Blog Submission Sites In India

Are you a passionate blogger? Then here are some free blogging sites which you can make use of it and start publishing the blogs daily. So no wait, Sign Up today and start publishing. 

Well, Blogging remains as the passion for many people. But even some people enter into the blogging field to just earn more money. People who enter the blogging field in the motive of earning money will usually have some blogging sites and they will blog daily regarding particular topic and finally they will try to monetize the blog by driving more traffic from the Google Search. But in the most cases who comes into the blogging field just to earn money and without having any passion to do it will literally fail and end up messing up things. But this blog is purely for the bloggers who have more passion and keen on writing contents. Here’s something you can add up to your day plan and do more stuffs.

Literally if you have more interest in blogging and have no fund to buy a domain & start blogging, then here are the list of free blogging sites in which you can create accounts in your name and start writing the blogs in which you are interested in.

LetsDiskuss

LetsDiskuss is also a free online blog submission platform which has the DA of 27 and the PA of 24. Also, this platform acts as the question/answer forum as well. You can just get started with creating an account in this and start asking questions and even answer some questions as well. You can also publish blogs in this blogs under your name. This site has good Alexa rank of around 16,000 in India and 2,66,281 gloabally, which looks like great numbers. Hence its time for you to create accounts in the LetsDiskuss platform and start publishing.

Medium

Medium is one of the main online blogging platform in the recent times. You can create your own account in the Medium.com and can start publishing your blogs there in all the topics which you are interested in. Medium platform doesn’t restrict the users from publishing contents. As a blogger, you will have full freedom to write in any topic and publish them on Medium. Also, your blog will be visible to more people when you publish in Medium. You will also get more reach to your blog and if you are best at what you are doing, then you will get more followers for you in the Medium account.

The main advantage about the Medium account is that you can connect the social media profiles like Twitter, etc and share the blogs automatically on the connected social media profiles once you publish on the Medium profile. You can modify the URL slug, add tags and give a featured image to your blog as normally you do in the website. These many features have made lots of passionate bloggers to sign up for the Medium profile and start publishing. Hence as a blogger, if you would like to write any blogs in your interested domain, then create a Medium profile today and get started with it.

Quora 

Next to Medium, Quora is the online platform in which you can create free blogs and start publishing. Quora is not only a blogging platform, it’s also the most popular Question/Answer platform in the most recent times. Even if you search for any terms in the Google, you can see at least one Quora search result in the Google SERP. Not for all the search queries, but you can see the Quora webpage in the Google for most of the search terms, especially if your search query is question based.

Quora is also the free source in which you can simply sign up and start creating the blogs as per your interest. Interesting thing the Quora is that it has an option called upvoting by using which the users can like your blog if it has more value, Also like Medium, you can see all the detailed stats about your blog like number of users who have viewed your blog, number of users who have liked or upvoted the answers, etc. All these additional things adds more value to the bloggers. Similar to the Medium Blog, you will have more and more followers if you publish really quality contents.

Advantages of Blogging:

The main advantage about blogging regularly is that you will have more knowledge in the particular domain and will be able to explore new things regularly. Also if you publish some blogs on these free blogging sites, then later you can own new domain and start publishing there. Later you can monetize it and start earning. Though you are a passionate blogger, making some income through that will help you grow both economically and by knowledge wise. If you have your own blogging website, then you can start earning by many ways like applying for the Google Adsense and making money from it. Another way is by accepting paid guest posts, that is if you publish some guest posts for other and give do follow links to them from your site. Then they will pay you the fixed amount by you. These two are the most common ways which the bloggers use to earn money. 

5 Powerful tips to Promote and Brand Your Blog With LetsDiskuss

Build a Strong Brand Identity Leverage Social Media Marketing SEO Optimize Every Post Network & CollaborateRepurpose Your Content

Here’s Why it is Essential for Bloggers to Focus on Building Brand

Quick. Google “top SEO tips”. And observe which result do you click first

It’s likely, like the majority, you would visit Neil Patel or Backlinko’s website. Or maybe even Ahref’s.

Not necessarily because the other results are bad. But because these are three authority names that are well-recognized and reputed in the digital marketing niche. Their brand exudes trust and value. 

Now comes the punchline for all the bloggers: just creating blatant contents and optimizing them with keywords is NO MORE sufficient. If you’re looking to turn your blog into a full-time income stream, you need to take up sustainable marketing models.

Say, you’re creating more contents today and driving lots of organic traffic. You’re generating decent revenue. But what if you STOP producing more contents tomorrow? Given the algorithms of search engines and social media platforms change unpredictably, indeed your organic traffic will take a hit. And your revenue will slow down.

