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Thinking to change my topics

Eklavya — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:46:08 +0000

Hello everyone,

As you must be aware that the Indian Blogger.Com blog (the one you are reading right now) has a collection of useful articles on India, its life in general, its economy and other relevant Indian things.

This blog is basically a reflection of my thought on various things which happen in India – be it economy, the terrorist attacks, the cricket, movie or what not?

However, of late, I am finding myself extremely busy in my other offline and online activities which leave almost no time to read contents about India.

As such whenever I come here to write something, I get a big blank from my mind because it just can’t think as to what to write about India when, honestly, I, myself, am no so updated about latest happenings in India.

I believe that an honest reflection can only come by getting involved into the things. When you are no longer in touch, you start loosing the edge over your subjects.

This is what I am facing right now. In my desperate attempts to establish, maintain and promote a collection of niche websites I own, I am finding it extremely difficult to write quality stuff here on this website. This has resulted into a sense of guilt inside me.

An extremely demanding offline job is also taking its toll my online activities.

As such I have two options with me:-

(1) Either to stop posting on this blog and let it be in a hibernation mode with a tiny hope that in a not very near future, may be I will be able to write India specific articles on this blog.

(2) Till such time I find time to write my India specific posts, I change the topic of this blog and start writing on topics related to my other online activities so that this blog can survive. There are many other topics on which I can write without getting a guilt feeling of not knowing them well.

I am not decided yet. However, some friends have suggested that I should use the option (2) to let this blog survive instead of sending it in a long hibernation mode.

I will write more about it in my next post. Meanwhile I am open to all suggestions.

It’s rain rain & rain in Delhi

Eklavya — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:00:09 +0000

It was raining cats and dogs in Delhi today evening. The shower were so intense and forceful that they almost stalled the city. There was water logging everywhere, collasus traffic jams and many small accidents too.

In a sad incident, two people were electrocuted in Chandani Chowk due to heavy rain resulting into falling of an electric wire from a pole.

The only thing which is pleasing is the huge shorfall in temperatue. The weather is a great respite from the hot and humid condition prevailing in the city.

Monsoon has arrived with a bang !

No related posts.

Test post

Eklavya — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:15:04 +0000

Hello,

finding it difficult to make new post after making upgradation from old to new version of wordpress.

This is my test post to see if things work properly or not.

My first post in 2010

Eklavya — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:06:55 +0000

Hello all,

For the past one year, I have been able to just write a few posts on this blog. Yet the good thing is that I am still getting regular visitors for my some good written articles of past.

My project for which I stopped blogging, unfortunately, had failed miserably. Apart from monetary loss, I lost thousand of productive hours and peace of mind.

In fact I also lost PageRank of this blog.

When I left blogging, this blog was having a healthy PageRank of 4. Now it has come down to a PR 2 Blog.

Well I read somewhere that :

” What you are left with is more important and valuable than what you have lost”

While trusting my faith on this great saying, I hereby start my new innings as a blogger here

So I am back. Permanently this time !!

Down but not out

Eklavya — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:16:42 +0000

To all those who have left any hope of seeing a new post here, I just want to clarify that Indian Blogger is down and passing through a tumultuous phase in his life.
But certainly he is not out. Yes DOWN but not out.

He will soon come back…Amen !

Privacy Policy Update for Indian Blogger.com

Eklavya — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:47:22 +0000

Hello,

I have updated my privacy policy for this blog.

This policy update was important to comply with some revenue program I am using on this blog.

Read : Privacy policy for Indian Blogger.com

Regards

Eklavya

I am back after a very hectic February

Eklavya — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:32:09 +0000

Hello all,

Last month was one of the busiest month since I came onlinle. I had stopped blogging here as I intended to complete content for my other website. Yet, personal commitments of varied nature compelled my to devote all my spare time in mundane activities. I was in Meerut to attend/manage a marriage. Then I went to Mumbai for attending another marriage. Later I got busy in attending/organising a family function.

Being a married man has its own compulsions. Particularly when you have a full time job and a little kid.

It appears a very long time since I last wrote something. I am feeling like an absolute beginner. The hangover of a very busy and hectic last month will take some time to recede.

Many interesting things happen in India in past few days. I hope to return to a regular blogging schedule very soon.

Happy New Year 2009

Eklavya — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:21:29 +0000

I am a bit late but as the saying goes that late is better than never :

Wishing you all a very happy, prosperous and healthy new year. May 2009 brings peace, joy and happiness in your lives.

