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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Naveen Srikantaiah's 45 points how to be the best SEO
02. Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits.
03. Create a MySpace account and use it to publisise your site.
04. Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you’re really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage.
05. Create a Technorati account and “claim” your blog.
06. Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories. An excellent list can be found here.
07. Conduct a survey. This is an excellent way to generate offline publicity.
08. Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree.
09.Syndicate your site’s content by using an RSS feeds.
10.Submit your RSS feeds to agregator sites like FeedBurner, Squidoo, Feedboy, Jordomedia, FeedBomb, FeedCat, rssmad, feeddirectory and feedfury. Stolen from DigitalPoint
11.Write an article related to your site and submit it to article sites.
12.Sign up to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.
13.Create a custom 404 page so that even if someone encounters an error on your site, they are re-directed somewhere nice.
14. Set up a 301 redirect to take traffic from your non-www address to your www address. See here for more info.
15.Add a link to your site in the signature of any forums you post on.
16.Tell your friends about your site. It’s free advertising init.
17.Speel cheek your stie. Nothing appears more amateur than a site with typos or spelling mistakes.
18.Test your site and make sure it appears correctly in all major browsers.
19.Buy enough hosting. No one likes a slow site.
20.Don’t worry about PageRank - worrying about PageRank is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum.*
21.Offer something for free. Free is good. People tell their friends about free stuff.
22.Tell your neighbours, you never know what contacts they might have.
23 Offer your users as many ways as possible to contact you. MSN, Skype, Yahoo etc all complement email, phone and a real address.
24. Advertise your site on Craigslist. It’s free, relevant and localised.
25.Do NOT use frames.
26 Submit your site to DMOZ.org. It may take time, but it’s worth it.
27 Create an XML sitemap of your site and submit it to Google.
28 Get a custom t-shirt made with your website url on it, and wear it often.
29 comment on flicker photo
30 Sign up with an affiliate programme to sell your product, or if you’re a publish, make some cash!
30 On your Contact Page ask people if they mind receiving your newsletter.
31 Send out a newsletter!
32 Go to a free seminar for Website owners. You might learn something.
33 Find quality and relevant blogs and leave a comment (with a link back to your site of course).
34 Don’t pay people to submit your site to search engines. It’s a waste of money.
35 YouTube and Google Video are excellent portals on which to launch a viral campaign.
36 Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site.
37 Sponsor a Wordpress theme or a phpListDirectory template.
37 If you sell products that are advertised on television by the manufacturer, add “As Seen on TV” to your site!
38 Avoid proprietry technologies like Java and Active X.
39 Put downloadable content on your site, but make sure it’s not manufacturer specific - so mp3 rather than wma.
40 Learn about CSS. It’s the new HTML.
41 Contribute to related subject areas on Wikipedia.Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products.
42 Have user friendly page names - most tools comes with some way to avoid
43 If you must have a Flash homepage, make sure you have a “Skip Intro” link.
44 Tell your local rag about your site. These newspapers are desparate for stories and you may well even get a pic of your ugly picture published.
45 Become a leading authority on your chosen subject
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
18 Simple SEO Items Commonly Missed in Web Development
1- Perform Keyword Research Before Developing the Site
SEO starts with keywords. And if you’re planning to market your site in the search engines, you should know what keywords you want to rank for before you even start building the site. Make sure this is done FIRST.
Here are some other posts that talk about how to properly do keyword research:
- Keyword Research Gems from PubCon
- How to Create a Huge Keyword List
- Use All the Tails in Your Search Marketing Strategy
2- Put Non-www to www Redirects in Place
It amazes me how many sites load with and without the www in the URL. The problem with this is that it creates an automatic duplicate of your site, and can waste a lot of link value as people link to both versions. Decide which version of your URLs you want to use, then 301 redirect everything else to the preferred version.
3- Use a Static, Keyword Based URL Structure
Dynamic URLs can cause a lot of problems if not handled right. So rather than going through all of the headache that they cause us SEO-types, just set your site up with good URL rewrites so that you don’t have dynamic URLs in the first place.
