This blog has reached 1.5 Million Hits some time , either yesterday or to-day; as usual I did not notice it till a reader sent an email on this with a Link
It is at the end of this post.
I did not post any blog on completion of one million hits as I thought it better not to write about it as one writes hits come.
Nothing earth-shaking about it.
But on this occasion , I thought it would be better if I post on how the Internet is reacting to the Blog.
In a bizarre case a Church was found issuing Sex Diplomas to Teens in Sweden!
‘A “shagging diploma” given to youths at a Church of Sweden confirmation camp proved too much for parents who complained Wednesday that their 14-year-olds were too young for sex…
After attending a course entitled “Love and Sexuality”, the teenagers in the southeastern town of Rödeby were given a certificate and badge stating they were “qualified for sex”.
Vicar Mats-Ola Nylen said the course had been organized by a man purporting to come from the Swedish Association for Sexuality Education (RFSU), but the church later found out he hadn’t worked for the organization in years.
I am happy that various respectable sites are discussing the points raised in the blog, in various disciplines,in various languages, including foreign languages.
It is nice to know you are noticed.
A Reader sent in the following, showing that www.ramanan50.wordpress.com is shown in an advertisement in Page xray.com (Technologie.
I have been receiving emails that I Publish some of my thoughts on some of the Subjects I have been writing about,
I have been receiving requests from ,I presume to be students, that I publish a book on English Grammar, as they have read my posts on English Grammar,
On looking at the profiles of my regular readers , I find them to be well-informed and very knowledgeable.
I like to receive your views on the Subjects I may publish, eBooks and printed version.
I have completed my manuscript for English Grammar.
The Book is different in two aspects.
It is aimed at all people, not making English Grammar only a Text book, for after all Grammar is useful for every one.
And I have tried to use simple language , devoid of jargon, as the purpose is to make people understand Grammar, not to prepare them for examinations.
Secondly I have found, in most of the English Grammar Books, the examples quoted are from the West and this, to me sounds irrelevant.
For example for a country starved of rains most of the time, what sense does it make to say ‘rain, Rain, Go Away’?
or what exactly is the purpose of saying jack and Jill tumbling after?
Would it not be better if we can provide examples from the Indian context, especially from the Ithihasas and Puranas so that children , and in my opinion most of the Adults in India, learn more of values than nonsense sentences?
I have attempted to provide examples from the Ithihasas , Puarans and from Indian Current affairs,
I would be grateful if my readers could spare some of their time and energy and let me know what topics would be of use in Hinduism/Indian Philosophy.
I welcome suggestions on other topics as well.
As I have mentioned in many of my posts I started writing for the pleasure of it.
Now as I find that is useful to some one, I am extremely happy.
Not that what I say is correct but it has made people think and read some of the Indian Original Texts,
This, I could find from their comments at the site and in personal communications.
I have been writing for nearly four years now, with about 5,500 posts,1300 Subscribers ,3200 comments and 117 categories.
The site traffic is around 50,000 a Month.
As I mentioned earlier,I started writing because I wanted to write and be heard.
I write to inform and be informed.
I have the fortune of knowledgeable readers who have enriched my knowledge base by corrections to posts , either by comments on the site or by personal emails.
Somewhere during this journey people have been asking me to monetize.
My refrain has been that if I start monetizing my writing style in the form of content may be compromised and I still retain that view,if I accept some advertisements of my own.
At the same time, many of my references are Books which are normally difficult to buy in the market.
In such cases .many of my readers suggested I recommend where to buy the Book or provide Links Online.
I thought it would be better if I could provide them with an opportunity to buy at the best price and have a wide selection.
As I do not know much about Monetizing I wrote to WordPress,the platform in which I write and received a reply that they have advertising opportunities with WordAds and apart from that I can be an Amazon Affiliate and so long as the site is not wholly oriented towards Amazon Only, it is all right.
How to become an Affiliate/Associate of Amazon.com?
Enter your email ID and proceed as instructed in the site.
Once you enter the details you get a notification in the site where you list your Phone Number, to confirm.
Once you do that, you receive a Call immediately(Really immediate), follow instructions on the phone.I
If your information is correct you receive a notification from Amazon to your email ID that your application has been received and that they will get back to you in a couple of days.
Sometimes it is faster, I received the communication in about 12 hours.
Now you can stat your account with Amazon.
They have detailed information as to how to Link with Amazon.
It is shocking that some one has blogged containing the image of a Child supposedly suffering form Cancer, while it was not.
Fraudulent Blog.
Such posts .especially on a Subject on Health that too on Cancer involving a child, is sickening.
Is it because of ‘Hits”
If your writing does not provide information, at least desist from posting incorrect and sensational posts just to attract attention.
Unfortunately many take the information from the Internet seriously with out cross checking.
I tell my children not to Google for serious subjects and be guided by the First ten or twenty results in Google Search.
They might have appeared, not because of the authenticity or correctness of the information but because of tagging and keywords.
However much the Machines try, they can not avoid this fraudulent writing from appearing in top results.
My suggestion is not to find a cure for illnesses from the Internet, but check with your Physician.
if you are forced to search,check the Trustworthiness of the site with WOT. cross check with Alexa,compare with other results from the search one each from the first three pages of the Search results.
