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Russian Web 2.0 Explodes with Content – 10 Million Blogs by 2008

Russian Web 2.0 Explodes with Content – 10 Million Blogs by 2008

Since I was seven, I waited with great anticipation for lunch time, when my mother, who worked at a large publishing house, would bring a freshly printed pack of Soviet newspapers, like “Izvestiya,” “Pravda,” “Trud,” “Komsomolskaya Pravda,” “Krasnaya Zvezda,” “Sovetsky Sport,” all in all, up to 10+ newspapers. There was nothing more pleasant than to chomp on a juicy apple and read all the latest news in one pack! I even used to fight with my older brother over who will get “Sovetsky Sport” and “Komsomolskaya Pravda” first.

Despite the abundance of styles, from the stiff and official “Pravda” to the more relaxed and youthful “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, the opinions expressed were trimmed to the rules of the reigning Soviet propaganda machine. Only after the genie of glasnost came out of Gorbachev’s bottle, I saw some unusually critical articles in the Soviet press. Even then, people still could not really speak up or relate their opinions to particular events, except discussing it with friends or relatives in their tiny kitchens, where people could discuss anything and everything at small kitchen tables with the help of vodka and pickles…

Alas, in the early Yeltsin era, the newly minted democratic Russian media developed in a motley crew of yellow press, scandals and soap operas. Often it was hard to sift through this flow and find some real pearls of genuine truth and compelling critic. In the late 90′s, the Internet gave birth to the blogging universe, and it quickly gained popularity from mass users, journalists, politicians and critics, creating a gigantic Russian salad of opinions and philosophies never tasted before.

Today Russian blogging services are on their way up. The latest research by Yandex, the Russian search engine No. 1, showed that the two most popular services in the Russian Internet (RUNET) are LiveJournal’s Russian language community (RULJ) and LiveInternet (LI). On June 6, 2007, the RULJ proudly recorded 1 million registered users and blogs. Yet the long-standing #2 blogging site LI is rapidly reaching its main rival, RULJ, in terms of new blogs and everyday notes.

However, the gap is still wide: LI has 170,000 daily visitors, while there are 600,000 visitors at RULJ. LI’s General Director German Klimenko said to CNews that the number of active blogs at LI will exceed LJ by the end of 2007. Yandex research indicates that the overall growth of the Russian blogging sphere is 74% (41% worldwide), however the total number of Russian blogs account for only 3% of worldwide blogs. Analysts believe that by 2008 there will be at least 10 million blogs in the Russian part of the global blogosphere.

Let’s make a quick comparison between LI and RULJ. Once you check or register to both, one thing becomes clear immediately: RULJ is definitely more mature and garners an older audience. LI, boasting a kaleidoscope of services, is crafted for teenagers and young adults. Naturally, LI’s audience is growing faster than that of RULJ. After all, kids are craving for company and socializing. The big difference is in the quality of content and blogs, where at LI bored teenagers spill out their fresh half-thoughts and desires, while the good ol’ RULJ crowd is much more content with serious topics and informative content. There is a great number of really interesting blogs and boards at RULJ. Nevertheless, both blog arenas cover well for their type of audiences.

Depressed Russians and Football Widows

Well, yes, when you are entering the Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, the first Russians who you see are not smiling and look pretty gloomy. But actually associating Russians with depression – that sounds funny to me. Little did I know that a new term “a Russian” means just that! Here is what one RULJ user, offered to discuss to the Russian blogging community. Under the topic “presenteeism” this user shared newly coined English language terms that hadn’t yet come to Russia. These are the first three words:

“mac nazi” – people crazy about Apple Macintosh products

“football widow” – a woman who believes her husband is dead during football matches

“a russian” – a person who is constantly in depression and sees the world in black

And there is much more of this new language in there.

Now, how about checking the most popular blogs in Russia? Yandex regularly publishes its own rating of RUNET’s blogs at: Blogs.yandex.ru/top. As of July 3, 2007, there were 2,189,160 blogs rated on the Yandex system.

