I’m getting lots of great feedback today (as well as 80 more entries) in the How to… group writing project. Check out this comment from one participant who got 60,000 visitors to his post as a result of the project (which started a Diggalanche)!
The reason I started these projects was because there’s a lot of blogs out there producing excellent content that don’t get the recognition they deserve. Hopefully you’ve found some of them in our previous days submissions and will find some more here. When you do – spread the word about the blogs that you discover (link to them, bookmark them, tell your mum… you get the picture).
A quick thank you again to the sponsors of this week’s project who have donated $1800 in gifts for 5 lucky participants. The sponsors are New Homes, Webmaster-Talk.com forums, Google Tutor and OwnMySeat.com. Full details of prizes are at the end of this post.
See the full list of participants so far (231 of them) here and don’t forget that you can still enter up until the end of Thursday (wherever you are) by following the instructions in our introductory post.
- How to Tease a German by Stefan
- Proofread like a pro: how to catch those pesky mistakes your spell checker misses by Lori
- How to Quit Smoking: A Helpful Guide to Kicking the Habit by The Scott English Show
- How to do “How-to” Lists by Tony
- How to Kick-Start Your Sex Drive with Libido Boosting Foods! by Ross
- How to Make the Most of Your Time Online by Liam
- How to Teach Anyone RSS by Kelsey
- How to Revitalise Your Dreams by Anna
- How to Write Magnetic Blog Title by Hendry
- Prioritization and Procrastination by Conn
- How to Cite Materials from Online Resources (internet) by Angel
- Save Tax Dollars by Having Multiple Entities by Gina
- How to… Have the Worst Day Ever! by Erica
- You too can be an efficient blog stalker by Mooiness
- How to Start Developing Info Products for Massive Profits by Ted
- How to set up a del.icio.us tag cloud in your WordPress Blog by Sante
- 5 Overused Social Networking Marketing Techniques by Robyn
- How To Sabatage a Social Networking Site by Erin
- Please, Please, Please Don’t Read this Post by George
- How to Attract Links and Increase Web Traffic – The Ultimate Guide by Brian
- How to Survive a Pay Cut by Bill
- How to retire young and wealthy by Mike
- How to Brew Your Own Beer by Justin
- How to Speed up Winamp 5 and Adobe Reader by Techacker
- Beyonce Wears a Spandx Girdle by Isadora
- Stop losing money in your house refinancing by Harrison
- Get Motivated… Demonstrated! by Ellesse
- Why Take a Golf Holiday in Scotland by Adam
- How to Begin Selling on eBay by Thatedeguy
- Your Brain: A guide to Fine-Tuned Performance by Alvin
- Write a Book? Assemble the One in Your Archives! by Liz
- Lessons Learned From Gordon Freeman by Michael
- How to Make FireFox even better than it is by Mike
- 2 Easy Steps to Get 2 Links From ProBlogger.net by kid disco
- Useful Windows XP Hacks (Part 1) by The Foo
- English Punctuation: Commas, Semicolons, and Colons by LearningNerd
- How to Build a Better Political Campaign Website by Todd
- How to Roll Tack a Laser by Tillerman
- How NOT to Cook Tortilla de Patata, or How TO Make Fabulous Scrambled Eggs by Sarah
- The Myth of the Sleeping Baby and Other Fallacies for the Work at Home Parent by Tony
- Lose a Guy in 10 Minutes by sarakastic
- How to create a unique blog for free on your Mac by Mark
- How to Make Her Melt with Your Kiss by Kelly
- The Ultimate Blog Promotion by Valedon
- How to Choose Dividend Growth Stocks by Skinny Investor
- Goal Crisis: How to Feel Good in a Bad Situation by Jeff
- How to Build a Trusting Relationship by Kate
- 10 Tips to create a great Post by Leon
- Jul’s guide to successful living abroad by Jul
- How to Snag an Awesomely Bad Domain Name by The Domain Muse
- Get the most from your trade show booth – 4 Crucial Steps by Jill
- How to Upsell your Customers and Clients by Mindful Entrepreneur
- How to Create a Successful Website by Dominic
- Attempting to “how too” – now with more pie! by Busy Mom
- How to make your sub-conscious work for you part 2 by Lyndon
- How to Have a Better Garden Than the Neighbors by Doug
- How to make it impossible to succeed with your blog by Trisha
- How to Dispense with Spare Time by Geoff
- How to present your model in the best way possible for feedback by Rick
- A Recipe for Presentation Disaster by Pawel
- taking pictures of (semi)-random peers by Joy
- How to Save Money on a Funeral by Jay
- How to Remove a Small Green Truck from Under Your TV Cabinet by Kerri
