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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…
Lately I’ve been drooling over some gorgeous photography I’ve seen online. I’m talking about the sort of photography that has good lighting, a smooth background, and soft, almost imperceptible shadows. My photos are hit or miss depending on the lighting. Some research into professional photography revealed that the secret to these types of photos is a…
