Being in this class has been very insightful so far and every class I learn about new tools that I can use to make my own website and personal blog more successful.

In the past I created a website www.trevwoh.com where I blog about Big Brother events. Big Brother is a reality television show that has multiple different versions. I made that website and those blogs in my spare time and for fun. I used to tweet them out to some contestants from the TV show to try and get them some views, but after taking COMM 464, I realize how much of a rookie I was.

First of all, my content was way to long. No one is going to read a 3000 word blog! They just aren’t! COMM 464 has taught me that and many more useful things, such as ways to monitor my website traffic through Google Analytics. I would occasionally look at WordPress analytics and not really care about the statistics, and found them of no value.

I now know that analytics are very important, as that was the mini assignment that I was assigned. I could use the data to help determine ways to get more traffic to my website.

I feel like I stopped blogging because I always found myself so busy, and at the same time I felt it was such a hard task, but now I know if I tune my blog posts properly that there could potentially be some benefit from it!