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When there is nowhere to turn to

You get desperate. Like the comments on this blog post.

I just don’t understand. Were these people just acting dumb or have they have been driven to this pitiable state of delusion by the poor, if not nearly non existent customer support meted out to BSNL subscribers?

Maybe BSNL should consider employing bloggers to boost their service.

This is not BSNL support. Please contact them.

Desperation.

Triskaidekaphobia

Fear of the number 13.

Who said pop-ups were gone? [2]

What we have now seems to be even more annoying – Flash-ups. And they get on my nerves. Take a look at this screencap. This is taken from the website of a leading telecom provider in Singapore.

The area circled is usually the region that a typical user would “hover around” before settling on the links to click on them. Now, the issue here is that when you mouse over the area right above the link (past the while line), you end up with a flash pop-up that covers half your screen. And the close button for it is located in the bottom right hand corner, almost perfectly camouflaged aginst the orange background.

This kind of strangling flash pop-ups are somewhat tolerable for a website whose business model thrives solely on online advertising. After all, no advertising probably means no website. However such a practice on a commercial website is highly questionable.

You deserve better!

Yeah right, I do.

CATCHA [1]

The title of this post is an intentional misspelling of CAPTCHA.

Over the years, spammers have grown smarter and smarter, just as our technology struggles to keep up with the bots.

But, take a look at this particular CATCHA used in Rapidshare:

After trying a few times, I gave up. Now, you probably have to develop a habit of counting cats if you want to download anything from rapidshare.

Referrals earn you more traffic [876]

I believe nobody can disagree with the fact that to have consistent traffic, your blog needs to have solid content. As the old saying goes, content is indeed King. However, even after having fairly decent content, some blogs never take off. Reaching out to potential readers has become increasingly difficult considering just the sheer volume of quality blogs which already exist on almost every conceivable topic.

In light of this, there is one subtle way of promoting your site that many people surprisingly do not know too much about. This is especially applicable if you are just starting out with a relatively new blog and you just need to kick off: Link to quality articles from other blogs and click on those links a few times to visit the pages.

Wondering how this helps?

Now, I do not know about you, but I do obsessively follow my blog’s log to see where and how people are visiting my blog. When I see a referral, naturally my curiosity is aroused as to who has linked to my blog and I will generally check out the referral link. I have even ended up bookmarking many such blogs before, when I happened to like the blog.

But of course, you have to be prudent as to which blog articles you link to. Do link to relevant and useful articles. This is a very handy way to actually make people take notice of you. You catch them where they actually read!