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THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY! A Viable Blog or Not- With 31,000 views!?
ABOUT OUR BLOGS- ‘God’s Enduring Love’ and ‘God’s Hidden Nuggets for the Endtimes’
This week is my 3rd anniversary with WORDPRESS! I couldn’t imagine maintaining a blogsite even 3 years long when I started writing on May 26, 2012. Such a green horn I was, terribly computer illiterate as far as doing anything more than email and word processing that I was familiar with. Some of my challenges with blogging are chronicled in ‘ABOUT MY BLOG’ in the Side Bar CATEGORIES (read May-June 2012). When I first told my son that I wanted to start a blog, he told me it was easy to do and to go with WORDPRESS. That was the extent of encouragement he gave me because he knew nothing beyond the fact that he knew people with WORDPRESS blogs. So much for his help!
Few people even know that my intention was not to have my own blog site, but to practice starting a blog under my name and learn how to do a blog, then soon after I would launch Drgold’s blog, ‘God’s Hidden Nuggets for the Endtimes- Revealing Truths from the Word of God’. I had hoped to get his blog going and I would fade out somehow. When I began to post, I simply reposted content from my Facebook which later was the impetus for my eBook, ‘Sounding the Shofar- Exhortations for the Endtimes’. This eBook can be read FREE from my TAB BAR!
It was quite a daunting task to learn how to blog from books like ‘Blogging for Dummies’ and WordPress tutorials, but the WordPress Support team came to my aid, as well as two blogger friends, Shekinah and Rommel, who helped me with the technical aspects of our blogs. It was by the GRACE OF GOD that we were able to get Drgold to publish his first Bible lesson on June 22, 2012, a month after mine got going. His first post, ‘What Really Happened In the Garden of Eden- God’s Eternal Purpose Revealed’, Part 1, remains one of his top posts. A popular post on my site is ‘Why Do People Resist God’. There are viewers of this 2013 post every week!
Drgold has been posting important End Times teachings and at this date has had over 52,000 views- over 20,000 more than me! Of course, we have different writing styles and reach different audiences, but our focus is the same- America, the church, Endtimes, preparing people for the Lord’s Return and for the Rapture, and related subjects. Serious students of the Bible and followers of current events and Bible prophecy gravitate to his blog, while I have a diverse group following my blog site because my varied interests also include art, music, travel and photography.
Here is a word from DrGold:
“I have been serving the Lord for 42 years, and back about 3 years ago in June 2012, the Holy Spirit told me to begin a blog on the many things He had taught me. God wanted me to go fishing using the Net… namely the Internet, to fish for souls for Him, to reach thousands of people (over 50,000 viewers at this date). At that time in 2012, Liz and I had just completed our 14th missionary trip to the Philippines and to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, since the year 2000. We served as missionaries/evangelists on the main island of Luzon, in Manila, Dagupan City, and further north to Baguio City, teaching in Bible schools, holding Pastors Bible Seminars, and occasional revival meetings. We were seif-sponsored with God leading and opening many doors for us in a number of places such as Cagayan, La Union, Binalonan, Urdanetta, Lingayen, and Abra. Since then, the Lord told us that 2012 might be our last foreign trip. I have since posted over 60 papers on the Internet. Since 2010, I have been teaching the ABC- the Adult Bible Class, at FCCH at 9 am every Sunday, and also for the past 8 years or so, I have served as co-pastor of a Filipino Christian church, preaching every other Sunday.”
Back to me- A WORDPRESS editor wrote an article a while back and said that a viable blog should have at least 10,000 views a year. So I have just ‘made it’ at 31,000 views! Then yesterday WORDPRESS told me I published 500 posts! That is incredible! I have written only a percentage of them, re-posted all of Drgold’s writings, re-blogged and linked from many other blog-sites, compiled popular topics on my TAB BAR, and shared videos of my favorite worship and praise songs, etc. It has been 3 interesting and exciting years of WORDPRESS blogging! TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
80,000+ views from our 2 blog sites
Posts read in 167 countries
Drgold and I want to THANK YOU for reading our blog posts! We believe that the signs in the world point to the soon coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Our prayer for you is that you will draw closer to God and His Word, and have your faith strengthened as you place your hope and trust in God in the coming days.
SHALOM & MARANATHA!
BLESSINGS FOR THE NEW YEAR 2015
GOD’S RICHEST BLESSINGS UPON ALL OF SHOFAR AND DRGOLD FRIENDS AND VIEWERS
NEARLY 75,000 VIEWERS FROM 166 VISITOR COUNTRIES
LATEST VISITOR COUNTRIES FROM
ARMENIA in the continent of Asia between the Black and Caspian Seas
ETHIOPIA in northeast Africa
ARUBA in the Caribbean Ocean
BHUTAN a kingdom in the Himalayas between India and China
JAPAN!
THANK YOU VIEWERS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND INTEREST IN READING OUR BLOGS
COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF VIEWERS IN 2014
THE UNITED STATES
THE UNITED KINGDOM
THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
CANADA
THE PHILIPPINES
OUR PRAYER IS TO REACH MORE VIEWERS FROM
THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA!
AND THE REMOTEST PARTS OF THE WORLD!
TO ALL OF YOU-
“BELOVED, Drgold and I wish above all things, that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” (3John2 paraphrased)
God's Enduring Love 