In my opinion, if you’re not constantly learning something new, your brain is dying. Blogging is no different. I learn new things everyday from reading your blogs, trying to write mine and seeing the really creative things other bloggers do. Last year when I wrote this post, it was more of a ‘how to be a blogger’ type. I feel like I’ve written on that subject too much as it is, and honestly don’t really know that much more about blogging…
The 2nd Blogaversary continues! I present to you my top posts of 2014 according to site traffic! 1 – How to Crochet a Horse Fly Bonnet This is actually a really, really crappy tutorial. I’m sorry SEO traffic. I’ll try to make a better one in 2015! You know, one with better pictures and some sort of actual pattern. Read Crochet Horse Fly Bonnet Post » 2 – Equestrian March Madness 2nd Qualifier Ah… equestrian March Madness. That was interesting,…
Quick tutorial for those who may or may not be super down with online marketing – SEO means Search Engine Optimization… aka people finding your site through Google. When I first started this blog, I paid close attention to it with naming blog titles and URLs and the kind of content I wrote. In 2014 I didn’t focus as much, and therefore got some screwy results. Bad online marketer Lauren, bad bad bad. Still, it’s fun to pull numbers and…
It’s that time of the year again… roughly somewhat near when I started blogging ‘for serious’ back in 2012! Since another year happens to have gone by at the end of the year, these summary type posts work out pretty well 🙂 Last year, I ran some 2013 blog stats and numbers that I found interesting and half assed some infographics for them. This year, I figured “go big or go home!” With that, I present to you epic Infographic…
1 – Horse Show Ribbon Recycling Lots of images pulled from Pinterest to showcase different ideas that upcycle show ribbons! I just want to have enough ribbons to utilize some of these ideas personally 🙂 Read Horse Ribbon Recycling Post » 2 – Horse Sex Offender List So, the internet is full of pervs apparently (shocker). Either that, or people are really concerned about avoiding horse sex offenders… either way, this is a purely innocent post about cleaning my horse’s…
Part of my real life non-horse blog job is SEO otherwise known as Search Engine Optimization. Since part of the reason I have this blog is sort of a playground to test out ideas that I may use in my marketing job, SEO is something I pay attention to. Here on the blog, that means I title some posts and post URLs with specific keywords that other horse minded folk may search for… that is I do when I’m feeling…
Writing, maintaining and foraging for giveaways on She Moved to Texas has been a huge learning experience for me. I knew from the get-go that I wanted it to be more than a personal journal for me and my horse, but I wasn’t exactly sure what. At first, the goal was to create a blog I could monetize with. I have with this one… a little. Still, this year has shown me a little of how blogs can make money…
As of December 19, 2013… I’ll have been blogging SMTT 2.0 for a full year. It doesn’t seem like that long, but 269 posts later I have met cool people I didn’t know previously, learned a lot and overall have had a great time leaning in this little blogspace. Because I am a) a dork b) proud of my blog, I’m dedicating a short blogging series to all things bloggy in SMTT land. In my real job I do online marketing…