Kolkata Blogger's Meet 09

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Date: 8th August 2009 | Saturday

Location: CCD (Cafe Coffee Day); RDB Adlabs Sector V; Saltlake City; Kolkata

Time: 5 PM onwards

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Hi guys,

I am back after a while, and that too with a bad news for you all. :(

Bad news? Well, yes. More so if you are a blogger or a webmaster who used to be jumping for joy each time google sent you the fat pay for the AdSense clicks on your site/blog.

Confused? Ok, here is what the big G has decided…

ACCIDENTAL CLICKS ON ADSENSE WONT BE PAID ANYMORE!!

Not sure what do I mean? Read what Google says,

“we’ve just changed our text ads slightly to help reduce accidental clicks. In the past, users could click on both the background and full text of an ad, but now they can click only on the title and URL of a text ad. By allowing users to click only on the ad title and URL, we aim to decrease accidental clicks, better aligning visitor behavior with their intent. Overall, the decrease in accidental clicks will keep users on your website, interacting your content, until they intend to click on an ad.”

Google Adsense


The image should have made it clear for you by now. There are people on the web who make a living out of AdSense only. This step would be a serious jolt for them.What do you feel, is it a good move by G or something that would seriously put back publishers and help only the advertisers.Here is what others are saying on this move,

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3503359.htm

What do you say????

Keep thinkin’. Until then, sayonara! :)

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As everyone knows that link exchange is still one of the most determining factors to get a better ranking in major Search Engines (SEs), hence it becomes very important to write that perfect link exchange request email at the very outset. Here are a few sure shot tips to write the perfect request email:

Link Exchange

Be polite and courteous – That’s the first most important thing with a link exchange request. One can certainly not hope to get a link by threatening or abusing the other party. A few soft lines would certainly help.

Do not use ready email specimens – Webmasters these days are smart enough to know the advantages of link exchange so you need not explain it all over again. Certain webmasters these days have filters set up that catch such types of readymade templates and throw them into the trash bin.

Know the site you are requesting to – If you end up requesting a totally non-related site for a link then that just wont work. Make sure that you have certain idea about the site before sending the mail.

Tell the other party more about your site – One can also try to provide a bit more data about one’s site, like Google PR, Traffic to your Website, Alexa Rank, Rss Subscriptions, No. of Members (in case of communities), Technorati Rank, Position in SEs for important KWs., etc.

Praise the other Website – Putting in a few lines about the potential link partner wont do any harm. A webmaster is more likely to review your website if you have already done it and mentioned some praise in your request.

Give an irresistible offer – Most webmasters and link builders these days give out link offers from pages that are hidden way beyond the chances of getting any clicks. Such offers wont work. Make an offer that is completely irresistible. One from the home page would certainly help the cause.

Get up, close and personal – Yeah, it works! It always helps to know the name of the person to whom you are addressing the letter. Thus try to find out the name within the site or if that doesn’t work try the whois information. “Dear Anand…..” works better than “Dear Webmaster….”

Add a good signature – Always round off your link exchange request email with a decent signature that shall have your full name, organization /website, email address and phone. This helps the other guy to be sure about your credibility.

Afterall, you just would not want your email to end up being termed the dumbest link exchange request ever!!

Do add a comment if you have any more points to add to this.

See ya. :)

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Hi everyone,

The past week has been a real experience for me. In a way, you can say, it was the most satisfying week for me at GrmTech. Reasons?

  • Our team started to reap the dividends of a move that I had put forth before my Boss for approval around 15 days back.
  • I was given an opportunity to be a part of a training session for the new batch of Internet Marketing Associates, which I enjoyed to the fullest when I got the chance to speak in front of the group. :) Thanks to our HR (Daisy Ma’am) and Leader (Aji Sir) for the opportunity. :)

  • Also, earlier in the week, Aji Sir had involved me to make a presentation to clear some of the doubts of our content writers on how to write effective articles that would fetch links.
  • While doing the presentation (my first one ever! Thanks to Manojit da for the help) I got to learn a few things on writing effective link baiting articles.

Yes, that’s what I am going to share with you all in this post. – Link Baiting is the modern name for viral marketing or viral link building.

