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Turkey’s For Life First Birthday – Part 2

Well, I know the first anniversary of Turkey’s For Life was a couple of days ago but the post was getting too long…and then I didn’t post yesterday…and so here’s a slightly later than planned Part 2.

As it’s the start of a whole new ‘blogging about Turkey’ year for us, we thought we should take this opportunity to point out some of last year’s achievements and one of the changes we made to the blog to make it more useful to you in the future.

The change…
New search boxes
To make it easier for you to find what you are looking for in Turkey’s For Life, we have changed the search box again. In the past, if you typed a word into the box, you would have been shown all posts containing that word and you had to scroll through them all to find what you needed. A tad laborious if the post you were looking for was way down the page. Also, if we had used Turkish letters and you used English letters, the post would not appear.

Hooray! All that has now changed! We’ve changed the search box to ‘Custom Google Search’ and there is one at the top and bottom of every page in the left hand column. So now, if you type in a word or words, you will be shown a list (exactly like Google search results) of all our posts containing that word. You can do a quick scan for the post you’re looking for.

For example, if you type in ‘kayakoy cin bal’, any post containing those words will show in the search results. Posts containing kayakoy or cin bal in the title will be displayed first, and kayakoy and cin bal will be in bold lettering. And, Google being Google, if you mistype a word or use English instead of Turkish letters (or vice versa), it’s very good at working out what you are looking for, so the search results should still be accurate.

Fethiye Bay & Mendos Mountain
Fethiye – Our beautiful Turkey blogging base

Some Achievements
In our first blogging year, we…

  • Took action to actually start Turkey’s For Life and fortunately, you decided to read it.
  • Set up a Twitter account; created a Facebook page; joined the food bloggers’ site, Foodbuzz; joined the travel bloggers’ site TBEX; joined the expat bloggers’ site Expat Blog; set up a Flickr account and created a Turkey’s For Life Flickr group, and as a result, communicated with countless people and ended up very busy on the laptop! (There are others but we’ll be here all day…)

Achievements in themselves, but we are also very proud of…

  • Our ‘Lonely Planet Featured Blogger’ badge. Some of you may have noticed that this has only recently appeared on the blog (it’s half way down, on the left if you haven’t seen it.) It should have been there since April but, well, it’s there now. We applied to the Lonely Planet Blog Sherpa Programme in April and were really pleased to be accepted. Occasionally, we submit a post that we feel would be useful to people who are looking for information about Fethiye and other places in Turkey. Through Blog Sherpa, our post about Kayaköy was selected as a ‘favourite’ and featured on the front page of the BBC World website. Not bad!
  • To top our first blogging year off nicely, we were voted into the daily Top 9 by other Foodbuzz users for my attempt at a Turkish dish; spicy cheese and spinach börek.

And for this year and years to come?

  • Well hopefully, we will be able to keep posting and Turkey’s For Life will keep improving and growing…inşallah!

November 30, 2010 by Turkey's For Life 12 Comments

Filed Under: Daily Life Tagged With: Blogging

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  1. Yesim

    November 30, 2010 at 10:47 am

    inşallah:)

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  2. Anil

    November 30, 2010 at 10:55 am

    A busy busy year! This deserves a birthday baklava 🙂

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  3. Turkey's For Life

    November 30, 2010 at 11:13 am

    Ha ha, thanks Yeşim. Hoping for the same to you, too. 🙂

    Anil, birthday beer has a better ring to it don’t you think?? 🙂

    Reply
  4. Natalie - Turkish Travel Blog

    November 30, 2010 at 12:57 pm

    Happy birthday to TFL’s!!

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  5. Jake Olson

    November 30, 2010 at 1:12 pm

    That’s so great, congratulations!

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  6. Turkey's For Life

    November 30, 2010 at 2:05 pm

    Natalie and Jake, thanks. How far away are you from your one year, Natalie?

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  7. Anonymous

    November 30, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    Toutes mes felicitations pour ce merveilleux blog sur la Turquie et surtout sur Fethiye, votre ville d adoption.
    Congratulations to both of you and many many more words to come.
    Suzanna

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  8. Turkey's For Life

    November 30, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    Suzanna, what a lovely comment. Thank you. Google Translate is a marvellous thing, isn’t it? 🙂 Unfortunately, it hasn’t mastered Turkish yet. We get all sorts of gobbledygook.
    Hopefully, many more words to come.

    Reply
  9. fletch

    December 1, 2010 at 9:19 pm

    Wow! that went quick, congratulations from all of us here in snowey Lincolnshire xx

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  10. Turkey's For Life

    December 1, 2010 at 11:48 pm

    Time flies when you’re enjoying yourself Fletch! 🙂
    It has gone quick hasn’t it. Doesn’t seem long since we were hassling our friends to read the blog to make us feel popular! 🙂 And of course we got the great boost from you! Thanks! Never forgotten.

    Reply
  11. Dimah

    December 2, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    Congratulations and Happy Anniversary!

    Reply
  12. Turkey's For Life

    December 2, 2010 at 6:05 pm

    Thanks Dimah. Looking forward to more of your recipes, too! 🙂

    Reply

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