Category31 Days to Build a Better Blog

How to Improve Your Blog by Solving a Reader’s Problem Today’s episode is a writing challenge and is all about how you can spot and solve your readers’ problems, which is a powerful way to grow your audience. Do it well and you’ll make a positive impression on people, create a ...more

How to Improve Your Blog by Partnering with a Blogging Buddy Today’s episode is all about finding another blogger (or bloggers) to help you improve your blog. Blogging doesn’t have to be a solo venture – in fact it can be incredibly social and when we grasp this idea of ...more

How to Update Key Pages or Hot Posts on Your Blog If you’ve been blogging for even just a little while you’ve probably got pages or posts on your blog that need an update. If this is the case those pages could be causing embarrassment, frustrating your readers or even ...more

How Going Shopping Can Improve Your Blogging Today we’re going shopping!!! Woman shopping by Emilia Ungur on 500px Yep – you heard me, we’re going to the mall! If nothing else this challenge is going to get you away from your blog for a bit – but there’s more to ...more

How to Create an Editorial Calendar for your Blog Yesterday I challenged you to come up with at least 10 blog post ideas for your blog. Today we’re going to take those ideas and begin to form an editorial calendar around them – specifically we’re looking to create an editorial ...more

How to Come Up with Hundreds of Blog Post Ideas for Your Blog Day 11 is one of my favourite days and one that is going to pay off over the next few days and weeks of blogging. It’s all about answering that question ‘what should I blog about today???’ ...more

How to never run out of ideas for blog posts and be aware of latest developments in your niche Being productive and producing great content for your blog is so important – which is why we’ve had a number of episodes so far that have been ‘writing challenges’ (see episode ...more

How to Build Your Profile and Drive Traffic to your Blog Through Forums and Social Media Groups In todays episode I challenge you to focus a little attention today on joining an online forum and/or social media ‘group’ as a way of growing your blog’s profile, finding readers and learning ...more

How to Build An Effective Social Media Strategy for Your Blog Today is day 8 in our 31 day challenge and it’s a really important one that I know many of you will get your teeth into. You’re going to do a social media audit on your blog to assess ...more