WordPress was kind enough to let me know that I had reached the 5 year blogiversary this week.
Wow! Five years of blogging. To my followers – THANK YOU! As many of you know, I started this blog as a way to put my thoughts to “paper” so to speak. I was and is therapy for me.
The fact that so many of you read my blogs and comment regularly means a lot to me. Many of you I have come to know as friends. I look forward to reading about your lives, reading your stories and poems, taking part in your blogathons, submitting thoughts on your features, and more.
In the past, I have written guest blogs for friends and been “interviewed” by others. I really enjoyed that. As a reader, you are familiar with the content I post and if you ever feel inclined to write a guest blog for me, please reach out and we can discuss that. Much like the days of radio where DJ’s cross-promoted each other, I am always glad to help promote other bloggers – especially those I follow.
Thank you again for reading. Here is to another 5 years (and more!)
Keith
Various Ramblings of a Nostalgic Italian 
It goes by fast.
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Congrats dude…I had mine in September so we started around the same time.
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Well done on you too Max. My fiver is coming up in May. Just reaching one year on WordPress this month.
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Where did you blog before Randy? I always wanted to ask about other places like blogspot if they have the community that WP has.
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I was on Googles blogger.com and it was quite the different experience. So for many reasons I switched and for the lost page views as I was averaging over 3,000 a week there was no community like I have found on WordPress. For that reason alone I’m so glad I switched or I’d never have found the group I’m a part of now.
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That was a great number of views. I guess the good thing is…you could use a lot of your old stuff for this one.
I guess its the same everywhere but it’s hard starting out and getting noticed. I went 6 months with one comment and no likes.
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Things are improving on my stats but I still have no regrets about switching. I was able to import 160 posts so they are all in my archive. I have reposted and updated a few but for the most part it’s all new material.
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That is cool that you have that many. I try to get ahead…I was 70 posts ahead at one point a few months ago…lol thats gone…now I’m 7 ahead.
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Most of my early stuff isn’t that great and there’s a lot of formatting issues, growing pains we’ve all had I’m sure.
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Oh yea… I don’t trust my instinct anymore… the ones I think people will really like…they don’t…and the ones that I think are not up to par…people love.
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I find the same thing sometimes, trials and tribulations of blogging I suppose
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Congrats to you, too! Glad to have found yours and you!
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Yes and the same to you Keith! I’m glad we met each other…at least virtually… move to the music city dude!
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Happy Blogiversary Keith! To keep at it for Five years takes some serious commitment. Keep up the great work 👍
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Congratulations!!! ❤️
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Happy 5th anniversary, Keith. To many, many more 🎉.
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Thanks so much Britta!!
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congrats on the 5, Keith and here’s to 50 more –
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Thank you, Beth!! 🙂
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Congratulations! Wow 5 years! Here’s to many more.💕
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Thank you!! I appreciate you!
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Your welcome. 💕🙏💕
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Congrats!
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Thanks, pal
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Sorry Keith, Max and I have hijacked the comments.
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No worries.
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Congratulations! It’s an achievement , and I imagine one you find very worthwhile. I do at my end, I too just passed 5 years on my music blog. My baseball one’s at something like 9 years, but has far fewer readers and I add to it much less frequently. Both though have led me to ‘meet’ some really good people, you included.
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