For example, the top-4 blogs in the Russian Internet on July 4, 2007, included:

1. http://www.Ajdnevnik.ru – Alexander Jdanov and pictures of the “Star Factory” – popular music show

2. drugoi.livejournal.ru – “an illustrated magazine about everything in the world”

3. – Blog of Leonid Kaganov, Russian writer

4. aqua_snezhok.livejournal.com – mainly various photos of glamour, animals, people and fashion

Blogger Services Rating by Yandex, July 3, 2007

• LiveInternet 51,823 records on July 3

• LiveJournal 48,439

• Diary.ru 18,609

• Blogs.Mail.Ru 12,289

• Love ♥ Planet 7,935

• Planeta.Rambler.ru 2,875

• Beon.ru 2,398

• Jamango 2,129

Search in blogs by Yandex, July 3, 2007

• Steve Bloom

• Transformers the game

• torent

• Timothy and Sobchak

• Harry Potter

On July 3, 2007, popular categories included (most popular are in caps letters): Anime, CRAP, spring, VIDEO, questions, children, DIARY, friends, Eurovision, LJ, life, games, interesting, Internet, history, pictures, cinema, books, culture, private, lytdybr or ksnls,h, love, people, my thoughts, my life, MUSIC, thoughts, thoughts aloud, mood, news about life, about me, rest, positive, POLITICS, pranks, nature, psychology, travel, job, pondering, various, dreams, events, sport, links, poems, tv, creativity, tests, films, PHOTO, football, hockey, school, humor, me, me and my friends.

Copycats Lure Millions of Users

However large RULJ and LI communities are, luckily there is much more that you can find in the Russian blogosphere. Ever wondered what the Russian copies of the famous Western blog sites have been? Here you are: MoiKrug.ru is a local version of LinkedIn; Odnoklassniki.ru – Classmates.ru; Fakultet.ru, VKontakte.ru — FaceBook; Habrahabr.ru – Dig.com; Privet.ru (Comby) – MySpace. MoiKrug focuses on professional community. Odnoklassniki are looking for lost contacts, mainly from their high schools. VKontakte and Fakultet are oriented towards students. While the copycats of the “One Million Dollar Site” that secured a real million to its British owner did not spark with the skeptical Russian web-community, social networks quickly went berserk.

The latest hit of the Russian Web 2.0 is VKontakte.ru. Recently Alexa (www.alexa.com), a leading Web Statistic Portal, placed VKontakte as the Top-4 Russian site, right after such giants as Mail.ru, Yandex and Rambler. Users praise the site for easy-to-use design and many features similar to Facebook. For example, recently VKontakte announced video, allowing users to add videos to their pages. The site also allows you to search by job contact, Friends, and remind you of your friends’ birthdays. According to VKontakte statistics, some 12,000 people register on this site daily.

Created in 2006, Habrahabr.ru, an analog of Dig.com, became successful almost immediately. Habrahabr’s audience include people interested in the Web development and Internet economy, web-designers, programmers, journalists, analysts and various businesses interested in the Internet. The project allows its users to add blogs, write articles, paste news and create personal audio and video programs. In 2007 Habrahabr gained the Project of the Year 2007 and Best Internet Community Awards.

Apart from these sites that help to find friends and provide socializing platform, there are a few interesting projects covering various social needs.

For example, according to Habrahabr, recently E-Generator.ru supported by FINAM holding, launched DrugMe.ru (note that in Russian drug literally means “a friend”), a social site for people with various illnesses interested in socializing with each other, finding better drugs and doctors, recommending good clinics, etc. Among the services which differ from RULJ, a sick person can search among users with the same diagnosis and leave a reference about a particular doctor and hospital, and many other things. By the end of 2007, the site hopes to get at least one million users. And its main promotion strategy will be using virus marketing via the satisfied pool of first users, supplemented by catchy medical news and success stories.

