Wow, the first birthday of this blog almost snuck right past me. I was checking out the past entries for another reason yesterday, and noticed that the first entry was almost exactly one year ago. But as fate would have it, I noticed, and so today, we celebrate the first birthday of this blog.

I guess I should go ahead and give a slight history of the blog. It started because I didn’t have a place to post non-SEO-related thoughts. I’d been blogging regularly for a couple of years on my SEO Scoop blog, but was frustrated by being cornered into one topic there. So, I decided a personal blog would make sense to have. Thus, this blog began as a “personal thoughts” blog where I could just be silly or post about anything really.

Eventually, that changed as well. More and more people started asking me how I make a living. Friends and relatives wanted to understand the concepts, and some were even wondering if they could do the same. That’s when the focus on this blog changed. I decided to start documenting what I do - and how I do it - so that everyone who wanted to know, could easily find out. So that’s what I’ve been trying to do for the better part of this year. I hope I’ve managed to help some of you understand what it is I do, and I hope some of you have put the information to good use.

I apologize for not organizing some big celebratory bash or contest, but the whole event snuck up on me. Still, I probably wouldn’t have done much more than this anyway, because this blog is a small fish in a large pond. A big party would have seemed a little silly. So to you … thank you for coming around over the last year. Hope to see you all lots more. Have a little piece of cake today to help me celebrate, ok?

(from Smash Mouth. "AllStar" Astro Lounge. Interscope Records, 1999.)

Posted on November 29th, 2007 by DazzlinDonna
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