Now imagine, you built a brand that your core target audience recognize and trust. In that case, you won’t have to depend on an algorithm; you wouldn’t have to worry about shelling contents every day.

In the blogosphere, there are many big names who continue to enjoy hundreds and thousands of dollars annually on the back of pillar contents that they created years back. Yaro Starak is a renowned face, who leverages his old, evergreen blog posts to bring more customers to his business.

And then there is India’s Harsh Agarwal of ‘Shout Me Loud’. Although he’s making lakhs every month, he’s doing it the hard way. Failing to shape its brand value in the early stages, he has to create unique contents on a very consistent basis. For this, he even accepts guest posts, which has literally hit his blog’s quality. For the same reason – an ineptness to create a brand among the core target audience – his ‘Shout Me University’ course wasn’t really a big success.

In short, if you want to be successful – today, when competition is so high across all niches and SEO is easier said than done – you need to build yourself a brand. Period.

Now, you can focus on your own personal brand like, say, Neil Patel. Or, you can brand your blog, like HubSpot. That’s your choice, depending on your personal strategies and goals.

Comes the most important question next: How to build a brand?

Simple…

Start Conversations

There are many ways to build a brand for your blog. There are many tactics. But the fundamental to these tactics remain same: conversation. You need to talk to your target audience, engage them in a meaningful conversation, deliver them high value for their time, and (with no sense of economic returns) connect with them on an intimate level.

Look at any renowned and trusted brand out there. You will find that the majority of them don’t just offer their products/services to succeed—they actually go out of their way to connect with their target audience. Through their messages, unique personality and valuable contents, they connect with others. And this helps them build a brand for themselves, which go on to influence their sales and revenue.

So, once you’re done researching on and identifying who’s your most relevant audience, you must shape your entire digital marketing strategies around initiating and promoting conversations with them. Again, this is fundamental to a proper branding strategy.

Of course, moving along, comes the talk on channels where you should converse with your target audience. There are many social platforms to do this: Facebook, Medium, your own blog, Reddit, Quora, more.

However, in recent times, following the clumsy interface and outdated features of Quora, one platform that has gained massive attention from the top and new bloggers alike is LetsDiskuss.

LetsDiskuss is a rather Quora-like platform but with unique features and intuitive interface, it’s much more centric to “conversations”. Hence ‘Let’s Discuss’!

Continue Reading Part II of this post: 5 Powerful tips to Promote and Brand Your Blog With LetsDiskuss

How to Score 99% in 10th Board Exams?

10 to 14 hours of studying every day. Or at least that’s what the previous board exam toppers have in common.

I personally believe you don’t need to obsess “99 percent”. And you certainly do not need big grades to do big things in your life. It’s a hypocritical notion that pitiful Indian parents and mainstream media have collectively created that’s virtually ridding kids of not just happiness but also their lives.

In India, a student commits suicide every hour. Read that again. And read it one more time. It is an outcome of a pathetic culture where students are pushed and demanded to study hard in the garb of being competitive and success in their lives.

So, if you, too, are the victim of the same notion, made to believe that you must score 99% in your board exam, make note of this: YOU DON’T NEED TO. Scoring less – or even failing – wouldn’t mean you have failed in life, and neither would (and should) it be disappointing to the parents.

That explanation done and aside, here are next 8 powerful tips that will put you on the path to score 99 percent in 10^th board exams:

1.      Understand the syllabus

Before jumping on any subject, spend time with its syllabus. Understand it. Refer it over and over again.

Does it ever happen to you that when you hear a song, you automatically recall the whole music video or movie—right from its visuals to actors? The same concept works here—the syllabus is your song and the subject is your music video. When you remember the syllabus, you will automatically recall all the things you have learned in that subject.

So, spend time with the syllabus; understand it. It will make the learning process so much easier.

2.      Eat healthily

Many students do not understand the importance of eating right.

When you have to study for a longer stretch, you need the right mindset and enough energy. And this is where eating healthy and on time comes to play a significant role. The right food can keep your mood elevated, avoid tardiness and help improve your concertation.

So, aside from keeping yourself hydrated all the time, take special care to what you consume the entire day. Avoid fast food. Don’t eat anything that has lots of oil. Invest more in green veggies and fresh fruits. Eat Indian rotis instead of chawal. And most importantly, avoid heavy meals; eat in small quantities but at a regular interval.

3.      Try Pomodoro Technique

It is a time management and productivity technique. The process is simple. You divide your task into several 25-minute intervals; the interval is called Pomodoro. After completing every interval, take a short break of 3-5 minutes. And after you’re done with 4 intervals, take a long break of up to 30 minutes.

