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October 03, 2007
Bhubaneswar and Houston Offices Expand
Sagar and I have neglected the company blog over the last few months, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to update everyone on what we've been up to.
Just a quick update...
Having added three new and very talented writers and consolidated the Iowa City branch we're now a whopping seven BNM staff in Houston, Texas. 
At the same time, Sagar is working diligently to grow the Bhubaneswar office to help handle some of the volume that he, Niharika and Mandakini are currently managing.
Over the next three weeks we plan on adding one new member to the Houston office and more than doubling the Bhubaneswar office by adding four new staff members.
All told, that will bring us to 16 full-time BNM staff.
Looking back, the company today looks nothing like the two-man startup we began as college kids just a few years ago.
August 06, 2007
Linkbuilding with Contests: How to Give Money Away, and End Up With More Than You Started With
--By Sagar Satapathy
If you keep track of the recent happenings on the web, you will definitely notice many contests launched by various websites. They are intended to raise the curiosity among the readers. These websites spend little, but yield more by adopting a few simple tricks. The best part is that the participants don't lose anything, instead they gain a little or more.
I recently came across the "Dog Image Contest" launched by The Dog Guide. They have some good news for the dog lovers. If you want to show off your dog, then just click some pictures and send those to The Dog Guide by email. Since this is a popular dog site, your dog may find favor with many readers across the globe. Isn't it interesting?
Hold on! We are not finished yet. If you have the cutest dog, then you may get some prizes too. Since this is a contest, they have announced the prize money of $30, $20 and $10 for the top three slots. Even if you don't win the prize, it will be a win-win situation for you.
The main goal of such contests are to create some user generated content and some free buzz about their product or website without spending much. We had launched a similar contest called "BizNicheMedia Link Bait Contest" in January 2006. You will be surprised to know that we are still receiving comments and emails in this regard and a good number of visitors too.
Yesterday, one of my friends forwarded the link of another contest called Blogger Choice Awards. Here you can nominate your favorite blog and vote and comment on other blogs too. There are 36 categories that reminds me of Oscar Awards. It does not matter whether your blog makes the cut or not. You will still get some exposure on the blogosphere.
Such contests not only increase the popularity of the host sites, but also prove helpful for the participants in more than one way. And if you are host, you should not mind giving some money to get more than what you started with.
July 15, 2007
Carnivals Hosted by BizNicheMedia
As part of the new strategies of making our weblogs popular on the web, we participate in various blog carnivals that exist on the blogosphere. In addition, we are currently hosting 16 carnivals. Most of them are being hosted on a weekly basis. Some of the carnivals have become highly popular while others are also doing a good job. Here are the carnivals that are being hosted by the BizNicheMedia weblogs on a regular basis.
1) Carnival of Money, Growth and Happiness: This is one of the most successful carnivals on the blogosphere. It features posts related to money, growth and happiness. It is hosted at Credit Card Lowdown on a weekly basis. Submit your posts here.
2) Carnival of Life, Happiness and Meaning: This carnival is getting a huge response on the web. It accepts posts related to life, happiness and growth. It is hosted at Life Insurance Lowdown on a weekly basis. Submit your posts here.
3) Carnival of Credit Card: This carnival accepts posts related to credit card, debt and personal finance. It is hosted at Credit Card Lowdown on a weekly basis. If you haven't visited it yet, go ahead and submit your posts here.
4) Carnival of Customer Service: If you write blog posts on marketing, business and customer service, then this is the best place to submit your posts. This carnival is hosted at CRM Lowdown on a fortnight basis. Feel free to submit your posts here.
5) Carnival of Debt Management: This carnival will help you to learn more about debt management, debt reduction and other debt related issues. It is hosted at Debt Consolidation News on a weekly basis. You can submit your posts here.
6) Carnival of Econmoics and Global Trade: This carnival accepts posts on a broad range of topics. It is hosted at Forex Reader on a weekly basis. Submit your posts here.
7) Carnival of Student Finance: This carnival accepts posts related to student debt and finance. It is hosted at Student Loan Consolidation Lowdown on a weekly basis. Submit your posts here.
8) Carnival of Online Education: If you have posts related to online education, this is the right place to submit your posts. This carnival is hosted at Online University Lowdown on a fortnight basis. Submit your posts here.
9) Carnival of Home Improvement: Here, you will get a lot of tips on home improvement and real estate. It is hosted at Mortgage Lowdown on a fortnight basis. Submit your posts here.
10) Carnival of Budgeting: It is one of the popular carnivals hosted by us. For this carnival, we accept posts on personal finance, budgeting and frugality.This carnival is hosted at Payday Loan Lowdown on a weekly basis. Feel free to submit your posts here.
11) Carnival of Homeowners: This carnival is hosted at Homeowners Insurance Lowdown on a fortnight basis. It accepts posts related to real estate, home improvement, homeowners insurance and others. You can submit your posts here.
12) Carnival of Debt Relief: This carnival will give you useful information on debt relief and debt reduction. It is hosted at Debt Consolidation News on a weekly basis. Submit your posts here.
13) Festival of Good Books: For bibliophiles, this carnival is worth visiting. It accepts posts related to news and interesting books that deals with various subjects. It is hosted at Online University Lowdown on a fortnight basis. Submit your posts here.
14) Carnival of Long Term Investing: This is another successful carnival that is hosted at Forex Reader on a weekly basis. It accepts posts on long term investing, finance and other related issues. Submit your posts here.
