Thursday, August 25, 2011

Never search Payment Gateways with Yahoo and Bing

I want to tell the world why Yahoo and Bing search results drive me crazy. Just meaningless results. Yes those who use Bing and Yahoo must be dumb and Google is for smart people.
I was searching for "Payment Gateway India". So I ran this keyword search in both Bing and Yahoo and both gave exactly same results. It means Yahoo is fully using Bing's search engine.
I also want to tell another reason why you should avoid those two. Region independent keywords like java, perl etc are actually region dependent in Bing and Yahoo. And if you ever search for such terms in India or any other country all non-sense comes out from Bing since all good sites on such terms are internationally based in US etc while useless search results from within India are spewed out by Bing and Yahoo.
Here is what I've got. Now see the fourth result in the screen shot below. It shows NEONPEPAY.COM. But this company is closed 6 months back! But it is featuring in the top results page in the Bing and Yahoo.

Even this payment gateways site lists NEONEPAY as closed.

I was looking for payment gateways comparison information and there is hardly any site which has any info in India..


Monday, August 22, 2011

How to Remove Blog Title from the Post Title in Blogger.com

I was shocked when I came to know this and I was creating blogs all along. How can Blogger.com ( Google site) can be so dumb?

The post title is prefixed with blog title and reducing the value of premium SEO real estate space. Add to it the post title is present as H3 title in the body of the post.
So I want to show 1) How to remove blog title prefix and 2) make h3 as h1 title in the body of post.


As in the above pic select the "Expand Widget Templates".

Now to remove the blog page title find this in the code below the checkbox:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>


Replace it with:
 <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> : <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>


Now  change the h3 to h1 as in the pic below. Or you can search the text- <h3 class='post-title     as in below:




Now save it and export it and save it on your disk. Import it for other blogs which you want to use.











Thursday, August 18, 2011

Payment Gateway Hassles in India - How to contact them?

I've struggled for past 1 year to get payment gateway for my site. Since it's not making any dent in the market I've postponed my plan to get a payment gateway for my Ecommerce site.
During this period I've communicated with a few companies which I want world to know about.
India is a place of hassles, hassle to get gas, to even make a phone call - so is getting a payment gateway in India. Getting a payment gateway comes later but before this we need information from companies and we need to talk with the company executives, but hardly is there any professional company in India giving quality payment gateway service.
There is hardly any information available as to how to select a payment gateway beyond a relatively unknown site: payment gateways India.
Here I go:

CCAvenue

It boasts itself of largest payment gateway service provider in India with more than 5000 merchants using it's payment gateway.
It provides in its site 4 customer care phone numbers( 24x6). But when you try calling none will connect. A couple of them don't exist.
Go and chat with their online chat service. Most of the time it will not work. You'll type a long question and after some waiting when it shows that your number is 1/2 then suddenly it shows a contact us form and asks us to type in the question again! Pathetic company.
I've occasionally found some technical glitches and I was asked to send email to service@ccavenue.com . God only knows who lives in that mail id. Nobody ever responds if you send any technical problem. God bless this company.

EBS

Another jerk company. One lady named Krupa will attend to online chat. I contacted with them for my site, but I was reminded that "concerned person will contact you". But I never heard from them

ICICI Payseal

Lot of people want Payseal for their Ecommerce site. Previously they were having some pages about their product and service then it disappeared. Now you can find some firstdata... site showing ICICI Merchant products. Their long FAQ has disappeared. No pricing, feature information anywhere in the internet.
Recently I made a call at their customer care numbers, 3 times I was redirected. But their interest rates are low. Contacting them - difficult.

HDFC Bank

No information about their products and services available on the internet. What they want to hide?

Atomtech

I came to know about this unknown company from payment gateways India site. It has no product and features information or pricing. I tried calling them but nobody lifted the phone.

Paysignet

Looks like offering cheapest payment gateway plan. But there is only single 1800.. customer care number on their site. Whenever I and my friend try to call we get "Number doesn't exist". Two times even sent email to them by using online contact form. 1 month has passed by, no reply. Does this company really exist?

Transecute

Another horrible company. Somehow I could talk to someone, who told me that if you've signed up at our site, it'd take 2 weeks for them to tell me if my site is approved or not. Can't believe! 2 weeks just to get approved. This guy wasn't in any mood to sell his product. But I never heard back from this company for my site.