Content WritersThe single biggest priority for a content writer is to provide quality content to its reader base. But that’s not all. Until and unless, your piece is not attracting links you are a dead duck in terms of SEO (sorry if I am being too harsh!) But once you write something that is really “good” then you just need to sit back with a beer-can and count the inbound links. :)

Wondering what qualities would fetch you automatic links? In the words of Andy Hagans (the master baiter), packaging is queen, promotion is the crown prince and a baity title is the Sword of Excalibur.”

Here are a few sure shot tips,

Proper market research – Its important to analyze the trend before writing an article. Give your readers what they want.

Write about what is being talked about – It’s seen that latest talked about news pieces attract huge audience. Hence, a content writer needs to be on his/her toes to have a solid grasp of the recent pieces.

Give your article a good thought – Before sitting down to write an article it would always help if one visualizes in his/her mind the structure of the article (length, beginning, conclusion, etc.)

Write a catchy title – Remember your title would in most cases determine how many people would actually read your article. Make sure to think of 3-4 titles before choosing the best one suitable for you. Still confused as to what makes a good title? Here are a few tips.

Use important keywords and description – If you are looking to optimize your article, make sure to use some of the important keywords in your title and opening lines of your article. Also write a quality description.

Proper use of formatting, grammar – People like to read properly formatted articles rather than encouraging an odd color here and there. A single spelling mistake in the first few sentences is enough to kill your article before it begins to grow.

Write an enticing introduction – The reader gets an idea by reading the introduction, hence if the intro is properly knit out half your job is done!

Write a long article – Believe it or not, long articles are talked about more. Here are examples,

List the main points – People are attracted more towards reading content that is presented in a listed format rather than an essay style way. Something like “101 ways to…” sells morethan plain text.

Use images where possible – As they say, pictures speak a thousand words; readers are always attracted towards articles that have some catchy images within its body. Thus, the use of images won’t do your article any harm.

Write a summary – A properly written short summary of your article would make the reader to stay on to read the entire piece.

Use story hooks – Use different types of story hooks to catch people to link to you.

Think before you Spill – Be 100% sure before you show your article to the world. You can get feedbacks by submitting your articles to forums. See what people are saying. Make the suggested changes before you throw the dice because if you are doing it after people see it that would leave a bad impression and would certainly impact your audience.

Make it easy for fellow bloggers/webmasters – Try to have something like “link to this article” that would enable webmasters and bloggers to link back to your article easily and directly from your article.

Have a good rapport with fellow writers – A good writer would always respect a good piece of information. If you can make friends with some top rated writers on the web, it would act as a booster to drive more traffic to your article as they would start talking about you and referring to you.

Promote your article – There are various methods to promote an article on the web,

  • promote in your website
  • write press releases
  • put your link in relevant forums
  • use newsletters by taking out ads in the industry
  • submit to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Delicious.etc)
  • comment in blogs with links to your article.

Here’s how link baiting scores over link building,

  • Get rid of writing link requests.
  • Takes away worries of having to respond to link requests.
  • Get rid of unlimited stress resulting out of fear of setting a link pattern or having links from bad neighborhood sites.
  • Stop worrying about having to spend long hours searching for future link partners.
  • Spending all your energy in monotonous jobs like submitting to web directories, etc.

So what are you thinking? Rush off and write a link bait article now!! And do not forget to tell me how many links you managed with your article at the end of it all. ;)

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If you are still scratching your head as to what that title means, here’s what - Orkut (now please dont tell me you havnt heard that name!) has been voted as the Pepsi & MTV Youth Icon of the Year 2007.

MTV Youth Icon - Orkut


This comes as a welcome relief to all those associated with this hugely attractive networking website. After staying in the news lately for all the wrong reasons(be it hate communities, terrorist activities thriving under its nose, stolen passwords and what not) this would certainly bring smiles in many a faces. :)

Orkut came out trumps over its other 4 co-nominees that included the likes of Bollywood heartthrob Abhishek Bachchan, multiple award winner Rang De Basanti, the Multimedia Cellphone and You(th).



Some previous winners include some big names like Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2006), Shah Rukh Khan (2005), Rahul Dravid (2004) and Anil Ambani (2003). Interestinly, Orkut had also bagged the PC World India’s Award for the “Best Social Networking Website earlier this year.
BTW, who would you have voted for?
Chalo see ya all soon. :) Happy weekends and Happy Kutkuting (oops! i mean orkutting). :)

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