Ashish Kumar

Barot, Himachal Pradesh a very beautiful place in District Mandi( Himachal Pradesh ) , India which lies in Chauhar Valley better known as Barot valley .
It is an emerging tourist place which offers many outdoor activities and fun like angling, tracking , picnic spot , camping etc.

It is blessed with thick deodar forest , two beautiful rivers and extreme natural beauty.Rivers are full of trout fish.There is a government trout breeding center at Barot along with other private centers from where fish are released into the Uhl and there is a 30 km section of the river which is excellent for angling.So grab your fishing rod and start angling.

A haulage trolley of the British times connects Barot valley to Jogindernagar. This trolley link was set up to facilitate transport of construction material to Barot for a reservoir on Uhl river for Shanan Power House. The trolley was also sparingly used as a means of transport since Barot was not linked to a road till 1975. However, once the road connection was established, the trolley fell into a state of disrepair. It is currently owned and maintained by the Punjab State Electricity Board.

You can grab Haulage trolly at Jogindernagar by making pass at P.S.E.B. office , Shanan(Jogindernagar). It is very thrill ride as it takes you from a height of 4150 feet to 8000 feet at winch camp. From where you can continue journey to Barot by descending down from thick deodar forest  which is full of wildlife.


There are two reservoirs at  Barot under Shanan power project. This project is dated back to 1924 constructed by a British engineer Col. Betty. You can see old machinery used in project.
Barot also forms the gateway to the Nargu Wildlife Sanctuary which lies across the Uhl. The sanctuary is home to the monal, black bear and ghoral.

There is also a tracking pass to Kullu ( Manali ) from Barot. The road to Barot branches off at Jogindernagar - Mandi highways at Ghatasani.It is situated 40 km from Jogindernagar and 66 km from Mandi. The nearest railway station is at Jogindernagar.                           
                               
If someone wants to have vacation away from crowd, noise, pollution , daily tensions then this is the best place to visit.

How to reach barot valley- By road, route from Delhi will be Delhi – Chandigarh – Bilaspur – Mandi –Ghatasni - Barot (About 500 km)
From Pathankot, the route will be Pathankot – Palampur – Jogindernagar - –Ghatasni Barot (about 206 km)

By Train, Delhi- Pathankot and the narrow gauge track from Pathankot – Jogindernagar–Ghatasni then by road to Barot

By air- Barot is 127 km from Bhuntar airport near Kullu. You can also reach Barot from Gaggal airport near Kangra, approximate distance is 97 km
Ghatasni is place where road to Barot branches off from NH 20 ( on Jogindernager to Mandi way )

Barot is about 66km from Mandi and 40 km from Jogindernagar.
Public transport buses available from Mandi and Jogindernagar.

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#1 Buying Keyword-Rich Domain Names 

 At one point, having keywords in your domain could aid a company in ranking well within search engines. Although, it was never the sole factor, marketers saw this strategy as way to make SEO magic and bought as many domains as possible.

If these sites were built out with a great deal of informative content, then the company would have stand-alone sites that could do well on their own and give the company the ability to cross promote its parent brand. However, this was usually not the case. Most companies would have thin duplicate content on these sites to simply drive traffic back to the main site. Today, thin, duplicate content can hurt a company’s chances of ranking well in search engines. Buying a few additional domains for specific marketing and branding purposes can be beneficial, but a smart strategy must be developed first.

#2 Having a Large Number of Links to Your Site 

Back in the day, having a large number of non-relevant links to a company’s website was a desired SEO strategy. However, that day is long gone. This strategy now will likely produce negative impacts on a company’s search engine rankings. With that being said, if your company has ever utilized this strategy you should consider performing an inbound link audit to double check this tactic has been eliminated completely.

#3 Optimizing Content for Keyword Density 

To optimize your content for keyword density, in the early days, all a company had to do was make sure the keyword being targeted were mentioned “x” number of times, as it helped the search engines to understand what the main topic of the page was. Since this strategy was easy to understand and fairly easy to follow, it was abused by people writing ridiculously long, repetitive copy simply to increase the number of times the keyword was mentioned.

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I still recommend you include your target keyword phrase on the page, but rather than worrying only about reaching a specific keyword density, you should worry about site structure, how “on topic” a page’s content is, and how well that page is linked to other related pages.

#4 Obsessing Over Keyword Rankings 

Obsessing over keyword rankings and centering your digital marketing plan around it as if where your company’s site ranks is the only thing that matters is a pitfall some companies have fallen into. However, you still want to monitor the organic traffic the website is getting to the pages that align with your valuable keywords.

The overall point is to look at your company’s site and keywords in terms of topics or themes and ensure you have visibility for those by looking at how you rank for a collection of related keywords and how much organic traffic is coming to pages that relate to those topics.