- 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 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 [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 8: Comment on a New Blog
August 8th, 2007
The 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge continues, and to save repeating what it’s all about every day, I’ve created a handy page for the background information to the project and as to why I am taking part. Also, please do read the full article, your input could help you to win a lovely [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 7: Plan a schedule for the week ahead
August 7th, 2007
The 31 Days to a Better Blog challenge is gathering pace and numbers too in the collection of people who have connected together thanks to Michele Martin’s Bamboo Project Blog. At last there is someone else from the UK taking part (there’s 14 in all from across the globe now under Michele’s mini challenge, [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 6: Email an ‘Old Time’ Reader
August 6th, 2007
Today’s task in the 31 Days to a Better Blog project by Prologger, is (thankfully) an easier one.
Darren says:
“Do you have readers that have been reading your blog since the ‘early days’ of your blogging? You know the ones, they’ve been commenting and contributing away to the point where they’ve almost become part of a [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 5: Audit your ‘About’ page
August 5th, 2007
The task set out for day 5 of the 31 Days to a Better Blog project was to run and audit of your About page. Darren comes up with some really useful points which are useful to blogs and websites too, and some helpful quick tips pages on what to include on such a [...]
- 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 4: Interlink your posts
August 5th, 2007
Wow, this challenge is requiring abit more headspace and time than I previously had anticipated. I hope that I can keep up!
For the background as to what this is all about, I was tipped off by Michele Martin’s Bamboo Project Blog who is collecting a growing list of bloggers like myself who are all undertaking [...]