1000petals

Axinia

I started in October 2006 with a missionary idea to tell the world more about the true beauty in a 3-language blog . As it grew I had to split it in 3 separate ones.

Then I realised that I still want to share more than this topic and started 1000petals - my sweetest and the most joyful baby that let me treat it as often as possible without much effort. Then my best friend invited me to join the administration of our exclusive club`s blog, and here I am with 5 blogs!

As my art of blogging was unfolding, it turned out to be a tender and yet powerful 6 petal flower:

1. Beauty. Most of the Internet users are visualy-oriented. Surprisingly not all bloggers use pictures as a powerful tool. The world is bubbling with colors: majestic landscapes, breath-taking close ups of flowers, people expressing emotions - why not mirror it?! It is almost a physical pleasure for me to fish for elevating pictures on Flickr and then put them on my blogs.
2. SEO - as far as I understand, Wordpress promotes you automatically to Google, and that is the best engine anyway. I was thinking of further SEO but then realized two things: 1) I am unlikely to go to any other search engines If I am looking for something particular, so how many people actually do that? Probably not many. 2) If my blog is good, it will attract readers anyway (which actually happens). So I refused from any further SEO activities.
3. Being authentic. Being authentic is one of my strongest personal feature, and same case with my blogs. No false roles, borrowed concepts, snatched ideas and tricks. Whatever I post is gone through my experiences and represents my core qualities and values.
4. Highest achievement. The most surprising fact in my short blogging history was the first personal email of a reader which I got. And then it grew like a snowball! People (and what caliber of people!) seek my friendship outside blogging and find it: a bunch of unfolding relationships is on my email list and in my heart. The funny thing is that I was never interested in Internet-provided relationships for the simple reason of my rich social life. Not that I am lacking some more dosens of friends :) But people get attracted, what can I do?
5. Attraction. A popular word with a desirable content. Due to the weired value system of today one can easily attract people with the universal values of tomorrow, for they appear fresh and truly elevating. Practicing Sahaja Yoga for 11 years gave me such a unique world perception that readers find it fascinating to learn something entirely new. Right now I am preparing a spate of posts about "Divine Geography" for 1000petals. Uniqueness is only a tool of attraction though. Guess what is the driving force of it?
6. LOVE is the almighty key to the heart of everyone. Same works for blogging. People get attracted by the love pouring from your blog like bees to the blossoming flower...I suggest regarding Love as the best SEO! Love which is just about putting much heart into it.Unconditionally.

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