Over the past two weeks I’ve asked 14 of my favorite bloggers what they’d do differently if they were starting their blog again today. Their responses were varied and left us with plenty of food for thought (see their responses here).
As I’ve been posting their responses I’ve noticed quite a few ProBlogger readers have been tackling the question themselves – a couple have even sent me emails with their thoughts.
As a result I thought it’d make a great Group Writing Project.
So – let me turn the question over to you my friends. If you’d like to participate and be included in the results of this week’s project simply follow this process:
1. Write a post on the topic of ‘what I’d do differently if I had to start my blog again’
- Be as creative as you’d like – take it in any direction you want from writing a long list of what you’d do differently to a single short point.
- You can write it in any form you like (last time we had poems, rants, humorous posts etc).
- Consider calling your post something a little different to ‘what I’d do differently if I…..’ as last time we had 80 submissions, most of which had similar titles. Your title is a key to making people come and read your post.
- Ideally it’d be great if you could write it on your actual blog but if it’s completely inappropriate to do so I’ll post them again on ProBlogger on a ‘page’ (not a post) with a link back to your blog.
- Feel free to write your post in your own first language – I’ve previously included a number of non-english posts and am excited by the prospect of making this a multi-lingual project.
2. Let me Know about your post
- Once you’ve posted your post simply let me know about it by sending me an email via my contact form.
- Make sure you include your name (as you want it to appear in my list), your post title and the URL to your post (not just to your blog’s front page).
- Submissions must be received by me the the end of Thursday 27 July (as long as it’s still Thursday where you send it from I’ll accept it).
3. I will post 2 links to your post
- In the day or two after you let me know about your post I’ll post a link to it in two places. Firstly there will be a daily (ish) list of the submissions from the last 24 hours. Secondly there will be a central list of all submissions for the project so we can see everything on one page. From what I could tell last time – people did visit the posts that were submitted – some bloggers seemed to get more traffic than others depending upon what day they submitted and a little on how their title read.
- I’ll post my final list of submissions on Friday.
4. Surf Surf Surf
- This is where you take over. Surf the submissions received. Leave comments, make connections with other ProBlogger readers and enjoy reading what others have to say.
5. Link Link Link
- There is no formal ‘judging’ as this is not a competition. Instead – I encourage you to surf through the submissions at the end of the week and announce your own winners on your own blog. Name a top 5 or so and share the link love.
- Probably the best part of the last group project was the amount of inter-linking I saw happening between participating bloggers as a result of their posts. It was obvious that people found new blogs through it and that the benefits of participating was way beyond getting a link from me but flowed on to a lot of new connections and links between other bloggers.
About Darren Rowse
My name is Darren Rowse and I’m a full time Blogger making a living from blogs like 
My Exams are comming up next week, So I am really short of time. But let me tell what I would do If I had to start my blog all over agin.
1. Buy a really simple domain name.
2. I would set a goal (like atleast 2 good articles a day)
3. I would make my blog a bit more eye pleasing
4. Concentrate more on writting content rather than making money
Sounds like fun…I’m in.
Terry
Awesome idea Darren. We can make our voices be heard, interact with our fellow bloggers, and get some killer traffic in the process. I’ll get started on mine right now.
Done and done. Looking forward to what everyone else has to say. :)
Darren:
I want to contribute to your project, but your contact form needs to be fixed. I can not enter my name into the form.
This is a great idea. Mama duck sent me here. My post is up. Thanks for organizing this! http://kellycurtis.blogspot.com/2006/07/wordpress-and-typepad-and-blogger-oh.html
Hi all,
Sorry, but I don’t know what happened to the backlink which took you guys to an empty page. the correct link to my article should be
THIS
I’ve tried over and over to use your contact form, but it never shows up for me. Will you still accept the entry I made in your comments? I would really appreciate it.
Thanks
I’ve tried over and over to use your contact form, but it never shows up for me. Will you still accept the entry I made in your comments? I would really appreciate it.
Thanks
what I’d do differently if I had to start my blog again？
如果从新开始，我会
1)选一个可以在留言里放网址的。。
而在blogcharm里，只可以放Anonymous（如果你不是blogcharm的会员)
2)把帖子分类。。不过有点懒
^^
I spent a good deal of the morning reading over 60 posts to this project! I commented on 14 in particular that stood out for me. I enjoyed the project and also sorting through everybody else’s response. Thanks Darren.
The post can be found here:
http://survivingnj.blogspot.com/2006/07/commentary-on-probloggers-writing.html
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