One year ago today I published my first blog post on WordPress. Can you believe The Sadder But Wiser Girl is one year old today?!
How do blogs age anyway, do blogs age like dogs? Or do they age in people years?
If blogs age in people years then my blog should be a full fledged toddler. Right now it could be walking around. It’s probably still in diapers. It might even be starting to talk.
Since it was my blog’s birthday, I thought I’d take a good look at my blog this week…
The Beginning: My very first post was It’s My First Blog Post! Truths About Me, Scary or Otherwise. I’m not really crazy about it, but I leave it up because I like to be able to look back and see how far I’ve come!
Content: My blog wasn’t very funny when I started out. Eventually this became a humor blog. While the name of my blog may not sound very funny, I like the irony of the word “sadder” in the name of a humor blog.
While I may not be a Mommy blogger per se, I do write about my children frequently. I go through phases where I write about them almost every day, and periods like this past few weeks where I have other things that I’m writing about.
In my recent bout with pain, I feel like my writing has taken a bit of a backward slide. That and the fact that I now have two kids here all day long! I’m determined to get back to my “pre-pain writing” form here soon, so if you’ve been disappointed as of late please bear with me!
Followers: I remember when I started my blog and I had no followers. Then a few trickled in, mostly friends and family. One day when I begged everyone I knew to please follow me because I had 13 followers and I am extremely superstitious.
Eventually I started a fan page on Facebook, and started actually USING Twitter at the urging of the one and only Bearded Iris. This really helped ramp things up a bit, and I’m amazed at much my readership has grown. Now I have almost 300 followers that follow my blog directly, and almost 500 followers apiece on Facebook and Twitter. Now keep in mind that a lot of these are actually the same people following me different ways. Who knows how many followers I really have!
Stats: I’ve had over 35,500 views since I started this blog. According to what some people find my blog with, I suspect that some of these views are by perverts…
My most popular post is I Peed My Pants At Wal-Mart and Other Stories of Mommy Incontinence. It has been viewed over 12,000 times! This is absolutely astonishing to me.
The most common search engine term that people have found my blog with?
“Fantasy football”. I don’t even like or participate in this. This is followed by “strawberry blonde hair” and “poop puns”. Should I be disturbed by this?

I couldn’t find anything else really funny related to stats, because stats aren’t really that funny…
Friends: My husband still looks at me with this certain strange look whenever I start talking about something that I have discussed with my blogging friends. He doesn’t quite get how people who have never met face to face can be friends. I have met a lot of amazing people doing what I do. It’s nice to not feel alone!
Change is a good thing: In celebration of this special occasion, I made a little change. You may notice that my blog address has changed. It’s now thesadderbutwisergirl.com. Just a little change, but now the blog is more my own.
WordPress supposedly redirects everyone to the new address, but I’m still obsessing over the fact that folks won’t get my posts due to some glitch. Just be aware in case you all of a sudden are missing me…
Thank you: I have been told time and time again that I have some of the best and most loyal followers a gal could have. I just wanted to say thank you for reading and supporting me through the good and the bad this past year!
What an amazing year of blogging success – kudos! And many more!
Thank you!
Congratulations!
Thanks a bunch!
Great stats for a one year old!!! lol My one year old bday is in August and hope to have close to your stat accomplishments! Great site!
Thank you!
Happy blogbirthday! Great stats great site!
Gracias!
Awesome! Congrats! I’m so happy you finally got your own web address! Great feeling isn’t it? 😀
Yes! 😀
Happy Blog Birthday!
Thank you! I ate too much cake…
LOL! Sounds like a perfect day!
Congrats on your bloggaversary! What a successful year you’ve had!
So far, so good…
We lava you, too. Congrats on all your blogging success!!
Thank you Kathy!
Happy Blog birthday!! I found your pain chart hilarious ;o) Hope you are not really suffering any of those. Welcome to the world of “self hosted!”
I am suffering but not quite that bad. I had my first physical therapy appointment today and am blogging about it. I’m not actually self hosted but I now own my own little piece of the internet for just a few dollars…
Happy Blogoversary!!! Keep it up 🙂
Thanks!
Happy 1 year blogging anniversary to you! It’s amazing to think that we have “known” each other for almost a year….whew!!
I know! You were one of my first followers and your blog was one of the first ones I followed. 😀
Congrats. I just had my bloggiversary last week!
Well happy belated bloggiversary to you!
Congrat! I had no idea you’d only been here in the blogosphere for a year! Well done. Looking forward to much more.
Does this mean I seem experienced? 😉
Happy Blogiversay today and I am with the majority and love you and your blog!! 🙂
Thank you Janine!
Happy Blogonniversary!
Thank you!
Congratulations! That’s quite a milestone! All of your blogging friends are so proud 🙂
I am proud for sticking with it for a year. I’m not known for my sticktoitiveness.
Congrats! Mine is coming up, too. I’ve been thinking about how much it’s changed. I bet the first year sees the most changes relative to every year after that.
Since I’m new to your blog, I’ll be interested in seeing how it’s changed and grown!
