As a blogger I have learned a lot over the years. My first blog was more like a personal scrapbook. Since I was always posting pictures of my children and sharing where we had been and where we were going that day, I kept the blog set at private. I didn’t have any blog traffic. I wanted it that way. Only my close invited friends could read my blog.

Later I needed a blog that anyone could see; In fact, I wanted everyone to visit my blog because I was using it as a tool to get traffic...