Looking for new talent! Seen anyone's journals that are making you laugh, cry or just keeping you interested for hours...
Yeah i agree enjoy writing them and if a few other people look at them also you should be happy....... Although the stats thing is a nice ego boost - don't know how accurate they can be and I’m sure most people just click and look at the photos but still!!!
Sorry for the unoriginality but i still think 'Cumberland sausage' is the best. Before starting my own i sat at my desk in London avidly reading his for four months. Great photos and txt..... does anyone know what he does for a living?
As for others all the ones Ali has mentioned are good (including his own!)
Reply to this I mean I've read my stats...but it's hard to gauge if it's just my family and close friends reading. I definitely think my blog makes me happy. It gives me a connection to the world I'm not in right now, and gives them a connection to mine. I think that's the best part.
Reply to this Well, that's tough no matter what. Even if you have your own personal website, unless it demands a login for viewing, you're not sure who's reading it. I assume my own personal website is read mostly by friends and family, although Spambots tend to be a good portion of the traffic, then you have random joe that stumbles upon it and reads a little.
Most people don't comment unless something sparks that desire to do so. Maybe it triggers a memory of their past travels or they really enjoyed your pictures or somethign like that. Usually though, I think many people remain silent viewers.
Reply to this I've read about the spambots flying round the web but didn't realise they could be increasing my stats?......... could explain why they are always read today or yesterday no matter when i posted them!!!
Reply to this Spambots shouldn't be a problem here - the counter uses javascript link which spambots don't follow. Many views will be one click wonders - clicking in from a search engine then backing out!
Reply to this We haven't been following anyone's in particular but have found reading random blogs about places we are about to visit very useful. Thinking of adding more "practical" info to ours just in case there's someone out there stumbling upon our pages (other than friends and family), so we can perhaps be of some help to others as well, even if it's just in some small way...
Just out of curiosity, is anyone else you've come across writing their blog in more than one language? We are and I guess this is partly why we are 2 months behind! (getting embarrassing now). Would be interested to know how they find this side of blog writing, unfortunately for us it's becoming a bit of a chore which is a shame. Then again maybe the trick is to keep the pages short and sweet rather than ramble on for hours like we do? (ahem).
Enjoy your travels everyone and stay safe...
Reply to this I have 35 subscribers and average about 150 page views per entry ... so I assume someone other than my friends and family occassionally checks my stuff out. But I'm a first time blogger, so I'm wide open for any tips.
Reply to this I just completed my 6 month blog, granted we were stationary in Sydney so we didn't have the allure of world travel, but still I had 42 subscribers including some strangers I picked up along the way. By the time I finished I averaged about 200 hits per blog. (With one totally bizarre and accidental blog that got way into the thousands because I used the words 'good, cheap, furniture' and became the number one google hit on that search!) I thought a lot of my normal 200 hits were just one hit wonders but I found out I actually had a decent base of 'lurkers' who finally sent me little notes saying they enjoyed reading etc. So - I think if your stats show some consistent numbers you should write as if you do have a small following of readers who aren't just your friends and family who
have to read.
Reply to this mmmm good cheap furniture.... imagine if you replaced furniture for sex how many hits you'd get!!!! unfortunately I supply neither
I'm glad the stats isn't all the spambots I think it’s all about your target audience I write for the people back home with a few tips along the way and only have a few subscribers but get loads of hits
.. I’ve actually found the more mainstream the blog the more hits you get my top one is of the full moon at about 1,000. Personally I’d always rather read the more bizarre ones.
Ali, have you hung up your traveling boots?
and Mark that's some effort writing in two languages I was always about two weeks behind on mine!!!
Reply to this Ali, have you hung up your traveling boots?
He's still out and about, just getting blogittis, or bloglag, or whatever we're calling it. :-) I'm waiting for him to make it to my side of the world again, but I imagine that won't be till he hits S. America, or heads back to the UK or something to get another new passport.
Ali, can't wait to read more of your journals and check out the pictures. I have sent on your Muay Thai blog to a few friends... one is starting a course here in town.
Reply to this I got an email from Ali a week or so ago . . .he's on some island with limited internet and he's busy with diving classes. But, on that note, I loved that bloglag thread . . I was suprised given its prominance on the home page that more people didn't contribute blogterms.......for example the blogging-in-2-languages would be a perfect blogterm, but it's too early for me to think of one!
Reply to this Ali's still here - checks in everyday spending a days living expenses on an hours internet use!! Yikes.
There are a ton of blogterms waiting to be coined 😊 - bloglingual... writing in a couple of languages or blogaphrenia ? writing with multiple personalites...
Yeah - I'm living in paradise learning to become a scuba dive instructors (DMT'ing then IDC'ing for those in scuba circles) - shoud take a few more months. Paradise has it's little problems... internet access is one of them, hedonism is another... 😊 having a lot of fun!
Reply to this I've been laughing with 'mad dog mo' (Sally Morgan) who is in New Zealand at the moment and is a new travel blogger. She is having a good trip, very funny and is on her way I understand to China and Mongolia in the next few months, which I will follow with interest.
Yes - do look at your stats, it's a great boost to confidence to see that people are checking out your text, even if they don't leave comments.
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There's mine, it's pretty interesting if you dont want to read about how pretty something is that everyone else has seen 1000 times before and want my stupid insight on things accross the USA ...
am I even allowed to promote my own journals? :P
Reply to this Andrew Mastrandonas (aka AndrewNCostaRica) has written an incredibly detailed and soulful look at his move from the states to Costa Rica. He has I think influenced many "wanna be's" to go ahead and keep dreaming their dreams and put action into them. Thouroughly enjoyable reading backed with fantastic pictures of his adventures. He has settled in San Ramon area and travels throughout Costa Rica still. A great way to see this country is through his eyes.
Reply to this I have really loved Coffeecat's blogs. She is so funny and the captions under her pictures are hilarious. I will be starting my travels with my boyfriend in May 2006 and was starting to feel really nervous until i started to read her blog's. They are so informative, inspiring and her optimisim shines through, especially in her photo's. I have since been in touch with Coffecat and hope to meet up with her when we get to Vancouver. Thank you Fiona (coffecat) for making the thought of travelling a little less scary!!
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