About blogs - Who can find them? How can they be found?

I don't know is how people access blogs to read them. I certainly know how to find mine, but there doesn't seem to be a path to beat my way to the doors of others.

How do you do this?

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And the purpose of the blog?

I rather thought a blog would cover a trip, but it seems the ones I've looked at now from the highlights page are just one-place things. Trying to access them from the country list it appears from the headings to be much the same.

I do have a few people following my blog, which is now up to 52 entries, but I don't have a clue how people are finding it.

[ Edit: Edited on 12 Jul 2022, 03:40 GMT by Ray Bell ]

The best part of creating a blog, in my opinion, is that it enables you to relive a trip. Mine was 9,600 miles through 28 US states, it encompassed over six weeks and I've embedded something over 700 photos into the blog along with a map of each day's travel.

I know that it's readable and should be able to be followed by more than are so doing. In the initial stages there were days when 40 or so people had a look, it peaked out with my sights of the Grand Canyon - in the fourth week, over 55 views - and it appears that interest has tapered off since. One anomaly is that one day I changed the day's title to 'Kidnapped in Michigan!' and that day has had but six views.

So I was able to relive the trip, but I like to have others live it too, it was when we took it the 'trip of a lifetime', and while I've been able to eclipse it twice since, for my wife it will remain forever so. This blog is made all the more readable by the inclusion of a complete transcript of her travel diary, giving her point of view alongside of mine, with subtle and not so subtle differences shining through.

But I haven't a clue how people can find my blog! Also, to read it, it's back to front, with the last day coming first. Can that be reversed?

The highlights page features individual blog entries - they are all from full blogs just like yours. If you look at for example this entry about a trip from Kununurra to Mabel Downs .. at the end of page you will find this

This featured blog entry was written by SteveJD from the blog Travels with "Jet Set". linking to the rest of the blog.

Regarding finding blogs.. You can find the featured entries through the blog highlights page, or organised by county here. You can also find them by clicking on people's profiles, like here in the forum. Or you can find users through the photography area as well. Be sure to follow the users whose blogs you find interesting. That can be done on their profile pages.

Also, to read it, it's back to front, with the last day coming first. Can that be reversed?

This can be changed in your blog's settings.

Well, Steve has done a great job of that...

Some spectacular stuff in the episode you linked.

Thanks, I now know a little bit more about it, I've inverted my blog so the first page comes up first too.

I'm really hoping for some comments.

The blogging system at travellerspoint is primarily set up for classic blogging: that means that the expectation is that people read new articles ("blog entries" or "blog posts") as they are published (while travellers are on the road), and that the site ("blog") shows the newest entry first. The expected primary audience for each blog consists of existing friends and family who get the link to the blog before a trip starts (through email, chat, or however else they tend to communicate), and then follow along as the trip happens.

However, many people use the blogs system for after-the-fact journaling, and care about readers being presented the blog entries in chronological order. As it's possible to start effectively unlimited blogs, you can have one blog per trip, with "Oldest first" sorting for the blog posts (there's a setting for that). You could then add some links back and forth between all these blogs (manage -> links to add such links to your sidebar), or just let your profile take care of that. (greatgrandmaR's list of blogs is one of the most impressive ones like that).

There isn't a very large and active userbase here at travellerspoint regularly reading random blog entries (though frequent forum participants will definitely click through to your profile to see if you have any blogs to read) - but featured blog posts do get quite some attention, and the real value long term is in future travellers researching destinations and coming upon blog posts which deal with those destinations.

Well, I've got a lot of destinations in mine...

When I get them all loaded up, anyway. They embrace working trips as well as holiday trips and there's about 24 countries in all.

I go to a lot of effort to put them all together, checking things out on Google Earth to be sure I'm getting it right (memory can be fallible) and so on. I'm just hoping that there's people who can read and enjoy them as I did making the journeys.

Quoting Ray Bell

I don't know is how people access blogs to read them. I certainly know how to find mine, but there doesn't seem to be a path to beat my way to the doors of others.

How do you do this?

Hi!

My two cents on your question..As Sander and Peter already said, when you follow someone his/hers new entries pop on to your feed when they are published. As for you finding something new or someone finding yours..Google is one of your friends on this one too, or at least when your entry has a entriguing/out of the ordinary name, it will pop among googleresearch results too. For example try to google "Giant snails in Riga" and one of the first search results are ToonSarah s blog post about art exhibit in Riga.

As for me, when I post a new Entry I will add that in my Instagram and FB feeds too, so my friends outside of Travellerspoint can, if they want, read it too.

R,
Henna

I shall not be sinking to the levels of Instagram or Facebook or Twitter...

I don't know if anyone is following my blog entries, is there some way to tell?

Quoting Ray Bell

I shall not be sinking to the levels of Instagram or Facebook or Twitter...

I don't know if anyone is following my blog entries, is there some way to tell?

Ah, IG and FB is not everyones cup of tea.

Well if your profile has followers it shows on your profile. So, just click the icon in top right corner (the man shaped one), click Your profile and there below your profile picture are words Followers / Following. On top of those are number of how many people are following you and how many you are following. Of course only members of Travellerspoint shows there.

You might have some Subscribers on your blog who get e-mail alerts of your entries, of those you have got notification in you e-mail and also they show on your Blog. That you can see by clicking the same icon in top right corner (the man shaped one), click Your Blogs and there (between Posts and Comments) are Subscribers.

Hope this was helpful!

It was, indeed...

But so far I've had no comments. That's a bit disappointing.