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    kaylar posted an update in the group Group logo of Writing StoriesWriting Stories 8 years, 4 months ago

    I have started to write for booktango and bookcountry which are virtually the same. What I find so knock out is that I have written absolute fiction and have been confronted by their admin asking questions as if I’m writing fact.

    In one way it is impressive that I am writing about a city I have never seen, about imaginery people who I don’t…[Read more]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Goggle As a Search Engine 8 years, 4 months ago

    When I wrote about the demise of writing sites here I thought most people were aware of what had happened and why.

     

    The fact is, most people don’t know what happened.

     

    Google began as a search too […]

    • Survival of the fittest is what comes to my mind reading your blog. Google seems to know that very well. I have noticed that the moment I search for something that pops up where I am present.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Stuffed Tomatoes/Stuffed Peppers 8 years, 4 months ago

    This is an easy and inexpensive meal.  And is good for you.

    You can use peppers or tomato although there are other possibles.  These two are easy and tend to link with each other.

    As a vegetarian I stuff m […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Easy Ways To Save Money 8 years, 4 months ago

    Many of these tips aren’t new, you might even be utilizing them now.

    Some may not have occurred to you.

    Although it might seem pennies, they quickly become dollars.

    Tips to save money
    Toothpaste
    We […]

    • I like your idea of adding water to the shampoo. It saves time, water and shampoo too. I will try that next time.

      Saving is when we believe that drops make an ocean. It is those everyday drops that can save enough and plenty for the world to rid of shortages of any kind

      • I buy body wash… which I use twice a day like every other month. I thin it and it lasts. I find with toothpaste, the little I use doing a brush around the edge is sufficient as we usually use way too much toothpaste.

    • In reality, this is great idea we usually neglect. The little do this the more we save much for ourselves.

      Its a piece that worth trial.

    • What I used to do with a slow drip was catch the water in a pail and use it. So it wasn’t wasted.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Demise of Writing Sites 8 years, 4 months ago

    As late as 2010 there were a plethora of sites where people could write online and be paid.   Some paid more than others, some demanded more than others, but for the writer,  there was so much o […]

    • Your blog took me down to a place I never knew existed. So Google plays games just as any other. So keywords is the name of the game. I shall play it well from now on atleast.

      • It was shocking because what they made one believe is that they were going after spam, so no one protested until it was done.

      • You’ll find the item which repeats a term as is, over and again, (something we were taught NOT to do in writing classes… y’know find ‘new ways’ to say something?)score higher than actual creative writing. I’m sure if one put a number of the best written books through a SEO they’d score very low.

    • There was a writer on Hubpages who used to be the top one… every article was like this;

      “All over the world people are interested in *. You have probably thought about *. There is really no mystery to *…..”

      On and on.

      She’d check “What’s trending…” and each day she’d pop in a new word in a typical find and replace. So Monday * could be bicycles, Tuesday * could be diet, Wednesday it could be electric cars… every day she’d have this article of 1000 words saying nothing.

      If you do a search about knol (you can use Bing, dogpile, duckduckgo, instead of google) you’ll find out when it was launched, and how cleverly it ties into the Panda.

    • Oh, but why didn’t the site owners share these details with the users? And where did you get all this information?
      So does everybody go out and start writing on one’s own blog, where hardly one in Thousands makes money by SEO??

    • There was a time that making $50 a month on Triond was no biggie. Many writers made more than that every month. I am talking from 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010; making more than $50 a month just from one site…

      Once it was slapped down by Google it died.

    • It is Google and Google alone which caused this in their evil. What was once an open info highway, where you could read the views of people all over the world is now limited, for why write if you aren’t being paid?

    • Yes, that is true. Ezinearticles nearly close down too, but somehow they manage to stay afloat.
      I think the intention of Google Panda is good, but it sure makes a lot of writers go hungry.

    • It was a trick. Google wanted to introduce a writing site which didn’t pay. No one would join if it didn’t pay… so it destroyed other sites.

      Google fooled the public as it always does.

      Google is like margarine. In the 1950s it was claimed to be a health food. Everyone pushed the public to use this product. It never was healthy.