Note: the length of the intervals can vary depending on your requirements.

There are many Pomodoro apps in the market. Download any one. Or better, to keep your smartphone distraction away, use traditional watch or clock to track your time intervals.

4.      Set aside your entertainment time

All work, no play makes Jack a dull boy.

You can’t expect yourself to study for long stretches and not get bored. To that, after a threshold of continuous studying, your productivity level is bound to drop. So, it’s important that you spend time on entertainment avenues.

Another benefit of having a separate entertainment time set aside is that you will always be in know about when to study and when to chill. Your entertainment needs won’t intrude with your study time; and vice versa.

So, set aside no more than 60-minutes of entertainment time spread through your day in proper intervals.

5.      Let’s talk about friends…

There’s a division in opinion about group study and how effective it is. This is where talking about the group of friends becomes important.

If you’re grouping with a bunch of friends who never study or are weak in studies, it’s likely that they will end up influencing you to be like them. You will fiddle with your phone, talk about everything that doesn’t matter, and will never study seriously. The entire group time will be unproductive.

On the other hand, if you’re teaming with studious students who score good grades, there’s a good chance that their habits will motivate you, and the group study will be highly rewarding.

So, if you’re planning for group study, be a critique of your friends. See how they can influence your habit and the group session. If it’s a positive one, spend around 2 hours in group studying, If it’s negative, you’re better off studying alone.

6.      Watch YouTube

Yes, the internet is the biggest source of learning today. If used well, it can literally make your learning so much easier and interesting. To that, learning from online videos is much more rewarding and quicker. After all, there’s a reason why they say visuals are powerful than written words.

So, shoot your YouTube and watch relevant instructional videos. The website is flooded with very high-quality educational resources for school students. The right video and instructor will ensure you learn faster and better.

Remember, though, to not get carried away with the distracting prank videos.

7.      Spend time with previous years’ questions

It’s quite a no-brainer, but worth mentioning. Buy question banks and booklets of previous years’ questions; you can easily get them online. Spend time in understanding the question pattern and in solving each of them. The more you practice and answer the previous years’ questions, better you will be prepared for the big day.

8.      No more “tomorrow”

This is going to be the most difficult part for you. But if you are to score good in your 10^th board exam, it’s important that you say goodbye to your habit of postponing everything to “tomorrow”. Because that tomorrow never comes. And in no time you will find yourself a week away from your exam, still not prepared.

So, give up your bad habit of procrastination. Have well-defined small goals for your every day. And then work hard daily to achieve those goals. Try to finish your syllabus at the earliest so that you have enough time for complete revision at least twice before the exam.

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These are, in total, 8 tips that will put you on the way to score 99 percent in 10^th board exam.

Sure, it won’t be easy. And you will have a hard time. But push yourself out of your comfort zone. Surprise yourself and everyone with what you can really do. Try to enjoy the process. 

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Exam Paranoia And Mothers

To all the moms who go ninja during kids’ exams

“I don’t like exams,” said the 15-years old kid.

“You will score well, just study more,” retorted the mother.

“I don’t mind scoring less. I just don’t like exams because of you.” came the reply.

“What else can I do? Sharp reply from mother.

“You just don’t panic, don’t yell, don’t make exams punishments.”

If kids could really take heads out from the books and dare to look beyond the glaring stares of their moms, this is how a conversation between the two would go—at least during the exam season when Indian mothers bring out the real ninja inside them.

Preparing fatigue-free meals, yelling at the kid to study, assembling notes, yelling at the kid some more, organizing everything around, yelling at the kid a little more… and oh, not to forget the yelling at the driver for being 2.7 seconds late and whosoever rings the bell….poor maid …

After all Isaac Newton is preparing for exams! How dare a bee passes through?

In true sense, the chase to get high marks that’s so streamlined with the societal egos stemming out from parent meet-ups and social clubs, no more exams are just about the students. Mothers are the real warriors! You just have to have an eye to see that invisible sword!!

The care towards micromanaging every aspect of their children – that often extends into the territory of obsessiveness and irrationality – is what the most Indian Mass are all about after all. After all grades of your child are true reflection of how good a mother you have been. It’s a certificate from the society.

But is that for good or bad, that’s for us to collectively conclude! It’s much like sipping chocolate cocoa, overdo it and you’ll end up fat. Over-care and micromanage the kids and you can not only spoil them but also shake their confidence and esteem from the imprisonment of choices. Let them be! We are in 21st century, they will end up doing something or the other…don’t fret.

