TechBuji.com » Startups http://www.techbuji.com/tips Web 2.0 and Tech News Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:40:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Legal formalities for starting a business in India http://www.techbuji.com/tips/2010/09/22/legal-formalities-for-starting-a-business-in-india/ http://www.techbuji.com/tips/2010/09/22/legal-formalities-for-starting-a-business-in-india/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:21:54 +0000 TechBuji http://www.techbuji.com/tips/?p=2087 A very well written article about the legal formalities for starting a company in India. A must read for all aspiring entrepreneurs.

Read the article.

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NB: Not all of them are open source programs. Some are free proprietary tools.

Free Operating System
Mandriva
Ubuntu

Free Office Suite
Openoffice
Google Docs

Free Browsers
Firefox
Opera
Chrome

Free Text Editing Software
Notepad++

Free Video Player
VLC

Free Image Editing Tool
Gimp

Free FTP Client
Fireftp Addon for Firefox

Free Blogging Software
WordPress
Blogspot.com

Free Content Management System
Drupal
Joomla

Free File Comparison and Merging Tool
WinMerge

Free Virtualization Software
VMware Player

Free Programming Tools
Notepad++
Microsoft Express

The list is incomplete. If you think I have missed some tools, feel free to add a comment.

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For Publishers : If you are trying to replace Google Adsense with some other high paying Ad Networks, then do not go for Ozone Media. Their CPC and CPM rates are too low to mention.

This is my personal opinion. May be for a website with huge traffic, the rates will be different.

There are some problems with the banner ad placements also. Sometimes the banner wont be positioned correctly in the page. I noticed that the text banner ads were shifted towards left side. And some 728×90 banner ads were shifted downwards.

[Update on 15-09-2010: I decided to give OzoneMedia a second try and this time the results are far better than the first. May be because of the good traffic I am getting on my websites. But Ozone can still improve the payment process.]

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The easiest way for an India based web startup to know the visitors demographics and audience characteristics is to use Vizisense.com

We can look up the details of most of the popular sites in India by visiting vizisense.com

For more accurate traffic details and for getting listed in vizisense.com(if you are too small), add a small Javascript script to every pages of your website.  Read vizisense methodology.

The following data are available from vizisense.com

Demographic Data

  • Gender
  • Age
  • Marital Status
  • Income
  • Education

Traffic Data

  • Geography
    • Top Cities
    • Top States
    • Countries
  • Site Visits
    • Page Views
    • Visits
    • Unique Users

See the traffic and demographic details of Bikes4Sale.in

Once you sign in you can add the Advertising and Sales information of your website which will be available for advertisers. And for advertisers, you can create different advertising plans using vizisense Media Mix.

Pluspoints : Very very easy to use (even better than Google Analytics). Gives an overall information about the website without digging deep into minor details. For small publishers, vizisense data can be added to their media kit. Advertisers can easily find the best sites based on category and target group.

Drawbacks : Sometimes the vizisense tags increase the page load times.  They do not provide any information about the users browsers and operation systems. And the product is still a little buggy.  May be thats why it is still in beta.


And they publish the Top Sites in India across different categories every month.

]]> http://www.techbuji.com/tips/2009/08/14/vizisense-com-review/feed/ 1 Quick Starter Guide for a Web Startup http://www.techbuji.com/tips/2009/08/12/quick-starter-guide-for-a-web-startup/ http://www.techbuji.com/tips/2009/08/12/quick-starter-guide-for-a-web-startup/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:09:20 +0000 TechBuji http://www.techbuji.com/tips/?p=1908 Disclaimer : The list is not complete. I am just noting down what i have learned by running Bikes4Sale.in . Correct me if i am wrong.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

  • Give unique and meaningful title to each page.
  • Give unique and meaningful meta description to each page.
  • Give different meta keywords in different pages.
  • Each page should have proper heading tags – H1, H2 , H3 etc
  • Give alt and title texts for all images.
  • Title for links can be used as a tooltip in some browsers.
  • Redirect http://example.com/ to http://www.example.com/ (or vice versa) to avoid content duplication. Google and other websites may consider http://example.com/ and http://www.example.com/ as two different websites.
  • Redirect all unused subdomains to www.example.com. Eg: redirect http://sdsdsfsdgfsfsdf.example.com to http://www.example.com
  • Let the home page link be just a “/”. No need to add index.html or index.php to the home page link. All links to home page should be http://www.example.com/ and not http://www.example.com/index.php
  • The best way to get free traffic to your site is to create a blog and update regularly.
  • Add your site, sitemaps and rss feeds to the following webservices.
  • If your site has an rss feed, give a link to the feed in the <head> section of all pages.
  • Some say that adding a Google Custom Search to your site may help in fast indexing of your webpages.
  • Register the domain for a long period
  • Its widely believed that the easiest way to get indexed by Google is to use Google Analytics
  • Tool for grading your website – WebsiteGrader.com

Usability

  • Make your logo a link to your home page. Users have a tendency to click on the logo to reach home page
  • Do not ask for First Name, Middle Name and Last Name. Ask for just Name.
  • If your site requires login, make the Login link visible and easily accessible. Research shows that login and signup links are the most common words which a user looks for when he reaches the page.
  • If your site requires login, give the email as the username. (or make it like username or email). No one is going to remember all the user names in different websites.
  • Keep your forms as simple as possible.
  • Ask minimum questions in forms
  • Mention whether a field in a form is optional or not.
  • Use JavaScript validation for forms
  • Follow the KISS Principle

Performance

  • Minify and Compress js files
  • Minify and Compress css files
  • Optimize images.
  • Keep your favicon at the root directory. Most browsers check for a favicon at the root of the site. So you can avoid one File Not Found error.
  • Try Google Page Speed
  • Try Yahoo YSlow and Yahoo Performance Rules

Analytics and Monitoring

Development Best Practices

  • Write only standards compliant html and css
  • First write standards compliant html and css and then add specific hacks for IE6 (and not vice versa)
  • Keep the style part separate from HTML structure. Move all the styling to css. Keep the html structure clean.

Advertising

Domain Registration

Hosting Providers

Blogging Softwares

CMS (Content Management Systems)

Forum Softwares

JavaScript Frameworks

Payment Gateways

Resources

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