*Clarification: This post has a highly altruistic character*
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Dear WordPress,
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hi! My name is Ioanna and i would like to be Freshly Pressed! (pleeeeeeease)
I checked your support page about this issue, i read the whole post through, i swear. So now i am writing to let you know, in case you don’t already, i have all the qualifications needed to be your next freshly pressed girl! 😀
Let me show you…
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1. Write unique content that’s free of bad stuff.
Of course i write unique content that’s free of bad stuff! Mostly. Except that one time, in Is it me???, when i was having a few bad (middle finger kinda bad) days. I was a bit hostile, i know… Just forget about that one post. Thank you.
2. Have a point of view.
I do have a few (points of view i mean). I don’t fill my readers with meaningless facts and stats. Ok, i might have done it this one time, when i posted about LinkedIn in Numbers, but you can scratch that out too.
3. Don’t be afraid of your voice.
Hmmm… That would be an issue. I sure have style but i am also sure you don’t want to hear me sing. May want to rethink that one…
4. Paint us a picture.
See, i can paint! => Weekly Photo Challenge: Make Art. I may have “forgotten” to insert a thumbnail (or any other image) in one of my posts… Yes, that was intentional… Won’t happen again… 😦
5. Make it easy on the eyes.
I am sure my content is well paragraphed, clear to read and not tiring at all. Fine, fine, my stickman was not very easy to see in those pictures but that wasn’t my fault! You should talk to www.drawastickman.com, they made the background grey!
6. Add relevant tags.
Add relevant what??? Awwwwwww tags!!!!! Those words we use as key words! Yes, yes, i know, i will…. Is “i want to be freshly pressed” a good tag??? I am putting it anyway….!
7. Write a headline we can’t ignore.
I am good at that! Sure, i often write something in the headline and imply something else within the post, like here, or write a headline no-one can understand what i mean, like The “huh?” experience! What do you mean that’s wrong??? I am being creative Mister!
8. Aim for typo-free content.
I thought my English was good. Yet again, i make typos when i write in Greek, my native language… And yes, i keep NOT writing the “i” capital when i am referring to myself. That is so NOT a typo, that’s my personal touch (on grammar)!
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Thank you for taking all these into consideration, i look forward to hearing from you! I swear i won’t be bothering you sending emails, begging or threatening you.
LOL, congratulations in advance on your Freshly Pressed! 😉
And I share your thoughts, good answers. There is no recipe for this. We all do our best and share our heart’s content. And that is good enough for me, even without the FP-award 🙂
hahahahaha! You got me Marion! 😀
Getting freshly pressed looks like a goal, you should do this and that to get there. Though, i shouldn’t be too hard on wordpress, their “freshly pressed” rules are understandable and SEO based…
The idea is to blog and have fun with it! 🙂
Go for it girl! You deserve it…
If wordpress doesn’t take the last picture seriously…. and all my other “fail” actions…maybe! 😛
Very funny & light! I’m just getting into blogging (still figuring out pingbacks and throwbacks..eeuuh trackbacks or whatever they are called)…but I’m having fun with it. So I like your reminder not to put on some kind of corset in order to get FP’d. 🙂
I am glad you got the point! Having fun with blogging is the most important rule!
And since you are at your beginning, don’t forget to put your blog address in your gravatar profile, how am i going to find your blog????
Thank you so much, done!
I can see you now, check! 😉
What a riot! Seriously, you are already FP’d in our eyes… 🙂
That is the highest goal, and so sweet to say! 🙂
Laughing. I VOTE FOR YOU!
hahahaha! Good to hear! 😛
go Ioanna go, I give you hi-five !!!!!! and you get my vote!!!
hahahaha, i have two votes so far! I am already a winner! 🙂
Ioanna – Great post. If you don’t get FRESHLY PRESSED, I’ll drive you to the DRY CLEANERS myself!
hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!I I ‘ll remember that!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Έμπαινε Ιωάννα! Βουρ!!!!! Way to go dear friend. Looking forward to seeing you in the Freshly Pressed Page! 🙂 ❤
χαχαχαχαχαχα! Thank you my friend! WordPress has been warned! 😛
Indeed! 😉
I hope that you will be nominated freshly pressed. 🙂
If wordpress misses this post, maybe i will! 😛
We haven’t missed it 🙂
Thanks for outlining your qualifications – we’ll keep your resume on file should a position open up. But as always, our advice is “write because you love it, not to be Freshly Pressed!”
