Comments on: What Did You Do for Halloween…. On Your Blog

By: Glenn -- DVD Spin Doctor

Glenn -- DVD Spin Doctor — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:19:16 +0000

On my DVD blog I did a series on the top horror movies released during the scare season.

In the DVD world, Halloween is No. 1 in terms of seasonal titles. In other words, all the catalog horror films come out in September and October.

Here’s the scary part: I did atop 7 Halloween DVD releases and ran out of time and energy. So it’s a top 8! The Shining would have been No. 1 and I’ll add it … soon.

By: Deb

Deb — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:27:56 +0000

At She Plays Music I ‘live blogged” Halloween. All day I featured great videos from great women singing Halloween appropriate songs. It worked out very well.

By: Sky

Sky — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:25:21 +0000

On my baseball analysis blog I posted a list of the top thirteen scariest things in baseball. The title was Nightmare on Lansdowne Street.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:08:55 +0000

As a writer on a movie site, Halloween is always a big thing for us - reviews of new horror movies need to go up (Saw IV and 30 Days of Night, specifically), plus there was a huge Halloween promotion on the official site for the new Batman movie that we were following really closely.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:04:56 +0000

I wrote a post called Top 10 Halloween Etailer Goodies, featuring spooky Halloween themed items on October 1.

I figured that would give people enough time to receive their items if they ordered, and I got lots of traffic to that post all month.

I also posted a Happy Halloween message and a picture, in addition to my regular daily post.

By: Sarah @ Real Life

Sarah @ Real Life — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:57:06 +0000

I posted a devotion that you can do with kids while carving a pumpkin. This ended up being the most popular post of all time on my blog! It got picked up by Digg, and StumbleUpon, and it got many Google searches per day. How Is Carving a Pumpkin Like Being a Christian?

By: Brooke

Brooke — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:35:50 +0000

I have a budding, but initially successful Tori Amos fan blog. For my Halloween post, I reviewed a concert she did in PIttsburgh on 10-30 in which everyone in the audience was encouraged to dress up. Tori Amos, her band, her opening act, and even her daughter came on stage in costume and it sounded like a great show.

Thanks for the tip, ProBlogger. I’ll remember to do seasonal posts more often…

Brooke :)

http://www.youforawhile.com/tour/happy-halloween-from-tori-amos

By: Veron

Veron — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:34:11 +0000

I transformed my usual blog layout to a Halloween-themed one. Usually it’s purple and features the famous Neuschwanstein castle in Germany. For Halloween I turned it all black and added effects to make the castle look spooky and haunted!

Check it out:
http://sparklette.net/archives/sparklettenet-halloween-edition/

By: FIRE Finance

FIRE Finance — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:23:30 +0000

We are conducting a special giveaway to celebrate Halloween. To be specific we are giving away Jason Zweig’s book “Your Money & Your Brain.”Your Money & Your Brain! The contest is open till Sunday, Nov 4th.
We provided some nice examples from the book which shows the relation of our brain and money through the concepts of neuroscience.
Here is our presentation:
http://firefinance.blogspot.com/2007/10/halloween-giveaway-your-money-your.html

By: Tina Kubala

Tina Kubala — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:47:35 +0000

My Halloween offering is a personal reflection:

http://tinakubala.com/2007/10/31/linus-and-me.aspx

By: Angela M.

Angela M. — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:00:35 +0000

I had a 3-part series on different pumpkin-themed polymer clay crafts, with a wrap-up post giving additional ideas.

http://blog.craftygoat.com/2007/10/the_great_pumpkin_wrapup.html

I had some increased traffic & a nice link, but I think the series would’ve done better if I’d started earlier. Thinking & posting ahead is always my big struggle!

By: WereBear

WereBear — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:05:33 +0000

Since my blog is about cats, a post about Cats & Halloween was a natural:

http://wayofcats.blogspot.com/2007/10/halloween-and-cats.html

And I added a bonus “Mad Scientist” post:

http://wayofcats.blogspot.com/2006/10/know-types-alpha.html

And I’m preparing a early Christmas post encouraging cat related charitable ways of giving.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:37:28 +0000

I wrote a post entitled Happy Halloween – Blogging Trick or Treat. http://www.successforyourblog.com/happy-halloween-blogging-trick-or-treat

Talks about the use of holiday titles to attract attention and an SEO boost.

By: Karen (Karooch from Scraps of Mind)

Karen (Karooch from Scraps of Mind) — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:48:59 +0000

I received a boost in the Google ranks (hey, someone had to) and found myself on the Top 50 Australian Women Blogs list so i celebrated with a Halloween flavoured post about it. Hubble Bubble I'm Page Rank 4 After all, who doesn't believe that Google Page Ranking is a Dark Art?

By: Serge

Serge — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:46:57 +0000

I didn’t do anything because in my country Halloween is only ‘celebrated’ the last few years and secondly, and to me that’s the most important reason, is that most people over here don’t know it’s origin and meaning. In my opinion Halloween is just seen as a commercial opportunity to squeeze some more money from uninformed customers…

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:28:49 +0000

I posted an archive photo from when my kids dressed up for Halloween. I had to scan it because it was from the film era.

Then I explained how we did Halloween costumes to encourage creative and artistic thinking. Several commented that they liked the approach and might try it in the future.

http://gscottage.blogspot.com/2007/10/trick-or-treat-1983-version.html

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:54:52 +0000

We did a roundup of the top 10 ecommerce Halloween costume parodies and an artist’s rendition of Larry and Sergey dressed as “Ghoul-gle”

http://www.getelastic.com/ecommerce-halloween-costumes/

http://www.getelastic.com/google-guys-halloween-costume/

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:38:19 +0000

One of my guest bloggers posted a Halloween nightmare-cum-book review.

By: Forrest

Forrest — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:23:55 +0000

Living in Salem MA one of the major tourist destinations for Halloween I posted some advise about what to avoid and how to get into the down town area. http://www.thesaleminsider.com/2007/10/31/halloween-and-carnies/

By: Erin Moore

Erin Moore — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 20:07:34 +0000

We did a doggie Halloween costume contest throughout the month of October and announced the winner on Halloween:

http://www.luvmutt.com/blog/halloween_costume_contest/index.html

Cute, huh? :)