Grow Your Business With Us!

Shayon's Labyrinth has been in the blogging scene for over 2 and a half years, now. If you are a regular in the online circuit, I'm sure you realize the amount of search engine authority the age commands. This blog has climbed the search engine ladder very successful and has become a "first page"r on both Google and Yahoo when searched for related content. Shayon's Labyrinth also happens to get viewers from India, USA and Australia, predominantly, and gets about 1000 pageviews daily. Thus, you can understand what a steal it is, with me selling advertisement space at the rate of only $2 for 7 days.

Kindly note that my preferable payment option is via PayPal. If you wish to pay me via Demand Draft or Cheque, the charges for the advertisement shall rise to $3 per week. Moreover, you shall also need to provide an image and the URL to which the image is expected to link. Although hosting options are available in-house, it'd be adviseable for you to host your own images since that ways you can both monitor the number of page views and can also change or modify the image as and when you deem fit. By the way, the image must be of the size 125 x 125 pixels and of extensions *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.gif or *.png.

For more information, kindly leave a comment here or email me at shayon.pal@gmail.com.

Dare The Dream!

Do you dream? Do you have a passion that you might want to fulfill with all your heart? Do you have any hobby that some day becomes your ambition, your obsession? Did you ever try giving everything else in your life a second priority just so that you can spend one whole day doing what you love to do the best? Well, if you happen to reply a "yes" to any of the above questions, then I'm sure you shall surely understand the amount of passion I possess for the things and people I love.

Incidentally, even I happen to possess a little dream of my own. It's been over 3 years now that I've been on the blogosphere. First it was Rediff, then Yahoo & now Blogger. Yet, I still can't call myself a pro in blogging. Yes, I've been a very slow learner as far as blogging is concerned. But I would also like to speak a few words in my defense. I'm not a born writer. I've been imbibing the art of writing into myself from the time I first started to blog. Moreover, I happen to study in a college where regular and active internet connection is almost non-existent (yeah I know, I've been putting up this particular reason for a long long time now. Unfortunately the course of engineering takes a minimum of 4 years, which is a long time in itself). The fact that I don't own a personal computer, at the hostel I stay in, only adds up to my woes.

I'm sorry, I guess I got deflected from the topic. I was talking about my dream, wasn't I? Well, I love blogging and I feel the time has finally come for me to start giving a makeover to my blog page. I've been using free templates all this while. It's a shame that I still couldn't muster the CSS and Photoshop. Now, I feel, it's high time I got a custom blog page built for myself. I have been scourging for web designers who could help me out with the same, for quite some time now. I have a good friend named Ashwin George who'd helped me a lot in the design part but unfortunately, it seems, he's too busy maintaining his own affairs. So, I thought, I need to start looking elsewhere. After much ado, I finally happened to come across "MoonArts.com" who seem to be great and are ready to get my web page revamped for $70 USD. I've decided to go for it. After all, first impressions do matter, don't they?

Unfortunately, I've got just $11.79 USD in my PayPal account and I shall have to depend on donations for the rest of it. Hence, if you feel that my blog page is worth a pinch of salt and that I have the power to attract more readers to my page, then kindly donate some amount (minimum $1 USD) to my PayPal account (id: shayon.pal@gmail.com). If you don't have an account on PayPal, you can still donate money by clicking on the "PayPal Donate" button on this page and transferring the dollar using your credit card. And yeah, it's absolutely safe. Kindly help me out in my quest. If you wish, I'm even ready to host a button or banner on my page linking to your establishment.

Lastly, but never the least, I'd like to thank my dear friend Sally for donating the first dollar. Thanks a lot.

An Afterthought : Just realized that this was the 100th post I this year. It's the highest me and Sakshi have ever posted. I hope this shows that we are on the right track.

My Good Old Bike

A friend of mine had called, the other day, asking for our bike that he could ride to office, until he earns enough to buy one for himself. I was a little surprised at his request, mainly because we have a 18 years old Hero Honda CD 100 that's almost gone obsolete. What more, we also can't sell it 'coz it's not registered in the province (Maharashtra) where we live in and neither do we have a decent bike rack to keep it parked in. Anyways, I was asking Dad not to sell it 'coz it's the first and only bike Dad had ever bought and it'll be a great memory for him to show it to his grand children (if I'm able to produce any:-P). It's been a loyal friend and you don't dispose of your friends ever, do you?

I signed up for PPP!

I have been blog surfing, as usual, the other day when I suddenly stumbled upon this page that introduced me to PayPerPost. I wasn't too sure what it's all about, until I visited the site myself and skimmed through their forums. I must say, it was pretty impressive. I have been blogging for over 3 years now, but I had never known that earning the moolah while you do what you love the most, blogging, was so easy. All one needs to do is sign up their own blog pages on PayPerPost and voila! You are all set on your way to be a millionaire! On PayPerPost (PPP), all you need to do is choose the firms whom you'd like to repesent or whose products intrigue you. Check out their websites, read about their products and when you feel you are satisfied, come back and write about them on your page. Yes, it's as easy as that! What I loved the most about PPP is the fact that you can write about only those products that you feel are good. There is no pressure on you. Moreover, you can even write about them as and when you find time. You can choose your advertisers yourself, as per your taste!

So, what do you say? Personally, I feel, if you have a personal page or a blog, PPP is a great way to earn some money! What more? Since you register your own page with PPP, it also helps you to drive traffic to your blogs and personal pages.

Love India

It's a video made by one of my best chums, Indrashish, who also happens to be a budding musician in Mumbai. I'd strongly urge you to visit his page on YouTube to rate the video and also put in your comments. Do let me know what you feel about the video.