Three things essential for hosting provider

• Strong technical infrastructure – The design of your data centre and implementation of the server software which powers the hosting service are the two main pillars of any hosting business. These software are complex, created by multiple vendors and regularly updated. Some companies maintain such a strong infrastructure that there is no need for customers to even call them, because admins never face a problem. More about this later.
• Customer care which listens – Maintaining a website is a daunting task even for technically qualified geeks. So imagine you are confronted with an uncaring and annoying customer care. Being polite will not help here. You need solutions and all you get is unpolished Queens English. Not to mention the staff shortage and waiting time.
• Power to you – During the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, small business were looking for ease of business and working with constraints like 50% manpower cuts. Now when you login the hosting account, imagine restrictions and limitations. A badly designed and planned interface will create more problems for you, new ones.

Avoid resellers at all cost

There is absolutely no advantage provided by a reseller. I have seen so many brand owners buying hosting from resellers saying that he or she is my friend. The reseller story is short-lived and ends up mostly with problems to you.

Maintaining a reseller business requires advanced skills and it is not a single person venture. So until you want to really help someone or you know someone good, stay away from small hosting providers.

The technically helpless customer care

Many hosting providers outsource their tech to outsiders. This greedy behaviour ultimately puts the customers in trouble. Here is unfolding of one tale.

Trouble begins after this particular hosting provider marks a saved credit card as inactive. The domain name cannot be renewed. The site admin misses the email prompt informing that the domain has not been renewed. After the site goes down they contact customer care. One possible solution is to add another credit card. Other solution is initiate a domain transfer. But because the domain name is expired, they are not ready to display the EEP code. First pay and then we shall cooperate. Because the customer care has no idea on technical matters, they have to place a request with the tech team and wait for a response for up to 72 hours!

This hosting provider has just one payment option. Credit card only. It is only after you contact customer care, they give you a link for Paypal. The client finally paid through Paypal using the same inactive credit care. The domain was renewed, site was live and then EEP code provided by email. This is perhaps the only hosting provider which does not display the EEP code, they only send it by Email.

The long waiting time

So this bot keeps you waiting for about 50 mins till it has to be woken up again. But this is so wrong. Let us understand why.

Hosting providers made huge profits during lockdown

There were entire companies and business which had to shut down during lockdown. Take for example of hospitality and tourism industry, the worst hit. But along with the IT industry, it were the hosting companies who made tons of profit with business growing multifold. The entire hosting business is work from home, it has been like that since it began. So there was no excuse for hosting companies to work with reduced staff and longer customer care waiting times.

One of the top hosting company of India is facing one such problem. A strong technical infrastructure, top of the line offers and products, great tech and tons of payment options, all so user friendly. But the one thing that they need to work on is customer care. Why I have the feeling that they are not going to invest there.

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Why does Facebook account get hacked?

There is a seemingly long list of people interested in hacking anyones account. Professional hackers want your account so that they can send spam links to all persons in your friend list. Hackers do it for money considerations mostly. Although some hacking attempts might be for personal reasons too.

Someone can hire a professional hacker to cause trouble to you or your business. Maybe an ex who already had access to your social media accounts. Someone, somehow has got hold of your password or guessed the password itself. Someone close to you. If you are sharing your phone with a lot of people, someone among them is a potential password stealer.

Do not give your phone to anyone no matter what the emergency.

What to do next after your account is hacked?

First reset or change your password immediately. Unless emergency, try changing password or resetting the password on a laptop or computer rather than a mobile phone. If you still have access to your account, change the password after accessing Settings and Security & Login.

The next immediate step you should do is Logging out of all sessions. Just above the password change option is the list of devices which have Facebook logged in. Under the list is the button for logging out.

If the hacker has logged in from some other device, this will be the point where he or she has to leave.

One additional step that can be taken is remove all permissions to devices to login without a code.

Remove all the devices for the time being. You can add them later.

If you do not have access to your Facebook account – Request for a reset

Access the link here.

https://www.facebook.com/login/identify

Enter the mobile number which you used or the email address. You will next be given a list of email address and mobile numbers linked with that account.

Once you ask for the code, Facebook will ask you to choose a new password. Once the new password is set, logout from all sessions and remove all authorised devices too.

Report to Facebook about account hacked

If the above steps do not work, use this link to report hacking to Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/hacked

This link will take you to login details where Facebook will guide you step by step.

