I’m going to skip day 10 – declutter your sidebar – as it’s fairly clean as it is and I like how the IT Services blogs, and some of the other University blogs, have the same theme with a consistent layout, albeit with different colour schemes and graphics. So today I’m looking at stats using […]
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Better Blog Day 7: Plan Your Next Week’s Posting Schedule
Continuing the ProBlogger plan to a better blog, day 7 (yes, I know I’m not doing them in the right order) is to plan your blogging schedule for the next week. As a team blog, posts can be a bit sporadic at times but with 77 posts over the last four months we’ve got a […]
Better Blog Day 8: Comment on a Blog that you’ve never Commented on Before
Well I thought today’s task was going to be really easy – I’ve just been forced to comment on my Dad’s new website for Southport Table Tennis Club but that doesn’t count: Go on a blog hunt today to see how many new blogs you can find in your niche. I think it’s a bit […]
Better Blog Day 6: Email an Old Timer Reader
Today’s ProBlogger challenge is to email an old timer reader. I did a quick scan through the comments to see who’s been reading and while we’ve had 123 comments, outside a core group of regulars it’s difficult to know who actually reads religiously and who just dropped by one time because they were searching for […]
Better Blog Day 5: Conduct an About Page Audit
Today’s task is to conduct an about page audit: One of the key pages on a blog is the about page. This page is often used by new readers to a blog to gather information about you and your blog and based upon what they find on this page they could be making a decision […]
Better Blog Day 4: Interlinking Posts
Today’s task is to link blog posts together so that users can find information more easily. As you add more and more content to your blog there will be more and more opportunity to link your posts together so that readers can view more pages of your blog. It’s also won’t hurt the search engine […]
Better Blog Day 3: Search for and Join a Forum
Yes, yes, I know I’ve missed out day 2 – I’ll come back to that once I’ve found a suitable candidate who hasn’t read the blog. So on to day 3: Search for and Join Forums on Your Blog’s Topic This could be a bit tricky – I don’t really know of any forums directly […]
Better Blog Day 1: Email a new reader
Here goes! It’s day 1 of our challenge to build a better blog following ProBlogger’s series of tasks. Day 1 is to Email a New Reader: Create a great impression upon a brand new readers to your blog by choosing a commenter that is new and emailing them to thank them for their comment. It […]
31 Days to a Better Blog
I’ve been planning to run with ProBlogger’s series of tasks for the last couple of weeks since reading Michele Martin’s progress on the Bamboo Project Blog. We’re a few weeks behind the official start on 1st August, but having read some of the tasks and people’s experience of them I think it’s worth us having […]