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Is Google going to favor certain websites?

Aug 23, 2006 No Comments »

According to a post titled Favored vs. Non-Favored Sources, human editors are going to decide what websites the search results favor or disfavor. It is good as well as bad. Lots of problems — human-related problems — can crop up if sophisticated algorithms are not used to evaluate the ranking of various websites. Humans have their own biases. Even deserving websites can be disfavored one way or the other.

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Should it be headlines first or body text?

Aug 22, 2006 No Comments »

This is a perpetually ongoing debate in the copywriting circle/blogsphere: should we write headlines first, or the body text?

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Spam blogs threaten blogsphere

Aug 21, 2006 No Comments »

So just like in emails, spammers have begun to play spoilsports in the blog world too. They create now spam blogs, aptly called splogs. According to this post that’s been sourced from the next month’s yet-unpublished issue of Wired:

• Some 56 percent of active English-language blogs are spam, according to researchers at the University of Maryland
• A survey by Mitesh Vasa in December 2005 found that Blogger.com was hosting more than 100,000 sploggers
• One splogger interviewed by Wired (I’m not going to dignify him with a mention) made over $70,000 in just three months from his network of splogs

The writer rightly says that we cannot just blame sploggers for creating spam blog networks and raking in thousands of dollars because after all they are selling advertisements for other advertisers like Google’s AdSense. Are these companies taking steps to curb spam blogs? It’ll be hard thing to do because through these nefarious means even they are earning big money.

5 sure-shot ways to build traffic to your blog

Aug 19, 2006 3 Comments »

With 70 thousand new blogs being created everyday getting traffic to your blog can be an overwhelming task, and many new bloggers abandon blogging because very few people turn up to read their posts. A decent amount of traffic is essential for many reasons. Some bloggers want to disseminate their pioneering ideas and opinions. Others publish content to generate advertising revenue. Many entrepreneurs use their blogs as PR platforms. The more your ideas spread, the greater impact they can create. In different, shorter posts I’ll be listing steps you can use to create effective blogs and generate relevant traffic to them. This post can seem like jumping the gun; I haven’t yet covered the creation and maintenance of an ideally effective blog and I’m already talking about generating traffic. There are a few a reasons.

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Why services are cheap from India

Aug 18, 2006 3 Comments »

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