More posts about URLs:
- Checklist for Changing Your URL Structure
- 3 Common URL Problems and How to Fix Them
- Absolute URLs – Better Safe Than Sorry?
4- Have Unique URLs for Each Product/Service
Even if a product or service can be found multiple ways on the site, make sure that there is only one unique URL for each product or service your company offers. This helps to eliminate unnecessary duplicate content problems.
5- Include Redirect Capabilities
You never know when you’re going to want to take a page down and redirect it to something else. The mistake a lot of sites make is that they just take a page down when they don’t need it any more. When this happens you lose the link value that page may have gained while it was live. So do yourself a favor: make sure you can 301 redirect that old page to a new page that can use the juice.
6- Create a Custom 404 Page
Having a custom 404 page makes it so that if someone lands on a 404 page, they at least know they’ve reached the right site. Without a custom 404 in place, they may just assume the site is down and move on to your competitor’s site.
Here is an example of a custom 404 page:
7- Include Keyword-Rich Alt Attributes
Alt attributes are very easy to overlook. But if you use them the right they can be another signal to the search engines to tell them what a page is about. One quick tip on this one: don’t abuse this attribute by using a keyword phrase on every single bullet point image or stuffing a bunch of keywords into the attribute.
8- Make Room for Sufficient Content
Sometimes designers and developers get carried away with the look and feel of the page and forget to include room for text-based content. That’s what the search engines read, so you have to make sure there is a logical place for that content. Ideally, plan on having at least 150-200 words of optimized content on any page you want to rank well.
You should also make sure that your content is structured right. Have one H1 tag at the top of the main content, and then break out other sub topics with H2-H6 tags as appropriate. Make sure to use your keywords in these headings and in the content, but once again don’t overdo it.
9- Set Up Internal Linking Structure
I think that internal linking is one of the most commonly overlooked things for most sites. In fact, Ken Lyons wrote a great post about it that goes into more detail than I can in this post: Want More Link Juice? Here’s an Easy Way to Get It
10- Decide on a Consistent Title Structure
A site should use the same title structure throughout the site. Pick your convention and stick with it. A good format to follow is to have a phrase that includes main keywords for the page and describes what the page is about, followed by a separator (- or | are common), and then your brand name. For example, “Professional SEO Services for Organic Website Optimization | SEO.com”. Keep these titles to under 65-70 characters so they don’t get truncated in the search results.
11- Include Meta Descriptions on Every Page
Since most of the search engines can choose to use your meta description as your snippet in the search results, you should have a unique one written for every page. Include the main keywords and a call to action to encourage clicks. DON’T just make this tag a list of keywords.
12- Allow Inclusion for Other Meta Tags (canonical, robots, etc.)
If you’re using any kind of tracking codes or other things on your site that create duplicate URLs, you’re going to want to be able to include a canonical tag on those pages. Also, depending on how your site is built you may need to include other meta tags like a robots tag and others. Make sure your site’s back end allows for this when necessary.
13- Incorporate Social Media Sharing Buttons
In case you missed it, social media is a pretty big thing right now. I’m not a big fan of the generic ShareThis button, but you need to have some kind of social media sharing buttons on your products and other important pages. Do some research to decide which social networks are best for your site and then stick with those.
More general information about social media:
- 4 Ways Any Business Can Benefit From Social Media
- So Your Industry Is Boring – Don’t Let That Keep You Out of Social Media
14- Install Analytics Tracking
If you don’t have any kind of analytics tracking installed, you have no way to tell where you traffic is coming from, what’s working, and lots of other crucial information. Pick a solution and get it installed. Popular ones include:
- Google Analytics
- Omniture
- Mint
- StatCounter
- And a lot more…
Make sure that the software you go with will allow you to block your office IP address, track conversions, ecommerce revenues generated through different online sources, and anything else that will help you to understand what is actually affecting your bottom line.
