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What is the most asked question on Quora (by the number of questions merged into it)?
As someone who writes mostly technology-related answers, I see the following question so much it makes me want to tear my hair out:“Can iCloud Activation Lock be Bypassed?”For those who don’t know, Apple devices that have an iCloud account active on them with Find My iPhone enabled will lock the device to that Apple ID even if it is restored to factory defaults. This is designed to prevent thievery, since stolen devices (typically iPhones) are useless without the Apple ID password they are locked with to unlock it. It is incredibly common for people to sell devices without removing the lock beforehand (likely because they don’t know it exists, or how to remove it) or because it is stolen. Either way, the lock cannot be bypassed without that password… but that doesn’t stop everyone and their mother from asking if it can be done as if the rules somehow don’t apply to them.Instead of viewing the answers on an existing question, or even asking new people to answer that existing question, they make a new one. Every. Single. Time. Quora is absolutely flooded with these questions, and I get A2A requests for them more than anything else.
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How did Judith Meyer learn 8+ languages? What are they? How were they picked up and when? How long did it take for her to signNow
I usually say 8+ because people have varying definitions of what it means to speak a language. Here are all languages I have ever studied for more than a few hours, in chronological order. I have marked the ones that I'm intermediate or higher in with an asterisk. * German (language) - 0 years old - my native language. Obviously fluent in it now, I have created 500+ language lessons for it as the host of GermanPod101 and I sometimes teach students over Skype.* English (language) - 10 years old - learned it as my first foreign language at school in grades 5-13. For the first few years I was really bad at it, but then I got English-speaking penpals, I hung out on political discussion forums online and I started voice-chatting, so that it started to feel like another native language around age 17 or so.* Latin (language) - 12 years old - my second foreign language at school, grades 7-11. Started studying Latin because it was a mandatory choice between either Latin or French and I thought Latin would help me with other languages in the future. After three years, my teachers recommended me as a tutor for weaker students and eventually I started teaching Latin online on Myngle and Edufire. Udemy course to appear soon.* French (language) - 14 years old - my third foreign language at school, grades 9-10. I really struggled with this language and quit after grade 10, but I had online friends who wouldn't let me forget it completely. I visited Montréal for a month immediately after graduating from high school and stayed with a French-speaking family, from where I picked up my passion for the Québécois variant. When I needed a linguistic-oriented university major to go with my study of computational linguistics, and I was too late to inscribe for English Studies, it was easy to decide on French Studies instead and my trusty online friends helped me re-activate my French in time for the initial evaluation exam. I speak French fluently now and I enjoy reading some classic French literature.* Esperanto (language) - 14 years old - the first language I studied outside school. I had read a popular science book about linguistics, which dedicated a few pages to Esperanto and mentioned that it was the most successful of all constructed languages, and designed to be super-simple. I thought to myself "If it's so simple, I should be able to pick it up without effort, as another notch in the belt. If it gets too hard or annoying, I'll just drop it, no regrets". So I signed up for the German Esperanto Youth's free e-mail-based course and got a mentor who was a student at Berlin Technical University. Learning Esperanto was exhilarating, the only language before or after that was intrinsically motivating to study. I finished the course in 5 months, then attended a weekend course for intermediate students in Berlin that my tutor invited me to, and by the end I was comfortable in Esperanto. Read also how Esperanto changed my life: http://www.quora.com/esperanto-best-of/How-Esperanto-changed-my-life* Italian (language) - 16 years old - my fourth foreign language at school, grades 11-13. Started studying this because of the vacuum left by quitting French class. By the end of grade 13, when I chose Italian for my oral baccalaureate exam, I was able to talk fluently about technical matters I had studied before, for example the causes of Venice's frequent flooding problem. Then I didn't use Italian at all for the next 5 years or so and I'm afraid it's not as fluent as it used to be, though I have started to use it a bit more regularly. I still regularly read books in Italian.* Modern Greek (language) - not sure exactly when I started studying it, because a Greek friend kept teaching me a few things here and there and eventually I decided to pursue it more seriously. I learned the basics in self-study and from my friend, then to signNow intermediate level I used the Assimil method Greek course and an online tutor. Right now I'm conversational but not fluent and I have read four non-simplified books in Greek without the help of a dictionary.* Mandarin Chinese (language) - 18 years old - I've always been fascinated by Chinese characters, so when I heard about a federal competition for high schoolers starting to learn Chinese, and I was in my last year of high school, that was all the motivation to start it then. I studied it by myself for half a year, then won the competition (prize: scholarship for 6 weeks language school in Beijing), sat in 1 1/2 semesters of Chinese at my university, then those 6 weeks in China (2004), then some more self-study, which tapered off... in 2009 I decided to get serious about it, studied 2500 characters in that one year, then have been steadily improving since. Last week I had a 2 1/2 hour conversation all in Mandarin about all kinds of topics, but I still search for words occasionally. I have also read almost a dozen books in Chinese by now.Thai - 19 years old - learned maybe 100 words and phrases just for fun. Been re-discovering it recently, but still not sure where I want to go with it.Czech (language) - 22 years old - I got the opportunity to attend a seminar in the Czech Republic, so I studied some Czech, maybe 500 words, even though the seminar itself would be in Esperanto. I haven't done anything about Czech since this trip, so I forgot it all.Swedish (language) - 24 years old - exact same as for CzechLithuanian (language) - 24 years old - exact same as for Czech. I'm happy I learned it, because otherwise I would have missed my flight back. After the seminar, the bus stop to get to the airport had changed and none of the passer-bys were able to speak English or another of my languages.* Kiswahili (Swahili) - 26 years old - I want to study some languages that are truly different from the ones I studied so far, and Swahili sounds really cool. I learned it from the Assimil course. I haven't had a chance to speak it much, but I can read and write it well enough to keep a diary in it for example.* Dutch (language) - 27 years old - As Dutch is so similar to German, low-hanging fruit so to speak, it would be stupid not to pick it. Some language geek friends and I made a challenge to learn Dutch in 6 weeks of self-study. For proper motivation, I signed up to give a 45-minute presentation of the German language, in Dutch, at a language festival in Leeuwen exactly 7 weeks after we started. I managed, though only a Dutch attendee could tell you how many mistakes I made. These days I'm keeping my Dutch active by reading books and listening to the political radio program "Met de oog op morgen".* Spanish (language) - 27 years old - Spanish is similar to Italian. I wanted to study it but found the course too boring, so I jumped straight into reading "A Space Odyssey" in Spanish. Spanish and Italian keep conflicting in my mind though, whenever I want to speak one, I keep thinking of words in the other language, so it requires concentration. Reading Spanish or understanding TV is no problem at all.Arabic (language) - 28 years old - I studied it non-seriously before but always got discouraged quickly. In 2011, I finally managed to bring Arabic up to A2 level, but then I lost interest because the people I was planning to talk Arabic to moved and there's not much to read in Arabic even if my level was better.Finnish (language) - 28 years old - This language never really interested me, but some language geeks made it a challenge to spend 35 hours on Finnish in one month and see how far we'd get. I used Assimil, Teach Yourself and a word frequency list supplemented by sound files from Forvo. At the end, my level was evaluated as A2, but I didn't continue to study Finnish. The challenge thread: http://how-to-learn-any-language...Japanese (language) - 29 years old - I spent 50 hours on it for the August/September 6 Week Challenges in 2012 (those challenges occur 4x a year now). My main goal is to understand the anime series "Hikaru no Go" and Japanese Go (board game) lectures and I don't care about much else for now, so I tried a new method that involved flashcards made from Hikaru no Go episodes (try Subs2Srs, it's awesome). After just 50 hours in this challenge, I was able to understand two thirds of a new Hikaru no Go episode without subtitles, and my Japanese was useless for anything else. I have started to take conversational classes. EDIT: I just posted a description of how I signNowed this level so quickly as a step-by-step guide on my blog: http://temp.learnlangs.com/step-...* Indonesian - 29 years old - My most recent addition. I started to learn Indonesian because the Indonesian embassy in Berlin offered a free beginner's course in April 2013. Then they announced a speaking competition for June 2013 and I challenged myself to participate in it, so that I suddenly had to learn Indonesian quite quickly during the May 6 Week Challenge. You learn more about my method and results here. I'm happy to say that I'm currently almost B2 in Indonesian.I recently collected the most useful Language-Learning Advice I gave on Quora. Also check out my blog about language-learning, which includes personal updates as well as advice on methods etc., at http://www.learnlangs.com , and my Quora board about languages: http://www.quora.com/selected_language_postsIf you're looking for language geeks like the crazy ones who started the challenges with me, http://how-to-learn-any-language... is your best bet. And if you want to experience intense language self-study, why not sign up for a 6 Week Challenge? http://6wc.learnlangs.com/howto
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Gmail in 2015: As a techie person, what is in your Gmail?