CellPay

Unknown company without any product information at its site. It's pricing is so high. God knows who buys from such a jerk company. I've also found out a hidden fact that it charges Rs. 20 for refund of any order.

Friday, August 12, 2011

How to download and install Adobe CS software on a different computer

Do you want to download the Adobe CS software, save it and use it later or move it to different computer? Then here are the steps as told by Adobe live chat to me:

General Info
Chat start time
 Aug 12, 2011 7:49:02 AM EST
Chat end time
 Aug 12, 2011 8:21:34 AM EST
Duration (actual chatting time)
 00:32:32
Operator
 Raghavendra

Chat Transcript
info: Thank you for choosing Adobe. A representative will be with you shortly.  Your estimated wait time is 0 minute(s) and 2 second(s) or longer as there are 1 customer(s) in line ahead of you.
info: You are now chatting with 'Raghavendra'
Raghavendra: Hello. Welcome to Adobe Technical Support.
Raghavendra: Hi Anurag
anurag: Pl. answer my question
Raghavendra: I have received your query. Please allow me a moment to review the details of your request.
Raghavendra: Sorry for the delay.
Raghavendra: Thank you for staying online. I appreciate your time and patience in this regard.
Raghavendra: As I understand that you are looking for help to download Adobe product, am I correct?
anurag: yes
Raghavendra: And you want to install on computer which is not connected to internet.
anurag: yes
Raghavendra: Could you please confirm the product full name with version?
anurag: Adobe Web Premium latest version for Windows
Raghavendra: Just to confirm, are you referring to trial version?
anurag: Adobe CS5 Web Premium PC trial version
anurag: yea
Raghavendra: I'll be glad to check and help you with that.
Raghavendra: May I know which version of Windows or MAC do you use?
anurag: Windows 7
Raghavendra: It is recommended to use Wired network to connect to internet and download Adobe products.
Raghavendra: Do you use wireless or wired network to connect to internet?
anurag: No in that PC internet is not allowed in the office
Raghavendra: In order to install the product you need to have logged in as Administrator or need to have Administrative privileges to your login user account.
Raghavendra: Have you logged in as Administrator or do you have Administrative privileges to your login user account to install the product?
anurag: that we have
Raghavendra: Thank you for the information.
Raghavendra: Here are the steps to install the product:
Raghavendra: 1. In order to install this product version you need to have 7z & exe files both and have them downloaded successfully.
Raghavendra: There are two files. One is WebPremium_CS5_5_LS1.exe and that other is the WebPremium_CS5_5_LS1.7z.
Raghavendra: 2. Please download in this computer.
Raghavendra: 3. Insert Flash Drive which has storage capacity to copy these two files and Flash Drive should be 5GB or 6GB.
Raghavendra: 4. Copy these two files to flash drive.
Raghavendra: 5. Eject Flash Drive.
Raghavendra: 6. Insert in another computer which is not connected to internet.
Raghavendra: 7. Copy 7z & exe to Desktop or C Drive.
Raghavendra: Please make sure that you have downloaded 7z & exe file completely and you need to have both the file in one folder or on desktop.
Raghavendra: Here are the steps to install this product version:
Raghavendra: 1. Please open the folder on the desktop or double click on the .exe file to start the extraction of the files.
Raghavendra: 2. After you double click on exe file which will start extracting and then it will create a new folder Adobe on the desktop.
Raghavendra: *Adobe CS5_5
Raghavendra: 3. After the extraction is complete, please open the newly created folder and inside that you will find another folder.
Raghavendra: 4. Inside the folder, there will be the setup.exe file.
Raghavendra: 5. You need to double click on the setup.exe file to start the Installation of the product and follow the installation instruction.
Raghavendra: Please follow onscreen instruction to install the product.
Raghavendra: And you will get a window where you need to select 'Continue with Trial Mode' and click on Next.
Raghavendra: And the next screen is to enter your Adobe ID and password, you need to click on Skip this Steps though you are installing Trial version.
anurag: One minute
Raghavendra: Okay.
Raghavendra: Am I clear with the steps?
anurag: It is clear.
Raghavendra: Your Adobe ID is your email address & Customer Id is .
Raghavendra: Thank you for contacting Adobe.
Raghavendra: Have a Great day!
Raghavendra: Goodbye!