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Entries from February 2008

Why you should go after the Digg front page by any means necessary

February 29th, 2008 · 6 Comments

After doing some more digging and learning a lot about Digg in a short span of time, I recently read a post which states that going after the Digg frontpage makes no sense. While Webhypes is a really good, well-written blog, I disagree with its author, Coen, on the issue of Digg. I will explain […]

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Tags: Digg StumbleUpon delicious · Shitloads of traffic · Web reality check · Webmastering

How to invent a good story and manipulate your readers

February 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I have recently stumbled upon an interesting blog: The Indian Lake Project. The author of the blog, John S., is a very astute and inventive fellow. He has invented a fantastic plot and managed to turn it into

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Tags: Blogs · Humans · Media · Webmastering

Forum spam stats

February 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

Cleaning the forums of my educational website is something that is very tedious. How come? Well, I

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Tags: Comment spamming · Webmastering

Why I love Bloglines (and web-based RSS feed readers in general)

February 21st, 2008 · 2 Comments

I love using Bloglines. This is a web-based news aggregator and RSS feed reader. I used to use Firefox for this purpose, but this method of tracking blogs has many disadvantages.

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Tags: Blogs · Web addiction

Living your life to the fullest…really!

February 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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I have recently read a good post on wasting your life away by being a useful jerk. And it made me conscious of the way I lead my life today. It made me realize how I am spending my time. I realized that:

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Tags: Self-Improvement · Success · Well-being

Local and Global Popularity: Successful Blogs

February 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

I have recently read an article that says if your blog post isn’t awesome, it’s crap. Well, I partially agree with that.

Arnaud, the author of that blog post said that
If your article is incredible and becomes popular, it will be read by numerous people, linked to, discussed about and referred to in other writings.
If it’s […]

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Tags: Blogs · Success · Webmastering

Achieving According to Google

February 14th, 2008 · 13 Comments

Google is well-known

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Tags: Borg · Linkbait

Expert SEO knowledge for free

February 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Aaron Wall is one of the best SEO guys around, if not the best one. I have learned a lot from his SEO lore.
Well, now he has decided to share his SEO knowledge. If you register at his website, you will get free 7 day e-mail SEO course. I highly recommend it if you are […]

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Tags: SEO · Self-Improvement

Ethics and Social Media

February 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

It is inevitable: If you start writing about the ways and methods to use the social media to pull in traffic, you will come under attack. You will be labeled a douchebag, dipshit, unethical person and so on. People will accuse you of ruining the Web, especially the communities which are all about sharing quality […]

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Tags: Ethics · Humans · Media

How to Speed Read on the Web

February 11th, 2008 · 43 Comments

Continuing the series of essential skills which were started with my articles on memory improvement, I will introduce you now to speed reading.
Who should learn speed reading for the Web?
Why should you learn this essential skill? Because

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Tags: Mind Expanding · Self-Improvement · Speed reading · Success · Web addiction · Webmastering