This website started as a teaching tool for blogging and social media, but I’m changing direction and using AI as a creative tool to help me create the stories, images, comics, and projects I actually enjoy making. In the early…
For a long time, when I thought about search traffic, I mostly thought about Google. That makes sense. Google is still the big one. If you run a website, you want Google to understand your content, index your posts, and…
I was just trying to make better featured images, but accidently ended up creating a visual brand for danswords.com. At first, I used stock photos. They were high-quality images, and they worked fine for what I needed at the time.…
Starting a blog after 50 has taught me more than I expected. I started this blogging journey 13+ years ago. And today, I’m still working to prefect my craft. And honestly, I think that’s pretty cool. So welcome to another…
It’s late in the evening on Saturday. I have a bunch of stuff to do. If I skip this, no one will notice. But I will. There will be a hole in my posts. There are so many things on…
Google Search Console seems to be stuck right now, so this felt like a good time to step back and look at my blog traffic growth over the past month. If you remember from my original post, Beyond the Visitor…
There’s a version of this where I would’ve skipped posting today. Too much going on. Not enough time. Head not really in it. And honestly, that still feels true. But I’m starting to understand something about content creation when life…
Every blogger eventually runs into the same stumbling block: how to stay consistent with content creation. It sounds simple. Just post regularly, right? But in reality, it turns into a constant balancing act between creating quality content, sticking to a…
I went back to my Google Search Console and I see things haven’t moved much. That’s understandable. It’s only been what, two weeks? Like they say, “Rome wasn’t built in a day,” and neither will your website traffic. Still, it…
If you looked at my visitor count from last Tuesday, you probably wouldn’t see a “digital revolution” in the making. In fact, if I were chasing viral trends or overnight success, I might have hung it up by Wednesday morning.…