Posts Tagged with "blogging"
My blogchallenge: a weekly update
As some of my readers already know I’m working on a challenge to get my blog to grow big enough so that I can reclaim my domain. Big enough is defined here as >500 pageviews a day for seven consecutive days or >300 subscribers to my RSS feed. There already have been several occasions where [...]
Continue reading...3 month to a successful blog: 16 building blocks
Saturday, April 18, 2009
…Day in day out he stared at the statistics of his little blog, he had a dream, get his blog big enough to claim his place among the great blogs out there. Perhaps even cast a shadow over them and become the best of his niche. One day he would get there, he was convinced. [...]
Continue reading...There are no problems only challenges or Will I get this blog to grow by 1600% in 3 months.
Monday, April 13, 2009
A few days I posted about a possible .com for my blog I didn’t realise the challenge it would bring me. In the comments you can read about a Dutch guy calling himself Stretsh who has bought mindthebeginner.com in order to help me. (The .net domain is still available though..) His comment stated that: “I [...]
Continue reading...To .com or not to .com
Friday, April 10, 2009
Having your own .com web address is getting harder every day, all the good ones seem taken and you have to resort to ever more creative names in order to find something that’s free. When you finally find one you can use there is the next issue, what do you want to be doing with the [...]
Continue reading...A new layout, what do you think?
Thursday, April 9, 2009
In an attempt to make my blog a little better to read I’ve adopted a different layout for the time being. For those who know what the previous layout looked like, please let me know if this is better or if I should go back to what it was. Or if you have a wordpress [...]
Continue reading...The three essentials of an uphill struggle
Thursday, April 9, 2009
I guess I’m on a roll here about the whole mountain metaphor. As I wrote in my last blogpost it’s all about getting the ball rolling, not only in life but in blogging as well. How do you get your blogball to go uphill? In my view there are only three essentials that can actually help [...]
Continue reading...10 ways to get the ball rolling
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
As part of probloggers 31 days to a better blog I’m giving the “list post” a go. Ten ways to get the all rolling or in other words, how to beat procrastination and start doing what you want to do. Some of these tips are in themselves great for procrastinating though as I’ll comment in the [...]
Continue reading...To blog or not to blog, be realistic and dream.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
..That is the question is it not? Why would you blog? Why wouldn’t you? There seem to be more and more blogs every day, it’s a virus spreading on the internet. Starting up a bog is easy, you just get an account at wordpress and voila you can start writing about anything and everything. Perhaps [...]
Continue reading...31 days to build a better blog
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Although I don’t have an exact idea on what to expect, I subscribed my self to Problogger’s 31 days to build a better blog project. “The idea behind this is simply to have a group of bloggers setting aside a month of their time to work at improving their blogs. While we all want to [...]
Continue reading...One post at a time is the way to go
Friday, March 20, 2009
It has been said before but this is really important. How do you market your blog? How do you get readers? The answer is simple: one post at a time. The last few days I’ve seen a slow rise in visitors to my blog. Visitors mostly come through two channels at the moment: Either a [...]
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