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We have recently moved across Local Blogs to our community blogs site at http://blogs.thefilipinoaustralian.com

The community blogs site aims to be your mass medium to share your thoughts on any topic, local or otherwise.

We appreciate that there may be some concerns in running a community blogs site like this one. Use the following information as your reference in why you should join us:

1. I don’t have many articles to show to my readers and attract traffic

One of biggest stumbling blocks in opening a blog – whether self-hosted or hosted by WordPress, Blogspot or other blog hosts – is the fear that one may not have enough articles to make a decent entry in the blog scene.

A community blogs site addresses that concern very effectively. Based on emanila’s experience in running community blogs like www.emanilapoetry.com and www.pinoyjokes.net, an online community of say 3 – 5 member-bloggers would be more than enough to regularly update a site with fresh articles and make a site sticky to readers.

In other words, while you are gathering your thoughts for your next opinion piece, your co-bloggers in the same community blogs site will be posting new articles which would thus maintain the site’s freshness and continue to attract new traffic stream.

2. I do not have resources to promote my blog

Like promoting a product or service, promoting a blog requires time and resources. This is where a community blogs site works best. Each blogger in a community blogs site can leverage on the site’s collective traffic. With the design and layout of our community blogs site, all bloggers effectively will be cross-promoting each other.

In addition to cross-promotion within the community site, our community blogs site is also promoted in our main site at The Filipino Australian at www.thefilipinoaustralian.com

3. I want to monetize my blog

With a blog hosted by WordPress.com, you are not allowed to put up advertisements and similar links. In our community blogs site at The Filipino Australian, we provide you the opportunity to make money by way of inserting an ad in your article eg, Google Adsense, logo of your sponsor or your own business. The conditions for inserting an ad are: (a) the ad whether text or image should be no more than 200 pixels wide by 200 pixels high, and (b) the article should be at least 350 words.

See live demo where you can see a square image ad inside the article “Who is paying for the education of real estate agents?”

How do I start?

All you need to do is contact us with a brief bio sketch which will be used to introduce you to our readers. We will then set your account up and notify you (usually within 24 hours) once your blog page is ready.

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