I first learned about blogging more than three years ago, while researching on line about my paper. I was looking into the possibility of introducing the "website connection" into my "work" and discovered blogger.com instead.
"Create your own blog for free!" it said; so I click on it and then followed the prompts to open my first blog. That was relatively easy, I thought then.
I discovered later however; that it was useless creating a blog if no one gets to read it. My blog does not even appear in the search engine...so I ran for help to google search and typed "how to add your URL to google search" and " search optimization".
The instructions for optimization were more difficult than I had thought, because I did not understand computer "lingo". It talked about, HTML, widgets, RSS feeds, body tags, etc. There was an instruction about editing the HTML of my template. I tried at least 15 times to place the "meta tag" for the verification code in my HTML, before I could do it right. In fact, I was ready to give up. I am thankful now that I did not, because on the next attempt - I made it...Halleluyah!
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Eventually I learned how to download pictures, attach widgets (what is a widget?...lol), insert links, and change templates with ease.
Chat fed, an entrecard member suggested that I use banners/flags and I don't know exactly what he means. (Thanks)
But the search engine is there so I will do my research again. I am learning while I am blogging. I wonder if there are people out there (my age) who still blog? ( Am I too old to blog?...thinking out loud)
Anyway; indeed, experience is the best teacher! and Truly, patience is a virtue!
7 comments:
Nah! Never too old. I, myself, just started. I don't know any of the lingos either, and I don't have time to research about them. I'll take the easy way and read your blog to learn about them.
he he he, right Tasha...but I am older than you are...do sign in my guest book , thanks
Have you seen the ageless project? There are some very old people blogging :)
A, I did visit the site Ageless project, but there rules are so stringent, and I want to keep track of my readers...but thanks for informing me. Happy blogging
Um, how old are you?? :)
I don't think you're EVER too old for blogging. You can be too old for playing football. You can be too old to be a sex worker. You can be too old to do neurosurgery (really - no offense to older neurosurgeons, but as we age, the steadiness in our hands may decrease and the odds of spontaneous death by natural causes goes up, and frankly I would not want to have my cranium hanging open while my 97 year old neurosurgeon has a stroke and hits the floor behind me). Seriously, though, age merely has a few side effects that can challenge us - and perhaps that's just nature's way of compensating young people for our greater life experience, trying to level the playing field so they have a fighting chance in life. ;)
I think that learning new things - computer, Internet, social media marketing skills among them - helps to keep the "aging brain" agile.
P.S. You may be spending too much time on celebrity news blogging when all your blog's captcha codes are based on rap artists. :) Seriously - the last one? "tyupac"?
Hi Hello,
It was just a rhetorical question. :D sorry for late reply. Got the Holiday hangover.
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