From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Preparations before Launching a Membership Site

by Shanker Bakshi 30 April 2009 Make Money Online

A good start is half the job done; most of the businesses fail because they were started with appropriate analysis of their feasibility. Likewise, before you launch a website a membership site or a niche site for that matter you must carry out a good study about it. That’s why some people release a product and it sells like hot cakes and other products don’t sell at all?
I believe you must have heard about Yaro’s .....

Statuzer – Yet another Twitter Air Application

by Shanker Bakshi 29 April 2009 Twitter

There is a new Twitter desktop client named Statuzer is in the town. I use TweetDeck and by far this is the best Twitter desktop client available and you will agree that it has everything you need, but when I found Statuzer I thought lets give it a shot. It looks similar to TweetDeck and both are framed on adobe air but Statuzer have some cool extra features which make it different. Statuzer will sure .....

I have been Released

by Shanker Bakshi 29 April 2009 The Internet

Couple of days back I posted about me being blacklisted by Akismet because someone had shown the “Spam Bin” way to my comments.
Some of you guys suggested for contacting Akismet Team to pull me out from blacklist. Thanks Mike, Harsh Agrawal, Sherry , Brad Callen, Mr. I, Wilson Pon and Nihar for showing your concern. I wrote to Akismet Team and requested them to pull me out from their spam commentators list.
Today morning I received .....

Learn to Make Huge Money with Membership Site Masterplan

by Shanker Bakshi 28 April 2009 Make Money Online

He has proven himself time and again, he is a master planner and very good friend of mine. I’m talking about Yaro Starak. If you are make money online blogger you must have heard about Yaro Starak, and if you haven’t probably you are living under the stone. The man behind the Blog Profit Blueprint; by far the best report on making money from blogs I have read so far. I’ve already started to implement .....

Imagination WordPress Theme Grab it for Free Now

by Shanker Bakshi 28 April 2009 WordPress

My Friend duo Mohit Aneja and Abhinav Sood come up with another beautiful, cool and stylish WordPress Theme Imagination. And this time they are giving it to you for free. Remember a couple of week back they launched their first highly customizable Premium WordPress theme which is now making great impression of their work in the blogsphere.
Let me tell you why I am recommending Imagination for you:

Plug & Play – No .....

WordPress.com is now WP.com

by Shanker Bakshi 27 April 2009 Blogging

Yahoo again treats Automattic by giving it much needed wp.com domain. Ma.tt is pretty excited about it.
He was keep playing with this domain the whole day long checking whether the redirection from wp.com pointing to WordPress.com is working fine or not.
Yes it’s true, Automattic is now the proud owner of WP.com, which we acquired from our buddies over at Yahoo! We’ve been using WP.com as internal shorthand for this site for years now, and ever .....

GeoCities Shut Down – Remembering The Life Before WordPress

by Shanker Bakshi 27 April 2009 Blogging

Yahoo closes down it free web hosting site GeoCities.
Remember the days before WordPress?
Ahh, those days!
I remember I made my first website somewhere in March 2002. It was on a free-hosted space platform. There was this website freehomepage.com which was (is) offering free space to create static web pages.
I made this site to put some cool pictures of mine, my family and my friends on the web. That was pretty exciting experience at that time.
Remember college .....

Offices of Some Big Bloggers and Your

by Shanker Bakshi 26 April 2009 Blogging

Wonder how offices of these top shot bloggers look like? Well in my quest to become a successful blogger I always think about it. Most of the Tech Geek Bloggers uses their laptop for blogging purpose but most of the top bloggers have their very own blogging headquarters, a very fine decked fully loaded and equipped office. I always wanted to have a workplace like this.
I’m giving here pictures of offices of my favorite bloggers .....

I Hate Akismet For This

by Shanker Bakshi 26 April 2009 Blogging

Because someone had shown the “Spam Bin” way to my comment on his/her blog, Akismet consider me as bad guy and throwing all the comments I made thereafter on my favorite blogs.
I’m still trapped in Akismet Spam list; I don’t want to use any other e-mail ID or URL for my comments and off course I never tried to sell all those medicines and sites, never ever.
If this is the only criteria for Akismet to .....