Here’s the two last(ish) short responses from Leon and Xeni.
Xeni Jardin from BoingBoing:
“Finally stopped talking about doing a video project, and just did it. tv.boingboing.net. We’re having a lot of fun with it, and so far, our friends/community/audience/victims are too!”
Leon Ho from Lifehack.org:
“At lifehack we’ve ditched short introductory posts so that we could focus and write long articles. It has a positive impact to our referral traffic from search engines and social bookmarking sites.”
And now the complete list of responses from all bloggers participating in this series:
- How Longer Feature Posts Improved My Blog – Leo Babauta from Zen Habits
- Evolving from a Blog to a Community – Deborah from Freelance Writing Jobs
- Improve Your Blog by Showing Up – Seth Godin
- Going Full Time as a Blogger – David Hobby from Strobist
- Using Linkify to Make Linking to Others Easier – Matt Cutts
- Increase Your Direct Ad Sales Revenue with a Clear Advertising Page – Jeremy Schoemaker from Shoemoney
- Improve Your Blog with Networking – David Peralty from xfep.com
- How Smashing Magazine Grew Their Blog in 2007 – Vitaly Friedman from Smashing Magazine
- Improve Your Blog with a Custom Made Theme – John Chow
- How Adding New Bloggers to Your Blog Can Improve It – Andy Beal from Marketing Pilgrim
- More on Hiring People To Write For You – Collis Ta’eed from Freelance Switch
- Sometimes Less is More – Skellie from Skelliewag
- Moving from a Single Blog to a Blog Network – Wendy Piersall from eMoms at Home
Some interesting themes in that lot. Non of the 15 bloggers knew what anyone else was writing yet there was a few recurring themes including:
- Less posts
- Longer ‘feature’ posts
- Hiring Bloggers
I hope you’ve found something helpful in this series. As I said in the first post I’d love to hear your own reflections on the question in comments below.