      Panda was not created to protect writing sites but to destroy them.

    • Yes, Google Panda is one of the best software that makes minus to the scammers in the world of internet. I like it most because it catches the scammers every year. I think it is thief and scammers catchers.

      First of all, let’s start by discussing the Google algorithm. It’s immensely complicated and continues to get more complicated as Google tries its best to provide searchers with the information that they need. When search engines were first created, early search marketers were able to easily find ways to make the search engine think that their client’s site was the one that should rank well.

      In some cases it was as simple as putting in some code on the website called a meta keywords tag. The meta keywords tag would tell search engines what the page was about.

      As Google evolved, its engineers, who were primarily focused on making the search engine results as relevant to users as possible, continued to work on ways to stop people from cheating, and looked at other ways to show the most relevant pages at the top of their searches. The algorithm now looks at hundreds of different factors.

      Panda first launched on February 23, 2011. It was a big deal. The purpose of Panda was to try to show high-quality sites higher in search results and demote sites that may be of lower quality. This algorithm change was unnamed when it first came out, and many of us called it the “Farmer” update as it seemed to affect content farms. (Content farms are sites that aggregate information from many sources, often stealing that information from other sites,

      in order to create large numbers of pages with the sole purpose of ranking well in Google for many different keywords.) However, it affected a very large number of sites. The algorithm change was eventually officially named after one of its creators, Navneet Panda.

      • The Panda DESTROYED paying online writing sites. That is What it did. It slapped down a whole site. So if there were 49,000 writers on Hubpages and only 9 were crap writers, it slapped everyone the same by giving the SITE a minus score. It wasn’t that there was a search and specific items were targeted… NO. Panda went after Online Writing Sites that Paid. This was to introduce its NON PAYING Knol.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Scam Proof 8 years, 4 months ago

    I never win.   This was proven at the supermarket some years ago when there were three prizes and four entries.

    All my life I have never won; save when I was 13 and at some charity auction won a round bed […]

    • Oh yes. One just has to be grounded in the fact that scammers are busy…and anything that can be hacked will be hacked.

    • Those ‘legacy’ mails are a common feature in my email folder. I do not open them but just delete them. But there have been some who acted on those mails and were robbed of the initial money that the emails demand before “processing the papers” not to speak of sending all personal details such as physical addresses and so on.

    • A lot of people fall for those scams. When you don’t live in the US they become comical, because the writers assume you live in America and shop at these places or applied for this credit card.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Watching Television Programs Online 8 years, 4 months ago

    For those of us who live in the 3rd or 4th world, getting any kind of first rate television program is more wish than reality.

    If we do get a top rated show you can be sure it is a few years old and that if the […]

    • With the slow internet connections I wonder if one can watch a full movie for example. How do you find it. Do you have a fast ISP? I will try and see and thank you for those addresses.

    • I don’t have that fast a connection, but what you do is if the show sort of halts, you hit the little arrow thing… it’s an arrow if it is not showing but loading, and to lines when it is showing. So you halt it, (as you would do if you were getting up to get coffee) and then give it a few minutes and start it…

    • You have the power to stop and start, so you use it. What you find is that if you halt the showing of it by pushing the arrow, as I mentioned, and then play a game,like solitare or write an item offline, for about say… ohhh… ten minutes… and when you go back the show ought have loaded to the extent that it flows.

      Cause my connection is no super shot

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    kaylar wrote a new post, How to Make Your Own Coconut Oil 8 years, 4 months ago

    This is labour intensive, but worth it.

    Get a number of dry coconuts, split them and take out the hard white meat.

    Get a grater and grate the hard meat until you have a lot of it.

    Now put it in a deep […]

    • WE feed the coconut to chickens as well. It doesn’t waste. It’s really good oil.

    • Is scraping good enough or could the scrapings be ground for faster result. This seems a good way to get oil. That stuff that remains must smell good. Have you tasted it?

    • Of course… I make it. I usually get a bunch of children and let them grater the coconut. I don’t like the custard, but they love it.. so I pay them in custard. Smells great of course…

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