Comments on: What one thing did you do on your blog in 2007 that improved it the most? – The Last Answers

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:55:05 +0000

Scintillating idea, grit in ’07.

http://www.24hourapartments.com
http://www.roommatesville.com

By: tish

tish — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:05:35 +0000

Loved the series of answers — and tips that they provided. Although I didn’t get to formally participate in your Q&A, I’d like to say that the one big thing I did was to simplify my URL by moving off wordpress.com and onto Joomla. Am using mojoblog — a WP-type blogging extension. New site affords a lot of options — ads, forums, news items beyond my blog — more value for readers. Anyone had experience with Joomla or mojoblog?

By: Joseph Bernard

Joseph Bernard — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:39:04 +0000

I began my blog in Feb 2007 and it seemed like for 6-9 months everything I did was the best thing. Now as I come up on one year and look back, I see that focusing on leaving comments on like minded blogs and where I read articles I resonated with has brought me the most traffic.

I write mainly about self-development but about once a week I venture out into the political commentary realm offering my perspectives (sometimes mild ranting). I find that I pick up readers by commenting at political sites more easily then from self-development sites. This is a very charged time politically and probalby a good tide to ride.

Joseph
http://www.ExploreLifeBlog.com
http://www.peace-together.com

By: Guardian Angel

Guardian Angel — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:41:19 +0000

Well, I joined in many communities but I guess the most helpful to me is Entrecard, in which a fellow Filipino made a local version of it where I am now one of the co-authors…
http://pinoyentrecards.blogspot.com/

By: Kerith

Kerith — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:32:22 +0000

The best thing I ever did was to schedule my blogging. I have a calender/planner that I schedule my everything concerning my bloggin on. I have it scheduled 2 months ahead. I don’t necessarily get my blogging done ahead of time. But I am on a schedule and since I treat it like a job, I am able to actually take every weekend off and pick it up right on track come monday. This scheduling has allowed me to go from 1 blog to 6 and start to plan other projects concerning my blogs.

Lara says: Kerith, I agree that you’ve set up a great plan there. I know that Darren always has some posts ready ahead of time, and he schedules things out often, and I’ve tried very hard to set myself up with a posting/topic schedule also. Good on you for being that far ahead!

By: Ed O'Keeffe

Ed O'Keeffe — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:54:55 +0000

In 2007 I started posting photographs daily to me blog with commentary rather than one or two a week.

Within three months this brought in ten times the number of visitors and helped my SEO a great deal.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:37:05 +0000

Best thing I did… had the ProBlogger Community review my blog :)

Thanks again!

By: independentkitten

independentkitten — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:59:42 +0000

I finally started it. I had been thinking about it for a while, and I know I wished there was a website where I could go when I got my first apartment, started cooking for myself, etc. So the best thing I did in 07 was start the website. This has been a great series.

By: Chris Christensen

Chris Christensen — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:15:08 +0000

Improved, seriously improved, the look of my websites. For instance the Amateur Traveler

before: http://web.archive.org/web/20070101160426/http://amateurtraveler.com/
after: http://AmateurTraveler.com

By: Carl - Thatblogsite.com

Carl - Thatblogsite.com — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:44:07 +0000

Well seeing as I opened late in 2007, I would say the best thing was starting it and learning what to add to it.

By: linkerjpatrick

linkerjpatrick — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:27:50 +0000

I could have sworn I add my 2 cents as well. Oh well, to repeat one thing I did was make good connections with other bloggers and as someone else said I also dropped one of the blogs I was writing and gave all my time to my main business blog.

By: Scott Magdalein

Scott Magdalein — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:05:45 +0000

I began clarifying my blog’s identity. Within the first month of working on this concept, my hits tripled and my subscribers doubled. I also started commenting on slews of other blogs that offered content in related areas as mine.

Next steps for http://www.readscott.com:
1. Guest bloggers
2. Custom design
3. Building a comment culture (I don’t know how to do this, really…any help?)

By: esvl

esvl — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:15:12 +0000

I cut down on some blogs and focused on my main blog

By: mariam

mariam — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:58:51 +0000

I agree totally with plonkee.

I only have a limited amount of time to read blog posts and I can’t read everything. The established bloggers will get my attention first and I skim everything else.

If it’s a longer post, why not just break it up as a series with the first post submitted to social media?

By: Success For Your Blog

Success For Your Blog — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:43:13 +0000

Wow Just one thing? This ia hard one. There were so many things I changed in 2007.

I guess the biggest thing was to get socially invloved more with social networks and connect with a bunch of my readers. THat really gave my blog a push.

By: TzuVelli

TzuVelli — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:24:36 +0000

I’ve really enjoyed this interview series. It is interesting to see how one question can get so many different responses.

Beau Hooks

By: plonkee

plonkee — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:21:46 +0000

I wonder whether writing longer posts less often is better only if you’re already established, or you should do it to start off with. There’s certainly an element of truth in the maxim that you’ll have better search engine traffic with more posts.

By: Sly from Slyvisions.com

Sly from Slyvisions.com — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:54:32 +0000

The one thing I did with my blog that improved it the most was simply moving to WordPress. Everything seemed to work seamlessly after that; the blog had gotten more comments than it had ever had, and it was much easier updating my blog. Before that, I had been using a mac website-creating software similar to iWeb, but it never really provided me with what WordPress does.

Sly from Slyvisions.com

By: J.F.H.

J.F.H. — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:27:41 +0000

I started one.

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:15:12 +0000

Darren,

you work a hell lot to give us these kinds of data otherwise which would have been impossible for us to get.

Thanks mate for your all the hard work.

Cheers.