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We are producing a detailed blogogsphere survery of Indian English blogs after a long gap. If you want to see our earlier ones, we have given links to them at the end of this post. Let us break the survey into sections for easy readability. You can jump to the section using their hyperlinked headings. 1. How many blogs are there in the Indian blogosphere? 2. Are the Indian English blogs driven by the intent of making money? 3. What are the main blogging niches of English blogs in India? 4. How long will blogging survive the onslaught of other social media formats? 5. What are ITB's summary observations on the Indian blogging scene [in English]? Number of English blogs on India and by Indians First of all, it is difficult to define blogs. All sorts of long-form posts on social sites are now taken as blogs. Then there are video blogs, websites maintained as blogs, blogs maintained as websites, and a range of other combinations that make it very difficult to come to...

यह पोस्ट हिंदी के ब्लॉगर साथियों के लिए है. हिंदी के ब्लॉगर्स लिखते तो सुन्दर हैं लेकिन उनके ब्लॉगों में अधिकतर में डिज़ाइन (web design) का ध्यान नहीं रखा जा रहा है जिसकी वजह से उनका ब्लॉग या तो फूहड़ लगने लगता है, या फिर डिज़ाइन की खामी के कारण लोग मुख पृष्ठ से सही विषय-वस्तु तक नहीं पहुँच पाते.   अगर आप हिंदी के नए ब्लॉगर हैं, अपने ब्लॉग की रूप-सज्जा से खुश नहीं हैं या आप अपने ब्लॉग से संतुष्ट हैं लेकिन कोशिश में रहते हैं कि इसे कैसे और ज़्यादा उत्कृष्ट बनाया जाए, तो यह पोस्ट आपके लिए है. जो चित्र ऊपर दिया हुआ है, वो ब्लॉगर प्लेटफार्म पर करीब 10  मिनट में तैयार हुआ है. अच्छे ब्लॉग के लिए ज़रूरी है कि उसमें पठन सामग्री (written content) और डिज़ाइन दोनों उम्दा स्तर के हों.   वेबसाइट डिज़ाइन ( web design) के बारे में कई अवधारणाएं पैदा होती रही हैं जो रिसर्च, सर्वे आदि से या तो बलवती होती गईं या फिर टूट गईं. चलिए, उन सब में नहीं उलझते, लेकिन एक-दो बातें जो वेबसाइट डिज़ाइन के बारे में गाँठ बाँधने लायक हैं, उनका ज़िक्र ज़रूरी है: एक तो यह कि डिज़ाइन ऐसा होना चाहिए जिससे...

In December every year, we try to accommodate excellent new blogs or blogs that we missed during the directory updation in May of that year. This small list of top Indian English blogs is addition to the best Indian blogs' directory for 2018. If you visit the directory , you would notice that we have also removed some blogs that were not regularly updated after their inclusion in this edition of the directory. Here are the chosen new blogs from the Indian blogging scene: activelifeliving - Active Life Living allaboutthewoman - All About The Woman allgudthings - All Gud Things ashirespondingtolife - Ashi Responding To Life auraofthoughts - Aura of Thoughts bakewithshivesh - Bake with Sivesh blogsikka - Parenting While Traveling bookedforlife - Booked for Life bookishelf - The Bookish Elf bookscharming - Books Charming boomerangmoments - Boomerang Moments code2cook - Code2Cook cookbookjaleela - Cook Book Jaleela endlesselan - Epiphanic Mome...

What exactly constitutes undesirable actions in the eyes of different search engines is not fully documented. Yet, search engine optimization (SEO) experts have found out what is considered unethical/ undesirable. Some insights have also come also from people within Google, particularly Matt Cutts, the head of Google's Webspam unit.  By common sense, the SEO actions that are deceitful and excessive are not liked by search engines because these go against search engines' aim of serving the most appropriate results in response to search queries. We had earlier posted a summary of Google's website rating guidelines (discussed below in brief). These guidelines indirectly - but clearly - tell us what are good and bad actions relating to search optimization of websites.   We have talked of good SEO actions numerous times. In the present post, let us talk about the bad SEO actions - the ones known to invite penalties from search engines. Some of these actions look inn...

If you want to see the current list of best literary blogs in India, please see the update as of September 20 here: Topmost literature blogs in India The present post (below) is from archives of 2018.   We issued the list of best literary blogs in India last year and received good response from readers. The following list is that of best Indian English literary blogs in 2018. We have discussed our observations of Indian literary blogging scene in the last post linked here. They still hold good. In the present one, we just update the list. Hope you find the blogs rich in content. Blogs are arranged according to the operative part of their URL, in alphabetical order. Each entry contains the URL with link - blog title - short description. abhijitbhaduri - Abhijit Bhaduri - author of leadership books abhinavagarwal - Abhinav Agarwal - musings, book reviews akswrites - The Untold Stories - musings, short fiction anieshabrahma - Aniesha's Musings - musings, fiction, boo...

Updated: October 2020   In the last 6-7 years, a large number of bloggers have started blogs on beauty and fashion. A number of them have added other subjects related to urban lifestyle, and these include parenting, fitness, home decor, travel, reading, etc. and this genre is now well-recognized as lifestyle blogging .   Lifestyle blogs started late in India but have caught up with the west. A search for 'lifestyle blogs India' on Google shows up lists of 10 to 100 fashion blogs. Some lists give Instagram accounts of fashion bloggers. Some YouTube accounts also come up high.    As against other lists, Indian Top Blogs manually picks up blogs for their long-standing and quality of content. The blogs listed below are the chosen 15 among top lifestyle blogs in India. All these blogs are lifestyle blogs, not mere fashion blogs. Some of them have established themselves in the Indian lifestyle/ fashion blogging scene and a few are reported to be earning handsomely too. Th...

हिंदी में ब्लॉगिंग से पैसा कैसे कमाएं? How to earn from blogging in Hindi? यह प्रश्न बार-बार पूछा जाता है. हम इस प्रश्न का उत्तर दो हिस्सों में देना चाहेंगे. एक, क्या ब्लॉगिंग से पैसा कमाया जा सकता है, और हाँ तो कैसे. दूसरे, हिंदी में ब्लॉगिंग   क्या पैसा कमाने के मामले में अंग्रेज़ी में ब्लॉगिंग की तरह असरदार है? ब्लॉगिंग से धनार्जन (earning from blogging) के बारे में इंग्लिश में हज़ारों पोस्टें आपको वेबसाइटौं पर मिल जाएंगी. मिल तो हिंदी में भी जाएंगी, साथ में YouTube में वीडियो भी. हमने देखा है कि चूंकि ब्लॉग से धन कमाने की चाहत रखने वाले ब्लॉगर बहुत जल्दी में होते हैं, ये वेबसाइटें और वीडियो उनके सामने चारे की तरह ऐसे नुस्खे परोसते हैं कि बेचारे ब्लॉगर उनके भरोसे अनाप-शनाप कदम उठाते हैं और या तो छोटे समय के लिए कुछ पैसे कमा कर बैठ जाते हैं या फिर बिलकुल पैसे नहीं कमा पाते. यह स्पष्ट करना ज़रूरी है कि जब हम ब्लॉगिंग की बात करते हैं तो न केवल पारम्परिक ब्लॉग की बात होती है, बल्कि किसी भी तरह की पठन/ दृश्य सामग्री (content) को अपनी वेबसाइट पर डालना और उससे सम्बंधित काम ब्ल...