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On the last day of 2016, I posted about looking ahead to a better year. 2016 was a particularly rough year for me. So I set some big goals for 2017. I was determined to improve my situation, specifically my health and professions. It’s been six months and I think it’s time for a report….
This month marks the point at which I knew I could make this whole blogging thing actually work and support my family! My June 2017 Blog & Social Media Stats Pageviews: 70,097, up from 68,653 Sessions: 33,169, up from 27,741 Users: 25,102, up from 18,681 Mailing List Subscribers: 8883, up from 7536 Pinterest Followers:…
This month marked a significant turning point for my blog. I pulled myself up from the doldrums of April and went flying into May! And this is the month I qualified for Mediavine! My May 2017 Blog & Social Media Stats Pageviews: 68,653, up from 35,117 Sessions: 27,741, up from 17,759 Users: 18,681, up…
In March, I set out to improve my blog by immersing myself in my blogging course (Elite Blog Academy) and really laying the foundation for success. I rebranded my blog to JenniferMaker, moved from my old (but free) web host to a much more reliable host (Siteground), and so on. Alas, if you look at…
In February, I encountered my first “backslide” in both traffic and income. Up to this point, I’d been growing and climbing. But it all came to a halt this month. It wasn’t pretty or easy, but I found ways to deal with it and keep going. That said, this was a pivotal month for…
Wow! What a month I had at the start of 2017. The efforts from the previous month paid off in big ways this month. My January 2017 Blog & Social Media Stats Pageviews: 66,879, up from 14,881 (amazing!!) Sessions: 52,103, up from 11,349 Users: 48,180, up from 10,093 Mailing List Subscribers: 1389 (finally) Pinterest…
In my third month of blogging, I started to concentrate more on PROMOTING the blog posts I was making. Not just on Pinterest, but on other sites and in social media. This paid off with increased traffic! My December 2016 Blog & Social Media Stats Pageviews: 14,881, up from 9374 Sessions: 11,349, up from…
Would you like 2017 to be a better year? Me too! Today is the last day of 2016, I’m going to indulge in a post that’s not a DIY craft or project, but rather about me and this blog. One of my rare #Jenuine posts. So come along, if you dare… My Year of Challenges 2016 was NOT my…
My second month of blogging coincided with lots of holiday content going online. I could see it all over Pinterest. And I read somewhere that I should prepare my holiday content in advance, so for the month of November I made holiday crafts and food and blogged about them! My November 2016 Blog &…
With both hope and desperation, I began blogging in earnest this month. I wrote down some notes about what I wanted to blog about. Here’s what I wrote in October 2016 (a copy and paste from the document I saved them to, no editing!): Blog Mission: I love creating beautiful and useful things … making, not…
