It has been a little over 3 months since I joined indiblogger. As the name suggests, it is a community of indian bloggers. Being part of such an enthusiast blogging community, it was suggested to meet up and socialize to know fellow bloggers. Such events are no strange to indiblogger, these meets have been conducted many a times in the past in many cities across India. The main agenda for today’s meet was to discuss about Google page rank and how this will help bloggers. For good, the venue was shifted from Coffee Day to Potluck. Mr. Birla was generous enough to sponsor the premises of his restaurant PotLuck as well as ‘pakodas’ for free! Oh yeah, tea/coffee were offered many a times through out the session!
There were hardly half a dozen of folks by scheduled time. Just like the great politicians in our country, many bloggers too live by Indian Stretched Time (IST). Blame it on ‘Google‘ search results as many of the attendees were misguided to head towards another restaurant by name Potluck near IIMB on Bannerghatta road. It took a while for them to realize the actual venue, which is located near BTM Layout and thus the session started almost 30 minutes late. Leaving it all aside, it is appreciable that many made it for this event. Though a couple of them came even after 5pm, we were still going through ‘few minutes of fame’ introduction round to know each of blogger. I would say there were about 25 people in all.
It was interesting to know bloggers from being techies working at MNC’s to entrepreneurs, unemployed consultants (seriously, couldn’t understand what it actually means), students and social media gurus! The real surprise was that, some of them even maintain & manage about 4 to 5 blogs. There were bloggers with a mix bag of varied interests like poetry, tech stuff, travel, day to day random ramblings, movie reviews and many more. All through the introduction session, funny moments were all around with PJs and fellow bloggers getting busy in pulling the legs of each other without missing any opportunity. The discussion on ‘Google Page Rank‘ started with a bit of history and its current state of importance. It was a nice discussion with so many questions being answered by fellow bloggers. The gist of the discussion is that Google does index the content even if you include ‘nofollow’, just that it doesn’t provide authority. If nofollow is excluded for links, then that link will get both authority as well as content index. Mutual link exchange among bloggers will certainly help in improving the page rank. If you find my blog useful and like it, feel free to offer some link love 😉
Got to know a bit more about the indirank and the parameters on which the rank is arrived at. If you don’t know, I have an indirank of 80 as on date. This is on a scale of 100 and higher the rank towards 100, better is the site performance. 80 and above is considered to be a good blog :), glad indiblogger recognizes me as a popular blogger! At the end, it was a kind of feedback session to make ‘indiblogger’ a better place. I had a good number of suggestions and hope the indiblogger team members have noted them all. I will look forward to see them being implemented at the earliest. More than all, got to know many bloggers from Bangalore and it is always nice to have such meets often to discuss and learn new things. Thanks to PotLuck for sponsoring the venue. I am reminding all you out there… if you get an opportunity like this, do make the best use of it. Don’t miss such a blogger meet next time!
PS: Note to self – Forget not to carry business cards whenever you head for such a social meet.
Raymond Cardoza says
Hi Mohan nice to know about your thoughts on indiblogger meet at bangalore really i missed it
once in a lifetime i will attend indiblogger and TED if possible .
And Mohan what about Alexa did it work for you, for me it worked nice.
Mohan says
So far it is good… May be because of good traffic to my site too 🙂 Sure, look forward to meet you in one of those events. There is one indiblogger meet next sunday in bangalore.
Prashant says
Couldn’t make it to the meet as I was out of town. Thanks for sharing the minutes.
Birla says
Thanks everyone for coming over and thanks Mohan for the great article. Love your writing style.
Mohan says
Thanks for sponsoring the venue and snacks Birla! it was indeed a great time we had with fellow bloggers!
Hari says
Mohan thank you very much for the update. I enjoy being on Indiblogger and reading as much as these articles as I could. Are you aware of any such meet in the United States?
Thank you.
Mohan says
Hi Hari, yes. It is possible to have a meet in US. One of the user has proposed for a meet in singapore. Check indiblogger site for more details on how you can participate/organize blogger meet in your location.
sharath says
damn… i couldn’t make it to the meet 🙁 hopefully next time i’l be there for sure 🙂 thanks for the updates mohan 🙂
Mohan says
Sure, look forward to meet you in the next event Sharath!
Kevin Rodrigues says
Hope we can have an Indiblogger meet in Mumbai soon.
Mohan says
Why not! propose one through indiblogger, there is an option to do it. Soon you folks could be having a meet in Mumbai!
