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With millions of blogs floating through blogland it can be difficult to get noticed. That’s part of why at SITS we do what we do. Featuring a variety of bloggers throughout the week is one way to spotlight a blog and introduce it to people who might otherwise have never found it.
While this is important to us and extremely rewarding, we also recognize that there are bloggers everyone should consider for their blogroll. Bloggers who, for whatever reason, stand out as experts where blogging is concerned. Once a month we will pay tribute to bloggers you should know.
Through a combination of excellent content, a distinct niche and brand, time, hard work and sometimes just plain old luck, these bloggers have succeeded at building an audience of loyal readers. Love them or hate them, they consistently do what we all strive to do…they provide meaningful posts and keep us coming back for more.
It seems only fitting that we start off this series with The Pioneer Woman.
Ree Drummond is both the beauty and the brains behind this website. She started blogging in May of 2006 and in no time at all sky rocketed to bloggy super stardom. She has a novel based on her real life love story with her husband in the works, a cookbook available, and from what I’ve understand there’s even a movie coming up where Reese Witherspoon will play the part of the blogger we so adore. Can you even IMAGINE!?!
The Pioneer Woman is the mother blog of all niches. Ree not only tackles a number of different topics, but she masters them. Each tab on her blog is like it’s own website inside her website.
She gets some help from other experts in certain niches because there’s no way in God’s green earth this woman can put together a PhotoShop actions tutorial AND home school her children AND bake petite vanilla scones from scratch AND wrangle cows all in the same day…or can she?
The best thing about Ree is that everything about her screams humility. She’s knows her life is beautiful. She wrangled herself a handsome cowboy, he’s helped her make some beautiful children, she lives on property in Oklahoma that many of us only see pictures of in magazines, and you can tell she’s grateful for every last bit.
Her posts are funny, well written, and valuable. I’ve personally installed many of her Photoshop Elements actions and follow the tutorials she provides for improving my own photos. She offers and features tons of great recipes in her Tasty Kitchen and often posts her own recipes in her cooking section. She supports homeschooling and offers free materials and games to try with your kids. She shares some of her favorite things from fashion and design to gardening and hotel room tours. And she blogs about her everyday experiences at the ranch. Is there anybody she doesn’t appeal to?
Be sure to check Ree out…if you’re anything like us, you’ll fall in love and add her to your blogroll too!
*All photos courtesy of The Pioneer Woman
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Love the Pioneer Woman! Great first choice! ;0)
Wow, she sounds amazing! What a great feature! I will be sure to check her out! Happy Saturday!
Total and complete blog envy! I’m sick with it. I want to be there now. I’m completely impatient. I have a feeling this new series is going to be the bane of my blogging existence!
I’m a day late and a dollar short–what else is new, eh?
Off to visit Pioneer Woman in the hopes that inspiration will grab and take hold!
Make it a beautiful weekend,
~Jo
‘The End Of The Rainbow: Life After Bankruptcy’
*Also proud proprieter of ‘Rabbit Food: A Vegan Blog’
Wow! Thats pretty much all I can say, except someone just like this is who I wish to be some day!
happy Holiday Weekend!
It’s amazing to see how many SITS girls have never read her and she is like well… to me.. the “Oprah” of the blog world. It all started for me with From Black Heels to Tractor Wheels… I can not WAIT to see the movie come to fruition! I just LOVE Ree and her work – she will always be numero uno on my blogroll!
I love Ree. I was totally sucked into her story of how she met Marlboro Man and could not stop reading it. Book? sure. Movie? I’m so there.
Happy Saturday Ladies! The weather is really cold here, welcome fall!
She is in my reader. Isn’t she awesome. I love her cookbook.
I had to join Pioneering
Woman! It is a great blog! Thanks for featuring her today. Hope everyone has a great SITS day!
Beautiful post. Wishing everyone a lovely Saturday!
What a great idea. You SITS girls are always full of the good stuff for us. Off to check out what sounds like an amazing blogger!
http://www.pampersandpinot.com
Will check her blog out right now. Looks like a great read for the weekend!
I recommend PW’s site to EVERYONE I know!!!
Her blog is beautiful!
Happy Saturday everyone!
Ree is who I want to be when I grow up, what a fab story and she writes beautifully!
LOVE the Pioneer Woman! She *IS* incredibly talented and well written!
How awesome are those recipes? And those photos… (insert sigh of envy here!)
