Everyone wants to have his voice heard, so why won’t you? You don’t need to scream or shout; just use a platform which lets you say those words. This platform will also spread the message across a vast audience. You guessed it right. The platform in question is really a web hosting provider.

There are many of them in the market. The best is to have your own domain but for small timers a domain which offers free hosting is much agreeable. Of these, wordpress, typepad, blogger are some examples. I, for one, would highly encourage blogger.com because it offers more advantages. You can type your posts (articles) easily, link them trouble free (links or hyperlinks are those on which the mouse cursor arrow metamorphose into a hand symbol, and clicking on them leads you to another linked website). You can easily import a picture or a video in blogger too. An added advantage it offers is your optional money making potentialities. Thus, using blogspot.com address which Google provides free of charge is the single best platform for you to blog.

As you write new posts, like a log in your diary, you even can edit or correct your older posts. Since you’re doing these on the web they are also known as weblogs or blogs for short. It gives me pleasure when I see people from many different countries view my blog, interacts in the comment section, even new ideas emerge. They are also benefited from your informations. At the same time you stand to generate revenues from adsense and various other programs. Though, monetization has only been modest in my case, the aspiring blogger can really earn a lot if he keeps updating the blog regularly and pays a little attention to proper keywords (keywords are like delicious food to the search engines).

So, start blogging. To start, you will need to get a gmail account, which you can get by clicking here. Next click this to enter the blogger arena. Get moving, I’ll catch up whenever I have some free time. All the best.

THE TAGS WERE (ORIGINALLY): adsense, blog, blogging platform, blogspot, monetization

Well, what are spam blogs? See below but do notice that the ‘link spamming’ links to the wikipedia. Google, who prefers to answer queries in terms of their own sites such as webmaster help, blogger.com, google groups etc. was rather squeamish about this. It quoted wikipedia, their arch rival. Google obviously doesn’t want to spell out its own, great link spam detecting algorithm. I am quoting their definition below.

“What Are Spam Blogs?

As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.

Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one. They can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that interest you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people’s writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated system is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other, legitimate users.”

My friend (I am not saying he is not me) was rather surprised at how the search engine giant’s bots could make this stupid mistake. More importantly why they were taking so long to infer.

In order to have the timestamp of the event, I am copy-pasting this:

” Manage Your Blogs
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This blog has been locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. You may not publish new posts until your blog is reviewed and unlocked.

This blog will be deleted within 20 days unless you request a review.
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April 2, 2008 — permalink”

Its unfortunate how a smart bot can make such an un-smart mistake. We see many fraud sites in the newspapers everyday. When we type the web address(es) in the browser’s address bar and click ‘go’, we get navigated to the most unholy of places, right under Google’s nose. What does Google do about it? It allots them PageRank! And what does it do when it sees a legitimate site; it marks it as spam.

How should I term it? A googol (10¹⁰⁰ ) of a mistake or Man-Machine conflict?

While doing a post-publish survey, it occurred to me that “this link” will possibly not be displayed in your browser. Google itself indulges in a procedure called cloaking when it serves an ad (or other) to different geo localities. Though cloaking is strictly prohibited for use by others, Google by adopting and implementing it, may NOT show the intended page to your browser.

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