After the third week of doing the 31 Days to Build a better blog, I’m seeing the traffic and participation on my blog increasing by leaps and bounds. This last week, the traffic increase was due primarily to being featured in the Rails Envy Podcast. The idea to email Gregg Pollack about my post 9 Ways to Use Rails Metal came from step 3 in the 31 days.
You can see from the google analytics I’ve included in this post that Wednesday and Thursday I saw significant traffic. About half of that was from Rails Envy.
Traffic from Week 3 - 31 Days to Build a Better Blog
Overall, I’m extremely pleased that this system has helped so many people find what I’m offering. I’m also excited that it appears to help some people with their Ruby on Rails applications. It’s encouraging me to think about other ways I can contribute to the community. You’ll probably see posts in the upcoming weeks regarding some of the things I’ll be doing to chip in and help a few more people with Ruby on Rails.
Follow this link if you’re interested in getting 31 Days to Build a Better Blog.
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Last week I started the 31 days to build a better blog on this blog. The week before I started—May 31 through June 6—the blog got 28 visits and 34 page views.
I’ve completed the first two days’ assignments. It was very helpful in a couple of ways. First, it helped me define exactly what I wanted to do with this blog. It also made me realize that my about page wasn’t visible from my wordpress theme, so I found a new theme and reworked my site. Finally, it guided the writing of one of my posts, which I think was very helpful both to the readers and for me as a writer. Feel free to let me know what you think so far. I’ll post the changes in traffic next week regarding these effects.
As of right now, I’ve gotten 34 visits and 42 page views this week—since the beginning of day June 7.
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Upon the recommendation of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) expert at work, I’m going to try out 31 Days to Build a Better Blog by Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net.
I’ve decided to make the 31 day challenge a public challenge. I’m really curious to see how well this works in making my blog better as well as increasing traffic to my blog. So, every day—excluding Sundays—I’m going to complete one step. And every Saturday, I’ll post an update detailing the number of the step I’m on—he’s selling it, so I don’t feel like I can spell out each step, but I’ll give as much as I feel I can—and my feelings about the quality of the blog and the traffic over the last week.
I’ll also be redesigning the site as I find the time.
I’ve browsed the book and it appears not only to be useful to blogs, but could be used to guide small business websites as well in building their content and reaching out to their customer base. If you want to check it out, follow this link. Or you can wait to see what my results are. It costs $19.95 and appears to be well worth the money.
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