But again, in a country where mothers wishfully wash their adult sons’ underwear and ask their 40-years old daughters to come back home early, asking them to limit their limitless love for their little and “innocent” ones, it’s just too much to ask.

It’s exactly like telling Arnab Goswami that the nation doesn’t want to know anything anymore. You know he will never listen!

Coming from generations, of course, you too must had gone through the same things in the exam season. Your mother screaming from the kitchen, asking you to study and not To stare at the wall (because you didn’t have Smartphone back then to stare at). Her shrill concern on what Sharma-ji’s kids are doing and what the samaaj will think if you score less.

Like they (the samaaj) says, like mother like children. Tough and frustrating. it may have been for you in your own days, you’re now dutifully bestowing what your mother did and taught to you – like a true Indian naari – on your own child.

Good! You’re a great mother. I am a great mother! (Smell sarcasm?) But here’s a food for your thoughts—thoughts that are still lost in the reminder of reminding your kid to buy a good pen for the exam…giving him/her a tight hug….

You may have thought to have your child counseled before the exam. You may even have your little ones counseled to ensure them in the right mind frame for the exam day. But have you thought to go to a counselor yourself?

Because after the noise settles, the (good) result arrives and the joy breaks, you may realize it wasn’t your kids who needed counseling. It’s actually you!

I’ll see after my therapy session! Tell your kid all the best from me, will you?

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Gaming As A Career Option

Gaming Industry Is BOOMING (But Is It A Good Career Choice?)

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If not COD then at least Candy Crush—even when not a gaming enthusiast, people have still played this game in their downtime. Yes, social media channels and casual web browsing rein the hype-ville. BUT gaming is still the largest segment of the entertainment industry, attracting not just the young bunch as is traditionally believed but also the grown-ups.

According to the European Mobile Game Market 2016 report, there were 2.5 billion video gamers in the world. Now, in 2018, it’s not hard to guess that the number must have significantly boosted high.

Perhaps this is why the video games market is expected to be worth over a whopping USD 90 billion by 2020.

Naturally, with numbers as big and prospects even bigger, the gaming industry has turned heads of the millennial who, much to the disappointment of their parents, dislike traditional career choices like medical and engineering. This has led us to a much-discussed question today—

Is gaming a good career choice?

Unsurprisingly, the answer isn’t as straightforward as people would like it to be. Indeed, the gaming industry is booming. However, relying on progressive technology, its sustainability could very well be debated. Not that games wouldn’t exist 20 or 50 years from now. They will!

However, in what form or origin, one isn’t sure given the scope of AI in this field is still isn’t very clear. Meaning to say, how fast this industry will change and will it be equally profitable tomorrow as it is today—a lot lie loosely on speculations. And when it comes to measuring career success, the majority of people like certainty over risks, assurance over “what ifs”.

This, alone, puts off many aspirants who are initially attracted to the glam of the gaming industry. When thinking up and close, weighing in all the pros and cons, picking up a suitable role here doesn’t seem quite an appealing option for them.

Too many perks 

That being said though, when measuring the current scenario and expected numbers in the short-run, career in the gaming industry is a holy grail to many young minds. And with expanding reach of this field, the number of opportunities are on the rise too, ensuring no one has to compromise on their ‘real skills’ just for the sake to blend in and experience the thrill of working in this industry.

You don’t necessarily need to be a developer or an animator for that matter. With today’s games so much life-like, where every dimension has to be perfect for the over-critical gamers, the team of makers can span into hundreds, packing a very diverse range of professionals—from creative directors to audio engineers, game artists to level editors, lead artists to narrative copywriters, and product managers to technical artists.

Too many opportunities

So the opportunities are in ample for all—even for the entrepreneurs. We’ve heard many success stories of small teams creating incredible games, in their garages and likes, for Android, iOS, Xbox and PS platforms, and becoming the ‘next big thing’ in this industry. And when in accompany of success – that’s easily measurable – paychecks are just equally big; even bigger than that of traditional career streams.

And isn’t that what a large part of today’s dreamers and career-makers wishes for? More pay, a little bit of risk, plenty of opportunities, and a life with passion.

A career in the gaming industry has it all.

In short, yes, a career in gaming is a great option today. But not necessarily for all. The industry has it all – and even more – that other traditional streams offer. However, it is best suited to a select segment who aren’t really fond of the conventional paths.

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Women's Empowerment In India

Safer Cities For Women: The Finalists

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Since the emergence of the #MeToo hashtag in 2017, the disturbing reality of the scale of violence against women at home, work, school and outside in their cities has come to light in the mainstream.

