it for search Engines”

what else…. Buddy…     Dare to Dream… and please let me know that you are loving my articles.. hehe

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Creating Htpasswd file for security

Creating Htpasswd file for security

HTTP authentication adds a secondary layer of WordPress security that protects the admin dashboard — or wp-admin — by requiring the user to submit further authentication. After creating the .htaccess file for protecting the WordPress wp-admin folder, you should create a username and password database file for HTTP authentication. In other words, you simply need to create an WordPress htpasswd file.

HTPASSWD files are used to protect your website or specific directories using HTTP Authentication, and contain a list of usernames and hashed passwords. Apache will use this information to authenticate users who want to access a password protected website or web page, by prompting the user with a HTTP Authentication dialog.

An .htpasswd file contains a list of usernames followed by the colon “:” character, and ending with a hashed password — similar to the example below:

steven:$apr1$k7QjkNty$tSd4grHRifUzCC8L9EBN51jones:$apr1$Z5SbWNdp$oJqAVhLCvVRMSgeEADeT6/

Creating a .htpasswd file

You can create an .htpasswd file using any of of two methods. The easiest and fastest method — ideal for beginners — is to use an online htpasswd Generator. The second method involves generating the .htpasswd file manually. The manual method provides more flexibility, although some technical experience is recommended.

The manual method

You need a tool called “htpasswd” in order to create a .htpasswd file. If you are running Windows you can install Xampp, or Apache web server for Windows — or any other similar server software that is typically shipped with the ‘htpasswd’ tool. To launch the htpasswd tool, navigate to the tool’s directory via command line. In a typical Apache installation, the tool can be found in the bin sub directory.

Once your command line interface is in the directory containing htpasswd.exe, type htpasswd.exe and hit enter. A list of available htpasswd.exe parameters will be shown for your reference. To create a new .htpasswd file, type the following command in the prompt.

“htpasswd –cm [passwordfilename] [username]”

You will then be asked to enter a password for the specific username. By default, the .htpasswd file will be generated in the same directory where the actual htpasswd.exe tool resides. You can use the ‘-c’ parameter to create a new .htpasswd file and the –m parameter to encrypt the submitted password using MD5 hash. If you wish to add more usernames to the current password file, just use the same command without specifying the –c parameter as follows:

“htpasswd –m [passwordfilename] [username]”.

Note: Installing Xampp or Apache on your computer requires a web server to be installed and running on your computer. If not configured properly, a web server could open a security vulnerability on your machine, so it’s not advisable to use any mission-critical computers if you’re not confident with this process.

Once the .htpasswd file is created, store/save the file in the same location specified in the .htacess file under the AuthUserFile directive. You can read more on how to use .htaccess files to secure your WordPress installation here: Ht access file and Security(learn more)

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Creating Htpasswd file for security

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Creating Htpasswd file for security

HTTP authentication adds a secondary layer of WordPress security that protects the admin dashboard — or wp-admin — by requiring the user to submit further authentication. After creating the .htaccess file for protecting the WordPress wp-admin folder, you should create a username and password database file for HTTP authentication. In other words, you simply need to create an WordPress htpasswd file.

HTPASSWD files are used to protect your website or specific directories using HTTP Authentication, and contain a list of usernames and hashed passwords. Apache will use this information to authenticate users who want to access a password protected website or web page, by prompting the user with a HTTP Authentication dialog.

An .htpasswd file contains a list of usernames followed by the colon “:” character, and ending with a hashed password — similar to the example below:

steven:$apr1$k7QjkNty$tSd4grHRifUzCC8L9EBN51jones:$apr1$Z5SbWNdp$oJqAVhLCvVRMSgeEADeT6/

Creating a .htpasswd file

You can create an .htpasswd file using any of of two methods. The easiest and fastest method — ideal for beginners — is to use an online htpasswd Generator. The second method involves generating the .htpasswd file manually. The manual method provides more flexibility, although some technical experience is recommended.

