Ajith | | 9 Comments
As you probably know the W3C has more or less finalized the HTML5 specifications draft as the world is looking forward to embrace the 5th major revision of the Worldwide Web language. There will be definite changes in web browser technologies, rendering methodologies, media streaming, mobile applications etc.
The HTML5 revolution will also change the way your blog platform works and probably the way you blog as well. Definitely, there will be changes for related online businesses around the blogosphere. In this post, let’s try to understand HTML5 in brief.
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Ajith | | 39 Comments
Some of you may have noticed that when your blog (or individual post) is listed on Google search results (SERPs), a date stamp gets prepended to the meta description of the indexed page (see the image below). There are are various theories regarding how and from where Google picks this date stamp. Some believe that it is the time stamp of the last post on your blog, where as a few others believe that it’s the date on which your site is last indexed. Regardless of the reason, sometimes this extra date field can be a bit annoying for some of you and in this post let me explain how you can remove the same.
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Ajith | | 9 Comments
Your blog is your public announcement system on the web! Just like the normal solid state announcement systems, it has the potential to reach masses. However, it can soon become ‘just another blog’ among millions if you do not have something special to offer to your readers.
The thing that is special and unique to your blog is your blog’s USP (Unique Selling Proposition). Any successful campaign – online or offline – must possess a USP to be successful and in this post let me take you through what could be the USP for a typical blog.
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Ajith | | 18 Comments
I have had the privilege of using six different web hosting services, over the past 11 years, most of them being shared hosting. And I must tell you that no other hosting experience was as pleasing and effective as HostGator in terms of the features supported, low pricing, excellent customer support and overall up time.
HostGator offers one of the best affordable web hosting services that is suitable for your self-hosted WordPress blog, small business website or email and storage needs. In this post let me review HostGator hosting service and help which HostGator plan may be suitable for your hosting needs (Also, check out the sections below: HostGator coupons and exclusive HostGator rebates)
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A lot of enthusiastic people – from all walks of life – start blogging with the sole intention of making money online. Many of them claim that blogging is one of the easiest mechanisms to make money without any investment. To some extent, they are right because the upfront investment to kick start with blogging can be very less in most cases.
However, blogging is NOT exactly a cheap investment & high return monetization route. If you carefully analyze, you will see that even there is a lot of investment required in order to make some money and a living out of blogging. And in reality many are blogging for peanuts.
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A few weeks after PayPal resumed the money transfer operations to India (and enforcing some compliance via PAN Number & reason disclosure for PayPal money transfers), they have gone even stricter now! Basically, the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) has enforced this new compliance policy on PayPal India whereby all money received via exports need to be withdrawn to respective Indian Bank accounts of the individuals within 30 days of receipt of the same.
Exports, in this context, is anything like money received for online services, blog income, sale of products on eBay etc. Basically what it means is that you have to disclose and withdraw your income as and when it is received and you have to swipe your credit card for any new purchases. The details of the new RBI regulations as listed below:
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