It’s another Home Style Saturday to share with you. Today, we’ve got a beautiful Cape Cod home tour, 12 tips to be the best Thanksgiving guest, lighten a dark room with a painted cabinet, guide to modern farmhouse decor, and how to style a plate rack. Enjoy them all!
I wanted to share something with you all as well. I don’t talk about this very often, but there are so many changes that blogs are going through the last few years. Google constantly messes with their algorithms and that affects all bloggers I know from getting the traffic we used to get. We could rely on search engines to bring traffic to our blogs, but that is changing by the month and it’s not at all reliable anymore. We used to rely on Pinterest to bring people to our blogs because it worked so well for years, but that’s not reliable anymore. So, I just wanted to remind you that the best way you can support me and other bloggers you know, is to click to our blogs every time we post a new post (either by phone, laptop or iPad). That’s the best way you can help us all. I have a pretty good email list, but only a fraction of that list actually opens my emails. We make most of our income from the ads on our blogs (which I know are annoying, but they are necessary for us). Please, please help us out by clicking over to our blogs. Please visit my friends below as well, it’s how we will stay in business. If things keep going the way they have been the last couple of years, so many blogs are not going to survive and I’m not ready to quit yet!
Southern Hospitality | Old Silver Shed Home Tour
StoneGable |Â 12 Tips To Be The Best Thanksgiving Guest
Designthusiasm | Lighten a Dark Room with a DIY Painted Cabinet
On Sutton Place |Â A Guide To Modern Farmhouse Decor
Worthing Court | How to Decorate a Plate Rack
There is one feature of your site that I appreciated which disappeared a few months ago. That was the ability to click on the advertising banner at the bottom of your web page and close it. This gave the ad a chance to be seen but then the reader could get more screen visibility when it was closed. Could you bring that back or does it affect your site adversely? Thanks.
HI, Janet, I don’t have any control over that banner. My ad network runs the ads, but I thought that all the ads could be clicked closed. I’ll look again and see.
Well now that you brought up the subject and I’m only making this comment here on your blog because you were brave and opened the door….on all the blogs I follow and I admit I am reducing those, if I see repeated content I just delete and move on for the day. If a blogger is just linking to things she has seen on other blogs…..I delete and move on. If the whole post is basically advertising to buy more and more I delete and move on. I doubt I’m the only one that now does this but I understand not wanting to point this out on a random post. But I think you are being proactive and will take this comment in the way it is intended. All bloggers need to assess their content and ask but seems not many do that anymore. I only wish you success and continued blogging.
Thank you, Dee, for your input. My friends and I do reshare our old content on Saturday and Tuesday posts and I do a new post every Sunday and sometimes a fashion post during the week. So while I do reshare some content, many people may not have seen the original. As long as we have been blogging, old posts get buried so fast and we still have good stuff on there. So I hear you. I’m not blogging nearly as much as I used to, I announced a couple years ago I was semi-retiring and I’ve done that. I now have more travel posts to share so that’s a good thing. I can’t keep up with the consumerism either that I see so rampant. Social media is full of it.
Thanks for the reply. And you do have many old posts with a lot of value, especially all the remodeling of the previous house with your dad. There’s much in those posts to help anyone trying to do a lot of it themselves. You found work-arounds especially in the kitchen when a full gut job wasn’t possible. Downstairs if a new ceiling isn’t possible at the moment then disguise what’s up there. Everyone with a 70’s or 80’s split level should see what you tackled with yours.
Thank you, Dee, I appreciate that!