15- Set up and Verify Webmaster Tools Account
Through Google Webmaster Tools you can find out a lot about how Google sees your site, and can give them indications on how to handle certain parameters, submit your XML sitemap, and be notified of problems they find with your site. Bing’s Webmaster Center is coming along, so it’s worth it to go ahead and verify that one as well.
16- Follow Web Standards for HTML, CSS, and Database Programming
The more you follow standards, the easier it will be for someone else to come along later and make changes or modify the site. It’s a real problem when a site’s backend code or database is so complex that it has to be rebuilt later in order for it to be changed.
17- Generate an XML Sitemap
It only takes a few minutes to do it, but once the site is live make sure you create and XML sitemap and submit it to the major search engines through their webmaster tools accounts. It’s even better if you can set this up so that it automatically updates and pings the search engines whenever a change is made.
18- Create a Robots.txt File
When you create your robots.txt file make sure that you are disallowing any pages or directories that you don’t want the search engines crawling. Standard examples would be login pages, search results pages, and shopping cart pages. You should also include a link to your XML sitemap as well. Also, make sure you test this file in your Google Webmaster Tools account to make sure it is working correctly.
Here’s a great site that talks more in detail about how to create a robots.txt file: About /robots.txt
If you follow these 18 guidelines you’ll launch a site that is in great shape as far as SEO is concerned. If you’re an SEO, feel free to add anything else to this list in the comments.
Monday, August 23, 2010
List Of 120 Forums That Allows DoFollow Signatures
2. 5Star Affiliate Forum – Another favorite affiliate marketing forums.
3. Ableton – Audio and musical forums
4. Abestweb – Affiliate Marketing forum for both newbie and experienced affiliates to learn and earn more by sharing information about networks, merchants and best practices
5. Abundance – Free advertising forum
6. Addicsports - Baseball, basketball, and sports forum.
7. Affiliateseeking.com – webmaster and affiliate forums.
8. Acorn Domains – A growing community of UK Domain Name owners, buyers and sellers.
9. Admin Zone Forums – Resources for community administrator and webmaster.
10. Sitepoint Foums – Discuss deeply about SEO & SEM, your signature will be “dofollow” after you reach a certain amount of post.
11. Affiliates4U – UK’s leading affiliate and marketing forums
12. Allcoolforums - Online Free discussion board
13. AMD Forums – official AMD processors support forum
14. Baseballtalkpro – baseball forums.
15. Blogger Forum – Focused on blogging community, monetizing and promotion of blogs.
16. Blogger Talk – Forums for bloggers.
17. Business Forum – business-related forums.
18. BZ Image – SEO Forum – Web Design Help – Webmaster Forum – Web Hosting Talk
19. Capital Theory – online moneymaking forum.
20. Clickbank Success – A “dofollow” forum dedicated to clickbank users.
21. Clicks Forum – Internet marketing for business.
22. Cnet Forums – Software and technical forums.
23. Code4gold – Free Webmaster Resources, Webmaster Tools and Search Engine Optimization
24. Comic Book Resources – Discussion about comic books and resources
25. David Castle – UK SEO & Internet Marketing Forums.
26. Deviantart – Join the largest art community in the world!
27. DDBoard – Domain name “dofollow” discussion board.
28. Digitalppoint – Internet marketing and search engine forums
29. DirectoryJunction – New but cool webmasters forum.
30. Discuss Names – Another dofollow domain names discussion forum.
31. DN Forum – Domain name sales, domain name appraisals, domain name discussions
32. DN Lodge – Domain name and webmasters forums. Dofollow signature advertising.
33. DN Scoop – Domain and webdevelopers forums.
34. Domain Name Forums – Domain name discussion, appraisals, buys and sell, and domain marketplace.
35. Dreamteam Money Forum – Moneymaking forums. One of the hottest moneymaking forums offering dofollow forum signature.
36. Ecauldron – Pagan and religious forum
37. Egadforum – general community forum.
38. Ewealth.com – Internet Marketing and webmaster forum.
39. Filesharingtalk – file sharing forum.
40. Free Ad Forum – Dofollow free advertising forum
41. Free Advertising Forum – Unlimited ad posting. Content and signatures both dofollow.
42. Freewebspace – Free webhosting guides and forums.
43. Fogengine – Web directories forum
44. Geek Village – Large moneymaking “dofollow” forum.
45. Gento Forum – technical and programming forum
46. Golden Talk – High Yield Investment Programs forums.
47. Googlecommunity – Everything about google
48. GPT Boycott Forums – Get-paid-to forums and ratings.
49. Hablarmierda – a Spanish dofollow forum
50. Harmony Central – Musicians Community Forums
51. Hit Tail – Real traffic, real time, real result.
52. Hot4s Online Forum – Australia’s cars and motoring forums
53. Hotsurfs – Focusing on making money out of autosurfing.
54. HTML Forums – Free webmaster forums and help
55. HYIPs Talk – High Yiled Investment Programs forums.
56. IDN Forums – International domain names forums, sales, appraisals, and general discussion.
57. Intel Forums – Intel software developers community forums.
58. Im4newbies – Affiliate marketing forum guide for new affiliates.
59. Internet Marketing for Business – Internet Marketing and SEO Webmaster Forums
60. IQ 69 – Mainstream Webmasters Forum
61. Iwebtool – Offers preview of site in signatures. Webmaster tools forum
62. Lex224 - Computer and gaming forum.
63. Live Journal – creating a community forum.
64. Microsoft Forum – Official Microsoft support forum.
65. Money Maker Group – Internet marketing and webmaster forum focusing on HYIPs.
66. Movie Lists - Movies and show business.
67. Moneyfanclub – A “dofollow” online moneymaking forum focusing on HYIPs and autosurfs.
68. Mygamebuilder – gaming forum
69. MySQL Forum – database and programming forums
70. Namepros.com – An active community of domain name owners, investors, buyers, and sellers of all kinds
71. Online Books Club – Book & Reading Discussion
72. Oracle Forums – Support forum for Oracle
73. Paganforum – pagan and religion forum
74. Payment Processing – Online payment and credit card processing forums. Ecommerce forum.
75. PhpBB Forum – official support community forum for PhpBB users.
76. PokerBRB Forum – Anything about Poker
77. Revenue Source - Affiliate Marketing and SEO forums
78. Search Engine Forums – Discussion Forum of SEO and Webmaster Related Topics
79. Search Engine Roundtabe – Search Engine Forums
80. SEO Chat – Programming and development forum online. Folders for all programming languages.
81. SEOForum – Australian SEO Forum
82. SEO.com Forum – Search Engine Optimization discussion.
83. SEO Guy – Search Engine Optimization Forum. Dofollow signature.
84. Sidetalks – general forum
85. Simplemachines – SMF official support forum.
86. Siteowners – A dofollow webmasters forums
87. Sitepoint – Webmaster and programming forums.
88. Sitesell Forum – webmaster community forum
89. Small Business Forum – A “dofollow” business forum for small entrepreneurs and online moneymakers.
90. Startups – Business start-up and innovation forums
91. Static-Subs – anime forums
92. Submitexpress – Search engine forum
93. Talkfreelance.com – Freelance webmasters, webdesign, and seo community.
94. Tattoo – tattoo forums.
95. Textpattern – textpattern support forums
96. The Free Ad Forum – Largest free advertising forum now has a “dofollow” signature.
97. The Green Nation – Another “dofollow” HYIP forum.
98. The V7 – Webmaster Forums
99. TheHYIPforum – Another “dofollow” forum owned by Talkgold. Best if you are promoting a HYIP site.
100. TriPHP Webmaster Forums – TriPHP Webmaster Forums is a friendly Community for Webmasters of all experience levels
101. Ubuntu Technical Forum – technical and PC-related forums.
102. W3SEO – SEO forums
103. Webdegity - webmaster forum
104. Web Design Forums – The place for web designers. A dofollow forum.
105. Web Developer – Generally about programming and scripting websites with sections on domain names, and other money related topics.
