Nov 07
2 Years of Blogging…
I started my personal blog – Pathik Shah – exactly 2 years back. It has been a great experience so far, having my own place on the interwebs. It hasn’t quite been my ticket to the internet millionaire club as I was hoping it would be when I started out, but I have been able to easily recoup my domain and hosting costs, internet bills and be ramen profitable (not sure if it applies in this sense, but like everyone else, I would like to be called an entrepreneur, even if all I have is this shitty blog, so…).
I have also gotten better at putting my thoughts (which no one gives a shit about) into words (which no one reads), so I guess it’s all well. I am now getting close to 100,000 visitors every month which is quite decent considering my abysmally low posting frequency (about one per month). I hope to start regularly blogging again, but it is tough to put your heart to something which isn’t making you millions. But then again, I don’t have much else to do, so blog I will.
Since I don’t have much more to say, here’s a list of my top 10 blog posts so far.
Thanks. Keep checking my blog. Twice. Every hour.
Jun 26
Google has started its quarterly Pagerank update; many websites and blogs have already had their Pagerank updates. I was expecting it to happen around 30th June, but looks like they started it a week earlier.
PathikShah.Com is now a PR3 blog. My Alexa Rank is currently fluctuating around 420,000 which is pretty decent. The growth, while not spectacular, has been quite steady. My next aim is to become a PR4 by 2010.
Thanks to all my readers for making this possible.
May 17
Well this is a very basic WP tutorial, most of you may know this already. Creating an Archive page is very important as it helps your readers by making all the blog content easily accessible on a single page. It also helps in indexing.
Check out my Blog’s Archives
There are many plugins / hacks available to create a simple archive on your WordPress blog but none as simple and clean as this one.
To Create an Archives Page for your Blog,
1. Download the Clean Archives Reloaded Plugin
2. Extract the files in the ZIP file using WinZIP or WINRAR and upload them to your wordpress_directory/wp-content/plugins using a FTP client or through the web interface of your hosting provider, just as you would any other plugin.
3. Next, log in to the WordPress Admin Panel (WP-ADMIN) of your blog and go to the Plugins tab.
Activate the Clean Archives Reloaded Plugin.
4. Create a New Page and add the code
[ cleanarchivesreloaded ] (without spaces)
wherever you want the Archive list to appear.
Set the Page Title to Archives and the page slug to /archives.
Publish that page. You should see the Archives page in your blog now.
May 15
Amazon has started a service using which you can publish your Blog (RSS feeds) on the Kindle using a subscription model. Kindle users can then subscribe to your blog for a small fee, 30% of which will be shared with you.
To publish your blog on the Amazon Kindle, you will first need to register on the Amazon website (you will have to create a new account, existing ones won’t work).
To register, follow this link – Kindle Publishing – Amazon, and enter your details.
Next, sign in to your account and click on the Add Blog link. Enter the RSS Feed address, the Blog title, tagline, description, website address, search keywords and other details. You can also upload your blog banner or screenshot. You can also see a preview of your blog on the Kindle using the Blog Preview Generator tool.
When you have finished entering the details, just click on the Publish Blog link to Kindle. Your blog should be available to Kindle users in about 1-2 hrs.
Note: Amazon currently doesn’t have any verification process in place to confirm if you are the owner of the blog.
May 14
Today, I received my first Google Adsense Check via Bluedart. The earnings are for the ads published on PathikShah.Com from December 2008 – March 2009. It isn’t much, but does make ends meet. 
When I first started this blog, it was mainly because of 3 reasons -
1. I wanted to be the top search result when anyone googled my name
2. Everyone I knew had a blog
3. I was bored
Unlike most other bloggers, I wasn’t trying to satisfy my creative urge to write, nor did I want to make the world a better place by writing the best tech blog around. . I was just plain bored (I still am), and wanted to do something to keep me occupied (which this blog failed at).
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