It’s the final day of the problogger challenge. Whew! No more writing after this right? Wrong. That’s why his final task is entitled the next steps for your blog. Now is when I have to make sure that I maintain stamina and keep posting as often as I have been, and with the quality (or better) that I have been. I have tried to maintain a...
With only 2 days left of the Problogger challenge, it is time to analyze the traffic to my blog. If you have never looked at analysis statistics and want to know what to look for, he gives you 17 different metrics to look at. Analysis of my stats is one of the reasons I love wordpress – there are great plugins that make it so much...
We are getting to the end of the problogger challenge, and as such, it was finally time for him to cover social media organization. The concern has always been where to spend your time and what to do while on those sites. Today’s challenge is to develop a plan to boost your blog’s readership through the social media channels, without spending all your time on...
Problogger’s challenge is giving me deja vú. The 31 days to a better blog challenge is supposed to be 31 days of advice/challenges to improve your blog and your writing. It’s also supposed to have a unique suggestion every day. But today’s challenge is not only focused on someone elses blog, but the ideas in the post replicate many of his other challenge posts. Not really...
Today’s challenge from problogger is one I like – Asking questions of your readers! I am a huge believer in interaction and participation (if you haven’t noticed on twitter), so I find that asking questions of my readers is a great way to learn. I have written a few ‘questioning’ posts in the past (I’ve asked readers to act, and test their creativity) and almost...
Problogger is worried about passive readers. I was too, so I asked all my readers to de-lurk. A lot of them did But problogger says de-lurking isn’t enough, your readers need to act and they must be called into action by you (okay, by me, but you get what I mean). For his challenge today, he offers a solid list of ways to get...
Today, problogger challenges us to pay special attention to one (or more) of our readers. The point of paying special attention to an individual reader is 2-fold. First, it benefits the person that you recommend by showing your other readers more about them and it shows that you value them. Second, it shows your readers someone new and interesting, and that you value your readers. The...
Not all of my writing is perfect. I know, *gasp*! But in all honesty, it isn’t. The biggest culprit? Laziness. I have written a few lazy posts. The idea was there, the execution just wasn’t up to par. Yesterday’s task from problogger was to breathe life into an old post – to fix it up and make it better. It would have been done yesterday,...
First: What is followfriday? If I’m not mistaken, it was started by @micah (Micah Baldwin) with one simple tweet. He catalogues what happened next… Of course, since it was picked up by some of the big dogs on twitter, it got going pretty quickly. So quickly that it spawned a series of websites, top among them: followfridays.com and topfollowfriday.com. Today, @bigheadasian questioned whether the trend of followfriday...
We all know what a squeeze page is – those irritating one page sales letters that start out ‘dear friend’ and end with something like ‘it will change your life’. But problogger’s challenge today teaches us about sneeze pages. He explains it is a term that he created in the 2007 31DBBB challenge. The way that a blog works is simple – the newest articles are...
