Posts Tagged ‘Blogs’

And then I Cried for Michael Jackson.

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

I loose my temper easily. I threw a plastic chair at a guy who was working for me 2 years ago for not doing the work that I assigned him properly. He didn’t hit me back thankfully. Just left the job and went away.

I get depressed very easily. And at times all I need is an mp3 file to cheer me back to happiness. At times it is a movie file.

My fuckin bank is closed for the past 2 days and a payment that I was expecting is being delayed. I had to renew a membership on a forum yesterday and a discount offer I got ends on monday, and I need to transfer the money to my credit card before that. If I miss that, I will end up paying $200 more for the membership, which is a fuckin Rs 10,000 more.

Last year at the start of the recession, I decided to move my banking to State Bank of India as I didn’t trust the private banks anymore. That decision has now cost me Rs. 10,000.

I got depressed. Why is this happening to me? I can ask people to loan me $200 in paypal, but I hate to do that. So the best thing to do now? Is to accept the fate and listen to music.

There is a folder that i have been maintaining on my computer since 1999 called Speakerzone. It has all the music I like. Havent made any new additions to it recently, as I am completely out of touch with whats new.

The first folder I could find inside speakerzone was Michael Jackson. So I opened it as I didn’t find anything else in there that would interest me. The first song was Billie Jean.

The song started playing, i turned off the monitor in the 1st 10 seconds, pumped up the volume even though my son was sleeping after 20 seconds, and closed my eyes in the 30th second.

The song just made my cry when it went on playing. My throat got choked, eyes were bulging and torrents of tears were running down my eyes. Michael Jackson is Dead.

I didn’t give a shit on the day his death was announced. Fuckin drug addict is dead at alst. Thats all that I thought. I didn’t write a single word about him in any of my blogs as I was aware of the people monetizing his death. Digital Point was full of his memorablia shit. Monetizing a dead man. Yuck. I never thought I would cry for him. And this song made me cry today.

Last year I was riding on my bike from Chennai to Pondicherry with They Don’t care about us playing on my ipod, and near Mahabalipuram I had to stop. I didn’t cry though, but it did make me stop. The music was so powerful. But he was alive then. Now he isn’t.

Life without SEO Tools

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

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.

Make your blog work as well as it should

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Is Your Blog Working As Well As It Should?

Just as with any other marketing strategy, once you create a blog to promote your business, you need to keep track of your results. Doing so will allow you to see how effectively blogging is working for you and also let you see what changes you need to make to create a better blog.

Step One: Keep Track of Your Blog Results

The first step in deciding how well your blog is working as a marketing tool is to evaluate your blog’s effectiveness:

?Keep track of wins. Winning contests, reviews, and positive notices for your blog not only ensures that readers are looking at your online project, but it suggests that you are doing something right. Entering and winning design contests and “best of” blog contests can help ensure that your blog works better as a marketing tool.

?Keep track of other blog mentions. A blogroll refers to the practice of linking similar blog pages from one article. Just as you will want to link to other blogs from your blog, so others may choose to offer a link to your blog. This sort of linking ensures more hits and ensures that your blog will strand higher in rankings – much as a much-quoted web page will gain high rankings in google.

?Keep track of all online mentions. You should not just look at mentions of your blog in other blogs. Keep track of where your company name and blog name appears online – in forums, web pages, and in publications. What sort of publicity are you getting for your blog and your company? Has there been a difference response to your business since you began the blog?

Do some market research. Spend time on other blogs rather than watching tvs Ask your customers where they heard of you and why they chose you. Ask your customers and readers to rate your blog. The responses may be very telling.

?Count hits. Depending on your blog software, you may be able to count how many people view your blog. This can be an important way to measure how many people you are reaching.

?Place your blog in context. Consider your other marketing and advertising strategies. Compare the amount of time and money you spend on your marketing efforts – and the results you get from each effort.

Step Two: Make Your Results Better

Once you have considered how your blog is affecting your business, you should be able to see what needs to be done. If your blog is not getting enough hits, try advertising your blog more through online groups, emails, and links. If the response to your blog is not great, then you may need to make some changes in content and style to lure in more readers. If you find that your blog is not getting the results you want, though, make sure that you have given the blog a chance. Do realize that it takes longer to build a solid loyal audience with a blog than with other forms of marketing. If you do build a regular audience, though, the promotional potential of your blog will be quite high.

A blog is vulnerable

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

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.

USD Apprising

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

The US economy is falling. They are holding meetings there to find ways to fix the issue and try to possibly save the country from disaster. But the USD price against Indian rupee is shooting UP. Straight up. About untill 2 months ago, the USD price was INR 39, and now it is 47.5. Looks like in a few weeks it will cross the 50 rupee mark after a long time.

Good for people who do export of goods or sell services and get paid in USD. But what about people like me who buys services from the US? We have to pay more now, and unless we get business from outside India things will be quite difficult for us.

Goods such as weight loss pills will always sell. But what about the extra GB that people might want to host their blogs? Definitely people will look for options to cut costs, and thats a loss of business for us. Clearly means that we need to bring in more clients and again have to face the costs of client acquisition. Gonna be a real tough job.