Blog tips for a better blog
We have finally arrived at the end of this 10-week journey – and boy has it been exhilarating to watch! We’ve reached the end of all of the challenges and everyone has done done an incredible job. In just 10 short weeks, they’ve accomplished the impossible: Alexa ranking is now 96,121 and improving everyday! The…
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Thanks for all of your patience with me during all of the technical difficulties we’ve been experiencing last week. Life happens – and technical difficulties are a reality when it comes to blogging – this contest was based on reality and over the passed few weeks, the contestants ahve definitely received a hefty dose of…
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A few months ago, I wrote a post called 7 Signs You’re a Hacker & 5 Ways to Use it to Your Advantage as part of a cross-blog series with bloggers: Hector Cuevas, Ana Hoffman, and Alex Whalley. It turned out to be such a successful series, that I thought it would be great if I…
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This week’s challenge is going to have each contestant focus on generating an insane amount of traffic to their blog posts. Insane Traffic Generation Challenge Team member with the most points wins immunity! This week’s tasks: Produce at least 2 post on the TheNextGoal blog. (20 Points per post) Get as much traffic to this…
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The members of TheNextGoal (Team 2) really hustled this week!! Most of them accomplished the near impossible feat of securing guest posts in just one week! Not only did they write the posts, but they were able to get them published all in less than a week! I’m an experienced guest poster, and I know…
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By now, you’ve probably noticed that each challenge builds on previous challenges. The skills that the team membere used in those challenges still apply to the current challenge but generally requires them to extend themselves just a bit further. This week’s challenge is definitely going to extend the contestants. It’s got a variety of ways…
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Building an email list is probably one of the slowest and most difficult tasks when it comes to blogging. It’s difficult to get people to give up their email addresses when there are so many blogs asking for them. But having an email list that you can contact when you’ve got valuable information to share…
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Blog Engage continues to be one of my favorite voting sites in the blogosphere. It’s a really great place to network with bloggers that you wouldn’t otherwise have had the opportunity to meet. Not only does this site give bloggers a way to increase engagement on their own blogs by including a voting button, it…
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Go to any successful blog – look around and I’ll tell you what you will find: Active Twitter Counters, usually in the triple digits Lots of Twitter followers Lots of Facebook Likes/Fans Lots of RSS subscribers Lots of comments (unless they’ve disabled them) Lots of people interacting with each other What a successful blog is…
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This by far is my least favorite part of this contest. :( After all of the trouble of carefully selecting contestants, the decision about who gets voted off is completely out of my hands. But it must be done. This will be one of the few times that this will be announced separately from the weekly…
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The more content a new blog has, the more likely it will capture the attention of the search engines and most importantly, loyal readers. It doesn’t matter if you can generate a boat load of traffic to a site if there’s no reason for people to hang around. You want people to be able to…
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Surviving the Blog Challenge #1: Blog Setup & Design Each team was greeted with a list of tasks and was challenged to create a professional-looking blog design/customization. For full details about what was asked of them, visit this link: http://weblogbetter.com/2011/10/10/the-biggest-challenge-starting-a-blog-in-the-first-place/) Now it’s time to see which team did a better job. Please visit the links and…
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It’s the Official Start of the Surviving the Blog Contest – The First Challenge! Before we begin – we’ve already had some shifts in the contest – before it even began! We had one contestant voluntarily bow out (no he’s not sick or dead), immediately making way for a new contestant to squeeze in just…
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