by Prakash Rangarajan on July 9, 2010
Pix- Credits Sanja Gjenero
Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan
The analogy connection here might be a convenient concotion, but yes, one clear sunny morning my reality was taken by suprise by the Art of Blog, an authority site that offers tons of tutorials and proven methodologies for bloggers to find online success. It was a pleasant feeling indeed to know that my blog found mention (Check listing no #168) in one of their much followed blog posts “180+ Thesis Design Customizations You have to See to Believe”
written by Nick Reese.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on June 30, 2010
Pix Credits - wanderingmist.com
There is no better way to spend a quiet evening than meditating on the works of Rumi, the medieval poet and spiritual proponent of Persia. Partaking of “The Essential Rumi” and “Rumi the book of love“, translations by Coleman Barks is a fascinating journey into Rumi’s adundant metaphorical expressions of love and living, all heart and soul gushing as crystal streams of soulfreedom.
Late, by myself, in the boat of myself,
no light and no land anywhere,
cloudcover thick. I try to stay
just above the surface,
yet I’m already under
and living with the ocean.
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by Prakash Rangarajan on January 22, 2010
Pix Credits - Blogless
SeoMoz has released an awesome tool for link analysis, OpenSite Explorer a couple of days back that has taken the SEO world by storm. Taking advantage of an free offer for registered members for the first 48 hrs I had a productive time checking out what promises to be the best link analysis tool available (Y! Site Explorer lags behind in comparision)
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by Prakash Rangarajan on December 15, 2009
What Matters now - Pix Credits - Seth Godin
Seth Godin’s recent pet project, the much awaited free e-book “What Matters Now” is on the websphere now. Game changing conversations, power ideas that can accelerate positive change, sacrosant food for thought that can make your 2010 an elevated journey of realized potential and enhanced growth and more, form the essence of this book, a collection of ideas of around 70 big thinkers who have seen it all and made it happen.
Each thinker was asked by Seth Godin to dwell on a single word that really matters now in the form of a short essay. The end result of this wonderful project has been a remarkable treatise that is an inspirational and fulfilling read. Download “What Matters Now” right now and you will be asking for more definitely.
by Prakash Rangarajan on December 11, 2009
XML Sitemaps for better indexing
XML Sitemaps are URL lists that gives a leg up to search engine spiders to easily find available URL’s to crawl and update their index with the latest website information. XML sitemaps serve as fodder for the search engines unlike the usual HTML sitemap which is meant as a navigation tool for human users.
In simple terms, XML sitemaps give Search Engine spiders an authoritive list of URL for indexing with additional meta data like the last modified date, frequency of change (updates) and page priority (hierarchy of importance vis a vis other pages).
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