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Blogging Challenge – Day 5: Conduct an About Page Audit

Posted by Sue Waters on Monday, August 6th 2007     

Darren’s task for Day 5 is to Conduct an About Page Audit. His rationale is new readers use your about page to find out more about you and your blog. They will often use the information on this page to decide if it is worth subscribing to your blog.
This is a key conversion page of [...]

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Blogging Challenge – Day 4: Interlinking posts

Posted by Sue Waters on Sunday, August 5th 2007     

Darren’s Day 4 task is to Dig back into your old posts and do some interlinking of posts because as you add more content to your blog there will be more and more opportunity to link your posts together so that readers can view more pages of your blog.
What I found most interesting about this [...]

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The Sweetness of 31 Day Blogging Project

Posted by Sue Waters on Sunday, August 5th 2007     

1. Moonstruck chocolates, 2. belgian chocolates, 3. chocolate pics 015, 4. chocolate pics 016
I was very pleased to see yesterday that Darren did not take offense to Frances and I taking his Blogging Project to a new level by offering anyone the opportunity to win a kilo of chocolate (the person who does the best [...]

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Blogging Challenge–Day 3: Search for and join forum’s on your Blog’s Topic

Posted by Sue Waters on Saturday, August 4th 2007     

Darren’s Day 3 task is to join forums (read Darren’s post on why you should participate in forums). His rationale is this builds relationships with people who have interests similar to you, builds profile of your blog, increases knowledge gain and increases readership of your blog.
Why I participate in forums and online communities
I already participate [...]

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Blogging Challenge — Day 2: Run a First Time Reader Audit

Posted by Sue Waters on Saturday, August 4th 2007     

Darren’s Day 2 task is to Run a First Time Reader Audit by watching a friend or family member, who has not read your blog, surf your blog. The reason why is because you learn a lot from watching how a person reads and uses your blog.
Early this morning I asked my husband if [...]

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31 Days Blogging Challenge has become serious!

Posted by Sue Waters on Saturday, August 4th 2007     

I decided to take part in 31 days to build a better blog (where Problogger Darren Rowse will give a new assignment each day) as a result of Michele Martin’s (The Bamboo Blog) post 31 Days to a Better Blog–A Personal Learning Experiment and a Blogger Challenge (Michelle will provide alternative homework when Darren gives [...]

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31 Nights, with being smart about how I do my homework, to build a better blog

Posted by Sue Waters on Friday, August 3rd 2007     

Darren Rowse, this month, will each day provide homework for willing participants who want to spend 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. So why should I participant if I am not interested in fame or fortune. Well one of my goals is to help others so I should want to be a more effective [...]

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