As a techie person, What is in your gmail ? There's a lot of stuff in my GMail; I run much of my routine business through it. (My regular Comcast E-mail is mostly used for mailing-list traffic and such, and gets auto-collected by a server at home. My phone is configured to access my GMail and Erbosoft mailboxes.)I do make extensive use of E-mail filters to redirect much of the incoming mail to other categories, and out of the inbox. Quora notifications get redirected, for instance, as do those from LinkedIn, Medium, Goodreads, and YouTube. Most advertising messages from companies I do business with get redirected to the label "...
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How can we increase SEO traffic in 30 days?
30 days plan for increasing website traffic through SEO:Day 1 : Optimize your title and Description The first thing a user sees when they search for a keyword is the snippet on the Google Search results page. The snippet includes your the page title, URL, and meta description. The title should be short and concise. It impacts your ranking for keywords. Your meta description should accurately describe the content your page offers. While it doesn’t directly impact your search ranking, it will impact your click through rate! Hands-on tips for title optimization Keep the title short. Google truncates anything past 70 characters. Use keywords you want to rank for in the page title. Go back and add page titles to any of pages currently missing one!Hands-on tips for optimizing the description Limit your description to 175 characters. Otherwise, Google will cut off the rest! Try and integrate a call-to-action in your description that encourages users to click on your site page. What added value does the user get from visiting your website? Make it clear in the description. Use important keywords.Day 2 : Use ALT Attributes to Optimize Images Search engines aren’t able to fully interpret the content of images without textual support. That’s why using Alt text to describe your images is so important: it allows search engines to understand the image content. And, if for some reason an image can’t be loaded, the Alt attribute (alternative description) displays the specified alternative text. Alt text also allows visually impaired users who use text-to-speech software to access web content. You have to optimize for all audience members, after all! The Alt attribute is integrated within the image link in the HMTL source code:Hands-on tips for the use of Alt attributes Go to your website and check if you added all ALT attributes to images already live. Add an ALT attribute for every image on your website. Use important keywords for the ALT texts. Use the ALT text to describe what the corresponding images illustrates.Day 3 : Identify and Rectify Broken Links When a user visits a URL that can’t be found on a server, their browser shows them error code 404 (file not found). When this happens, it not only creates a negative user experience, but it also interrupts search engine crawling. If search engines find too many 404 errors on your website, they take it as a sign that your website is not properly maintained. But more often than not 404 errors occur because of broken links. In other words, you’ve inserted a link somewhere on your site that goes to a landing page no longer exists. This often occurs when the destination URLs have been changed or written incorrectly. Make sure to periodically check for any broken links on your website (especially after a relaunch or small URL changes).Hands-on tips: Fix 404 errors Check if your website displays any 404 errors. You may use Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress. Redirect the faulty URLs to the correct URLs using 301 redirects. Request other webmasters fix any incorrect links that point to your website. Check links in the navigation menu.Day 4 : Review Your Redirects Server relocation can make it necessary to temporarily redirect certain URLs. These redirects (status code 302) ensure that Google retains the old URLs in the index, enabling users to access the older URLs even after server relocation. You should only use a 302 redirect for a limited time period. For permanently redirecting a URL, use the status code 301, which permanently redirects the old URL to the new URL. Part of the link juice is also passed on in the process.Hands-on tips Check all the redirects used on your website. Check if existing 302 redirects are really necessary or if you should replace them with 301 redirects.Day 5 : Standardize your Url Structures The URLs on your website are like signposts to the content your users want to access. The more uniform the website structure is, the faster users can get to their destination. Creating a positive user experience helps reduce bounce rates and increases dwell time. A uniform URL structure also helps search engines crawl your website faster. The faster bots are able to access all URLs, the more pages it can go through and index on its limited budget for crawling each website. A uniform directory structure also means using descriptive URLs. These help users orient themselves within your website. Descriptive URLs are also suited for marketing actions or sharing content on social networks since the URLs already provide clues on the contents of the landing page. Example of a descriptive URL: mywebsite.com - This website is for sale! - mywebsite Resources and Information. Hands-on tips Check if you are using descriptive URLs. Check the click paths and reduce the URL structure to a maximum of 4 directory levels. Make sure that a directory logically points to all its parent folders e.g., mywebsite.com - This website is for sale! - mywebsite Resources and Information. Use 301 redirects to redirect old URLs to the new URLs whenever you make changes.Day 6 : Shorten your URLs Google has no problem processing URLs that are up to 2,000 characters long. This means your URL length does not have a direct impact on your site page’s ranking. However, URL length does have an impact on user experience (which ultimately still affects your SEO). Shorter URLs are much easier to remember, easier to share on social media, and easier for advertising purposes. Another positive effect: A short URL with no more than 74 characters can also be displayed completely in the Google SERP snippets. Avoid redundant stop words (the, a, an, etc.) or conjunctions (and, or) in the URL. Keep your URLs as close as possible to the root domain.Day 7 : Link your pages internally Your homepage is the most important and likely your strongest webpage. The link power (AKA link juice) is distributed from the homepage to all other sub pages. Ideally, you should distribute the link juice evenly to all other subpages through internal links and easy navigation menus. The uniform internal linking also enables you to control the search engine bot. A logical link structure makes it possible for the bot to systematically crawl and index your website. Controlling link power also tells the bot which pages are most important. Some of the pages on your website might not be linked to any other page. These are referred to as “orphaned pages,” and if a bot finds such a page, it is forced to abort the crawl since bots can only move from link to link. Hands-on tips Remove links that point to faulty pages (status code 404) or pages that are no longer accessible (status code 500). Identify orphaned pages and link them to other thematically relevant subpages.Day 8 : Use anchor texts to increase relevance Anchor texts describe a link in detail and inform the user about what to expect from the link. Rather than having to click on an ugly URL, anchor texts allow people to click on keywords people understand and are redirected to the URL is hidden behind the anchor text. Ideally, the corresponding keyword of the landing page should always be used in the anchor text of internal links. The more web pages use the same keyword to point to a subpage, the more signals the search engine will receive indicating that this landing page must be very relevant for this keyword. This, in turn, means that the page will be ranked better for this and other similar keywords. Avoid using non-descriptive anchor texts (e.g., “here”, “more”, etc.) in your internal links and focus more on keywords. Hands-on tips Try to use the same anchor text when you link to a landing page. Make sure the anchor text matches the content of the landing page.Day 9 : Keep Click Paths SHORT Website users want to get to their desired page as fast as possible. That means you should keep your click paths as short as possible. The click path is the route a user takes to signNow their desired page. Think of an online shopping experience. The user might start on the homepage and end at the shopping cart. Their click path is the ease and number of pages the user have to go through to signNow their desired product and buy it. The length of the click path plays a key role in the navigation on your website. Search engines also benefit from short click paths when crawling. If the Google bot goes through your website and manages to access all sub-pages within just a few clicks, it can use its limited crawl budget to scan and index more pages. Optimizing the click path pays off for both usability and search engine crawling! As a rule of thumb, every sub-page should be accessible with no more than 3 clicks. Hands-on tips Add a breadcrumb navigation to enable your users to orient them within the click path. Limit the length of the click path to a maximum of 4 clicks. Use a smart filter and search function on your website to avoid long click paths.Day 10: Improve your site’s accessibility Troubleshooting technical errors and ensuring that your website is always accessible is one of the biggest hurdles to manage when thinking about good SEO practices over time. You can use a sitemap.Xml file to inform search engines about all URLs on your website. This sitemap can be read by search engines and contains a list of all important URLs and metadata on the website. The Google bot uses this list as a basis to go to the website and review the corresponding URLs. The sitemap.xml file always has the same structure: Both the XML version and coding are specified in the file. The URLs can be supplemented with additional metadata [e.g. the frequency with which the URL is changed () or the last modification ().] The sitemap.xml can be created using different content management systems There are also special sitemap generators available for the creation of the file. After creating the file, you should upload it to the Google Search Console. Google then checks the sitemap-XML for accuracy. However, there is no guarantee that all web pages given in the sitemap will be crawled and indexed. This is up to the search engine. Hands-on tips Regularly update your sitemap.xml. Always adjust your sitemap.xml whenever you change URLs or edit content. Check the status codes of the web pages using the sitemap and fix any accessibility errors.Day 11 : Tell search engines what to crawl The robots.txt is a text file that tells search engine crawlers which directories to crawl (allow) and which not to crawl (disallow). Every bot must first