Hi @dkkarolien
Wow, awesome post! I already wondered why your name sounded so Dutch, you're South-African... of course...
I can't - or I don't even want - imagine what it would be like to leave Belgium and everything here behind. It would be my worst nightmare.
I noticed your blog was built on Wordpress. I have a tip that can save you time and effort: there is a free plugin - 'Steempress' - that cross-posts the articles you publish on your blog to your SteemIt blog on autopilot, without the risk of getting penalized for duplicate content.
On top of that, if the developers of the plugin think you've published a quality post, they might give you an upvote. They have a curation trail (people copying their voting behavior), so that could result in quite some votes.
Just search the WP plugins database for Steempress, it is available to download for free. You can find more info on the @steempress blog. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I have been using it for a while.
It seems to me like you're doing great. Reading this post, I think you will be adding a lot of value to the Steem blockchain. Great work.
Have you joined Discord yet? In my initial comment, I told you about the Steem Terminal server on Discord. They have a channel where you can promote your posts.
You can join them here:
https://discord.gg/XZGPGpz
Keep up the good work!!
You’re in Belgium? Lol I have family that moved there and we visit them often or they come visit us! I can see why you wouldn’t want to give it up that’s easily I really enjoyed my time there and my family love it there
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We're in Mauritius currently but looking at other options
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I can't promise anything, but I can at least try 😉I've submitted your post to the @c-squared Discord channel (https://discord.gg/5BqXa7a). They curate good posts and I think this one has a chance to be selected for an upvote from them and their trail. Who knows, it might even be picked up by @curie, which is a one of the most important curation initiatives around.
I will also resteem it with the @newbieresteemday account. It's an initiative that was set up a little over a year ago to support promising newcomers. We each went a different way, so it has been dormant for the last 8 months. It still has quite some followers, so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to bring it back to life again. 😁
@simplymike 😁 thank you... Did not understand what that means but I glean its good news.. 😂 Much appreciated. Will check it out. Been busy and need to catch up here a bit today
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@simplymike yay another tip!! I've been driving myself crazy with copying and pasting 😂😂😂 will download plug-in myself, self taught techie that I am.. 😜 Tried to figure discord, not there yet.. Will give it another shot. Thanks so much for the valuable tip. I post on so many platforms that I can do with saving some time. Re: my name. Yes I am Afrikaans born and bred back in South Africa. Now residing in Mauritius as my husband is a captain on a fishing vessel. I think my great great grandfather came from Sweden. Wish we could rather do the expat thing in Europe but a bit too expensive for our currency. Anyhow. 6h25 here and I need some tea to start my brain cells.. 😂 Have a good one
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I'm a self-taught techie too. Didn't know anything when I decided - years ago - I wanted to build a webshop to sell all our junk. So Mr. Google became one of my best friends, lol. Learned a little HTML, tried PHP, but that was too much, my brain couldn't comprehend 😂
Over the years, I learned myself to build and promote websites. WP is still my favorite.
With WP, there are almost endless possibilities...
Btw, you say you post to so many platforms... I hope that's not all copy/paste work you are doing? You can automate most things using your RSS feed and IFTTT. I have a couple of autoblogs, and I'm sharing the posts to like a zillion platforms, all hands-free and on complete autopilot.
If you don't know about IFTTT, I recommend checking it out, for sure!👍
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