So sat in my hotel room watching CNN about the snow situation in England and I decided to Tweet the news reader, explaining that I was a 20 year old traveller that just wanted to be back home in England for Xmas.
Sure enough, sat here on blogger, browsing the net as you do, and CNN reports news about 'Europe experiencing huge flight delays and cancellations,' And explains about Heathrow and Gatwick runway closures.
Sure enough, he then says 'Steve from the UK Tweets that...' and reads out my situation.
Was pretty weird to hear myself being mentioned on national television.
Those who want my autographs let me know ;D
Rats Out!
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Monday, 20 December 2010
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
BlogWave Podcast is up!
Ok for those of you who may have missed my last post and are asking "What is exactly is BlogWave and all these great blogging tips you talk about," well you guys need to visit http://studentaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2010/11/blogwave-huge-new-blogging-project.html to read more about what BlogWave is and how it can help you. For those that are already aware of what us dedicated and legitimate bloggers are doing, then continue reading!
OK first things first, if you're interested in great blogging tips and guides, cool gadgets or widgets, or just want to make your blog look more professional without trawling through thousand's of internet pages, then this Blogger podcast is for you! If you're a legitimate blogger and dedicated, and enjoy what you're doing, then PLEASE, I URGE you, to join our Twitter page here:
http://twitter.com/#!/BlogWavenet
or our Facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/BlogWave/163481183673557
This way you'll be able to share the best blog tips as soon as each podcast comes out!
Onto the podcast itself:
The podcast takes just a few minutes to download depending on your internet speed, and comes to just over and hour and a half long. We cover a wide variety of topics that you can all benefit from and we try to deliver them in a light hearted, banter type of way.
Here's RorschachRedemption 's review on it:
I just listened to the whole thing, and boy are my arms tired. No wait...
Seriously? It was much much better than I expected, and I think Rats here might have the attention of more creepy octogenarians than he ever thought possible.
Ok, really REALLY serious here: If you blog, then you might want to download this. Keep it up in the background. It's not a bad maiden voyage for these 3. They are pretty easy to listen to, they are not grating on the nerves, and they fill the 90 minutes with a good blend of shenanigans and on topic stuff. The advice (usually from their mistakes!) comes in bits and pieces from their banter; I *did* find myself making a note for later. (It was to check out the popular posts widget!)
Kudos!
So I hope that persuades you guys to download it! Like Rorschach suggested, leave it on in the background, blog and have a few beers and enjoy it!
The file is obviously completely safe and available for download here. Even if you don't plan to listen to it JUST yet, please download it. We put a lot of effort into it and would appreciate it if you downloaded it:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/p33o7yt39
So there it is guys! Leave it on in the background, learn some great tips and give us some feedback! Remember, you can also take part as a guest speaker on the blogcast, just remember to FOLLOW the Twitter page, and LIKE the Facebook page.
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OK first things first, if you're interested in great blogging tips and guides, cool gadgets or widgets, or just want to make your blog look more professional without trawling through thousand's of internet pages, then this Blogger podcast is for you! If you're a legitimate blogger and dedicated, and enjoy what you're doing, then PLEASE, I URGE you, to join our Twitter page here:
http://twitter.com/#!/BlogWavenet
or our Facebook page here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/BlogWave/163481183673557
This way you'll be able to share the best blog tips as soon as each podcast comes out!
Onto the podcast itself:
The podcast takes just a few minutes to download depending on your internet speed, and comes to just over and hour and a half long. We cover a wide variety of topics that you can all benefit from and we try to deliver them in a light hearted, banter type of way.
Here's RorschachRedemption 's review on it:
I just listened to the whole thing, and boy are my arms tired. No wait...
Seriously? It was much much better than I expected, and I think Rats here might have the attention of more creepy octogenarians than he ever thought possible.
Ok, really REALLY serious here: If you blog, then you might want to download this. Keep it up in the background. It's not a bad maiden voyage for these 3. They are pretty easy to listen to, they are not grating on the nerves, and they fill the 90 minutes with a good blend of shenanigans and on topic stuff. The advice (usually from their mistakes!) comes in bits and pieces from their banter; I *did* find myself making a note for later. (It was to check out the popular posts widget!)
Kudos!
So I hope that persuades you guys to download it! Like Rorschach suggested, leave it on in the background, blog and have a few beers and enjoy it!
The file is obviously completely safe and available for download here. Even if you don't plan to listen to it JUST yet, please download it. We put a lot of effort into it and would appreciate it if you downloaded it:
http://depositfiles.com/en/files/p33o7yt39
So there it is guys! Leave it on in the background, learn some great tips and give us some feedback! Remember, you can also take part as a guest speaker on the blogcast, just remember to FOLLOW the Twitter page, and LIKE the Facebook page.
