Ashanali Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 (edited) I know there are lots of people who have blogs for personal and/or work use. Blog love is a good way to increase readership, generate comments and also increase your SEO (search engine optimisation). For it to work properly, it helps if you disable 'no follow'. The instructions to disable 'no follow' for 'blogger' are easy to find using google. Wordpress blogs require a plugin. However, you don't HAVE to do this to be a part of 'blog love' - disabling 'no follow' simply means that robots will crawl your site and also link to people who have left comments. The more links created, the more that google-bots like you. If you choose to not disable 'no follow' then it means that people will leave comments and love and it's just a bit of fun. HOW BLOG LOVE WORKS 1. After you make a post on your blog, come in here and add the direct link to the post. 2. Leave comments on the three or four blogs listed above yours in this thread (at their blog, not in this thread). Don't make stuff up. If you don't like what you see, find an element you do like, "I really like the dog", "her shoes are great!" - just find a positive element to talk about. It doesn't have to be elaborate. sooo... I will go first. here is our latest blog post... the groom is a brother of a DOLer http://savvystudios.blogspot.com/2010/02/t...rash-dress.html (I'll also comment on the next three blogs listed under me) Edited February 6, 2010 by Ashanali Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 In the weeds at Kristin Anderson Photography blog And I've been prolific this February so far with my Daily KJA shots and random posts (including finally Ushuaia from last year LOL) -> Kristin's News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikivds Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 http://www.peppernossi.blogspot.com/ my blog following my agility dogs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashanali Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share Posted February 7, 2010 http://www.peppernossi.blogspot.com/my blog following my agility dogs I posted on your blog but it would only let me post as 'anonymous'. You might need to check your settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted February 7, 2010 Share Posted February 7, 2010 I've commented on both of yours. I was able to post as my google ID for nik's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikivds Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 http://www.peppernossi.blogspot.com/my blog following my agility dogs I posted on your blog but it would only let me post as 'anonymous'. You might need to check your settings. I have the settings on Anyone - includes Anonymous Users Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helen Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 (edited) Question, what site have you all used to create your blogs? I started one on my website but it doesnt allow for comments etc Edited February 10, 2010 by helen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashanali Posted February 10, 2010 Author Share Posted February 10, 2010 I have a blogger site and also a wordpress one. I find Wordpress to be neater and blogger to be more user friendly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 (edited) Like Ash above I have both www.blogspot.com and www.wordpress.org blogs. Blogger (blogspot) is so much easier and faster to use so far (I've only been using my WP one for a couple of weeks but it does take more time, I find). Both are free. WordPress also has special themes you can purchase should you not find what you're looking for on the freebies. Both allow you to customize your blog to suit your look and both have a good variety of plugins to expand the blog capabilities. Wordpress, I think, has more themes (the way your blog looks/what it does) available and more doohickeys. I'm a simple girl so I haven't delved into any fancy-schmancy stuff with either of them. I just want to be able to add content fast & easy then have it display the way I want it to. I'd probably suggest starting out with blogger. It's super simple to import your existing blog into wordpress should you ever want to make a change. I did mine all by myself and since computers hate me, that was amazing LOL BTW I blog every day on my personal blog -> Kristin's News so have not been putting those links here. I've been slack on the pro blog but hope to get better on that over the next little while, too. Edited February 10, 2010 by kja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helen Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Thanks, KJA I saw the daily blog, the shoes up the tree are so funny, shows it pays to look up every now and then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothieGirl Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Here's mine, in its infancy. Now I'm off to delete the other post it made suggesting it, I lost this threas til now. http://misssmoothiegirl.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 (edited) Smoothie - love that you're telling this story Cutest little bug yesterday Thursday's Thinking Out Loud post Thanks, Helen & Ash for the comments. I love comments! BTW - a great thing to do is to subscribe to different blogs as you then get notification when something new is up. GoogleReader is free and popular. On my own blogs Kristin's News has an RSS feed at the top right so you can click that and choose your settings; on my photo blog it's a blogger one so there's a button at the top Edited February 11, 2010 by kja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huga Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 I love google reader! Mine is here: http://birdandthebabies.blogspot.com/ It's a mixture of business and personal (mainly personal though). It's not based around photography, but I do like to include lots of photos. Off to read the others now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Aww huga - how gorgeous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huga Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Aww huga - how gorgeous! Thanks I'm not usually that soppy, but it is the little guys birthday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashanali Posted February 12, 2010 Author Share Posted February 12, 2010 Love it Huga The last two posts on my blog... This is a DOLers wedding - http://savvystudios.blogspot.com/2010/02/k...alley-10th.html This is Huga's friend's newborn - http://savvystudios.blogspot.com/2010/02/l...rn-session.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altheau Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 I have not posted for a few days as I have been away for work, hope to post again tonight Here is mine http://kristyandart.blogspot.com/ I have been posting on the blogs mainly as they have been added, so even if I am slack and don't post, I will try and keep posting comments for your all =] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Beautiful detail. I can't draw a stick figure and so I tend to get lost looking at drawings and paintings, just thinking Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kja Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 More daily photos added and this week's TOLT is up on the blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helen Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 Well I am finally in the process of putting together a blog http://helengreenphotosblog.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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