Recently our blog host, BLOGGER changed the URLs of Indian blogs from .blogspot.com to .blogspot.in. That didn't immediately affect the search engine traffic though. But it did increase the future SEO difficulties of the site by creating uncertainty over its page rank visibility.
Google page ranks have disappeared overnight. Now the social bookmarking site tweetmeme that is based on tweets is removing that tweeted pages that have only 1 tweet. Tweetmeme was one main reason why I do tweeting. It was a PR7 site giving a simple backlink. I give a link back to it to make it little powerful as the tweeted page itself is noway to be accessible from anywhere else other than from what I tweet. Now the past few tweets that are single tweets have all gone.
On one hand, I couldn't quantify whether tweetmeme is having any effect on my articles at all. On other hand, my options are shrinking.
Looks like getting social on some bookmarking sites is not an option now for the web-2.0-member-cum-web-1.0 admins but mandatory.
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