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What Is Wineblogger and How Can You Help?!

When Catavino asked me to add blogs to the wineblogger database, I thought, "Sure! This could be fun. I'm good at wine, foreign languages and basic database work, so this shouldn't be difficult." Nine months later, I realize that categorizing and imputing almost 900+ wine blogs is quite challenging, but there are ways we can all make this easier with a little teamwork! First, we need your help! There is zero money coming into this project, and we need all the extra support we can get! If you are fluent in a language listed on this site, become a Wineblogger Editor!! Job description: ensure that all blogs listed in that given language are active and relevant. Per month, this would take you less time than shampooing your dog or mowing the lawn. And in return, ...

Zemanta Adds Wine Bloggers from Wineblogger.info to Their English Directory

Image representing Zemanta as depicted in Crun... Exciting news for wine bloggers!!! What is Zemanta? Zemanta is a plug-in that helps make your blog writing more efficient and effective by suggesting the most relevant images, smart links, keywords and text to your new blog posts. We've used this tool for over a year now, and have found it to be a life saver. Where it fell short of our expectations previously, was that it tended to offer non-wine related suggestions, leaving wine bloggers like us in the dark. Fortunately, this has changed! Zemanta Now References English Wine Bloggers Zemanta is now referencing English written wine blogs from Wineblogger.info in their directory. This means, that when I write a blog post on the increase of Chardonnay in ...

Popular Wine Blogs = Credible Wine Blogs

Credibility is a strange term to me. When I sit with the word, the first feeling that comes to mind is trust. Am I trustworthy? Can people trust what I say as true and accurate? Can they come to me knowing that I will continually do my best to give them advice and information that is valid based on my experience or on the experience of others? Feels heavy, as if I have a thousand eyes looking at me saying "are you a good and honest human being"? I hope I am. I try to be. But I can't guarantee that I am successful everyday. I bring the term credibility to the floor today because many people, both in print and in the internet, have debated the credibility of a blogger. In short are bloggers trustworthy and honest? Are we ethical? Allow ...

One Lovely Blog Award

Our Lovely Blog AwardHow appropriate that we at Catavino was awarded the One Lovely Blog Award from Richard of Passionate Foodie, a friend and fellow wine blogger covering all culinary related topics in Boston.  As many of you know, Catavino is the blog behind this site, but we felt it would be much more appropriate to highlight some of the fabulous wine blogs we've discovered through Wine Blogger, in addition to some foodie and tourism blogs we truly enjoy. That said, here is our list: QVinho Jackson and Jomar Brustolin are the two madmen behind this fabulous Brazilian food and wine blog! Sleek, well-designed, well-organized and jam packed with great content, it is without a doubt we would have to give them appropriate accolades ...

Wine Blogger Questions – What do you think about wine blogging, and what should others know?

Assorted wine corks Hello Everyone Wineblogger.info is beginning to come together and with some additional effort we are beginning to layout new tools and features to make it a better resource for people who want to learn about wine blogs and wine blogging. We've come to realize that our primary audience will most likely not be fellow wine bloggers, but rather people who want to learn about the world of wine blogs, what they mean, and how to interact with them. Therefore we have a few questions for you. On our blog we'll be publishing short profiles with your logo/image along with answers to the following questions. Why do you feel wine blogging is not a fad? or is it? What is one thing wine blogs get right? What is one thing that wine blogs get wrong or ...

Getting Traffic to your Wine Blog

Augustus Cab Franc 2004 The number one way to build traffic to your site is through building links. The internet lives by links and all sites need them to survive. Out-links, In-links, Solicited links, any links will help your site to grow and get exposure. So how do you get them? Simple. I found this article yesterday, "24 Killer Link Building Strategies for your Blog".  Some of these suggestions are pretty geeky, like building a wordpress theme, but I believe that you can still get some good info out of this article. My favorite is "Comment on much smaller blogs in the same niche". We all love comments and engaging new wine bloggers, food bloggers or any blogger can pay off big....

Standard Blogging Software Works – Don’t eff it up!

Lately I've seen a lot of new sites that employ blogging software that was either created by themselves/their company and/or instances where a standard piece of software was modified past the point of functioning. Here's a FREE piece of advice and something that will save you tons of money and guarantee that your blog will function. USE FREE SOFTWARE! If your paying for the software and not for the design your wasting your money. Just so you know a blog must have the following to be a blog and to be a blog that works: RSS enabled - if I can't subscribe to your site with my google reader, you fail, and I dont' read your site. Since RSS is retardly simple to implement this should not ...

Contact Us?

Let's assume that you're a wine blogger, or any kind of blogger for that matter. Pretend I'm a winery with limited internet knowledge, other than knowing that it might be good to send a sample or two to wine bloggers for review. So, I go to your website, and I look to contact you. Will I succeed? Sadly, the answer is often, NO. This is a short tip and a very easy problem to solve! Make sure there is a VERY OBVIOUS WAY to contact you! Bold letters help, but beyond that, make sure your info is near the top of the page, and don't do any of this "mask your email" crap like: ryan _at_ Catavino (dot) net. First off, most people will not fully understand this VERY SIMPLE code, but more than that, Spammers can harvest this email anyways. They ...

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Wineblogger.info was created by Catavino.net as a way to collate and track the many diverse and varied wine blogs. This project is open to offers of collaboration, suggestions as to how to improve and feedback of all sorts. As always, you can contact us with this form, and if you are a wine blogger, you can grab a wine blogger badge here.

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