access the robots.txt file before crawling the website. Using the robots.txt file helps you ensure that search engines identify all the important content on your website. If an important web site or JavaScript elements are excluded from the crawling, search engines will not be able to correctly index your website. If all your posts are indexed then it will Increase SEO Traffic! Below is the simplest form of robots.txt: User-agent: * In this case, the instructions apply to all bots (*). There are no crawling restrictions. After creating the robots.txt file, you should save it in the root directory of your website. If you do not want a specific area of the website to be If you do not want a specific area of the website to be crawled, you should specify this using a “disallow” in the file. User-agent: * User-agent: * Disallow: /thisdirectory Hands-on tips Use a robots.txt file to give instructions to search engines. Make sure that important areas of your website are not excluded from crawling. Regularly check the robots.txt file and its accessibility. Orientation & performance of the website Your website should be thematically oriented to specific keywords for optimal rankings. The website should fulfill the needs of your users. At the same time, it is also important for your web content to load quickly in order to guarantee user satisfaction.Day 12 : Do Your Keyword Research Keyword research helps you identify keywords that appeal to a target audience and expand the signNow of your content. When selecting keywords, you should also keep the purpose of your website in mind. Opt for transactional keywords if the main intention is sales, or informational keywords if your website aims to provide readers with important information. Below are some of the recommended tools to help you research appropriate keywords:Google Keyword Planner: The Keyword Planner is part of the AdWords advertising program. You need a valid AdWords account to use this free tool. You can start searching for keywords and suitable ideas as soon as you register. You can also enter websites and view suitable keywords based on their content. The tool also shows you information about the monthly search volume. To the Keyword Planner.Google Trends: This free tool shows you how often frequent search terms are used. The tool also shows you a preview of possible peak demands. Google Trends is well-suited for seasonal and event-related keywords.Google Search: When you go to google anything, Google provides suggestions as you type based on the most heavily search keywords that your current search is matching. This includes long-tailed keyword suggestions based on your short-tailed entry. On a tight time or money budget, take advantage of this easy solution!Übersuggest: Übersuggest is a classic keyword research tool. It goes through all the recommendations of Google Suggest and shows you the most appropriate search term.LongTailPro, SEMRush are the best keyword research premium tool. They have lots of features which will give you clear idea about your keywords. You may tryDay 13 : Ensure Neat Website Navigation A navigation menu helps users to easily navigate and find what they’re looking for on a website. A well-structured navigation menu is key for the user experience. The navigation structure is also important for search engines since it enables them to determine how important a URL is. The navigation on your website should be structured logically to ensure users don’t have problems on your website. Long dwell times from your users can help improve your search rankings, so the user experience is an important SEO consideration! Hands-on tips Use anchor texts in navigation elements. This help search engines understand the subject of the landing page better. Identify pages that have a high bounce rate and take measures to prevent this. Use a breadcrumb navigation for a better overview.Day 14 : Improve your site’s loading speed A webpage’s loading speed is very important for its ranking. Users don’t want to spend time waiting for a page to load; they want to see your content immediately. Web pages with high loading times have high bounce rates, and high bounce rates often result in poor rankings. There are many technical ways to optimize the loading time. You can use Google PageSpeed to check how fast your website loads. Check the page speed of your website with Website Speed and Performance Optimization Or Website Performance and Optimization Test Identify (very) slow pages and find out the cause. Avoid using giant image files and optimize the images for their minimum sizes. Optimize CSS and JavaScript files. You can save these in external files on the server for performance reasons.Day 15 : Optimize your website for mobile Mobile friendliness is an important ranking factor for search rankings. More and more users are using their mobile devices to surf the internet. In some areas, over 70% of users visit websites on mobile. What does this mean for you? Every site page should be optimized for mobile. Every. Single. One. Before you start with mobile optimization, you can use Google’s free test for mobile friendliness to check the mobile performance of your website. Learn more from google webmasters.Day 16 : Identify Duplicate Content Duplicate content can appear on a website for different reasons. Sometimes the same content is accessible and indexed under different URLs. This makes it difficult for search engines to determine the best search result among the different URLs. The result is “cannibalization” in the rankings. The website cannot appear in top rankings since Google is unable to choose the best version. You should, identify sources of duplicate content on your website and rectify the errors as fast as possible. Check if your website is accessible with or without www., HTTP, or https. If multiple versions are accessible, use 301 redirects to redirect them to the desired version. Check if the same content is indexed in different formats, e.g., in the print version or as PDF. Test if your website automatically creates lists or documents that generate duplicate content. Check if your website displays similar content with and without a “/” at the end of the URL.Day 17 : Eliminate duplicate content Online shops in particular often face the risk of generating duplicate content. For example, a product might be listed in several categories. If the URL is structured hierarchically, a product can be accessible under multiple URLs. One reliable way to solve this problem is by using a canonical tag. This shows Google which URL is the “original” one and which one is a copy. The Google bot then ignores the copies when crawling your website and only indexes the original URLs. Go to each page on your website and add a canonical tag. In the case of duplicate content, the canonical tag should point to the original web page. Also, add a canonical tag on the original web page that points to itself. When adding canonical tags, make sure you write the URLs correctly. Do not use relative URLs for canonical tags. If you hired a writer for your website content, then check your article before publishing it. I use Grammarly & Copyscape to check plagiarism.Day 18 : Use TF*IDF to Analyze Content Quality Whether or not a website gets to top ranking positions depends on how unique its content is and how much added value it provides users. TF*IDF allows you to check if text optimization on your website is necessary. It determines the frequency of terms associated with the specified main keyword based on the top 10 search results in the SERPs. You can then use this term frequency to see whether your text already contains the important keywords. Try to meaningfully integrate the most important terms from the analysis in your text. Compile thematically relevant content for your users. Regularly analyze your text using the TF*IDF tool in order to keep up with changes in the SERPs and the changing interest of users.Day 19 : Create unique headlines Headlines on your website usually have two functions. One is to give the content an organized structure, and the other is to encourage user to read on. Headlines are marked with h-tags in the HTML source code. Hands-on tips Only use one h1 headline per page. Use the main keyword of the respective page in the h1 headline.Arrange sub-headings in chronological order (h1, h2, h3, etc.) Do not use h-tags to format the font size. Instead, use CSS. When possible, use thematically complementary keywords in sub-headings (h2, h3, etc.). Keep headlines as short as possible and delete all unnecessary words. Use elements like numbers, bullets, and images to attract your user’s attention and make your content easily skimmable. Day 20 : Create your content Content curation is a common way to collect, restructure, and republish existing content. The collection of material often provides new perspectives for users on content ideas you’ve already covered. For content curation to be successful, you first look for appropriate sources and then use your own blog to purposefully publish the content. Personal social media channels also help spread content easily. Popular topics often provide a lot of traffic. Hands-on tips Publish illustrative infographics that make a complex subject much easier to understand. Publish surveys and statistics to topics that could interest your target group. Write e-books in which you comprehensively cover a subject in a way that is easy to understand. Organize case studies in which you share your experiences. This gives your users practical insights into your work and expertise. Publish guest posts on your blog. External experts can provide detailed insights on a specific subject that interest your users.Day 21: Recycle your content Content republishing offers webmasters and SEOs an opportunity to restructure and update content that already performs well for their audience. At HubSpot, we call this process historical optimization. When you republish content, you can’t just publish the same thing and make it look new. You need to update the content with fresh statistics, examples, up-to-date facts, or even fresh formats to make it more relevant for your audience. Search engines often reward you for updating old content. But remember, you only get a reward for actually making the content more relevant! Regularly check your website’s KPIs, e.g., dwell time, traffic, and scroll behavior. Look for your most high-ranking content and check to see if it’s up-to-date. Make sure you also modify your meta elements, e.g., title and description, when modifying your content. Examples of ways you can republish your content Creating video tutorials from existing content. Updating old blog posts or turn the into gated offers. Creating listicles based on information on a blog post. Rephrasing a press release on a blog post.Day 22: Keep your content code ratio high Thin content tells a search engine that your site page doesn’t have much to offer. As a result, those site pages are ranked poorly in the search results. Sparse content is mostly characterized by a poor content (text) to code ratio. The common rule of thumb dictates that the amount of text on a website should not be less than 25 percent. Use