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A good number of photographers who have taken up photography as business have a website where they promote themselves. That holds good generally for photographers who have some offline presence, e.g. a shop.  However, not many Indian photographers maintain a blog. Does that mean, photographers do have a website but not a blog? Yes, most photographers' websites have a business front, where they talk of p hotography services, their rates, portfolios, etc. On the other hand, a photography blog focuses on photography as a subject and passion: it showcases photographs, photo-features and photo-stories, discusses the profession, shares tips, talks about gadgetry and so on. The blog may also sell photographs and photography services, but that comes as a natural offshoot.  While only some photographers maintain stand-alone blogs, many have their 'blogs' on Instagram and Pinterest,  places buzzing with visual content. Many photographers have tried their hands with photo-sha...

This post gets updated about once a year. The latest update is of December 2020. Travel blogging has taken wings in India, though it started later than in western countries. We now have hundreds of bloggers who regularly travel and showcase their journeys on their blogs. Established travel bloggers share travel tips and blogging advice. Many of them have affiliation with travel/ food/ tourism/ culture/ airline industry through which they earn and also sometimes offer discounts to their visitors. The top bloggers in this niche monetize their assets well and are reported to be earning handsomely through travel blogging. Though COVID has bruised this blogging niche badly, things are improving now. Hats off to travel bloggers who have maintained their blogs and continued with travel during this trying period! Vaccines have started being administered, and we can hope to say bye to lockdowns and restrictions on travel in the coming months. We give here links to top Indian travel blogs. M...

Updated on 26/03/2023 We have been bringing out a list of best literature blogs in India, in English, for the last 9 years.  The present list includes the best literature blogs in 2023,which are maintained by individual bloggers or their enterprises. There are many other good literary blogs that we know of, but they could not be included as they were not regular in posting.  Indian English blogging, like other online formats of expression and socialization, is constantly undergoing changes. New, especially young, bloggers now create professional blogs as they no longer need blogging for their personal social networking needs. For personal shares and networking, they prefer instant platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp. In India, much of the blogging on literature in local languages still remains hobby-centric, not professional.  One area in which bloggers of Indian languages beat literary bloggers in English is classic and popular literature . ...

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...