Checking In After A While

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I haven't blogged in a while. I have been in my own little world lately, and I am sure you all can relate.

There are a few things that I would like to share with the community. My Three Year Anniversary is fast approaching. Here are a few hightlights-

  • While holed away inside (like the rest of the world) I was able to produce two very 'fat' posts one about sharks and another about the native plants of Southern Californa,with each having close to 15,000 words
  • I found a great reference to use, but it was stated that permission was needed to cite. So I contacted the owner of the website, who is a very prominent shark researcher. He later called me to clarify what I could use. I can not tell you how excited I was to speak with him! It was amazing. He also said that he would link my post to his newsletter.
  • A few of my photos have been used and cited for a North County San Diego community newsletter.
  • About a year ago, a Brazilian travel agency contacted me via email, asking to use a few of my beach photos for an advertisement.
  • I have been able to increase my traffic by quite a bit. When I first started out, I would only get about 50 visitors per week, but just last week I broke my personal best by having 1257 views!
  • Last December, I tried my very first email campaign to promote Wealthy Affiliate. I was excited to see that I have over 250 subscribers. The campaign was a bust, but by accident, I found out that I actually have 1445 subscribers now. Now I have to figure out what to do next
  • My Google Map photos are up to over 100,000 views a day.
  • I was able to get over 170,000 Pinterest views in three days while promoting one of my posts.
  • My last three posts made page one on Bing and Yahoo on the first day
  • I have had four people reach out to me to thank me for the information that I provided on my website

I think I might be an anomaly here as I am not trying to sell anything as yet. Ideally, my main goal is to get traffic, so I keep plugging away!

Thank you for reading!

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Thank you Colleen,

Excellent to see your wonderful progress.

Your post has given me extra motivation, to work & achieve.
I will not quit, although I admit to briefly considering it.

From your increased subscribers & viewers I am reminded of the saying in the movie Field of Dreams - " Build it & they will come"

Denis

Thank you Denis! I just keep plugging away! It will happen soon!

Congratulations Colleen, sounds very exciting.
Sounds as though it is the right time to start monetising your site. Good luck.

Thank you, Linda!

Congratulations keep up the great work

Thank you!

You are very welcome my friend 🌹

Sounds like you have made some good progress and got a firm foundation created for your business.
Now let's see you build on it!

Good luck
Dave

Thank you, Dave!

Hi Colleen, those are some awesome accomplishments. Congratulations.

All the best,
Michael

Thank you, Michael!

You are very welcome Colleen.

Michael

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