Neha says
such initiatives always help..we get to know so many people thru blogs but meeting them one on one must be one of its kind experience…and nice to know that your blog has a rating of 80 🙂 congratulations..
Mohan says
Thanks Neha. Yes, it is always a good feeling to personally meet all those virtual people in the blogosphere 🙂
vineeta says
🙁 I missed it!! I am now waiting for the next one to happen 😀 I will make sure that I dont miss the upcoming meets as I am sure meeting blogger in person must be altogether different experiences 😀
Mohan says
I was expecting you… never mind, I will ensure to put a post on my blog to let people know about such a meet next time.
hitesh says
yup, it would say it was as good as experience as you described it here……it felt a bit lonely cause most of the blogger are not blogging for money but for pleasure……leaving that apart…..i got to know many a things……about blogging…..how can i improve???? and many different aspects of blogging…….big thanks to Birla Sir…. for sponsoring the meet……….
well, cause of this meet……..i can say….i’ll be there in every if i’m in the city….
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Mohan says
Hey Hitesh, nice to have you here! welcome 🙂 nice to have known you too.
Reshma says
Thanks for the update Mohan. Nice know such meet ups are happening to take blogging to the next level in India.
Mohan says
Yes! so, when are you starting your blog? 😉
Jeet says
Good detailed writeup but were missing few things read at my post – http://www.technewsbeats.com/blog/indiblogger-meet-bangalore/
Mohan says
Thanks! appreciate you covering the remaining stuff.
Lakshmi Rajan says
*sighs* could not make it and I actually forgot too 😀 , next time peepz plz keep it in middle of city 😛 Looking forward to next session 🙂
Mohan says
Hmmm… looking forward to meet you in the next event.
anna says
Hi do you have any suggestion how to promote this easily.
Mohan says
Sorry, I don’t think I got your question right.. could you rephrase please?
Roshmi Sinha says
Great to read about the bloggers meet… nicely summarized. Congrats on your IndiRank 🙂
Mine is down from 82 to 76 this time… all ‘coz I wrote a post after 8 days last week 🙁
Bad health to blame. Hopefully my IndiRank will travel northward… going forward 🙂
Mohan says
Wow Roshmi… Congrats! your blog deserves a much better rank for sure! Hope you are doing good now. Thanks and look forward to see you back in action 🙂
Gyanban says
Inspied by the bangalore meet – am trying to see if I can Singapore bloggers interested…!
Mohan says
Saw that proposal on indiblogger. Wishing you all the very best.
Raghavendra satish says
Hey Mohan nice post and i have done a similar post last evening on my blog http://raghavaperi.blogspot.com/2010/01/bangalore-bloggers-meet-2010-by.html
It was nice meeting you all and hope to see you all soon.
Mohan says
Its a co-incidence that I was busy leaving a comment on your article while you were at mine! Thanks for all the info dude 🙂
Raghavendra satish says
Hahahaha yes its true. i just saw your comment and got back to your blog. Any time anything i am ready to help anyone with the knowledge god gifted. me with…….
PS. Raghava “Blogging is my passion and Blogging was my bread and butter” Satish
Mohan says
That is so kind of you. Will connect with you offline to explore what to look at. Thanks once again Raghava.
Sriharsha says
Well, I’m the guy maintaining 4 to 5 blogs 😀 And a big thnx Mohan for bringing the things together in a single post 😛 I think some of them missed the train when the Google Page Rank topic started. Well even I had to concentrate a lot because of all the history and tech words used by Raghav, he is such a genius in these things.
I was shocked seeing that the majority of the bloggers were working in MNC’s. There were harldy two students I guess, me and Mohinish.
Mohan says
Welcome to my blog Sriharsha! I should get inspired to maintain so many blogs like you. Yes, I did enjoy the knowledge being shared by Raghavendra Satish. What is there to feel shocked? It was normal for me :D. Nice to have meet up with you.
shruti says
How cool!!!!! am yet to be a member of such joints!! great summary!!
Mohan says
I am surprised! let me take the honors of introducing you then 🙂
sowmya says
Sorry to have missed this!
Mohan says
There is always a next time! cheer up 🙂
Rajashekar says
Hey Mohan,
Glad to meet you at Blogger’s meet. Hope to see you soon again. All the best. If anyone wants to see the pictures of the meet, please hit my blog 🙂 . Haha, shameless self promotion 🙂 But really, I’ve uploaded the meet pictures.
-Raj
Mohan says
Hi Raj, thanks for the pics. My pleasure to have met you too!
Deepa Gopal says
That was nice sum up!
