Archive for September, 2007

Upgraded Content Pays to Wordpress 2.3 (Dexter)

After deliberating for past few days, I have gone ahead and updated this blog to wordpress 2.3; Dexter.
Even though I usually update my softwares as soon as an update is available, I decided to adopt the wait and watch policy for a few days; especially after reading other bloggers were apprehensive about this release as [...]

Get rid of duplicate content from your vBulletin forum!

When I switched my Travel forum from Phpbb to vBulletin, I was amazed by the fact how search engine friendly vBulletin really is and how easy it is to optimize it even further!
One aspect where vBulletin clearly takes a beating is when it comes to the question of duplicate content. In the process of making [...]

Blog comments to be moderated from now on

Thanks to few persistent spammers, I will be manually reviewing each and every comment before they appear on this blog. I guess giving away link love has attracted these spammers; however that will stay for the time being.

Twenty dollars worth of free advertisements

I have just signed up at Bid Vertiser as an advertiser and placed an ad for one of my websites, even though I have used Google Adwords in the past to promote my websites, this is for the first time I am using Bid Vertiser as an advertising platform.
The fun part is, it’s all [...]

Managed to hit the front page of the newspaper!

I had planned a 17 day road trip with 11 other members of my travel forum earlier this month and when I was contacted by a reporter of the Hindi daily NavBharat Times (one of the leading Hindi dailies in India), I was obviously jubilant for the fact that the trip as well as the [...]