Agnivo Roy

Almost every informed webmaster, SEO expert, online marketer and website promoter is aware of social bookmarking and its benefits to increase traffic multiple times. Social bookmarking is considered a web 2.0 promotion and marketing technique which has SEO benefits as well. Planned and carefully executed social bookmarking campaigns can increase brand awareness, readership, membership and can result in a constant source of daily traffic flow. Sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Slashdot, Propeller etc. have grown over years and are hugely popular now.

Why Exchange Social Bookmarks?

However, natural social bookmarking is slower and depends upon the mood of the social bookmarkers whether they’d make your story popular or not. Sometimes, planned social …

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In the first week of December 2007, I decided to upgrade my current 256MB guaranteed RAM OpenVZ VPS to something stronger and consolidate a few other shared hosting accounts to a single Virtuozzo based VPS. As usual, I turned to WHT forums for handpicking some reputable providers who have good feedback, reputation and of course, some special offers running. Yes, I’m a bit overzealous about comparison shopping and VirPus Networks caught my attention.

Initial Impressions : Researching about VirPus I concluded that they are a financially stable organization and have been in business for 2 years now. …

If you’re a webmaster, whether full-time or part-time, one of the things which matters most is to keep yourself updated with the latest news, technologies and happenings in the webmaster arena. The more you keep yourself updated, better is the chance of being consistently successful in your online ventures and resulting revenue from your sites. Things come and go in the online world; nothing clicks forever. So, implementing new kind of tactics and embracing newer “hot” technologies, business models, promotion & marketing means, new kind of websites is very much necessary to stay in the race. Thus, it’s very important to keep yourself updated and visit webmaster, online marketing and SEO …

When building your first site the main things that you will probably think about is what types of content you will be adding to your site, how you are going to get visitors to your site and how you are going to generate good revenue from your site.

Well, all of the things mentioned above are crucial things to consider, but then again, what’s the point in thinking about them if you can’t even get a good web host to host your site with. If you choose a web host that has a poor service then it can do more damage to your site than good. If your sites host goes down often …

If you’ve read my last posts, you’d already know I ventured into building web proxies last month observing they are quite hot at the moment. Web proxies simply allow cloaked anonymous browsing of almost any site, mainly the ones blocked by content filters or firewalls at ISPs, organizations and workplaces. After a bit of research and reading different webmaster forums for days, I concluded that for a running successful network of web proxies, I’d need a decent dedicated server with ample bandwidth; because proxy sites chew up too much server resources and bandwidth.

I’m a regular at Web Hosting Talk forums (better known as WHT among informed webmasters) and began my search for the …