Recipe blog from Meeta

A blog with lots of information related to recipes. The blog has an impressive name What’s for Lunch Honey which belongs to Meeta from Germany. Meeta was born in India now living in Germany.

Salman Khan’s Blog

Salman Khan is another Bollywood star who has his blog. His blog is hosted at blogspot and is being updated frequently. The latest post is done two days back. His blog title is 10 ka dum and looks very colourful. His blog has a pagerank of 3 and I see lots of comments, but not like Amir’s Blog or Amitji’s Blog

Mouth Shut – Best place to write and read reviews

Mouthshut is a place where you can find lots of reviews and honest comments. This review site is read and watched by top companies and the press. At mouthshut you can find reviews related to websites, services, movies, electronic products and almost every thing.

Indian Blog Directories

Submitting your blog to different directories are one of the ways to popularize your blog and gain traffic. There are many Indian blog directories which accepts listing for free according the categories available and the standard of your blog.

Few directories that I would like to suggest is

DesiBlog - Is a free blog listing directory where you can submit your blog. The categories includes, personal web pages, Education, business, society and many more. You need to register yourself and login to submit to your blog.

One India Blog Directory - Here you can submit your blog and increase some traffic. Do not expect much, but even a single visitor is valuable. You need to create an account to submit your blog.

India Counts - A blog directory accepting Indian blogs.

There are many other blog directories available. Advantages of submitting your blog to these directories are gain free traffic and link popularity. Some directories add the rel=nofollow tag , so do not expect improvement in search engine ranking, but you can get some traffic from them.

How Popular is Blogging In India

Even though I don’t live in India for the past 5 years, I am very much interested in knowing and keeping my self updated about India. I was just doing some study about top Indian bloggers and found some interesting blogs. There are about 21 million Internet users in India and about 18 million blogs by Indians. Recently in news were the compulsive confessor, Meenakshi Madhavan Reddy, who was blogging anonymously about her experiences was in news.

Why do we blog?

Blogging is platform to come up with your experience, talk to the world without any restriction. Earlier only Media could do this. Now just sign-up for a free blogger account and start your blog.

Talk to the world

If you have a blog, you can talk to the world, express what is in your mind. You have the freedom to write your feelings and opinion and any person having access to the Internet can read your blog. Search engines index these blogs and show in the result pages when searched for related topics. It doesn’t take much time to inform the world about a new event or a hot news.

Get Response

If you have blog, you will have the chance to interact with the world. Blog has a feature of commenting and responding to the comments, which is the most important feature of blogging.

Make new contacts

I have made lots of friends through my blog. I get lot of help through these friends and I do help them if they need or if I can.

Learn about others experience

I do have RSS subscription for my favourite blogs and I read them every day. Advantage of a blog is that you can use the RSS feeds with an RSS reader like the Google reader to read these blogs without even visiting them.

Make some money

Above all if you have good traffic you can even earn from your blog or at least get the hosting charges from programs like Google Adsense. There are many full time bloggers in India like Amit Agrawal who earn good from his blog.

Cons of Blogging

Anonymity

Many bloggers prefer to be anonymous or they use a false identity if they do not want the world to know who they are as in the case of Compulsive confessor.

Control over blogs

There is no control over the content of the blog, but anybody can take legal action for content which are defaming or misleading. There are regulations and cyber law to take care of these things now a days.

To conclude, blogging in India is becoming popular in India and there are many young bloggers coming up with new ideas and information. I am sure every Internet user in India will have blog, which can be used as a personal dairy for the public or a hub of information. I have my blog which was registered in the year 2000, but I have been actively blogging only since 2006.