A Thank You And A Recap

A year of blogging taught me so much. It’s been a year of challenges, laughs, headaches, and joy.
The one thing I never expected was that my writings would be so well received.
As much as I can share all that I learned from my first year of blogging, I know for certain, I couldn’t have [...]

Blogging - Year One - Lesson Eleven

The amount of blogs online grows by thousands every day.
There is no way we can read, or even find them all, but we try.
Over the past year, I’ve read hundreds of blog posts (possibly thousands).
There’s some good stuff out there.
In the beginning, I remember reading posts written by seasoned bloggers. I was often in [...]

Blogging - Year One - Lesson Six

Blogging helps us to share information with the world.
With hands perched on the keyboard, we wait for the words to travel from our heads, to the screen, via our fingertips. Like magic, they appear. Upon completing our “story for the day”, we hit publish and send our thoughts, opinions and life’s lessons into [...]

Blogging - Year One - Lesson Five

Blogging can eat up a lot of time.
Today’s Lesson
When I first started blogging, most of my time was spent on researching, writing and publishing.
Being technologically challenged, the rest of my free time was spent learning “blogging language”, techniques, and behind the scenes maintenance (e.g. adding/removing plugins, html, ads, etc…).
When I added statistical programs, more time [...]

NBOTW Shares From Years Of Experience

Photo Credit basykes’ photos

At first glance, an elder person’s hands may look ugly to you. But the wrinkles, thin skin and visible veins are like a road map to their past.
How carefully do you listen when your parents, grandparents or an elderly person speaks? Do you tune them out? Do [...]

Bloggers Fall Prey To Instant Gratification

Photo Credit: chefranden’s photos

Just as a top needs help to make it spin, a blog is similar. A top always stops, and falls over, after spinning out of control, will you?
Today’s Lesson
In the past few days, I have been visiting and reading a fair amount of blogs and comments. I sense many bloggers [...]

Google Kicked Me Out Of The Sandbox

It wasn’t until I started blogging that I read about “Google’s Sandbox”.
Apparently, the terminology was given to some blogs that may be on a “probationary period” with Google. These are blogs that Google is “watching” to see how internet users react to them. Google may be looking to see if they are [...]

Copy Successful Blogs/Websites - Or Not

It is often written, “Do not try to reinvent the wheel”.
In blogging, some will say, find a popular blog, and copy what they are doing, and you have a better chance of becoming successful.
Is that true? Or, is there a better way?
If you look at inventions, often individuals will take [...]

Popular Posts - Do Not Disturb

If you have a popular post(s), leave them alone.
Today’s Lesson
About ten days ago, I wrote a post on my other blog. Amazingly, within hours, I was getting hits/views.
After reviewing the post, “one more time”, I decided to make a small change to it.
That was a mistake!
The next day, [...]

My “Blogging Buddies” Update

Links to and from other sites, are great for increasing the popularity of your blog.
When I first started this blog, I decided to provide a link to all individuals (who had blogs or websites) who commented on, or linked to my blogs. That is when my “Blogging Buddies” page was born. [...]

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