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Thursday, May 21, 2020

How to get more readers - top ten tips

Look at the best selling, most readers blogs and copy their content and webpage style.

Yes, I know, this involves having a sexy girl and an exotic location. Or a cute kitten. The top bloggers spend all day preening themselves and before covid-19 they travelled in packs to top spots such as waterfalls and posed separately and together. Now you can add music and backdrops and cartoons.

What if sex, stripping and selling are not your thing?

The selling techniques are well known.

1 Famous Names. & Famous Photos
Add famous names.




For example: "Fake News. Faudster tries to sell painting of pregnant Marilyn Monroe to Trump." (Attracts more readers than, 'I just drank coffee'.)

Add Alliteration.
Tourists flock to Trump Taj Mahal In Atlantic City
Look At  Tump's star in LA



Best French Food

Romantic Restaurants

Zebra Escapes Zoo

2 Series.
(First free lesson of 12 to teach you to speak Chinese fluently.)
I sometimes go back to a earlier post and put a link to a later post. Then in the later post I put a link to the earlier post.

PART 1

Now read

PART 2
If you liked this you will love part 1.

A post on learning Chinese might pick up a few readers in Singapore, China and Asia.
Keep looking at which posts attract readers, and add more on the same subject.




Small print. You must marry the teacher and live with her for ten years. Only available this week to the first two who apply. Only available in Beijing.)

3 Numbers
ADD numbers. Top ten tips for travelling free. If you are writing a series of suggestions, as I am in this article, you can add bullet points o numbers and change the title to include a number.

The more the merrier.
5 people wh recovered from Coronavirus tell (Business Insider)

2 SUSPECTS ARE SISTERS

3 WAYS TO EARN MONEY

4 CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPES

TOP 10 TOURIST DESTINATIONS

100 USES FOR LEMONS

1000 PEOPLE WILL LIVE IF ...

4 Pretty pictures
Not just one at the top of your blog posts. Have one at the start, another at the end, and one every other paragraph.


Amusing Author Angela

5 Look your best.
Best - or worst. Unbelievable but mermerizing.
Giant bust and lips.
Cute kitten with different colour eyes on top of zebra.
Python eating your cat and regurgitating it, in church, on your wedding day.
Quintuplet pregnant nuns in pineapple pattern dresses. Get tattoed with your country's flag and visit every country of the world.
Too difficult? You have not washed or cut your hair? Add a cowgirl hat.
Find a fetching outfit and write an article to match it.

6 Move
 Animation, videos, cartoons.
Couple in hammock swinging over the edge on the top of the world's tallest building.

7 Be topical.
Will Covid-19 end in time for your holiday flights?

8 Ask a question.
(Why did the world not end last Saturday?)

9 Humour.
(See number 8.)
BEWARE OF THE SPIDER FRIGHTENS MORE THAN BEWARE OF THE DOG

10 Drama.
Twins fight each other in coffin -why?

WIFM
Remember WIFM - what's in it for me.
How I made a million pounds is interesting. But how you can make a million pounds is more interesting.

Readers From Where?
Decide which kind of readers you and your advertisers want. I began my blog on travel. I wrote about England.




When I could not find another suitable picture, I used a flag.
I wrote about British English and American English.
I was surprised to see that I had many more readers in the USA than in the UK.

My husband, who is a statistician, pointed out that the USA has a larger population and many more English speaking readers will be on the internet in the USA.



I add contstant references to the USA to interest my American readers. When I wrote an article about the Amy Winehouse trail in London, I included a photo of Amy in the USA.

However, if I wanted to promote Italian restaurants, I would look for Italian subjects, such as Italian foods, wines and film stars.

To attract a worldwide audience, you would want to feature a place or person from each continent.

I then got some surprising results. Russians. Why? I looked back and found I had included a reference to learning Russian, or rather Cyrillic in Bulgaria. And I had included a mention of a Russian keyboard conversion.

This is changing it as you go. The more focused bloggers would plan out their year, their audience. My son who is in marketing websites, (SEO - search engine optimization), told me to focus on the title and audience, then plan my year's blog posts and see if I could link them.

Scheduling Blog Posts
What if you are away on holiday, or want a day of rest? You can schedule a blog post to appear on the day you are away. One popular blogger wrote all his seven posts on Sunday and scheduled them so each one appeared at 7 am local time (he was in London, England, UK) each day of the week.

Finally, how about adding a quiz.

Useful Websites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website
https://www.wix.com/
https://wordpress.com/read
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-recovered-spain-patients-advice-2020-5?IR=T

Author, Author! About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. (Not related to the actress.)
Author of twenty books including: Quick Quotations; Who Said What When.
See books and profiles on Lulu.com and Amazon, such as Wedding Speeches & Toasts. Also watch videos on YouTube.
See other posts on singers and statues and languages and destinations.

