Last week, I published my 3rd annual list of the Top 25 Youth Ministry Blogs. For some reason looking at all of those blogs from a statistical (as opposed to content) perspective caused some reflection on my own blogging life. The Ups My blog has more than 8 years of thoughts on it. While I’ve […]
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What is my blog all about?
With the influx of new readers and subscribers, (RSS & email) I thought it was good to do a little reset. Why do I blog? What do I blog about? How do I go about blogging? These are the questions I answer in the video above.
Reminder: Back-up your blog
This morning I woke up and my blog was down. With more than 6 years of content here that is scary. It was a healthy reminder to me that it was time to back-up my blog. (After fixing some corrupt tables) This is your reminder: If you haven’t backed-up your self-hosted WordPress blog lately, you […]
One hundred seventy-seven
It was really cool to find out that my blog was indexed and currently ranks as #177 of the top #200 church blogs. Always nice to be recognized- thanks Kent. Based on how he measures, there are two things you can do to help me move up on that list. First, subscribe to my blog […]
Just Write
So, you want to blog? And you’d like to build a following. Great. I’m here to help. Here’s a quick reality check: Success has nothing to do with a fancy blog design. Success has nothing to do with learning the latest SEO tricks. Success has nothing to do with finding advertisers to fund you. So […]