There is no doubt that one of the differences in a power user on any social media (Digg, SU or delicious) and a normal wannabe user is his access to exclusive tools. Now, tools are available for everyone but not all uses all of them, or we are selectively comfortable with a few that we ignore the rest.
Experts say that they use the power tools wisely, beyond… Continue reading

Was going through some forums and found that there are quite some annoying number of questions being asked about “nofollow” tags and their inclusion to blogs. One dude was asking if there’s anything wrong in nofollowing every link from his blog and another guy was asking if he should nofollow only the wikipedia links.
Here’s my opinions on the use of nofollow tags and how to romance them. … Continue reading

Blogging is an addiction it makes you start things in a jiffy…sometime ending nowhere..sometime taking you places. Though many believe that content is still the king (been there for quite some time), there are some things that decide your blogs “image” even without the content hmm well…with less content.Many young bloggers while starting their blogs make this mistake of not placing the basics right. I’m very keen on this point… Continue reading

Stumbleupon is no doubt the best targeted traffic source available today. But unfortunately there is very less information on how to use or utilize stumbleupon to the maximum. We all know that some people do it better, while some are awesome with SU. There are no secrets, buy some lesser known or lesser used features on Stumbleupon that helps the power user.I might sound like a fool if I said… Continue reading

Hope you’re already aware of Image Optimization. Designers out there may immediately think about the gif format and image compression, but this is clearly not anything related to reducing image size.

SEO and images are a bit old school I agree. Gone are the days when you had to insert keywords into your ALT tags and get a better rank than your competitor.
In fact, Google has changed it’s… Continue reading

I always thought that making the most of friends is the last word in getting popular on SU, back when I started using it. Over the time, there were even more myths like this one that I found were time wasters, and needed immediate attention. Infact, many of the things that I thought were “normal” was actually harming me in making the best of SU.

Let me share a… Continue reading

How to get on top of Digg? How to get popular on Digg? How to get a front page Digg?
These are questions being thrown upon day in and out at the forums, at the coffee club and everywhere bloggers get together. Everyone wants to know how to get to the top quickly with the minimum effort. It would be nice if someone found out a hack that helps anyone… Continue reading

One of the things that gathers moss as we go along is the site design. And it’s even worse with blogs. Wordpress unfortunately has got lot of plugins and frills available for free, that we all keep on adding them until one day we find that it’s all biting back on the blog.

For instance, all the styling and the plugins we add, do you have any idea how… Continue reading

Before reading this article, you might have to check this article here by Rand, where he is suggesting 10 questions to the search engines.

I had replied to it over here with two more questions from my side to Google and here is Matt’s reply to my questions.

Well, basically I was trying to ask Google about sitelinks. I wanted to know from Google as to whether they… Continue reading

It may be a big deal getting lots of fans on Digg. Most of us get minimum ten friend requests daily and there is a whole bunch of friends on Digg.Now, how many shouts do you get on email everyday from all of these friends? Quite some isn’t it? And how many do you reply to or digg? Well, keep the answer to yourself.

The question is – How… Continue reading

Someone who doesn’t want his name published asked me this question –

What are different ways to earn with different type of advertisements for an average blogger, and would like to know what are other sources of income for an average blogger other than advertisements.

Average blogger here means who does not have large amount of traffic coming on his site and also who is not popular… Continue reading

AdSense is indeed a fine tool to generate some cool cash online. The problem with many young bloggers is that they simply don’t use the AdSense units to optimal use. By optimal use I mean, getting the maximum from the ads using the least resources.

Many bloggers end up just adding the AdSense codes and just earn a few bucks from it even though there is good traffic. The… Continue reading

So it all happened like this.

Heard someone is making lot of money blogging. Impressed.

So, checked out a few blogs. John Chow, Amit Agarwal, Shoemoney….all of them. (Ahha, these dudes are writing basically s***t. I could write better than them.)

However, can’t ignore the fact that they are making money. Shoemoney can’t be lying to the whole world with that cheque image!

Checks out… Continue reading

SEO copywriting isn’t the same as normal copywriting. It could be boring, to be honest. What what I insist my clients is, they never make a formula out of these suggestions. They are guidelines that you just need to keep in mind while writing on your blog. That way it is easy. But if you srrat counting the umber of words in the whole text and then divide it with… Continue reading

Why should you save bandwidth? You’ve got enough of it haven’t you?
You should ask that question to someone who gets lot of traffic, especially from Digg/ SU etc. They’d immediately gulp down anything you suggest to save the bandwidth.

Recently, there have been server breakdowns with many bloggers because of the social media outburst. Many of them did nothing wrong but some ardent reader of their’s picked up one of the… Continue reading