Ha Long Bay is situated in north Vietnam round a 120-kilometer long coastline and is literally translated as “Bay of Descending Dragons”.
The bay is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Vietnam and features thousands of islands, each topped with thick jungle vegetation, forming a spectacular seascape of limestone pillars.
Several of the islands are hollow, with enormous caves, other islands include lakes, and some support floating villages of fishermen.
A wonderful fun day in these clear waters of the Ha Long Bay
I am a blogger because I love writing, photographing, communicating with other people who are like-minded, exchanging ideas, teaching others what I know, and learning from others’ mental and soul wonders so we can all share, connect, inspire and grow.
Educating myself and advancing in my blogging is what I have decided today, that is why I want to set some goals and share them with my followers, contacts, family, and friends:
A Little Ranting (and Honesty) About Instagram Growth
Sometimes I feel like the blogging community is a sisterhood of unstoppable ladies (and some gents) who can do anything and who support each other no matter what! Sometimes I feel like the blogging community is full of nothing but Regina George clones (or worse, Regina George clones in sheep’s clothing…aka Taylor Swifts) and it makes me crazy. I can never really decide which is more accurate and this is probably the biggest reason why I’ve had approximately 4 blogs over my adult life (2 of which were fairly popular) and just up and deleted them after I got tired of the bulls*t. I’m not at that point now but I did want to address a few things and since this is my blog, I figured this was a better place than Instagram to rant.
Yes Definitely.Instagram is a photo sharing application. In the beginning individual uses share pictures without any hashtag but now hashtags are used on such a large scale to reach the wider audience and influencers are abusing it.Those who have more than 10,000 follower are turning into influencers. For good looking individual and especially girls is an easy job to get so much followers.
Well, there’S a solution for everything in this life, and hence to make your Instagram account grow again, get it fixed and unstuck:
1. Use hashtags the right way and frequently.
Hashtags link your photo to targeted communities, niches and keywords that people search for like #healthybreakfastideas in cooking niches. These communities, groups and people searching for content that’s relevant to them are less likely to see your posts without hashtags.
2. A CTA (call to action) tells your followers what to do next. For businesses, that “next step” should be signing up for a newsletter, going to your website or buying your product/service.
3. Have good context in the caption
4. Have a strategy for Instagram
5. When your content is stale, well, it is discouraging. Make it diverse!
I hate that a blogger follows/subscribes to your blog, you follow him/her back, and then s/he unfollows you, hoping you don’t notice. I really don’t like this.
I hate it that you give likes to a blogger, comment on his/her blog, and they never return the favor, not even at least once!
I hate it that people unfollow you if your political or religious views or the lack thereof are different from theirs. What? Why? Can we be a little bit mature and respect other people’s views? Thank you very much.
I hate it that people want to copy your content to benefit their own website or social media without giving you credit. Geez!
I hate it that sometimes I have written almost the whole blog post and uploaded images and pictures and I click the wrong button and the post disappears! Have to start over or use the autosaving that WordPress left for me.
I hate trolls. Icky internet trolls that pick on people, write hateful comments and are completely unhelpful.
I hate Alexa Traffic Widget It doesn’t matter if your Alexa traffic rank is 1,000 or even 100 when the quality of your blog sucks. I mean, you know that Alexa traffic rank is just a number and it doesn’t reflect the ‘real’ traffic stats.
I hate insane publishing frequency, like more than 8 or 10 posts a day?!
I hate it when I don’t have enough time to respond to all my subscribers comments on my blog.
I hate it when I visit a blog and it has infinite ads and pop-ups. I had a blog like that 2 years ago and it was driving ME crazy, LOL
On a side note, I’m pretty sure that there are some things that you hate about my blog. Criticism is always appreciated (as long as it’s constructive and NOT judgmental in my persona or MY freedom of speech), so do share it as a comment below.
A big most sincere thank you goes to all of you who have shared their love and warmth with my contributions all these years. Thank you to each of every one of you who has read and followed my reviews, posts, and rambling observations.
