Blogger Recognition Award

I was nominated by Marlena, a multi-tasking blogger, who likes to write posts from the life of an interracial family and talk about ‘the fusion of cultures, races, religions and everything that comes along with it’ in her words.

Sorry Marlena, got a bit delayed in putting this up, but well here we go.

My Blogging Journey

I had an anonymous blog once which became pretty non-anon in the course of a few weeks and months. I still go back to it and read it once in a while and smile because I was silly and such a crabby old thing. The silly bit remains a part of me as it will till the day I pop it, I believe, but the crabby facet has been sorted out for the most part. I blogged every day then, and now that I have started a travel blog I like to be regular about picking your brain on what you think too along with liberally scattering my comments in the blogosphere. I would not have it any other way. Don’t know about you though.

Advice to New Bloggers

  • Keep writing as much as you can. It brings regular readers back to your blog and creates the connect between readers and you.
  • Follow other bloggers and mostly you shall get the courtesy in return, unless your blog does not connect with the person you choose to follow at all. There are no fixed rules about following or being followed.
  • Do guest posts for popular blogs. They will grab eyeballs and possibly bring new readers in.
  • Leave out the millions of exclamations, pretty please? Makes me think your eyebrows are stuck up on the forehead in a stance of perpetual surprise.

That is all, really. Now, I am supposed to be nominating blogs for the award. But I am very aware (lesson learned after my first go at it) that it is not for everyone. Thank you, Marlena, I do not know how much my two-bit helps any new blogger, but the hope remains. Cheers.

Responses

  1. Dina avatar

    Good advice and response. 🙂

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    1. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

      Heh thanks Dina 🙂

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  2. sunnydaysinseattle avatar

    Congratulations Dippy-Dotty Girl!

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    1. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

      Thank you 🙂 Hope you are having a lovely Sunday.

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      1. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

        Thank you 🙂 I shall check it out. Have a lovely day!

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      3. asefimtiaj avatar

        If you follow my blog then I will follow you…………

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      4. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

        Ah, but I do not follow blogs only if you follow me. I like follow them if I would want to read them 🙂 Thank you for the lovely thought though. Cheers.

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  4. Meenakshi Sethi avatar

    Congratulations!!

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    1. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

      Thank you for dropping by and the comment 🙂

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  5. yogieonthemove avatar

    Awesome advice, currently struggling with posting consistently. Thanks for this.

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    1. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

      Hello there 🙂 I have just about started posting rather regularly but I too was struggling. I can imagine it requires a fair bit of time but with the passing of time, you will figure out what works best for you. Cheers.

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  6. annika avatar

    Congratulations! I’ll try to keep the exclamation advice in mind.

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    1. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

      Tee hee hee. Thank you 🙂

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  7. travelnerdplans avatar

    Thanks for sharing this 🙂 The advice about the exclamation points is the best. I am a habitual exclamation pointer and it drives me crazy when I notice it in my writing. Unfortunately I have usually already clicked “send” or “submit” by the time I catch the !!!!! after each sentence. But I assure you, despite my compulsion to exclaim most every thing I say, my eyebrows are down! 😛

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    1. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

      HA HA HA. Call me out on that. The thing is that I know people (my husband and in-laws) who do it habitually and it drives me up the walls. The cons of being a grammar police is that you are mentally editing everything. Once my lovely husband decided to put my point of view across to my father-in-law who was mighty miffed and I was bloody annoyed with Adi. Men can be daft.

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      1. travelnerdplans avatar

        You call us out on our exclamation points & we will just have to return the favor on your policing. Haha! I used to be a bit of a stickler myself, but the tendency has been buried by years of teaching elementary school–I swear my writing has gotten worse from reading 10-year-olds’ essays on a regular basis (sigh). And as for your husband, wow! Can I assume he learned a valuable lesson that day?

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      2. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

        Later. My in-laws were on their annual stay at ours, so I could not. But I did later point out to him the embarrassment of it. Though you can imagine his reaction, he pooh poohed it. Daftness.

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      3. travelnerdplans avatar

        Got to love husbands. They just operate on a completely different level. ?

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      4. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

        Ooh yes. You can count on them x

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  8. Selina Stambi avatar

    What great advice, Dippy-Dotty! Congratulations on the nomination. Popping in to say hello. Smiles xx

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    1. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

      Well hello there, Selina 🙂 I am happy if my two bits can and do help. Thank you for dropping in. Always a pleasure x

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  9. Fabulous-Fusions avatar

    I don’t know how I didn’t notice this post before… Maybe because I had to organise 3 different birthday parties for my son and that consumed my whole free time 😛 Congratulations and Thank you so much Arundhati 🙂 🙂 🙂

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    1. Dippy-Dotty Girl avatar

      Ha ha ha no that is perfectly fine. I do know things must get so busy! Three different parties would have driven me over the edge 😉 And you are welcome.

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  10. asefimtiaj avatar

    Hey congrats???

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  11. snigdharamadugu avatar

    Congratulations dippy dotty girl

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