A blog is your online asset

Your websites as well as the blogs are your home base in the World Wide Web. Blogging is a growing trend in today’s time with everyone sharing their thoughts and finding an outlet to their emotions and experiences. For most people a blog isn’t necessary but those wanting to build a brand must oblige themselves with a blog.

The domain name for the blog should be easy to spell, easy to remember and appropriate to the content. The layout should be nice and seamless. It should spell potential and class. The about page must give information about your business and you.

Commenting should be easy on your blog. Subscribing to the blog posts should also be easy. The colors and fonts of the blog should be easy on the eyes. You should also claim your blog on technorati. Websitegrader.com should be used to put your blog in Google’s radar.

One must be thoughtful about the placement of ads. A site loaded with advertisements will fail to hold on to its visitors. Do not be frivolous while using widgets in the sidebar. The loading time of your blog is also a key factor to be considered. It should be reasonable and the blog should be optimized to make it so. The blog should also be registered with popular search engines.

Blogging is a great way to speak about your business, the people behind it and to connect with people of the world.

Where the world is blogging…

Blogging seems undeterred with the focus shifting to the social medium. As blogs easily integrate and are a part of the social media network. There are many great platforms for the avid as well as the occasional blogger to choose from.

TypePad is a popular blog community which was launched in the year 2003. It comes from the former buyer of Live Journal, Six Apart. It was started as a platform for the blogger who is not into the technical side of things. The blog community is based on the platform of Movable Type. The two share technology, templates as well as APIs. But unlike most of the blogging sites TypePad is not free. The users however get to own “.com” domains.

The platform has on offer more than hundred spectacular designs. The website offers a fourteen day free trial in which the user can utilize the websites professional tools. The platform provides its users with search engine optimization for their blogs. This helps the blog get better exposure and audience. It also offers capabilities to share information from the blog to facebook and twitter. The blog community is good for your money taking into consideration the services on offer. Other great platforms for blogging exist at Word Press, Tumblr and MySpace.

Superb ways to use twitter lists for your business

Many organizations have been quick in implementing twitter lists and using it as an advantage. Other than self promotion which many news organizations are using twitter for, a lot of things can be done with the lists. If you do know a creative way in which the lists can be used, do share your comments.

Businesses can create a staff directory online using the twitter lists. For example a website can have a list for its writers. This list can be followed by readers and those who like the blog posts. The traffic from twitter is significant and by using twitter lists the potential can be maximized. It can also help the staff of the business to be easily accessed by the twitter group. This can help in expanding their followers and increasing the traffic to the website.

Specialist information

It can be difficult to figure out whom to follow and whom not to follow. It is like finding the right signal among the noise.

Twitter lists can be used to track down and group together smart tweeples and good sources. At Rikhav Infotech our writers and optimizers track down like minded individuals and sources. The writers using such lists can track sources, connect with readers and find new story ideas. The stream of tweets on specific subjects helps in connecting with twitterers.

Twitter streams on your website

A clever way to get information from twittersphere is streaming the tweets from the lists onto a blog or a website. For example if one has a network of travel websites, the twitter lists can be embedded on the websites using List API. Such lists can include other travel writers or tweets regarding the travel posts on the blog network.

Twitter lists help people find information easily by grouping it together in a list. It can help avoid spammers and gain specialist information. A list of athletes participating in the event or a list of politicians running for the election can be useful. They help organize and filter the noise in the twittersphere.

We congratulate our athletes on their stunning performances

India finished the recently concluded Common Wealth Games on a High note. Forgetting all the mishaps, corruptions charges and delays the world biggest democracy put up a show and the world took notice. Rikhav Infotech and its employee family congratulates the Indian athletes and the officials for doing the country proud.

With 38 golds, 27 silvers and 36 bronze medals India took the second spot with a grand total of101 medals. Australia zoomed past everyone with their 177 medal winning spree. In the end it was the spirit of human endurance and sports that emerged victorious. The games will definitely help the country in terms of sports infrastructure and awareness in building quality sportsmen. And we wish all our athletes the best of luck for the upcoming Asian Games.

Ritesh Sarvaiya bags entrepreneur of the week award

Our founder, Ritesh A. Sarvaiya was given this coveted honor by the team at yourstory.in. Our web solutions firm had a humble beginning which was conceived by a small team of eight. But as they say fortune favors the strong and the rest was history. Four years of hard work, toil and undying dedication and focus by the core team headed by Ritesh has made the company what it is today.

Our 150 employee plus web integrated solutions company today boasts of leading national clients such as SuperCFO and Dr. Batra’s amongst others. Our list of foreign clients based in the US is staggering to say the least. Read the complete dope on the interview, as Ritesh rightly asserts that his team is the reason behind the success.