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Weekend Chit Chat – Journey Towards Million Page Views

June 23, 2013 4 Comments

Welcome readers to this weekend’s chit-chat. The biggest news to share with you is of OCAAT reaching a million page view milestone. It was a journey of all success for OCAAT in last 28 months. When I started on March 1, 2011 I never set a goal, I never thought about people reading my articles a million times!

For almost 5 years, I have only been reading other blogs. I was a regular reader to personal finance blogs like The Simple Dollar, Get Rich Slowly and Consumerism commentary. I thought, hey, if they can do it, I can do it. Enough of reading was done, I thought now it’s time to have my own blog to write on.

How Does it Really Feel to be a Blogger

May 19, 2013 15 Comments

This is an introspective post that can tell you a little bit more about myself. I was pondering over this question, how does I really feel that I am a blogger with good follower base? Am I happy, proud or just normal? Here, I will write about how does it feel to be a blogger. How a blogger feels for his blog and the readers.

Real Time Visitors, as shown on Google Analytics

Blogging gives you mixed feeling. It can be enjoying, satisfying and at time it is too draining. No doubt it’s a great feeling that readers keep coming back for the new posts. When I see the dots in my real-time Google Analytics screen (like in the picture above), I feel proud to be a blogger. I think it’s the same feeling of pride that book authors get with each copy being sold. Where it pains is the immense work-load you take on.

A Compilation of 200 Google Signals that Determine Search Results

July 22, 2012 21 Comments

Over the past couple of weeks I have scouted internet for answer to my sudden search traffic increase, then a drastic drop and then again going back to normal. While searching for the reason being Panda 2.0 or Penguin, I ran across various sites, pages and forums talking about 200 super secret Google signals that determines a search rank.

I will publish articles on how to determine if your site has been penalized by Google or not, and if it has which Google update was responsible for it. Let’s stick to the Factors that influence a Google search ranking here. Please keep in mind Google had never published a list and probably it never will.

Waiting for the Ultimate and Best Search Engine

April 29, 2012 9 Comments

Welcome reader! Like all other weeks, today I will have another round of personal conversation with you. Strictly non personal finance. Today I wish to talk about search engines and our, bloggers, struggle to appear at the top of search results.

Readers who are not yet familiar with the concept of SEO (Search Engine Optimization), SEO is a technique which puts a particular site ahead of other sites in a search result. SEO technique essentially means cracking the algorithms that search engines like Google, Bing or yahoo use to rank search results.

Does Blogging Affect Your Work? I Think So

February 20, 2012 94 Comments

Does blogging affect work?

Last year, when I started blogging, I didn’t know the answer, or at least, I didn’t want to find out.

I got caught up in the intricate world of blogging, to an extent I was never fascinated with anything else. Not even my day job. The reality was, there were no blog income, where as the salary was more than satisfactory.

7 Reasons Behind My Low Blog Earning

January 29, 2012 57 Comments

Regular readers should agree that on Sundays I don’t talk about saving money, investment or getting ahead. I do talk on subjects other than those. I share random thoughts on Sundays.

This week, let’s talk about things that kept me busy for last couple of days. I was researching about monetization of blogs. The best practices, latest trends and more specifically-how to increase earning. Yeah shameless, you may think. Those who just rolled their eyes, please consider this, a blog can’t get successful if it’s economically weak. There are certain exceptions, alright, but generally if a blogger does not keep earning money, the blog dies eventually and slowly.

Many bloggers do not show ad on their blogs but, they sell their products, books, courses, lectures for money. They use their blogs to grow a follower base to promote their money making products. Zen Habits is the best example of this type.

Top Blogs of The World by Visitors

January 15, 2012 16 Comments

Welcome to yet another round-up edition. Last week I talked about Keyword research. We bloggers, receive more than half of our traffic through search engine referrals. Putting our keywords in front of other, to be specific, putting our links on Google’s first search page requires a lot of work. The basis and the direction of that work is set by keyword research.

This week, let’s talk about some non personal finance blogs that attract most visitors compared to any other blogs. Click on the respective banner image to visit the blogs. Remember they are not exactly by the order of daily visits. I picked up a few of the largest in their respective categories.

The most followed blog (in any category) by daily unique visitors is The Huffington Post? This is not really a personal blog, rather an industry in itself. Read for anything from gossip to tech gadgets. A news papers in form of a blog. A close competitor is Business Insider.

OCAAT Weekly Roundup, The Key Word Research Edition

January 8, 2012 15 Comments

Blogging is a learning process. During the holidays last week, I was learning keyword research. I am putting it out for my readers who are bloggers by themselves.

This article is not about deciding new topics based on a number of search queries they can generate in future. This is about that part of keyword research where you want to write a guest post or want to build links, based on certain keywords contained in published articles.

The objective is to tackle the words that can generate maximum visits to your site.

A Look Back On the Year 2011

December 29, 2011 38 Comments

It’s end of the year 2011, a year in which OCAAT was born and started flourishing. During 2011 we’ve seen 153 posts, 2,480 comments, and over 40,000 unique visitors to the site. OCAAT has also attracted over 12,00 subscribers.

It’s been a fun year. I’d take this opportunity to reflect a bit on how OCAAT got started.

Sunday Round Up And Monthly Blog Update: September 2011

October 16, 2011 4 Comments

This is Sunday morning and in next 1 hours I have to finish this update before going out to run errand. This week-end was relatively less troublesome compared to last three weeks as I am going through the most hectic phase of work life right now.

It’s mid of October and finally I got a chance to sit down and write about the progress OCAAT is made in terms of pure stats for the month of September. The highlight is this blog is still growing, and, as compared to August result, I had a 150% traffic increase in September.

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Weekend Chit Chat – Journey Towards Million Page Views

How Does it Really Feel to be a Blogger

A Compilation of 200 Google Signals that Determine Search Results

Waiting for the Ultimate and Best Search Engine

Does Blogging Affect Your Work? I Think So

7 Reasons Behind My Low Blog Earning

Top Blogs of The World by Visitors

OCAAT Weekly Roundup, The Key Word Research Edition

A Look Back On the Year 2011

Sunday Round Up And Monthly Blog Update: September 2011

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