Education is another sphere that is destined to be Web-two-oed. As an example, in 2006 Intel and TransTelecom jointly launched a Web 2.0 project for Russian teachers. The Letopisi.ru project aimed at educating teachers in using Web 2.0 principles to create a platform for collective educational projects. Letopisi.ru helped many Russian teachers involve their students in group projects.

Show Me the Money: ‘Cherchez La Femme’ a la Russ

So, where is the money? Mamba.ru President, Nikita Sherman, said that some 15 million people use internet dating sites. And this market is growing 70% to 100% annually. Thus, in 2006 web-dating site owners harvested USD 34 million of profits. According to iKS-Consulting, 52% of these audience are men with higher education and business owners. Yes, for a chance to find your Cinderella/Jolie or a Super/Spiderman, Russian men and women don’t mind spending their hard earned rubles.

Yet Web 2.0 site owners also search for the “green” light in the end of Web tunnel. Given that you created a unique, popular and useful site, the easiest way is selling your start-up business and merging with large Russian Web cash cows. That’s what MoiKrug.ru and Damochka.ru did, selling their businesses to Yandex and Rambler respectively. However, top managers of Fakultet.ru chose a different way to monetize their business. According to CNews, Fakultet literally offered each of its users their share in the project, making their subscribers shareholders. This August the company will issue one million shares (1% of Charter Capital) and distribute among its users. The company owners are trying to both monetize their business and engage their customers in this business. Finally, other businesses, like DrugMe and Eva.ru, are looking for sponsors and advertisement.

One way or another, Russian Web 2.0 is evolving into a very creative and living organism that brings people together and offers great business opportunities to bright entrepreneurs and programmers. So, are you feeling Russian now?

Dr. Andrey Gidaspov has over ten years of experience in business consulting in the IT and telecom (ICT) fields in Russia, CIS and Asia. Andrey has sealed deals for hundreds of American companies with Russian and CIS partners, ranging from start-up businesses to large multi-national corporations throughout Eurasia. His past clients include well-known technology leaders such as Motorola, Harris, Tekelec, Oracle, Corning, Tellabs, Qualcomm, Net2Phone, Nortel, Andrew and many others.

In September 2004 Andrey opened his own consulting business, Gidabyte ( [http://www.gidabyte.com] ), based in Hong Kong, China. The company provides a wide range of business consulting in the ICT sector for international companies in Eurasia and Asia Pacific. GidaByte’s bi-monthly newsletter “GidaScope” has become an instant success ( [http://www.gidabyte.com/newsletters] ) among various businesses interested in doing business in Russia. Andrey recently authored his first book – “Riding the Russian Technology Boom” – which will soon be available on Amazon. See more info about the book at: http://www.russia.futuretext.com

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Increase Conversions on your WordPress Blogs Promoting Amazon products: WPCallToAction In Action

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How To Master Blogging, Complete Guide To High Profit Niche Blogs!

How To Master Blogging, Complete Guide To High Profit Niche Blogs!
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Using Blogs To Drive Targeted Traffic And Build Opt-In Lists

Using Blogs To Drive Targeted Traffic And Build Opt-In Lists

Blogs, or weblogs, were the harbinger of the Web 2.0 sites so prevalent now online. From their first inception, blogs were the first major interactive type of web site, allowing readers to add to the content through comment fields on each post.

As their popularity grew, new directories sprung up to index these blogs, meaning they could be found both in traditional search engines and in the new blog directories. And anytime there are new directories being searched, there are new opportunities for building traffic and building opt-in lists if you can garner some of that search traffic.

Like any search engine, blog directories are looking for high-quality fresh content to offer up to their users, so your first requirement is to be sure you have unique helpful information posted to your blog regularly. Make sure your blog name represents your blog’s topic, and that each post is relevant to our niche. If you’re writing a technology blog, don’t suddenly post an article better suited to a teen blog, unless the content is also relevant to your tech blog.

To build traffic and build opt-in lists using your blog, you have to make sure it’s getting the widest possible exposure. Start by installing the plugins to create an XML sitemap for the traditional search engines, along with an effective SEO plugin to try and maximize your results in searches there.