sufficient text on your website. Reduce the source code by eradicating unnecessary comments and formatting. Structure your text so that the content is clearly legible. When possible, use CSS instead of HTML for formatting.Day 23: Diversify new content There are many different ways of creating new content. In addition to text, web content also includes images, videos, graphics, and audio files. Play around with different content styles in a variety of formats — blog posts, site pages, webinars, videos, etc. Make the most of the diversity of options out there! Users appreciate the variety.Hands-on tips Use infographics to illustrate complex subjects. Present facts in brief and clear explanation videos. Publish case studies about your experiences and new methods. Shed light on the various aspects of your work from a totally new angle. Conduct interviews with experts, CEOs, and employees on subjects that are relevant to your target group. Publish listicles that have never existed before.Day 24: Internationalize your website Is your website available in different languages or country version? Awesome! Don’t forget to notify search engines of this. The search engines will then display the content of your website in the respective country and language versions for users. This improves usability since users are immediately redirected to the desired version in the SERPs. You should use the hreflang-tag to mark the different language and country versions of multilingual websites. Implement this tag in the website’s section and make sure you add a new tag for every language version. Structure: Hands-on tips Add a hreflang-tag on every page if it has a copy in a different language. Link each page on your website to all available language versions. Add the hreflang in your XML sitemap. Add a hreflang-tag in the section of HTML documents to also reference to other PDFs in other languages.Day 25: Optimize your website for local search A Google study showed that more than 80% of users search stores and local service providers online before visiting them. This fact makes it important to optimize your website for the local search. The online visit is a basis for more customers and more sales. Hands-on tips Make sure you optimize your website for mobile since users often search for local stores, restaurants, or service providers using smartphones. Always use the same business name, address, and telephone number (NAP) on your website. Use the same information for entries in business directories. Register your website on Google MyBusiness. Make sure you also add images of both you and your business besides the NAP data. Make sure your content relates to your locality. Use the city or region in H1 headlines, titles, and meta descriptions. Use your service or business field as the main keyword and sensibly combine it with your region or city. Set the keyword focus (ALT attributes or URL names) to the combination of city/region + your offer/service. Use markups to mark the NAP data in the source code. Add your business in business directories like Yelp. Encourage your users to review you online.Day 26: Leverage social networks Social networks are an important source of traffic. Good content signNowly raises the probability of the posts being frequently shared organically on social networks which help you expand your signNow. At the same time, you can also generate additional traffic through social channels. Social interactions are also registered by Google and can help the search engine review the relevance and quality of your content.Hands-on tips Use social networks to promote your content. Make sure you appropriately address the correct target group. Only post content that also interests your target group. Speak the language of your target audience in your posts. Post regularly and do not be afraid to experiment on posts that are most frequently shared. Use paid ads on extremely interesting posts to further expand your signNow. Use a preview to check how your posts are displayed. Use images and videos to make your posts more attractive and compelling.Day 27: Force user interaction User-generated content can increase the relevance and freshness of a website. Users can interact with your website in many different forms. The most common ways include blog comments, question and answer boxes on products, and reviews! Encourage your blog readers to comment on posts. You can simply add a CTA request at the end of the text or pose open questions. Write posts about controversial topics to generate comments. Share your blog posts on social networks and encourage users to comment. Let users review and rate your products through open text fields. Let your users answer questions from other users about your products. Post frequently asked questions on your website and answered the questions there. Monitoring SEO is not about one-time actions. It is a continuous optimization process. One crucial basis for optimization is valid data about user behavior. Regular monitoring is one of the key tasks of search engine optimization that makes it possible to react quickly to traffic decline or other occurrences.Day 28: Sign up for Google Search Console The Google Search Console is an important basis for website monitoring. Not only is the sitemap.XML uploaded to the Search Console; you also obtain important data about the most common keywords used to find the website on Google. Also, the Search Console also informs you about hacked websites and warnings to unnatural links. You can also access data from the Search Console on other applications through linking other Google products, e.g., Google Analytics and Google AdWords. The API allows you to also integrate CTR and traffic statistics as well as links to other web analytics tools. Register a valid Google account and add your website in the Search Console. Regularly check HTML improvements in the Search Console and optimize your metadata. Check your markups using the Search Console. Analyze the clicks to your landing pages and use this data as a basis to optimize your content and metadata. Check the statistics about crawling errors. Directly send optimized websites to the Google index using the “Fetch as Google” function.Day 29: Sign up for Google analytics Google Analytics allows you to specifically analyze the user behavior on your website. The analysis options range from very simple to very complex functions. Using tools like Google Analytics is essential to evaluating the success of your SEO measures.Google Analytics tracks the users on your website. To activate the tracking, you must add the respective Google Analytics code snippet on every page. Check the most important performance indicators (such as page visits, bounce rate, and dwell time) on a daily basis. Activate email notifications in case of major changes in these KPIs. Regularly compare the data with previous periods. Revise your privacy policy if you are using Google Analytics.Day 30: Monitor your progress There are tons different tools on the market for assessing the success of your website. Make sure you also use the free options to monitor and analyze traffic on your website. The two free tools, Google Analytics and the Google Search Console, are standard website monitoring tools. Different commercial providers also offer other free tools that can signNowly help with your SEO tasks. What a ride! Over the past 30 days, you have optimized your website step-by-step by applying various SEO tactics to your page. We covered technical, on-page, content, and performance optimization tips. We have laid the foundation for a well-optimized website. You are now on your way to becoming an SEO pro! But remember: SEO is a continuous process and not a onetime “fling.” Keep up the good work and continue maintaining and optimizing your page. You’ll see – the effort will pay off! Good Luck
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What is the benefit of signing up with Awdhesh Academy?
Awdhesh Academy aims to provide the best online education to its users.We want to substitute the classroom learning rather than supplement classroom learning.The benefits of joining Awdhesh Academy are as following.1: High Quality VideosYou can find video lessons on many platform. YouTube itself contains free video lessons on practically every subject.However, the difference is about the quality.Most videos are recorded by the trainers on mobile camera and posted as it is. The picture quality is average while there is a lot of noise in the video.We shoot the videos by DSLR camera and HD video cameras in our studio. These videos are then edited by our video editors with many special effects after spending several hours before they are posted on our platform.Please watch our videos on our YouTube channel before joining the course.2: Online AssessmentYou can take an online test as soon as you complete the video lessons. This test will evaluate your understanding of the lesson. You are more focused while watching the video since you know that your performance is to be assessed. You should repeat the video, if you fail to score well in the test.3: NotesWe provide notes for each lesson. Hence, you don’t have to stop or pause the video to make notes.4: AssignmentWe shall provide you assignment for each chapter. The assignment shall have higher difficulty level to provide you depth of knowledge. You shall also be provided model answers for the assignments.5: Doubt ClearingWe are also going to introduce a doubt cleaning feature on our platform where you can ask doubt which can be clarified by the educator and/or the other users.6: Quality of EducatorWe are very particular about the quality of teachers. We are not going for crowdsourcing of educators and allow anyone to teach on our platform from their home.I am myself teaching class XI Maths and Physics, as I have qualified not only IIT-JEE twice, but also qualified Civil Services with Maths and Physics and as optionals.I am also teaching GST Course on Awdhesh Academy as I have got more than 25 years of experience in the Customs & Central Excise department which is implementing Central GST in India. My Book ‘GST Made Simple’ continues to be the national bestseller on Amazon.I am also teaching ‘Ethics, Integrity and Aptitude’. I posted a much simpler course on Unacademy last year which is already the top rated course on this subject according to Google Search. This course has received 4.8/5 rating by over 3300 users with nearly 300 reviews on Unacademy.[1]We shall only be adding newer courses on this platform if we get best teachers (of subjects)on our platform.7: Value for MoneyWe are charging quite nominal fee from the users. Our fees are capped at ₹1999 for one year and ₹2999 for two year.However, at present all courses are being offered for all-inclusive price of ₹699 for one year and ₹999 for two years for limited period. The fee charged by other e-learning platform for a similar courses is many time higher.Awdhesh Academy is committed to provide the best e-learning for all its courses at the most affordable price.Footnotes[1] Ethics, Integrity, and Aptitude (For UPSC CSE) - Unacademy
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Which startups have the best stories?
