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Exactly we’re in half way through this year, 2007.

So what’s the buzz in the blogging world? What’s hip and happening?

It’s no secret that Blogs, readerships, online advertising has grown. Here’s the trend, the things in vogue that shaped up the Blogosphere this year…

Link Exchanges are Passé. Long live Relationship

RIP - Blog roll. Well almost. More & more blog don’t have blog roll and this link exchanges also is a thing of the past.

Bloggers are now investing time and effort in building relationship - be it with other blogger or their readers.

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Changing themes for your WordPress blog is a cumbersome task, right?

Wrong.

Although even scouting for a right theme for your blog from the thousands of themes is not easy, updating your theme with another one will make you think of sea of work that need to be done, checking and updating the files all over again.

Do you know I changed the theme for this blog for 4 times, though graphically it was only two?

Nirmal over Life Rocks wrote a article referring to the checklist that you’ll need to run through once you change your WordPress theme. I saw a many comments regarding how the bloggers forgot to add/edit some thing or the other in their new theme. Having changed a new theme myself, I wanted to share a simple but effective tip how to get things done the easy way.

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The Newspaper Blog sports a new look!

After using the Fast Track theme for over 17 months, it’s time that I changed to a new and a better theme. Now this blog sports CopyBlogger theme.

See the change of this blog with the previous theme and this one:

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* RSS readers, please spare 5 minutes to visit the blog and let me know what you think.

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Wordpress was built with a ‘feature’ with the rel=”nofollow” thing to prevent comment spam. Logically it made sense that we don’t want to appreciate spammer with our link love. But as we know, it didn’t help. Akismet is saving the blogs.

I’m happy to announce that I’ve installed this Dofollow plugin installed and activated.

In fact I had installed this plugin activated some 2 months back. Posting about it just now so that you know the changes and the happenings at this blog. Whenever you comment in this blog, then you get a permanent link to your blog which in turn helps your rankings on various systems, like Google (search engines), Technorati etc.

When you just say ‘Hi’, you get the link love. No bull shit like:
- pay $10 to get no follow tag removed
- post (read spam) 6-9 comments to get the tag removed

Whenever you comment, The Newspaper Blog will follow or at least Google will.

You would be curious to know how much money I make per month. Honestly, I love to reveal my earning if it’s high. No point in disclosing 3 figure monthly blog revenue. It would not be motivating for others as well.

I previously predicted $3.5k revenue this year, but I was lucky (I know this phrase is so clichéd; but it’s true) and now I’m projecting somewhere around $4.5-6k revenue this year. Beer money for the thing I love to do!

Don’t judge a Blog by it’s Alexa, Technorati rank or RSS subscribers count!
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The Newspaper Blog is ranked 200,829 at Alexa Web Traffic rank.

Technorati is tracking over 70 Million blogs (with 120k adding in every day!) and around 750k blogs have talked about India in the past 24 hours (at the time of writing). With so much of jostle, it’s little nice to stick out among the crowd.

Sudhanshu Raheja at Gyaan Sutra has made a list of The complete A-list of the Indian Blogosphere.

I’m surprised and happy to note that if he would have added The Newspaper Blog in the list, I would have ranked 21st! Of course, the Alexa Rank of many blogs would have changed and he’s left out some blogs.
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I suck. I’m plain lazy. I’m good for nothing.

It’s time that I updated my Blogroll. I don’t have a Blogroll/link in my blog sidebar (and won’t have in future as well). So I thought I would link my friend’s blog. My readers will also have some variety and read some good blog (other than mine. )

The list which I’m going to link are the ones I’ve subscribed to in my RSS Feed Reader under Friends tag. So if you think you’re blog is not listed here, then I must have subscribed in some other tag.

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