I just managed to get a running pic of our new salt lake police car. It is great looking car, gives you a feel of MNP (Multi national police). This looks like exclusive for salt lake city as it is mentioned on the car. Did you notice it?
Great going kolkata police!
My technical team is using my blog for their experiments (in return of blogging back the experiment to my blog), I was thinking of taking some days of rest from blogging but here comes a blunder from Google (my sole rescuer- you know it helps me search everything….from my lost brain to my hair pin) – an email that said:
Hello,
We are writing to share some important information with you about referrals to the AdSense product. As part of ongoing efforts to optimize revenue opportunities for our publishers, we’re
constantly experimenting with new revenue-enhancing features as well as tweaking those products already available to our publishers. This is the case for referral units directing visitors
to sign up for AdSense. After experimenting with this program over the past year, we’ve concluded that there are other products that are of higher value than this program to publishers in your region. As a result, referral units for the AdSense program will be retired in the coming weeks. Referrals to other products and services remain unaffected.If you’re currently displaying referral units on your site directing users to sign up for AdSense, read on below for details about what to expect in the coming weeks. In early January, the option to add referral units directing users to the AdSense product will no longer appear in your account. You will continue to accrue earnings for all existing referrals yet to generate $100 until late January, at which point the program will be fully retired. Existing referral units will continue to appear on your pages.
By the end of January, you should remove all referral units directing users to AdSense from your pages. Referral units that you do not remove will continue to be displayed on your pages as normal, but conversions will no longer be recorded. We suggest you replace the AdSense referrals with referrals to another product or service or an additional ad unit. Thank you for referring users to AdSense in the past. We apologize for any inconvenience this news may cause.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043Email preferences: You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important new AdSense features.
As a user it is very difficult for me to cross check the authenticity of such emails. This advice goes to Google and all the businesses. Here are a few things that you must do to have an educated and aware customer. (I think the whole blogosphere should take the charge):
Recently the technical people of our company were talking about supplemental ratio (almost a new thing for me….though I had this notion that supplement pages are duplicate page.) I was very curious to know what is this supplemental index ratio and how one can find it. I contacted our technical heads to know about it (We surely have smart technical brains to answer almost all the questions)
OR
You can use mapelli.info/tools/supplemental-index-ratio-calculator/?domain=www.meabhi.com (this says 75% but it might be some other datacenter for the total indexed pages as it says index pages = 32 instead of 36)
Supplement pages are not all that bad these days but still you can get a better ratio. Tedster explains what a supplement page is all about.
I did it as experiment google.com/site:meabhi.com+-site:meabhi.com/* to see the pages that are tagged supplement now I will like to eliminate it one by one. I offered my site to our technical team for experimenting with supplement results as it is quite new. I will post more about the pages that have gone to supplement results.
You may be wondering that what Google has to do with content writers, look at the ad here (it is a screenshot). Do you see an arrow towards the left bottom? Have you noticed such ads (adsense ads) recently? Even the malls are doing something in the same line.
What am I talking about?
I am taking about space, space available for ads. In malls the normal banners are getting replaced with changing LCDs. Within a allocated space you can display more than one ad. Google is doing the same here, within the allocated space it is displaying more ads to get more out of per inch allocated space.
What can a content writer learn from it?
Web page space (In out office we can it web estate) will be a scarcity (if not already) and a content writer will have to use these tricks to represent contents in different layers. Say you write step 1 in a detailed format and then give a arrow button for step 2, once clicked it will show the content for step 2 without refreshing the page. This will just refresh the section of the page which needs the new content.
This will help us keep our content scanable but still very effective and detailed. Thanksies Google for teaching us one more thing.
It is a dream come true to be #1 Abhirupa on web and here I am finally. It wasn’t very difficult to achieve as the competition was very lessfor my name . Anyways how does that matter (haa haa)! What matters is that I am #1 Abhirupa now.