The manual method

You need a tool called “htpasswd” in order to create a .htpasswd file. If you are running Windows you can install Xampp, or Apache web server for Windows — or any other similar server software that is typically shipped with the ‘htpasswd’ tool. To launch the htpasswd tool, navigate to the tool’s directory via command line. In a typical Apache installation, the tool can be found in the bin sub directory.

Once your command line interface is in the directory containing htpasswd.exe, type htpasswd.exe and hit enter. A list of available htpasswd.exe parameters will be shown for your reference. To create a new .htpasswd file, type the following command in the prompt.

“htpasswd –cm [passwordfilename] [username]”

You will then be asked to enter a password for the specific username. By default, the .htpasswd file will be generated in the same directory where the actual htpasswd.exe tool resides. You can use the ‘-c’ parameter to create a new .htpasswd file and the –m parameter to encrypt the submitted password using MD5 hash. If you wish to add more usernames to the current password file, just use the same command without specifying the –c parameter as follows:

“htpasswd –m [passwordfilename] [username]”.

Note: Installing Xampp or Apache on your computer requires a web server to be installed and running on your computer. If not configured properly, a web server could open a security vulnerability on your machine, so it’s not advisable to use any mission-critical computers if you’re not confident with this process.

Once the .htpasswd file is created, store/save the file in the same location specified in the .htacess file under the AuthUserFile directive. You can read more on how to use .htaccess files to secure your WordPress installation here: Ht access file and Security(learn more)

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How To Protect Your Images And Text From Getting Copied

How To Protect Your Images And Text From Getting Copied

Well you spend such a long time in writing all those posts and some one just copied it and pasted it into his website..and You are writing emails to that person, complaining here and there, and you havent taken copyright or your article from any authority or Digital millineum copyright act, or whatsoever, so this is what you need to do:

    Go To Plugins

    Add New Plugin

    Search Sor “WP-Copyright-Protection” 
    Plugin

    Click On Install........ After That Press,

    Activate Plugin

What is WP-Copyright-protection plugin?

Simple copyright protection for your images and text.

A simple way to protect the content on your website. For most browsers: disables text copy, image copy and will keep your site out of an iframe.

This plugin is clean and easy.

NOTE: I still do not recommend Copyright plugin for those people who want to work on SEO. I m not sure but it might or might not affect your SEO

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How To Protect Your Images And Text From Getting Copied

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How To Protect Your Images And Text From Getting Copied

Well you spend such a long time in writing all those posts and some one just copied it and pasted it into his website..and You are writing emails to that person, complaining here and there, and you havent taken copyright or your article from any authority or Digital millineum copyright act, or whatsoever, so this is what you need to do:

    Go To Plugins

    Add New Plugin

    Search Sor “WP-Copyright-Protection” 
    Plugin

    Click On Install........ After That Press,

    Activate Plugin

What is WP-Copyright-protection plugin?

Simple copyright protection for your images and text.

A simple way to protect the content on your website. For most browsers: disables text copy, image copy and will keep your site out of an iframe.

This plugin is clean and easy.

NOTE: I still do not recommend Copyright plugin for those people who want to work on SEO. I m not sure but it might or might not affect your SEO

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Quality Guidelines – Basic Principles

Quality Guidelines – Basic Principles

     Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as “cloaking.”

     Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you’d feel comfortable explaining what you’ve done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, “Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?”

     Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.

    Don’t use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

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Quality Guidelines – Basic Principles

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Quality Guidelines – Basic Principles

     Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don’t deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as “cloaking.”

     Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you’d feel comfortable explaining what you’ve done to a website that competes with you. Another useful test is to ask, “Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn’t exist?”

     Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to web spammers or “bad neighborhoods” on the web, as your own ranking may be affected adversely by those links.

    Don’t use unauthorized computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs consume computing resources and violate our Terms of Service. Google does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that send automatic or programmatic queries to Google.

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