I am printing out and saving that pain chart! HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY! WOOOHOOO!!! can’t wait to read more posts from you.
Wasn’t that funny? I wish there had been a better one about the stages of pain that involved stepping on a lego. That was one I really wanted to share!
Happy anniversary, Sarah! I am one of your followers, and Bloglovin got me to your post today with no problem, so the name change seems to have taken place seamlessly.
Hooray for that! I know that other feed readers didn’t find me, so I’m glad that one worked.
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This is awesome! Congrats, Sarah! Your stats are impressive and you’re a fabulous blogger. 🙂
I have heard that word tossed around a lot today. Glad to know something I do is impressing people!
LAVA you right back. Congratulations on a fun year of growth and triumphs, and on the purchase of your domain.
Thank you!
Well done – you have got further in a year of blogging than me 😦 *grrr*
No really – brilliant and a great blog. 🙂
Now, how do you get your blog to show up in the reader on wordpress if you are self-hosted and why won’t mine!!!
I’m not self hosted. I just bought my domain. I’m too poor to go solo.
Happy Blog-day! My hubs doesn’t get the whole you have never met these people but they are still your friends thing. Glad he isn’t alone ;0
Silly men!
Happy blogiversary! I think a domain name is the traditional one year gift for blogs. 🙂
Year One: Domain Name. Year Two: The World.
Happy blogiversary, Sarah! My little blog is growing up too, but I have to convince the Husband to let me buy the domain name for doing it. I’ve been blogging regularly for a year now myself, and I’m so glad to know you. 35,000+ views in a year – that is seriously impressive. I’m jealous; my toddler blog is about to hit 10,000 and I am geeking out about that.
And I don’t get fantasy football at all. Why are they coming to your blog? Silly Google… 😉
The domain thing is cheap. It’s even cheaper if you don’t want the “privacy” option. I really don’t want people to find me, so I paid the little bit extra. It’s a whole HECK of a lot cheaper than self hosting. Maybe some day I’ll have the money and ambition to strike out on my own, but for now this format meets my needs just fine.
I wrote a post about my husband’s obsession with all things football and had fantasy football in the tags. I should have known better.
In all reality, I get a lot of “bots” that “read” my blog. I wonder how many of those views are real live people!
I love having you as a bloggy friend, Sarah! So Happy Birthday to Sadder But Wiser Girl! Congrats on the new domain!
Thank you! I rather like being the mistress of my very own domain!
So very awesome, congrats! I love love your blog and having you as a bloggy friend! xoxo
Thank you Darla! 😀
Congratulations!! Mine is coming up next week…now you got me nervous! I was just planning to stick a photo of a cake and call it good! 😛
Everyone does something different! 😀
Congratulations and Happy Birthday!
My blog says thank you…
Congratulations! You’ve come a long way in a year! I am so happy for you and honored to call you my friend!
I can’t believe it’s been a whole year! And I too am glad to call you MY friend!
I lava you! And let me tell you, I think you know, that I am so happy we met! I worshipped you from afar for so long, and then all of the sudden there you were. My friend. And tell your husband to zip-it. He get’s no say since he didn’t do his mix tape last week. Yes, I remember. I will always remember.
He’s having his own little crisis called playing too much Skyrim. Whatever.
Congratulations !!!! By the way love the pain chart
http://mommysrambles.blogspot.com/2013/06/mommy-mondays.html
I think it should be posted in all doctor’s offices.
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Congrats on one year!!! I love checking in here. Your posts are hilarious and the photos you include always make my day. 🙂
Thank you! I’m slowly getting back into being able to check everyone’s blogs again, but it’s a process.
Oh Sarah, so happy for you!! Congratulations on ALL your success. As for the pain – BOO!! I happen to LAVA you and the blog you rode in on!!
HA HA! That’s funny. Thank you!
Congrats! My big one year anniversary is in just a few weeks, and this has inspired me to think about what I should write in that “epic” post… Also, I think it is awesome that your Wal-Mart peeing post has gotten so many views. Definitely one of the funniest posts ever… Hooray for you!
I’m just inspiring people all over the place this week, aren’t I?
Happy blogger birthday, Sadder Funnier Sarah. Your blog is amazing, as are you. I’m so glad you decided to do this one year ago so that I could come find you.
I’m so glad you found me!
aww Congrats!! I love your blog! 🙂
Thank you!
Congratulations!! What a exciting milestone. And we all know that one year olds are so dang cute and inspire our ovaries to have more cute babies;) I am so very glad I found you in the bloggy world and am proud to be a followe!
Congrats!
Vicky
http://www.thepursuitofnormal.blogspot.com
More bloggy babies… but I have so little time as it is! 🙂 Thanks for the well wishes!
Happy Blogiversary, Sarah!! Surreal to think we’ve been together since almost the beginning…*sob*… 🙂
Yes, we’re all in this together!
Congratulations. I just began my blogging journey March 20th. I’m learning so much each day. I’ve met some interesting, fabulous women and look forward to the future of my blog.
So your blog is practically a newborn!
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Love the pics! What better eye candy IS there than an elephant’s butt???
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