Fighting Foreclosure - Getting Nine Hundred

Those of you who are long time readers here at Fighting Foreclosure / Getting Nine Hundred might see a couple tiny new tweaks to the my blog. One of the nifty things we blog authors get is a whole series of tools letting us know how many people are reading our ramblings and what search terms they are using to get here. It is all fairly clever and rather addicting.

What I am finding is that most of you stumbled on me one way or another, usually through someone else's blog. Once you've been here, you come back by using terms like "Fighting Foreclosure" or "Getting Nine Hundred" occasionally combined with "blog" or "blogspot". I am going to be making a few minor tweaks to try to make sure that when you use those types of terms I show up somewhere in the search!

See, when I first started this blog, I made a little mistake...

I wanted to call my blog Fighting Foreclosure to be a little constant reminder of why I am even doing all this. Frankly, I have a deep (and perhaps a bit over-reactive) fear of going through foreclosure or bankruptcy. The idea that I could screw up my credit puts me into a panic attack. My therapist literally had to talk me down once using the simple, but effective, method of saying, "Dawn, if it happens it will not kill you." If it weren't for the fact that I read blogs like Bouncing Back From Bankruptcy, I'm still not sure I would have believed her! Now I am a little more accepting that if it happens, then it does. In the meantime though, I am going to fight with everything I have to keep that from happening.

However, "Fighting Foreclosure" as a url was already taken by another blogger, unfortunately. So, I went with the accurate, though slightly awkward, "GettingNineHundred" since that was the other key piece of my journey. So that has been the url, with FF as the title of the blog, which I have come to realize isn't such a good idea. Having them different makes it harder for readers to come back and find you later. Consistency is the key! (Oh, and if you want to read a bunch of great blogging tips from someone who is far more knowledgeable than me, check out Writing For Your Wealth. They haven't updated in awhile, but the archives are well worth checking out.) I think I should have stuck with "Getting Nine Hundred" as my title and theme, but to be honest. I like "Fighting Foreclosure"!

So, to try to bring these two together in some kind of consistancy I am slightly modifying the name as you see above. I might be making a few other little tweaks and touches here and there to solidify it. If you have any suggestions on the matter, I would love to hear them!



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