We’ve been asked to write a post to tell about our A to Z experience. I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and the stats show that I had a 325% increase in my readership during April which I am pretty happy about.
Unlike more seasoned participants, I was not organised with every post planned and penned ahead of schedule, but then you probably guessed that of me, didn’t you?! Indeed, my whole thought about participation was relatively last minute. I started at Blogger number 1600-and-something on the challenge sign-up but by the end of April, I was in a final position of 1184th out of 1344 Bloggers who completed the challenge. Yes, that’s a massive amount of other bloggers out there, so there was a great ‘in this together’ team spirit, amongst fellow bloggers.
The biggest impact the challenge has had was helping me reflect on the future direction of my blog. It appears to me that my Australian content is always well received, perhaps better than my overseas posts and that this perhaps should be the mainstay of the blog. I am also keen to review the blog layout and the possibility of moving to Wordpress. I am aware of the problem of commenting through Google+ and would like to rectify that.
My A to Z challenge concluded with a Staycation focused on helping my blog grow. In particular, the Mentoring session with Julie at Girl on the Move was very valuable.
A combination of all these things has meant I have signed up for my first ever Blogging conference on the Gold Coast in September (I know whoop whoop Little Wandering Wren is off to Queensland with her blog! )
On a couple of occasions, when I couldn’t find myself haha what’s new?! I’m sure the A to Z Challenge support crew were rolling their eyes at this, I was in e-mail contact with the organisers and the responses were always quick and helpful. I really appreciated the ABC graphics which I used daily.
So all in all, a massive thank you to all the organisers and I would encourage all fellow bloggers to consider joining next year. I am already thinking about the next one!
In case, you missed out on any of the posts and would like to visit you will find them all below!
- Zzzzzzzzzz A to Z Challenge
- Yea Valley – Upper Goulburn, Victoria
- X marks the GIVEAWAY spot!
- Wilsons Promontory National Park, Victoria
- Venus Bay, Prom Country, Gippsland, Victoria, Aust…
- Ukamirra … At the going down of the sun.
- Torquay, Great Ocean Road
- Sorrento, Mornington Peninsula.
- Rye, Victoria
- Queenscliff Ferry
- Portsea, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria
- Oxley, Victoria
- Nillahcootie Lake
- Magnificent Marysville
- Little Wandering Wren loves Victoria
- Kiah, Kangaroos and a Koala
- Jet – skiing in Inverloch, Victoria
- Inverloch
- Hooray for historic Hepburn Springs!
- G’day Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula!
- Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels at Ferntree Gully, Upper
- 88th Easter Red Hill Show 2016
- Daylesford, Victoria
- Castlemaine
- Bolin Bolin Billabong, Bulleen,
- All Australians’ adore avocados!
