How to add a Blog

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How to add a Blog to MotoZania

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You must be a member to add motorcycle blog to the site. If you are not, please click HERE and join us as a Member.

We welcome all types of motorcycle and motorcycle related content, within reason. MotoZania is a PG13 site.That means if you wouldn't want your 13 year old daughter or your 80 year old grandma looking at it, don't put it up. We're not prudes and know a lot of bikers speak their minds. Just keep it clean, the F-Bomb is not allowed. MotoZania is also self policing. As Members, you can flag any piece of content you find inappropriate. We look at all flags. Once a piece of content is flagged a certain amount of times, the system will auto-remove it. Any Member who habitually uploads inappropriate content will have his/her IP addressed Black Balled from the system.

Before you add your photos, we suggest that you join the Groups that your blog might belong in. This is to help get your blog seen more often once they are no longer on the front of the Most Recent page.

Click HERE for tips and tutorials on joining our GROUPS.

OK, Here we go. In the main tool bar click the icon for BLOGS. The Blog page will come up and in the secondary tool bar, click on Add a Blog Post.

The easiest way to explain the rest of the process is to give you an example. Let's say you want to blog about a ride you take from California to Montana on your 2009 Honda Goldwing with sidecar outfit. It is a ride where you and your fellow "WingNut's MC" from all around the country meet up at Yellowstone Park.

The Title box is one of the ways your content gets indexed on MotoZania. It is best to include something about your motorcycle blog. Using our test example, you might want to call it WingNuts invade Yellowstone.

Choose your blog format and then write your blog post. Experiment with colors, photos, and even html to see what you like best. Play around, you can always edit it later.

Unless you blog is very long, keep it to one blog per event. In our made up trip to Yellowstone, you would just add each day to the one blog about your trip. Each day just click on Edit Blog and you can ad to it.

If you decide to have a blog as a type of diary, just have one blog and add to it. The more content, the easier to get indexed and more people will read it. Don't start a new blog every day.

TAGS, I capitalize it because this may be the most important box of all. The Tags are what search engine robots and spiders see. Google, Bing, Yahoo, ASK, and all the others look for these key words to find the content on MotoZania. Think like a computer and using the reference from above, your tags would be:

honda goldwing gl1800 sidecar california ca nevada nv utah ut idaho id montana mt wyoming wy motorcycle tour touring yellowstone

Plus any keywords that might be relevant on the trip like "las vegas" "salt lake city" and don't forget the club "wingnuts mc" - With those tags, not only can everybody on MotoZania find your cool bike blog, but now every Internet user in the world can.

In the Category section, please try to find the best suited for your motorcycle blog. As we grow, these sections will help you find content. A lot of this is subjective. Our made up picture could be under Motorcycle Touring.

Add Blog Posts to Groups. By now you will have joined your Groups that interest you. One photo can be assigned to many groups. The site was designed so your media can be seen in as many places as possible. Using our scenario from above, you could put a check mark in front of the boxes for Honda, WingNuts MC & Sidecar.

This way, including the Most Recent page, your one photo will appear in four places on MotoZania. Please do not abuse this privilege. Do not spam your blog into hundreds of groups. We will remove the blog and possibly you.

Email Friends About Your Blog. This box gives you the opportunity to have all your friends invited to see your blog.

Use the location drop downs to tell us where your blog is about. This will be very helpful for trying to find media from locations. In our made up example it would be difficult to say a location since it is many. We suggest using the destination of Yellowstone Park.

Click the Add Blog button and your motorcycle blog will be added to the site.

After you follow this procedure a couple times it becomes second nature and is really quite easy to do. But if you do need more help please ask us by clicking This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .