31 Days to Building a Better Blog

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Last updated on March 30th, 2021 at 09:04 am

Hey guys, hope you’re all enjoying your Thursday morning so far! Here in Toronto, we’re enjoying a solid 4-5 days of rain, since the weather systems seem to have gotten our geo-location confused, believing that we’re London, England. I know that we still show respect to the monarchy, but come on.

But weather isn’t what I wanted to write about—it’s about improving the blog. I’ve signed up forĀ ProBlogger’sĀ 31 Days to Building a Better Blog, and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to learn a ton from it. I’ve called on the help of my friend Simone from skinnydip.ca to keep me accountable so that I don’t fall too far off of the rails. But with everything going on in life right now, I might’ve been able to have picked a better time to do this; but I thought it would be better to work the kinks out of how I do blog posts earlier into the game.

So here I am with the automated mind of Darren Rowse telling me what I need to do in order to make my blog better. Fortunately, he’s lightened my workload (a little) by telling me to do some of the things I’ve already done:

But, of course, becoming an amazing blogger isn’t anywhere near that easy. There’s a lot of hard work and dedication that goes into becoming awesome at blogging. Plus, listening to advice from those who’ve already been in the trenches and done well for themselves isn’t a bad idea, either.

Here’re the things that Darren listed that I haven’t gotten around to as of yet:

  • Doing a SWOT analysis of the blog
  • Putting together an elevator pitch for the blog (which is funny, since @JeffreyHayzlett was talking all about putting together one of these, or our 118 [8 seconds to hook the listener, 110 to explain] on Monday at The Art of Marketing)
  • Promoting posts through pitching to other bloggers, social bookmarking (i.e. Digg), newsletters, putting links in my email signatures, paid advertising for the post, pitching articles to mainstream media, and article marketing
  • Analyzing other blogs in my niche to see what they do well and what I could learn from them

So I’ve got my work cut out for me, but at least I’m willing to do it!

Now there’s the entire question of a redesign and either changing the URL for the blog or figuring out how to retool what I’ve built already… but Darren hasn’t gotten to there yet, so I have some time šŸ˜‰

If you’re a blogger, I hope this post was a bit helpful to you—if not, I hope you have a slightly better appreciation for what kind of preparatory work needs to go into building a blog before you make that plunge!

Until tomorrow, my friends! Enjoy your day!

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By Casey E. Palmer

Husband. Father. Storyteller.

Calling the Great White North his home, Casey Palmer the Canadian Dad spend his free time in pursuit of the greatest content possible.

Thousand-word blog posts? Snapshots from life? Sketches and podcasts and more—he's more than just a dad blogger; he's working to change what's expected of the parenting creators of the world.

It's about so much more than just our kids.

When Casey's not creating, he's busy parenting, adventuring, trying to be a good husband and making the most of his life!

Casey lives in Toronto, Ontario.

2 replies on “31 Days to Building a Better Blog”

Sounds like a lot of work but worth it! I’ll be here though. Hell I might have to try to some tactics myself!

I’m learning a lot from the emails I’m getting so far! Even if there’re things I’m already doing, there’s no reason why I couldn’t do them BETTER. I just hope they don’t ask me to do a redesign anytime this month, or my head might explode! Still reading up on all the things that make a website awesome….I’m getting there. I promise. –Casey E. Palmerhttp://about.me/caseyepalmer/bio

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