Regards

Eklavya

Why I am not blogging currently?

Eklavya — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:58:59 +0000

Or what am I doing these days that stops me from writing regular post on this blog. ? At a time when there are numerous topics to write about on India – the biggest terrorist attack on Indian soil, the ongoing economic recession, recent assembly elections, the regular PAK bashing, upcoming new movie releases etc.

Well nothing special but at present I am deeply involved in completing a project related to my professional life. This project was getting delayed for quite some time and now I have decided to complete it with single minded devotion.

That’s why no blog post on this blog. The project is very important for me and if I don’t complete it on time, it will result in a big loss – both monetary and reputation wise.

So expect some more silence on this blog. Though I shall keep approving comments, a fresh post is perhaps not possible for some more days.

Regards

Eklavya

MSN loophole : Getting #1 on Microsoft’s search engine – A review

Eklavya — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:40:50 +0000

A few days ago a friend told me about a site where a report is being sold for $67. This report is claimed to have contained the secret of getting #1 ranking on MSN search engine for any keywords. For all of you who are not very tech savvy , let me tell you that MSN is the search engine of Microsoft and is the third most popular search engine in the world after Google and Yahoo.

It is also known as Live.com

So this guy is claiming to have known the ultimate secret to rank number one on Live.com for any keyword.

He is also showing his result in a Youtube video. See for yourself :

By the time this video first appear on Youtube (2nd November I think), this guy was ranking number one on MSN organic search results for the following keywords:

Online Credit (online-credit.org, now nowhere in the results)
get rid of debt (get-rid-of-debt.org, now at number 6)
poor credit rating (poor-credit-rating.com, now nowhere in the results)
reducing debt (reducing-debt.net, still number one)
low mortgage (low-mortgage.org, now at number 3)
bicycle accessories (bicycle-accessories.org, now nowhere in the results)
debt assistance (debt-assistance.net, now at number 7)

You can check for your self by conducting a search in Live.com for the above keywords.

As you can see within a span of 10 days, most of his keywords have fallen from their number one position. However, this report is selling like hot cakes on Clickbank.com and has become the number one product in the Marketing & Ads category.

Just why on earth people are going crazy on a technique which can’t even withstand a period of 10 days ?

There are two answers for this question : Greed and frustration.

Greed because everybody wants to get the elusive number one spot on his desired keyword and make huge pile of cash. If you can secure a #3 spot out of 35,400,000 results for the keyword ‘low mortgage’, you can monetized this position in any way you want.

Frustration because it is becoming more and more difficult to rank on the first page of Google. The entire Search Engine industry revolves around getting top position in Google and it is difficult to get a top ranking in Google without following an intense and systematic plan of link building and content creation. In such a scenario , if someone gives a recipe to rank in top 10 results of world’s third most popular search engine, it is going to create massive interest among people. No wonder this product is selling hot.

Now let us come to the report itself. I have read this report and I must say that it does contain some very unique method for attaining top position in MSN. However, I don’t think that the creator of the report can explain why some of his sites completely disappeared from the search engine result.

Second important thing about this report is that contrary to what has been claimed by the author, you can not rank your existing website for the desired keyword. One of the most important prerequisite of this technique is to have your domain name exactly the same as your keywords. For example see the above list, all keywords and their domain names are identical (reducing debt : reducing-debt.net etc)

Apart from the above, there is a powerful link rotating suggestion in the report which keeps creating new links for your desired domain. I shall not reveal about this method as it will be disclosing too much info.

However, I think that this report is highly overpriced for the info it provides. All of you who have some experience of SEO must know that MSN’s search results are heavily favored towards domains name containing exact keywords in them. Let me show you this with an example.

Every month the keyword ‘Make money on internet’ is searched 1900 times (as exact search), 4400 time (as phrase search) and 49500 times (as broad search) on Google. Though most of this search are conducted on Google, assuming that some percentage of search on this keyword also comes to MSN, we should assume that there must be some competitive sites in the top 10 search results of MSN for this keyword.

However, if you search the keyword ‘make money on internet’ (without quotes), you will find that out of a total 154,000,000 results, the number 9 position is occupied by a website where not even a single article is written !!

Here is this site. Just a freshly installed WordPress blog !

So this is the situation of MSN. No wonder a guy finds a loophole to control MSN’s search engine results.

For all those who are interested in clicking that MSN loophole report click here