01 Nov 2007
I believe nobody can disagree with the fact that to have consistent traffic, your blog needs to have solid content. As the old saying goes, content is indeed King. However, even after having fairly decent content, some blogs never take off. Reaching out to potential readers has become increasingly difficult considering just the sheer volume of quality blogs which already exist on almost every conceivable topic.
In light of this, there is one subtle way of promoting your site that many people surprisingly do not know too much about. This is especially applicable if you are just starting out with a relatively new blog and you just need to kick off: Link to quality articles from other blogs and click on those links a few times to visit the pages.
Wondering how this helps?
Now, I do not know about you, but I do obsessively follow my blog’s log to see where and how people are visiting my blog. When I see a referral, naturally my curiosity is aroused as to who has linked to my blog and I will generally check out the referral link. I have even ended up bookmarking many such blogs before, when I happened to like the blog.
But of course, you have to be prudent as to which blog articles you link to. Do link to relevant and useful articles. This is a very handy way to actually make people take notice of you. You catch them where they actually read!
26 Oct 2007
Does the act of hiding the sign out links make the users keep using a site? Many sites apparently think so.
30 Sep 2007
A young lady was waiting for her flight in the boarding room of a big airport. As she would need to wait many hours, she decided to buy a book to spend her time. She also bought a packet of cookies.
She sat down in an armchair, in the VIP room of the airport, to rest and read in peace. Beside the armchair where the packet of cookies lay, a man sat down in the next seat, opened his magazine and started reading.
When she took out the first cookie, the man took one also.
She felt irritated but said nothing. She just thought:
“What a nerve! If I was in the mood I would punch him for daring!”
For each cookie she took, the man took one too.
This was infuriating her but she didn’t want to cause a scene.
When only one cookie remained, she thought: “ah… What this abusive man do now?”
Then, the man, taking the last cookie, divided it into half, giving her one half.
Ah! That was too much!
She was much too angry now!
In a huff, she took her book, her things and stormed to the boarding place. When she sat down in her seat, inside the plane, she looked into her purse to take her eyeglasses, and, to her surprise, her packet of cookies was there, untouched, unopened!
She felt so ashamed!! She realized that she was wrong…
She had forgotten that her cookies were kept in her purse. The man had divided his cookies with her, without feeling angered or bitter… while she had been very angry, thinking that she was dividing her cookies with him. And now there was no chance to explain herself…nor to apologize.
I saw this on a power point presentation that I received from a friend.
29 May 2007
Don’t bloody happen.
My college is a sweet 35 KM away from home, and while the college bus does fetch me to and fro from college well, on days when we have classes off and I want to go home early, I will have to resort to taking the public transport buses. There is this bus 119, which stops right outside my college and goes directly to my house.
And after an year of college (during which I would have gone home early atleast 40 times), I am yet to catch that bus home. I will go and stand in the bus stop, and either that bus will never come, or it will not stop (has happened thrice). And yet, other people yet to catch the same bus home. I can’t. After one whole year. Ludicrous but true.
And today, I had to find my way to this book bank where I have gone quite a few times before. But today, the road I am supposed to take leading to the place was suddenly (for me that is) made one way. The traffic was diverted to a parallel road. That’s it. I was instinctively lost. After some twenty minutes of circling I sort of gained some sense of direction and went towards this little side road which I usually used for exit. And no, the road was blocked. The sun went down. It became dark. The traffic grew. And I was stuck. Another circle and I found the road leading out of the road where the book bank was situated. But then this road has always been a one way, and there was this police guy standing right at the entrance. I decided to try another time, but took a wrong turn that put me on a road with a U turn 4 kilometers away.
I did not want to give up, I went half way back home, took U turn and went near that place and tried to call my friend. Shortly the phone died. An hour and a half later, I was no closer to the book bank than is India in beating Australia. I gave up, turned back and returned home. I will try again tomorrow. Let’s see how this one goes. I so badly wanted to go today but man proposes, -god disposes- road disposes.
Sometimes, somethings just don’t happen.
