In yesterday’s post, 4 Benefits of Hosting a Guest Post Contest, I discussed the benefits I experienced when I held this blog’s first guest post contest in April.

Whether or not you’re interested in hosting a contest or just want to host more guest posts, you’ll still need to be prepared to contend with some of the drawbacks. Read more »

In the next to last semester before I graduated with my Masters, I took the weirdest, yet most thought-provoking course I’d ever taken. It was called “The Poetry of Labor” with a subtitle of “The labor of poetry.”

I had never been more confused in my life. I must tell you (and English majors all over the world may denounce me for this) I’m not the biggest poetry fan – at all. In fact, I rarely read it without it being a requirement of class. And in this class, it was some of the most confusing poetry I’ve ever read. Read more »

What I learned from Ms. Freeman of

Baby Steps of an Internet Entrepreneur

The power of Asking

“If you ask shall you receive?” Is one of the memorable posts I remember first encountering on this site.  This very persuasive post reminded me of the value of asking.

Many times if we just took the time to ask more questions, we’d get more reader participation. If we gently asked for favors from others, every once and a while (not everyday, of course) we’d likely get more positive responses. This post was so compelling that I’m certain that everyone who read it became a fan of her Facebook Fanpage that day. I know I did. Read more »

Yesterday marked the end of my first 30 days here at WeBlogBetter!

So how did I do?

It’s been a real challenge trying to keep up and bring you the best content possible – but that’s a good thing. My goal is to continue to grow this blog, and with your help and continued participation, I just might do that. Read more »

…and what I did with my blogging knowledge

This is a continuation of yesterday’s post:  What’s your blogging story?

I’ll get right to the point – when I finally began posting everyday, that’s when I started seeing immediate improvement in traffic and reader engagement. To add to the effect, I also did a few guest posts on high traffic sites and made my rounds to leave authentic comments on popular blogs. My Alexa ranking began to soar. Everyday I was excited to discover a lower and lower numbers. Read more »

How and when did you start blogging?

A year ago today, I started my very first blog on Blogger. It had a very plain, blogger template and had absolutely nothing special going for it. I had no friends in high places and no social media experience other than my late 90s experiment with a social media site called BlackPlanet. You heard me – no Facebook, no Twitter, nada! Yes, the roof of my house does resemble a rock and had been living under it for quite a while, thank you very much! Read more »

I’ve always been a visual learner. If you show me how to do something, I can often get it fairly quickly if I have an opportunity to immediately apply what I’ve learned. Blogging is no different – that’s why when I first started out, I sought out the high ranking blogs and tried to get a feel for how they did things.

I knew blogging was more than good design, I needed to know what it was that these bloggers did to stand out from the rest. Read more »