Archive for 31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Written on August 24th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Do a Search Engine Optimization Audit on Your Blog
One of the biggest sources of traffic on the web is Google (and it’s fellow search engines). As a result it makes sense that a blogger interested in building traffic to their blog would take some time to learn how Search Engines Rank sites.
Today’s task in the 31 Day Project your task is to do [...]
Written on August 23rd, 2007 at 10:08 pm by Darren Rowse
What Everybody Ought to Know About Blogging – 97 Blog Tips
We are entering the last week in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project and I’m continuing to enjoy both writing my own tips and reading those being submitted by readers.
Today I’ve got another 97 reader tips for you (taking us to a total of 456 submissions so far) and once again they [...]
Written on August 23rd, 2007 at 06:08 am by Darren Rowse
Go on a Dead Link Hunt
Today your task in the 31 Day Project is something that most bloggers who have been blogging for a while could probably benefit from doing – go on a dead link hunt.
Blogging is built on the ‘link’. One blog links to another blog who links to another who makes comment on another. This is a [...]
Written on August 21st, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Make a Reader Famous
Do you want to be famous? Do you want to be noticed? Do you want people to know who you are? Do you want to have more influence?
I did an informal survey of bloggers at a workshop and asked them why they blog. The majority of answers had something to do with one of the [...]
Written on August 20th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Run a Reader Survey on Your Blog
Your task today in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project is to ask your readers how you can improve your blog.
At least once a year I like to write a post on my blogs inviting my readership to comment on a number of areas of my blog. These include:
Content (topics covered, post [...]
Written on August 19th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Respond to Comments On Your Blog
One of the most basic skills that any blogger should spend time working on from the very early days is responding to comments on your blog – and that’s today’s task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project.
While this is one of the simplest acts that a blogger can do (I almost [...]
Written on August 18th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Create a Sneeze Page and Propel Readers Deep Within Your Blog
It’s Day 18 in the 2007 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project and today your task is to develop a ‘Sneeze Page’ (or pages) for your blog.
One of the challenges that faces blogs that have been around for a while is that they end up with a wonderful collection of posts in their [...]
Written on August 17th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Run a StumbleUpon Advertising Campaign For Your Blog
Today’s task in the 31 Day Project is aimed at driving new visitors to your blog by running a mini advertising campaign for your blog using StumbleUpon.
Note – This task will take a small budget (unless you get creative and find another website willing to give you some free advertising – which isn’t just a [...]
Written on August 16th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse
Create a Heatmap of Where Readers Click on Your Blog
Have you ever wondered what readers of your blog do when they arrive at it? What do they look at? What links do they click on? What internal navigation do they use? What ads do they click? What positions on your blog do people gravitate towards?
Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to [...]
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