- 31 Days to a Better Blog: The final days
September 7th, 2007
Firstly before I begin my summary of the final tasks, I’d like to say a big thank you to Paul Webster from the ICT Hub, who boldly took on the final days of the challenge whilst I hopped on a train with the family, leaving all technology behind and unplugged for a much needed vacation [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 22: Getting new readers up to speed, and a special welcome
August 21st, 2007
Day 22 of the 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge is all about helping new readers to catch up with your blog.
Darren from Problogger, describes todays task:
“Sometimes after you’ve been blogging on your blog for a while it’s easy to forget that not all of your readers have been reading your blog since you [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 21: Make a reader famous!
August 21st, 2007
Day 21 of the 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge is to make a reader famous.
Darren from Problogger gives us some ideas about how to build relationships and support your readers:
“Promote a comment to a Post – sometimes readers make incredibly insightful and wise observations and tips in the comments of your blog. While [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 20: Run a reader survey
August 21st, 2007
The challenge continues…
On day 20 of the 31 Days to a Better Blog experiment, we’ve been given the task to run a reader survey.
Darren from Problogger explains why this is useful:
“There are two main reasons why this exercise is worth doing:
1. Blog Improvement – the most obvious benefit of asking readers to [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 19: Respond to comments on your blog
August 21st, 2007
The task continues, and the task for day 19 of the 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge is to respond to comments on your blog.
Seems an easy task, but one that is essential to help build relationships with your readers and show that their involvement in your site is what makes it successful. [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 18: Create a sneeze page
August 21st, 2007
Day 18 of the 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge involves creating a ’sneeze’ page for your site. A sneeze page you may ask? What is that?
Darren from Problogger explains the task.
“A Sneeze Page is one that simply directs readers in multiple directions at once – back into your archives.”
A useful tip for not [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 16: Create a heatmap of where readers click on your blog
August 17th, 2007
The 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge continues…(for background information to the project follow this link here.)
The task for day 16 is to create a heatmap of where readers click on your blog. This looked a fun task to do and I could see the usefulness of having a go, and seeing if [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 15: Stickify your blog!
August 14th, 2007
Following on the 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge, the task today was to ’stickify’ your blog.
Darren at Problogger says:
“It revolves around identifying key points where traffic is entering your blog and then optimizing those points for stickiness either by providing means for subscribing via RSS or email or by driving people deeper into [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 14: Analyse your blogs competition
August 14th, 2007
Todays task in the 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge is to analyse your blogs competition. Darren of Prologger did use the term ‘competition’ hesitantly, as your competitors or those blogging in a similar theme are also your biggest allies, connect and share with them.
Since this challenge began, I’ve connected lots with other [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 12 & 13, and an update on progress…
August 14th, 2007
The 31 days to a Better Blog Challenge continues…
The task for Day 12 is to Introduce Yourself to another Blogger.
“Email another blogger in your niche to introduce yourself and your blog. You don’t need to ask them to link to you or anything – the point isn’t to get any specific outcome other than to [...]