Posts tagged Blogging 101

5 Blogs Turn-Offs or Why I Stopped Reading Your Blog

From time to time, I scout the web for new interesting blogs related to travel, photography, life abroad—the kind of topics I’m into. For instance, I check Expat Blog to see what’s new. I read the blog description and open it in a new tab to take a look.
Will I subscribe to the feed? Maybe. But definitely not if your blog has one or more of these “blog turn-offs”.

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500 Articles And Four Years Later…

Almost four years of blogging later, today I’m publishing my 500th post.
It all started in October 2006. At the time, I had been a permanent resident in Canada for exactly a year (and I had been in Canada for already two years) but I was still getting comfortable with my new country. I had no idea what I would do with a blog nor did I have any idea how all that (all that being me in Canada, working as a teacher) was going to turn out.

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