Life with Technology

Do you know why there is no one in the auditorium to watch and rate your work? Do you know why there was no one to comment on your last post which you wrote after hours of study? Well, it’s because you didn’t do anything to get your blog noticed.

The question is, how to get your brand new blog noticed? There are two ways which you MUST go through in order to get a decent amount of readers on board. 1. Submit your blog’s URL to as many blog directories and search engines as you can. 2. Share your blog and it’s latest posts regularly with your friends via social networking services.

Of them, submitting your blog’s URL to search engine is so important that you must do it. Search engine results will drive a huge amount of traffic to your blog, if optimized well, on a regular basis. However, if you use a tool that “pings” search engines to index your new contents, it is better. By Pinging, you let search engines know that there are new contents on your blog and they should come and get them.

Ever wanted to get rid of that default WordPress logo each time you see when logging in to your WordPress dashboard? If you did, then you’re at the right place to get the job done within less than five minutes, without even messing up with codes. So, let’s begin!

Google’s latest buzz is called “Buzz”. I’m still wondering if there are people who still uses complex service Google Wave, after the launch of Google Buzz. I’m a big fan of Buzz and am pretty regular at it. Last time I logged in to my Wave account and noticed that I’m given the power of inviting others to Wave account. I don’t know if there are people still interested in trying out Google Wave. However, if there are people out there who are hunting for a Google Wave invitation, read this post.

Google did not fail to buzz the technology world with its latest service called “Buzz” integrated into its existing email service Gmail. Apparently, it’s a combination of twitter and facebook, enabling users to share their updates, include links and photos from picasa or flickr and fetch updates from twitter. This is so far the biggest and the most relevant move by Google to actually compete with Facebook and twitter.

Google Buzz also comes with Google’s RSS reading service, Google Reader. Here you won’t see anything called Buzz, but you will be following those Google Reader users who you follow on Buzz. It’s like sharing a link to a post or an article with all to your followers. Not to mention you can make updates private, too.

Paid Reviews or Sponsored Reviews are a special sort of posts that you write reviewing your client’s website, software, etc after a deal between you and the advertiser is made. The deal usually states that you are going to review your client’s website placing two or three do-follow backlinks. The deal also notes how long your post needs to be. This deal can be found made directly or via third party clients such as PayPerPost, etc.

Most of newbie bloggers do a common mistake after getting an opportunity to write a paid post on their blogs. We just forget what our niche is. To those bloggers, I have a simple message: Please don’t forget your audience is of greater value than money. Audience helps you make money. Money doesn’t make you gain audience. Of course, in some case, money is necessary to reach wider level of audience; that’s not all.

I launched a contest back in early January titled as “Top Commentators’ Contest”. The rules were as simple as leaving a valuable comment that counts and be the top within this valentine’s day. And now, I’ve got the winner.

I don’t have any tendency to extend my post’s length by writing unusual stuffs, so I’m just about to end up this post and bring down the curtain of the contest by announcing the winner…

This is the second post from the series that I have started to write about some common and uncommon, fun or useful third-party twitter tools that you might want to use. See the first here.

Ever wondered why most of those you follow on twitter don’t say anything but link to other websites? Be informed that probably those you have been following are actually not human. Are you happy read automatic-tweets from robot tweeters? Is your time worth reading robots? If it’s not, then you may want to start over.

Have you implemented ajax in your comment posting system which enables to post comment without reloading the whole page? I do agree that this is really cool and it makes readers feel a little more convenient to comment. However, there are some disadvantages you probably aren’t aware of.

Ever wondered to find out who was the first to be your follower on twitter? Twitter is an insanely incredibly useful social media that you can use to engage with people and every second of their life. This is a nice example of real-time web of the day. From the world’s richest businessmen to celebrity and general people, addict to twitter are everywhere. And to make twitter even more powerful for the end-users, there are a number of third-party tools that lets you do things with your twitter account that is out-of-the-box.

I’ve decided to start a series post where I will write reviews on various twitter tools from outside the twitter that helps you do more with twitter and that is entertaining, important, and often just fun.

So, my first post of the series reviewing twitter tools is about FirstFollower.

Under certain conditions, WordPress.com (the free hosted blog) now lets its bloggers place adsense in their wordpress.com blogs. Recently, while exploring through the WordPress support page, I’ve found the update which was not announced in public. This is a short post to let my readers know about it.