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I remember that by this time last year, my brain was filled with images of Goa. Thanks to a week long trip that I had made there, explored the whole place, and had even made plans to leave Pondicherry and move there. This year, in feb, I had been to Delhi, and I just fell in love with that place, and all images of Goa vanished from my head and were replaced with magnificent Moghul archetecture of Delhi. Delhi, one of the oldest cities of the world. Delhi, Delhi, Delhi.

Where did Goa go? Would Delhi too go away too if I visit Auckland or Wellington in NZ after a few years? What if I manage to move through all fascinating cities in the world in the next 30 years? Where would I go after that?

The mind really is a fucking monkey.

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Keeping Your Blog Market-Fresh

It is not enough to just write a blog. If you are taking the time to create a good and powerful blog – and if you want your blog to be a good marketing tool, you need to be doing this – then you will want to make sure that you get something back for your investment. One good way to keep interest in your blog going – and to keep your blog a powerful marketing tool and not a time-consuming hassle – is to keep introducing fresh content.

Keep Your Blog Fresh

There are a few ways to keep your blog content interesting without a lot of hassle:

?Get new readers by getting other bloggers to link to your blog. Blogging creates community, so that if you link to others sites, they are also likely to link to yours. Feel free to contact other bloggers with similar interests and goals and see if they would be willing to offer a link.

?Update and vary content regularly. Schedule regular updates so that your blog does not get stale, but also introduce new content. If you have always offered fashion tips on your fashion designer blog, consider covering a fashion show. If you have always made personal comments, consider offering tips.

?Offer new features and sections. Offering new contests and new sections (such as a jobs section or a comments section) will make it clear that you are working to make your blog better. It will also make blogging more interesting for you, ensuring that you keep providing customers with great content.

?Blend your blog with other marketing efforts. Consider promoting your online contest through your blog, or link from your blog to your email, your web page, or your advertisements. Make your blog work with other marketing efforts and your blog will gain fresh contents with less hassle.

?Change the look. Changing the colours, layout and images of your blog from time to time helps keep reader interest and makes looking at your blog more interesting for you.

Make Your Blog Sizzle

Simply changing your blog content is not often enough. You also need to increase the interest on your blog by creating more interesting content:

?Don’t be (too) afraid to get controversial. One thing that you can do with blogs that you can’t do with tvs is that you can get conversational. Although you will want to avoid offending customers by making too personal or off-colour comments, making some thought-provoking comments is a good way to generate discussion – and interest. Make a comment about someone else’s comment or on the state of your industry. A healthy debate can help you.

?Keep it personal – and personable. Be wary of simply providing general and impersonal content on your blogs – that’s what other online writing is for. Do include some of your personality and interest in your blog and put your friendliest face forward to attract customers and readers.

?Consider what to do with older blog entries. Most blog entries are simply archived for a while. However, consider other uses. If your web host allows it, consider making older blog posts part of a booklet to sell or consider providing your old blogs as content on the Internet. In each case, link back to your blog so that readers can find your newest comments.

The trend of hosting multiple sites on one server has gone, and right now it is in fashion to host one site on several servers. Well, sites that have traffic or a lot of content ofcourse. Take for example an image gallery that has got a lot of images, which is updated automatically from several websites onthe web. Did you knwo that hosting images or content on your site giving proper credits to the copyright owners of the images or by linking to them is never illegal?

So, if you get an idea to start a site like that, you can never do with just 1 server. You will become someone like flikr, attract images from everywhere, and put them on automated image galleries, and this way traffic will automatically come over to your website, and with that traffic you could make a lot of money selling ads and stuff.

This is why today you might see people ordering 10s and 100s of servers all at one go with the datacenters at good discounted rates, and network them internally to make them into a grid, or make them into one single server with loads of processor resources memory and disk drive space. Some people say that if you make a grid out of 2 P4 processor computers, you will get the power of 2^n = 2^2 = 4 computers. That way if you make a grid out of 128 computers, then the power that you would be able to derive would be of 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 computers. Maybe thats how Wikipedia is so powerful and fast though it is the 2nd website after google that receives the most number of visitors. But is this calculation correct? Thats a very large number, and if someone wants computing power why dont they just rely on this and why do people go for mainframes and stuff?

I prefer adbrite these days on sites where there is a lot of traffic. Cos adbrite pays you for impressions while adsnese pays you only for clicks. Google keeps all the money that it charges its clients for impressions for itself while adbrite shares it with you. It has to be shared, as after all, the ads are being displayed on your site.

If you have about 1000 visits a day and if about 10 people manage to click on an ad, you could make about $5 a day, and if the same 1000 visitors give you some 10,000 pageviews, even if they dont click on an ad, you will get about $2 for the impressions per day from adbrite. And if they click on something, you will get more money. Apart from this, adbrite gives you a few other options such as monetizing on the images that you might have on your site, and highlighting keywords on your posts and making them into links, and displaying full page ads. All these add value to the revenue that you generate.

So if you have a site that you have purely made to monetize, I would recommend that you use adbrite, and use adsense only in places where you think there will be more clicks than impressions

You can’t play good games on an old fashioned computer. The first thing that you will need on a computer if you want to play some games is a good processor, a good amount of ram, and very good video cards that would render the images for you with very good resolution.

Without these, there is no point in complaining that your computer sucks and that you need an xbox to play games.