Rediff.com
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Rediff.com is an Indian website located at Mumbai and has offices in New Delhi and New York. The website offers online news, entertainment, both free and paid online community products and features, content services and many other information options. The basic theme behind the development of this platform is to get Indians both in India and other parts of the world connected.
edit News and Information
The daily important news is listed in the headlines section in which breaking news and important current affairs from all over India and important events through out the world are listed. Alongside there is a business news section which provides investors information about the stock market and corporate happenings. Being one of the premier information and news sites, there is a definite movie and cinema related section discussing actors, their interviews, bollywood and Hollywood trends and reviews.
To find out about what happened in cricket or other sport events around the globe, rediff.com’s sports section has in-depth coverage of current games, scores, interviews and related news. News hound section collects news and information concerning India and Indian nationals worldwide from almost 700 different news sources. You can also watch video commentaries related to special events.
edit Get Ahead
The get ahead section is designed to facilitate the younger youth in developing brighter futures by providing them information on new job openings, work environment information, education opportunities, handling their money, and better utilizing their leisure time. To answer answers regarding any carrier related or education related questions there is a Q&A section where people can share what they know about.
edit Community Features and Products
Rediff.com not only serves as news and information website but it also provides a communication platform so that Indians living globally can come close and share their experiences. Rediff-bol is an instant messenger for people to chat and it works seamlessly on low bandwidth connections as well. It supports sms to mobile and PC phone calls. Community service of blog and forum allows people to share their thoughts and ideas. The photo section allows users to create their albums and share them with their relatives.
edit Rediff Matchmaker
Rediff.com has a personal matchmaker service in which community users post profiles and view other Indian people profiles. If the users choose to register with rediff.com for match making services then they also receive a chatting tool InstaMatch for communicating with other subscribed users and finding their match. Rediff mail
Redif.com has a free email service with 1GB email storage and other mail handling facilities. Mobile subscription is also available for receiving emails on mobile phones. The rediff mail plus is a paid service in which users receive 2 GB of storage and several premium features which are not present in free mail such as free mobile sms messages, no account expiry and many more. The Pro email subscriptions is developed for handling business class users and give them emails of their own domain name, sharing of email storage amongst employees and advanced virus protection.
edit Shopping
Rediff.com provides an online shopping facility where users can purchase products offered by several merchants including watches, mobile phones, mp3 players, air tickets, clothes, books and many other featured products. Not only you can buy things you can also sell your items here and this creates a competition in prices which is useful for all types of buyers.
edit Mobile Services
Rediff.com offers mobile services in which users send sms codes to 7333, the rediff.com designated service code and they can participate in contests to win prizes, download mobile fun items, read emails and reply to them, and receive sports and news. Through sms people can flirt around, play games or even exchange jokes.
edit Other Services
These include rediff e-cards in which users can send electronic cards, rediff search to find India related content and information and rediff astrology. Searching service also allows users to search for air fare for both domestic and international flights to their required destination. The business solution service can be used for the purchase and hosting of web domains for business purposes and personal use.
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English
edit Address
Head Office
- Rediff.com India Limited
- Mahalaxmi Engineering Estate
- L.J. Road # 1, Mahim (West)
- Mumbai 400 016. India
- Tel: +91-22-24449144
- Fax: +91-22-24455346
US Office
- India Abroad Publications, Inc.
- 43 West 24th Street
- New York, N.Y. 10010. USA
- Tel: +1-212-929-1727
- Fax: +1-212-627-9503
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edit Related Domains
edit External Links
- Stock: REDF
- Alexa: RediFf.com
- Rediff Hosting :Rediff Hosting
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Search Engines
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- The title of this site's home page:
- “Rediff.com - India, Business, Stock, Sports, Cricket, Entertainment, Bollywood, Music, Video and Breaking news, Rediffmail NG”
H1 Headings
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Just one H1
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Purpose
Search engines look for an H1 heading to determine what a page is about. Human visitors do, too.
Content and placement
The H1 heading appears on the web page itself, unlike the page title, which people will see mostly in search results.