106. Webicy – Webmaster community forums.
107. Web Life – A HYIP forum sowned by Talkgold.
108. Webhosting Canada – Industry Discussion, Webmaster Forum, Web Host Reviews and Deals forums.
109. Webhosting Talk – Geared towards hosting resellers but has some relevant sections on making money selling hosting and running a website
110. Webmaster Forums Online – News and Discussion Forums for Webmasters about SEO, Internet Marketing and Advertising, Website Design and Development, Web Hosting and General Topics.
111. Webmasters Help – Webmaster and seo forum. Lionks on posts are “nofollow” but offer “dofollow” signatures.
112. Webmaster-talk – Programming, webdesign, seo, and webmaster forums
113. Webproworld – The world’s forum for ebusiness professionals.
114. Webtalkforums – Webmaster Forum is a revenue sharing webmaster discussion forum
115. Windows Forum – windows community forums.
116. Winamp – Official winamp forum.
117. Work at Home Moms – Moneymaking forum for Moms.
118. Work-at-Home Moms – Internet marketing message boards for moms.
119. World of Warcraft – online gaming forum
120. Xandros – website design, themes, and lay out forums.
10 Important Steps in Online Marketing
1. Directory Submission -It is one of the most effective ways of online marketing.There are thousands of directories that are dofollow or nofollow(you should use dofollow directorie so you could get some “juice” from that directory).Just choose the right category,insert your details and submit your website.That’s all!
2. Article Marketing – Article marketing is a very crucial step that you should take for increasing your site’s visibility on the Internet.You shoul write some itneresting articles , with very informative content and with a relevant title and just spread it throught relevant article directories.
3. Blog Marketing – If you have your own blog then fine enough.If not,create your own blog first.Write useful and relevant content and submit your blog to well known blog directories,after doing this , search engines must bring to you some nice traffic and relevant visitors that could be transformed into subscribers.
4. Link Building – This is an effective way to get ranked in search engine’s results.There are five steps in link building : Link Exchange,Buying Links,Guest Posts,Article Marketing and forum postings.You could read more about those steps in one of my previous articles : 5 Steps in Link Building for Beginners.
5. Email Marketing – You should start creating your own mailing list , so you can get in touch very easily with your custommers.You must send them an Email with informations at leats once a week.You could use this mailing list to lauch your products or services or for organizing a contest or event.
6. Press Release - Is very important for you and for your website or blog to reach media websites and online publications,that could bring to you a good popularity.It is one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your website.
7. PPC Advertising – PPC is a nice way to attract relevant visitors for your blog,but this is not a free service.You need to pay the search engine for every click, but PPC offers good return on investment.
8. Social Bookmarking – About this point you can read more in one of my previous articles : Build linking strategies using Social Networking Blogging and Distribution Websites
9. Video Marketing – I’ve also posted a list with 10 dofollow video sharing sites , that could be used to get visitors and links in the same time.This is an effective way to promote yout products or services throught commercials.
10. Social Networking – If you want to be a popular blogger, create a profile on various social networks,add your profile to relevant categories and create groups.This way you can get promoted very fast and you may be put you in contact with millions of people you wouldn’t have reached otherwise.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Top 10 Seo tools
Using Seo tools will ease the effort of analyzing the website traffic report.
I have listed some of the seo tool which will be useful for SEO Experts:
http://www.seo-browser.com/
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
http://www.quarkbase.com/
http://builtwith.com/
http://www.virante.com/seo-tools/duplicate-content.php
http://juicystudio.com/services/image.php
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers
http://www.popuri.us/
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Very nice mail for people working late night. Please don't delete it without reading
Hi Neha,
I see you every night sitting in the office till very late. Don't you have friends? Don't you feel like talking to your roommate?
You should not sit very late in the office. this is a genuine advice from me.