Next, make sure your blog is listed in the Web 2.0 blog sites like Technorati and MyBlogLog. Hook it to social media sites like LinkedIn, FaceBook and Twitter. Finally, after each new posting use a free online service like iPings or Pingoat to announce each new post in the various RSS directories too. And speaking of RSS, if you’re using audio on your blog, be sure to get your podcast RSS feed listed in the appropriate directories as well.

As you can see, with very little effort you can get your blog posts indexed in a wide variety of locations, and if you’re blog stays themed to your main keywords it shouldn’t take long for you to start building targeted traffic to your blog, traffic you can then funnel to your squeeze pages to build opt-in lists, to affiliate links and to your own products online.

For all the above reasons, more and more Internet marketers and affiliate marketers are now using their blog, or a blog network, as their central hub for driving targeted traffic, attracting those targeted visitors to their blog and then funneling that targeted traffic to their desired action steps, be it building their lists, selling their products or promoting affiliate marketing opportunities.

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WordPress Blogs: How to Stop Spam

WordPress Blogs: How to Stop Spam

It’s a fact, if you have a WordPress blog with open comments, then you will get spam postings.

Almost 90% of comments on blogs are spammers. Sad but true.

People often add comments to blogs just to get back links and visitors to their own blogs. They may not have any interest at all in your post. Some of these commenters will try to camouflage this while others blatantly comment away without a care in the world.

Of course there are readers who sincerely want to make valid comments on your blogs. They want to add their contributions or clarify a point or two. They want to add value to your blog.

The problem is how do you weed out the quality commenters from the… well… less quality ones. Well, you will be glad to discover that there are indeed ways to accomplish this without pulling your hair out or actually closing comments on your blog completely.

WordPress has some built-in tools that will help. They won’t solve the problem completely, but they will make it manageable.

To set up these tools, login to your WordPress blog. Go to Settings, then to your Discussion Panel, Moderation.

Close older post comments Settings > Discussion Panel > Other comment settings

Check the tick box “Automatically close comments on articles older than 60 days”.

Many spammers and bots will target these older posts. By blocking them, you will discourage the spammers and save yourself the time of digging though all of your older post.

Limit the links allowed in comments Control the number of links allowed in comments. I suggest setting this to one link to lessen spam.

Settings > Discussion Panel > Comment Moderation

Spam Words

When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be held in the moderation queue. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress”.

Settings > Discussion Panel > Comment Moderation

Comment Blacklist

When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be marked as spam. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress”.

You want to be careful not to put simple words in here also.

Settings > Discussion Panel > Comment Blacklist

You may want to moderate all comments to be on the safe side. If you do, then your visitors may wonder why their comments haven’t shown up and try again. You will have to decide how this works out for you by trial and error.

You can pre-approve old commenters to cut back on confusion and give them more control.

Using CAPTCHAS can prevent spam, but not totally. Keep in mind that some valid commenters will get annoyed and may be discouraged.

There are plugins that use math to put off spammers but these too are not without issues. You will have to decide if you want to go through this route or not.

Here are a few plugins that can help you manage spam on your WordPress blogs:

Akismet

This is the most popular plugin to fight spam. It is free for everyone except those that make over 0 per month with their blog. In that case, the fee is each month.

It works by comparing comments submitted to your blog to all other spam ip addresses, email, text and links and can usually recognize spam.

You will need an application key to run this plugin. Visit WordPress.com to get the key. Register if you don’t already have an account.

Look in the Akismet panel to find false/negative where legitimate comments are flagged as spam

Why not to use Akismet?

It could repeatly block regular users Algorithy made need changing

You have to see how it works for you then decide for yourself.

The AVH First Defense Against Spam

This plugin gives you the ability to block spammers before any content is served by identifying them at the Project Honey Pot, a local blacklist or the local IP cache. Visitors trying to post a comment are checked at stopforumspam.com. Stop Forum Spam is not used to check before content is served due to the amount of requests, which overloads their infrastructure.

