Today, Problogger challenged us to write a post that solves a problem for our readers. He provides 7 ways to identify the problems that need solving: 1. Solve Your Own Problems: Well now, if I could do that one, life would be much easier ! But, I have written a few posts that are attempts at solving a few of my problems. The most recent...
Pardon the interruption of the flow of the Problogger Challenge, but I was enjoying the last 4 days in Vegas with my girls. Now, I am trying to get caught up. Luckily, some of the posts weren’t really about writing a post but doing something to improve your blog outside of your blog. ‡ For example, day #12, Friday, was about developing an editorial calendar. Problogger suggests...
We all run out of things to talk about. Or at least we all run out of good things to talk about. Day 11 of problogger’s challenge focuses on coming up with ideas for future blog posts. The task was to follow his three steps and create a web of ideas. Here is my task:The Set Up – The set-up includes choosing your last 5...
Blogging is not about writing, it is about conversation, it is about knowledge, and about listening. Problogger points out that many bloggers forget to take a step away from their wordpress dashboard to see what is going on around them. The solution? Set up alerts to monitor what is going on in your niche! My challenge for day 10 of the Problogger’s 31D2BBB is to...
Forums*…aren’t those for people who want to talk about cars or plastic surgery? Apparently not! According to problogger’s challenge for the day, joining a forum and answering some questions can be a great way to add traffic to your blog. He suggests finding a forum that is discussing a topic that you care about – whether it’s jazz, animals, business or photography. Since I have a...
Today, problogger listed some of the best articles from some of the best bloggers and asked us to take a look. See which ones resonated, which we liked/disliked and why. I took a quick through the list and noticed a couple things right away. First, I have read all of them. Second, these are all articles from the other side. That means these are all...
Day #5 of problogger’s better blog challenge is all about connecting with your community. Last week, I wrote a post just for this reason, to give my readers a chance to introduce themselves and for me to get to know everyone better. I had responded to most of the comments, but then the blog malfunctioned and I had to delete the post, and re-post it,...
Today is day #4 of the better blog challenge from problogger. I also did day #3 today, about promoting you/your blog. Anyway, today’s post is all about analyzing a top blog in your niche. There were only 2 steps.Identify a successful blog in your niche Take 15 minutes to do some analysis of the blog in some of the following areas: Content, reader engagement, design, monetization,...
Day #2 of Problogger’s 31 days to a better blog is writing a list post. He claims the benefits from a list post are numerous, including scan-ability, viral-ability and the break down of complicated things-ability. While he is right that lists are powerful, they can also be overwhelming if that is all a blogger does – or if the blogger goes into too much detail....
