Posted on July 1, 2009 by Ajith Edassery | 4 Comments
Blogging is more about researching and less about writing! I talked about this 80-20 principle in a recent post titled ‘advantages of blogging‘. However, from time to time most bloggers will face the writer’s block or inability to continue writing at the same pace and frequency as they used to do in the past.
There are a number of ways to deal with the writer’s block problem and one of them is to follow profound bloggers and their hugely popular blogs in order to draw inspiration to blog about. I would like to call such blogs feeder blogs and let us talk about them in this short post.
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Posted on June 28, 2009 by Ajith Edassery | 12 Comments
In the past one year or so, Twitter has grown from a mere micro blogging option to a must-have social networking route. It is not just for bloggers, affiliate marketers and online service providers anymore but Twitter forms an extremely handy channel for selling your offline products as well.
The success on twitter is directly proportional to the number of quality followers you have. However, quite unlike other subscription mechanisms (such as RSS, aWeber) it is not at all difficult to build a very good follower base on twitter. In this post let me try to talk about a few practical tips to help increase your twitter follower base.
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Posted on June 24, 2009 by Ajith Edassery | 16 Comments
This is a little survey post. I had part of this post in my drafts for quite a while and at the time of saving this draft I even proudly believed that I coined the term ‘blogtrotter‘ - arrived at flipping ‘globetrotter‘ a little - myself. However, a dig on Google today, I got to know the following meanings for the term blogtrotter.
1. A mildly insulting epithet for an Irishman
2. A person that loves cake and is capable of eating it in large quantities
3. A person who lives in or frequents bogs
Now what I had in mind originally was the third one of those definitions (Sorry, friends from Ireland and cakelovers all over the globe)
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Posted on June 20, 2009 by Ajith Edassery | 23 Comments
For the past three-four days I have been stuck at home with flu (Nothing new - it recurs every two or three months) and wasn’t really active on visiting and commenting on other blogs. The impact of this short break from the blogosphere was immediate - there was a huge reduction of traffic and comments on this blog. And I was really thinking whether we bloggers are becoming more and more selfish these days.
I think, the selfishness is more in the MMO niche because helping each other is not a popular formula here. After all ‘money’ and ‘selfishness’ complement each other very well. And if majority of your readers are bloggers themselves (blogging tips niche) you have a very good chance of not getting any comments on your post if you don’t return the same favor on time.
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Posted on June 17, 2009 by Ajith Edassery | 8 Comments
Knowingly or unknowingly, bloggers, unlike regular website owners, usually do a lot more link building and SEO activities. Many of them are via commenting on other blogs, link exchanges with friends, creating public profiles/SocNet accounts, being active on forums etc. However, many of us blindly concentrate on the link building activities directed to our home page alone than focusing on deep linking.
In this post, I would like to concentrate on the deep linking topic inspired by a bunch of tweet exchanges I had with with Luis of Some Extra Pennies - a regular reader of this blog.
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