- How to Plant Fall Garlic by Kenny
- How to Keep your mug off the 6 o’clock news if you’re a teacher (in 16 easy steps) by Matt
- How to be an Unbearable Co-Worker by Marwan
- How to Save For College by Lisa
- How to Shop for Groceries in Less Time by Maricar
- Help! I want to know more about building Robots by William
- How to enjoy baseball games cheaply by Penny
- Teach a person good headers, and style cred is theirs for life by Yvonne
- How to Make a Movie that Doesn’t Suck by Chuck
- How to use cPanel to backup your website by Paul
- Save 50% on Groceries by Tim
- PFCollege: How to Make Saving a Habit by Jim
- How to Respond to a Teenage Angst and Live to Smile About It by Christina
- Cheap Computer Equipment – how to buy it by Andrea
- How to Use Multiple Times Frames to Improve Your Online Stock Trading by MrMike
- The Simplest Color Scheme for your Wardrobe by Rebecca
- Firefox Quickie: Convert your Add Bar into Search Box by Thilak
Prizes
At the end of the week once all submissions are in I’ll randomly select five submissions who will each receive one of the following five prizes:
- One week complimentary stay (for up to 4 people) at a beach front apartment in Estepona on the Costa del Sol Spain (pictured above). This prize must be taken in the next 12 months and the winner must cover all their own costs in getting to Spain (ie this is for the cost of the accommodation only). If the prize cannot be taken by the winner they can also take an iPod (video) instead (by negotiation with the sponsor). This prize (valued at 1000 euros if taken in the peak season) has been kindly donated by New Homes on Nubricks.com. Thanks to Adam and Chintan.
- $100 Cash (in your paypal account) OR a month long text link in the Webmaster-Talk.com forums. This prize sponsored by Webmaster-Talk.com forums – thanks to Tim and his team.
- A Personal license for ExpressionEngine including a personal license for the forums module (worth $149). This prize is sponsored by Marcus from Nanoblogs.de
- A $149 yearly plan to Audible.com OR a $100 gift voucher to iTunes (your choice). This gift has been donated by Google Tutor. Thanks to Craig for this gift.
- $200 gift voucher from Amazon to spend on anything you like. Its been kindly donated by OwnMySeat.com. Thanks to Jason for his kind donation.
Hey Darren,
Thanks for including my link in your post, I must say that I have discovered a lot of pretty damn neat blogs that I would never have known about otherwise. Very cool thing that you are doing here.
Cheers!
Just on time !!
Thanks for including mine ;)
Wow that is a huge response.
Looks like there are some interesting links up there. It looks like there are a lot of quality bloggers out there.
I’m off to Digg and Delicious this post, hint hint.
This is a great idea Darren, thanks.
Thank you for including my article! I have already read dozens of the other articles. This is a great way to find new blogs to suggest to my readers. Thanks a bunch.
This is awesome, it looks like it will be close on whether or not we beat last months number of submissions.
Thanks for doing this, Darren!
Good for Tony .. I spent some time this morning watching the videos on YouTube .. fascinating! Right now his Digg number is 2588 ..amazing!
Unfortunately, it’s sad that you don’t really see too many non-technical stories being “digg”‘ed .. as you might see more of these many hundreds of entries up there too! I’m still on Day 1 reading :) but I’m going in order this time and hopefully will get to all of them.,
Wow! 80 more “how-tos” I guess I’ll have my weekend full this time around. It was a blast to join this group writing project. Can’t wait for the next one.
Here’s a few that caught my eye today…really great how-to lists through out this…has been enjoyable reading, but time consuming! LOL
http://survivingnj.blogspot.com/2006/09/more-posts-that-caught-my-eye.html
gee, 60,000 visitors is always a good number.
this writing project was a good reminder to me, to work towards early deadlines…
i spent abt 6 hours working on my blog post before submitting it on thurs afternoon.
i hope it makes it in.
think there’s one more post update?
*keeps fingers crossed*
in case anyone wants to check it out:
It’s at:
10,000 in your list in 30 days? Andrew Wee goes guerilla!
http://www.whoisandrewwee.com/105/10000-in-your-list-in-30-days-andrew-wee-goes-guerilla/
good luck and have fun to all!
Andrew Wee
http://www.WhoIsAndrewWee.com
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