101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
I was inspired by mwilliford’s series on 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger (originally posted on Lifehack.org) to pursue each one of these 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger.
My goal is to complete 2-3 a week, and that should mean that I finish this time next year, August 2008.
Monetization is nice, but becoming a better blogger - a communicator, writer and observer - is most important with this blog.
First things first, in the spirit of mwilliford’s series, you should do the following:
- Go to Popuri and check your Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, and Technorati rank. make a note of these so you’ll have something compare them to next summer.
- Make a note of the number of readers you have now. We’ll compare this next year too. I currently have 56 RSS readers and 100-125 unique page loads per day.
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Read more posts from this series:
- 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
- Use WordPress!: Step #1
- Sign up for Feedburner: Step #2
- Post at least once a day: Step #3
- Optimize your blog for SEO: Step #4
- Have an “About Me” page: Step #5
- 101 Steps: #6-8
- Blog and Ping - Step #9 in 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger
- Submit your blog to RSS and blog directories: Step #10
- Trackbacks are important - Step #11
- Get involved in the blogosphere - Step #12
- Give your blog its own unique voice - Step #13
- Create unique, quality content - Step #14
- Add a large RSS button to your site
- Place an RSS feed link at the bottom of every post
- Install the MyBlogLog Widget
- Social Bookmarking - Step #18
- Better Blogger - Steps 19-31
- Create a custom blog design
- Add photos to each of your posts
- Use tagging in WordPress
- Tips to get more out of your WordPress blog
- Turn your blog posts into podcasts!
- Follow these 12 Steps and Get MORE Readers!
- Create a customized 404 page
- Keep Working at Becoming a Better Blogger!
- 11 Ways to Monetize Your Blog
- 19 Final Tips to Becoming a Better Blogger
Hey, thanks for the link. I’m Marcus. Nice to meet you. Since it appears that you will be following along with the series I will put a link in the posts for you. I like your blog and the way you have set up series on certain days. That is a great idea to get more readers. I might have to institute something like that. Keep up the good work and good luck in school (I’m in school too)
Great to meet you, Marcus! Definitely include me in the series. I am going to try to catch up with you. Just give me a few days!
Good luck with classes! Mine don’t start until after Labor Day, so I have a few more weeks to hang out and relax!
great to have you participating. I have the first post up with a link to you. Thanks
Thanks a lot, Marcus!
I need to create a blog on my clients website from my machine. Could someone direct me to a tutorial about how to create a blog on a remote server? I think this one is for creating one to be accessed from your own machine, isn’t it? Thanks so much!
Hmm. You could set up WordPress on their site. Visit http://www.wordpress.org for details.