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One of the most effective ways to learn is from your mistakes. This holds true for your blog as well, as we are constantly trying to gain popularity for our blogs in the blogosphere. Since the launch of this blog in August I myself have made quite a few mistakes which when I look back, at times are embarassing. But this is how we learn, from our mistakes.

The first mistake that I encountered was not researching enough on what platform I wanted my blog on. I started this blog on Blogger which is one of the easiest way to start a blog. But again Bloggers’ limited functionality will hurt your blog if you plan to expand it further and are as serious with your blog as I am. If you start on one platform and later decide to change it, one thing that you are going to see hurting your blog is ” you will lose your readers “. While I was switching my blog to Wordpress from Blogger and getting the layout ready I stopped updating for more than a week, the result, I lost almost 30 RSS readers that had subscribed to my feeds.

Also as we value PageRank so much in determining the value and quality of a blog, you can be hit by this as well while you make a switch. If your blog had a PageRank in Blogger and then you decide to switch over to other platform, you are going to lose this recognition to your blog which might hurt your reputation ( not that I care much for PageRank ).

Another thing that time after time I try to mention is please do not spam the comment section on other blogs. Again its a trial and error, you do wrong and next time you find out how to do it right. Once you spam a comment section on a popular blog you will be seen as a spammer by the blogger and all other commenters as well. Think of it this way, if one of the popular blog has a post that has 90 comments and you go in there and spam the comments section, you are now seen as a spammer by the blogger and all 90 commenters as well. You just lost 91 people that could have visited your blog. [Read more →]

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As bloggers we all know how important it has become to build quality one way links to our blogs. Here are some of the ways I have implemented towards building links that I thought I would share. The entire purpose of this article is to share my technique and tips on link building and gain some from the readers as well. Some of these tips might be unheard of but they have certainly proved to be very effective.

Sponsor Popular Blogs

One of the best ways to get links from popular blogs is to become a sponsor when they have contests and so on. If you are to buy a link from a popular blog it would easily cost you hundreds of dollars. Instead when they are running contests, offer to become a sponsor for their contest. It doesn’t have to be anything big. It can be as low as ten dollars. This is exactly how I got a link from Shoemoney , a very popular blog with a PR of 6. [Read more →]

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Its been a couple days since google updated the Pagerank and as we all know there has been quite a few stir up on the internet community. Every blog you read and every forum you visit you will find something being talked about the Google’s recent pagerank update ( including this blog ). I just think its about time we leave google alone and get back to what we all do, write and provide good content for our readers and viewers.

No, this post doesn’t contrradict with what I wrote about the pagerank on my previous post, all I am saying is we need to stop bitching at some point in time and now seems about a good time ( its a little past due to be honest ). Google is google, a search engine giant and the provider of many services that we use for free. We all have opinions, that is what makes us an individual different from others. So certainly we all have our own thoughts and opinion on Google as well but do we have to bash it out every other day? I don’t think so. [Read more →]

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You may have noticed most all media, technology, even household tasks are represented in “lists”. Top ten, bottom 10, best 50 or “to do”…lists.

ListBums is a community driven online multimedia platform where people can share information that combines text, photos and videos in an easy to read list format. Taking YouTube to the next level, ListBum users mix information on topics of interest, current events or breaking news stories and illustrate their points with embedded videos and pictures from all over the web. The user experience is both engaging and entertaining as lists are posted, shared, rated, added to and commented on by other ListBummers.

ListBum multimedia lists can be embedded onto your blog, website or favorite social networking site. Without redirecting viewers to listbums.com, readers can view content, add list items and rate lists directly from third party websites. [Read more →]

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The recent pagerank update compelled me to write this article. I am not going to write about whose PR went down and whose went up cause honestly I dont really care ;-). This does not imply that I myself don’t want a pagerank for my blog. As a matter of fact, its become more of a need than want. To be honest I have never liked the Pagerank system that google introduced a couple years ago. It defeats the purpose of maintaining the quality and integrity of a site as many of us solely build blogs and sites to gain that PR right away( popularity helps in quickly monetizing a website or a blog if you are serving advertisement ), ignoring the important fact such as content and other related things that makes a site worthy of anybody’s time.

So, what do I really mean by the the topic ” Google Pagerank - It’s a Class System “? Well, in the real world, society has been divided into two groups, upper class and lower class. Individuals with money are ranked at the top and middle and lower class are ranked at the bottom, this is the Societal rank we have all been categorized into in the real world. I find this very similar with websites and blogs now with google’s Pagerank system. A website that has a high PR is ranked on top and new websites that come out and are struggling take forever to gain that status. I just feel there is no need for this differentiation as I don’t see the purpose. [Read more →]

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I am relatively new in the field of blogging, although I wouldn’t mind calling myself a survivor in the blogosphere. After the premature death of two of my blogs and a a new one rising slowly, I have been able to gather some thoughts and to do’s that I think might help others as well in generating a little bit of traffic. Things you read here might be something you already know and have already applied. I just felt the urge to let it out what I think is a good way to get traffic for all the bloggers out there.

Charity Starts At Home

When you start a blog the first thing you will notice is the dead traffic. You have written twenty posts within ten days and all in vain, whats the point in writing if nobody is reading it, right?

Well, here is the catch. Don’t remember your family and friends only when you need money or free beer. Sometimes they can be the biggest booster for your traffic as well. As the saying goes ” Charity Starts At Home”, go ahead and try this. Have them subscribe to your feeds, comment on your posts and you will see a steady stream of traffic. Also, if you have good content and you write well I bet they would promote your blog to others at work and home as well. Free advertising and a good way to start out on traffic.

Social Networking

So you think MySpace, Facebook and all other social networking sites out there are a waste of time eh? Think again. These sites have millions of users and those million users are all your potential visitors, so get out there and participate. Social networking sites can give you huge boost when it comes to gaining traffic. I am not a big MySpace fan but I still do get out there and try to network with other members so as to get mroe exposure for my blog. [Read more →]

Tags: Blogging, Marketing by Ritu - 12 Comments »