100 Blog Tips, I Learnt in 2008 Part-I

Sorry folks for the delay in post. I am very much busy now a days with some geeky stuffs. The second interview of an extremely successful entrepreneur is ready, will publish it very soon. :)

I prepared a list of 100 blog tips, I have learnt in 2008. These tips actually work. Using the basic tip of blogging "Post shouldn't be too long" I am going to post this list in two parts, 50 tips in each post. Here are first top 50 tips:-

1. Final year of your Engineering, start blogging today

2. Write about something that you love a lot, I like internet surfing

3. If you are serious about blogging buy your own domain

4. Make sure your domain name resembles with blog topic

5. Use short and easy to remember domain name

6. Use BlogSpot

7. Use BlogSpot widget

8. Use simple and attractive template

9. Customize your blog template

10. Choose a specific topic for blog

11. Content is king

12. Blog with consistency

13. Write at least 3-5 posts a week

14. Proof read

15. Interact with other bloggers

16. leave meaningful comments

17. Backup your blog

18. Participate in online forums and communities

19. Put a link of blog on your signature (:P)

20. Use trackbacks

21. Use social bookmarks

22. Join various type of blog networks. Eg. I am the member of Mumbai Bloggers group

23. Use all type of social networking websites to publicize your blog

24. Put URL of your recent post as your IM’s status

25. Write “Top 10″ lists

26. Use Shout box

27. Write “How to” articles

28. Write about Startups

29. Write interviews of successful entrepreneurs

30. list your blog on directories

31. Ask questions to your readers

32. Use Feedburner

33. Use sense of humor

34. Encourage readers to subscribe

35. Link exchange with other bloggers

36. Have some spare posts for emergencies

37. Encourage readers to digg your posts

38. Stumble your post

39. Put an RSS subscription icon on every single page

40. Use “series” of posts

41. Return comments

42. Write about how to increase blog traffic

43. Write about How to blog

44. Use readable fonts

45. Break long posts in more parts

46. Experiment with different revenue sources like adsence, bidvertiser, chitika

47. Use Google Analytics

48. Have an "About Me" page

49. Create your own "Advertise with me" page

50. Read as many blogs as possible

Remaining 50 tips will be coming in next post. Write your views and suggestions. It encourages me. :)

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WHY TERRORIST ATTACK IS SO COMMON IN INDIA?

Ok, this is not geeky, this is not related to internet at all. But this is something really serious. This is related to the country I live in. Yes, this is about India.

What India is all about……

1) Cricket (On Play ground)

2) Sex (On internet)

3) Unemployment (Market crash'08)

4) Politics & Politicians (Jai Shivaji!! Jai Maharashtra!!!)

5) Bollywood

6) Terrorist Attack!!! ( Anywhere, Any Place, Any time)

The financial capital of India was again taken into terror by Islamic militants. Although it’s a common occurrence for India now, but this time it was different. The terrorists attacked the top 7 star Hotels of India including Hotel Taj Mahal, Hotel Oberoi Sherton and Nariman House. There was also a fearless attack on Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus Railway station Mumbai, the busiest railway station in the world. Apart from killing common man (which is common in itself) this time the killings include the ACP of Mumbai, The Anti terrorists Squad(ATS) chief, and A Super Cop & encounter specialist. Also a few Americans (remember FEW in India is VERY HUGE in America) and Britishers were also killed. So, this time it was really different!!

I was wondering why terrorist attack is so common in India. Countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, who are already standing on the verge of bankruptcy are regularly attacking the biggest democracy of the world, turn by turn. So what is the reason? India is the reason in itself. Yes it’s “The Democracy”. May be it’s the time for a change, may be it’s the time when India really needs a HITler.

Two people meet in a beer bar

One : Where are you from?

Second: I am from NY.

One: Oh…..You too an American? Common man let’s have a beer together.

Another set of two people meet at the same chair fifteen minutes later.

One: Where you from?

Second: I am from India….

One: Where in India?

Second: I am from Bihar……

One: Eeew You are gross!!!!! I am a Marathi Fuck You!!!!

Democracy has given innumerable number of political parties to India. These parties have divided common man into different groups like Hindus and muslims, Muslims and other religions, North Indians and Marathis, Hindi speaking and non hindi speaking and so on and so forth. So for any externalites it’s very easy to break through the castle. Where were Indian security guards, when terrorist were fearlessly crossing the water boundaries of India. Probably they were giving security to Mr. Raj Thackrey who was facing severe threats from North Indian Terrorists. I wonder what Mr. Thackrey is doing right now to upkeep the good cause and safety of matahis of Mumbai. I am sure the bullet wouldn’t have asked the state of a person before hitting him. So where are the sainiks of MNS? Why the “NATIONAL” security guards are risking their lives? Probably because NSG never thinks in terms of Marathis and Biharis. They work for a NATION not for a Vote bank. I would sincerely request Mr. Thackrey to learn something from the spirit of NSG.

One morning in Mumbai a frustrated common man came down on the roads with a pistol and hijacked a bus. He wanted to kill a politician. He was shot in the Head. I was thinking why these terrorists never hit politicians in India. Why would they hit someone who is working hard for their cause only.

Overall in India, educated beaurocrats have no say at all. It is the elected politicians who decides everything for us including our safety. And probably their first priority is there security, second priority is how can they earn more and more votes and lastly if resources permits our security will be thought of. So why should we expect to remain secure?

What should we do then?

1) Start voting consciously. Think in terms of the leader’s qualification rather than religion and region.

2) This is our country. Together we can make it secure. It just needs a bit of solidarity.

