The 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Experiment
I’ve had it! Building a blog is not as easy at it seems especially when you are trying to juggle a lot of other responsibilities.
Here are some frustrations I had to face over the last months since I started cajammed.
- Information overload
- Too many things to try but so little time to do them all
- Running out of topics to write about
- Pressure to earn
- Not knowing how to best market my blog
- Finding the tools I need
- And a lot more…
There are many days I get stuck trying to find out what I need to do and what’s the next step I should take.
Should I update my site design? Should I write an article? Should I market my blog? Should I do social bookmarking? Should I do article marketing? How about twitter? Facebook?
Arrgh! It’s so frustrating at times that I just hang in there, staring blankly, thinking of what to do. And I end up having thought a lot but never accomplishing anything.
And you know what’s worse. I keep on reading other people’s blogs and feeding myself more information, as if there was never enough. :)
Okay today I STOP! Reassess everything and come up with a clear strategy to go about this. And so I got this book 31 Days to Build a Better Blog by Darren Rowse of Problogger. And here’s my idea…
I’m going to run an experiment with this blog and try to apply all the 31 principles until the end of this year and see how it develops. I’ll document all my learnings along the way so that you can benefit as well from what I do.
I hope this will really turn out well. To begin with I’ll set my baseline data here
- Date: September 23, 2009
- Pagerank: 0/10
- Yahoo Linkdomain: 427
- Yahoo Pagelinks: 1
- Alexa Ranking: 1,299,149
- Internal Links: 179
- External Links: 16
- RSS Subscribers: 18
Visits baseline from Sept 1 – 23, 2009
- Visits: 206
- Unique Visits: 92
- Pageviews: 515
Now let me try out this stuff and hope it works.
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I actually love information overload! It gives me the feeling of having several options. There’s nothing really wrong about reading more information. One of the essential skills that I’ve learned in researching for Internet Marketing knowledge is the ability to filter out essential information. Whenever I see information that is useful, I just note of it and return to that at a later time. This can be developed by learning speed reading.
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Anyway, goodluck. I’ll be one of those who will anticipate the changes you’ll make by implementing the Problogger strategies.
Thanks bro! Actually I love it too except that sometimes I can get caught up in paralysis by analysis. Hehe. I was actually inspired to do this because of what you do for the 30DC. It helps to have a step by step roadmap to follow everytime.
just saying hi charlie =) nice to know you’re having success with your online venture. good luck
Thanks Ermel! Regards to everyone there at SA.
Speaking of 30DC, I hope you are also using Google Reader. Interesting topics to write about or retweet so to speak gets aggregated in that powerful tool!
I found an interesting site a few days ago that generates signatures thanks to Google Reader!
Nope not using it. But thanks for the tip. I’ll check it out.
good tips….tq