One recent morning at work I glanced down and saw an email notification pop up. jenny@anotherkindofblog has unsubscribed from your blog To say I was surprised would be an understatement. Was I shocked? Read more »
Check out my Top 5
Through the wonder of Google Analytics, we, as blog owners, can monitor what posts or pages are popular on our blogs. It helps us to gauge what type of content is of interest to our audience. Continually reviewing and analyzing metrics related to your blog is one of the jobs of a successful blog owner. [...] Read more »
Check out my interview.
I was recently interviewed by Paul Cunningham at BloggingTeacher. Paul is an experienced blogger who has been around the blogosphere for a while. Blogging Teacher provides articles, tips and tutorials to help bloggers overcome the many challenges they face building a successful blog. He occasionally requests interviews from fellow bloggers and I willingly obliged. I [...] Read more »
Back at it…
On March 1st my Dad passed away. This is my first post since that sad day. Today, May 13th, my Dad would’ve turned 87 years old. He meant a lot to me and, to be honest, since that day I have had no desire to blog. Since his death, I realized that the process of [...] Read more »
Interview with FrugalTheme creator, Eric Hamm.
In my relatively short tenure in the blogging world, I’ve been fortunate to come across some really good people. One of them I actually met after purchasing his WordPress theme, FrugalTheme. His name is Eric Hamm, and his story is an interesting one if you are a blogger or not. If you’ve ever considered making [...] Read more »
How do you plan on increasing blog traffic in 2010?
It’s the New Year and, as always, the word “resolution” gets bandied about in many conversations at this time of year. Here, at TotallyUniqueLife, I’m interested in what your resolutions are for the coming year when it comes to blogging. I know that all of my readers are not bloggers, but I would imagine that [...] Read more »
A little history and coming attractions…
Seeing that this is a holiday week in the States I want to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. And now that I am clearly entrenched in a WordPress environment, it is probably a good time to reflect a bit and to also talk about what is upcoming. I started this blog back in July [...] Read more »
Why I left SquareSpace for WordPress.
Squarespace WordPress, that is the question. I want to say one thing right off the bat. This was not an easy move for me. I really liked SquareSpace.com for a lot of reasons. I certainly understand the fact that the vast majority of blogs out there are on the WordPress platform. I just didn’t realize [...] Read more »
Moving to WordPress…
I started blogging last summer. At the time I didn’t know much at all about blogging or blogging platforms, for that matter. So I took the advice of someone and decided to use Squarespace as my platform and host. Little did I know that the vast majority of bloggers in this world use WordPress and [...] Read more »