Get Biggest Ratio of Visitors through Effective Blogging

To draw more and more visitors to your website you can adopt some very attractive and interesting methods. Not only adopting the methods will do, you have to even see that they works effectively. The first thing that you can do to accomplish this is bring in bogging directories that are fresh and of varied types. You can also introduce RSS Submission sites that are interesting. Most importantly include those that are working for your blog feeds. The best RSS Submission sites and blog directories increase their circulation through social networking sites. You can also use automated websites to increase your viewers. If you join social networking sites you are able to not only increase your feeds but also go about socialization or extending socialization.

If you want to bring more comprehensive and interesting lists you can go for the more niche social networking sites. This will greatly benefit your circulation. Most of the marketing policies that work on the internet are based on networking. You can use this tool in a fruitful way. Social networking can be used effectively to increase your visitors without bringing in too much effort. You can take the help of sites like Install and Stumble. They are high class bookmaking sites, just Google!. They have toolbars that are really helpful in forming connecting tools and active networking.

You can also participate actively in niche forums and blogging forums. If you participate in certain forums, it can bring about forms and activities that can manage different provisions related to direct blogging. You can submit them in active article directories. You can also provide a list of article directories. They would be sorted on the basis of ranks of pages. You can also keep provisions so that your visitors can comment directly. You can ink your visitor's comments to the article directories to ensure that the circulation is higher. This makes finding your ink, page or website easy. If you comment on blogs of other people your work will get exposed to other bloggers as they will come to read your work. This will increase interaction and provide some dynamo to the blogging facility. If you reply to comments and interact with bloggers you are actually working with networking. This increases trust for you among the visitors. It will also help you in bringing a human value to the service or product you are marketing.

You can acknowledge other bloggers by linking their sites with yours. It will help you to link with inbound links that are coming towards other bloggers. You can always find those bloggers who are also interested in the type of work you are circulating. It is somewhat similar to workers with same mind set keeping tab with each other. You can use it very effectively and in a full fledged manner without any difficulty. The above mentioned methods can really help you to attract more visitors to your blog.

Live Blogging: Unique Tool for Social Media Promotion.

Live Blogging is solely keeping posted or creating articles about a certain on-going event. This is to keep the readers on track on what is actually taking place on a specific occasion. When done right, this technique could latch numerous bibliophiles and folks who want to be kept informed on an explicit juncture.

One of the man oeuvres that marketers foresee is the use of social media promotion. Technology is undoubtedly on the rise as days, weeks, months and years go by. Social media is not only about Facebook and twitter alone, nonetheless, there are still new other media that are being and will be given birth to. People are consistently trying to seek more than a few conducts on how to stay linked with each other. There is no hesitation as well that humanity these days are always being kept dispatched when it comes to the social media trends.

Many others are also clutching this opportunity to start a living. With a simple “retweet” and “repost”, information can be disseminated into a million of users in a very little time and effort. In addition, it is also one of the low-cost ways and means of publicizing a certain product. It is gripping into an industry with unrestricted marketing campaigns without anything to lose no matter what or how the public react.

Most of the people these days –either from rural or urban areas- are so much into Facebook and twitter, and here is where the marketers actually focus themselves more. Twitter and Facebook Promotions are only few of the leading media which could promote a certain product. Twitter allows a promoter to be very much specific about the campaigns and could be spread widely onto millions to billions of people just over and done with a “retweet” button. Hash tags may as well lead your promotion into a trending topic, and people around the world or the country could easily be familiar with it. On the other hand, Facebook could give you a far-reaching means to endorse your product. It allows you to post videos which would enable you to show your product further, and in a clearer view. It would as well enable you to display or demonstrate ways on how consumers could use the product. Marketers could as well spread the info about the products through sharing and tagging.

With the relentlessly refining technology, it has become so easy to access the internet no matter where you are and what you do. For this reason, bloggers could post photos of daily events wherein they could take photos when they’ve tried to use a certain product, and they’ve loved the result. They’ll put their analysis on blog and be able to inform people how useful the product was in no time. And acknowledge it or not, it’s already an advertisement without even breaking a sweat or spending any cent from a company’s pocket.