The process of regaining your account is same in all cases. It all depends on the email address and mobile number registered with Facebook.

How to prevent Facebook account from being hacked?

A determined hacker will always get to your account. However you can make the process more difficult for the hacker by doing a few things.

• Using a strong and not easy to guess password.
• Ensure an email address and phone number is registered with Facebook. Do not share this email or phone number with general public.
• Enable two factor authentication.
• Set login alerts.
• Change password regularly.
• Set alert for each login so that Facebook informs you that someone has logged into your account.

Social Media is a cess pool of questionable human behaviour.
     - addaa

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The most important point to remember – Domain and hosting expiry

A WordPress website is hosted on a server and both the domain name and hosting package are purchased for a limited time only. This should be first on your agenda. Check the expiry dates of domain registration and hosting package. If required, renew them for adequate period.

Note down login details, phone number and registered Email ID

The most safest option is two factor authentication. However, if the authentication is by a mobile app, you need to keep a note of it on paper and keep it somewhere safe.

Login details, password, registered phone number, address and the Email ID needs to be rechecked and noted down for safe keeping.

Backup website using All-in-one WP Migration plugin

Among the many plugins available out there, All-in-one WP migration is the best out there. No wonder it features right on the top of popular plugins. In installation we get three main options.

Export option allows you to backup the complete WordPress site in a single click and single file. You will get several options to backup, however file backup is the only one available in free version. When an export file is created, it automatically goes to the backup. You can download the backup file from backup section too. List of backups with size and dates are listed.

Once the backup is done and you have downloaded the backup file, there are two options.

• Either you can delete the website totally so that no one is able to access it.
• Install a coming soon plugin.

One of the main factors which you need to consider is the Google search penalty your site will face for being absent.

How to display a maintenance message?

For this we shall use the WordPress plugin WP Maintenance mode and Coming soon.

You can choose between various templates.

That completes the site preparations.

Returning back to normal

• Deactivate the maintenance mode.
• If you have deleted the website, restore it using the All-in-one migration plugin.
• Update the theme and plugins.
• Update the PHP level on your hosting.

Your site will be up and running.

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Be mindful of the rules

Basically Google Maps use crowdsourcing in the form of local guides to improve their map data. But just like any other app or software, Google needs to maintain quality. So make sure, the content that you post is high quality. Once the points starts rolling in, do not get tempted to post thin reviews just with the aim to score points. Also resist the urge of posting the same pictures and video in multiple locations, even if there are duplicate locations already present. Once Google catches you, there is an automatic permanent ban.

There is also restricted and prohibited content which if posted on Google Maps will also invite an automatic ban.

Finally be careful of writing a bad review. Remember there is an appeal process with the business establishment. If you have inadvertently violated Google Maps TOS, that might result in a ban.

You’ve been banned from Local Guides because you violated the Local Guides program rules

So if you have not been playing by the rules, this is what you will get in the form of a permanent ban. You will also be kicked out of the Local Guides Connect program if you have joined. Infact the message will come from the Local Guides Connect website and will be displayed on your profile. The star symbol under your name will also disappear. But your reviews, photos and videos will remain there.

All is (Not) well

Fortunately there is an appeal process. It is there on the Support Website of Google. It is in the form of a Local Guides Appeal Form. You need to feed in a few details and submit the form.

Here is a link to the appeal form.

https://support.google.com/local-guides/contact/local_guides_appeal

You need to login and submit the appeal form from the same account from which you got a ban. It won’t have a direct bearing but will help.

When does the ban get lifted?

Like it has always been with Google, there is no place to call or email someone to help with the ban. Once the appeal form is filled and submitted, there is a complete silence from Google. Some users have reported that Google does not revoke the ban and just sends an apology note. At times, the note doesn’t come at all. In that case, you can move on by opening a new account. Note this however, Google does not allow multiple accounts of local guides for the same person.

However many users have reported across various forums that the ban was successfully lifted after a waiting period. There is at least one user who has reported on the online forums that he got a reply that the ban cannot be lifted and after a few days automatically the ban got removed. So do not lose hope over it.

Is Local Guides worth your time?

