Comments on: 31 Days to Building a Better Blog – Revisited

By: Taoski

Taoski — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:29:43 +0000

I think you should reformat the series as a PDF file, single download.

But it was an excellent series!

By: Mal James

Mal James — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:03:24 +0000

Give you an idea of how good the ideas are , I only realised a minute ago I was reading last years and left my Comment there , so now thats a search.
I wrote about events today and left them last year, now that is technology going fast
Mal

By: adsense money dude - mrHowTo

adsense money dude - mrHowTo — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 13:41:11 +0000

Cool tips. One thing though, always save at least one copy of all your blog posts. My server recently went pop and it really hammered home to me the true value of my data and what would have happened had I not had a two week old backup!

Even if your blog is posted on a hosted server, can you really rely on them to never lost your data? I wouldn’t. These things DO and WILL happen.

Just a thought.

By: pcunix

pcunix — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:28:12 +0000

I still get hits from Problogger from the articles I contributed to that series – I mean every single day, ever since you first did it a year ago.. never stopped.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:29:29 +0000

When you were writing this series, I was still sitting in a dank cave thinking “Why would anyone ever read, let alone write, a blog!” And like Retrospector, it was the 31 days that got me rolling. I’d NEVER watch a movie twice, but I’ll read and reread the 31 days.

By: Retrospector

Retrospector — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:09:02 +0000

I wasn’t around last year, but stumbling onto this site and the “31 days to…” link in the left nav on this site is what really got me bold enough to give blogging a try. I’ve since re-read through the series completely at least once and manage to find something new every time I browse back through it, as if I’m watching a movie a 2nd time and catch a bunch of the little things I missed the first time around.

The series is definitely worth mentioning repeatedly in the future.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:56:07 +0000

Like Razib, I wasn’t around last August. Thanks for setting the dials back on the time machine – there’s some great stuff in there! I can hardly wait to be saying, “look how much has changed in a year” next year…

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:30:50 +0000

“Firstly, it was so much work and I often look back at it and feel sad that it just languishes away in archives.”

Not languishing at all Darren…how do I know?

I still get plenty of traffic from the post of mine that you linked to…and as an added bonus it’s the highest PR page on my site! Not hard to figure out why…. : )

By: The Zero Boss

The Zero Boss — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:38:35 +0000

In the time since that series (to which I made a tiny contribution), I destroyed my old blog, started three others, destroyed them, then re-created my old blog, moving everything from Movable Type to WordPress in the process.

It’s amazing how much changes in a year. :-)

By: razib

razib — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:21:17 +0000

“Thirdly, since last August the readership of ProBlogger has doubled and I know that many of you were not around when the series took place. Most of what was written last August is still relevant for bloggers today – hopefully in linking back to it readers will find a few undiscovered gems.”
Exactly. I am one of them. Thanks a lot for this Darren. I will surely read them and I know that many of us will do so. I am happy that within one year, your traffic has doubled.