After a break of 3 6 months. I decided to get back to some of my English blogs. I got a new custom made theme for my Apple Blog and finally posted something. Just for curiosity I submitted the new post to StumbleUpon. To my surprise next day I found that over 120 people visited my blog. Guess what was the source? Yep, StumbleUpon.

Seems like today another hundred is coming… Now I need to think of the ways to make them stick to my blog.

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Panasonik, Pawasonic and similar tweaks are used by manufacturers producing cheap Panasonic counterfeits. Other brands are being faked as well. You can buy Addidas (Adidas) and Nolia (Nokia) and bunch of other fake stuff. I am not quite sure why people do it, perhaps hoping that a lot of consumers do not know how the brand name is spelled.

Same tweaks are used by some web-site optimizers to attract extra visitors from search engines. Just for curiosity I’ve looked at the Google’s results for the word Panasonik. I was surprised  to see quite a number of sites using the word Panasonik instead of Panasonic, even in the titles. And those sites are selling not Panasonik counterfeits, but the real stuff.

Please note that this research was done on Russian sites only and may not be true for the English ones.

I believe this kind of tweak is pretty effective for search engine optimization, at least for some words. For example for the word Panasonik about 8000 searches are done monthly in the most popular Russian search engine, Yandex. However, their use will almost certainly make your web-site a bad reputation. There one is an exception, though. You can write posts just like this one.

Have you ever thought of asking top-notch celebrities like Paris Hilton or Britney Spears to promote your blog? Perhaps you did, but you were shy to ask. Well, I have some good news for you. They can help you promote your blog without even knowing it. And you know what? Your blog does not have to be even close to celebrities or gossip theme…

Before I go on, I need to clarify something. I am NOT fond of Paris Hilton, or Britney Spears, or any other celebrity. I do not follow news on what is going on with them. I never listened to their music. I even hate to use real Paris Hilton’s pic in this post.

The reason I picked up these particular names, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, is that there is a lot of buzz around them all the time. As seen from Mike Perry’s post, Kate Middleton, former Prince William’s girl friend, is a good one too. Read the rest of this entry »

I do not like the whole idea of network marketing, because once someone gets into it his friends turn into prospect clients, and he builds a relationship with others not because one is interested in them, but because he wants others to buy something from him.

It seems like something similar is going on in the blogosphere these days. Read the rest of this entry »