Comments on: What Were the Best and Worst Blogging Experiences You Had This Week?

By: dsl modem

dsl modem — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:56:28 +0000

The month my adsense suddenly dropped from $1200 a month to about $100. It happened to a lot of people but having company was no comfort.

By: jeux pokemon

jeux pokemon — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:04:14 +0000

I have not really had a bad experiences when it comes to about this week day. But i don’t take much notice about this week. It’s just not that important to me..

By: pertm

pertm — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:13:44 +0000

My blog is fairly new and in Norwegian. I have not had a lot of visitors. Last week ended with 3 days with 0 visitors. Late on sunday I posted a post with some pictures from a bikeride and on monday I got more than 40 hits. Before this I only had 16 or so hits as the best I had gotten on a day.

By: wine of month club

wine of month club — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:54:27 +0000

I had a wine review gone bad, the winery wanted to edit literally everything that I said….1st amendment people lol

By: Zahra

Zahra — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:56:43 +0000

Good afternoon. Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I am from Guinea and learning to read in English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “Making the males and countries of minutes will give toupĂ©e of lower artists of hormones with less closure of cocoa of majority ability.”

Thanks for the help :-(, Zahra.

By: Ed Hardy bags

Ed Hardy bags — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:46:00 +0000

Best – getting to grips with blogging and getting some great comments telling me I’m offering some good content.

By: Iain Buchanan

Iain Buchanan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:55:04 +0000

I’m a new student of Alex Jeffreys – and although I did have a blog for a few months, I started with a blank slate a few weeks ago. I’m really looking at making a go of blogging now – and the pieces are starting to fall into place. I’m looking for all the feedback I can get and different peoples thoughts… With that in mind, here’s my best and worst bits of the week:

Best – getting to grips with blogging and getting some great comments telling me I’m offering some good content.

Worst – My dodgy first video blog post! And the second one wasn’t much better!

Iain
http://www.IainBuchanan.me

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:34:43 +0000

Best – Traffic is beginning to rise again – I guess parents are planning those Birthday Parties

Worst – Having the kids home takes away from my time to Blog and promote – URGH

By: SURVEYS FOR MONEY

SURVEYS FOR MONEY — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:12:18 +0000

My best experiences this week was an increase in traffic each day of the week. I read and learned a lot about becoming a better blogger. My worst experiences was even though I’m gaining more traffic, I’m not getting any subscribers. That just shows that I have to write better quality and lengthier posts.

By: Stef

Stef — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:11:24 +0000

Good: I’m getting lots of hits.

Bad: No comments and 2 RSS subscribers!

I wonder how I can improve the bad?

By: siobhan curious

siobhan curious — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:15:58 +0000

Best:
I’m preparing for a guest spot as a teachers’ “advice columnist” next week at Change.org’s Education blog (http://education.change.org/). A number of friends and colleagues have written brilliant letters requesting advice on teaching dilemmas. I’m very excited about launching this feature.

Worst:
traffic is down, no matter what I do to try to pick it up. I’m blaming the time of year – mid-July is teachers’ last chance to think about anything BUT teaching before the preparation for the new year begins in earnest. Here’s looking forward to a more active August!

By: Keller Hawthorne

Keller Hawthorne — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:33:06 +0000

Definitely my best blogging experience of this last week was StudioPress officially sponsoring my Best WordPress Website Design of 2009 Contest! Brian will be giving his All Theme Package (worth $199) to the winner and one theme to each of the 5 finalists. It’s amazing to already have such a strong blogging relationship (my blog is only 2 months old).

My worst experience is I haven’t heard back yet from any of the other companies I requested sponsorships from. I really want to give away some awesome prizes to the winner and hope to bring on board at least two more sponsors. But, it is summer time and many people are on vacation. It’s probably time to remind myself of the virtue of patience.

I think this contest would greatly benefit many of your readers Darren. I’m hoping to have a lot of newbie bloggers enter. This is a great opportunity to get some attention and free traffic! I should be launching the contest in a couple of weeks. If anyone is interested in learning more, please check out my post: http://www.fresheventure.com/1256/questions-best-wordpress-website-design-2009-contest/

I hope it’s ok that I added a link to my blog :).

By: MsJosay

MsJosay — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:42:04 +0000

So far 2 important ‘bests’ – (1) starting my blog, and (2) traffic to the blog is increasing as a result of learning how to promote it more effectively

No ‘worst’s so far but the week is only half over.

By: Opinionated Ant

Opinionated Ant — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:36:46 +0000

best:
changed theme & cleaned up site (still cleaning ;).
I added feedburner and discovered Windows Live Writer. (thanks, darren) Which I used to do a huge batch posting (for my weeklies, like word of the week).

I’m hoping it will give me more time to focus on stories. [which was the point of my fictional blog until i got sidetracked.]

worst:
low readership, but it’s a quirky site and as long as i am enjoying it (and make a few giggle or suggest a doctor) then i’m happy.

like a few mentioned above, my problem has been spam. although it has been interesting and unique.

By: Blogger Make Money

Blogger Make Money — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:50:30 +0000

Same like you, my blog is full of spam comments and I don’t know how to solve it because I use blogspot platform for my blogs.

By: Haris

Haris — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:09:20 +0000

Good Darren, shield yourself. now i understand why suddenly you put this line ‘comments will be closed off…’ above the comment form. yeah, your blog is so well known so spammers are here and there. and might want to entertain you as well.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:58:29 +0000

Best – I finally realized that purchasing te combo 31 day package did not mean a hardcopy of 31days. I researched and found instructions to download so I now have it in hand.
Worst- After revamping my blog with a weekly schedule and theme and making a real effort to provide value, I do see small increases in visitors and even smaller increases in repeat visitors. But nobody leaves comments even when the point of the post is to get visitor insight and opinion and even though I know something about the repeat visitors, I don’t know how they got there or why they come back.

By: fas

fas — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:26:52 +0000

Comment spam is a ever growing problem. We need to be cautious of spammers. Drop in traffic and site moving slow are few of the worst blogging experience this week.

By: Aron Sora

Aron Sora — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:24:46 +0000

Hey, for all those experiencing blogger’s block check out TED.com This is the website for the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference. Browse around a try to apply to ideas presented to your niche. These lectures are thought provoking so if these don’t get a blog post out of you, nothing will.

By: Tumblemoose

Tumblemoose — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:58:26 +0000

Hey Darren,

Best: A “throw away” little blog of mine that normally sees about 50 visitors a day had a post go viral with nearly 5k hits over 48 hours!

Worst: Withdrew from a forum due to some yukky circumstances

Great idea here. Interesting to read all of the comments

George