South Asia Blog is one Year Old

I am delighted to inform you that this blog (South Asia Blog) is now on year’s old. In fact, I noticed that this domain became alive on 5 January 2009 and thus, we have already passed one year. The blog started in a very promising note and in the last one year, we achieved some good amount of success. It received more than 700,000 page views and I consider it to be a grand success as far as traffic is concerned. It also achieved Page Rank 6 and it was linked by many blogs and websites.

In fact, South Asia Blog grew so much that we had problem with shared hosting and we had to delete all entries and changed hosting and blogging platforms in June 2009. It was a tragic thing that re devastated me. From July, I became sick and could not give enough time for this blog. Fortunately, now, I think that I have become better and I can start.

The main goal was to write about business and economy of South Asian region. At first, we could do that very well but one thing after another happened and we lost track. Now, we are gradually trying to go back to our original mission.

We are expecting a very good 2010 for South Asia Blog. I have understood that if we work regularly then huge traffic will come for this blog. Yes, I want huge traffic because it brings good revenue and who does not want that their entries are read by thousands of people every day! At least, I want that. It bring very good feeling and some good income too. I want to focus on writing quality entries in this blog from now. I also want that South Asia Blog emerges as one of the top business and economy blogs in Internet within next one year and I really hope to work very hard with this goal in mind. 

Back to Business for South Asia Blog

I started this blog in January 2009 and I started as a business and economy blog. It got good amount of success and I have to admit that I acted very foolishly and changed the topic. I neglected business and economy of South Asia and wrote about everything else. Well, I have to admit that I did not have the maturity as a blogger that time. I know that I cannot change the past and I am sorry for it. Well, many of you enjoyed good coverage of sports here in the last few months and you became Feedburner subscriber for it. Well, I am sorry for this matter. If you are looking for good sports coverage then you can visit our another blog: http://www.sports37.com/ . It is a good blog and it is updated almost daily.

Anyway, I have to apologize to those of you too who came here for business and economy related entries but did not find them on a regular basis. However, I assure you that from now, South Asia Blog will again become a blog business and economy related to the region. I have noticed that we cover much more about India than the other countries. Well, India has nearly two third of the total population in the region. So, it naturally gets more coverage. However, from now, we would like to put more content on other countries too.

I just wrote an interesting entry which you can read: Black Friday 2009 Deals: Acer Aspire One for $149.99!!!

I wish that we had something like Black Friday deals in all the South Asian countries.

Hopefully, I will be able to keep my promise and you will enjoy the blog again.

Half Million Page Views for This Blog

I am very excited to note in my Sitemeter that this blog (South Asia Blog) is going to touch half million page views mark in the next few minutes. It is an amazing feeling for any blogger. I started this blog in January and thus, it took 9 and half months to reach this mile stone. It is not the first time that I have got this amount of page views for a blog. In fact, in the last 3 and half years of my professional blogging life, I have seen another 5 blogs passing this amount of page views. Thus, it is the 6^th blog and I have another one that would have the same achievement within a few weeks.

South Asia Blog suffered some tough condition because of my mistake about selecting the right kind of hosting. Secondly, I also made a big mistake by changing its focus from being a purely economic blog to covering many other things. Well, I really want to go back to my original topic of South Asian Business Economy from 1 November 2009. 

After 8 Months and 400,000 Page views of South Asia Blog

Wow! 8 months have already passed. Time really flies so fast. I started this blog on South Asian Business Economy. I still cover them but these days, there is more of Bollywood and Cricket. Well, if you live in South Asia then you should know that entertainment and sports are perhaps the most popular thing. Huge amount of money are spent on them and they are a part of mainstream business. So, in a way, I have digressed from the original topic of the blog but then, we are covering the things that have most popular appeal.

I am happy to inform you that we have received more than 400,000 page views since the day South Asia Blog was started. It is cool because at first getting traffic is very difficult. Now, I guess that it will become much easier. We have received links form many blogs and websites and I like to thank them a lot. The best part is that these links were not reciprocal. They just liked our content and mentioned about us.

I am also excited to inform you that the number of Feedburner subscribers has passed 1000. This is perhaps the sweetest part. We are trying to give something that some people like and this brings the most satisfaction for us.

What next? Well, I have realized that we should cover business, entertainment (movies and TV) and sports. This way, we can reach to a lot of people in South Asia. We are always committed to producing quality content and I hope that most of our visitors get satisfied with the thing content we put it in South Asia Blog.

As for business and economy, I have decided to give my best content in the field in a new blog: http://www.hobbyeconomist.com/ and you should take a visit there. 

