Frontier India Technology

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.
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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 of mine felt hurt, like most of you who got their adsense account disabled feel hurt.

He asked me for a solution that time. Frankly, even I was little perplexed on the way forward. The issue is that his content is fit for really serious folks and there is a limited way I could help him. Then something happened. I had asked all my clients for a “blog road map for 2010.” I had forwarded some blogging resources found in this site. So, he wrote back again stating that he needed to monetize. I too got out of my mental logjam and forwarded him some ad networks to register. The first one to approve him was Adbrite. Then the second one to approve him was chitika.
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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 to make bulk purchases by giving them up to 20% discounts.”

The increase will take effect on January 13th, 2010. This increase will not affect previously made bids, your previous bids will continue to pay 65%.
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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 you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The Blogging Times’ effect on man.
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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 more understanding. So, I took time to surf around for more servers with “kind” support staff. While searching, I came across this web hosting review site. They are called web hosting geeks. I looked at their alexa stats and saw 15k odd rank. It means a lot of people use them, must be very popular.

The first impression was also good. I normally hate sites that do not display subject matter at home page. The sire had all the answers to the question like, which is the top ten and best in their categories. Next question was if they are rigged stats. So I checked sample pages like the dedicated server and the vps hosting.
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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 the most important point in the beginning, but, you will have to scroll down to figure what it is?

Few Important Points
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