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, 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 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 [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on May 14th, 2008
Welcome to Day 3 of my quest to build a better blog by following ProBlogger’s Guide. Yesterday was Day 2 and I did a First Time Reader audit. It was incredibly helpful and I’ve already started making changes based on that experience.
Today’s tip is to Search For and Join a forum on my blog’s topic. [...]
Posted in 31 Days to a Better Blog, Blogging on May 13th, 2008
Welcome to Day 2 of my quest to build a better blog by following ProBlogger’s Guide. Yesterday was Day 1 and I emailed a new commenter to say thank you.
Today’s tip is to Run a First Time Reader Audit. I have to be honest when I say I almost skipped this one (or faked [...]
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