Paypal and the Paypal MafiaFew companies make it to the exit stage, and there are even fewer cases of over a billion dollar exit. But what makes the story interesting is that even when you think that the founder members of Paypal, like most startup founders would've been a bunch of smart kids who went to some great school (Zuck and Bill Gates went to Harvard, Dropbox founder Drew Houston went to MIT) they're not, these were a bunch of really out of place people. David Sacks, one of the people who played an indispensable role in Paypal said, "Basically, we were kicked out of our homeland and they burned down our temple. So, we were scattered to the four corners of the globe, and we had to make new homes." Part of the IPO day festivities included Peter Thiel (right) taking on multiple PayPal employees in simultaneous chess matches. David Sacks (center) was the only one who beat him.Three of the key founders had actually escaped from communist countries:1) Max LevchinMax's family was put into diplomatic limbo when the USSR collapsed, he was literally without a country. His family had escaped from Soviet Ukraine.2) Luke NosekHis family came from Tarnow , Poland which also happens to be the place where he was born. Luke happens to be pretty eccentric. (more about his eccentricity later in this answer)3) Yu Pan His family came from China. Yu was also one of the first software engineers on Youtube.Not only these guys several other of the founder members were also do not fit the stereotype of privileged American childhood.Russell Simmons Co-Founder and now CTO of Yelp. Russ escaped from a trailer park to the top math and science school in Illinois.Inception of PaypalMax Levchin and Luke Nosek met Peter Thiel at Stanford and PayPal did not start off as the online auction currency for which it is rightly famous. It was originally called Confinity and delivered security software for handheld devices. Max later concluded that this business model wasn't gonna work so they started thinking on the lines of a digital wallet.To conclude, these guys wanted to make something big and they knew that it would only work if the people on the team liked working with each other and the most important thing is that for this they didn't hire their friends instead they hired people who could do the work and were also potential great friends. Fun Fact: Luke Nosek is really interested in Cryogenics so he has registered to be cryonically suspended, meaning that they would be subject to low-temperature preservation in case of his legal death in hopes that he might be successfully revived by future medical technology. And whats more, Peter Thiel has followed his footsteps.How successful has the Paypal Mafia been?These guys went on to create a series of Unicorn companies. Unicorns are companies with a valuation of more than $1 billion. Two of those seven companies were valued at north of $10 billion. Those companies are:1. Tesla Motors - $27.5 billion market cap2. LinkedIn - $20.4 billion market cap3. Palantir - $9 billion value (private company, estimate)4. SpaceX - $7 billion value (private company, estimate)5. Yelp - $5.26 billion market cap6. YouTube - $1.65 billion acquisition7. Yammer - $1.2 billion acquisitionIf Google's unicorn companies are estimated at two, that means that PayPal got 3.5 times the result with 1/100 of the people. In other words, PayPal's success rate relative to billion-dollar companies is 350x that of Google. This answer was written because a lot of people were interested in the roots of the Paypal Mafia.For more content on Paypal Mafia see:How the 'PayPal Mafia' redefined success in Silicon Valley - TechRepublic Pratyush Ranjan Tiwari's answer to Who is the greatest entrepreneur ever and why? Thanks for reading!
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Is life at Goldman Sachs really bad?
Originally answered - Shilpi Roy's answer to Should I choose signNow or Goldman Sachs (India)?The answer is gonna be really long. Grab some snacks as it could take a while.I was the happiest person the day I was selected as a FTE (tech analyst position) at GS - a reputed fin-tech company which mostly hires tier-1 students, a dream for many. I heard from many people that GS offers package as high as 32lpa which was quite a big deal for me - or for anyone who might have been at my place.Then came the HR’s call. She offered me semester long internship in GS! I was glad that I don’t have to spend my last semester in college and will also earn some money. With the stipend as high as 75k and stay at Hilton hotel during intern, anybody is likely to go crazy and say “YES”.And so I did.The beginning (GS-Bengaluru office)Soon came 7th January. Day started off with amazing orientation and office visit. Then came the lunch buddy - GS assigns a buddy from your department to have lunch with you the day you join, let’s say he was Raghav (name changed).Raghav seemed to be a really smart guy. I asked him a few questions about GS being a fin-tech, is it easy to switch and other questions. He seemed to be out of place, not interested. A guy came who was an intern in a team in which Raghav used to work. He kept talking and giggling with him, completely ignoring my presence. Cool, maybe Raghav is a bad guy - who cares?Met with my manager and two other interns who were in the same department - GIR. He seemed like a chilled-out and thoughtful person. Let’s call him Rudra.Our whole department used to sit in a middle sized cabin which accommodated around 32–35 employees of GIR. My happiness knew no bounds! Great team, small cabin and friendly manager - what else could I ask for?Then came the next day. We were introduced to our team and had a lunch together. Oh no! Lunch here was not free - no big deal. Only 80rs/- per plate is affordable when you earn 75k per month, I thought.After having lunch, we began installing softwares required. Wait, you can’t install some softwares without manager’s permission. Fine! I messaged my manager and he granted the permission. He came later in the evening and gave 3 of us an interesting machine learning problem to solve - in a week, till we get our projects.He had three projects in mind, and he left it for us to decide which one we want to take. I took the one which I thought was more impactful and cool, also because we had a member of our team working for the project. My task was to integrate the backend stuff he wrote with the UI I was going to create. Also to help him with some of those backend stuffs later on.“You can take help from Varun, in case you need” said Rudra.So it began!1st MonthI started learning React.js for the UI I was going to implement from various websites. There were tons of tutorial there. After understanding some theory, I clicked on ‘try it on codepen’ - online editor.“You are restricted from using an external website - no permissions”What? I can’t even use some online editor. Okay that’s fine - we have pretty sensitive data in GS. Since it’s a finance based company, we have client data with us and user may copy and paste it online - someone might steal the data! All this made sense. ‘It’s fine, I’ll bring my own laptop tommorow’, I thought before leaving.I could see two teammates standing behind me from my peripheral vision. One who was writing the backend stuff for the project I was working upon, let’s call him Varun.Varun was a silent and sober guy - a hardworking one who speaks only when required. Another guy standing beside him was Raghav.“Hey!” I said in a low tone.“Did I do some crime? Why are these two here?” I wondered.“You brought your personal laptop, is everything fine here?” they asked.I told them about the restrictions. Raghav took my work PC and sent Rudra, my manager a request to approve codepen.I waited. One hour. Two hours. Codepen still not working. Fine for me since I have my own laptop. No worries.After 2 weeks Varun called me and started assigning tasks to do for the UI. I was full of enthusiasm and paid full attention to what he wanted. I started looking out for the cool libraries out there and found - material-ui.‘Perfect!’ I exclaimed.Started with the tasks, and was able to achieve the target next evening. It looked damn good! Varun will be happy. And so, I showed it to him.“Okay, font-size is a bit huge. And please change the app’s name - ELEGANT USER’S APP” (name changed). And so I did.“E-L-E-G-E-N-T U-S-E-R—S A-P-P”What a funny name, I thought. (The real one was funnier than the changed one)So days went, 1..2…3 and I completed 5–6 tasks. The basic UI (20%) was done. Then came Varun -“Shilpi, you did this using which library?”“Material-ui! It’s really good and..”“Okay, but make sure you can use it. Only specific libraries can be used at GS. Search xyz site and ensure if we can use it. If yes, proceed. Else use GS UI library”What did he just say. I worked on the UI for 2 weeks, and he is telling me now that I may not be able to use the material-ui library! No way..With my heart beating fast, I typed..X..Y….Z …..gs..comCtrl+F“M-A——T-E—-R—I—A”Boom! It’s there. I was delighted :)The next day I was late. I saw a message pop up. It was from Raghav.“Hey” it said.“Hey” I replied.“Please try to attend the daily standup. If you don’t, mail Rudra about your update :)” He replied.There hasn’t been a single day I was late. But okay, FINE.Then came the 5th day - friday. I got a message from Varun.‘Hi Shilpi, can you make another UI using GS-UI?’Oh No!. Again?.‘Just for the feel…we’ll show it to Rudra next week, he’ll choose which one we can use’*Slow Claps*Well played Varun. Why did he approve the material-ui one if he wanted it in GS-UI - I wondered.It’s fine, I can do it. I encouraged myself and went to the internal site - gs-ui-library. (name changed)Okay, fine. This looks good. Okay. Cool. Documentation.. documentation….uhmm.I searched for the whole day, no documentation. Just few codes and examples to understand how to display some component.Way uglier than material-ui - I thought. And a minute later, an evil idea came to my mind..