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Thursday, 4 November 2010
BlogWave - A huge new blogging project
What is BlogWave?
BlogWave is a project set up by myself and three other dedicated bloggers who regularly get together to share out blogging experiences. Using Skype, and other media, we share and swap our experiences, our daily adventures, but more importantly, simple guides and tips on how to make your blogs more professional. With topics such as SEO Optimisation, great gadgets and widgets for your blog, or generally how to spruce up your blog in order to make it more appealing to search engines like Google or Yahoo.
Who is BlogWave?
BlogWave is set up my four founding bloggers. As all of us work extremely hard to bring our own guides, tips and information and content that we specialise in. I strongly suggest you add and follow these three people if you want your blog to benefit from what we're doing.
The four members are:
Snickel Sox: http://averagejogaming.blogspot.com/
Frosted Heretic: http://frostedheretic.blogspot.com/
Wild Bill: http://traderspectacle.blogspot.com/
and myself.
All of these guys are active and dedicated bloggers who bring brilliant content and guides that YOU guys will benefit from, so FOLLOW them now!
How?
We have trust finished recording and editing our first Podcast! The podcast comes to an hour and a half long, full of not only brilliant tips you guys NEED to hear, but also the light hearted banter and jokes that will keep you guys not only informed, but also entertained! Although the podcast has been fully edited to bring you an equal balance of knowledge and amusement, we are currently waiting to finish building our server before we can host it.
Can I be a part of BlogWave?<
Although we are currently not looking for any more founding members, we will be soon asking for guest speakers to come onto our show and take part in the podcast. All we ask is that you are a legitimate blogger who is willing to put in the effort to come onto our show and share some laughs and also some knowledge with us. Where can we be found?
With other projects in the works, we can currently be found either on Facebook (The box on the left hand side of my site) or here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/BlogWave/163481183673557
Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/#!/BlogWavenet
It'd be great if you could 'Like' the FB page or 'Follow' the twitter.
If you guys have any more questions feel free to contact either myself, Snickel, Frosty or Wild Bill, or simple message the two pages above.
So remember guys, if YOU want some brilliant tips for blogging, then Follow the people listed above, and get in contact with our pages. I've provided links so there's no excuse for not making the effort!
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BlogWave is a project set up by myself and three other dedicated bloggers who regularly get together to share out blogging experiences. Using Skype, and other media, we share and swap our experiences, our daily adventures, but more importantly, simple guides and tips on how to make your blogs more professional. With topics such as SEO Optimisation, great gadgets and widgets for your blog, or generally how to spruce up your blog in order to make it more appealing to search engines like Google or Yahoo.
Who is BlogWave?
BlogWave is set up my four founding bloggers. As all of us work extremely hard to bring our own guides, tips and information and content that we specialise in. I strongly suggest you add and follow these three people if you want your blog to benefit from what we're doing.
The four members are:
Snickel Sox: http://averagejogaming.blogspot.com/
Frosted Heretic: http://frostedheretic.blogspot.com/
Wild Bill: http://traderspectacle.blogspot.com/
and myself.
All of these guys are active and dedicated bloggers who bring brilliant content and guides that YOU guys will benefit from, so FOLLOW them now!
How?
We have trust finished recording and editing our first Podcast! The podcast comes to an hour and a half long, full of not only brilliant tips you guys NEED to hear, but also the light hearted banter and jokes that will keep you guys not only informed, but also entertained! Although the podcast has been fully edited to bring you an equal balance of knowledge and amusement, we are currently waiting to finish building our server before we can host it.
Can I be a part of BlogWave?<
Although we are currently not looking for any more founding members, we will be soon asking for guest speakers to come onto our show and take part in the podcast. All we ask is that you are a legitimate blogger who is willing to put in the effort to come onto our show and share some laughs and also some knowledge with us. Where can we be found?
With other projects in the works, we can currently be found either on Facebook (The box on the left hand side of my site) or here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/BlogWave/163481183673557
Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/#!/BlogWavenet
It'd be great if you could 'Like' the FB page or 'Follow' the twitter.
If you guys have any more questions feel free to contact either myself, Snickel, Frosty or Wild Bill, or simple message the two pages above.
So remember guys, if YOU want some brilliant tips for blogging, then Follow the people listed above, and get in contact with our pages. I've provided links so there's no excuse for not making the effort!
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Thursday, 7 October 2010
How to increase traffic to your blog with Google searches
OK guys, so although this post may not be directly related to travelling, in this post I'm going to tell you one way, that successfully worked for me, to increase traffic to your blog.
Now, this certainly isn't going to bring you 5000 million viewers over night, but if done correctly, you will see a steady rise in your traffic.
