Dr. Tanya, at Salted Caramel, asked four questions about blogging. She calls the questions “retrospective introspection.” Reading your own work, she says, is sometimes called a form of narcissism but she thinks a better description might be self-evaluation or self-assessment.
With that in mind, I have responded to her questions.
Here are her four questions:
How old is your current blog/website?
Do you ever look back at your site i.e. read through your old posts?
How long ago did you update your about page ?
If you were to start a new blog today, what would you do differently?
And my answers:
I started my blog in October 2014 but never really was consistent in regular posts until last year.
Occasionally I will look back for a particular blog when I am posting again on a similar topic.
Five months ago I updated the picture of me. I was a redhead and after losing all my hair from cancer I still wore a red wig. After turning 71 I decided it was time to go with grey so I updated my picture then.
I would be more consistent with my posts. Since I became more consistent in 2019 my response has been much better – gaining more followers and getting more comments to my posts. I would engage more with other bloggers. Since I have started doing that I have made some great friends and have enjoyed hearing/seeing other places/countries and enjoying other viewpoints.
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Thank you for sharing your blogging experience.
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You are welcome
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My blog has been around for a little over 5 years now 🎉🔔
I constantly go back to old posts to be inspired by my past genius 😂 and to make edits and updates to some post.
And some of my posts are sort of serial posts so I have to remember where I left the story inorder to continue it.
I usually update my about page at the beginning of the year when I give my whole site a general do over tweaking aspects of the themes removing things I felt unnecessary trying out new buttons and tools and generally just trying to improve the user experience of my blog. .
If I were to restart my blog I would be more deliberate about it knowing I have every right to leave my tangle of words on the world wide web. When I first started a blog I felt like an imposter thinking hey I was not an expert neither did have I large following as some of the popular celeb bloggers I used to see, who even seemed to make piles of money from blogging.
But now I know everyone’s voice matters.
~B
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Thanks for sharing!
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Those are great tips that you are sharing 🎀
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