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
August 18th, 2007 at 12:43 am
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)
August 18th, 2007 at 12:49 am
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!
August 21st, 2007 at 4:41 pm
great to have you participating. I have the first post up with a link to you. Thanks
August 22nd, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Thanks a lot, Marcus!
June 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
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!
June 12th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Hmm. You could set up WordPress on their site. Visit http://www.wordpress.org for details.