Working with my blogging clients and building my custom home have left little time for blogging on Win with 1. My list of upcoming blogs has been put on the back burner. Today, however, I read about a simple challenge that was too good to pass up. Darren Rowse just sent out a 7 link blogging challenge that is a good exercise for any blogger.
Rowse suggests creating a sneeze page (a page that sends people in different directions deep within your blog) consisting of a list post, linking to the following pages:
Your first post
A post you enjoyed writing the most
A post which had a great discussion
A post on someone else’s blog that you wish you’d written
As WordPress plugins go, WP Auctions is just plain cool. With an extremely simple widget format, you can host auctions directly from your WordPress blog.
If you’ve ever used eBay — I had an eBay store and was an eBay PowerSeller in 2003 — you know how the endless fees can eat your profits alive. Equally, you’ll know that you could make pretty decent money if you got to keep what you earn. Now you can, with WP Auctions! Host Auctions on WordPress continued
Brian Clark, of Copyblogger fame, has condensed his years of SEO into a free 28-page report titled How to Create Compelling Content that Ranks Well in Search Engines. No strings attached. No registration, no email address, no nothing. Just click and download the PDF. 100% free.
Not just for web sites, this report will help all your written communication shine.
You’ll get a step-by-step strategy for creating content that is engaging to your readers, encourages linking, and ranks well in search engines. You will learn:
Why SEO Copywriting Still Matters
How Search Engines Work
Why You Have to Spoon Feed Search Engines
The 5 Essential Elements of Keyword Research
How to Create Cornerstone Content That Google Loves
Five Link Building Strategies That Work
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Day #12 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog is a bit of an irritation to me. I’m almost obsessive about organization. I have a very full life and the only way I know to do all I want to do is to be scheduled and disciplined.
Blogging is one of the few areas of my life that is rather free form. I blog when I have something to say and I blog about whatever I feel compelled to share. So the idea of scheduling and calendaring the one area of my life that is driven by whim isn’t very appealing.
While I don’t think the exercise can hurt, I’m not sure the actual use of an editorial calendar will necessarily benefit either my writing or my blogs. So, while I remain uncommitted about following the resulting schedule, I decided to create a possible editorial calendar for Pix2Brix to see what I learn.
As I fussed about this editorial calendar, it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to align my calendar with the structure of categories I created when doing the post ideas assignment. Rather than create a schedule blocking in particular posts or post styles, I could create a general calendar assigning which category I should be writing in on a given day. This kind of calendar will have the added benefit of making the blog more well-rounded, by pushing me to write in the categories that I’m less likely to focus on. Editorial Calendar continued
Working with my blogging clients and building my custom home have left little time for blogging on Win with 1. My list of upcoming blogs has been put on the back burner. Today, however, I read about a simple challenge that was too good to pass up. Darren Rowse just sent out a 7 link blogging challenge that is a good exercise for any blogger.
31DBBB: Day #5 Email a Blog Reader
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