Global Recession and Current State of the Make Money Online (MMO) Blogosphere
Ajith | | 9 Comments
Major financial and investment institutions declaring bankruptcy, Honda’s plan to exit Formula 1 racing and General Motors withdrawing Tiger Woods’ sponsorship are some of the sensational news about the ongoing global recession. It is not any smart guess that the recession has to affect the Make Money Online business as well and if you look around there are already several visible signs of the same.
In one of earlier posts I talked about a few tips to weather through the current recession situation. Some of the things that we predicted then are already happening.
Visible Impacts so far…
The following are some of the signs of slow-down that you can notice if you look around in the MMO world!
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Do You Still Believe in Blog Ranks or Current Ranking Systems?
Ajith | | 19 Comments
It is a fact that majority of the bloggers spent most of their valuable time on activities unrelated to publishing! Online publishing activities ideally should be restricted to content editing, proof reading, publishing, moderating and conversing with the readers. But the reality is that platform upgrades, ranks tracking, publicizing, commenting elsewhere etc consume a lot more time than the time utilized by actual writing and most bloggers go frenzy when stuff – like alexa, technorati, what have you – start getting on to their heads.
The topic for today is Blog Ranks and ranking systems! We have several of them around including the likes of Alexa, Technorati, Compete and various blog aggregator/directory ranking systems. But do they actually measure the merit of a blog based on quality of content or acceptance from its the readers? The answer is ‘NO’.
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Right Time to Start Your New Self-Hosted Professional Blog
Ajith | | 19 Comments
In the last post I did a comparative study on WordPress.com and Blogger.com (blogspot) free blogging platforms. Many experienced readers and bloggers shared their thoughts there in and felt that it is always better to go for a self-hosted professional blog keeping your long term blogging plans (or even career) in mind.
And there is no better time than right now to register your domain(s) – as a first step towards building a professional blog – because GoDaddy is offering 99 cents domain names! by using the coupon code ‘99DOMAIN‘. I first read it on SlyVisions today and I thank Sly for sharing this information.
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Free blogging platforms – Blogger or WordPress.com?
Ajith | | 49 Comments
Free blogging services such as Blogger (blogspot.com blog), WordPress.com and Typepad are always good for beginners to kickstart their blogging lives. Many wannabe bloggers do not want to complicate things initially and that is why they go for these free platforms, which in a way, makes sense.
Recently, in an attempt to revive, my cricket blog I did a small comparative study of two of the leading free blog platforms – blogger and wordpress.com – and this post is the summary of my findings. Hope this helps many beginners to make a decision on which of these free platforms to choose to get started. (Those who want to set up their own professional, self hosted blog may please read the series on setting up a successful blog)
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Contact Commenters WordPress Plugin Released!
Ajith | | 138 Comments
Okay! Enough is enough! Here is my first WP plugin – the Contact Commenters WordPress Plugin – which has been just approved by WordPress extend team and available for download now. I have been exploring the WordPress platform and its extensibility aspects lately and this little baby is the first visible outcome of my experiments.
How can Contact Commenters plugin help you?
Well, it is a very small plugin that provides you a simple interface from your WordPress Admin Panel Manage tab through which you can:
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