I have been ranked recently…joined Indiblogger recently…and so happy to receive a rank whatever that means. Its a way of appreciation I believe 🙂
Is there any meet happening in Dubai?? Sounds like fun! And to knw all the fellow bloggers seems great.
Mohan says
Nice to know you and your association with Indiblogger! Welcome to my blog 🙂
Well, just a while back one of the user proposed a meet up for indibloggers from Singapore! See, if you can loop in decent number of people to participate for an event in dubai! All the best 🙂
Swaram says
Wow Congrats 🙂 U got a nice ranking na 🙂
N the meet sounds fun 🙂 Keep seeing abt a few meets on the website .. nice to know from someone who hs attended the meet 🙂
Mohan says
Pleasure is mine! Hope we get to meet sometime soon in the upcoming events 🙂
Anoop Johnson says
Hey Mohan ..Nice read! and good meeting you. You are probably going to be the epicenter of the next meet in Bangalore 🙂
Mohan says
Same here Anoop! Hope to be one for sure 😉 nice to see you on my blog… Thanks!
lostworld says
Oh I got to know about this meet @ 5:40 on sunday evening..heehee.. when I saw your status msg on fb 😀
Nice to read about it. I had an idea about page ranks thanks to Shraddha, some more info never hurts. Congrats on the indirank. Thats so nice!!
Mohan says
np.. i will give an advanced heads up when such an event happens again. Hope to meet you all 🙂 Thanks!
Shreeni says
The other PotLuck is also BK’s (Mr. Birla) restaurant. In fact that one opened before the BTM one. 🙂
Mohan says
I thought he had another branch in Indiranagar! I may be wrong…
Aparna says
Couldn’t make it cos of a splitting headache!!! 🙁
But hey, it’s nice that you could attend! Was wishing to meet you in person, though! Next time…next time….
Mohan says
Hmm, lets catch up sometime in future 🙂 There is always a next time!
Nalini Hebbar says
I find your blog very useful and informative…way to go
Mohan says
Thanks Nalini 🙂
Shrinidhi Hande says
Congrats. Could you find out the logic/parameters used to get indirank? I’ve indirank of 84-not sure how to improve it further
Mohan says
Thanks Shri. You have a great indirank for sure! Well, the parameters that decide indirank include – alexa rank, google page rank, freuqncy of blog posts, relevancy of posts wrt to your blog description as on indiblogger and many more constitute some sort of points in each of the metric. For a range of points, rank is determined for a blogger. That is how the indirank works 🙂
Aparna says
Shrinidhi,
All the relevant stats & suggestions on your Indirank can be found on the Indiblogger site itself.Sign in to your account, go to your Dashboard, click on the ‘Blog & Indirank Stats’ link on the right side of the page, and there you go!!
Other information on how it is calculated etc is here: http://www.indiblogger.in/indirank/
Mohan says
That was an useful link to know it better! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Smitha says
That sounds wonderful! I am so waiting to get back to Bangalore and attend a meet like this.
Mohan says
if there are a good number of indibloggers in UK around your place, still you folks can plan to meet up. Let me know if you folks need any help in setting the agenda and the way things need to be handled.
shraddha says
how cool!
i would love to go for something like that!
i guess i am doing ok too..mine is 81.. !!!
but ofcourse we are not being boastful here just informative isn’t it!! wink wink!!
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Mohan says
Wow shraddha, you are going great guns! Congrats.. 😉
shraddha says
thought i will tell you a joke which is a true life reality!
i get better traffic via your blog( by commenting) than through google friend connect…
but seriously i am not retiring google friend connect yet ..
Mohan says
Hahahaha!!! Hope you said that on a serious note and not a joke! Glad my blog is helping many bloggers to get a good traffic 🙂 Hope you wont mind sharing some link love back 🙂
Prats says
Sounds awesome!!!! I wish I could have attended but I guess I will have to wait to meet with Bangalore Bloggers and tweeps…..
Great summary!!!
Mohan says
Sure, even I look forward for more such meet ups. Thanks!
Anand Bala says
Nice Summary Mohan
It was good to meet up with so many bloggers.
My* Aha!* moment came when I realized that a lot of the serious content on the net is probably being filtered out because some .bot can’t find a link on a page that has some brilliant content. While I knew this, the impact of it sunk in pretty deep at the end of the discussion. From 30,000 feet it sounds rather Orwellian that a .bot is telling me what is relevant and what is not.
It was good meeting you.
Mohan says
Nice to have met you there Anand. Yes, at times even I felt things were going over my head… so I had to bring the folks over there to layman terms for everyone’s benefit!