Thanks,
Rahul Mehra
After reading the mail, Neha was very angry on the sender. She simply deleted the mail and said to herself "who is he to give me any advice?". She again got back to her work.
After that night, every night Rahul would keep sending her mails and Neha would simply delete them without even reading the content of the mail. But one fine night the subject line attracted her and she had to open the mail.
The subject line of the mail was "Hi Gorgeous".
Hi Gorgeous,
Yes today you are looking very gorgeous in this red saree. I know you don't read my mails as you don't like the advices I give you.
So today I wont give you any advice, I will just say that I am love with you. You know you are very beautiful and if you take care of
yourself many men will fall in love with you.
I am sure someday you will also fall in love with me. And then we will go out for a date.
Oh before I end the mail I must tell you that the best thing about is that smile. Or is it those intense which needs some sleep at the moment.
Take care dear.
Love you.
Rahul Mehra.
After reading the mail she was shocked. A person she had never met, never seen, never spoke to was saying that he was in love with her. She started thinking was this always in his mind. How did he get her id? Where had he seen her? Many questions like this came in her mind. Finally she thought of giving a warning and replied to his mail.
Hi Rahul,
I don't want to spoil your career but if you don't stop sending me mails I will raise an ASHI against you.
Thanks and Regards,
Neha Jain
After this mail, the mails from Rahul stopped coming in Neha's inbox. She thought that finally Rahul has got scared and wont be mailing her again.
After several nights, Neha was resting on her chair and her eyes closed. When she opened her eyes she saw Rahul's mail in her mailbox.
Hi Gorgeous,
With your closed eyes you were dreaming about me, right? Oh sorry for not sending any mails in the last few days..
I was a little busy. I am sure you would have missed me a lot.
One more thing before I forget I want to say that I am not scared of ASHI.
An ASHI cant be a reason to stop loving you.
Love you.
Rahul Mehra
Neha was twisting her hair and putting them behind her ears. At that moment itself another mail came from Rahul,
Hi Gorgeous,
Now stop playing with your hair and leave the office. it is very late.
Love.
Rahul Mehra
Neha was shocked as to how did this person know what she was doing on her desk. She got up to check whether anyone was there in her floor but could
find only empty cubicles. She thought maybe he made a wild guess and decided to leave the office. before leaving she saw another mail from Rahul.
Hi Neha,
Searching for me??? You have started falling in love with me. J
Love you.
Rahul Mehra
Neha was shocked and scared to hell. She simply switched off her machine and ran outside the office. in the next few days she would not open any mails sent by Rahul. One night a mail with subject line "Don't be scared of me" came to her mailbox. First she thought to ignore the mail then she thought lets see what has Rahul written this time.
Hi Neha,
Don't be scared of me. I can say that you are scared of me because of the way you ran out from the office the last time you read my mail.
I know few minutes back you had gone to have coffee. You are thinking how I know this because I can feel you around me.
Only once you also start feeling me you will know that I am near to you.
Very near. Just sitting next to you.
I will wait for the night when you start having the same feelings for me.
Will always love you.
Rahul Mehra
Now Neha started thinking was Rahul really in love with her? What he was saying was it true? But how could he know so much about her? How could he
say what she was doing and what not? Neha thought lets give a try and see whether Rahul is always in love with her or not. From that night she also
started replying to his mail.
Hi Neha,
Do you feel bad if I call you gorgeous?
Love you.
Rahul Mehra
Neha's reply:
Yes Rahul. I don't like this word.
You can address me as Neha, isn't it short and simple. and I love my name
a lot.
Thanks and Regards,
Neha Jain
Rahul's reply:
Point noted Neha. But when I am happy, excited I would call you with some
special name at that time.
Tomorrow you have your certification so all the best for that.
Love you.
Rahul Mehra
Neha was again shocked as to how does he know about her certification. She
had never told him. She replied Rahul,
Who is the person who is giving you details about me? I had not told you
about my certification how do you know it?
Thanks and regards,
Neha Jain
Rahul replied back to her
I know it because I in front of you. Cant you see me? Cant you feel me
close to you?
