{"id":310,"date":"2014-10-06T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleensmith.org\/wp\/?p=310"},"modified":"2014-10-06T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T15:34:19","slug":"blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathleensmith.org\/wp\/2014\/10\/06\/blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exactly one year ago this week on October 9th I wrote and posted my first blog. For the most part I have really enjoyed writing my blog posts. Basically with each of my posts I just share what&#8217;s on my mind and heart for that week. I also like to share a little about me sometimes. Like on the posts where I&#8217;ve explained why I like bears or why I like the smell of tires. I&#8217;ve even shared a bit about where I grew up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in case my readers haven&#8217;t noticed I have yet to do any type of give aways or anything like that. Why not? Simple, because I have no clue how to do anything like that. I have thought about it, but have no clue where to start. I don&#8217;t even know if I have enough readers to do anything like that with. Lots of times I think about blogs by people like <a href=\"http:\/\/timewarpwife.com\/search\/label\/Ruth%20Study\/\">The Time-Warp Wife <\/a>or Proverbs 31 ministries or even <a href=\"http:\/\/unveiledwife.com\/\">The Unveiled wife<\/a> . I try to figure out how their blogs have become such successes. How they have managed to get so many readers, followers and such. If I could figure out how to get my blog to be just as successful I&#8217;d be a happy blogger.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to reading other peoples blogs like the ones I&#8217;ve mentioned above, or the ones people share on FaceBook. After I read the blog and if I like it I will share it on my FaceBook feed as well. I have to say it is nice when I see other people sharing my blog posts on FaceBook as well.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know not every blog can look like theirs. And yes, I know things take time, but I often feel like my blogging is no where near as good as my other social media skills. And according to my husband I am very good with my social media skills. I would very much one day like for my blog to do better, look better, get more readers, have more followers and such. So I suppose until the day that I get all this figured out I need to keep on going and do my best. 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