Update: The contest has been dropped off due to almost no participation.

Back in April of 2008, this blog was launched with a view of publishing technology related posts such as technology tips, social media news, technology news and the likes. Months ago, the niche or the central topic of this blog was set to “Technology Tips, Blogging Tips, Blog Development, and WordPress articles” targeting especially newbie bloggers. I also started writing reviews of great websites I find across the Internet. Since then, this blog turned a little more active both from writer’s side and reader’s side.

I understand the domain name isn’t relevant to the topic of this blog but that does not cause any big trouble. I work hard for Search Engine Optimization of this blog and these days I’m meeting some success. Most traffic comes from search engine result pages (Thanks to Google!). So far, this blog has a low traffic from social medias excluding twitter. But you will be happy to know that, the blog is growing at a significant rate every single day. Daily pageviews and unique visitors are increasing day by day. At this time, I’ve planned to start a Poll and Hold a contest in my blog as this one is the 49th post of this blog. (The 50th will be a great one. See at the end of this post for details)

Therefore, this post will let you know some insight information about this blog and will announce the contest and the poll recently begun.

Statistics

Top

Total Posts Published: 49 (including this one)
Total Comments Received: 223 (excluding spams and auto-posted comments)

Top 10 Posts

These Posts got the most traffic since the launch of this blog.

1. Put Adsense Ads Inside WordPress Posts Without Messing with Codes
2. How to Get More Valuable Followers on Twitter
3. Introducing the Google Chrome Operating System
4. Send Extremely Longer Direct Messages to Your Twitter Friend
5. Some Great Application to Chat Right from Mobile
6. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic — A Perfect Gift
   
7. Shopwiki dot com: The Biggest Website for Online Shopping
8. How do I add Meta Keyword and Description to Blogger Posts
   
9. Modernize Your Comment Section with IntenseDebate
10. GearZap: Ultimate Place for your Laptop and Netbook Accessories

Worst Post: I Grabbed my Facebook Username; What About You?
This Entry was published on June 14, 2009 but received as low as 1 hit. Poor guy (post)!

Traffic

The WassUp plugin was installed and activated in this blog several weeks later the blog was launched. Since then, Life with Technology has received a total of 10,779 unique visits excluding Spam visits and Spiders and 24,645 Pageviews excluding Spam visits and Spiders.
The traffic rate increased several times but they fell down because of low frequency of post publication. I have some problems what often keeps me away from blogging world. (But that definitely doesn’t mean I’m going to give up.)

Blog Rankings

The Advertise page always shows you the current rankings of the blog though that’s not updated real-time. Here’s the current Alexa, Google, and Technorati Blog Rank:
Google PageRank: PR 02

Alexa Traffic Rank: 352,213

Technorati Blog Rank: 457,774

All the Reports including traffic details, top ten posts, and blog ranks were generated when this post was published. The current position of this blog including top ten post list may differ from the report shown above.

Poll

The Poll has already been launched, but here’s the formal announcement of it.
Most of the time we hear the story of failure to earn money from blogs. It’s true that when people start blogging with a serious motivation of earning some extra cash from it, they work hard for it. But the rate of successful blogger is too low comparing to the total number of bloggers who step into the professional blogging world. There might be a lot of reasons for failure to make blogging profitable. But I’m interested to know which one caused your failure or disappointment in blogging for money. That’s why the Poll is created.

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All you’re asked to do is select your reason and click the “Vote” button. You can also give us your direct answer by clicking on the “Other” option and filling up the box next to it. Please help me find out the worst reason of blogging failure.

The Voting Panel is always found at the right sidebar viewable from any of the pages/posts of this blog. Use the “Share This” button to help me get more votes from your social friends, family, and blogger friends.

Contest: Post A Comment

Though the contest has been named as post “a” comment, what you need to do is post as many comments as you can. But your comments need to follow some specific rules in order for it to be counted for the contest. Oh, did I forget to mention what the contest is about? Damn, Yes!

What to do

In the upcoming 50 posts, I will keep an eye to watch who is posting “more” and “better” (in term of value) comments. The Comment Author will be tracked with the Email address used while posting a comment. Only valuable and relevant comments will deserve to be counted where “Nice Post”, “Very Helpful”, “Thanks for sharing”, etc type of comments do not deserve to be counted.

What you get

Nothing.

Ha Ha, kidding! You get a chance to put a sidebar banner (125×125 pixels) of your blog/website for three continuous months at no cost. Do you see in this blog that a red bird sitting at the top of the right sidebar is asking you to let it sponsor your tweets on twitter and earn money from it? Your banner will be placed right in there.
As always, your free advertisement opportunity will not be available if yours is a blog or website related to Gambling, Girls, Nudity, Pornography or similar kinds of website or blog which are not suitable for general audience.

One Bonus Good News!

It’s always good to have conversation with successful bloggers, right? This time, I’m going to bring a successful blogger I met in real life named “Jinnat ul Hasan” who lives in the United Kingdom. By profession, he is a webmaster, Search Engine Optimization Consultant, Successful SEO blogger, etc, all related to technology and Internet stuffs. This guy is amazingly good in helping others grab the right way of blogging and make it profitable. He himself earns a BIG amount of money using Google AdSense on the blogs, websites, and forums he owns. He is extremely good in SEOing for blog, monetizing it and making it significantly profitable.

Well, now the good news is that, Jinnat ul Hasan is going to write a Guest Post on this blog (Life with Technology). I’m going to make him the first Guest Writer of this blog. Also, his post is going to be the 50th post of this blog. So, now you understand that the next post, which is 50th post on this blog, will be written by this successful blogger giving you some invaluable advices you should apply in your blogging journey.

Update

The post has been published. Please click here to read.

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