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Written on August 15th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Stickify Your Blog

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Blog Promotion, Video Posts 59 comments

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Written on August 14th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Analyze Your Blog’s Competition

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 36 comments

Today’s task in the 31 Days Blogging Project is to so some analysis of other blogs in your niche – your ‘competition’.

Note: I use the word ‘competition’ hesitantly because the thing about blogging is that those blogging on the same topics as you are potentially your biggest allies. Connect and work with your competition and [...]

Written on August 13th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Search for an Affiliate Program that fits your Blog

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Affiliate Programs 34 comments

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to carry out a search for an Affiliate Program that fits your blog.

Those of you not interested in monetizing your blog might want to go back to one of the previous 12 days in this project to repeat one of the earlier tasks (you can’t do [...]

Written on August 12th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Introduce Yourself to Another Blogger

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 40 comments

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to Introduce Yourself to another blogger

Email or IM another blogger in your niche to introduce yourself and your blog. You don’t need to ask them to link to you or anything – the point isn’t to get any specific outcome other than to touch base and [...]

Written on August 11th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Dig Into Your Blog’s Statistics

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 48 comments

Today your task in the 31 Day Project is to dig into your blog’s metrics or statistics package.

Take some time out today to do a little analysis of your blog’s statistics. There is a wealth of information in them that can be incredibly useful.

Here’s a few metrics to dig into to start off with:

Most Popular [...]

Written on August 10th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Declutter your Sidebar

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Blog Design 51 comments

Today’s task in the 31 Day Project is to Declutter your sidebar
Blog clutter has a way of creeping up on almost all bloggers. I’ve let it creep up as much as the next blogger and a big task in getting a new design together has been working out what to remove, what to move and [...]

Written on August 9th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Run an Advertising Audit on Your Blog

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Advertising 15 comments

Todays task in the 31 Day project is to do an Advertising Audit on Your Blog. I know that not everyone doing this project is making money through advertising – be there are enough tasks from other days in the project that you can always go back and redo one of the others.

It’s easy to [...]

Written on August 8th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Comment on a Blog that you’ve never Commented on Before

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Blog Promotion, Miscellaneous Blog Tips 98 comments

Today your task in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project is as simple as they come. In fact it’s a tip that gets included in almost every post ever written on how to grow a blog’s traffic – comment on a blog that you’ve never commented on before.

Sometimes as bloggers it is [...]

Written on August 7th, 2007 at 12:08 am by Darren Rowse

Plan Your Next Week’s Posting Schedule

31 Days to Building a Better Blog, Writing Content 75 comments

Your task today in the 31 Day Project is to plan out a posting schedule for the next week of your blog.
Are You a Planner or an Impulsive Blogger?
When I first started blogging my posting style was incredibly impulsive. I would sit down at my computer with no idea what I was about to [...]

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