I loooove Pioneer Woman (who doesn’t love her? she’s fabulous!), but I wish you all had chosen a smaller blog who could truly use the publicity. π There are plenty of smaller, yet deserving blogs on blogrolls out there who would love to be highlighted. Just my humble opinion…might possibly be colored by the fact that my kids are driving me nuts this morning. :s
Happy SITS Saturday! π
I first heard about her a couple months ago – she definitely has a leg up in terms of life – much more unique and fascinating than most, but it’s her writing style and easy to use website that really make her a must read π
Happy Saturday everyone. Have a nice, relaxing weekend! π
A movie? Good for her!
Pioneer Woman is who I want to be when I grow up!
ooo such a nifty blog π i love her design and her photos are amazing!!
OMG, I LOVE the pioneer woman! Great recipes, great photography and she’s literally star!
Oh, yes! Who doesn’t love Ree?? I nod my head and giggle through most of her posts! LOVE her!
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Well naturally…I love her and her blog. My blog is a copycat blog of Julie and Julia called Lindy and Ree. I’ve followed her for over three years and I am cooking my way through Ree’s cookbook!
If anyone hasn’t seen her blog…go there now!
I remember when I first discovered Pioneer Woman I told everyone I knew- people that read blogs, people that didn’t read any blogs, heck people that didn’t have internet (yes they DO exist) I just wanted everyone to experience the awesomeness that is Ree, great feature!
Pioneer Woman’s Blog is amazing! She is definitely living the dream!
Happy saturday! We were suppose to be running 20 miles today but due to rolling our explorer on thursday we are laying low. We are okay but have orders to take it easy!
Wow!! I thought I did it all. I can’t wait to read this blog.
Happy Saturday! Yeah for a long weekend!
Love her! She was the one who inspired me to start blogging in the first place — she did a series of blogging school posts once. Great advice in there.
Any other “graduates” of Ree’s blogging school here?
how did I miss that?
Barbara, it wasn’t posted directly on PW’s site — she had a link to a discussion group off-site. Here’s the link, at least what it used to be. (I just clicked on it and the site is down for maintenance, so I don’t know if it’s still a valid link. But here it is anyway.)
http://www.wepc.com/profile/view/reedrummond
Happy SITS Saturday!!
Hope the weekend rocks for all of you lovely ladies π
Can’t believe so many didn’t know about TPW!
I seriously need to go through my blogroll…delete the dead weight and add some fresh blogs.
I love her and already follow her but why didn’t I think of adding her to my blog roll? I will def add her. Her blog really is one of the main ones that inspired me as a young and up and coming blogger.
Reading about Ree Drummond is really inspiring. Thanks for a great post. And Happy Saturday!
She’s the master.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Yeah! I love Pioneer Woman. I’m off to congratulate her. Have a great Saturday everyone!
JUST discovered pioneer woman this week and LOVE her!! amber π
Wow what a superstar! Off to check her place out. Her life sounds like a fairy tale!
Good Saturday
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Great post featuring Ree. I love the idea of featuring bloggers that have “made it”. It’s inspiring!
How wonderful, ur site it BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank you for sharing and being an inspiration.
The Pioneer Woman is one amazing supermom! How inspiring. Thanks for introducing us to a blogging pioneer and showing us some of the successful bloggers. What a great idea!
I admit, I had never read Pioneer Woman’s blog. I followed your link this morning, and oh my goodness, I am awed by the visual beauty of her site. I was particularly drawn to her Photoshop tutorials and recipes. And, no, I could not imagine Reese Witherspoon portraying me on the big screen. Ree has achieved so much!
Ree was one of the first ladies on my blogroll, and a huge inspiration. I credit her Chicken Parmigiana to keeping the curves I gained during pregnancy, and her quirky writing style to developing my own.
Hope all you ladies are having a fantastic weekend!
I can’t wait to check out Ree’s blog. Thanks for introducing great blogs to us!
Can’t wait to check this out. I obviously live under a rock, because I did not know about her blog. What I love is that she’s managed to succeed while covering so much ground. Bloggers are told to FOCUS and find a niche, and I sometimes worry that I go off on tangents, but isn’t having multiple interests and aspects of one’s personality a more genuine way to blog?
I think it’s about wrapping those interests into a cohesive and coherent viewpoints – perhaps trying to narrow them down to a complementary group, or in her case, it’s about writing from the perspective on a woman on the range which in itself is a niche