Posts filed under 'Tips'

As the US Presidential Elections debates continue, candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have started microblogging on Twitter. Can you believe that Obama is following me on Twitter! (more…)

Can you believe that plants can send Twitter messages when they need water! Some people devised a way your plant can twitter you anywhere in the world when it falls short of water supply… (more…)

I have been noticing instant updates of our blog posts to Google Reader for over the last week. I publish and within seconds its instantly indexed on Google Reader… did they tweak the tools? Have you observed it too? (more…)

Where does the Twitter web traffic come from? The US being the major source of web traffic to twitter does not surprise me, but can you guess the second country which sends huge site traffic to Twitter? (more…)

How many Twitter followers do you have? Twitter has become a buzz word of sorts and as everyone is rushing to grab a twitter account and start microblogging, some famous twitterers have gathered a mass following of thousands of followers. Can you guess who has the maximum number of twitter followers… over 65000! (more…)

Guest post by Alan Johnson from TheRatingBlog.com
It should come as no surprise that, based on what they think doing business online is all about, most people believe that it’s all smooth sailing. They most likely associate the idea of an online entrepreneur with a person wearing elegant clothes, attending conferences, a person to which doing business online represents signing a few papers here and there. (more…)

Getting added to Power lists is essential for better blog branding. The more reputed the list, the more difficult it is to get listed, the more selective and niche specific it is, the better is the respect you get if you manage to get added to it. Here are 5 power lists you can try… for better blog branding and site traffic of course… (more…)

I slowed Googlebot crawling down a few months back. It seemed Googlebot, the Google search bot, was then crashing our shared hosting server repeatedly and my hosting provider Dreamhost intimated that we fix the issues if possible or upgrade to a higher hosting plan. Since private servers are expensive, and my traffic is not spiky (Digg-y), I decided to fix the Googlebot issue myself. (more…)

Wordpress Blog Hosting was always simple with Dreamhost one-click installation. Now they made it even simpler with an Easy Mode option where they handle all the software management/upgrades, and no files are installed to your account! (more…)

As I checked the Google Webmaster panel today, Google had finalized some Sitelinks for our site after so many years. Honored by this rare privilege for a few big sites, I immediately checked the search results for our site, but sitelinks were still not displaying on our site… (more…)