International SIM Card – A Money Saving Idea

When we plan to travel abroad, the first thing comes in mind is how much money we are going to spend on this trip or how expensive this trip could be. You need to pay attentions on every single thing on which you are going to spend your money. Everyone wants to save his/her forex.

There are lots of thing on which you can save your money on trip like early booking of flights, hotels etc.. People usually book their tickets and hotels but they miss many thing else too or don’t bother to pay attention on small things but these small things cause more money expense in foreign land. Cell pghone roaming is one of them.

No one suggests you to use your local cell phone which you are using in your country to use it in foreign land. Because there are many problems you can face them like connectivity etc.. It is expensive too. You can’t imagine how much expensive a single call could be. To get rid of this un-necessary expenses many companies came up with the idea of International SIM Cards.

You get a sim card which will work in your destination country before your flight, in your home country. Now you have your international number with you much earlier than your flight, you have enough time to inform your family and friends about your new number. These numbers comes up with services like free incoming calls, free outgoing calls to the destination country, low call rates to back home, cheaper SMS charges and cheaper data plans.

In India, many companies are offering its customers these cards and giving hard competition to each other and in this competitive market consumer is enjoying with great offers. Clay Telecom and Matrix Cellular are among top international roaming provider. But Clay Telecom is giving really hard time to Matrix Cellular by its services, amazing offers and unmatched customer support.

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Differences Between A Web 2.0 Blog and A Static Blog

As everyone in SEO industry is saying that the more updated website will get more value, or in other word website which have fresh contents could rank better. So now a days everyone is working on blogs. People are starting blog section on their website to feed new content to search engines.

But people are also think why a CMS or other software for blogging why not just add a new page with new content. So here is a comparative analysis of Web 2.0 blog and Static pages.

CMS (BlogEngine)	Static Pages
Google Prefer Frequently Updated Sites - In CMS if we put new post, its link automatically get updated on various pages category, archive, other blog posts, which keep them every page fresh of our weblog and Google loves it.	In static it is really hard to update on each and every page if we post a new content. It increase the chance of human error.
Auto-ping - CMS send an alert to all search engines every time the blog get updated automatically. Search Engine crawlers receive the alert and start crawling new post and related links. It increases visits of search engine crawler which eventually helps in ranking.	The auto-ping option is not here, so we will have to wait to crawl the page. There is no mechanism which can alert search engine automatically
Dynamic - BlogEngine is completely dynamic platform, once you post a content it gets updated throughout the website.	Static - we have to update our new blog post link on multiple pages manually.
Auto Categorization - In CMS (BlogEngine/WordPress) we don't need to categorize every post. Once we create a category, the database itself updates it.	Manual Categorization - We will have to create different folder for different category of posts
Auto Tagging - CMS auto tag all posts which are written on a same thing (ex- USA SIM Card) which help users to read similar things which interest him	Manual Tagging - We will have to create tags and hyperlink it to many pages, if we have written a post in Dec'12, then we will have to edit that post as well to just add a tag
SEO Friendly URLs - CMS built URLs automatically, once we define the term of URL.	We have to rename file with a SEO friendly URL and then update it on website.
SEO Friendly URLs - CMS built URLs automatically, once we define the term of URL.	We have to rename file with a SEO friendly URL and then update it on website.
Interlinking - In CMS it is easy to interlink different pages of website which helps to direct crawler to crawl linked pages too. Sometimes it automatically interlink other pages (depends on plugins)	We have to edit many posts to just interlink them to different pages.
Related Post - CMS can automatically compile related posts and show it to users & Search Engine which helps in reducing bounce rate and increasing crawling rate	We will have to put related posts manually.
Responsive - CMS blogs have responsive designs which are compatible with every kind of devices, and Google is giving more preference to cross platform accessible pages	Our website has no responsive design.
Web 2.0 blogs are catalogued in an RSS feed, with each blog entry summarized as a feed item. This makes it easy for visitors to scan blog posts for items of interest.	No RSS Feed
Auto Sitemap - Web 2.0 website / Blog automatically updates their Sitemap which helps crawler / user to get all links in one place	We will have to create new sitemap and upload it on server whenever we post a new content on our blog to make it search engine crawler friendly.
The CMS won’t affect website speed as it is a another website on the same URL with some suffix or prefix.	Too many static pages can decrease the website speed and create bad impression among users and search engines.

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