There might be a chance that business establishment owners will invite you as a local guide to post a review. Also the Levels and Stars might give you some bragging rights. But apart from that, you shall discover that it is nothing but a time pass. Do not take it so seriously that if you are banned, even if by mistake, you should not lose sleep over it.

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A class with students is identified by a list of Roll Numbers and Names.

A hosting provider like HostGator or Hostinger provides you with a 3 in 1 account which provides a domain name, website and hosting space. Here is how you can understand how this concept works.

Hosting space is like a class room. Once you buy hosting space, you will get a blank class room. Your package can have just one student in a class room or there can be three students or there can be unlimited students in a class. But just like in a regular school, you cannot have unlimited students, similarly you cannot have unlimited websites in one package. There will be limitations and we shall come to that later.

Website is the physical student. The actual person who is going to put on the uniform and will be identified by a Roll Number and a Name.

The Name of the student is like the domain name of a website. It is linked with a Roll Number which is the IP address. Since you cannot remember a Roll Number, you remember the student by name. But numbers are easy to process, hence there is a Roll Number list too.

What to know as an owner of a website

Many times small brand owners will need a website and they will hire professionals to do the same. There will be some tech aspects to it. Here is how each thing is linked and processed.

Your hosting package is registered with an Email address. You need access to this email and no one else should have access. If someone wants to steal you hosting package, the email is the first barrier. Then comes the password. So if any person wants to steal it, the first thing on the agenda is to change the email address.

The hosting provider can give additional security to the account by enabling two factor authentication. That means every login will happen only after password and a code. While the password remains same, the login code will change every time and will be created at the time of login.

One hosting account just like a classroom can have multiple websites, like students. Each website if created in WordPress will have an admin username and password. There are different role enabled for a WordPress Website. So as per that there can be multiple accounts within a website. An admin account will have full control over the website. The account can be in the form of a username or email and a password.

Lastly the domain name also like a roll number is registered within your hosting account. It is registered against your name. If domain privacy is enable, this information is not available to view in public. If someone wants to steal your domain name, they will have to login in your hosting account first and then generate a transfer code from within. All this information will be send to your on the registered Email Address.

A periodic backup of the website is important so that if both the hosting package and the domain name gets stolen, you can still get the website up and running with another domain name. At least your data is safe.

If you are hosting websites on Blogger, it is a good idea to activate two factor authentication on your gmail account.

So here is the master list again

• Hosting package – Username and password
• Website – Admin account username and password

Both Hosting and Website admin details have to be under the control of the owner of the brand.

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While browsing the social media if we find something interesting, our first urge is to share. Our brain conspires to keep us happy. At that moment we want to share happiness with either the someone special or a small group of friends or to the world.

Depending on a large number of factors, you either want to share it and leave it or want a response in return. If it is that special one, you would wait for a response because you want to share that moment of happiness you just experienced.

We care about a few special people in our life and want to see them happy. Sharing a thought, good experience or a picture are ways of sharing happiness.

We respond to happiness because of our brain and the ability to find happiness. Your brain will respond to only those with whom you had a prior moment of happiness.

It is this happiness effect that the social media and even messengers are cashing on.

You can now proceed to read the longer version.

History of stories

In 2013, Snapchat introduced the feature of stories for the first time which had a series of pictures which disappeared after 24 hours. At that time, Snapchat was mostly used by the young people. Stories drew its popularity even further. Twitter was the first one to copy it two years later in 2015.

In 2016, Instagram copied it and soon Facebook and WhatsApp also followed. Finally it appeared on YouTube too.

Curious case of Instagram

For the first time Instagram in a blog update explained how they rank Feed & Stories, Explore section and Reels. Take a look at the screen grab below.

Originally Instagram assumed that people were only interested in seeing original stories shared by people. Also Instagram was initially not ranking anything from stories shared. However soon Instagram realised that people were sharing anything and everything in their stories and soon enough they had to change the algorithm.

The happiness factor – exploited

Happiness is believed to be the most dominant human emotion. So our brain is working overtime to keep us happy. All the day we have our happy moments. Instinctively we reach out to share. In the old days, with no digital communications we used to wait till the end of the day for a family time for talking and sharing. Today we are connected 24×7 and each happy moment we reach out for our smartphone.

For those lucky ones, be rest assured that you will get a constant stream of updates from that one special person which will actually make you more happier. While sharing this person is actually waiting for your response.

