Archive for January, 2008

Blog providers don’t often allow driving traffic to 3rd party sites

One option to save our face would be to start blogs under registered domains (paid) since Blogspot or Blogsome have their own problem. It will not cost us some huge amount of money and we will get the tag of “Serious Bloggers”.

 

Please make it easier!If we register a domain (eg. domain-name.com) & start blogs in sub domains (eg. http://myblog.domain-name.com) then the same issue continues. My suggestion is http://www.domain-name.com/ with 10 to 15 mb space to start with. Another option would be http://www.domain-name.com/blog (in this case the domain name has to be registered with us), wherein the commuters would have the pre-conceived idea that the blog is maintained by the site owner (under whom the domain is registered). Thus the reputation of the blog and the website becomes complimentary to each other. So, in case we try to choose an existing domain name which do not belong to us, we need to mention it clearly.

 

And, in such a situation, we will not be able to do whatever we want (as far as 3 way or 4 way link building is concerned) with that blog; as we will be putting a site and a blog at stake. Again, the blog should be related to the site’s topic. A blog with the same format (www.domain-name/blog) normally acts like the mouthpiece of that site (organization). So the space for outgoing links becomes narrower.

 

Some of us may choose to put it under Savedude.com

The reasons are as follows:

 

* Savedude is representing as the outsourced online marketing company for many sites.

* We can have multiple blogs in sub-domains like http://myblog.savedude.com/ and anybody can use others blog for links. Thus we can provide webmasters with more options for backlinks.

* If we create 20 blogs under it and if we are able to achieve PR of 2-3 for each of our blogs in the next update, Savedude will start getting a booster as a good outsourcing company across the web.

* Webmasters would come to know that savedude is also giving free blogs.

 

That way we would be re-branding savedude.com as a website that offers free space for financial blog rather than an Online Marketing Company!

 

These are just some situations that we may consider while we start blogging.

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Copy the information but not the content

Topic-centric CommunityIt is quite normal that while staying within the blogosphere, we may like each other’s content, view each other’s videos & images etc. But it would be very wrong if we start copying & sharing the same content, images & videos. In a way, we would be tricking the search engines.

Recently, I have perceived a peculiar problem with some of the eminent blogs. Some of the successful blogs are getting suspended by their providers. That is why I read the Terms and conditions of a blog provider. There are lot’s of rules and regulations but among them the main problems are (what I have understood)

 

1.You can copy the information but not the content.

2. Do not copy the images from the copy right sites.

3. Do not copy the videos from the copy right sites.

Copyscape.com is a great place to assure content security. You may use any plagiarism checker in order to be sure of any plagiarism happening within your blog. Another option for you is to hang a copyright notice that shows your content as ‘copyrighted‘ & brands stealing it as ‘illegal‘. But at the same time, you must remember that security of your content can only be assured through consistent monitoring of the electronic data that travels to&fro. If you let a piece of unmonitored content reside within your blog, you are definitely inviting some legal as well as competitive risks.

 

 

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