After a great summer of traffic last year, my traffic started declining in the fall with a huge dip in December. I am pleased to say that I am seeing things pick back up in January. You can see in the chart above how much of a decline I had throughout the month of December. But this isn't even including my summer traffic, where I peaked. So I'm still down overall, but I'm optimistic that I'm moving in the right direction.Google accounts for about 50% of my traffic. The other traffic comes from

I was listening to a podcast the other day, and the person speaking said something that I found very profound. It seemed to be what I needed to hear in that moment to bring some perspective to some of my frustrations.The person said that so often we have plans and goals for ourselves, and we may even sit and think about some steps to take to get there. That's all fine and dandy. But she recommended thinking about these goals a different way.Picture these goals achieved. Think about what that lo

I wanted to blog today about an issue I consistently have with Site Comments, and urge users of the program to be considerate.I have a site mostly about cloth diapers. I understand this is a tiny niche and does not hold a lot of general appeal. But the appeal is there for those who use cloth diapers, and my site is for them.While I do get some natural comments, I don't receive all that many, so I still enjoy using the Site Comments platform to hopefully help raise my rankings within Google. It'