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.
Though I have fairly good number of Subjects and Categories I do not as a Rule write a Review unless I use the product or Services.
Paid Online Reviews.
I use the product, services, read the Book watch a Movie and offer my feelings about them.
Many people suggested, considering the Traffic of this site that I write Reviews for Products and Services and this would bring in Money.
I have also had offers from Companies asking me to write Reviews for their Products.
I do not write for money nor do I express my feelings which are not mine, nor do I write because I want to earn.
In my dictionary it is Prostitution.
I politely declined the offers.
I recently came to know by first hand that people who are planning to launch their products especially Application,s hire people to visit the site of the owner, Download the Apps and enter their Email ID as a Customer.
This they use to create the Illusion that their product/Apps is in Demand and they feel it might spur the Demand further.
Like Film Stars who , by hearing nonsense being written about them, start believing in them and in the process ruin their Lives, these Entrepreneurs are lost in this Gimmickry.
As one who spent nearly 40 years in Highly competitive markets,I can assure people that Gimmicks may earn for the chaps who suggest them, never for the Manufacturer.
At best, the best marketing team can place the product in the shelves.
Once the first demand is met the Product sells by itself, by its strength.
These Reviews, especially the fake ones,, are easily identifiable and are found out and it reflects negatively on the Product and even if the product is good the credibility is affected.
However an Honest Review even if paid, where the negatives of the products, services are mentioned are quite alright as they enhance the value and credibility of the product service.
If some one asks me, offer money to review I do not mind if I am allowed to write what I feel,including the warts in the products.
Paid reviews have a long History, starting form Books to Apps now.
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In the fall of 2010, Mr. Rutherford started a Web site,GettingBookReviews.com. At first, he advertised that he would review a book for $99. But some clients wanted a chorus proclaiming their excellence. So, for $499, Mr. Rutherford would do 20 online reviews. A few people needed a whole orchestra. For $999, he would do 50.
There were immediate complaints in online forums that the service was violating the sacred arm’s-length relationship between reviewer and author. But there were also orders, a lot of them. Before he knew it, he was taking in $28,000 a month.(NYT 25 August 2012)
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New York regulators will announce on Monday the most comprehensive crackdown to date on deceptive reviews on the Internet. Agreements have been reached with 19 companies to cease their misleading practices and pay a total of $350,000 in penalties.
The yearlong investigation encompassed companies that create fake reviews as well as the clients that buy them. Among those signing the agreements are a charter bus operator, a teeth-whitening service, a laser hair-removal chain and an adult entertainment club. Also signing are several reputation-enhancement firms that place fraudulent reviews on sites like Google, Yelp, Citysearch and Yahoo.
A phony review of a restaurant may lead to a bad meal, which is disappointing. But the investigation uncovered a wide range of services buying fake reviews that could do more permanent damage: dentists, lawyers, even an ultrasound clinic.
“What we’ve found is even worse than old-fashioned false advertising,” said Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York attorney general. “When you look at a billboard, you can tell it’s a paid advertisement — but on Yelp or Citysearch, you assume you’re reading authentic consumer opinions, making this practice even more deceiving.”
Investigators working for Mr. Schneiderman began by posing as the owner of a Brooklyn yogurt shop that was the victim of unfair reviews. Could the reputation management firm gin up some good reviews to drown out the naysayers?”
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.
The software does not the entire site, block the URLs that contain porn.
One may submit sites that need to be blocked.
You may download the software.
Story:
At the time of writing this post, MetaCert has labeled over 655 million pages of sexually explicit content – that’s more than 32 billion URLs. For those of you in the browser, search or family safety business, it’s technically 6.5 million unique domains and sub-domains – increasing hourly. There’s a live counter where you can find the number of pages we have labeled at any given time, here. Or just look to the right of this blog post. The number of pages/URLs is derived from the mass of linked data that we have collected and studied since 2010…
Like Norton and McAfee, we have been labeling domains and sub-domains to protect kids from unsuitable and harmful content. Our competitors focus on dozens of categories – such as religion, gambling, violence etc.. At MetaCert, we focus on doing one thing very well. We focus all our attention on labeling sites that contain ‘sexually explicit content’ and as a result, we provide much better solutions for this type of content blocking – for both enterprise and consumers. I don’t mind being bullish with my assertion as they’re both multi-billion dollar companies and MetaCert is a new startup based in San Francisco.
We’re not happy with being the best however. We want to be as good as we can be. So with this in mind, we have pushed our technology to the next level by becoming the very first company worldwide, to label folders, URLs and search strings. This means that we can now protect kids from pornography across websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks and sites that contain user generated content, without having to block the entire site.
While we have scaled our crawling and classification platform to label more domains and sub-domains than any other company in the world, we are now hard at work looking for the scalable solution for labeling URLs.
Contrary to what I thought, the term means ‘comes from the term “Viral Marketing” which is said to have been originated by Tim Draper and Jeffrey Rayport to explain the popularity of a product spreading like a virus. Which aptly describes YouTube, by far the most dominant video viewing service in the world.
You can read more about this subject and the top YouTube viral videos here.
Story:
The fastest trending viral brand is YouTube. Created in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim and acquired by Google in 2006, YouTube grew to become the second-most used search engine in the world, parent-company Google being the biggest search engine.
Following Google and Facebook, YouTube has grown into the third most visited website with 48 hours of videos uploaded every minute. That is the equivalent of 240,000 full-length films every week or nearly 8 years of viewing content uploaded every day. 3 billion YouTube videos are viewed by 20 million people every day. Hard to believe, but that is an average of 150 video views per visitor per day… even with many videos being only a few seconds in duration.
The very first video uploaded to YouTube is still there. Co-founder Jawed Karim’s “Me at the zoo” was uploaded at 8:27 pm on Saturday April 23rd, 2005 and has been viewed more than 5 million times. It’s only 19 seconds in duration and not quite the most exciting video out there which perhaps is why it has not gone viral. True viral videos would rack up that amount of views within a day. In comparison,Susan Boyle’s video was watched more than 100 million times in less than 2 weeks after it was uploaded.
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