HI - I am new to blogging and hope to use travelblog to tell about our biking trips, especially the one we just finished. I have about 14 days and many pictures. Is it best to tell the whole trip in one entry or to break it into separate blog entries by day? I don't know what to do. If you can access the saved (not published) to see what i've got.
thanks. Lorry Schiesel
Reply to this Hello Lorry and welcome to the Forum!
There are many opinions on what is the best way to blog, but I believe that mid-length is better.
The first 26 photos will appear on one page, and after that they will move onto additional pages - I use the 26 photos as my upper photo limit, and my theory is if I need more photos, I may require another blog.
Words are another factor, I usually aim for between 1000-1500, unless I've been to somewhere which needs a more detailed explanation which might increase my entry to 2000 words (as with my North Korean blogs).
I suspect that you have had so many experiences in 14 days that it would fill more than one blog. Instead of either writing everything in one blog or writing a blog for each day, why not choose something in the middle. Say, three or four blogs which each one focusing on a major achievement or experience along the way? This is how I choose the number of my blogs - so some countries may only have one blog in two weeks, but others might justify two within a few days.
Have a look at different blogs and see what you prefer in terms of length of words, photos and them decide.
Reply to this Publish several different blogs, not one long one. This will keep the readers interest in my opinion. And blog by event and not by day that way you can give an experience the time and detail it deserves and just leave it at that. Don't force yourself to blog about a day if there really isn't anything interesting to write about (unless you're mom's reading it). These are just my opinions from limited experience. I am looking forwarding to reading what you've got!
Reply to this Hello Lorry 😊
One reason to make a lot of short blogs, rather than one long one is that you will gather subscribers as people discover your blogs. Every time you publish a new blog, the subscribers get an email. If you just update your long blog, they might not even think about looking for your updates, as they are likely subscribed to a number of bloggers.
Shorter blogs are easier to read, because readers don't have to look for where they stopped, at the last reading.
Most bloggers write a number of small blogs, rather than one big one. But the choice is yours really. If you prefer one long blog, then make it like that. It is all about what you want to say and how your want to present it.
Mel
Reply to this I recommend an individual blog for each country and major destination within that country so that fellow bloggers can find your blog to get your impressions of that destination. That way not only does your map shows that you have visited that country, others can find your blog under that location and do research for their own trips there.
And when you blog for that country, even though you are now in another country, show the blog for that country, not where you currently are...it drives me nuts to select Asia-Thailand-Bangkok, and then read a blog that is all about the country visited before getting to Bangkok.
I also like to date my blogs for when the visit took place. The setting of a story is both location and time.
And I like Shane's advice about the number of photos on a page. But I would add that just because you took 100 pictures of a place doesn't mean you have to publish all 100. I recommend selecting the best 26, labeling what each shows, by selecting those that complement what you have written, and cutting out the redundant ones, and those that are underexposed and you can't really see anything.
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