I’m heading to Tokyo tomorrow to watch the Asia Open. Not participate, just watch. Turns out that my match would have been on Sunday, and I was flying out that afternoon, so I took the refund instead. But, I’ll be cheering on CupcakeArmbar! I also decided to make blogger cards. This was thought of and […]
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Category: Art of Blogging
Posts about blogging about BJJ, updates about my site, other people’s blogs, etc.
Blogger/Blogspot Questions
I’ve been exclusively using WordPress.com or WordPress.org for a while now, and what I love about WP blogs is the ability to subscribe by email to the blog, or to subscribe to the comments on certain posts. I can’t figure this out with Blogspot. I leave comments and then forget which article I commented on – […]
BJJ Blogs: Teasing Out Content
Some subject lend themselves nicely to one single article. Others, to a series of articles. It’s helpful to identify which are which. For example, the article I wrote about BJJ note taking – not something I am interested in writing about extensively. Some, such as my article about BJJ Inferiority Complex could have been more than […]
BJJ Blogging: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Jiu Jiu’s note: Continuing my So You Want to Start a BJJ Blog series, this week I have a guest writer, Brendan Hufford from GiReviews.Net who kindly wrote about an aspect of BJJ blogging that I knew zero about. What’s an SEO? Every BJJ blogger wants people to read what they write, but most BJJ bloggers know nothing […]
BJJ Black Belt Blogs
Continuing my So You Want to Start a BJJ Blog series. As with women BJJ bloggers, the black belt BJJ blogger has the potential for a built in audience. I know I am more likely to want to hear what other women in the sport have to say, seeing as how I am part of […]
So you want to start a BJJ blog
I’ve had two people ask me this in the past month, so I thought I’d gather my thoughts about what I’ve learned in the past 2 years of maintaining a BJJ blog. I’ll also share some mistakes I made along the way – hopefully you will find this useful! Ah you may also find this […]
Tell about YOUR BJJ blog
So I realized recently that I TRY to facilitate discussion between my blog and you, the reader. I do that by thinking “what would people find interesting?” and by posing questions. In the last 10 posts, 9 posed questions for the reader (if you include this post, then technically the last 10 out of 10 […]
Who are you?
I’m very curious as to who reads this blog! Please take this VERY short survey! [polldaddy poll=4375865]
This blog: marriage of BJJ and ESL
I envision this blog as a very public side of me (which is why it uses my real name). Things I intend to blog about here may include: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu I started doing BJJ on June 1, 2010. I caught the bug and I haven’t looked back. I was originally interested in it because […]