My blog is a big bag of bullshit. And I don’t promote it much. People who read my blog often know that very well. I write complete bullshit. Nobody cares. I know that. But my blog does manage to get visitors once in a while because of the few tech stuff that I have in here. Linux buffs like my blog. Select posts if not the whole blog.
Well, Im not the worst. I do know a lot of people who write more bullshit that I do, and keep their blog on the top of the searches. How is that done? SEO. Search Engine Optimization.
Doing it manually is a tough job. It would take a lifetime to optimize one blog manually. And I have 27 blogs, and only 1 life. How do I still stay in business? I have a huge array of seo tools installed in my computer and servers, without which I would have been just another stupid software engineer working at some stupid company making a few hundred thousand rupees a year.
And did I mention that my blog has been mentioned for the first time in its history on a popular newspaper in Delhi, a part of the India Today group called Mail Tdoay? Well, it had been, the day before Diwali. I had been busy for some time, and I couldnt update the blog about it. Here is the link to the article. The article is a stub, but still, I did manage to get a bit of traffic from it, and yes, it is a sign that my blog is getting popular. Why else would a journalist approach me and ask me for an interview?
Time was short, and I didn’t like any of the picutres that were taken, so just like the paper’s designers, I too decided not to print photos of mine.
Powerful as a blog may be, it is quite vulnerable to spam attacks as well. You have a section called comments below your blog post, and people can write what they like. Luckily wordpress allows you to moderate any comments that are posted on your blog, and therefore you can make sure that no spam comments that promote websites that sell pharmaceutical delights on your site. Though there is Askimet, some comments in my blogs do manage to get into the waiting for moderation area and I am having to mark them all as spam.
And sometimes spammers find a good way to attack your blog and byepass askimet, I dont really knwo how that is done, and I dont wish to specialize in that in any ways, and marking them all as spam one by one is a tough job. A real tough job. I will not find time to do this from the office, so I have to do it at home. And when you have too many comments, you would not want to miss out the good comments and mark them as spam as if you do so you will no longer get a comment from that user again. It is a tough job. Well, with the help of a good computer monitor, a keyboard and a mouse, and ofcourse with good computer desks the job should be simple. Think of the other Indians who use their dining tables as their computer desks and sit at awkward positions to use their keyboards and mice that would probably be at the same level of the base of the monitor.
When it comes to web hosting, you should be very sure on whom you are selecting to trust your website with. Your website would contain huge databases or contact inforation of so many people in case you are running a blog or a forum, and though you try to maintain a very strict Privacy policy if your host steals your data, you are dead.
Well, so how do you choose a hosting company? You need to follow a system that is present everywehre, something like a web hosting rating system that classifies the actual service of a company without any partiality and give the actual picture of the company to the public who look for top rated hosting companies.
Webhostingrating.com is one such company, and it gives out web hosting awards once in a while to top performing web hosting companies in the world. It also contains quite a lot of web hosting tutorials which are designed to guide the users as well as newbie web hosting companies on giving quality services to clients, and for clients to know on what to expect from hosting companies, and knowing your rights and stuff.
Google sometimes is boring. It always returns the same results over and over again for different combinations of the search terms. I wanted to find out if there are any new websites that are showing up in the blog sphere that would pay you to blog. An idea struck me last night and I thought I would go ahead and look for other search engines that are there in the world. Surely they will not be using the algorithm of Google, so the way they display the results would be greater, and you can find what you are looking for with a bit of ease. Or atleast you could hope for it. So when I set foot to start looking for a new search engine which would give me better, or atleast different results for blog pay I landed upon RankNoodle.com. It is a search engine that would not only give you the search results like google does, but also gives you an article on what you are looking for. So for example lets say you are searching for the term search engine for beginners you get a simple article on what is meant by search engine and why it exists and why people cant do without a search engine.
I have a feeling that this site will redefine the concept of search engines. This even acts like a miniature wikipedia as it gives a small synopsys of what you are searching for. there has already been a debate that wikipedia might in the near future overtake google in the search for information as wikipedia has got almost everything now, and it comes without ads and it doesnt use any stupid algorithms. Lets say you are searching fro a good hosting company. When you search google it will just give you a list of sites in the order in which the sites are optimized. But if the company is good at optimization of websites for the search engines and are not really keen on hosting, then the site might be on the top but the service might be poor, while the people who provide good services might be bottom just because they have not optimized their websites or they have not put up any sponsored advertisments on google’s search page.
A search with an article is at its starting stage, and once developed, people will only go for that. When you search for hosting companies on a search engine like ranknoodle.com, you will possibly get a user edited or a user reviewed list of sites rather than a list that is ordered bust by a company’s stupid algorithm. This technology is going to rule the internet in the very near future.