For those unlucky ones, who do not have that someone special, there is a group of close friends. Stories is the place where status updates are posted and the response goes to DM.

For those cursed ones who do not have friends share their stories to the world with their public account.

With most of the behaviour data available with the social media, they have seen the rise of story sharing. They are exploiting the happiness factor.

Story sharing for different scenarios

For personal accounts sharing for friends or for entertainment purpose is what most of us do. Instagram and Facebook measures the metrics just for data mining about behaviour. If you share sensitive information, you will land up in trouble with a ban.

For public accounts and small creators, Instagram goes all the way to give them space to grow and reach more audience. Originality and consistence is the key to get more visibility.

Brand owners can use stories to promote content and allow it to reach a wider audience. The first action which most people do as soon as they open the app is to check stories. It is basic human tendency to check what someone else is doing first. To get to that, you have to first have a target list of people whom you have to follow. Here is the suggest list of whom to.

• Other accounts of similar products which you sell
• Your suppliers and whole-sellers
• Other accounts connected to your brand
• Your prior customers/clients
• Potential target audience

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Social media is a cesspool of questionable human behaviour. 

Why so many majnus online

For centuries the women of this subcontinent have taken upon themselves not to educate their boys about inappropriate behavior. Ancient family support system means that there will be a couple of boys in a family who will survive without any gainful employment. Universities are like factories churning out hundreds of graduates every year. Many of these IT engineers do digital marketing in their spare time and also join the majnu squad.

Are women encouraging majnus

Not intentionally, but yes at-least in the beginning stages. This is what exactly happened in the Utsav episode. As a comedian he got instant fame overnight. So when his female fans started sending messages of appreciation or regular fan messages he responded by asking for inappropriate pics in return. One woman came out in the open and then there was an avalanche of messages from other women who had been at the receiving end of his behavior. Screenshots of all these messages were posted on Twitter. Till date he defends his behavior because he felt entitled to them.

A guy with good looks, promise of a great conversation is all like a magnetic attraction to many women. And getting appreciated is like a cherry on the cake. But for most of these dudes, this is just a game.

Step to take care of this online problem

Have you always felt that women are always the focus of online attention. As a women entrepreneur were you ever surprised that on your purely business accounts with product and services posts, you still get direct messages for franship (pun intended!!!). Let us understand this issue with the help of an example and a solution.

A 22 year old woman had uninstalled Facebook app due to too much of stress. She tried just once to reinstall it, but the amount of messages just hung up her smartphone. We took upon the work of sanitizing her account of majnu virus and let her focus on getting customers through online engagement.

The first step was to log into the account at 1am. This is the time when majnus get active. On seeing the green light, at least a hundred chat windows popped up. Some of them straightway jumped to video calls. We had recently launched a product page for this woman entrepreneur. One by one we send links of the website pages asking them to read the article and comment on the product. More than 50% chatters simply left, some of them even without saying good bye. Till morning just one persisted after reading five articles. We kicked out these friends and banned them too.

Majnus log in between 1am to 2 am at night. Once they send a chat hi, just block and ban them.

This activity continued for one solid week. By day 5, the number of open chat windows fell to just three to four. By day 7 all was quiet on the battle front. Facebook had also learned that this account is going to block and ban majnus. Yes, there is something called as suggested friends which Facebook does to keep your life miserable. Facebook and Instagram will never quit to forward your account details as suggested friends to majnus. But if you are firm enough to kick out and ban such accounts, the frequency of majnus reaching your account will drop to a trickle and eventually disappear. As entrepreneurs you will need to make space for these people to go out so that you can get real customers.

The next step was deleting all pending friends request and blocking all fake profiles.

Fake profiles are easy to detect. Either no profile picture or thin content or no content. Do not allow such accounts to remain in your friend list. Kick them out.

On Instagram remove all fake profiles and anyone who has no business of being one of your followers. Report and Block the account and make social media a safer place for other women.

It is quite evident that this is a fake profile. But at least 472 followers do not think so, most of them are women followers. Do not encourage such behavior. You might be a seasoned person handling Majnus on social media but imagine the traumatic experience young girls will go through after YOU have encouraged such fake profiles. Because these people will stop at nothing till they get a response. Not everyone is as strong as your are. Women who have been on social media for years may find this experience harrowing.

If such profiles comment on your post, delete the comment immediately and block the person.