Who is searching What? latest social media buzz online

When it comes to social media, its a serious analytics business for search marketers to know, understand and optimize the sites/campaigns they are working on.

Social Media Marketing (SMM) and Social Media Optimization (SMO) caters the online visibility of the buzz on top keywords online.



The top 20 searches on Google hot trends (USA) Apr 27, 2010

1.     shania twain songs
2.     ricky williams
3.     bobby brown died
4.     fred hoiberg
5.     how many miles is 5k
6.     google me
7.     brooke phillips
8.     justin bieber kissing a boy
9.     is lost new tonight
10.     bleach 268 english sub
11.     hyponatremia
12.     lost april 27
13.     run ricky run
14.     bryce tarter
15.     how many people have my name
16.     wes moore
17.     bango dunk
18.     noah s ark found
19.     m.i.a. born free video
20.     lloyd blankfein

Delicious.com has a cloud of most popular search terms: (sorted by size)
These are everyone's tags, visible for all.

 design blog video software tools music programming webdesign reference tutorial art web howto javascript free linux web2.0 development google inspiration photography news food flash css blogs education business technology travel shopping books mac tips politics science opensource games culture research java windows security internet movies online search humor funny social community fun mobile recipes cool marketing health php tutorials cooking resources history portfolio audio download graphics media library toread python photo article ruby ajax learning film maps photoshop youtube architecture rails computer wordpress freeware plugin home hardware firefox apple mp3 illustration photos email twitter socialnetworking api ubuntu language database fashion osx tv blogging network html book typography interesting work money finance japan advertising productivity list recipe magazine environment webdev writing jobs 3d 2008 code guide icons imported images game networking diy cms videos lists wiki seo green gallery usability jquery microsoft tool collaboration .net privacy visualization entertainment psychology tech movie statistics iphone articles management phone desktop podcast math shop economics Design geek radio ebooks drupal comics people rubyonrails forum flex reviews information animation government browser data wikipedia hosting vim religion school wishlist realestate todo house literature rss fic converter streaming downloads electronics teaching interactive kids documentation car flickr and artist

New to SEO?

Here are some resources to start with and learn more about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Internet Marketing.

Remember this is just to 'start' as there is no end to learn and earn knowledge with experience :)

Learn SEO articles:

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-beginners-checklist-for-learning-seo

http://www.seobook.com/

Some forums;

www.highrankings.com/forum/

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/

http://www.webmasterworld.com/category48.htm

Some blogs:

www.mattcutts.com/blog/

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

News- Resources:

www.pandia.com/
http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/
http://www.searchengineland.com/
http://www.clickz.com/
http://www.dmnews.com/
http://www.emarketer.com/
http://Rankingsense.blogspot.com


Online Groups to Join and share information:

http://bit.ly/2BT1QQ - Linkedin Group with 2500+ experts across the globe.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29114212202 Facebook Group

http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=19447047 Orkut Group for SEO India

All the best, keep learning and experimenting.
Feel free to share your views & feedback as always.

Latest news about Search Engines | GYM

Blogger lands Google India in courtroom for defamation

The search firm Google India may trigger some new developments in the cyber law of India. The Mumbai based Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects, which provides construction machineries to medium and large construction companies, has filed a defamation case against Google India for hosting a series of articles on its blogging site, campaigning against its mines in Mozambique. The Bombay High Court has asked the search firm to furnish information about the blogger in an interim order, reported The Economic Times.

Gremach, in its petition, said that a series of articles that amounted to a 'hate campaign' against the company were posted on Google's blogging site with a title 'Toxic Writer' between January and February.

read the full story here : SiliconIndia

T-Mobile to launch Google phone in October

San Francisco: T-Mobile is to launch the first phone based on Google's Android design Sep 17, in hopes that the new device will compete with Apple's iPhone, Wired magazine reported Friday.

The smartphone will be manufactured by Taiwan-based High Tech Computer, and will have a large touch screen that slides out to reveal a five-row QWERTY keyboard. The device, which will be called the G1, will sell for $150 to T-Mobile customers in the first week of launch before it is offered to other customers at a higher price.