Did i really catch your attention?????? Wow, you are fast!!! Well, that’s the best advice i ‘ve ever heard! And i am sure we are all blogging cause we loooooooooove it! 😀
ΧαχααχαχαχαχΑ!!! Από τα καλύτερα post σου Ιωάννα..! Και ναι, γράφω στα ελληνικά! 🙂
Ευχαριστώ Γιάννηηηηηηηη! Που και που γράφω και εγώ Ελληνικά! 😛 Μην ξεχνιώμαστε! 🙂
Well, you “freshly pressed” my morning laugh out of me…. Love the way you inserted all the links to your previous posts plus big -eyed kitties and my all time fave of Sam Sheepdog get you big bonus points!
I am so happy i made your day, that totally beats getting freshly pressed! 😀
Love this!, looking forward to seeing this in Freshly Pressed! 🙂
I am on the phone with WordPress right now…. they pretend they don’t know me….
Ooohh, I love those “your call is important to us, not enough so for us to answer the phone though” moments! 🙂
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You SHOUD be pressed freshly! WHAT’S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!! 😀
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! You show them Gemma! 😀 😀 😀
You really did make me laugh with this one, my friend! 🙂 This post should be “Freshly Pressed” if you ask me and I suspect there would be quite a few people who would agree.
I deliberately wrote this post to gather all my fans together so that wordpress knows who they are dealing with! 😛
That’ s the way to go, gal! Together we are the power! 🙂
hihihihihi!
Love this post! Very light and funny, and so worthy of being Freshly Pressed!
“WordPress, put this girl on the front page, now!”
hahahahahaha! I am so glad you liked it! I am sure WordPress feels pretty intimidating right now! 😀
Yeah baby, way to go! You’ll be freshly pressed soon… I have that feeling in my gut. Nice post by the way!! Love.
We have a passionate girl here! Thank you Seyi!!! If i ever get freshly pressed, i would owe it to you guys! 😀
You’re brilliant babe!
LOL! wordpress, FP this asap! it so fits the bill to the T. Lovely post, Ioanna. i particularly loved # 7 & 8 and the pics 🙂
Thank you my friend! 🙂 hihihihihi, i am glad you liked my typos! 😀
You are amazing. I support you, your points and answers are so nice… I think there is not any key for this… and really I don’t know why and how they chose… At the beginning of my blogging life on WordPress, in the first days I took a place on Freshly Pressed page more than one, I think. But in that time I wasn’t known as today and also I haven’t visitors and followers… But now for a long time I am not on FP too… I really don’t know. But your post is amazing made me smile… Thank you, love, nia
Awwwwwwwwww thank you so much Nia!!!!!!! I am so happy my post made you smile! 🙂 🙂 🙂 That is even better than getting freshly pressed!!! I don’t think bloggers pay much attention to that…. Definitely it is exciting getting the news of being FP, but i don’t think it matters at all… Comments like yours matter the most! 🙂 Thanks again!
brilliant! I really enjoyed it! Good luck on getting Freshly Pressed!
Thank you so much! I enjoyed it! 😛
I give you “refreshing press” award! This is too cute 🙂
Awwwwwwwwww i got an award???? Thank you my friend! Your award is so much better than wordpress’s! 🙂
You have my vote, though honestly, I don’t see Freshly pressed as an advantage at all 😀
If wordpress reads this post, i am so NOT getting freshly pressed! 😛 And i would have to agree with you! Getting Freshly Pressed should only have 1 rule: Blog and Enjoy it! 😀
All the best of luck in getting pressed, Ioanna, and if you do, I can’t wait to see it! I’ll be there cheering wildly 🙂
hihihihi! Thank you my friend! Even if i don’t, i have my friend The Palladian Traveller, he says he ’ll drive me to the DRY CLEANERS himself! So i ‘ll be fine! 😛
Good luck, I’ll be looking for you!
While it wouldn’t hurt my feelings to get a little love from the folks at WordPress, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it either. I’d like to think my blog is “fresh press-able,” but then again, don’t we all? I am quite happy with my loyal and growing fan base.
You’ve got my vote, Go Ioanna!!
I am with you Jeff! Getting Freshly Pressed is a nice thing, but having a community and recognizing friend faces among them i think beats FP! 🙂
You got it! But don’t lie, getting “Pressed” would be a hell of a shot to the ego wouldn’t it! 😉 I know it would be for me. 🙂
Ok, ok, it’s true….! We would all loooove to be FP! 😛
HELL YEA!!! 😀
I wish a simple letter as that could work! I so want to be freshly pressed too lol!
hahahahaha! Maybe we should get on the streets and demand to be FP, all of us!!!! 😛
What is “bad stuff”? I have a feeling that my blog has plenty. Oh well.