Majnus are time wasters no matter how handsome.

Agreed majnus are good conversation starters but as entrepreneurs you will end up wasting time. There is no growth with a majnu because he only wants everything without giving anything back in return. They have mastered the art of how to win over people and leave them soon enough.

Good guys finish last, and they are always difficult to find.

Good guys are the ones who will encourage your work. They will read your posts and comment on them. They will share your work and create new business opportunities for you. Make one of them your friend and see each other grow. Where to find these good guys. They are around, but with so many majnus crowded around, they are not easily visible. If you do find one, don’t let them go because they aren’t exactly looking for “franship“

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Understanding Domain Authority & Page Rank

Let us begin with the origins of Page Rank which began as a research project in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. Both students on successful completion of project, went on to create Google Inc and Google Search Engine.

Page Rank of your blog is calculated by the number of links and quality of links which point to your blog. So if you are a travel blogger and your article has featured in National Geographic with a mention of your name and a link to your blog, Google will pick it up and raise your reputation by a small bit. Page Rank is a mathematical formula. Google crawlers also known as spiders or crawlers move from website to website searching and hunting for links and them feed the data to Google Servers who process the mathematical formula to decide Page Ranks.

Domain Authority is relatively recent introduction by Moz. It takes into account a large number of factors to rank your blog on a scale of 0 to 100 to determine the probability of your blog featuring in Google Search Results. Nature of content is also taken into account which means, your blog may not have a high Page Rank but can still come up in search results due to high quality and unique content. New blogs will start with DA = 1.

Abuse of Page Rank and unleashing of Panda updates

Since Page Rank is an algorithm, it is easy to fool it. SEO experts realized this and started manipulating search results by inserting artificial links in exchange of money. This way the page rank of a website increased in no time without relevant content. Authors and Webmasters started cheating on their audience by posting crappy content and yet figuring high on the Page Rank. Spammers went a step ahead and created high ranking websites with absolutely unreadable content. Once these websites achieved a high page rank, their links were sold to new websites to gain overnight popularity. Blogers too started boosting their articles to make them “sellable” to sponsors. It soon dawned upon Google that it has to do something drastic just to stay relevant as a search engine.

Though Google is the king of search engines, it Google had to work hard to strike a blow to these SEO experts. By 2009 Google began developing more advanced version of Page Rank and began rolling it out in 2011. Within days, large number of websites lost their ranking and relevance on Google. In a single swoop, the Google Panda updates cleansed the internet and the search world of the most horrific of manipulations. At the same time, Google urged webmasters not to focus too much on Page Rank. It went on to add that, many site owners seem to think that Page Rank is the most important metric for them to track which is simply not true. As a final death blow, Page Rank was last updated in 2013 and Google turned off display of Page Rank from 2016 on wards.

Till date Google keeps telling everyone the importance of high quality content and has not put up any technology in place of Page Rank.

Panda update has put many SEO experts out of business. There were Schools of Digital Marketing which taught the entire course focused on just how to improve DA and PR by manipulating back links.

Plan for Bloggers

0 – 1 years – Fine tune blog design, post regular content. Research well. Put your social media plan in place and stick to it.

1-3 years – Connect with fellow bloggers and expand your reader base. Increase your social circle. Master your keyword strategy.

4 years on wards – Your blog has enough authority now. Contact popular websites and magazines to offer your services as blogger. Reputation will ease the process.

Problem is that there are too many SEO experts out there with crappy ideas and plans to boost your blog. As a blogger do your own research and devise a plan. As a human remember the age old saying, “There is no substitute for hard work and patience”

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What is a link party

A website who is hosting a link party will announce the theme of the week. Visitors can submit a link of their article post through a form. Visitors posts links appear below the post. Websites hosting a link party have a few recommendations. There has to be a linkback or mention in the post about the link party. You have to visit the other links and leave comments.

Advantages of joining a linkup

• Among the articles which you write on your blog consisting of 300 words or more, a picture post is refreshing change.
• Lots of bloggers at one place. That is a treasure trove of connections.
• Do post a comment on other links along with the link to your blog article. Bloggers usually reciprocate.
• Plan for a link up in advance and bring out the photographer in you.
• A blog can be of any theme or niche, but can always post a picture.

