Google has got a wonderful collection of free tools. I have talked about some of these tools in the past and today I would like to focus on Google alerts which is one of my personal favorites that really helps me a great deal with respect to my online life. What is Google alerts? Just [...]
Continue reading...May 24th 6 Comments
How to use Google Alerts effectively to improve your blogging and Online business?
May 17th 13 Comments
What personality is that blog?
Today, I came across this interesting online tool that analyzes a blogger’s (or writer’s) personality based on what (s)he writes. This tool, namely the typealyzer, just needs the URL of your blog as input and it analyzes your way of writing, usage of words, emotions etc to come up with a report on your personality. [...]
Continue reading...May 9th 9 Comments
How HTML5 can change your Blog and Blogging?
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 [...]
Continue reading...May 2nd 95 Comments
How to remove Date stamp from Google SERP description?
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 [...]
Continue reading...April 27th 9 Comments
What’s your blog’s USP?
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 [...]
Continue reading...April 22nd 19 Comments
HostGator Review and HostGator Coupon
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 [...]
Continue reading...April 15th 29 Comments
Do you really Make Money Blogging?
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 [...]
Continue reading...April 9th 62 Comments
PayPal India & RBI for Stricter Money Transfer Regulations
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 [...]
Continue reading...April 3rd 52 Comments
Should students blog?
Well, the topic of discussion today is whether students should become bloggers or consider blogging as their primary career option. I thought of writing about this topic after reading a post on melvin’s blog (a blog by a student blogger) and also after observing the trend of more and more students focusing on blogging, of [...]
Continue reading...March 30th 5 Comments
How to find Blog Post Ideas that people actually search for?
I have written quite a couple of posts in the past explaining how you can derive great blog post ideas while fighting writer’s block or have no idea as to what topic to write about. Most of the time, the blog post topics need to be identified out of your own thinking and imagination. However, [...]
Continue reading...March 18th 5 Comments
Google Search Hacks
To begin with let me take a disclaimer that none of the tips listed below are my own discoveries. I read about these tips on various places and just thought of consolidating them here as this might help some of you as a search end user of the Google Search engine. The following are some [...]
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