I logged in to Alexa.com and was pelasantly amused (yup, that’s my way of describing it) to see that Alexa is giving away the list of Top One Million Sites for free. How cool is that.

Alexa which was selling the product for Thousand of dollars suddenly turned goodie-goodie and decided to give the contents for free. Its a CSV file amounting to around 10 Megabytes.

Grab it before they decide to change their minds. Click here to download or head over to  Alexa.com

A Quick Analysis

The sad news is that,  the file only has the Rank and Name of the sites. A few other details like estimated traffic, demographics of visitors etc. would have been much better offering. But hey, whose complaining?

A Quick look at the top 30 sites reveal the following

• 8 out of 30 are sites which lets its users contribute  or share in someway
• Blogger and Wordpress.com both feature in it
• 11 site from Google stable, 2 from Yahoo and 3 from Microsoft
• Youtube, Facebook and MySpace all in top 10

I will dedicate a post sometime later on how to use this to your benefit.

Happy New Year and Have a nice day..!!

Some of the info and methods posted over here might seems Black Hat Techniques. Readers are informed beforehand that these techniques are not endorsed by us and are given here only for informational purposes. Applying them might have negative effect on your Blogs and Sites in terms of SEO. Use at your own Risk.

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What is Blog Farming?

The definition of Blog Farming is not very clear. As I understand it, the definition should be as follows:

“Blog Farming is the process of creating Blogs which are intended for a purpose other than adding value for its readers. Most of the blogs created contain duplicate content or content which do not add any value.”

Blog farming is analogous to any other farming. Its just like raising fishes or poultry. The motive is simple. Create Blog with copied content and raise them for a purpose other than Blogging or Value Addition.

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In part 1, we focused on Blog Design. In this second part of the three part series, we will turn our focus towards what matters the most - Blog Content.

Part 2 of series is here. Part 1 won first prize in Group Writing Contest organized by Blog Design Studio. Click here for more details.

Think Different. Get Noticed.

This is a three part series, focusing on strategies to get your blog stand out from the crowd. For that you need to think different from what already hundreds a thousands of blogs are doing. Check out the complete series:

• Blog Design
• Blog Content
• Blog Promotion

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Blog Content

Coming to our second topic of Blog Content, we would focus on

How you can churn out effective Content for your Blog, post after post.

There is no shortcut to success. If you are a Blogger and want to achieve great success, then its imperative that you need to come up with great content. The task looks daunting and sure it is. Not all can be great blogger right..??

Let’s see how this process can be made simple and how you can use resources you gather for getting content for your blog more effectively.

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This post is part of a Group Writing Project organized by DailyBlogTips

2009 is coming. And while this New Year everyone is more concern about the Global Economy and Crude Oil rates rather than what dress to wear for that New Year party you have decided to go, “Its Resolution Time” nonetheless.

I will take up my personal goals with respect to hobbies and online identity in my personal site Thinkjayant.com I would try to list down my Professional Online Goals for 2009.

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SMART GOALS

Before we begin, lets analyze the characteristics of a good goal or rather a SMART GOAL.

S – S stands for Specific. You goals should be define specifically without any vagueness in them. Avoid terms which are relative. Avoid complex terms and keep it simple. If getting more RSS subscribers is your aim, then set goals like “Achieving 1000 RSS Subscriber” rather than “Achieving very high umber of Subscribers”

M – M stands for Measurable. The goals you define should be easy to measure with a reference standard. Hence, it is advisable to use absolute numbers which can be counted and observed easily. If you aim at getting high rank in Google SERP, then set goals like “Get into top 3 result for so-so keyword”

A – A stands for Attainable. Do not aim for the sky at one shot. There are no escalators of lifts in the way to Online Stardom. Its a staircase and that too a long one. Stop dreaming about jumping to the top floor and rather start counting each stairs as you climb.

R – R stands for Realistic. Walk before you run. Don’t dream of achieving star status in one year. Make is more realistic. Rather aim for addition in a blogger network, create a good number of blogger contacts in social networks etc.

T – T stands for Time Bound. This is the most important part. While your goals can be good and to the point, it should also be bonded by time. Keep a habit of reevaluating (i.e. increasing or decreasing the limit) or your goals by periodically checking it.

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