The finalists of the third edition of the Womanity Award 2018, themed ‘Creating Safer Urban Environments for Women’, are making global cities, transport systems and public spaces less threatening for girls and women.

The Womanity Award unsurfaces innovative solutions around the world and focuses on the power of collaboration to address the root causes of Violence Against Women (VAW). At the heart of the Womanity Award is the aim to take these solutions to scale through a carefully supported process of adaptation by partner organisations in new settings.

With the support of The Womanity Foundation, organisations from different parts of the world expand their reach into new geographies, with the aim of preventing violence against millions more women and girls.

Womanity Award programme manager Laura Somoggi says: “Creating safer private and public environments means harnessing the power of women and men, businesses, public institutions, and civic society. They need to collaborate to design and develop – among other things – buildings which feel safe for women, streets which are well lit, safer public transport and solutions which involve women’s voices. Our finalists are very much at the leading edge of this work.”

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CREATING SAFER URBAN ENVIRONMENTS FOR WOMEN: THE FINALISTS’ PROGRAMMES

Liveable Environments: Applying safety audits to housing projects and the surroundings – Col.lectiu Punt 6 and Instituto Mujer y Sociedad

From Spain and also having worked in Colombia, finalist Col.lectiu Punt 6 are a collective of feminist urban planners, architects and sociologists.

Their Liveable Environments programme works with local women and governments to assess safety in the city. They look not only at public spaces, but also housing developments and the surroundings to see where improvements can be made.

With the results, Col.lectiu Punt 6 designs and maps plans for safer urban spaces and new social housing developments with features such as more visibility and better communal places for women inside and outside the home.

The collective plans to work with the Instituto Mujer y Sociedad (IMS) to replicate the programme in two neighbourhoods of Montevideo, Uruguay.

IMS has more than thirty years of experience in providing legal and psychological assistance to victims of gender violence, helping reduce violence against women and girls, and creating knowledge and education programmes on gender-based violence. They work very closely with local civil society organisations and the government on the defence of human rights.

To find out more about the finalists innovative plans click here

Safer Cities for Girls – Plan India and Vishakha

Plan India Safer Cities for Girls strives to increase girls’ and women’s safety in India and access to public spaces, as well as amplify their voice on how they want their cities to be.

Plan India works with governments and gives training to boys, families and communities to promote a supportive social environment for girls. The programme also creates and promotes safe youth clubs and community safety walks. They have a particular interest in addressing and preventing violence in public spaces and on transport, particularly sexual violence.

After the pilot programme in Delhi, Plan India found that 15% more girls reported always feeling safe in public spaces and 48% more girls said they were starting to get involved in local issues.

Plan wants to extend the programme to at least 20 cities. As a finalist, they will work with women’s rights organisation Vishakha to expand the programme to Jaipur, the largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan.

Vishakha is a respected organisation which played a key role in a major petition in 1997 in India which led to the Supreme Court issuing guidelines for prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace that year. They have a very strong relationship with local communities in Jaipur.

To find out more about the finalists innovative plans click here

Safetipin Safety Audit Apps – Safetipin and Soul City

Finalist Safetipin has produced four Apps, including My Safetipin App, which sees red, orange or green pins dropped on city maps indicating which areas are the safest for women. Women’s safety apps gather crowdsourced information of women’s feelings of safety and other criteria such as lighting, quality of walk/ cycle paths and gender balance in public spaces.

The Safetipin Apps are currently being used by over 85,000 people in 12 cities, mostly in India but also in others such as Bogota, Nairobi, Manila and Jakarta.

In Delhi, seven different government departments have used Safetipin’s data to make improvements, including to fix all dark areas. And in Bogota, the local authorities have used the app to audit and improve bike paths in the city.

Safetipin is partnering with the Soul City Institute for Social Justice for Young Women and Girls in South Africa. This scale up will allow the support to be geared to a country which has a femicide rate five times the global average (Statistics SA, 2016).

Soul City is recognised globally for its pioneering work on social change communication. It uses a combination of mass/social media, social mobilization and policy advocacy to bring about social change. It is also currently working on the Safe Taxi Campaign to reduce abuse and sexual violence on public minibus taxis, the most used means of transport in Johannesburg.

To find out more about the finalists innovative plans click here

MORE FREEDOM TO LIVE, WORK, LEARN AND SOCIALISE: WHY SAFER CITIES FOR WOMEN ARE SO IMPORTANT

A recent World Bank Study (2018) shows that four in five countries have laws to protect women from sexual harassment outside the home, but these laws often do not cover harassment in the streets.

The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has set the elimination of “all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres” as one of its specific goals.

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