“What if I make the UI using gs-ui-library so ugly that Rudra and Varun both reject! That would be great!”The next week on friday, I was done with gs-ui-library. My code was asked to be removed from codesandbox by Varun - it’s illegal to put GS’s internal code there. I could hear Rudra laughing about how he is afraid of the interns bringing personal laptops here, and what will happen if someone names a variable as “GIR” and put it on github.I showed Rudra the material-ui one. He was impressed.“This looks good! But don’t keep the name as ‘ ELEGANT USERS APP’, instead keep it as ‘THE USERS SEARCH APP’ ” (name changed)“But Rudra, Varun has asked me to..”“I will ask him. We will decide and tell you”Fine. Keep the name as ‘The bla-bla app’. I don’t care.Varun was already gone by the time.I smirked. I won’t show the UI I made using gs-ui-library to Rudra!Next day Varun was on my desk. He asked whether I showed both the UI’s.“No, actually I forgot to show the other..”“See, the people above us will probably ask why we didn’t use GS-UI. That’s why I am saying so. I have no problem with material-ui. Just ask Rudra if he is fine with it. Rudra…”“Yes, Varun” replied Rudra.And then he showed both the UI’s to him. The ugly one. The good one.“I think it looks great - the ‘gs-ui-library’ one!” Rudra exclaimed.I shouted in my mind - “How can he..!”“See Shilpi, we don’t have any problem using material-ui one but the people for whom we are making the app will ask why we didn’t use the internal-gs library. Okay, tell me one thing - it does have all the components you require, right?”“Yes, Rudra” I sighed.“Seems like Shilpi wanted to use material-ui, haha” Rudra giggled and looked at Varun. I could hear the giggling from one if the two interns from behind - Tejas (name changed).He was also working on a UI, along with some backend stuff. He was using ‘gs-ui-library’ from day one. And so, he giggled.Rudra -1 .. Shilpi - 0This was the first time I went home feeling sad. Why didn’t they tell me 2 weeks ago? Now I will have to work on the other one. And the library has no documentation.Next week , Varun decided to keep the name as “ELEGENT-USERS-APP”. He refused Rudra.Varun -1.. Rudra- 0So I went back to my desk and began.“g-s-u-i-l-i-b-r-a-r-y” I typed.Gs-ui-library was a really terrible library. No documentation, made by mixture of other available libraries online. It was like an accidental product of some cross-breeding. A scientific failure.Anyways, I somehow learnt basic features which I could implement using the library. On the other hand, my machine was damn slow - for a reason I didn’t know.“Why are you using vs code? How did you get it!” asked Rudra who saw me coding on vscode.“I like it- it’s really good for react. Installed it from the store.”“Haha, use intellij, okay!” Rudra said in a serious tone.Wow. After making me work with the gs-ui-library, now he is snatching away the editor I love. Cool.I still continued with vs code. Varun was totally fine with it.I went to drink a glass of water. Didn’t bring my bottle that day. So took a ‘visitor’s cup’ from inside the drawers.“Ma’am, you can’t drink in that. It’s only for visitors” said a staff guy who saw that I was about to drink water from the visitor’s cup.I looked at him in shock.“Oh, it’s ok for today you can use it..Ma’am” he replied.Great. Block websites - facebook, gmail, codepen. Take my material-ui away. Don’t allow me to use vs-code. And also, don’t let me drink water at peace!I was pissed off. Huh!2nd MonthSo I started working on the integration part. Meanwhile we used to have meetings in which we were told about GIR and it’s functions. Rudra used to tell us about how fun the NAPA training is going to be, and how we will start hiding our id cards after the event.I completed the integration part in a week or so. Gave a weekly demo to Rudra.Next week was going to be a demo with Monica’s team (name changed). The finance guys for whom we were building the ‘ELEGANT USERS APP’. Varun was happy that I had completed the integration part and added 2 more features to implement.- feature1 & feature2Before the demo, we had a meeting with Monica just a week before. Rudra, Varun and I gathered in a room.“So Shilpi, how’s the work going? Are you liking it - the UI stuff? Aren’t you bored?” Rudra asked.“Hehe.. Actually yeah it’s a little boring. I hope backend stuff starts soon!” I honestly replied.“You know UI people make the most money.” Rudra smirked.“No, that’s a lie. Backend people make more money.” I replied.“Shilpi, that’s the case of technical firms. In financial firms like us, UI people earn more bonus.” said Varun.Soon came Monica. Varun and Monica proceeded on what she wants and what actually we have. It was a debate between them and I listened.Since the lunch time was over, Rudra and I went to the food-court outside to have one.“Shilpi, you know I was like you. The silent guy in the room. If someone else was at your place he would have asked a lot of questions! ”“I think it’s better to listen Rudra, than argue. I didn’t have much idea about what they were talking and the talk was mostly concerning Varun.”“See..it’s good very good. But to be at a place like GS…you know! The world is very mean, Shilpi. You need to speak more than you do work here! Many people don’t know much but they’ll get ahead of you because they speak. I was like you when I joined GS. In the group discussion round, when everyone was debating.. I just sat at the corner. HR came and asked each of us individually. If she hadn’t done that, I mayn’t be sitting here today”I gave it some thought. He was right.Some days later feature1 stopped working. I had no idea why, I was using an excellent library for feature1, of-course an external one. Varun himself has asked me to use an external for that case since we don’t have a gs library for that.But now. It wasn’t working.It took me a week to include the library - react-bootstrap-table2 with the project along with the features it had, and use it. And some magic happened. Now feature1 stops working. Damn!I woke up the whole night - till 4 am to make the feature1 work. The remote desktop worked very slow. In GS, we are not given laptops for security purposes. So we have to use remote desktop.It was damn slow but I was patient. I kept on trying and trying till I fell asleep early in the morning. Woke up around 12.An hour before demo with Monica’s team, I told Varun about it. He said it’s fine, we will show the demo without it.Tik…tikk….I wasn’t satisfied. I worked damn hard for 45 min and was able to make feature1 work!We went to give the demo. Varun pulled out a chair and sat before a PC.“Hi Monica!”“Hey Varun!”And so it started. The demo. The UI I made. The features I implemented. The integration. My two month’s hard work.All of them was presented by our VP, Mr.Varun!“Uhm…but we don’t need feature 1 and 2, Varun. You can remove it” said Monica.W-H-A-T! What did she just say. I went an hour back in time.I am sweating. I can feel I am nervous. This has to go good. I know well about the project, and I will make the feature-1 work! I will!Yes, I did. Only to lose the presentation as well as the feature.I rushed out of the room with the unhappy face which no one bothered about in the meeting room. I was silent and in hurry, it was weekly demo too today.“Haashh.. It went great!” exclaimed Varun who barely ever talked to me. Since like 1962!“Okay, but we have a weekly demo too!”The weekly demo got cancelled. Varun proceeded to tell me how we don’t need feature-1 and all the new features which Monica wanted. I remembered them all. One of them was a feature-X which was not possible technically. I tried making Varun understand and he did, after quite a while.Then came the mid-semester exam and I finally got a break!3rd MonthI went to my home after holidays. After 2 months, 1,40,000 was credited to my account. I bought clothes for mom and dad. I was delighted and ready to go back!Came back to office happily. Compiled the code.React-bootstrap-table2 library code - gone. Whole UI code changed in a week. My 2 week’s effort - 1 week for the library and 2 nd for other features went to ashes.Just in ONE SINGLE WEEK.~Varun committed the code 2 hours ago~~Varun committed the code yesterday~~Varun….~And so on.Varun started using an internal gs-ui-library library instead of react-bootstrap-table2. Instead of giving proper review comments, he changed my code by himself. Some backend stuff also came to me.I fetched the code from repo, the one Varun had implemented. And tried to understand.“You just have to implement feature-b-xyz, no need to go through whole code” he said.Fine.I added a new feature. Compiled and checked. Everything was working fine. Committed the code.Next day I came. Compiled the code.‘EXCEPTION THROWN’‘FAILED’And my PC hangs. For no reason why.I checked the code - it was changed. The integration part was changed. Feature XYZ was changed. And it stopped working.~Varun committed the code an hour ago~Why did he commit a code that fails? I wondered.This started happening daily. I had no idea why was this happening.The next series of days started with me coming late - 11:50, 12 or later than that. I used to mail Rudra about the update. Sometimes I was able to attend standup, sometime I wasn’t able to. My health started deteriorating.Everyday, Varun used to commit some changes. And it took a hell lot of time to update the project in intellij, go through his changes and do other changes. I was pretty much frustrated.Took 2 wfhs in 2 weeks. Logged in late many times. Had to push myself from bed everyday. Devoted my time to video games than gs work. Lost interest.Then I was given some backend part. I took WFH a day I wasn’t feeling well and learnt about apis stuff. Still some part of me wanted to do well and take interest in the work genuinely.We - all 3 interns received a mail from Rudra which we could never forget. Rudra had showed his ‘Rudra’ roop. The mail said -“You guys are not taking the work seriously. WFHs are not to be taken for granted. So many WFHs and late loggings. Not at all serious about your work. You guys need to have deliverables by the end of this month.I don’t care, work for your career not mine.”I was shocked. The friendly, giggling Rudra! I remembered the first time I met him. And the mail was quite a shock to all of us.Late loggings were targeted at me.WFHs for another one.But… Tejas? What did he do?As far as I remember, he was a hard working guy. Always on time. Never missed a standup. What did he do to receive the mail?Days after that, Varun took four wfhs in a row. Rudra was quiet. Nisha only came like twice in a week, Rudra said nothing.Why us? Why the interns? I wondered.One day I stayed at office till 8pm. I could hear Rudra talking about ‘The Elegant User’s App’ over a phone call.