The past few days has been extremely exciting in Dumb Little Blogger, it included a huge mainstream interview on a leading daily, an interview on a radio channel and now a personal response from one of the internet’s most popular firms. If you all could remember we made a post on Digg’s usage of fake accounts in order to promote its publishing partners. [Read more...]
Digg accused for fake votes 'Is this the end of the front page era?'
October 28, 2010 By 8 Comments
From the time I’ve started networking with bloggers I’ve known that most people have the same dream of making it to the front page of a social bookmarking site like digg, after repeated failures most of them have started to give up, they say “Its not fair, we write better articles than them, but they are the ones who usually make it”, over here ‘them’ is referred to big online publications such as Guardian, Techcrunch, Mashable and BoingBoing. [Read more...]
Flogging : the idiots way to make money online
October 7, 2010 By 14 Comments
‘Flogging’ basically means fake blogging, which is the parody of any popular brand which is in the form of a blog, this can be anything companies, celebrities and even other popular websites. Recently in India there was an incident in India were a blogger claimed to be a team member of the Kolkata Night Riders IPL team, this started giving him about 150,000 who stayed for about 15 minutes on an average, this was the biggest hoax ever and earned the blogger, Anupam Mukerji thousands of dollars within six months, there are many others as well one is the fake Steve Jobs blog which created world wide buzz. [Read more...]
A comprehensive guide to successful podcasting
October 1, 2010 By 37 Comments
Christopher Columbus once said that success comes for not those who do different things, but for those who do things differently, it was very true if you take his example and a few other success stories give us the same moral.
When there were too many static sites with nothing more than the same content saturating the web, a few visionaries took to blogging and this was way back in 2005 or 2006, at that time there was no platform like wordpress, so most of them did face initial hardships and thats what helped them the most in the long run, today most of the successful bloggers are those who started at that time. This includes Jeremy Schoemaker, Darren Rowse, John Chow and Michael Arrington, most of us describe their success as beginners luck, but its truly not that way. [Read more...]
Selling SEO services : a lucrative business opportunity
September 19, 2010 By 32 Comments
Ever since the beginning of the internet people have tried their best to conquer search engines, it was child’s play back then, but now due to saturation of keywords, increased competition and growing restrictions from search engines itself has made it a tough job for everyone. This was seen as a crisis for small and yet to emerge internet businesses, but as the old folks say great opportunities come from big problems. SEO services were existent from the 1990s and even during the dot com bubble, but their demands saw a huge boom only 4 years ago. [Read more...]
What I'd do with a $1000 in extra cash?
August 22, 2010 By 34 Comments
One thousand American dollars would approximately convert to 40,000 Indian Rupees, it is a hell lot of money, but it certainly isn’t something I can’t manage to raise, but of course I need to give up my passive income attitude and work my ass of for a few days, its very difficult, especially for me but I know that it truly isn’t impossible. From the past three months I’ve got a lot of offers for social media, SEO and writing services which required spend hours together each day, which I couldn’t firstly because I didn’t like working for others and secondly my school and education didn’t permit the amount of time, but if I could have managed it I would surely have earn a 1000 bucks, and I bet all of you too can achieve this, but with a bit of sacrifice. [Read more...]
Hostgator coupon : Get hosting for as low as $0.01
August 7, 2010 By 19 Comments
Without any doubt Hostgator is few of the most trusted hosting companies out there, almost all bloggers feel safe to host their precious content on such a company rather than any small company. Other than this Hostgator also provides customers with world class support, various softwares and coupons for free and all which are valued more than what you pay, all of this at the lowest possible costs in the internet. [Read more...]
.co domains : a risky bet or a golden opportunity
July 31, 2010 By 25 Comments
I bet all of you have heard about the new .co domains which have created a lot of buzz lately. I was a bit skeptical about this domain, from the marketers point of view that is, which was mainly because of the less than expected results from the domains such as .info and .org . All of you may disagree with me on this that .info and .org were failures, yes they were successful in the views of the common surfers, its just that I’ve got used to seeing money in everything that comes up online, so anything that doesn’t help make money is considered a failure according to me. [Read more...]
Marketing case study : the story behind Twitter's success
June 24, 2010 By 15 Comments
I first created my Twitter account in 2007 when it was just about to get popular, at its first impression I was like who the hell would want to use this? and after a few months I knew how wrong I was about it, but till today I stand up to this that Twitter is just a waste of time for common surfers and its just a tool for marketers and businesses. Thats why only marketers promoting B2B products and sites perform well. Other consumer related once don’t stand a chance, that is why SEO and MMO blogs write about Twitter as a great resource and which is the main reason for its popularity. [Read more...]
My annual report : One year after starting to blog
May 31, 2010 By 50 Comments
Its been one year since I started my blogging career, actually its been one year and ten days to this date as I’m pretty late for this post. It was on the 19th of May 2009 when I started a blogging tips blog named Quidoscope and that day was very joyful for me as I’d launched my first ever website which felt like a great achievement and I guess I could never have thought that the challenges I’d face in the future would make this achievement look like a piece of cake. [Read more...]
