Two Years Old Already?
June 11, 2008 by Lillie
A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye was born two years ago today. Many bloggers celebrate the anniversary of their blogs, their blogiversaries. However, since this blog is my baby, I’m celebrating my baby’s birthday and the following highlights:
- 376 posts, including 15 series of 2 to 15 installments
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Nearly 3200 comments, which have educated, entertained, and inspired me far more than my posts have done for my readers
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Nearly 70,000 spam comments caught by Akismet in 18 months (I didn’t have any spam control in the first 6 months … and got little spam)
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More friends than I can count – many of whom are listed in my blogroll
On my blog’s first birthday, I reviewed how my understanding of blogging had changed.
I discovered that my blog is not just a place to share what I’ve learned. Blogging is a large city with hundreds of small neighborhoods. It’s a place to make new friends, a place to learn and share. It’s synergy that makes the whole more than the sum of its parts.
My understanding of blogging as community has developed even more in the last year. The number of blog posts increased about 35%, but comments increased by more than 500%.
I said last year I was going to work on SEO and promote my blog better … but I didn’t. This blog is pure fun for me, and SEO and promotion isn’t fun to me. I’m glad I have a handful of subscribers and some loyal readers. If I were serious about blogging, I’d focus on the topic of writing rather than covering whatever interests me at the moment. But that would be too much like work. So I’ll keep having fun and hope you’ll come along for the ride.
Thanks to each of you who subscribe or read regularly and to those of you who visit occasionally. I appreciate each one of you, value every comment, and love our friendly little neighborhood in the big city of the blogosphere.
Put on your party hat, have a slice of birthday cake, and release a balloon to say “happy birthday” to A Writer’s Words, An Editor’s Eye.
Now I just hope my blog isn’t going to start having tantrums like a Terrible Two!
Happy birthday to a beautiful blog!
Your blog has and always will be one of my favourites Lillie, and I’m not surprised to see that you’ve had so many great comments and conversations here. You’re a hostess with the mostest for sure!
Thanks for the cake. I’m going to send a virtual balloon filled with gratitude and writer’s spirit.
Joanna
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Congratulations on making it two years. Not everyone that starts a blog goes that long with it. As far as the work part is concerned, I don’t think writing on topic is like work unless you really have nothing to write about. I do think a blog needs variety though. The title of my own is misleading because it has been changed to encompass several other, related, topics. And that helps me have something to write about every day.
Happy birthday to this very special baby of your! Manny happy returns
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Happy B-day to one of my favorite writers, Lillie; glad to have you in the blogosphere! Hey, I’m with you – I think you should just do what you want here and have fun with it. If you really want to get serious, you can always start another blog…
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Congratulations Lillie! This is indeed a wonderful milestone to celebrate. I can’t say I’ve followed your blog from the very beginning but I have been following it for some time now. I enjoy reading your articles and I look forward each and every one.
Happy Two!
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Happy blogiversary! That’s a great milestone–you should be proud (grin).
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You deserve a party! I love reading your posts. Because of your ideas, my blog has a little more verve! After discovering you several months back, I have made it a point to scour your sidebar and catch up with your thoughts. Your writers eye has given me new ways to look at things! Thanks! And good luck with the Terrible Twos!
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Happy blogiversary Lillie!!!
So tell us, do blogs (like cheese) get better with age?
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Happy Blog Birthday! Only a toddler but no one could tell from your Writer’s Words. I hope you don’t mind if I toast you but if you want to join in, stick to the apple juice and arrowroot cookies on your side, ok?
Happy Belated Birthday Lillie!
You deserve all of the accolades that come your way.
Keep up the fabulous blogging!
Cheers,
Steve
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Happy blogiversary!
Happy Birthday! Two years a long time in the blog world. Congratulations for making it this far!
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I cant say it any other way than it has already been said-Congratulations! As a fellow blogger (beginner) I can only strive to reach this landmark! Again Congratulations…keep up the good work as I’m sure you will with so many people enjoying your writings and depending on you to do so.
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Happy birthday to your baby blog. Manny happy returns of the day.
This is the first time I’m visiting your blog, its really a nice peace of work.I would love to come here regularly..Keep up the good work =)
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I wish you all luck with you blog
And happy happy birthday to your blog 
A realy nice work do you do here 
Happy Blogiversary, Lillie. You are always so wonderfully supportive and positive on every blog I see you comment on that I’m not surprised you’ve developed such a fan club.
As for the spam, the more spam you get, the more popular you must be!
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Happy Birthday!!
Congratulations on your blogs success!!
Lillie, Happy Blog Birthday! I am so happy to celebrate the milestone with you! I love your attitude and am so glad you’re having fun. I always do when I come here or when I encounter you around the “neighborhood.” I wish you many more years of fun!
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Congratz..You should be proud. I see lots of abandoned blogs.
hello, sorry for my english first…i want to say: happy blog birthday! i think you have a real good blog, i can also learn from it, how to better blog in germany!
so, you’re two… that’s pretty old in this business.. happy birthday. I hope to reach that age too.
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Happy birthday. Blogging really is a learning experience, and one that gets better everyday. Just imagine what things will be like over the next 2 years.
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Hi Lillie
Congratulations and Happy blog birthday.
I love your blog. You always have so much to offer. I look forward to many more insightful and interesting posts.
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Lillie, two years of writing a blog and you’re still celebrating? Amazing!
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Well done. It is hard work keeping a quality blog running fullstop…2 years is a real achievement. Kudos to you.
Congratulations Lillie – This is really encouraging. I am over the one year mark but I’m flagging lately (mind you in life – not just my blog). But it’s this sort of post that reminds me that it’s worth keeping on going. Thank you.
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Children grow slow in first year but after that they grow in a great speed.
Happy Belated Birthday! Sorry I missed it.
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Happy Blog Birthday!! Looking forward to the third year and I’m sure you’ve got a well-behaved toddler here, one only has to look at the “mom” to know that!
Here’s to many more years!
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Lillie,
So sorry I missed your blog birthday! (Finally checked Google Reader today, which I’m so behind on!) I’ve been so horrendously busy with my contract writing lately that I’ve barely had a chance to visit any of my favorite blogs–mainly doing so only in response to Google Alerts or Technorati blog reactions informing me that I or my blog have been mentioned. (Really looking forward to the reprioritization of my writing projects at the end of June! That should give me more free time and allow me to more regularly visit the blogs I love.)
So, belated congratulations on two years of writing this wonderful blog! Wishing you–and your readers–many, many more, as well!
Blessings,
Jeanne
First of all I will like to congratulate for the huge success of your Sweet two-year old baby. The quality of the posts, the writings and everything is wonderful so far indeed!
Thanks a lot. Keep up the same work.
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It is so nice when blogs bring so much joy for the readers.
Happy Belated Birthday! I just discovered this blog and am enjoying takiing my time reading through it. And I’d never heard the term “blogiversary” before reading this post, so it just goes to show that you are never too old to learn something new.
Thank you for sharing this little “neighborhood” with the rest of the world, and I wish you many more years of successful blogging!
Am I a looser? I couldn’t wish the blog on date. Perhaps your this posts was too down from the first page and I couldn’t catch it. It is a great feeling if some of yours siblings have a birthday or have completed one whole year of life. I hope with the passage of time or may be in third birthday, this blog will be doing very well.
Hi,
Congratulations Lillie – This is really encouraging. I am over the one year mark but I’m flagging lately.But it’s this sort of post that reminds me that it’s worth keeping on going.
Thanks.
rajiv,
I’ve been at it another year since this post was written. I recently celebrated my third blog birthday.
Glad this was encouraging and wish you continued blogging joy and success.
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