3) DON’T EXPECT ANYTHING from government. Charity begins at home. Don’t be a part of terrorism anyways. Start thinking about shunning terrorism on individual part. Let the Government think themselves what action they should take for our security.

4) Be cautious when you are out. Report the police immediately if you see or hear any thing suspectible. Don’t be afraid of legal consequences. Remember it’s either legal pains OR your life.

At last Geekonnet Team Salutes the NATIONAL SECURITY GUARDS for making us safe.

Jai Hind!

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Easy Ways to Increase Blog Traffic

In the last post you have seen "10 ways to make money online". Thanx to Tamal, a professional blogger, who requested me to publish his post on my blog. Thanks dude for sharing such a nice post.
So, Now I will tell you "how can you generate traffic for your blog?". I will tell you, what I learned from blogging. These things really work. Here we go.

1) Unique subject: Whenever I sit to write any post, I just keep on thinking about my world wide readers. Will my post give them, what they are looking for? If some one is spending his/her 5 minutes to read your post then your posts must have that much potential. Your content should be worthy of being read by thousands or millions of readers.

If your blog has good content then It will force the user to come again and again to your blog. At the time of deciding the topic, just think about the best thing you can give to the reader. The topic selected by you should also be of your interest, then only you can write a good post. Next thing is to narrow down your topic. Your blog should be of some specific topic. For Example: There are thousands of tech bloggers and I also wanted to be the one. Since tech is a relatively large area, I narrowed my blog topic down to internet. For example, if some one is interested in writing about "computer networking", he/she can select a particular topic from a whole lot of topics in computer networks like wireless (802.11) network or wired network or for wireless sensor network. So start thinking about the topic on which you are going to write a blog.

2) SEO: For any website the main source of traffic are search engines, mainly from google, yahoo, msn live and ask.com. Optimize your posts for search engines. Ohh, SEO is a very large concept. It will take few weeks or months to understand properly and implement. Dont worry, Just keep few things in your mind which I am going to describe below:

• Use your primary keyword as domain name for your blog: At the time of purchasing domain name for your blog, try to ensure that the url should contain the word which you want to optimize.
  
• Put primary key phrase in your blog header tags and the titles of your post:
• Submit your blog to search engine's directories: Submit your blog to directories like mozilla directories, yahoo directory, google directory, ask directory. Directories are essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog. I have submitted my blog to all of the above directories.
  

3) Top blogger directories and forums: Reading forums and participating in forums will help you a lot to become a good blogger. It also generates huge traffic and back links for your blog. Here are some of the top forums. You can join any one or two forums which you like most and actively participate in discussions.

1. Authority Blogger Forum:
   
2. Blog Traffic School Forums:
   
3. Bloggeries Blog Forum:
   
4. Blogger Forum:
   
5. Digital Point Blogging Forum:
   

Also join some blogger's social networks like blogcatalog and mybloglog, and create your own group there. The members of your group will be your regular readers.

4) social bookmarking and sharing: Put social bookmarks and sharing links in your every post. In blog you can find few links after each post. This link creates a high quality back links and spreads your message to millions of reader. Adding social bookmark links to your blog or web site makes it easy for readers to save and share your content. The most famous are digg.com, technorati.com and del.icio.us.

5) Surfing:

1. shout box: Install a shout box on your blog. It will help you to communicate with other bloggers.
2. Blog Hopping: Keep on visiting other's blog. Try to comment on top blogs. It will help you to create good quality back links for your blog and your page rank will increase.
3. link exchange: Do not hesitate to exchange the links with other bloggers. If possible, try to exchange with only those who have higher page rank than yours. Install alexa toolbar in your firefox to find the rank of any website.

I hope these words from my experience will help you with your effort to increase traffic. Feel free to ask any questions that may arise in your brain.

Thanx for your patience :)

PS: Try to write short and impactful post. :P

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When I got an e-mail ..EMAIL SCAM

Very often you get a mail, that you have won a lottery and you are going to get $1 million. Send me your account no., so we can transfer the money to your account. Or

You get a mail from an arbitrary and unknown ID, A hot chick is begging for help. If you response to her, she tells you a extremely sad story in the reply to that mail. Its very obvious, you must reply with consolation. In next mail she tells you that her father was a very rich person in her country, he had deposited $3.8 million dollars in an European bank, and she has talked to bank officer, they are agreed to give me whole money, but they have a condition, they can not transfer the money in my account directly , they need a bank account no. which doesnt belong to my country. So she asks your account no. Or, she gives a contact no. and says you to contact at this no..
From last few days I was getting same kind of mail. He/She sent me some pics of a hot girl. I replied "Ohh you are soooo hot. Send me more pics. I will definitely help you".
After many replies / responses, at the end I got a mail written under huge frustration. Mail is shown below.

from Lorita Koneh koneh_lorita@yahoo.com to ranjeet vimal date Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:55 AM subject Hello Dear mailed-by yahoo.com signed-by yahoo.com

Hello Dear

Thank you very much

I want you to tell me if you are ready to help me

I have given to you my pictures and now , you have to give to me your pictures and let me know if you are ready to help me or not

Have a nice and lovely day

Lorita

The formula is simple: The fact that you respond to a crooked scheme is usually an indication that you are greedy and probably corrupt.
So The solutions to these kind of problems are simple:

1. Ignore it. Delete the email and forget all about it.
2. Report it. Find the domain name in the email-address. Inform the fraud protection team.
3. Answer it. Have some fun as I have had, but realize that you are dealing with criminals. NEVER give them any personal details, and NEVER send them any money.

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