Ok I'm going to try and make this as simple to follow as possible as it can be quite confusing.
Now, I know a lot of you are having trouble with making your blog Google searchable. The computer and coding literate amongst have tried added Meta tags to your blog in order to increase traffic. Although I have tried this myself, I haven't noticed much on an increase and have been told that Google no longer uses Meta tags to make it searchable.
Step one. The first thing you need to do is to visit http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/ and add your blog page URL into the URL box. Underneath this box there is a comment box. Now here I just wrote a simple description of what my blog was about. Keep it short and sweet. No need for more than one sentence.
After filling in the Captcha click submit and you're blog will have been added to a list for Google to crawl.
1) Next up we need to open http://www.google.com/webmasters/
2) Then sign in with your Google account.
3) Next you need to click the ADD A SITE... button which looks like this:
4) A small box will appear - Enter your URL here.
5) After clicking Continue,we have to verify that we are the owner of this blog.
6) Here there will be 4 options in which we can choose how we want to verify our site. However, the only option we are interested in is the META TAG. Now we should see a code which looks a little something like this:
<meta name="verify-v1" content="z6MLWEMxLvMFcoVNvGPKOMvAn1oJBKem+eTEpZ1F/DU=">
http://www.yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=500
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Now, this certainly isn't going to bring you 5000 million viewers over night, but if done correctly, you will see a steady rise in your traffic.
Ok I'm going to try and make this as simple to follow as possible as it can be quite confusing.
Now, I know a lot of you are having trouble with making your blog Google searchable. The computer and coding literate amongst have tried added Meta tags to your blog in order to increase traffic. Although I have tried this myself, I haven't noticed much on an increase and have been told that Google no longer uses Meta tags to make it searchable.
Step one. The first thing you need to do is to visit http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/ and add your blog page URL into the URL box. Underneath this box there is a comment box. Now here I just wrote a simple description of what my blog was about. Keep it short and sweet. No need for more than one sentence.
After filling in the Captcha click submit and you're blog will have been added to a list for Google to crawl.
1) Next up we need to open http://www.google.com/webmasters/
2) Then sign in with your Google account.
3) Next you need to click the ADD A SITE... button which looks like this:
4) A small box will appear - Enter your URL here.
5) After clicking Continue,we have to verify that we are the owner of this blog.
6) Here there will be 4 options in which we can choose how we want to verify our site. However, the only option we are interested in is the META TAG. Now we should see a code which looks a little something like this:
Picture of code
<meta name="verify-v1" content="z6MLWEMxLvMFcoVNvGPKOMvAn1oJBKem+eTEpZ1F/DU=">
Actual code ^
7) Now after we have copied this code (DOUBLE CHECK YOU HAVE THE ENTIRE CODE COPIED) we need to go to the Dashboard of our Blogger, then select Design > Edit HTML.
Now, we nee to look for the <head> tag. This is only a few lines down in the coding so shouldn't be too difficult to find. The easiest way to find it is to bring up the Search function, with Ctrl + f and type <head>.
The Meta code needs to be pasted IMMEDIATELY AFTER the <head> tag.
Once you've pasted this code, simply Save the Template and go back to the Webmasters Account, and click Verify to Complete the verification process.
8) If you've done everything right, you'll see that your site is now verified. HOWEVER, KEEP READING as we're not done just yet.
SIDE NOTE - DON'T REMOVE THE META CODE AFTER VERIFICATION. IT MAY BE USED BY GOOGLE AT A LATER DATE.
9) Now you should see a list of verified sites (Most likely just one, your blog) on your Webmaster tools homepage.
10) Click on your site, and you'll be taken to a dashboard of that site.
11) From here you need to click Site configuration, then Sitemaps.
12) On this page you need to click Submit a Sitemap and it will ask you to enter the sitemap of your blog. As you can probably see, the first part of your blog is already there and you only need to enter the second bit;
feeds/posts/default?max-results=500
Overal all, it should look something like this
10) Click on your site, and you'll be taken to a dashboard of that site.
11) From here you need to click Site configuration, then Sitemaps.
12) On this page you need to click Submit a Sitemap and it will ask you to enter the sitemap of your blog. As you can probably see, the first part of your blog is already there and you only need to enter the second bit;
feeds/posts/default?max-results=500
Overal all, it should look something like this
http://www.yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=500
13) So Submit your sitemap there and within the next 24 hous, Google will start to index the contents of your blog!
Now, give it several hours (I gave it 24 hours) and return to your Webmaster tools. On your dashboard, on the left hand side there should be a Your Site on the Web button. Expand this and you can see data gathered from Google searches! For example, Google will crawl your site and show you the keywords found on your blog!
If you've found this helpful and used it guys, simply Tweet this The button is located below the post title.
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