These days, most of my clients are forwarding me mails with “what is your opinion” subject line. It is not just them, even I get similar mails. The mail usually reads: Your Name XYZ Email xyz@gmail.com Message: Search Engine Optimization Subject: We would like to get your website on first page of Google.

Few months back, one fine morning, one of my blogger clients sent an emergency mail. He had found his adsense account disabled. Now, I really don’t want to blame my client or google for the same. It happened and we got to live with it. I am one of the google admirers. But, the client [...]

Sponsored Reviews sent out an email that it will pay its publishers less. The companies email reads “to increase our transaction rate by 15% from 35% to 50% (your share will now be 50% versus 65%).” Other than harping on better service/increased cost tune, they add another nugget “As it stands we currently incentize advertisers [...]

I would like to twist “Bee Gees : Stayin’ Alive Lyrics” a tad bit: Well, you can tell by the way I use my blog, I’m a looser’s man—no time to talk. Traffic is down and no one’s around, I’ve been kicked around Since I was born. And now it’s all right. It’s OK. And [...]

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Yesterday, when my websites went down and I tried contacting the server support, I encountered the most unhelpful guys on earth. Usually, Josh (one of the support guys) is very prompt, but, yesterday, I went through hell. No, I am not changing them yet, because the problem was not theirs. But, they could have been [...]

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As I mentioned in the “A good blog” post, the content subject should be something that is close to your heart or you are the subject matter specialist. Unless you have some sort of content availability from other sources, unique content creation for your blog is the best way forward. I wanted to tell you [...]