Apr

28

HOWTO: Tagging blog posts to boost blog traffic

Having tags for each post on your blog is one of the best ways your readers can find the content they need. That translates directly into more loyal users, better referrals and ultimately, more quality traffic.

The Monthly Archives listing is almost useless for visitors. Put yourself in the shoes of a first-time visitor to your blog. What does he/she care about what you wrote in January 2007? But if your blog were about, say, Gardening, a user would definitely find posts tagged Rose or WateringTechniques useful. The visitor wants to primarily browse by content, not by timeline. My Archives page, for instance, lists my posts by tags first and by month later. Read more

Apr

16

Now on Twitter

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So I hopped on to the Twitter bandwagon. Here’s my Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/rahulgaitonde.

My latest Twitter posts are also visible on the top of this blog’s sidebar.

I’m going to use Twitter as a true microblog - to record quick thoughts that don’t deserve a complete blog post per se. Maybe I’ll aggregate a few posts and make one blog post out of them every couple of days or so. Read more

Apr

14

Moving to an Online Life

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So my Thinkpad’s hard disk (a standard Hitachi 2.5″ 4200 RPM 80GB HDD) died Saturday evening. It began making ghastly noises all of a sudden, signaling imminent mechanical failure. I shut down the computer immediately, and on restarting, a BSOD informed me my boot volume was un-mountable. Read more

Mar

2

Windows Vista and the “blogosphere”

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Just finished watching an episode of the GigaOM show with Dan’l Lewin.

When OM asked Dan’l why Vista was “everybody’s favorite whipping boy” and “what happened”, Lewin’s reply was that “the blogophere happened”. Read more

Feb

1

What I want most from my RSS reader…

Blogs, Ideas, RSS, Social | Comments

… is the ability to add (and view) comments for a post.

Right now, I still need to navigate to the website (out of my RSS reader) and comment in the little form at the bottom of the page. That is *so* old-world Web! Read more

Mar

31

Why don’t Indian CEOs blog?

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Just came across Basab Pradhan’s Blog via Sambhar Mafia. So he’s one of the rarer breed on the blogosphere today - the Indian CEO Blogger. Apart from Rajesh Jain, there are almost no Indian CEOs blogging. First, Basab’s got a few good articles straightaway - one that wonders why Navi Mumbai’s rise has to be the result of Mumbai’s meltdown, or an intersting one about why passengers hurry to disembark from a plane at Bangalore airport, but not at Delhi airpor t! Read more

Jan

4

"Blog" in Word 2002

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If anyone needed a reminder that blogs have caught on only recently, take a look at this:
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