Yesterday, I received the following email from markaagency.biz requesting advertising banner on Inficone. Sender Name – Jules Barbier Sender Email – jbarbier@markaagency.biz Sender Subject – We would like to buy banner space on your site www.inficone.com. Message – Hi, We are looking for new advertisement platforms and we are interested in your site www.inficone.com. Is it possible to place banner on your site on a fee basis? Best regards, Jules Barbier I googled on the net to figure out that this is a scam and you should not follow up….. Read More
XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity – WordPress 3.1.2
By On May 17, 2011 Leave a Comment 197 views
After my upgrade to WordPress 3.1.2, I wrote a couple of new posts. However, I discovered that none of those posts got automatically tweeted. The tweeting of my posts happens through feed burner socialize. I was wondering what could be the issue. Then it stuck me whether the feed of the blog was getting generated correctly at all. To my horror, I discovered that the feed was throwing up an error because of which neither was the feed getting generated nor the tweet for the new post happening correctly. The….. Read More
The Bin Laden Effect On Blog Readership
By On May 11, 2011 Leave a Comment 16 views
Last week, the whole world woke up to the news of Osama Bin Laden having been killed in a US attack. This was a huge news as this ended an almost decade old manhunt for the most wanted terrorist in the world. This news literally swept all other conversations on the web. Twitter reported around 3K tweets per second on the same when the news first came out. So it was no surprise when I looked back at the blog readership pattern of the week starting May 2 ( Laden….. Read More
Your Personal Experience Can Be Your Most Rewarding Blog Post
By On May 3, 2011 Leave a Comment 50 views
Blogging for me is not about making money. It is an extension of my online identity. It is a place where not only can I share my ramblings but also create content that can help the readers overcome a problem. In a mad race to get more subscribers and hence more revenue, many bloggers tend to write posts just to target some popular keywords. It’s more of a case of keyword defining the content rather than vice versa. While this may work in the short run, it could also turn….. Read More
How To Find Who Links To My Site
By On May 3, 2011 Leave a Comment 339 views
As a website owner/blogger, it is important to know which all websites are linking back to your site. Links from popular sites mean better exposure for your blog and increased credibility. Following are the two ways in which you can check out on who links to your website. Google Option 1 In the Google search box, just type in link:www.yourwebsiteurl.com replacing the yourwebsiteurl by your own domain name and click on search. The search results would represent the set of web pages that have a link pointed to this very….. Read More
Embed PDF As Flip Book In WebSite Using FlipSnack
By On April 19, 2011 Leave a Comment 949 views
PDF is one of the most popular document format today and is extensively used for sharing information. However, embedding PDF in web pages is not straight forward. Depending on size and content of PDF, the user experience could really vary. There have been services in the market like Issuu which enable you to upload PDFs up to 100mb in size and 500 pages in content and generate a physical book like interface, where you can view the whole book by flipping pages as you would have done if you had….. Read More
Get WordPress On Cloud Using Kodingen
By On April 7, 2011 Leave a Comment 134 views
Are you a beginner in wordpress who wants to play around with a sandbox wordpress installation on the cloud? Are you the one who does not want to buy domain or hosting space and still experience a self hosted wordpress installaiton? If the answer to the above two questions is yes, than you should immediately head over to Kodingen which provides you free cloud space for self hosted wordpress. What is Kodingen ? It is an online service that takes the pain out of of configuring/installing/FTPing stuff to setup CMS….. Read More
Get Images For Commercial Use Through Google Search
By On April 5, 2011 Leave a Comment 160 views
In my earlier posts, I had talked about how can you get royalty free photos for your blog and also have creative commons images in your wordpress blog posts easily. However, if you are looking at an even simpler way to get free images for commercial use, you do not need anything more than your regular Google image search. So what do I need to do? Head over to Google advance image search. Enter the keyword for image search along with optional parameters like file type/size. Under the usage rights….. Read More
Get Free Creative Commons Images For WordPress Blog
By On March 31, 2011 Leave a Comment 149 views
Images are an integral part of any content that you produce on your blog. The downside is that it is hard to find contextual images that would do justice to the associated content. Even if you find an image, there is always a question of whether that very image can be used on your blog without any license/copyright constraints. Finding royalty free photographs for your blog posting is a challenge that every modern blogger faces. If you have your blog hosted on wordpress, than one plugin which is invaluable for….. Read More
How I Got 100+ Comments On A Blog Post – An Analysis
Last week, my post on tatkaal passport got it’s 100th comment. It was a little milestone that triggered me to think what all I had done right that enabled me to reach there. For the ones unfamiliar with hindi, Tatkaal means prompt/urgent. Under this Indian scheme, you can get your passport in a week or so as opposed to around two months that it takes for a normal application. photo credit: GoTRISI Last August, I had got my passport renewed under this scheme and had to really spend significant time….. Read More