by Sue Horner | Jan 28, 2021 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Asking Google today “Is blogging dead in 2021?” pulled up 18 million results. I often ask that question around this time, since my own blog anniversary is January 24 (an amazing-to-me-too 14 years, thanks). Every year I’ve asked, the answer is no,...
by Sue Horner | Dec 29, 2020 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
As we say good riddance to 2020 (finally!), here’s a look back at the 10 most-viewed posts on my blog during this pandemic year. Words are my business and pleasure, and it appears many of you share my interest in getting rid of jargon and corporate buzzwords. Will it...
by Sue Horner | Jul 3, 2020 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Is your head spinning to realize that 2020 is half over? (And thank goodness for that, although I’m still a little nervous about the murder hornets, the second wave of COVID-19 and other coming attractions.) That means it’s time for a backward look at the most-viewed...
by Sue Horner | Dec 27, 2019 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
The flurry of end-of-year lists is well underway, and I’m jumping in. As 2019 winds down, here’s my last post this year: The top 10 most-viewed posts on the blog. 1. The post that got the most traffic this year by far was on a topic I periodically revisit: Is blogging...
by Sue Horner | Jul 11, 2019 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
You know the year is already half over when it’s pool season in Canada. That means it’s time to look back at the most-viewed posts on my Red Jacket Diaries blog so far in 2019. I’m often inspired to blog about what’s going on around me, such as in these posts:...
by Sue Horner | Apr 18, 2019 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Google made me do it. My website refresh has been in the back of my mind for months. I had a few changes I wanted to make, but nothing seemed urgent and the project fell off my radar. I finally set things in motion after a few reminders about Google’s view of sites...
by Sue Horner | Feb 28, 2019 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Every year, people wonder: Is blogging dead? I always wonder this myself when my blogging anniversary comes up in January (12 years and 800+ posts!), and do a search to find out the current thinking. This week, about 74 million went to Google to find out, too. The...
by Sue Horner | Dec 27, 2018 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
As 2018 comes to a close, I have one last post for the Red Jacket Diaries: The top 10 most popular posts this year, as revealed by Google Analytics. The posts fall into a range of categories. For example, readers seem to appreciate when I summarize interesting events,...
by Sue Horner | Jul 5, 2018 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Somewhere along my 11 years of blogging, I started sharing the most-read blog posts part way through the year and at year-end. So now that we’ve already hit mid-year (how is that possible?), here are a half-dozen of them so far in 2018. I’m often inspired to blog...