This blog site has been possible only because of all the inspiration and motivation that you provide through your feedback and interactions. I constantly get encouraged by your appreciation and kind words. This keeps me going.
Thank you new visitors and regular blogging buddies! I am thrilled! I would like to give a HUGE thank you.
Bad words, swearing, would you use them once in a while in your post? Some say that there’s nothing to lose by keeping things clean. In contrast, swearing will surely bother some people – so why take that risk?
Others encourage you to be yourself and embrace who you are. For many people, holding back is essentially a form of censorship; in fact, it is said that those who swear are more honest than those who don’t.
I thought about some swearing words I know and made a list, but I wanted to get more, so I went to a political forum where I know there are many of subscribers who swear a lot in their comments (it is permmited in that forum to do it). But sometimes, just for fun, would you do it? Would you swear just a bit?
Some swearing words are not that bad, but others are so insulting that I do not think I would ever use them, ever, not in my blog, not in person. So here there is a list of some that are not the worst onesthough.
Bitch, Son of a Bitch, Bollocks, Belend, Tit, Prick, Dick, Twat, Punami, Bastard, Dickhead, Wanker…the worst words that come to mind are so disgraceful I wouldn’t even refer to them at all. Freedom of speech is great, but it has to have some boundries.
MY OWN TAKE:
Is it ever okay to swear on your blog and/or general website content? In my opinion, it all depends. Know your audience, pick your battles, and go with common sense. After all, you probably wouldn’t swear inside of a church full of people, correct?
Wednesday, the day of the week for all of us to just put our links in the comment section and start the “shameless promotion” idea. I want it to be fun and rewarding for everyone!. Just write the URL to your website or any social media of your preference.
NOTE: I will be adding the links you write on the comment section to this post in the upper section, the beginning, for more Google crawling. I will start with my link for this week to show you.
Promoting your website is very important to make yourself known in the digital world. The more you market yourself, your website and your social media, the more Google crawling, the more visitors to your site you will get.
So, if you blog for fun, hobby, business, eCommerce or professional knowledge, or because you just love to blog and write your ideas and chat with people in the comment section, you need to let the world know you exist, and one very useful way is to use links and make that other blogs link you back.
I have reserved this day for promotion, indefinitely, as long as it gets a good response from you and you like it. Just give it time. Be patient. It works!
Promoting your website is very important to make yourself known in the digital world. The more you market yourself, your website and your social media, the more Google crawling, the more visitors to your site you will get.
So, if you blog for fun, hobby, business, eCommerce or professional knowledge, or because you just love to blog and write your ideas and chat with people in the comment section, you need to let the world know you exist, and one very useful way is to use links and make that other blogs link you back.
That is why I decided to make Wednesday the day of the week for all of us to just put our links in the comment section and start the «shameless promotion» idea. I think it’s going to be fun. Just write the URL to your website or any social media of your preference.
I am planning to reserve this day for promotion, indefinitely, as long as it gets a good response from you and you like it. Just give it time. Be patient. It works!
NOTE: I will be adding the links you write on the comment section to this post in the upper section, the beginning, for more Google crawling. I will start with my link for this week to show you.
It is very nice to be recognized and acknowledged for what you do in your life, in your career, as a hobby or as a professional activity. Blogging is a lot of fun for me.
I get to interact with many of you and your kind comments and opinions make my day! Knowing that I have followers from all over the world it’s exciting and fun.
To get to know what you like and your preferences and you get know mine, and accept each other, just like that, without prejudice.
That is what blogging does for me: it makes me happy. I have a feeling that I am going to be blogging for many more decades to come! 😁
<br>Wer ist der wahre eigentümer/schöpfer des herzens ? Gott gibt nur das Herz, du füllst es. Achtung. Was füllst du? Denn dann musst du es leeren. beschmutze nicht dein herz. Allah weiß auch, was in den Tiefen der Herzen ist. Alles was schön ist… Seele, Herz, Liebe, Glaube… Wer Kämpft, kann Verlieren. Wer nicht Kämpft, hat schon Verloren. Lebe jeden Tag deines Lebens, als wäre es dein letzter. Also wirst du eines Tages Recht haben"
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