“We are building it again since the last UI was in angular. We wanted it in React.” he said to somebody over the call.Throughout my whole intern, I had one doubt in my mind.The app on which I was working upon was already built by someone and was functional too. But my manager wanted it to be built again since he wanted us to use a new technology.What’s the difference even if angular was used? What’s the need of rebuilding the app again from scratch? I wondered.And the next words I heard shattered me.“Yeah, Varun is working with some intern on ‘The Elegant User’s App’.”What did he say?The last two months were fully devoted to the UI. I went back in time.“Shilpi, if you want any help - Varun would be able to for this project.I was made to believe that it was an independent project, which it never was. I worked my ass off for three months only to hear that I am ‘some intern’ working under Varun and helping him building the UI.I got depressed.It was Holi’s festival - the festival of colours. I never really celebrated holi, hated to be coloured all over. We had a group for our department, and I wished everyone a “Happy Holi!”.Tejas replied with a “Happy holi” too.“Happy Forest Day” - stated an image I received on whatsapp. It was from Rudra. On the whatsapp group. This was his reply for “Happy Holi”.It's okay, don't respect our festival. But atleast don't disrespect it. Why was there even a need for reply?Needless to say, I didn’t go to office that day as sign of rebel (we didn’t have holiday on holi). Varun was already doing WFH. The “Happy Forest Day” frustrated me.Why Rudra why. You are better than that.“Niharika (name changed) is leaving GS” somebody whispered.Niharika, a very smart lady was in our department. She was mentoring an intern and sounded quite knowledgeable. Her sudden decision of leaving GS came as a shock to everyone.I had a last chat with her only when everyone was away for lunch. She had refused her farewell too I guess. She came to me and we had a decent chat. I asked her the reason of leaving. She wanted to switch the team maybe but it was taking a long time. Sweet and smart is all I could say for her. She had done work with JPMC & Morgan Stanley (US) and held a green card. A dedicated worker.After the lunch, she had a long meeting with Rudra. She was too firm with her decision.After she left, someone told me she bitched about many people in the team - specially Rudra. I was really sad. GS lost a good employee that day. And maybe, due to politics.Next day, GS was having an orientation for all new campus hires. It was one hell of a day. World-class hotel stay and world-class orientation.Varun was going out to the new office for 2 weeks. For some work.4th monthBefore Varun had left for the new office, he had asked me to attend telephonic standups for our team from 3–3:30. Now I used to attend 2 standups - the department one, and the team one. Full time waste activities!He had also asked me to get details of a task from Raghav and get it completed. I messaged him and he said he will be there at my desk in 5 min. Well, he never came. I asked him 2–3 times more to which he sent me a random link. I was disheartened and had nothing to do for 2 weeks.One day Rudra called me to fix some errors which he wasn’t able to fix by himself. He said he spent the whole night trying to fix those but didn’t know how to.I came to his desk. Those were linting errors!After having 10 years of experience, and you don’t even know what they are! Even if you know, please try to google. He was not getting what those line numbers represent. I explained him everything and fixed those.Soon, we got mails from hr regarding our joining dates and NAPA training, which is held in New York. I told the HR about my case, that I have courses left in college and I won’t be able to join on 3rd june.“Can I go to the training and join later after 12th july - when my courses are done” I asked.“No, you need to join as FTE. We will process your visa in june and you’ll go during july first week”“Okay” I replied.“Try to make your college understand, it’s important” is all she said.Next day, I refused. My college will never agree for me to take 2 week vacation during summer term.Rudra received a call from HR. I knew it was regarding me.He took me outside the cabin and asked why did I opted out of NAPA training. I told him everything - how my degree would be affected. He was ready to give WFH for 2 months. I was shocked. Again.Rudra was the most unpredictable mysterious guy I ever met. He was good and bad, at the same time. 2 months is a long time - and he agreed to give me WFH! He earned my respect.Then there was second meeting with Rudra. He told me everything - the work I’ll do as an FTE. Also, he never left a single moment he could get to brag about himself.“You will be working under Varun. He will be the team lead. Your work is XYZ-AHSH-PPOS…..”“Be as mature as me. I can make complex things simple easily. Learn it from me.” he said.Varun. No!!The silent guy. Who took away all the presentations. Even during our team standups over calls, he used to answer when some guy asked me about the project. My code was changed everyday. All the torture I faced last month. And now- I’ll be working under him. Wow.I told Rudra - how my code was changed everyday, how I was not told about the changes Varun did in the backend and still expected my code would run successfully. He listened to me for a while and then said -“When I was a NAPA, I used to ensure that I get 0 review comments”“I don’t get review comments, Rudra. My code gets changed, and it’s hard to understand it everyday without help of Varun.”“It’s a good thing, right? You will learn something from what the change he does. It’s good for you.”Cool. I have to look at the new code and somehow “learn without doing”. Interesting.I worked till 9 pm that day. Before Rudra left, he smiled at me sarcastically.“Shilpi, still working?”“Yeah Rudra, I came little late today.”“Varun changing your code and you changing his code.!”“Yes. That’s what is happening.”And then, he laughed maniacally.This was not the first time he did this. He used to laugh at me sarcastically many times after giving me the UI project.Next week, Varun was here. My virtual desktop was not working and I had no idea why. Called help-desk 5 times that day.“REBOOT!”“TRY IT FROM A DIFFERENT MACHINE!”“IT SHOWS ‘AVAILABLE’ ON MY MACHINE!”was all the response I got from 5 different help-desk-assistants.Took a day off the next day. Saw a mail. Varun had given presentation to our MD that day. UI presentation, which was supposed to be given by me.Next week, same schedule. Help-desk people failed miserably.I tried remote desktop and was able to open my outlook. My inbox was full of -“DISK CAPACITY OVER 95%! CLEAN IT!”I got it. But in order to clean it, I had to login to the virtual computer which I wasn’t able to. It was a deadlock.Soon I was assigned a new virtual computer. My whole local setup - was erased.My whole enthusiasm had turned to ashes at that point. Came late, went early. Stopped attending stand-ups. Late Loggings. WFHs. OOO. No updates. No weekly updates. Nothing to do next since Raghav didn’t help. Frustrated as hell.Our department was hiring more and more people. I had nowhere to sit. No one to talk to.The only friend I had in bengaluru left 2 weeks ago.Please note that I’ve nothing against GS. The management there is really good, they care about their employees. I don’t think any company could’ve given me 2 months WFH and I do respect Rudra a lot for that!The experience may vary from person to person, someone may find GS a very good place, based on the traits he/she has or the team he is working with. But for a shy person like me, who loves to code sitting at the corner of the room - GS is not the place. It was me who was not able to adapt to the culture there.This answer was written by me when I was still an intern. I had no idea what this could do to my life.Next day after I wrote this, I was called by the Head HR of Employee Relations in GS - Devika. I thought she had called me in order to discuss why am I choosing signNow over Goldman but this wasn’t the case.“I read your answer on Quora about Goldman..”“I’ll remove it!” I replied with the speed of light.“No..I don’t want you to take it down, Just tell me the issues you had”And she pretended to listen. Both of us knew why she called me here - to take the answer down.“See, these days many people are on social media and it is affecting how people see us. Probably, some interns wouldn’t want to work with us after reading the answer. Therefore I want you to remove it”“Also, please remember this meeting is confidential. DO NOT tell anyone from your team about it!” she said just before I left.And that was it. I deleted this answer.I saw Rudra’s text on my whatsapp. He asked whether I have a desk to sit, and when will I signNow on my desk. I knew something was fishy since he never ever bothered about.I finished the work and went home.The next day, I woke up to 10 calls from the HR and lots of messages. I asked what happened.I told her I have already deleted the answer, but there was something else. I wasn’t able to login from home. My remote desktop was taken away from me and I had no idea why.And then, came Monday.13th May 2019The day started off with my phone full of Devika’s texts. She insisted that I directly come to the meeting room first instead of going to the GIR cabin.I went to her cabin where she was sitting. And soon the harassment started.“What was your motive behind putting such kind of answers on quora, tell me what was in your mind”“I am sorry, Devika. I’ve already taken them down.”