Dear fellow Filpress-ers
I would like to extend my personal invitation to everyone to join us in our community blogs site at http://blogs.thefilipinoaustralian.com
The community blogs site aims to be your mass medium to share your thoughts on any topics in your areas of interest. You may also use it “to vent your anger over an atrocity against your own” as Jimmy wrote with regard to our current Filpress campaign to help the victims’ families of the Maguindanao massacre.
I appreciate that there may be concerns in running a community blog site like this one. On this page, I would like to address those concerns.
1. I don’t have many articles to show to my readers and attract traffic.
One of the biggest stumbling blocks in opening a blog – whether self-hosted or hosted by WordPress or Blogspot or other blog hosts – is the fear that one may not have enough articles to make a decent entry in the blog scene.
A community blogs site addresses that concern very effectively. Based on emanila’s experience in running community blogs like www.emanilapoetry.com and www.pinoyjokes.net, an online community of say 3 – 5 member-bloggers would be more than enough to regularly update a site with fresh articles and make a site sticky to readers.
In other words, while you are gathering your thoughts for your next opinion piece, your co-bloggers in the same community blogs site will be posting new articles which would thus maintain the site’s freshness and continue to attract new traffic stream.
2. I do not have resources to promote my blog.
Like promoting a product or service, promoting a blog requires time and resources. This is where a community blogs site works best. Each blogger in a community blogs site can leverage on the site’s collective traffic. With the design and layout of our community blogs site, all bloggers effectively will be cross-promoting each other.
In addition to cross-promotion within the community site, our community blogs site is also promoted in our main site at The Filipino Australian at www.thefilipinoaustralian.com
3. I want to monetize my blog.
With a blog hosted by WordPress.com, you are not allowed to insert advertisements and similar links. In our community blogs site at The Filipino Australian, we provide you the opportunity to make money by way of inserting an ad in your article eg, Google Adsense, logo of your sponsor or your own business. The conditions for inserting an ad are: (a) the ad – whether text or image – should be no more than 200 pixels wide by 200 pixels high, and (b) the article should be at least 350 words.
See live demo with a 200×200 image ad inside the article.
How do I start?
All you need to do is contact me with a brief bio sketch (to be used when we introduce you to our readers), and to email me as an attachment a headshot photo of yourself. //Pls email me a scanned image in jpeg.//
I will then set up your account, and will notify you (usually within 24 hours) once your blog page is ready.
Thanks and best regards
Romy
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