The H1 tag (which contains the H1 heading) is usually listed first among the other heading tags for a page. None of the major search engines, however, will penalize a site for listing H2 through H6 tags ahead of the H1 tag.
The H1 heading for a page should be different from its title. Each can target different important keywords for better SEO.
- Warning: This page has more than one H1 heading. It should have just one.
- H1 headings for this site's home page:
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- “Headlines”
- “News”
- “Business”
- “Movies”
- “Sports”
- “Get Ahead”
Rediff.com in search results
You can see below how most search engines will display this site's home page in search results. The title is used as the link to the page, and the meta description appears below the title.
Rediff.com - India, Business, Stock, Sports, Cricket, Entertainment...
Rediff.com - India's leading portal which covers India news, Hindi Movies, Photos, Videos, Live Cricket Score, Stock updates from BSE and NSE, Bollywood ...
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Site visitors
Outbound links tell people that you want to provide them with good information, even if it’s not on your own site. These links can also prompt other people to link to your site, which can boost its reputation and ranking in search results.
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Image Descriptions
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Help for visitors with impaired vision
People with impaired vision use screen readers to help them “read” websites. If you provide descriptive alt text for images on your site, people using screen readers will know what the images are about, and will get the same full understanding of your site that others do.
Good for search engine rankings
Describing images on a web page with alt text can help the page rank higher in search results if you include important and relevant keywords. Do not be tempted to stuff irrelevant keywords into alt text just so a page will rank well for those words. Search engines can recognize this ploy for what it is: an attempt to game results.
Writing image descriptions
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Purpose
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Search engine robots
You'll need to know the names of specific search engine robots - or "bots" – if you’re going to exclude any or all of them from any part of your site.
- Google’s bot is called Googlebot. Google is the world’s largest search engine, and is where many people discover new websites.
- Bing’s bot is called msnbot. Bing also provides search results to people using Yahoo to search the Web. Together, Bing and Yahoo are the second largest search resource, after Google.
- Baidu’s bot is called Baiduspider. Baidu is a major search engine in China, and the number of people using it is increasing rapidly.
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- Good: This website’s robots.txt file is not blocking major search engines from crawling its pages. Your website can appear in any engine’s search results.
Canonical Url
This website can live at www.Rediff.com or Rediff.com. It's best for your site's visibility to live at just one URL, or web address. You'll want to create a 301 redirect to the URL you choose from the other URL. Learn more ...
Choose one or the other
Whichever of these URLs you choose, make sure your website lives ONLY at that location, which is called the canonical URL for your site.
Be careful!
If you choose www.MyWebsite.com for your site, make sure people who don't type www can get to your site, too. Create a permanent 301 redirect from MyWebsite.com to www.MyWebsite.com.
If the same web page exists at two different URLs, people can choose to link to one or the other. Links from other sites to your website are valuable — they tell search engines that your site is important to people. By splitting valuable links between two identical pages, you're diluting the power of those links to help a page rank higher in search results.
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- Warning: Your website resides at www.Rediff.com, and Rediff.com is temporarily redirected to it. You should permanently redirect it instead, using a 301 redirect.
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Search Engine Visibility
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Indexed Pages
| value for Google | 21,900,000 |
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| value for Bing | 15,900 |
Date Last Crawled
| value for Google | Dec 01, 2010 |
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| value for Bing | Not Available |
Social Visibility
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Social Media Visibility
| value for Digg | 301 |
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| value for Dmoz | 141 |
| value for Google Groups | 283,000 |
| value for Yahoo Answers | 609 |
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We survey every domain on the Internet ending in .com, .net, or .edu to see if any redirect to this website. Large or famous websites like Amazon.com often have many sites redirecting to them.
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Domains that redirect to a page within Rediff.com
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Get people to a specific web page
Creating a redirect from a simple domain name helps people find an existing web page that has a long, hard-to-remember URL. For example firefox.com redirects to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.
- rediffmail.com
- redirects to: http://rediff.com/index.html
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