Sue Waters Blog

First impressions count!
Combine poor theme choice with a cluttered sidebar and you have a recipe for convincing first time visitors NOT to subscribe to your blog.  They’re too busy being turned off to notice your great posts!
Unfortunately sidebar clutter creeps up on most bloggers.  So I thought it would be helpful to share the process [...]

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When I leave comments on other blogger’s posts I like to be notified on any new comments that are posted.  Maybe it is just me?  But comments by other readers and response(s) by the blogger help my learning.
Being notified of follow up comments means I can choose to continue the conversation by returning to the [...]

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How you write your posts and its content is really important! But so are the pages on your blog!  Did you realise that visits to your pages can be higher than your posts?
But when was the last time you audited your pages and made improvements?  Especially your ‘About Page’ since this is where new readers [...]

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Natasa describes interlinking archived posts as “a blogger’s day in hell!“  Strong words but I can’t think of ANY blogging task that horrifies me more than working through old posts to add links to new posts.
It’s incredibly time consuming!  And if your main reason for linking posts is to get readers viewing more pages of [...]

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I’m BAD!
Don’t adequately facilitate Nings I’ve created and don’t participate enough in Nings I’ve joined. Do they make shirts for people like me?
UPDATE: Thanks to borborigmus (Vyt) we now have a shirt which he has given me permission to use.
We can’t inflict me on more Nings just to complete Day 3: Search for and Join [...]

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Day 2 in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Project is to Do a First Time Reader Audit on your blog. This is one of the MOST important tasks of the 31 Days Project.  How you see your blog and what you write about is often totally different from how viewed by others.
Take [...]

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Wasn’t me who said I’m currently unable to revisit Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog while also reflecting on Steve Dembo’s 30 Days to Being A Better Blogger!
Course I’m able! Simple… I will write posts about each task on this blog but based on my interpretation of what’s 31 Days [...]

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One of my Top personal blogging I want To-Do’s is to revisit the 31 Day Project by working through Steve Dembo’s 30 Days to Being A Better Blogger!
Participating in The 31 Days to Build a Better Blog project by Darren Rowse (Problogger) in August 2007 was life changing for me. I attribute much of [...]

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As Graham Wegner highlighted in his comment on The Edublogger –”it wasn’t all that long ago (well over a year I think!) I had a Skype conversation with Alex Hayes and your good self where you declared that you didn’t really “get blogging.” So true, I didn’t get blogging and was into podcasting! [...]

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What I like about this week’s challenge at Better Blog community set by Simon Thomas (Oak Innovations Blog) on Mobilize your archives is I have already done it for my Day 4 task of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. The task involves going back through your old posts and looking for [...]

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