31DBBB Day 21: Breathe Life Into an Old Post « Christian Web Trends Blog

31DBBB Day 21: Breathe Life Into an Old Post « Christian Web Trends Blog

This is day 21 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, a group project 60 of us bloggers are doing together in an effort to help each other become better bloggers.

If you’ve been blogging for a while, then chances are that you have an old post or two that could stand to be remade. Perhaps you’ve learned a thing or two that puts a different slant on what you wrote. It could be that your writing skills have improved or that you happened to write the initial post in hurry, so that it’s just not that well written. Or maybe you wrote an opinion post, and your opinion has changed.

Whatever the case, there are lots of good reasons to go back through your old posts and update some of them. Here are four quick tips for revamping your posts:

31DBBB Day 20: Leave comments on other blogs « Christian Web Trends Blog

31DBBB Day 20: Leave comments on other blogs « Christian Web Trends Blog

This is day 20 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog,a group project 60 of us bloggers are doing together in an effort to help each other become better bloggers.

Leaving comments on other blogs is a practice that many of the 31DBBB participants have already been doing for nearly 20 days. Leaving a comment on another blog in your niche is a great way to get yourself noticed and is probably the best thing since…..

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31DBBB Day 19: Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog « Christian Web Trends Blog

31DBBB Day 19: Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog « Christian Web Trends Blog

This is Day 19 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, a group project 60 of us bloggers are doing together in an effort to help each other become better bloggers.

Today’s lesson and assignment is to write a post that expresses your opinion about something.

As Darren wrote: “Expressing opinions on your blog is like adding seasoning to food. Without it your blog could end up being quite bland.”

Offline you know some people who are very opinionated and some people who seem unable to express an opinion for fear of offending someone.  The same is true online among bloggers.  So, in today’s post I’ve included two sets of tips, one for the unopinionated and one for the very opinionated.

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31DBBB Day 18: Creating a sneeze page for your blog « Christian Web Trends Blog

31DBBB Day 18: Creating a sneeze page for your blog « Christian Web Trends Blog

This is Day 18 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, a group project 60 of us bloggers are doing together in an effort to help each other become better bloggers.

The idea behind creating a sneeze page for your blog? Quite the opposite of spewing bacteria all over your friends, family and co-workers while wondering why no one says God bless you anymore, your blog’s sneeze page encourages your visitors to stick around for a while, hand sanitizer optional.

Creating a sneeze page can be done several different ways, and if you’ve been blogging for more than a minute, you’re probably doing at least one of them.

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31DBBB Day 17: Watch a First-Time Reader Use Your Blog « Christian Web Trends Blog

31DBBB Day 17: Watch a First-Time Reader Use Your Blog « Christian Web Trends Blog

Blessed with old-fashioned neighbors who take the time to care about each other, I asked one of them to indulge me and review my blog. She agreed.  However, as soon as I asked her, she scurried home to look at my blog and be prepared.  My oldest son suggested that only way to find a true first-time reader is to go to the library and ask some  guy on a computer to load your blog.

Through this assignment, I was able to determine what my neighbor found attractive about my blog and what she thought should change.   Also, I was able to observe how much time she spent reading a post or glancing through it and which links she clicked on to read additional posts.

The greatest advantage in this assignment for me came in the second part where we ask the reader to answer the questions posed by Darren Rowse.

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