How to host a link party

There are two ways to host a link party on your website. First is by placing a custom code and custom design. Other easy way is using tools. Two of the most popular tools are Inlinkz and Linky Tools 2020. You can also have a look at Mister Linky. First create your account and then your first linkup by creating a code and then inserting the code in your blog post. Here is an example of a link party. Tools are simple to use and straight forward instructions.

Popular Linkup pages

Wordless Wednesday
A nice catchy theme, simple design. They give a theme for the week and the link appear below the post. Themes are generic in nature and quite broad based. Wordless has been around for 5 years plus.

Skywatch Friday
This is another popular linkup where the common theme every week is sky. Pictures have to contain a sky or portion of it. Since theme is the same and known in advance, bloggers can plan their posts well in advance. Skywatch is here since 2008. This is much before Instagram was conceived.

Our World Tuesday
Similar to Wordless Wednesday, this one also has a weekly theme. It is better than Wordless because it shows a thumbnail along with the link. So if you have an eye catching picture, it will value add.

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Here is a link to the article.

On social media or messengers, the title & featured image catches the eye first. It is hence vital to convert a visitor to a reader by creating a catchy blog post title. There are a few ways to frame an article title. Let us take example of the link above.

Wikipedia or Google Maps way – In this type title is simply written as the official name of the place as mentioned in Wiki or Google Maps. Since it is the official name, there are possible chances that google will pick up the article. But it is not the case always. Official sounding titles are good for official use only. The above place is written as “Ashokan Edicts in Delhi” and just “Ashokan Edict” on Google Maps. The title in official manner is simply “Ashokan Rock Edict, Delhi” or for a longer title, the name of locality can be included “Ashokan Rock Edict, East of Kailash, Delhi”. This type of naming for a blog article is not recommended.

Academic or the boring way – Most of the bloggers make the mistake of creating academic titles. Popular examples would be “What is India Gate” or “What is Decoupage” or “Do you want to look pretty?”. The probability of figuring in Google Search with Academic titles, especially for popular search terms is way out of question. Such kind of title might be justified if you are covering a topic for the first time. This title also sounds preaching or informative in nature. Not all readers appreciate being taught something new. This option too is not recommended for bloggers.

Moderately catchy titles (non controversial) – Pretty straightforward but interesting. All ‘How to”s, reviews, recipes, tutorials and so on come under this category. Examples can be “How to do Decoupage“, “How to enable the blue light filter on smartphone“, “How to reach New Delhi Railway Station” or “How to Maggi in Two Minutes”. Yes, these titles do catch the attention of readers at first glance. But they are still not fully effective for social media.

Controversial and Catchy, Hit those sentiments hard – With just the title and featured image and attention time span of just a few second, a blogger cannot afford to lose valuable views on Social Media. Not only the title has to give a summary of what is to come, but also evoke a sentiment hitting the right emotional chord with the readers. The title and first few lines will help cement the bond and pave the way for further reading. It will also set the suspense for the reader to reach the end of the article.

Let us see what the most upcoming SEO Plugin on WordPress RankMath has to say about article title.

• Focus Keyword or Focus Key Phrase should come at the beginning of the title. Choose a keyword so that it fits in the beginning. So for example in the title “How to reach New Delhi Railway Station” if “New Delhi” is the Key Word, it is not the correct SEO way.
• Title should have a strong positive or negative sentiment – This is a surest way to get the attention of any reader. “Why do people forget their seat-belts despite the high accidental deaths”. Strong enough negative sentiment but the title sounds general. Try mixing up positive sentiments with curiosity. “Have you been to the newly Inaugurated Police Memorial in Delhi”
• Title needs a power word – A power word as the name suggests packs a punch, it evokes curiosity and interest. If you are going to post the picture shown below, the appropriate title could be “This gigantic post box in Delhi is the largest in the world!” or “Massive size and functional post box in Delhi”.
• Quote a number – Not always possible but putting a number to a title will make a big difference. Eg “How to reach New Delhi Railway Station” can become “Three painless ways to reach New Delhi Railway Station in time”

Other points to note

Take care of length of article title, since anything longer will spill over the view-port and will not be visible to the reader. A title will also indicate whether it is a paid promotion of a product or place. This aspect is specially looked into by Google. If it is a paid review, it is better to declare it at the beginning of the article as a note. A title should just be a preview, do not give away the suspense.

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