I think you should definitely be freshly pressed 🙂
-Emmerson (Odette’s writer)
hihihihihi thanks Emmerson! “Bad stuff” spice up the blog, so keep it up my friend! 🙂
a humorous way to request the FP 🙂
and a way to remember it’s not about the rules! 😉
so true
LOL tell WordPress you have my vote!! Your blog makes me smile all the time 🙂
Thank you! If i have your smile, i don’t need the FP! 🙂
Getting freshly pressed is the only thing, I am waiting for in terms of blogging. 🙂 I hope you make it there soon.
Thank you Arindam! You deserve getting FP my friend, not that we really need it! 😛 😛 😛
This is way cute Ioanna, great job!
*hUgz~
– Jesz
Thank you Jeszlene! 🙂
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You too Elizabeth!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and are in the midst of a great Thanksgiving weekend!
Happy Thanksgiving to you too my friend! 🙂
This is really funny, Ioanna. I love that cartoon at the end. 😀
hihihihihihihi i love the cartoon too!!!!!!!! 😛
😀 Keep on truckin’. You’ll get there, just be yourself and don’t let the thought of being Freshly Pressed weigh on you. Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving to you too Rommel! 🙂
Who need to get Freshly pressed anyway??? 😛
You have been invited to my virtual dinner – check my blog
We are eating???????? I am so coming!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀
You got my vote! It’ll happen.
Thank you! 🙂 I am just playing with wordpress here! 😛
Great post! It made me laugh so much. You definetely should be on FP! 🙂
Scarlett
Thank you Scarlett! I am so glad you had a laugh! That was the whole point! 😛
Congratulations! 🙂
I have nominated you for the “Blog of the Year 2012 Award”. For further details regarding the nomination, check out the link:
http://myindividualinsights.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/blog-of-the-year-2012/
Rahul
Thank you so much for the nomination Rahul! 🙂 I ‘ll come check it out! 😀
You’re most welcome, Anna! Have a great time ahead. God bless. 🙂
Rahul
You most certainly deserve a freshly pressed honor! Keep on writing. BAM
I am certainly enjoying myself! 😀
The cutest, funniest, most deserved to be a freshly pressed blog! :-), congratulations in advance Ioanna.
Awwwwwwwwww thank you Deborah! Actually, i wrote this post to “fish” good words from you guys! 😀 😀 😀 Who needs freshly pressed when you get so beautiful comments! 🙂
funny style!
😛 Can’t help it! 😛
you’re awesome! i love this! if i was in charge i’d definitely put you on freshly pressed. 😀
if you see this before midnight tonight (new york time) could you send my blog out. we have a few hours left and we really do need as many votes as possible. just thought i’d ask 🙂
http://wp.me/p2Aj1o-3b
if you don’t get a chance, i still think you’re still awesome!
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Clare i just saw your comment! I went to that page but i couldn’t find any vote button…. i guess i was too late… 😦
Thank you for your kind words, i wish i saw this yesterday….
hahahaha!! Nice post. You do deserve to be freshly pressed 😀
Thank you so much Uma, nice to see you here! 🙂
My friend, I know you will be Freshly Pressed soon. You blog speaks from the heart and that’s what readers dig. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Who needs FP my friend when Christmas is coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Good luck, but don’t put too much stock in being Freshly Pressed; some blogs have been Pressed TWO OR THREE times while others have been ignored for YEARS!
Just keep doing good work and let the rest take care of itself…
Don’t worry hook, i am just kidding here! I blog for fun! 🙂
Thanks for the chuckle, loved your post!
Glad i made you laugh! 🙂
Loved it! This should be Freshly Pressed!
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Thank you my friend! 🙂
Refreshing to see someone so full of fun with the ability to make others laugh-very witty-enjoyed this post!:-)Thk u for “liking” my “delicate” pic;-)
Thank you for the kind words my friend! Big smile! 🙂
I hope you get to be freshly pressed one of these days. 🙂
Thanks! I am pretty full already, with all these friends, who needs to get freshly pressed? 😛
after just reading through a few posts, yes, you’re Freshly Presse-able! I love it! I’m in for the rest!
Awwww thanks!!! 🙂 :-). 🙂