Hello again, everyone! I have spoken before of some of the difficulties I have encountered optimizing the layout and setup of this blog to achieve the best financial returns from it. Over the last several weeks and months, as time and circumstances have allowed, since I am not an expert on matters of advertising for optimal yield, I have continued to do what research I can on the subject, which has resulted in my making periodic tweaks to the setup of this blog, particularly implementing suggestions I have found online about how to increase such revenue.
I found some information relating to those ongoing efforts earlier today which has led me to tweak the way I use the space I have available for content and for advertising yet again. So I am giving those suggestions a shot in the look and feel of this blog. At the same time, however, I do not want the amount of ad space I am utilizing here to detract from the contnent. My main problem at this time is that I have no training in effect advertising strategies, so experiments and tests that are largely trial-and-error based are the best way I know how to figure out if new strategies are worknig, or if they in any way are failing or detracting from content.
Over the next week or two, as time and circumstances allow me to do so, I will try to analyze how the most recent changes I have attempted here are helping or hurting both my revenue and the look and feel of my blog. Within that time, I am asking that any of you who find anything in the look and feel to detract from otherwise good experiences visiting this blog would please share your honest feedback on the subject.
And admittedly lately, in my experimentation and numerous tests, I have found more errors occurring than success in that respect. I am hoping the latest tweaks I have made will be more successful, but time will tell. I appreciate your patience, consideration, and earnest feedback as this process continues. Hopefully, one of these days,. I will be able to find the most effective methods and keep them in place going forward.
Again, I appreciate your indulgence and patience as I continue this process. In the meantime, I continue to monitor all major Church news and temple updates and will do my level best to pass word of those along to you all as I become aware of it. Within the next 8-12 hours or so, I will have another new post published, this one in tribute to Elder Neil L. Andersen, who will be observing his 68th birthday tomorrow.
That does it for now. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly added content, please feel free to subscribe. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Further Blog Tweaks
I have had a lifelong love for Church history, which has extended to ongoing reports of the ministry of our apostles and prophets, General Conference, and all temple developments. This blog enables me to share that love with all who read my thoughts on these developments, which are sometimes reported multiple times per day as needed.
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In addition to my life-long love for the subjects which I cover in the posts of this blog, I have long held the belief that we can disagree without becoming disagreeable. Differences of opinion are natural, while being disagreeable in expressing those differences is not. And in that sense, I have no desire to close the door on anyone who earnestly desires to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on subjects covered in the posts on this blog.
At the same time, however, I recognize that we live in a time when incivility, discourtesy, unkindness, and even cyber-bullying has regrettably become part of online interactions. With that in mind, while anyone who wishes can comment on anything if they choose to do so, I hereby reserve the right to immediately delete any comments which are critical, unkind, lack civility, or promote prodcuts, services, and values contrary to either the Church, or to the rules of online etiquette.
I'd also like to remind all who comment here that I try to respond personally to each individual comment as I feel is appropriate. Such replies are not meant to end the conversation, but to acknowledge earnest feedback as it is submitted.
And in order to better preserve the spirit and pure intentions for which this blog was established, I also hereby request that anyone not commenting with a regular user name (particularly those whose comments appear under the "Unknown" or "Anonymous" monikers, give the rest of us a name to work with in addressing any replies. If such individuals do not wish to disclose their actual given names, a pseudonym or nickname would suffice.
Any comments made by individuals who opt to not give a name by which they can ber identified may, depending on the substance and tone of such comments, be subject to deletion as well. I would respectfully ask that all of us do all we can to keep the dialogue positive, polite, and without malice or ill-will. May the Lord bless us all in our discussion of these important matters.
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Hello again, everyone! I almost forgot I had additional Church news stories to pass along, most of which I will allow to speak for themselves:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.thechurchnews.com/history-revisited/2019-08-06/familysearch-releases-online-editing-tool-for-indexed-records-155563
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2019-08-07/byu-museum-of-art-rend-the-heavens-155655
https://www.thechurchnews.com/living-faith/2019-08-07/byu-idaho-education-week-susan-easton-black-155612
https://www.thechurchnews.com/archives/2019-08-08/pacific-northwest-women-community-service-155590
https://www.thechurchnews.com/leaders-ministry/2019-08-08/boyd-matheson-what-i-learned-about-using-the-full-name-of-the-church-from-two-baptist-reverends-155738
Two of those articles deserve further mention here. In the article about Education Week at BYU-Idaho, a summary of a few addresses include details of the message shared by George Durrant and Susan Easton Black. The two are former BYU professors and gospel scholars who married each other later in life.
ReplyDeleteI personally had the opportunity to work with Brother Durrant as one of many temple sealers I got to know during my six-year service as a temple worker.
And Brother Durrant is also the father of Devin G. Durrant, who was just released as First Counselor in the Sunday School General Presidency last April.
And in the other article I wanted to mention more specifically was the one written by Boyd Matheson. He focused on how observing two Baptist reverends using the proper name of the Church has proven that the Lord is honoring the blessings promised by President Nelson as a result of ongoing efforts to correct the name of the Church. It is obvious that all such efforts in that process of correcting the usage of the name the Lord has revealed for His Church are having a global impact, which is good to see. I am sure that will continue to be the case. My thanks again to you all.