Block Spam By Math Reloaded

This plugin protects your WordPress 3.x login, comments, and new user/new blog signup process against spambots with a simple math question. This plugin adds an extra layer of protection against comment spam and spam blog creation bots. While nothing is 100% fool proof the concept has been proven many times in various forms in the past. Block Spam By Math Reloaded combines the features of WPMU Block Spam By Math and the original Block Spam By Math into one plugin that supports the WordPress 3.x and Buddypress 1.2.7 platforms.

User Spam Remover

User Spam Remover is a plugin for WordPress that automatically removes spam user registrations and other old, never-used user accounts. It also blocks the notification e-mail that WordPress normally sends to the administrator whenever a new user registers (annoying when that registration is spam!) and logs it instead.

The plugin adds a configuration panel so that all of these options can be turned on or off, and it logs and fully backs up all user accounts that it deletes, so that you can restore them if you need to.

Features:

Automatically deletes user registration spam and other orphaned, never-used accounts.

Very simple, enable and go! It does not interfere with the normal user registration process in any way. So, it doesn’t add captchas or activation or anything else — you’re free to use it alongside a plugin that does, if you like.

Blocks notification e-mail that WordPress normally sends to the administrator every time a new user registers (instead, logs this event).

Fully configurable, with grace period for new accounts and optional username whitelist.

Fully logs all actions and backs up all user accounts that it deletes so that you can seamlessly restore them if you ever need to.

For more information and installation instructions, please go to: http://lyncd.com/user-spam-remover/

Now you have the knowledge and tools needed to fight spam. When you allow visitors interact with your blog you build a community. This strengthens your blog appeal and success.

You have the power to attract people to your blog and succeed in your endeavors. So blog away without fear.

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How Blogs Help Promote Home Based Business

How Blogs Help Promote Home Based Business

Beginning a work at home business can have its ups and downs. Whatever kind of business you enter you’ll likely need tools to reach your customers. One of the best tools you may use to get your idea across online is thru blogging. Beginning a blog is simple, cheap and can effectively generate all of the leads you want to get your home-based business up and running. Blogging isn’t that complicated. However , you want to commit a little of your time everyday to post important information and you ought to be familiar with the basic keys to success to achieve your desired results.

1. This is general data, but unfortunately few blog writers follow : your internet site should contain vital information folk want and will find helpful. Blogging about how your date went last night may interest your friends however it wont’t be well placed to help with your business. Never use your blog to hard sell your home business products. That will turn your readers and customers off. Folk would enjoy reading and learn something. They desire information they can find helpful. Give them fair and handy information about your product. Let them see how it will make their life better and simpler. With the proper information, they will probably trust you, follow you, or join your campaign.

2. Make your blog more appealing. 2nd to content, your blog’s appearance can help your website stick out. You have porbably looked at several blog sites before, and you almost certainly found superbly designed pages, the ones with appealing graphics, and smart layout more appealing compared to black and white sites with just a bunch of words. Most people like the prettier blogs. It gives your internet site an immediate level of credibility. The good news is you don’t have to spend a lot to have wonderfully designed pages. You can find WordPress templates for free all over the internet. You may even have a free site hosted at WordPress.org. It’s a place to start learning WordPress and the basic jobs of daily blogging. Once you have a handle on that, move it to your own hosting site.

3. Collect leads ; this is your blog site’s goal. This isn’t as difficult as some might think. You can offer something freely an electronic book for instance. After they subscribe you presently have the ability to send them more information on your cottage business opportunity. Social bookmark each blog post. The more you give yourself attention the more others will find you. Try include videos if you can do it. This is the place to be in web marketing. Post it on your blog. The more charming you are , the more others will trust you. You can produce more traffic if you blog more often. Which is superb for your cottage business. Real cash can be made everyday with a straightforward blog.

Learn more concerning how to popularize your business using blogs by going to http://yourblognetwork.com and reading more on autoblog tips and blog networks.

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