Ramani’s blog has been nominated for Versatile Blogger Award.
I started blogging in August 19,2009, has completed five years of blogging.
Versatile Blogger Award.
It has been a journey of joy sharing what little I know,getting information from people who know more and most importantly picking up some good friends in the process,from US to Australia, not to mention people from India.
It is really a pleasure to know that majority of the readers belong to the Age group of 25-40, breaking the commonly held belief that the younger generation do not read serious stuff, especially relating to Religion and Philosophy.
And the questions I get from my readers have enriched in terms of research into the subject and making me richer in knowledge.
A word about more blogs on Hinduism and Philosophy.
As I wrote earlier in one of my Pages, I was merely interested in sharing what I thought was worth sharing.
As readers were/are interested in them, I felt it to be my duty to write on subjects my readers are interested in.
So I started writing more on Hinduism and Philosophy.
To my surprise I seem to know some thing about these subjects and enjoy writing on them.
However I shall continue writing on other topics as well.
Now to Versatile Blogger Award nomination.
Ramani’s blog has been nominated for he Versatile Blogger Award by Amaruvi’s Aphorism.
Thank you for nominating.
The Rules:
Thank the blogger who nominates you publicly in the post and by linking back to his/her blog.
Display the image of the award on your blog.
Share 7 interesting facts about yourself.
Nominate a minimum of 5 bloggers for the award and notify them on their “about” page or another page of their blog.
I nominate the following blogs for Versatile Blogger Award.
Though I have nothing much to say about myself, as I am to list some facts ,I am stating them.
( I tell my children that I have nothing to speak or write about me after my death, excepting that Born On.. and Died On, for both of which I am not responsible)
Reading anything, print or web.
Lave of Tamil, Sanskrit and English.
Interested in Shakespeare,Wordsworth,Byron, Shelley,Classical Tamil,Sanskrit, Kannadasan Jayakanthan,Sujatha.
Interested in Philosophy, Hinduism,Paranormal, Vedas.
Higher Physics.
Incidentally Ramani’s blog Hits as on 30 August,2014, is 2.49 millions.
I have noticed that a slower Page Load affects the Blog Traffic.
If the page of your Blog site is slow, this you can find out by yourself or for details of your page loading time against standard Page Loading time you may check with Quantcast,Woorank ,Alexa or some good Web Analyzing Tools, one of the main reasons is that the Page has too many elements.
One reason is that one uses large images and Videos.
A WordPress Theme
I am aware that Images and Videos make the posts attractive and lends crdence to your posts, it is advisable to use medium size images and not to load too many Large images and Videos,.
Ensure that your Home Page Posts do not contain more than 15 % Videos/images %.
I shall be posting on this subject.
In common man’s language the page has many, sometimes unnecessary elements that make the page load slower.
Many of us, including me, try to include as many Free Widgets as possible in our Home Page.
It could be Traffic Monitors where it provides Visitor Information.Internet defense League, Indiblogger,Blog trophies,Clock and the like.
I have used almost all of them under the mistaken impression it enhances my sites aesthetics and the information provided by these widgets are useful for the reader.
Traffic to blog posts, I have noticed, is because of Content.
What we write, and its usefulness to the reader drives traffic.
And authenticity with sources for the information.
Anything more than this distracts the reader.
People browse, in general,for fast and relevant information
There are exceptions where people want to pass time.
One has to choose a Theme which has minimum elements technically yet loads faster.
The Color schemes may have a role in this.
So choose a Theme which has minimum elements and make sure it is attractive.
Check if it loads fast .
For an absolute idiot like me trial and error method is the best.
Try and fix it.
I used tried DePo masthead Theme of WordPress(Free Theme) for a long time.
it was doing quite well.
Suddenly I changed to some colorful Themes,on being told by mu son that my Theme was bland and unattractive.
I have used more than Five themes.
I was content that my blog was looking grand. it did look.
But I have received comments from my readers that colors distract them from reading th content and some colors are irritating (the last point is subjective ,of course)
Surprisingly most laudatory comments were received for the simple DePo masthead Theme, which you are reading now,stating that it is easy to read and the Page . especially the Home Page loads very fast.
Most importantly I have seen an increase of about 25% in Home Page Views, though content wise there has been no shift in my Blog.
Why do not some of you try similar simple themes?
* I am not a Technical man and my suggestions need not be correct.
If some one has more relevant information, they may post either in the comments column, send an email or if it is a detailed one send in their post for publication.
I had as, per the Stat., 898 Blog followers, till about ten minutes back.
Suddenly,it came to 722 in one shot.
It is strange that nearly 160 followers unsuscribed at an instant.
Could this be Technical Hitch?
Regds.
Word Press Reply:
8 September 2013.
“Hi again,
Ahhh now I understand – thank you for verifying! While we do not appear to have a log of any outage on our end, it is possible that it was just a glitch in how things were displayed, somewhere between the servers and your computer.
I’m glad it’s all fixed up now!
Cheers,
Zandy | Happiness Engineer | WordPress.com
Update: The anomaly seems to have been resolved.
Now figures show the earlier ones plus Four more followers.
Thanks to people who have expressed their views , reasons and explanations.