After 7 Months of South Asia Blog

Time really is flying. I started this blog in January, 2009 and how fast it has become seven month old. I have a number of blogs but I feel that right now, this is the most successful one for me. It is perhaps natural because I live in south Asia and I have been blogging about this field for more than three and half years. Well, unfortunately in the last one month, we could not work on the blog as we expected and unfortunately, I have been personally suffering from a number of problems in my personal life.

At this moment, I’m sick and weak and it is very difficult for me to concentrate on updating his website. I’m optimistic about making a quick recovery and again be back to my complete strength very soon. For the time being, I request all of the regular visitors to be some patient and give us some time to come back strongly.

After 6 Months of South Asia Blog

Well, this blog is now more than 6 months old. However, if you look at the entries then you will notice that they are just of June 2009 and July. Well, what happened is that there were some technical problems and I had to delete the old entries and then again reposted some of them. In the last few days, we could not post that much because we are facing a problem. My wife is sick and I am in hospital with her. My other two co-bloggers for this blog are running for me. So, we cannot post regularly. I hope that things would be better next week.

If we look at the last 6 months of South Asia Blog then we can find some good achievements:

1. Over 200,000 visitors and 300,000 page views. The information is courtesy of Sitemter which is open for all: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s51southasiablog

2. Feedburner subscriber reached to 680+ which is quite amazing for a new blog.

3. South Asia Blog has now page rank 6. It is also a good achievement for a 6 months old blog.

No doubt, all the credit goes to the readers who came regularly. Then, there is Google who is sending us visitors through search results all the time.

Hopefully, we will have something bigger to celebrate when South Asia Blog passes 1 year.

Second Journey for South Asia Blog

I am happy that South Asia Blog is back again. A few days ago, I fell into some technical problems with this blog and I had to go to Blogger hosting from of Google instead of shared hosting plus WordPress. All the content of the blog got deleted and then I had to repost them one by one. Well, since I was doing it too fast, Google marked this blog as a spam. I appealed to Google and they removed the mark. Earlier today, I could upload the last entry from the past. So, it is back to business again.

South Asia is my most favorite topic because I live in this part of the world. In fact, with this blog, I had a dream start and dream run. Within just 5 months, it reached to Page rank 5 and got linked by some really quality websites and blogs. Then, the unexpected and unseen happened. The success in good traffic caused a problem in the hosting as a lot of people suddenly visited this blog at the same time. So, I moved to Blogger hosting of Google and now, I hope that I can focus on the thing I like best- writing.

I welcome you again to this blog and like to thank all of you for reading it.

Sorry for all the Troubles to South Asia Blog

If you are a visitor to this blog then you must have noticed that Google has put some kind spam filter for this blog. It caught me by surprise because if you are a regular visitor then you must have noticed that we always try our best to provide quality content and as a result, South Asia Blog has been linked by some good blogs and websites. Within just 5 months, it reached to Google Page Rank of 5 which is an amazing achievement for a blog within such a short time.

So, you may wonder that what happened to this blog? What happened is that there was some problem about hosting of the blog and in the past it was based on WordPress. I decided to transfer the blog to Google’s blogger hosting and unfortunately, there is no easy way to do so. I wish that I was a techie but I am not and so, last night, I had to delete all the entries and then transferred the blog to Google Blogger hosting and started to report my entries. I guess that I was reposting the entries much faster than I should have. So, Google has now put some kind of filter that any visitor has to pass.

I have already appealed to Google and hopefully this problem should end within the next day or two. I am deeply sorry for all the trouble. I really hope that this problem finishes within the shortest possible time. I also feel sorry for many people who are coming for the information they are searching but then finding it difficult to find it.

Welcome to South Asia Blog for the Second Time

I wish that no blogger has to go through the pain that I had to suffer in the last few months. To be honest with you, I did not have any idea about shared hosting because most of the time, I either worked for a blog network or used to blog in Blogspot or Blogger blogs. After I bought my own domains and then bought hosting and installed Wordpress then I understood that I have done a very big mistake. What happens is that after few months, my blogs get good traffic and if few thousand visitors come all of a sudden in one hour then the hosting creates all kind of problems. Well, I am not blaming anyone except myself because shared hosting of any company is same.

If you are a serious blogger and have dream of becoming a professional blogger then think about this matter seriously. Either go for dedicated hosting or private virtual servers or else use Blogger hosting. I cannot afford dedicated servers or private virtual servers. So, I am going for the second option.

Anyway, thanks a lot for being with us. I hope that now I can focus on blogging itself or creating quality content instead of wasting my time for technical issues. I love writing and in fact, we all 3 bloggers of this blog love writing and blogging.

I plan to upload almost all the old entries manually. So, I apologize in advance for any inconvenience.