Google developed the Android design to help it expand its successful advertising business into the increasingly lucrative mobile market. It released the parameters to an alliance of mobile phone carriers, developers and manufacturers earlier in the year.


read the full story here : SiliconIndia


Microsoft, Google and Yahoo sued for foetus sex selection ads
Published Friday 15th August 2008 09:02 GMT

The Supreme Court of India has issued notices against Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! for advertising products to select the sex of foetuses.

Sabu Mathew George filed the complaint against the three firms. He told the New York Times that the ads deliberately targeted Indian users. He told the paper 900,000 female foetuses are aborted every year in India. Modern techniques for checking the sex of foetuses, like ultrasound, are increasingly available to all classes in India.

read the full story here : TheRegister UK

Yahoo! Fire Eagle (Beta)

Its time for Yahoo! to launch a new product on the www.

Its Yahoo! Fire Eagle (Beta)
Fire eagle is a location-aware platform, can be used by users on internet and mobile. The API can be used to develop location specific mobile applications.

What is Fire Eagle?

According to Yahoo! The tool is of great use if you ( developer) Want to make your website or mobile application more relevant or responsive to a user's location? Or maybe you've found a way to capture user location and want to find cool uses for this info? By doing the heavy lifting for you and connecting you to a community of geo-developers, Fire Eagle makes it easier to build location-aware services.

The Open API tool (Fire Eagle) is of great help to the developers or publishers to gain location information about the end user.
Fire Eagle and the Fire Eagle Developer APIs:

Fire Eagle is a new service designed to make it safe and easy to build and use location-aware applications and services. It's a place where users can store and manage information about their current location that trusted apps and sites can update or access.

Fire Eagle exposes a rich set of web services that allow developers to write location-aware applications.

Update anywhere:
- Send updates from your phone
- Update from your favorite sites
- Do it automatically or manually

Choose what to share:
- You control your data
- You choose who to share with

Have fun on the web:
- Show your location on your blog
- Share it with your friends
- Discover cool stuff around you
- You choose how much to share

Fire Eagle is a mobile search application in the making and its upto the creativity of the developers to make a good use of it!

Google Ads now scrollable : Reasons still not clear

Google Ads are showing in a different fashion now.

Checkout the arrows which can scroll the ads/adgroups when clicked.

This is of no particular interest as people may not be clicking to see "ads" on any page (I may be wrong), but wonder why is this feature been installed?

Keep watching the future and we will find the answer soon.
Reply me if you have any genuine reasons to that.

Blogging via SMS

Like Blogging ?
Find how some of the Top Indian Bloggers manage their blogs with latest updates around...

At 21, Ludhiana management student Harjinder Singh already has a mega project in hand, albeit in a micro medium. His 160-character blog posts, punched out on his Nokia handset, instantaneously reach 57,659 Sikhs across India - all at the cost of a single SMS.
"I aim to arouse the pride of young Sikhs through my writings," says Singh, who started blogging on his phone last May. "Many of my Sikh readers voted for Ludhiana's Ishmeet Singh in Star Plus's Voice of India - and contributed to his victory," he adds.
Singh has hired two people to get him cell numbers of 200,000 Sikhs, because he wants to reach "one in ten Sikhs soon". In Delhi, Lalchung Siem, a 33-year-old Food Corporation of India employee, whips out his phone several times a day to blog in Hmar, a tribal language spoken by a small group of people in India.
His posts are sent free to 6,106 readers in the North-East by SMSGupShup, a microblogging platform. "Recently, I got an SOS call after two boys fell in a river in Saidan village, Manipur.
I flashed the SMS on my blog, and within minutes, a hundred people reached the spot, and managed to rescue one of the boys," he says. Microblogging, i.
e., blogging on cellphones in SMSes is on its way to become an absolute sell-out among compulsive cellphone users and enthusiastic communicators.
Source : Yahoo News

Google Note

Google adding some online bookmarking / collective diary stuff to its SERP's


The new functionality observed ( well checkout if its really new)

Google now provides the "note this" utility. Its a bit of online notes taking for future reference which will be of great help while surfing the internet and for those who are not that genious when it comes to long lasting memory.

The utility was observed working well for blogger and uploaded posts, as well as the personalized interface which we get after logging in.

