I use to submit my blog articles to digg and other popular social boomarking websites but most of the time, my stories ended up with a couple of votes and with very little traffic from it. So, I started searching for some alternatives. I did find a few sites which are easier to get on the front page and here are some I use.

1. Blogsvine - a general digg like site for blogs. Very easy to get on the front page since it is new but worth the submissions.
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2. Newsvine - General News Site - Forget front page, you won’t regret if you submit a good news. I have got some very good traffic from it with my submissions.
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3. Sphinn - If you have written a nice SEO related article, this is a must submit social bookmarking website for you.
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4. Dealigg - If you have some great deals to offers, don’t miss this one when you submit that to social bookmarking websites.
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5. IndianPad - For Indian related stories, this works like charm.
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April 19th, 2008
Categories: Blogging . Author: bonyuts . Comments: 4 Comments

Just now when I checked my site’s alexa ranking, I found that it has been decreased. I was a bit confused first but then, I saw the announcement button that was shown just below my Ranking Stats. You can read more about the announcement here.

In the words of Alexa Team:

We listened to your suggestions, and we believe that our new rankings system is much closer to what you asked for. We now aggregate data from multiple sources to give you a better indication of website popularity among the entire population of Internet users.

You gave us many other suggestions as well, and we are working hard to implement them. We won’t tell any secrets just yet, but you can expect to see new features rolled out over the coming weeks and months.

I personally think this is going to be a better ranking system as they have worked hard on many users’ feedback. What do you feel about the new alexa ranking system?.

April 16th, 2008
Categories: Blogging . Author: bonyuts . Comments: 1 Comment

Getting free traffic and free backlinks from social media like digg, stumbleupon, etc. seem to one of the prime concern of all webmasters these days. But if you don’t have a very very good article, it’s indeed very hard to get traffic from these websites now-a-days. And above that, the power users and members people are talking about.

Well, there are always alternatives. And there is a good one for Blog owner called the Blogsvine. Blogsvine is a new, digg like website but it is exclusively for blogs. That means, you can only submit blog articles to it. So, if you are a blogger, it is a good news, specially because it new and you can easily get to its front page. Why front page? Because, you get free traffic and backlinks if you are on the front page of such websites.

And one of reason - the Revenue Sharing System. Yes, you can also earn some $$ if you are actively submitting your blog articles to Blogsvine. You just need to enter your Adsense ID in your profile page and your Adsense ads will start to appear on the pages you have submitted to Blogsvine. That is some easy money, isn’t it? Have fun.

March 7th, 2008
Categories: Blogging . Author: bonyuts . Comments: 1 Comment

Ok I posted a trailer of Prison Break season 3 episode 12 here. This was a trailer both for season 3 episode 12 and season 3 episode 13. I haven’t watch the latest episode yet but seems like this one, as it title “The Art Of The Deal” suggest, is the real deal.

Well, if you are looking for a long trailer before you actually watch the real episode, here you go.

February 19th, 2008
Categories: General Topics . Author: bonyuts . Comments: 1 Comment

Well, Michael and the other guys are going to break out from SONA in this episode and it’s gonna be the most thrilling part of this season. For those still waiting, here is a small 31 seconds trailer of Prison Break s03e12, Hell or High Water. Have fun.

February 11th, 2008
Categories: Great Stuffs . Author: bonyuts . Comments: 3 Comments

Domain name business is a huge industry and every year, we see sales worth overs hundreds of millions. Only recently, the market was buzzed with the news of Vodka.com being sold for $3,000,000 on sedo.com. So, if you have some good domain names, who knows you can be a millionaire too.

So, why is the title of this article “White Reviews”? Because, I am talking about WhiteReviews.com here. The domain name WhiteReviews.com is for sale at present and I think this is a good name if you are planning to start a products or services reviews website. This is a keyword domain and you will find many results for these keywords on google too. You can check it here. And for those searching for nice LLLL.com, here is a good one.

February 8th, 2008
Categories: General Topics . Author: bonyuts . Comments: No Comments

Some guys here are really pissed off by a message that popped up each time they tried to access orkut, youtube or even myspace through their browsers. These guys started asking “if the Orkut is banned?” or “is Youtube banned?” and other such types of questions on forums, discussion boards, yahoo answers, etc. Now, is orkut really banned?

The pop up message which exactly looks something like “Orkut is banned you fool, The administrators didn’t write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!” or something like “Youtube is banned you fool, The administrators didn’t write this program guess who did?? MUHAHAHA!!” Technically, this message is caused by a computer worm called W32.USBWorm (or a few variants of the same). This worm mostly spread from one computer to another when you insert a USB drive, like a pen drive, a flash drive or even a cell phone memory card.

Now, how can you remove this worm?

This Orkut or Youtube worm generally places itself in a hidden folder named heap41a in your C drive (or your Windows drive). You can directly access this folder by typing C:\heap41a into your Run command box. You will see a variety of files, including Svchost, Script1, Reproduce, etc.

To remove the worm, select all these files (except one file named Svchost); and delete them (Shift + Del). Now go to your registry editor (Run > regedit) and Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > policies > Explorer > Run. On the right hand side, you should see winlogon key value set. Right click on it and delete it. (Note: In some computers, you may find the same at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > CurrentVersion > Run).

Now, restart your computer. Once you have restarted, go to Run and type C:\heap41a. You will see the svchost file. If you see any other files, select all and delete them. Remove it from the recycle bin as well (Ctrl + Del).

Now, open your browser and log on to www.orkut.com or www.youtube.com. Voila! you got it right!

Note: The same USB worm also causes a peculiar firefox problem. When you try to install a new version of firefox or when you try to open it up, you will get an error message something like “I DNT HATE MOZILLA BUT USE IE OR ELSE…“. This maybe called a “Use Internet Explorer you dope” problem. So, you have just solved this problem as well. Enjoy.

January 7th, 2008
Categories: Computers, General Topics . Author: bonyuts . Comments: 8 Comments