15) Carnival of Wealth Building: This carnival is a high-ranked carnival in the money & finance category. It is hosted at Home Equity Loan Lowdown on a weekly basis. You can submit your posts here.
16) Carnival of Emerging Technologies: This carnival is related to new and emerging technologies that include VoIP, PDAs, cell phones etc. etc. It is hosted at VoIP Lowdown on a fortnight basis. Submit your posts here.
We are committed to provide good and interesting information to our readers. It won't be possible without your participation. We need your support and contribution to make these carnivals more popular on the web. We hope to see a sharp increase in the submissions to our carnivals.
April 25, 2007
Delhi SEO Meet 07: The Biggest SEO Event of the Year
We have been talking about the Delhi SEO meet for the past couple of months. Finally, it was held on 31 March at the Hotel Clarks Inn on the outskirts of Delhi. Around 60 webmasters and SEOs across the globe descended on Delhi to attend the conference.
BizNicheMedia had its own representation with Rich McIver, Andy Hagans and Sagar Satapathy speaking at the conference. Some other prominent speakers who made presentations included Vaibhav Kakkar, Ravish Ahuja and Manish Pandey. Not surprisingly, Rich and Andy stole the show by sharing their experience and expertise with others.
SEOs and webmasters from the USA, Dhaka, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Pune came to Delhi to attend the biggest SEO meet of the year. The organizers Pankaj Gupta, Amit Patel and Vaibhav Kakkar did a great job by successfully organizing the meet. The young lady Upasana did her best in anchoring the entire event.
Some of the important topics covered in the meet included Search Engine Basics, Link Building, Link Baiting, Generating Traffic, Search Engine Strategy, Online Forums, Search Engine Optimization and Black Hat SEOs.
After the meet, we had a cocktail party and a music program. Then came the magic moment, when Rich started singing 'Hotel California'. Believe me, It wasn't bad.:) Although there was no DJ, it took little time for our SEOs to convert the place into a dance floor. Andy started dancing on bollywood numbers and was soon joined by Rich and others.
Pankaj deserves special mention for his generosity in hosting the guests at his own residence. Pankaj, his parents, Shruti (pank's wife) and Nidhi (Pank's sister) were very cordial and warm to all of us. Pankaj also took the guests to his farmhouse in Uttar Pradesh where we had a great time.
BizNicheMedia had a staff meet-up on 02 April 2007 at Crowns Plaza. Unfortunately, our staff writer Pushpa Sathish could not make it due to some inevitable reasons. However, Mini Singh and Priya Jestin joined Rich, Andy and Sagar and we all had a great time there. For the first time, we got a chance to meet each other face to face and that was really exciting. The biggest blunder: we forgot to take a group photo of our staff.:(
The Delhi SEO meet provided a great opportunity to learn more about SEO techniques with people sharing their knowledge and experience with each other. It also helped everyone get new friends who stay in different locations, but share same interest. We would be looking forward to organize such events on a regular basis.
March 22, 2007
BNM Newsletter VI
Greetings! Our apologies for the delay in coming up with the latest edition of the BNM Newsletter. However, we are finally here to let our readers know about the recent happenings at BizNicheMedia. February and March have been hectic for BizNicheMedia. We want to keep all of you abreast of all the changes and major events that have gone on.
New Editors:
BizNicheMedia hired a new editor, Brian Johnson to manage its link bait articles. Brian has been doing a great job with writing/editing both BNM and client link bait articles. He has proved his efficiency in writing, editing and resolving other technical issues.
Later in February, we hired two other editors Eric Wolters and Jessica Hupp who have been doing reasonably well in meeting our target and expectations. Brian, Eric and Jessica have formed a great team and are constantly contributing in improving the quality and productivity of BNM blogs.
Shift in Focus:
There is a shift in our focus over the past one month. Rather than writing regular posts for each BNM Weblogs, we have concentrated on some particular weblogs with 2/3 link bait articles coming out every week. As expected, the result is overwhelming and we are doing very well on the blogosphere.
Besides our new editors, our staff writers Pushpa Sathish and Priya Jestin have done a great job in coming up with link bait articles with high quality and content. They have been really aggressive and focused in their approach and that helped us to move in the right direction towards growth and development.
Currently, we publish regular posts on our most important sites such as Debt Consolidation News, Credit Card Lowdown, Forex Reader, 1031 Exchange Lowdown, Student Loan Consolidation Lowdown, Mortgage Lowdown and Online University Lowdown. Some of these sites got a new professional look and the great link bait specialist Mr. Andy Hagans deserves the credit for that.
New Carnivals:
In addition to our existing carnivals, we launched three new carnivals, Carnival of Forex, Carnival of Home Improvement and Carnival of Student Finance. We also revived the Carnival of Online Education. Besides the above carnivals, BNM will be launching two new carnivals, Carnival of Payday Loan and Carnival of Homeowners Insurance on 05 April, 2007. Watch out our carnivals and feel free to submit your entries.
Delhi SEO Conference:
The countdown has begun for the Delhi SEO Conference and we all are gearing up for the big occasion. As you know, the 2nd Delhi SEO conference will be held at Delhi, the capital city of India on 31 March 2007. A number of SEOs from around the globe will attend the conference. We will keep you updated about the conference.
Final Word:
We are glad to announce that BizNicheMedia is on the path of expansion and high growth. We thank all our readers for their constant support and trust in us. We will always try our best to meet their expectations. Our next Newsletter will cover some of the interesting news/events that are going to happen over the next few weeks. If you have any suggestions related to our website or content, feel free to email me at sagar13d (at) gmail (dot) com.
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