Story:
For about 10 months, a person claiming to be a mom named Casey Bowman kept a blog called “Remembering Reilly” documenting her son’s battle with leukemia. The dark and detailed posts articulated painful milestones after Reilly’s passing — the moment she had to tell her older son, Langston, the family’s first Thanksgiving without Reilly, and even her own struggle with packing up Reilly’s things.
The boy’s cancer wasn’t the only tragedy that Bowman wrote about. She claimed to have lost another baby to SIDS, and wrote vividly about the miscarriage she had following Reilly’s diagnosis.
Not long after “Remembering Reilly” appeared, a network of other sites popped up that were somehow related to the boy, Gilliam said. There was another blog that seemed to have been written by Bowman while her son was alive, and an updated Facebook page in Reilly’s honor. A “friend” of Reilly’s, a little boy named Noah, also had his own tribute blog. And finally, there was a five-minute YouTube video — a montage made up of several pictures of Reilly (really Jack) with inspirational messages laid on top.
Every single one of these pieces was created by the person behind the hoax.
According to the Columbia Daily Herald, Bowman never asked for donations on Facebook, but posted images of shirts that were supposedly available for purchase as tribute to both boys.
Hoax Busters
According to The Tennessean, Shelly Jackson, a member of the Warrior Eli Hoax Group — a blog that aims to expose Internet hoaxes — came across “Remembering Reilly” because she had a Google alert set for “chronic myelogenous leukemia,” a diagnosis that her own son shares with Reilly. She realized that the details of Reilly’s diagnosis seemed off, so she looked into the story further. Using a reverse Google image search, Jackson found Sarah Gilliam’s blog, with dozens of matching photos. In an email to Gilliam that she sent to HuffPost, Jackson wrote:
One of my most recent cases involves someone using photos that I believe are of your son Jack claiming he was a leukemia patient named Reilly Bowman. This is particularly close to home for me because the blog was for a child with the same type of leukemia my son has, and I thought a child had died from it when I initially read the blog for “Reilly.”
Gilliam then posted a screenshot of the blog to her Instagram and Facebook accounts asking friends for help, she said. Her husband contacted WordPress, which hosted the blogs, and asked for them to be removed. By that night, all traces of “Remembering Reilly” were gone. The Huffington Post has obtained images from the defunct blog, which are available below.
I have been receiving emails and in the form of comments, that I write on Blogging, provide some tips.
Blogging.
I do not presume to be a good blogger, but I shall put down some points I have learnt over the past four years, things I have learnt by making mistakes.
Points I make here may be used as a starter and there are good bloggers and more technical savvy people are around, one can seek their help.
Let me reiterate I am a totally ignorant person of Computer and the Internet, let alone the terms like ‘Hosting’ etc.
Hosting.
I am writing on WordPress platform, that too in WordPress .com .
There are others like Bloggers of Google.
I do have blogs there.
WordPress,to me, may not look as flashy and rich as Bloggers,I find that very easy to write and the technical problems like texts disappearing, blogs not being visible ,images do not show,Links not displaying properly are very few and far in between.
And in such cases WordPress attends to them immediately with practically no lead time..
If they have a problem, they let me know and once they are set right, they inform me again.
In some cases, they inform me in advance.
Though Bloggers is very appealing and has a wide variety of formatting, to me it seems, that you have to do it by yourself, and that is too dicey for me.
But WordPress does every thing for me, I just concentrate on writing.
And too many options and I am lost as to what to choose in terms of Themes and Design.
Choosing.com,org,.net.
I am told there are some technical reasons for the difference but I am assured by WordPress is that your readership will not be affected by choosing any of them.
Going professional might help in terms of making the site design more appealing and will help one monetize better.
That is your choice.
So long as the platform on which you write does not give you headaches in terms of not displaying your posts, your search results appear on the Internet, your problems are attended to immediately that Hosting should do.
I have not detailed about the other Hosts as it would beyond the scope of this post.
Themes.
This , again , is a question of personal choice.
If one wants Glitzy you have it..
But the more Links, Widgets, complicated Designs, the loading time becomes slower and that affects your Readership.
Keep the Widgets to the essentials to keep the reader engaged, from his stand point, not your own.
Apart from Meta description, Log in details,Follow,provide Widgets for Categories,Tags, Archives,Recent Posts,Top Posts and anything more is optional.
If your post is Photography oriented check with the Hosts for tips.
Too many Links in a Page or even in Home page affects the Loading time of your site.
The purpose of a Blog is to be read, primarily.
Make sure it is simple and readable, with reasonably standard fonts and size”do not use fancy stylish fonts, they may appeal to you, not necessarily the reader.
Avoid high lighting(actually this point should come under ‘Content‘) or keep it to the minimum and Caps is strict”.No No”
I started off with DePo Masthead Theme of WordPress(three columns, I like it very much).
Then as my son told me repeatedly that my Blog looked like a scribbling pad, I switched to WordPress Sunspot Theme.
It looked very good to me.
In a week I started receiving suggestions that I change the design to some thing simple and more readable as the color combination was affecting readability.
Now I am using the Theme ‘Able’
I received feedback it is good.
Browsers.
I have used almost all of them,Google Chrome,Mozilla,Safari et al.
Google Chrome and Mozilla are very good.
Mozilla has very rich features in terms of easy sharing tools and convenience in writing .
But where Google Chrome scores over is that Google Chrome feels light to touch while Mozilla is heavy.(This is the best I can describe this point, I do not what it is.
So I am with Google Chrome for writing and with Mozilla for sharing.
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