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    Japanese Poetry

    Japanese poetry has influenced English literature greatly. Haiku and Tanka are some of the Japanese poetry styles that are very popular in English literature. I have read a lot of Japanese poetry translated into English. I have also read a lot of English poems that are heavily influenced by...
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    Pulp Vs Literary Works

    Do you read pulp literature or literary works? Well, when I was in my teens I read a lot of pulp literature but these days I do not read pulp literature, I only read literary works. Pulp literature is basically for entertainment and reading pleasure and I no longer read for pleasure and...
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    Using Generative AI in Literature

    Recently, I read about an award winning Japanese author who admitted that at least 5 percent of her book was generated through an AI. The author said she used AI to write scenes and dialogues. What do you think about using AI to write books, especially literary books?
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    Reading for knowledge vs reading for pleasure

    Reading has two purpose, one, reading for knowledge, and two, reading for pleasure. In my early days, I mostly read for pleasure. Therefore, I always chose novels, short stories and poetry. However, these days, I mainly read for knowledge, thus, I read history, religion, politics, philosophy...
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    Do you really need college/university education?

    I spent total 21 years until I completed my university education. However, I never went for the job on the subjects I leaned through traditional learning environment. This makes me wonder if college/university education is actually needed to progress in life. What do you think?
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    In the name of God

    In the dark ages and middle ages, everything happened in the name of God. They looted in the name of God, they killed in the name of God, they went to war in the name of God, they subjugated people in the name of God. Doesn't this make God an oppressor?
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    How many genders are there?

    I was raised on a traditional society that told me there are two genders, man and a woman. Even though some people are born with the reproductive organs of both genders, they are basically close to one gender and can biologically associate with one of the two genders. However, these days there...
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    Pros and cons of free hosted forums

    If you want to build a forum without having to spend any money, you can try free forum hosting services like proboards, forumotion, jcink, etc. The major benefit of using these platforms is do not have to spend money, you can easily get started. The major disadvantages include, not having...
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    A forum powered by wordpress

    Have you ever used wordpress to build a forum, what forum plugin did you use? Well, I have tried wordpress to build forums multiple times and I used forum plugins like WPforo and Asgaro. Currently, I am not using wordpress for my forum. There are a lot of limitations with these forums built on...
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    Do you receive organic traffic on your forums?

    Does your forum receive visitors from search engines? I have three forums and none of the forums receive any search traffic. However, I once had a forum that received search traffic, about10 percent of traffic came from the Baidu search engine. I sold that forum a long time ago. IN fact I was...
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    Do you have organic activities on your forums?

    Do you have users who post on your forums without receiving any sort of incentives? Do you have users who joined your forum voluntarily and post on your forum voluntarily? I am running three forums, sadly, I do not have organic activities. Most users on my forums are people who joined the forum...
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    What are your favorite methods of link building?

    Some of the methods I use for link building include: Publishing articles on article-writing sites Publishing guest articles on forums and blogs Submitting my site to the promotional directory and link directory on various sites, mostly webmaster forums. using signature links for various forums...
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    How often do you do SEO audits?

    Do you do SEO audits on your site? How often do you do it? I do SEO audits once a year. I run multiple sites and it is not possible to do SEO audits on every site, therefore, I try to do SEO audits only on the sites that are generating organic traffic. I focus more on successful sites so that...
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    What are your favorite ways of reducing bounce rate?

    What is your bounce rate? Well, I run multiple sites and my bounce rate is between 50-90 percent. While I am still trying to limit my bounce rate to 40 percent, I have not been able to do that. Some of my favorite strategies to reduce bounce rate include, encouraging people to leave comments on...
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    Paid Search Traffic

    If you do search engine marketing, you can receive paid search traffic. Have you done this? Well, I have done this multiple times and I have got favorable results. When you do search engine marketing, you bid on keywords and try to rank your site on the top paid search results, the list you see...
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    Advertising Through Forums: Pros and Cons

    have you tried advertising through forums? What is your experience like? What are the pros and cons of using forums as your advertising platform? Can you get the desired results by advertising through online communities? Well, I have used free marketing on forums but never run an ad campaign on...
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    Google Ads

    Do you use Google Ads (formerly Google Adwords) for advertising? How often do you run ad campaigns through Google Ads? Well, I have used Google Ads multiple times, however, these days I no longer use Google Ads. I find Facebook ads a lot easier. Google Ads is basically a CPM and CPC ad network...
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    What is your favorite social media platform for marketing and advertising?

    Do you market and advertise on social media platforms? What platform do you use for your marketing and advertising campaigns? I have used multiple social media platforms for marketing and advertising, and my favorite platform is Facebook. Advertising on Facebook is very simple, you can easily...
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    What is your experience with influencer marketing?

    Do you have an influencer status on social media? Do you do influencer marketing for your clients? If you do not have influencer status, do you work with influencers to promote your products and businesses? Well, I do not have influencer status, so I don't do influencer marketing. However, I...
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    Video Advertising

    How often do you engage in video advertising? What kind of video ads do you run? On which platform do you run your video ads? When it comes to video advertising, my experience is limited to sharing short videos through multiple video-sharing platforms and boosting the video for better reach. I...
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