Bloggiesta: Finish Line!
Hola comadres! (I think all of us are women xD). Bloggiesta is over and I'm extremely happy :) I want to thank Suey @ It's All About Books and Danielle @ There's a Book for hosting and organizing this big event, and to everyone else who was involved. The challenges were excellent, I learned A LOT of tips, etc; and had a great time meeting new people and blogs.
So, my to do list was long but not really complicated, but I'm extremely happy to say, for the first time, that I did everything! Every single goal :D I'm surprised, I don't think I could do it, but apparently insomnia has some advantages hehe.
My Bloggiesta To Do List:
- Write 5 future WoW posts. ✓
- Write 5 future Reviews posts. ✓
- Write 5 future IMM draft posts. ✓
- Check links on my blog. ✓
- Update my profile. ✓
- Update my review policy. ✓
- Update my giveaway page. ✓
WriteUpdate my giveaway policy. ✓- Clean my to-be-read books on goodreads. ✓
- Update my Read 2012 page. ✓
- Clean my Google Reader. ✓
Challenges:
It's difficult to pick a favorite challenge, but I can say that I learned the best new thing reading the Pinterest to Promote your blog challenge and Get noticed by Search Engines :) The most difficult challenge was, for me, the How to Build Readers for your blog through commenting challenge, simply because sometimes I just don't know what to write on comments or if my comment is really important to a blog.
Anyway, I can't wait for the next Bloggiesta :P I already have a list of few things I want to do for my blog, but for now I need rest.
Ohh, I almost forgot! A lot of people asked me about the check marks. I think they are very cute and really easy because they are just text. To be honest, I just googled 'check mark text' :P. But now that you are asking me, here are some html codes:
- Themed Pages ✓
- Pinterest to Promote your blog ✓
- How to Build Readers for your blog through commenting ✓
- Five ways to make your reviews stand out ✓
- Get noticed by Search Engines ✓
- Sidebar Help: What do you really need ✓
- Five tips to write reviews faster ✓
- Eight ways to freshen up your content ✓
- Comment Challenge ✓
- It's All About the Number ✓
It's difficult to pick a favorite challenge, but I can say that I learned the best new thing reading the Pinterest to Promote your blog challenge and Get noticed by Search Engines :) The most difficult challenge was, for me, the How to Build Readers for your blog through commenting challenge, simply because sometimes I just don't know what to write on comments or if my comment is really important to a blog.
Anyway, I can't wait for the next Bloggiesta :P I already have a list of few things I want to do for my blog, but for now I need rest.
Ohh, I almost forgot! A lot of people asked me about the check marks. I think they are very cute and really easy because they are just text. To be honest, I just googled 'check mark text' :P. But now that you are asking me, here are some html codes:
&# 9745; (erase the space) = ☑
&# 10003; (erase the space) = ✓
Congrats on completing all of your goals! *throws confetti*
ReplyDeleteI think the Pinterest challenge was pretty helpful too, and am working on adding social media icons to my sidebar.
Thanks so much for the checkmark tip! I was wondering how everyone got those! :)
Thanks Alexia :D Good luck with your social media icons!
DeleteYay - I'm so happy I saw this post because now I know how to do those awesome checkmarks. You certainly accomplished a lot - which is fantastic! I think my favorite challenge was the commenting challenge - I think comments matter a lot to bloggers (I know it does to me), and it doesn't even matter if it's a simple "awesome post - thanks for sharing."
ReplyDeleteThank you Tanya! :D The check marks are winners, everybody likes them hehe
DeleteSO AWESOME you got your WHOLE list done!!! Congrats chick!!!
ReplyDeletethanks :D
DeleteThat's so wonderful that you completed all of the tasks on your 'To Do' list! I didn't get through all of mine, but I am happy with what I did over the weekend. Plus, it was fun to hang out and get tips from others as they improved their blogs. Good times all around.
ReplyDeleteThank you Cecelia! I also had fun meeting new blogs and just working with other people, it feels great to share with other bloggers :P
DeleteCongratulations Gaby!! Sadly I was unable to participate this time and I really am disappointed that I missed out on my blog spring cleaning. Hope the next one will be soon, and until then I'll do the challenges by myself. Congrats again! :-D
ReplyDeleteThanks Stella! :D I think the next bloggiesta is going to be September, maybe you can participate in that one.
DeleteYay!!! You got all your to do list done!! I learned something new on here, how to make check marks. Thank You :-)
ReplyDeleteEveryone should read the mini-challenges even if they weren't able to participate! I know I'm gonna go back to the old challenges at a later date :) Great job this weekend!
ReplyDeleteWow, Gaby, you got done a lot! Really great! All your things done and a number of challenges to boot. Congrats!
ReplyDeleteBtw, I also love those check marks. I'll keep the code in mind.
The little checkmarks ARE cute! It's amazing what you can find with google--almost everything I searched for this weekend I was able to find code for.
ReplyDeleteYou did great during Bloggiesta! Kudos on accomplishing so much--jealous of the five drafted reviews.
Oh wow holy crap that's a lot of things! I thought I was productive but man you did a great job! I need to go through some of the challenges like the Search engine one!
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I'm so glad that you included how to do the checkmarks in your post - as I was reading and seeing the checkmarks, I was going to ask how you did them. I just crossed things off on my post which works for me, but knowing how to do the checkmarks might come in handy at another time.
ReplyDeleteI, too, struggle with commenting. I did Sheila's mini-challenge and am hoping to continue with making those more meaningful comments - my goal moving forward is do make at least 5 meaningful comments on 5 different blogs each day. I am also hoping this will increase traffic to my blog. Maybe, maybe not, but it can't hurt.
I definitely plan on going back to the mini-challenges I didn't get to and trying some of them out. I feel that I can always learn something new!
Bloggiesta's over and I'm still finding more things to do my reading everyone's pages! Saw the sidebar minichallenge and now I think I've got some work to do on my blog!
ReplyDeleteGreat job finishing your list! Thanks for your encouragement during bloggiesta.
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