Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog on Aug 5th, 2008
Day 13 is here and even though I’m definitely not going to get through this series in 30 days (more like 90 . . . maybe), I will get through it. I’ve gotten some good feedback and I’ve actually felt like certain parts of the site have improved over time. Today is about finding a [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog on Jul 24th, 2008
Day 10 of Building a Better Blog is here. We’re almost halfway there and today’s tip is to Declutter Your Sidebar. Clutter can accumulate over time all over a blog, so paying attention to specific areas like the Sidebar is very helpful.
This is one of those basic blog tips that often goes overlooked because [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on Jun 18th, 2008
Time to get back on track with my 31 Days to a Better Blog series. It’s taking me longer than 31 days, but that’s not a bad thing. It means I’m writing about other things and doing these tasks as well as I can.
Anyway, today’s homework is to introduce myself to another blogger. Not because [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on Jun 9th, 2008
Day 11 of Building a Better Blog is here. Today’s tip is one that is close to my heart because I’m a big fan of baseball stats. So Analyzing my Blog’s Stats means digging into the numbers to try to discover new things about the site and ways to make it better.
I’m a big [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on Jun 4th, 2008
Day 10 of Building a Better Blog is here. We’re almost halfway there and today’s tip is to Declutter Your Sidebar. Clutter can accumulate over time all over a blog, so paying attention to specific areas like the Sidebar is very helpful.
Coincidentally, I just took a look at this last week when I [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on May 30th, 2008
Well, I’m back from getting married so it’s time for Day 9 of Building a Better Blog. This tip is essential for your blog if you have decided to run ads on it: Run an Ad Audit.
The idea here is to take a look at your existing ads and play with their placement, color, and [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on May 28th, 2008
Time for Day 8 of my Building a Better Blog series. Today’s tip is a classic that you’ll see just about everywhere in the blogosphere—Comment on a blog you’ve never commented on before. I’m a big believer in this one because you let your writing do the talking and based on that alone people will [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on May 26th, 2008
Day 7 of my Building a Better Blog series just happens to fall at the perfect time: I’m getting married on Sunday and today’s tip is to Plan Ahead. Since I have family coming in this week and I’ll be gone from Thursday to Thursday of next week, I have to plan ahead if I [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on May 21st, 2008
Day 6 of my quest to build a better blog rolls right along. For those of you new to the series, I’m just following ProBlogger’s Guide on a day-to-day basis. Day 5 was about performing an About Page audit.
We are all the way to Day 6 and I’m not sick of this series yet, so [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging, Writing on May 19th, 2008
Ready for Day 5 of my quest to build a better blog? It’s simple, I’m just following ProBlogger’s Guide. Day 4 was all about Interlinking Archived Posts.
Today’s task is to perform an About Page Audit. This is a part of the page that I’ve always thought of reworking. “I’ll get to it eventually,” is as [...]
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