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    Hello all. I'm the voice behind MakingMilly.com. It has been fun, but I've put in a year of hard work with very little views.

    I'm going to downsize this year and focus on a different venture. (producing drawings and instructions for some of my father in law's brilliant inventions while he's still around: log doweler, mini saw mill, plastic injection molder, apple juice press, car rotisserie, backpacking gold dredge...)

    I REALLY don't want to just delete my stuff and want it to be available permanently. Putting my stuff up on SavingAdvice seems to make the most sense except for four potential problems:

    1. I don't see pictures on other people's blogs. Is that not an option? How can you drive Pinterest traffic without pictures? I could upload the picture onto Pinterest, but the viewer will feel like they were sent to the wrong page.

    2. I don't see attachments either. Can I attach an excel spreadsheet? Or do I have to create a Google Drive folder for them to download from.

    3. Analytics. Is there a way to collect data such as how many views a particular post gets, links they click within the posts, or where the viewers are coming from? I don't think I can link Google Analytics unless I have access to the page's header HTML code.

    4. Customization: can I do any HTML coding for font colors or inserting online calculators?

    Thank you for any questions you can answer!
    -Milly
    Personal Finance Blogger, Mechanical Engineer, and Mother of 3 Toddlers
    milly.savingadvice.com

  • #2
    You can do pictures. I just put one up.
    Analytics are slim to none.
    My other blog is Your Organized Friend.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by creditcardfree View Post
      You can do pictures. I just put one up.
      Analytics are slim to none.
      Hooray for graphics! My S&P 500 trends post would be really lame without graphs.

      What is included in the "slim"? Just number of comments?
      -Milly
      Personal Finance Blogger, Mechanical Engineer, and Mother of 3 Toddlers
      milly.savingadvice.com

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Milly View Post
        Hooray for graphics! My S&P 500 trends post would be really lame without graphs.

        What is included in the "slim"? Just number of comments?
        You can see page views for last ten days. Page views by month for last six months. And then there is a graph showing page views for the last three months.

        And yes, I can see the comments as you can see on the side bar of any blog.
        My other blog is Your Organized Friend.

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        • #5
          Be careful about relying on this site being available.
          From time to time the blogs become unaccessible.
          Last edited by scfr; 01-11-2018, 04:51 PM.

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          • #6
            Thank you! It sounds like the analytics are as good as wordpress dashboard when it comes to page views. That's fine with me.
            -Milly
            Personal Finance Blogger, Mechanical Engineer, and Mother of 3 Toddlers
            milly.savingadvice.com

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