Blogs help
An AskJolene blog is a personalized corner on my website, where you may publish the galleries you like for all the world to see. Best of all: it is totally free and anonymous, and you can get started right now.
What you will get:
- A personal website on my server where you can publish your bookmarks, along with your thoughts.
- Schemable looks: colors, a picture and plenty of soapbox to stand on.
- User Statistics: how many saw your blog and when, and what they thought of it
- An integrated voting system
- Daily user feedback in user comments
- A link on my Blog Central.
In this document I will tell you all there is to know.
Getting Started
To start blogging, you must have an AskJolene bookmark account. If you have one, read on. If you don't have one, get one now. It is free, anonymous and quite convenient in its own right.
Once you have an account, you can start publishing bookmarks. Just select the bookmarks you want to publish, and click on the "Publish" button at the bottom of your bookmarks screen.
There is one last thing you must do before people can see your blog: get dressed up. Go to your Settings and personalize away: change colors and pictures, type some text to introduce yourself.
A closer look at the settings:
- Title - This is the title that is shown in your blog and on Blog Central.
- Subject category - An appropriate category makes it easier for likeminded users to find you. It determines where your blog is shown on Blog Central.
- Autopublish - If you check this option, all galleries that you add to your bookmarks are automatically published on your blog. For experienced users only.
- Mail usercomments - If you check this option, comments that users post to your blog will be forwarded to your e-mail address.
- Registered feedback - If you check this option, no anonymous comments are allowed.
- Picture - Show yourself (or your dog for that matter) to the world. You may upload a picture (jpg or gif) that will be shown in your blog and on Blog Central. It may not be bigger than 100K and it is scaled automatically.
- Color scheme - Choose a scheme that fits your blog.
- Personal welcome text - Is shown to the left of your blog.
- Publish blog - To publish your blog, enter your e-mail address and watch your mailbox. You will receive a mail with an activation link. Note that by doing so, you agree to be bound by my terms and conditions.
Try playing with the settings before you publish. As the blog owner, you always have access to your blog, public or not. Once you're satisfied with the looks, go public by using the activation link that I sent you. Don't be afraid: you can always go back and unpublish everything.
Publishing
To publish bookmarks, just select them in your bookmarks interface and click the "Publish" button at the bottom of the page. Bookmarks that are broken (marked by a red or a green border) cannot be published, out of safety concerns. If a bookmark is published, it gets a yellow border and its date is shown in bold.
Bookmarks will be shown on a day to day basis. All bookmarks that have been published on the same day will stick together in your blog. Remember that AskJolene is based in Europe, so your blog will follow Central European Time.
As the blog owner, you may add text to your blog, which will be shown above the daily update. Just go to your blog and click the "INSERT COMMENT" link.
Feedback
I have done my best to provide you with plenty of user feedback. There are user statistics, update comments and an integrated voting system.
Every blog has a page with user statistics, which is linked at the top lefthand corner, just above the picture. The statistics show unique visitors, not pageviews.
Users are encouraged to post comments to your blog updates. The three last comments are shown below your update. To view them all, click on the "All comments" link. This will take you to a page where you can moderate the comments.
Rating
Every blog gets a rating, ranging from five stars (excellent) to none (bad). This rating is displayed next to a blog, and on Blog Central. The rating makes it easier to separate the chaff from the wheat.
A blog's rating is determined in part by things I can measure, like the blog's update frequency, and in part by the votes it gets. So, votes are important for the rating, but the rating is not a direct reflection of (say) the average vote.
Tips for making a great blog
I am not going to tell you how to run your blog, but there are some tips that you may find helpful. To secure a high rating, it is important to have a blog that is distinctive, attractive and regularly updated. Here are some tips.
- Choose a fitting category and stick to it. I know that you don't have a one-track mind. Your voracious appetite covers a broad range of adult interests and you'd like to share those with the world. While that is admirable, it also makes it hard for your visitors to know what they are getting. Wouldn't you rather shop for a hammer at a hardware store than at a flea market?
- Write a welcome text and choose a pic. Take some time to introduce your interests and motives. It will give your visitors a sense of who you are. An attractive picture will easily attract more visitors, since it is shown on Blog Central every time you update.
- Don't publish too many galleries at once. You are a cherry picker, not a spammer. Too many galleries in a single update gives the impression that you are not discriminating enough. Remember, if users want plenty of choice, they will probably use the search engine.
- Update regularly. It is not necessary to update frequently, as long as you do it regularly. It is better to update once a month on a regular basis than to update every day for a week in a row and then go autistic for a month. Set yourself a realistic, relaxed schedule. You don't want to get into deadline panic over porn, do you? Finally, tell your visitors how often you intend to update. That way, they won't be disappointed when they show up too early.
- Always post a comment along with your updates. It will give your visitors a sense that someone is home. Moreover, it's a great way for them to get to know you.
- Needless to say: only share the good stuff. All porn is not created equal. Though my search engine does a pretty good job at finding great porn, its brains are made of dry bits and bytes, while yours are made of warm, wet, throbbing flesh and blood. That puts you at an advantage. Use it.
Now go and get them, cowboy.