This blog was very fun to work on. I wrote about a topic that I had dedicate myself too since September. It came as a surprise to see that anybody even read my posts, or would have given me feedback. When it comes to health and fitness, there are so many different topics and areas of discussion. I feel like the main tools that were effective for me would be the tags feature that WordPress incorporates. I didn’t tag a couple of my blogs and I didn’t get any views, but I tagged every other post and I got a lot of views.

I don’t think the twitter widget was effective. I personally feel as thought he twitter widget acts as a distraction from the written content on my blog that is suppose to be the main focus. I tweet about random stuff and I don’t want some of those tweets to show up on the widget, in my blog about health. I might tweet about being at McDonalds and I don’t want that on my blog.

This experience will benefit me in the future because I need to maintain familiarity with tools like WordPress and coding HTML/CSS. I love to write and this could act as a platform for me to reach way more people versus just printing something out and handing it out to people in my city. I appreciate the fact that I have write quality content and be cautious of errors, it keeps me on my toes. I wouldn’t mind being a writer or a critic, and reviewing different restaurants or different album releases. These are some of the skills I will use in a job like that.

My most popular week was the week beginning November 19th- November 25th. I got a total of 14 views, which may not seem like much but it’s a lot for me. I don’t expect anyone to read my content so when someone actually does, I’m thankful. My most viewed blog post was from October 14th. I coded that post myself using HTML/CSS I learned in class so it was really fun to work on that. I think it was my most popular because I talked about trying to get my regimen started only to encounter various setbacks.

I was really surprised to see some of the viewership I gained from people who live outside the U.S. I got views from China, India, and the U.K.. At first it threw me off but then I thought to myself, health is pretty universal. So even though I may think people don’t care, there are people who feel as I do who need ideas. I really enjoyed writing about my health journey so far and I plan to continue to keep the blog going.