1st, I love that you can link ANYTHING to dogs. I am pretty sure my husband and some family and friends think I do the same ALL the TIME. 😉

I also love that you live on a boat and travel. I can’t wait to follow your journeys!

Awww, thank you. That really means a lot to me. 🙂

I’m looking forward to where your blog takes us this year. This is my quiet space. The blog I come to that doesn’t have an action item at the end of a long post. It’s a nice break from all of the technical, business, and marketing blogs I read. Thank you.

This is probably a niche thing, but this is my experience with a forum. I had a forum from the beginning on my dog dementia site. It turned out that the people who came there didn’t really want to talk to each other. Basically what they wanted to do was chat with me. Probably because my site was what finally helped them figure out what might be wrong with their dog. I finally deleted the forum. Perhaps now I could figure out how to get people to participate, but back at that time I didn’t have one taker.

I use an upside-down landing page as my home page. I can’t remember where I heard about the concept, but I read an overview article about it and liked the upside-down idea. Then I noticed bloggers who used this format and decided to give it a try. I don’t pay to promote that page, but I do get traffic to it from various sources. It acts as a “Start Here” kind of page, so the content is general. I haven’t used a landing page for specific problems people are looking for a solution to. I will say that there have been a few blogs where I knew nothing about the person, but I landed on what was clearly a landing page. I looked around at maybe two or three resources and was impressed enough to give them my email. I am disciplined enough to unsubscribe from emails if they send too many or I’m not finding value, but I’ve also stayed on some email lists for long periods of time because there’s enough relevant content coming to me regularly enough that I do find value.

I definitely think landing pages have helped us out. It gives the readers a place to go when they visit your blog and you can direct them to the posts you really want them to see.

I think the person who hosts the hop and visits every participant should get an award. 🙂

My little pea brain usually finds magazine formats overwhelming. But I don’t find that on your site. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading Take Paws for so many years that old posts are just reminders of things I’ve enjoyed instead of a command to go digging around to see what I’ve missed. (see, now you know why we need a pet blogger therapy team)

Definitely hope to blog more in 2018 thanks to our new solar panels. And definitely finding all our favorite anchorages with good wifi.

You’re definitely no quitter. If you were, Delilah would be walking all over you. And she’d be about 100 pounds heavier. 🙂

If I go to a new format, I’ll definitely check in with you. Maybe we can do it together.