As I have been mentioning in my posts about what I blog,I write because I want to be heard.
Whether somebody hears it, does not matter!
However I keep checking the Statistics in the Admin section of my blog site.
While posting a Blog this morning, I noticed a curious thing.
I had 898 Blog followers.
Total was 14888, which included Comments, Twitter and FaceBook and Tumblr followers, where I distribute my posts.
While writing a Post, this morning, I had to refer my earlier posts.
While doing so, I noticed that the Blog Followers, which just about five minutes back was 898, had become 722, in one shot.
I am curious.
Have the people who have been following my posts suddenly decided that my posts were not worth following and unsubscribed in five minutes simultaneously?
Or is it because of some articles I have been publishing for the past two days, notably on The Taj Mahal being a Hindu temple and a Series, a political Satire on India?
Or is a Technical Glitch?
I do not know.
I have written to WordPress whether this is technical hitch.
Though I had an idea that I would be completing four years, I did not think of it much as I was not really bothered about writing about it.
However I received a notification from WordPress that this milestone(?) may be blogged as the blog has some interesting features.
Following are the salient points.
Fourth Anniversary in WordPress.
Number of Followers 1447.
Likes 1337.
Categories 117.
Tags 16.683(Did I tag that much?)
Posts 5748
Hits 13,43,820
Comments 3450
Maximum Hits 29803
recorded in a day
Average Hit/day 1832
This is the statistical part of it.
What is more important to me is that I came across very good posts in my search for writing;some of them are found not on the first twenty results of Google search, but are very good in terms of content.
This reaffirms my belief that good articles need not be restricted to the first page results alone.
Probably, these people are also like me, want to share information yet do not know(as I do) the nuances of getting a place in the first Page search results.
Many of my posts do find a place in the first results though.
Good content is always appreciated, more importantly useful.
This I have learnt from the feedback for my posts.
People do write to me to elaborate on a particular subject, which I have blogged about :and in many a case suggest topics.
This is the part I enjoy the most.
I do get criticisms ;fortunately most of them are creative, guiding me towards clarity and research.
Now most of my posts are on the basis of what the readers want and about what I am confident of writing.
I do research.
More than the readers I am happy I can acquire information.
I had an initial perception that writing about a popular topic shall drive traffic to your site.
Now I find that content drives.
Yet writing on popular topics gets you the initial readers and on their recommendations you get established.
Then one can write to engage the readers by writing what they want and about what one is confident about.
I have received queries from some bloggers that they have a personal blog and in their opinion they are not getting the Hits as they should, in their opinion.
My answer is that if your content is useful and interesting, Hits will come, though it might take some time. none can say how long.
Some of posts dating back to 2009 are Hits now.
Thank God, I did not delete them;on the contrary, I update them frequently.
I came across an interesting article in the Atlantic on Journalism being turned out to be churnalism.
Blogs.
With access to Internet, people can have easy and immediate access to information.
How to find out if it is plagiarized?
Story:
We live in an age of information, it is said again and again. But that doesn’t mean we live in an age of good information, as last week seemed intent on bearing out. In fact, quite the opposite. Countless times each day, we have to weigh the credibility of a piece of information, and decide whether to put our faith in it.
It’s not really feasible for each of us to track each piece of information to its source (nor would it be efficient), so, instead, we use clues — who wrote this, where is this published, does this square with other information we know. But the trouble is that these clues aren’t perfect indicators, at least in part because even credible publications and professional journalists sometimes regurgitate information without giving it a careful vetting, a process often referred to as churnalism (just as gross as it sounds).
Today, the Sunlight Foundationhas unveiled a tool that will help us all with this work. “The tool is, essentially, an open-source plagiarism detection engine,” web developer Kaitlin Devine explained to me. It will scan any text (a news article, e.g.) and compare it with a corpus of press releases and Wikipedia entries. If it finds similar language, you’ll get a notification of a detected “churn” and you’ll be able to take a look at the two sources side by side. You can also use it to check Wikipedia entries for information that may have come from corporate press releases. The tool is based on a similar project released in the United Kingdom two years ago, which the Sunlight Foundation supported with a grant to make it open source. Churnalism will be available both on the website and as a browser extension. Its database of press releases includes those from EurekaAlert! in addition to PR Newswire, PR News Web, Fortune 500 companies, and government sources.
“Explaining that the modifications of the Chithi,Yoga delves further into describing the tool that can make the Modifications extinct and enable the Individual to return to his original Self or His Natural Identity..
The modifications of the Chitha starts from and due to the Mind and its activities.
Can we control The Mind be controlled and make us do our bidding?
Yoga confirms we can.
But it is difficult.
We are aware how difficult it is to reign in the Mind.
The more one tries to control the Mind, more it would become uncontrollable and roam, than it would have been, had we kept quiet.
This is not a disqualification for practicing Yoga nor is this unique to you, of us , the fickle minded.
Arjuna,who mastered the art of Concentration, for he was the one, when asked by his Guru to hit a bird,after felling it , said later, that he could see nothing else but the bird only, found it difficult to control the Mind and confesses to lord Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita.(6.34)
The Result.
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