Why Your Blog is better than Million other Blogs

We all know there are thousands of blogs being added daily to the internet and even more of them expiring. It’s critical to know the “real shortcut” to bypass almost 95% of the blogs competing with you without much effort. All you need to have is the right knowhow.

Today I want to share a live project with you that will help you learn and believe what it takes to learn and use this shortcut to outdo majority of your niche competition.

A real incident that occurred today to me..

On April 11^th 2012 (today), an unfortunate disaster struck Indonesia – An earthquake of 8.9 magnitudes and as I am always online I could get hold of the news as soon as media published it online. Now I wanted to make sure that I can share the updated information with all the details my nation would like to know through a more organized blog posts with appropriate information.

Organizing and managing a contest was never this easy!

RaffleCopter has been one of the most innovative and creative ideas that has been creating huge buzz on the internet and blogs nowadays. RaffleCopter is a very handy and powerful tool that helps webmasters to plan, execute and manage contests effortlessly. The tool becomes a superb choice for website owners mainly because:

1. It’s free of cost.
2. Has a well designed and easy to use interface.
3. Great inbuilt options to make the contest beneficial to the website too.

How to create a contest / giveaway on RaffleCopter?

When is the Next Google Page rank – PR update 2012

I assume that you have reached this page as you already know about Google Page Rank. If not, Google Page Rank value is a reputation rank given by Google algorithm to each website / web page on a scale from 0 – 10. PR0 being the lowest and PR10 the highest.

If you are a regular follower of the OrangeCopper Blog, you might have observed that we have followed the Google PageRank update from January 1st 2011 to December 31st 2011 (the entire year). We have predicted, listed, announced and followed up each and every PR updates by Google at the hugely successful blog post – Google Page Rank update 2011

We will continue to predict, list and followup on the Google PageRank updates for this year as well through this new post. The first and latest Google Page Rank update of this year (2012) was on 6th February 2012 as predicted. Below is the continuously tracked PR updates and dates.

What is SOPA? Why Everyone hates it? 

SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act also known as H.R 3261, is a bill that was introduced in the US House of Representatives on 26^th October 2011 by Lamar Smith. This bill expands the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online piracy, content theft, and duplication of copyrighted intellectual property.

The bill was not very much welcomed around the world considering the after effect that it would have on the way Internet. Many major internet giants like Mozilla, Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn has opposed the SOPA rigidly.

To give a clearer picture of the issue, an organization backed by Mozilla, Creative Commons and Wikimedia has created this infographic below that shows the effect the bill could have on internet companies.

WordPress Comment Spamming at all time High!

Its alarming and frustrating when you see the number of spam comments you receive on your blog every day and the remember that the count is going to spike up the closer your blog gets to being popular.  If you see the screenshot on this page, it shows the Spam messages / comments blocked by Akismet in this month alone (20 days) and the count is as high as 20,000! If you too have a WordPress blog I am sure that you will be also facing the same issues with arresting spam.

The best practices I would recommend for any blogger to use to keep the BAD spammers out of our way are: