1.6k 35 Comments January 11, 2017 45 million readers: On Offbeat Bride's 10th anniversary + what we're working on now As of last week, Offbeat Bride is now a DECADE OLD. It's still one of the biggest ironies ever for me that the website was launched just as a way to promote the book that was supposed to finally launch me into what I imagined as "real success." In 2007, digital publishing was still the less-respected nerdy little sibling of the "real" publishing industry, and being a published author was going to be my big ticket to legitimacy and recognition. …Har har! Joke was on me! Read More December 15, 2015 100,000+ comments on Offbeat Bride Today I noticed that Offbeat Bride has officially crested 100k comments. The site is two weeks away from it's 9th launch anniversary (!?!), so I guess that averages to about 11k comments a year. Read More 11 Comments September 14, 2015 My idea of fun: editing 800+ tag archive pages We've long known that Google doesn't think our tag archive pages are nearly as useful as we do. The Googs likes posts or pages, not dynamic archives with no static content. So what am I doing this fall? I am manually editing every single Offbeat Bride tag so that Google likes them better. All 800 of them. Read More 1.4k 13 Comments July 10, 2015 Identity policing is not a game we play We're going to bring back our atrophied "noteworthy comment" category to share a comment that came in this week. This comment was deleted, and after you hear this bunny act it out, we think you'll understand why… Read More 3.6k 22 Comments February 5, 2015 "Hi, can you help me exploit your content?" This morning, we published a post on Offbeat Bride featuring some amazing Disney centerpieces. My editors hope every post does well, but there are certain posts that due to a combination of factors, we suspect might do a little extra well. Today our hunch was right, because within a few hours I got this email from a writer at Buzzfeed… Read More 123…5 Copyright © 2003 - 2019 Offbeat Empire. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited. Contact us Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Monetized by SkimLinks
December 15, 2015 100,000+ comments on Offbeat Bride Today I noticed that Offbeat Bride has officially crested 100k comments. The site is two weeks away from it's 9th launch anniversary (!?!), so I guess that averages to about 11k comments a year. Read More 11 Comments September 14, 2015 My idea of fun: editing 800+ tag archive pages We've long known that Google doesn't think our tag archive pages are nearly as useful as we do. The Googs likes posts or pages, not dynamic archives with no static content. So what am I doing this fall? I am manually editing every single Offbeat Bride tag so that Google likes them better. All 800 of them. Read More 1.4k 13 Comments July 10, 2015 Identity policing is not a game we play We're going to bring back our atrophied "noteworthy comment" category to share a comment that came in this week. This comment was deleted, and after you hear this bunny act it out, we think you'll understand why… Read More 3.6k 22 Comments February 5, 2015 "Hi, can you help me exploit your content?" This morning, we published a post on Offbeat Bride featuring some amazing Disney centerpieces. My editors hope every post does well, but there are certain posts that due to a combination of factors, we suspect might do a little extra well. Today our hunch was right, because within a few hours I got this email from a writer at Buzzfeed… Read More 123…5 Copyright © 2003 - 2019 Offbeat Empire. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited. Contact us Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Monetized by SkimLinks
11 Comments September 14, 2015 My idea of fun: editing 800+ tag archive pages We've long known that Google doesn't think our tag archive pages are nearly as useful as we do. The Googs likes posts or pages, not dynamic archives with no static content. So what am I doing this fall? I am manually editing every single Offbeat Bride tag so that Google likes them better. All 800 of them. Read More 1.4k 13 Comments July 10, 2015 Identity policing is not a game we play We're going to bring back our atrophied "noteworthy comment" category to share a comment that came in this week. This comment was deleted, and after you hear this bunny act it out, we think you'll understand why… Read More 3.6k 22 Comments February 5, 2015 "Hi, can you help me exploit your content?" This morning, we published a post on Offbeat Bride featuring some amazing Disney centerpieces. My editors hope every post does well, but there are certain posts that due to a combination of factors, we suspect might do a little extra well. Today our hunch was right, because within a few hours I got this email from a writer at Buzzfeed… Read More 123…5 Copyright © 2003 - 2019 Offbeat Empire. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction in part or in whole is prohibited. Contact us Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Monetized by SkimLinks
1.4k 13 Comments July 10, 2015 Identity policing is not a game we play We're going to bring back our atrophied "noteworthy comment" category to share a comment that came in this week. This comment was deleted, and after you hear this bunny act it out, we think you'll understand why… Read More 3.6k 22 Comments February 5, 2015 "Hi, can you help me exploit your content?" This morning, we published a post on Offbeat Bride featuring some amazing Disney centerpieces. My editors hope every post does well, but there are certain posts that due to a combination of factors, we suspect might do a little extra well. Today our hunch was right, because within a few hours I got this email from a writer at Buzzfeed… Read More 123…5
3.6k 22 Comments February 5, 2015 "Hi, can you help me exploit your content?" This morning, we published a post on Offbeat Bride featuring some amazing Disney centerpieces. My editors hope every post does well, but there are certain posts that due to a combination of factors, we suspect might do a little extra well. Today our hunch was right, because within a few hours I got this email from a writer at Buzzfeed… Read More 123…5