Online Toastmasters International Meetings
If you want to learn to speak the Queen's English, or Received Pronunciation. join me at my online toastmasters club,
Braddell Heights Advanced. Wednesdays, 7-9 Singapore time which is seven hours ahead of London, England.

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=braddell%20heights%20advanced%20toastmasters
I am also a member of
Singapore Online.9-12 pm, Singapore time, Fridays. I am also a member of
Tampines Changkat Advanced.
Harrovians, Toastmasters Club, London.
Tiarel.toastmasters club, Singapore.

Toastmasters International Find a Club
https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=upSEBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=quick+quotations
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

How To Meet A Friend On A Station Platform In Singapore



What looks like a B top right of the left post of the doorway is an 8. Every doorway onto the train on the platform has a number.  The train has to stop at the exact same place to match the door so the passengers can get off.

It is handy to know about this number. Be prepared. In a rare instance of trouble you might want to use the number to guide station staff to an area of the platform or to part of the train carriage in the event of illness or accident affecting you or a stranger.

On a social occasion you might want to meet a friend on the platform to show them the way. Platforms are clearly marked A or B on each level. You need to specify which colour line as at a few interchanges you have a three level station, with a ticket office at Concourse level at the top, the oldest line above, and a line built later below it.

If you get on the train at a gate with a number and get off again from the same position, will the numbers match up?

Could you, for example, always get on at a particular number at your local station and meet up with a friend going to school or work?

How else could you use this number? You might also be able to select a route bringing a handicapped person out near the lift.

If you are a nerd who loves stations and facts, and being in control, here's just one more fact to make you feel you know your local station and all the stations and how the world works. If you ever get a job planning a building or roadway, you will want to number all the points in sequence on your plan, your construction, and your final map for the users.

If you are interested in stations, I have other posts on art on the stations in Singapore and stations in other parts of the world.

Travel Tips
Singapore Airlines: 

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.



Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Translating German From An Email Address

Problem
I see a lot of German words on an email. What do they mean? What can I learn easily?

Answer
I run the words through a translation service and get this:

German - English
Deutschland - Germany
dorf - valley
strasse - street
sitz - seat or base
Registergericht - register court
persoenlich - personally
Gesellschafter - shareholders
eingetragen - registered (like the words in - scribed)
ihre - its
im - in
umsatzsteuer - VAT
identifikationsnummer - identification number

English - German
Germany - Deutschland
identification number - identifikationsnummer
in - im
its - ihre
personally - persoenlick
river - floss
stream - strom
street - strasse
valley - dorf

Author
Angela Lansbury
Travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.



Monday, August 1, 2016

More handy Welsh words: Numbers 1-10,1000, weekdays months

English - Numbers 1-10, 100, 1000
one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
one hundred
a thousand

Welsh - Numbers
un dau Tri pedwar pump chwech saith wyth naw deg
cant
mil

English - Weekdays and Weekends
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Saturday Sunday
weekend
weekends
open
closed

Welsh - Weekdays and Weekends
Yn ystod yr wythnos ac ar benwythnosau
Llun Mawrth Mercher Iau Gwener
Dydd Sul Dydd Sadwrn
penwythnos
penwythnosau
agored
ar gau

yn - in
yr - the

Months
January February March
April May June
July August September
October November December

Misoedd
Ionawr Chwefror Mawrth
Ebrill Mai Mehefin
Gorffennaf Awst Medi
Hydref Tachwedd Rhagfyr

How do you remember the months in Welsh?
Memory Aids For Months In Welsh

January
Ionawr looks and sound like January. I and J are similar tall letters and close together, adjacent, in the alphabet, I J.

February
- the Welsh word has an F. The Welsh has r o r like r - u r (y).

March
in English looks like the same letters  in Welsh MA.R.H Just stick in w and end in TH instead of CH.

April
E - brill - in Welsh sounds like a - April in English.

May
Mai in Welsh is the same sound and appearance as May in English. I and Y are interchangeable in many languages.

June
ends in N, as does Mehefin.

July
= gorgeous fruit month, FF, 'Cor - cannot get enough!" Gor - ff e n n a f.

August
A w s t = August . Both start with A, sound AW, and end with ST.

September
Medi is not the middle of the summer but the end, September.

October
H y d r e f - High trees, leaves drift (d r e f) down in autumn or as the Americans say, the Fall  , the word Fall ends in F but Hydref ends in F.

November is Tachwedd (tacky cheap wedding in November when price is low, summer gone and just before the busy, pricey Xmas season.

December
Rhagfyr -  Running R.AGged shopping For holidays and new YeaR.

English Open/Closed
Closed Christmas
and
New Year's Day

Welsh Open/Closed
Ar gau Nadolig
ac
Dydd Calan

I typed the English into my blog first, copied it into Google translate, then copied the Welsh.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, language teacher.