Welcome Fall!

 Yesterday I participated in a 30 minute discussion about the use of the words leafed and leaved. Apparently the trees are leaving outside my window as I type.

Also yesterday, I got a notice from Analytics that I had visitors around here. Like quite a noticeable spike. 

Now, "the visitors" basically hit my front page and did a quick lap around the tags, but I have no idea what triggered the spike. I don't hide this blog, but I don't promote it either. I have plenty of work to do and it feels odd to be "advertising" with it when I'm fully booked and happy with my current crop of clients. 

I figure the traffic has to be coming from LinkedIn. They are the only place where I still share my business. But, I've been super lazy over there lately because I'm busy. Maybe I'll regret not fanning the freelance flames more, but banking my coals seems like a better idea right now.

In fact, I'm already starting to wind down clients for the year and booking them into January to start the new year fresh! 

GA4

On Saturday, Google Analytics as we know it will stop. 

This is a Google blogging platform. It does not play well with the new GA4. 

Crossing fingers that the code snippet I just added to the site works. I don't get a lot of traffic here, but I do like to know what works :)

Treating myself like a client

Decided to apply for a Google scholarship to Coursera yesterday (see previous post) and it got me wondering about the analytics for this blog and if there is still any useful info buried deep within it. 

So, I went back to the beginning and started reading and realized a few things.  

First, I am not a good blogger. I rarely spend time here. I do leave myself some really useful tips that I regularly come back and review (ie, how to Adobe with difficult PDFs) but I'm not really consistently acting like a thought leader! 

Secondly, shame on me for not checking my analytics and realizing that I don't have data on the early years. Or to make sure that all my links work etc. I do those tasks regularly for my clients, but fail on my own site. That's not a great business plan if potential clients are coming here first. 

Finally, I need to hold myself accountable for making connections, celebrating them and being prepared to reinvent myself for another 10 years. So much has changed since I launched this blog (my third LOL) but I'm still here. 

Task for the week: Checking and fixing broken links in the old content. You'll see notes when I update the old posts:)