Microsoft India's new Windows live launch!

Microsoft India launched the next-generation of Windows Live that enables online and offline environments to blend seamlessly on Nov. 15.Windows Live is designed to enhance the online and Windows on the PC experiences with a set of tools that bring the power of the Web right to the user's PC or mobile device."Internet savvy consumers are relying more and more on the Web to communicate and share with their friends and family, but they are also becoming increasingly frustrated with difficulty to keep track of all e-mail accounts, photos, blogs, address book and other online information.

"Internet savvy consumers are relying more and more on the Web to communicate and share with their friends and family, but they are also becoming increasingly frustrated with difficulty to keep track of all e-mail accounts, photos, blogs, address book and other online information. The launch reflects great enhancements to our most popular Windows Live services – Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces and Windows Live writer while adding new tools such as Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Events," Mr Jaspreet Bindra, Country Manager – Online Services Business, Microsoft India, said at a conference.

The full story is here

Search Engine in China facing Problems

Problems for Search Engines in China?

According to the news from Pandia
Several sites report today that Chinese ISPs are redirecting searches made on Google Blogsearch and other search engines to the Chinese search engine Baidu.

Some point to the fact that Baidu has a partnership with ISPs China Netcom and China Telecom to redirect all invalid (or blocked) traffic to Baidu.

(Others argue that the redirects are limited to forbidden terms.)

It seems that someone in the Chinese policy apparatus has decided that Google Blogsearch is too dangerous to be left to the masses. That makes sense, actually, as the blog search engine gives access to fresh news and less prominent sites that have not been marked and banned by Chinese censors.

Some Downtime notices ( Blogger and Cisco)

Some Downtime notices ( Blogger and Cisco)

Blogger.com Hit By Downtime:

Blogger.com was offline for an hour early Wednesday as Google's popular service encountered performance problems. Blogger is one of the oldest and largest blogging services, hosting several million free blogs. Google "apologized profusely" for the service interruption.

"Blogger and Blog*Spot had an unexpected outage for an hour this morning, starting around 7AM PDT," Google reported on its Blogger status page. "As of 8AM, all but a few blogs are working properly again." The company didn't offer any additional details on the cause of the outage. The Google search engine and other services were unaffected, as the outage appears to have been isolated to Blogger and blogspot.com.


Human Error Knocks Cisco Web Site Offline:
Human error was responsible for a data center electrical overload that knocked the Cisco Systems web site offline for about three hours Wednesday afternoon, the company said last night. The outage came as Cisco released four security advisories about vulnerabilities in its networking products, and left system administrators unable to access Cisco's support resources. The company was able to alert users through blogs.cisco.com, which is hosted on an another network.

"The issue occurred during preventative maintenance of one of our data centers when a human error caused an electrical overload on the systems," Cisco said in an update. "This caused Cisco.com and other applications to go down. Because of the severity of the overload, the redundancy measures in some of the applications and power systems were impacted as well, though the system did shut down as designed to protect the people and the equipment."

source : http://news.netcraft.com/

Blogging and Sexual Violence acts

Many bloggers see non-related content on blogs. It seems the ethics are over and now blogs are just made to do something like spam, illegal and un-professional activities.

The article from CIO.com helps to let us know more:

Anyone who has participated in the blogosphere in the past two months knows the troubling story of Kathy Sierra, a prominent blogger who was the victim of online threats that included violent sexual acts and murder ("Death threats force woman to suspend blog, cancel talk at O'Reilly conference"). When the harassment spread beyond her own blog to two others that were affiliated with other prominent bloggers, Sierra became so terrified that she canceled an upcoming speaking engagement and took a hiatus from blogging.

Read the full story here

Build your own brand using Blog !!

Online Brand Building goes Web 2.0

Now anyone can build a brand online. All you have to do is generate content, build trust and keep consistency and enthusiasm. The internet will take care of the rest if you have anything unique.

