I had not altogether forgotten this blog but got induldged myself in many other things and this was neglected. It tried to pull my attention in December 2007 when I had paid for renewal of the domain name [I'll share why I used ravianz.com in my next post ]- but even paying some bucks to have it renewed could not get me back on it as I had got the first mega project of my professional life and that really took my time.

Now again time of renewal of the domain name has arrived. But I had come back to my blog in August and updated my WordPress software and it was a real hassel to upgrade from 2.3.x to 2.6.x as there are too many changes occured. I had to face issue of some tables being lost and I had to do many things manually to upgrade my software with complete data intact. It was offline for about 3 days during the update process but that does’t matter. I am having zero visitor for some time. After having it upgraded, I was quite enthusiastic to share the complete story of itsupgrade but nay! I could not find enough time to write something.

Then I had idea that i’ll make my post on September 9, 2008- exactly after one year but, I don’t remember why, I failed to. Now my idea is to work on it atleast once a week, may be on weekends. Lets see whether I post again or I am here after a year again:)

nofollow tag is used as rel=”nofollow” attribute and its example is like

<a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel=”nofollow”>My Site</a>

Basic usage of this tag, as defined by Google at their official blog, is to prevet spamming on blogs in form of comments. No doubt if you are a blogger you come across a lot of spammy messages even if you have not discarded the default nofollow tag.

What i was trying to get is that what are the results if i change the default option to dofollow, its not a tag but only a term used to specify that my blog is no more having nofollow tag for links in comments. Basic reason for changing and asking you to change is that if someone is commenting something helpful then whats wrong in giving him a backlink.

Moreover if you are using dofollow option then there is more chance that a person will comment something positive adding to your content. No doubt content is the king for any website and if you are getting some unique content from a visitor for a cost of link then there is nothing wrong in it.

It may be difficult for a real big blog with huge traffic but for a lower traffic blog or midium traffic blog, it is going to be beneficial. At least what i have read on forums, say so. You may have to give some extra time in filtering comments but their will be more number of useful comments, i guess.

If you have decided to give it a try then just go for it. You need to simply install and activate the plugin.

Click here to get SemiLogic Word Press dofollow Plugin

This rumor was spread via a text message which was probably forwarded by most of people as a funny thing or some did it to ’secure’ their loved ones. Actual text that i came to know was:

“Don’t pick any call of *88888888 as its some type of a virus which damage the brains cells and kills persons. As some high tone sound or some thing produce when u pick the calls it damage or burst he brain in few seconds”

The rumor was so effective that some mosques in the country’s biggest city, Karachi, made announcements that people were being killed by a mobile virus and they must not use their mobiles. Call centers of all the operators (Mobilink, Ufone, Telenor, Warid, Paktel) were bombarded with the same question whether this is true or not???

Even a local newspaper published that it is a revenge of some ghosts who are angry at telecom boom because some of BTS (Base Tranciever Stations, tower in simple words) were erected in some graveyard!

All this is simply a stupid thing to forward and any body recieving such a message must not forward that to others because it just makes a chain process and this is one of SMS rumor spreading. Currently there are more than 52 million mobile users among 160 million people in Pakistan.

The cellular operators moved to calm down subscribers and said in a joint statement: “These rumors are completely baseless. They do not make any sense in technological terms.”

Here I have found a little solution for that. All you need is Firefox. If you are not having Firefox and then Get it from here. You need to get this extension after you have installed Fire Fox:

Get Score Card Extension Here

This is not a complete or even a good solution but it atleast gives you idea or let it say a reminder what your favourite team is doing!. It only gives score and number of wickets lost as given in following screen shot:

This has become even worse for Pakistan who had already lost their first match to West Indies and now they are out of worldcup. This is no doubt their worst performance since they are playing cricket. Now after their departure to Pakistan, there will take place a lot of changes from top to bottom in the infrastructure of Pakistan Cricket and their cricket board.

As far as India is concerened, they are still in the tournament having a chance to come back. What they need to do is to win the next match with a large margin against Bermuda and then they have to win from Srilanka otherwise they will also be back to home.

If you are a good designer and has capability to design a good looking website template, then it may be a good way for you to earn. All you need to do is to design a WordPress theme that looks attractive and has tendency to compell others to use it. No doubt the design must be bug free and good looking. Once you’re completed with your theme then go to DP forums’ Buy-Sell-Trade place and sell one or two sponser links on your WordPress theme.

You may think why people will pay for it??? Answer is that you can easily upload your theme at following places:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/Theme_List
http://themes.wordpress.net/
http://www.themesbase.com
http://themes.blogflux.com/

And people can dowload that or free. Roughly 70% of webmasters would not remove the sponser links and it would give a large number of sitewide back links to your sponser. You can make some more points at your selling thread to make your case more strong and sale more fruit ful. I have seen those Sponser links sold as high as 200$.

In all this procedure, what you have to do after making a very good looking them is that you must make a demo page to actually experience the people your theme. Also try to limit your number of sponser links to one or two. Because if you have designed a theme you will be putting your own link in the footer as well and more number of links will decrease your price. Also if there are more number of links in the footer, then a user who has downloaded that theme will try to remove those links.

 

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blogupdate.org/ping
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.myblog.jp/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.catapings.com/ping.php
http://www.feedsky.com/api/RPC2
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast
http://www.packetmonster.net/xmlrpc.php
http://godesigngroup.com/blog/feed/

Having one way back links is not an easy task. It needs some effort anyway. A common way adopted by many is to submit links to directories and there are thousands of directories on web at this time. When you plan to submit your site to many direstories, its never difficult to have a directory list. Many sites are serving high quality directory list that offer free submisssion. Only problem is that it takes time and effort.

To submit a website to certain directories, there may be two ways i.e. either manually or by using software. I have’t been able to find a good software for this purpose which is available free of cost. And if you tend to add website manually it is never easy. Simplest way to submit is to copy paste all information or make use of auto content saving option. Some people may try to use Google Toolbar’s autofil option as well. But all these don’t work in all circumstances.

One easier way i found today needs you to be a Fire Fox user. Its nothing but a Fire Fox adon that makes life easier by fecilitating the filling of form quite quickly. Just download it from the following url and install;

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/673/

After installation you will find an icon in your status bar. On clicking it you will be able to customize your profile and contents in a profile. In your page there will also be that small blue icon and you will be able to fill each input box using that icon easily. You can have multiple profiles for different sites to be added in directories. And you can also use it for other form filling purposes as well. A little snpshot of it is given below.

1. Key in the first three digits of your phone number into a calculator. (do not use your area code number)
2. Multiply by 80
3. Add one
4. Multiply by 250
5. Plus last four digits of your phone numbe.
6. Plus last four digits of your phone number again.
7. Minus 250.
8. Divide by 2.

Whats result??
Is it your phone number?

For domain registration you need to find a domain registrat and there are many online. One that I use is Dynadot because they offer me to buy domains via Moneybookers as well. You can use any website to search for the availabilty of domain name. I like to use Domain Tools for this purpose. They give you many related options as well for free.

So don’t make it late and grab you domain name.