Archive for the 'blogging' Category

Increase your page rank (do follow)

I am now “Do Follow” enabled. I know, I know. That strategy is old news. But what can I say? I just started blogging.

Anyways… for the ignorant. Wordpress, by default, uses a “nofollow” tag on its comments. So what is “nofollow”? – It tells spiders (big search engines like Google and Yahoo) not to crawl the links provided in the comments section of a particular blog. Currently, though, Yahoo and MSN follows links even when the “nofollow” tag is encountered. Read more »

Blogging is therapeutic

Allegedly, blogging has therapeutic benefits:

Scientists have long known the therapeutic benefits of writing about personal experiences. Blogs provide another convenient avenue for writing about personal experiences. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients, and even speeds healing after surgery.

What if you often drink while you blog? I guess, in that case, it will only improve your sleep.

Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs of 2008

I believe I am antisocial. I generally don’t want to participate in conventions, seminars, eyeballs, social gatherings and the like. I have a number of reasons why I am like this but for now, I’d like to disclose one: I’m too lazy to go somewhere.

Now, trying to socialize online is another story. I don’t have to go somewhere to “mingle”. I just need my laptop and an Internet connection. Read more »

Blog Hosting

So, you blog… and your blog is hosted on either Blogger or Wordpress.com. You write well (or you think you write well) but still you think something’s wrong with your blog site. What could it be? It’s right at the tip of your tounge. No, it’s not your cigarette. Riggght, the URL of your blog is not quite cool or catchy. Read more »

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