“Didn’t you knew about the firm’s policy? You knew it very well right? Still you put the experience on Quora?”“I was frustrated. So much that it didn’t occur to me at that time. But yes, I knew it.”She wrote it down on a paper.“You put it on social media, and don’t expect your manager to read it? Wake up! Everyone in your dept knows what you did okay! You are always saying that ‘don’t inform my manager about it’.. you know what, infact Rudra only informed us about this. He was the one who forwarded the answer.”I sighed. He knew about it the whole time. Still acted as friendly on thursday.“You can take action against me if you want to. I can’t say anything else.”“We are a very big firm. Many people are there writing these kind of negative - one sided answers. We don’t care”If she didn’t care, why was I sitting here?“I have talked to both Rudra and Varun. Now I know about their perspectives too. Did you inform your manager that you were on leave? No, you didn’t.”“Yes, I was really depressed and woke up at 5 eve..”“You were completely one-sided in your answer. Such a judgemental answer it was! You never wrote what you did!” she exclaimed.“Devika, I did. I wrote I was depressed and was late for standups. I wrote that I took WFH and..”“That was completely in another way!” she interrupted.And then she gave me a tough look.“I have tracked down your whole information, when do you come and leave, wfh etc. I don’t think it’s too much. You were also 1 hour late on the GS event, I heard”I wasn’t. What was she saying?“No, I was a minute late. You can ask my friend who was sitting there.”“Also, you were absent on 4 presentations Varun gave, right?”I was shocked. What did she just say? I was present in 3 of them, I remembered. Now I felt something was really wrong. Varun probably gave her false information about me.“No, I was there for 3 of them” I replied in a low voice.“And you weren’t allowed to give?” She raised her eyebrows.“I didn’t ask him, neither did he offer.. he just took the chair and..Did Varun said I was absent? I wasn’t!” I defended myself.“Oh yes you weren’t, I know. When did I say you were absent? You are just misunderstanding me” she replied and wrote down some points.And now she started lying too about things she said earlier! I was shocked to the core.“They said bad things about me, didn’t they.” I asked.“No, infact they praised you for technical aspects. ‘She did all her tasks which we assigned.’ ‘Used to find solutions of the problem till the very end.’” she read it from the paper she had.But what about the other aspects? I was sure they had said something worse about me. I wondered what was that except me coming late.“GS-UI-LIBRARY!!” she exclaimed.“This is what you wrote about the library. Seriously!”I looked down. I couldn’t say anything except sorry.“Rudra even let you choose jersey for cricket match, didn’t he?”“Yes he did.” I sighed.“What you think what made your experience bad? Was it yourself? Why put it on social media, and didn’t contact us. What about the HCM?”I was late and silent. The only faults.“Does anybody in your team knows about it?” she asked hoping that nobody knows.“No, just me and the interns.” I replied.“And what did you write? Niharika left because of politics..? Did you talk to her? Who told you?” she almost shouted.“I got to know that from a teammate.” I replied in low tone.“So you will put anything you hear on social media??” she tried to overpower me.“If I were your signNow HR and I read this answer on Quora.. you know I’d have..” Devika scolded in a rude tone.She would have taken my offer back. That’s what she meant.“I have already deleted it , Devika. I said sorry, what else can I do? ” I almost cried.“These things never happened with me at signNow. But people here..”I broke down. Couldn’t speak much.“What even if you deleted? 1000s of people saw it. All the people on your floor saw it. They may have copied it, downloaded it. It had so confidential information!”“And yeah, put this conversation there too!!” She said in a very rude tone.“I won’t. You know I won’t.” I whispered.“Anyways Shilpi, now it’d be too awkward for you to go there. We have already stopped your remote access. We don’t want you to work anymore. Since you’ve already rejected the offer too, no discussion related to it. You can submit the id card to me.”“Okay.”I cried a lot in the cab. Rudra knew it all the time. Why didn’t he himself fire me instead of sending a rude HR. And those two also lied a lot about me. The tone of HR was totally different when I met her on Thursday. And today she was really harassing me.It took me a while to understand - all this was planned by Rudra. He choose the rudest and senior-most HR to deal with my case and harass me, just to get back at me.2 interns were joining today and space was very less in the small GIR cabin. And he knew very well I completed all my work the last week itself. Win-Win situation for Rudra!Varun and Rudra lied to HR. It was evident from the way she treated me. I was made to be feel like a garbage - just because I was late at the office!I cried for an hour. And then, I edited and restored this answer.Next day I came to know none of the interns or people in my team knew about this! I was fired secretly. The HR lied the whole time.All because Rudra didn’t want to see my face in GIR!Do I fear them? Not at all.“I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.” ― Sidney Sheldon (if tomorrow comes)Many people want me to take this answer down or go anonymous. I have done nothing wrong. Those who have, they should hide their faces behind “anonymous” mask.If GS has some problem with the answer, they are free to take action against me. I am not bonded by any legal agreement and atleast deserved decent exit process.
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What are the problems faced by Indian students in the USA?
I completed my Masters in the summer of 2018 from Northeastern University. I majored in Engineering Management, which was a year long course. As I write this answer, I have completed 18 months in USA and without a second thought, it has been an incredibly challenging yet exciting journey. Unlike many of my friends, I did not have any family in USA other than my then boyfriend(who happens to be my husband now.. :)). There were times when I was at an emotional low and wanted to head back to the comfort of a loving family and familiar faces. But as time passed I have realized that out of uncomfortable situations comes the greatest learnings of life.Circling back to the question at hand, I would say the following are the major problems I faced as an Indian student in USA:Home sickness: At some point after you arrive in USA, home sickness creeps in. For some, this point comes after initial few weeks and for others it might come a little later. But there are definitely times when you would miss home and want nothing more than a couple of weeks with your family. I personally felt homesick often during my initial days until I found a stable friend circle.Indian food: So this is a big one. We Indians are used to “Maa k hath ka khana” which is freshly made with oozing desi ghee. Well, in USA, its neither Mom made, nor fresh. Most of the Indian grocery stores have shelves filled with frozen food which stays there for months at a stretch. The few Indian restaurants that you would find in your city might nowhere be near to the restaurants we find in every corner of India.. which reminds me of STREET FOOD! Till date, I have never had good pani puris or vada pav or chat papdi in USA!Managing expenses: The magnitude of this problem depends on 2 factors- 1) your pocket money that you get from your parents and 2) whether or not you have a part time job. Almost all of my peers used to apply for part time jobs but only 30% would actually end up with one. On an average if you get a $1000 pocket money(in a city like Boston, where rent takes up 50%-60% of that amount), you would be barely left with anything by end of month to even think of luxuries. Add to that the habit of Dollar to Rupee conversion.. it took me almost a semester to get rid of this annoying habit. Imagine paying 300 Rs for a Lays packet! Phew!Coping with cultural difference: There is a big list of cultural norms in USA which, if practiced in India can cause havoc. For eg- small talk! I have grown up constantly being advised - “beta, anjaan logo se baat mat karna”! In USA, you will see every passing-by person flash a smile and trying to engage in small talks- starting from your uber driver to the cashier at a grocery store.. it is a norm here and is considered polite. Similarly there are other cultural differences in terms of dressing sense, accent, the way you are greeted.. which takes considerable amount of time for a person to decipher and later adapt to.Job search: This is where the real struggle begins. I graduated from NIT Jalandhar in India and getting a job was easy as all I had to do was to maintain a decent GPA and interview with the companies that visited my campus for recruitment. In USA, there is no concept of PLACEMENT. Job search is a super hectic and time consuming process which starts with networking/socializing with the right people. I started my job search in Nov 2017 and landed an offer in June 2018, just a few days before my graduation. I have friends who are still struggling to get a job. Given the H1b restrictions and ever changing policies around the same, the job market is no longer favorable for students on OPT.The above mentioned points are just a high-level analysis of the problems I faced during my student days. Though I have found ways to deal with most of them over time, the cultural difference piece is something that takes longer..years at times, and I am still adapting. I would however add, the past 18 months have actually made me a better person in terms of humility, compassion and acceptance of diversity. I do not plan to settle in USA, but I do plan to take back great lessons home and work on implementing a lot of good things that I have experienced here.Cheers!
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