Here is a news that supports the same funda,

When ITV announced the £20 million revamp of its website last month, the inclusion of user-generated content formed part of its plans. Even large media owners with access to huge amounts of content cannot, it seems, afford to overlook UGC in Web 2.0. The rapid rise of social networking and UGC sites such as YouTube, MySpace, Bebo, Facebook and Flickr has been discussed ad nauseum, but the speed with which they have built vast audiences and changed the internet landscape remains mind-boggling. YouTube was, after all, only formed in February 2005 and bought by Google 18 months later for $1.65 billion.

Blogs, mash-ups, online reviews, peer-to-peer Q&As, video clips, social networks, Second Life avatars ... in its many manifestations, UGC is proliferating. Small wonder, then, that Time magazine named ‘you’ as its person of the year for 2006, and the US-based Advertising Age anointed “the consumer” as agency of the year. Of course, despite the accolades, UGC is nothing new. What has changed is the ease with which it is possible to create and disseminate content. Widespread broadband penetration, camera phones, easy uploading of content, cheap digital editing software, a rapidly increasing choice of websites welcoming UGC, changing attitudes to social communication, blogs by the million: there are many factors driving the UGC explosion.

Detailed news here

Is Blogging just for Fun ? NO

Blogging for something serious business:

Blogging isn't just a fun hobby, it can also be highly profitable. 21-year old Eklavya was the key speaker at this year's Blogcamp 2007 held in Pune. He made his way to the podium through sheer hard work. A professional Blogger Eklavya earns around Rs 1 lakh every month by reviewing gadgets.

The ever-expanding ‘blogosphere’ has become a potential platform for gadget companies to market their products. These companies employ expert bloggers who help them market their products on the net.

And the best part is, you need not be a professional blogger to make all that great money. A casual blogger too can earn well. The trick is to blog-vertise or advertise your write ups and the fame is all yours. Full Story Here

How to earn from a Blog?
Factors affecting your earning via blog.
- Incoming Traffic :
Traffic (i.e Visitors) is the major factor of income and hopefully the only realistic factor.
Two subdivisions to that are:
Consistent Traffic from direct readers or via search engines.
Increase in Quality Traffic for new and returning visitors.

Getting quality traffic to your site/ blog or webpage is the basic work of Search Engine Optimizers (SEO's) and Search Engine Marketers (SEM's) like me !!

Google : Blog Search : Universal Search

Blog Search Engine:

Like the www search for searching pages on the net, Google's blog Search indexes blogs by their site feeds, which checking frequently updated data (specially on blogs). New and unique content is always preferred by this engine while frequency in update will make you more visible than standard web searches. Data in a structured form such as site feeds help in publishing and sharing the data across the web much faster.
http://blogsearch.google.com/

Google Universal Search Engine :

Google universal search engine combines the advantages of online search box search and the desktop search to find unstructured information in the form of documents, presentations, and emails, or structured business data in ERP and CRM applications.
http://www.google.com/enterprise/universal_search.html

Hosting Types: Free, Paid and Blog Hosting

Free Web Hosting:
A free web hosting service is a web hosting service that is free, usually advertisement-supported and of limited functionality. Free web hosts will either provide a subdomain (yourname.example.com) or a directory (www.example.com/~yourname) (e.g. GeoCities). In contrast, paid web hosts will usually provide a Second-level domain along with the hosting (www.yourname.com). Some free hosts do allow use of separately-purchased domains. Rarely, a free host may also operate as a domain name registrar, but their registry services are usually more expensive than others.

Shared Web Hosting:
A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service is a form of web hosting service where more than one instance of the same web service is hosted on a single physical server. This is generally the most economical option for hosting as many people share the overall cost of server maintenance.

Blog Hosting:
Weblog software (also called blog software or blogware) is a category of software which consists of a specialized form of Content Management Systems specifically designed for creating and maintaining weblogs.

Dedicated Hosting:
A dedicated hosting service, dedicated server, or managed hosting service is a type of Internet hosting where the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone. This is more flexible than shared hosting, as organizations have full control over the server(s), including choice of operating system, hardware, etc. Server administration can usually be provided by the hosting company as an add-on service. In some cases a dedicated server can offer less overhead and a larger return on investment. Dedicated servers are most often housed in data centers, similar to colocation facilities, providing redundant power sources and HVAC systems. In contrast to colocation, the server hardware is owned by the provider and in some cases they will provide support for your operating system or applications.