WOW. I have been completely slammed since Monday with things to do. Days 6-10 of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge have been totally lagging. Shelley, our group leader, suggested I get comfy in some pajamas and get to work, ha! So, I’m catching up.
I haven’t been publishing the challenge posts here, because (1) not every day requires a post and (2) the challenge doesn’t really fit our category structure and schedule. But, you can feel free to follow along on the forum. I’m just publishing this post as a way to kick myself in the butt virtually and get through this.
Why is Day 6 the brick wall? It wasn’t last year when I did it, but this year, I think it’s because Day 6 is not a “post” day. You have to stop and read, and then write something, and it’s kinda like homework. I never did get along with homework!
If you got through Day 6 and wrote about it, please leave a link to it in the comments!
If you’re following along with the group, I’m curious: How are you doing? I need accountability. If you’re participating and want/need someone to kick you like I need someone to kick me, let me know!
Day 6 – 27 Must-read Tips and Tutorials for Bloggers
The 27 tips/tutorials are listed in the ebook, 31 Days to Building a Better Blog. If you don’t have it, use that link and buy it. 
The affiliate commission I may make off of the sale will buy lunch.
Questions to Ponder
Which of these posts and authors resonated with you the most?
Seth Godin’s How to Get Traffic to Your Blog resonated with me the most. It’s the very first one in the list. And no, I did not cheat. I read several others. The money and advertising posts, in my opinion, are outdated. The Seth Godin post is classic (if there is such a thing in blogging).
What did you learn?
If you look at it quickly, it looks like just a bunch of traffic generating ideas. But if you read through it slowly, you’ll see that there is a bigger idea he’s spreading which is that any one of those things work IF you do the very last one, which is to “write stuff that people want to read share.” If you don’t, none of those things will work at all.
Jot down some of the key points that you can apply to your blog.
The key to traffic and loyalty is sticky, popular content… period. It really doesn’t get more cut and dry than that. It doesn’t even matter what the medium is. Think about story telling. There are good stories and there are bad stories, and the quality has little to do with the plots. It is in the way they are told. Transfer that to print, and now to digital, and the concept still remains true. You must, must, must, must, must have great content. The rest is negotiable.
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I am catching up too! Good luck! Stopping by from SITS!
HI Tia,
I’m doing the same challenge at SITS. I’m liking it and getting a lot out of it. But I wish I had done it sooner. It’s pulling together a lot of information and bits and pieces I’ve gathered just by reading other blogs. So, it’s really nice to have this condensed and to be “forced” to sit down and do a lot of these exercises. Some of it is more time consuming than I ever expected. Hence, the “challenge” piece of the 31 days. Well worth it so far!
Beth
i enjoyed reading your advice, it’s hard work but the results are very rewarding.
Hi Tia:
I was waiting to hear about thirty day to a better blogger. Now you wrote abut it. Sin other words you are learning a lot and that is good.
Thanks for the info
Fran A
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