I also know that after 3 days you have your appraisal. Now this you have
not told anyone. Just your PM knows about it.
Do you think your PM will give me all these details?
Love you.
Rahul Mehra
Neha not sure of the answer. She knew her PM would not have told Rahul all this but how did Rahul know so much about her was a mystery for her.
Finally she thought she will talk to her PM, Rohan.
Next day, she went to her PM's desk.
"Hi Rohan. I wanted to ask you something".
Rohan:- "Sure Neha. Are having any issues?"
Neha:- "No. actually I wanted to know about a person named Rahul Mehra."
Rohan was shocked on hearing that name. PM:- "How did you come across this
name. has anyone told you about him?"
Neha:- "No one has said anything to me about him. Few days back he started
sending me e-mails. First I ignored but then he would give such details
which I did just few minutes back. He even knows my appraisal date."
Rohan:- "Are you sure you got mails from Rahul Mehra only?"
Neha:- "Yes very much. But why do you looked shock?"
Rohan:- "Because Rahul Mehra died 2 years back. He use to sit at the same
place where you are sitting. How can a dead person send mails to you."
Neha was shocked. She didn't know how to react to this.
Rohan:- "If you don't believe me then you can try finding his name in the
telephone directory. Maybe someone told you about him and because of work
stress you started imagining that he is sending you mails."
Neha:- "I am not imagining anything. He has really send me a mail. I can
show you in my mailbox."
Rohan:- "Okay Neha I believe you but still I think you should take a break
and go home."
Neha was still in shock with the news she got from Rohan. She just did a search on telephone directory for a name with Rahul Mehra and page
Returned no records. She again checked the mail id and employee number details. She did a search many times that day by putting various combinations but the
Search page displayed the same message "No matches found for the given search criteria". She could not believe that someone could hack the system and
send mails to her from an non-existing id. She attached the mails sent by Rahul and sent it to Rohan as a proof that she was not dreaming.
On seeing the attached mails even Rohan was in shock. He came to Neha's desk.
Rohan:- "I think by mistake his id has not been deleted and someone who knows about it is playing with it."
Neha:- "But I checked the details on telephone directory there are no records available for this id."
Rohan:- "Talk to the CCD people and see what they have to say."
She called up the CCD people. They took control over her system and looked at the mail sent by Rahul Mehra. The mail was sent from the from the same
computer which Neha was using. The time stamp at which the mails were sent Neha had logged in. Also there was no evidence that a remote desktop connection
was made or mail was sent through web mail. Even the CCD people were clueless as to how a mail has been sent from a non-existing id and from Neha's system
itself.
There were no viruses or torjans or any other kind of threats on Neha's system. Her anti-virus was upto date. The whole day was gone in finding a
loophole as to how did Neha get such a mail in her mailbox. Neha was tierd from the day's happening and so she decided to leave early from the office that
day.
The next day when Neha came back, she saw a mail from Rahul Mehra. She didn't know whether she should delete that mail or read that mail. She was
scared to open the mail. Somehow she gained some courage and opened the mail. The context of the mail was:-
Hi Neha,
Good to see that you left the office early tonight. I know Rohan told you about my death.
I was also a workaholic like you. I would sit late in the office, even when no one was around me.
I just being at office. I had no friends, no social life. Even on weekends I would use to come to office.
I missed all the fun in my life. Even my death happened at office while I was working.
My dead body was found by the house keeping guy and the security guard at the reception.
I took a lot of work stress which my conscious mind could not bear that day. I ignored all the health problems I was having.
And finally on that night (20. 10. 07, 11:24 PM) all these reasons became responsible for my death.
Now you know why I am not scared of ASHI..
But yes if I was alive then also I wont be scared of ASHI because I have really fallen in love with you but we cant be together until your death.
Now the choice is yours whether you will kill yourself on your own or whether I need to do the honors.
Waiting for your death. Love you always.
Rahul Mehra
Some love stories have ghost in it...