Still I am not happy with the description that comes in google, it says,
Abhirupa Purkayastha – Simplifying content
Abhirupa Purkayastha – Simplifying content · Home · About Abhi. It happened to me……..thanks to YOU ( Linked Abhirupa Professional Links – – ) …
www.meabhi.com/blog/ – 47k – Cached – Similar pages – Note this
I have added the needed meta description with the help of our technical team. Thanks for the help. Yesterday we saw some videos on how important is meta description and the indirect effect of it on Google rankings (not many people know about it). I will get a better google listing description soon.
Update 12th Jan 2008 (early morning): It is updated using the current meta description which says,
I am Abhirupa Purkayastha, a web content writer by choice. You can contact me at admin@meabhi.com. Read my blog for more details.
This is more user readable snippet. From technical desk (I don’t know much about it but this is the code that was added to the header.php file of the theme)
<meta name=”description” content=”<?php if ( is_single() ) {
single_post_title(”, true);
}
else if(is_home())
{
echo “I am Abhirupa Purkayastha, a web content writer by choice. You can contact me at admin@meabhi.com. Read my blog for more details.”;
}
else {
bloginfo(‘name’); echo ” – “; bloginfo(‘description’);
}
?>” />
I am a content writer and thus have a license to pen down my thoughts about everything that is present under the sun! But here comes a post about a four lettered word known as LOVE; a feeling whose depth can not be measured in words. Since ages writers all across the globe have tried to encapsulate its meaning….but all in vain!
I was listening to this song that prompted me for this post:
Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razor
that leaves your soul to bleedSome say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it’s only seedIt’s the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It’s the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance
It’s the one who won’t be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to liveWhen the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed
that with the sun’s love
in the spring
becomes the rose
Wow! so wonderfully written that I am listening to it for almost 10th time. “Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows lies the seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes the rose.” Amazing words!
People who have never fallen in love can never understand what it is and people who have ever fallen in love can never explain it. I pity on people who can not comprehend the depth of this four lettered word. It is certainly the most beautiful feeling you can experience.
Ohhhhhh I love this one too!
“No one falls in love by choice,
it is by CHANCE.
No one stays in love by chance,
it is by WORK.
And no one falls out of love by chance,
it is by CHOICE ”
Other beautiful songs I am listening to:
I will continue my series on making content attractive. Today I will cover a very important factor,
1000s of results for one search, 1000 different website saying different things, and people what to check the trustworthiness of the content. How to improve the credibility? Here is a small list:
Check in them details at http://credibility.stanford.edu/guidelines/index.html. Do comment as there are more things that can help us increase the credibility. I will also pen down some examples here (wish I had some more time today).
I will be focusing on content writing. (As planned I took some interviews yesterday and will be posting it soon.) Every time we attend a team meeting, a conference or a video class we see one clear message passing through, “You need to make your content simpler and scanable“. I will post a series of blog posts on how to make your content simpler and scanable. I will start the series with Link titles. Link title is a blessing for content however it is not used very frequently.
Can you see how link titles can make it so effective. What is your opinion?
“I’m not saying that you ‘do’ sleep with her, and I’m not saying that you ‘do not’ sleep with her. But the fact remains …….”
A Mom comes to visit her son Kumar for dinner…..who lives with his roommate Dimple. While having dinner, his mother couldn’t help but notice how pretty Kumar’s, roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between both of them.
While watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Kumar and Dimple. Reading his mom’s thoughts, Kumar volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Dimple and I are just roommates.” About a week later, Dimple came to Kumar saying, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I’ve been unable to find the silver plate. You don’t suppose she took it, do you?” Kumar said , “Well, I doubt it, but I’ll email her, just to be sure.” So he sat down and wrote :
Dear Mother:
I’m not saying that you ‘did’ take the silver plate from my house, I’m not saying that you ‘did not’ take the silver plate.. But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.Love, Kumar
Several days later, Kumar received an email from his Mother which read
Dear Son:
I’m not saying that you ‘do’ sleep with Dimple, and I’m not saying that you ‘do not’ sleep with Dimple. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the silver plate by now under the pillow…
Love, Mom.
Lesson of the day: Don’t Lie to Your Mother………..especially if she is Indian!!!!