30 Day Blogging Challenge Underway
March 17, 2008 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Blogging
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I was online the other day as I am most days when I came across something that I found incredibly interesting. It’s called the 30 Day Blogging Challenge.
The idea was conceived at least as far as I know by Alan at Affiliate Confession. The premise is to make a minimum of 1 blog post per day for 30 days or more. Supposedly after you’ve done this for 30 days it will become instilled as a habit (a good one at that), your writing will be much more fluid as you’re used to it and of course your blog traffic should increase tremendously. Why would people take the time to visit your blog daily if you don’t update it daily? (Makes a lot of sense doesn’t it?).
I learned about this roughly a month or so ago but have not been able to partake due to work obligations; traveling etc. Then again I’m just doing what we humans do best; making alibis. Theoretically if I really cared and made this blog a priority I could still manage to post when on the road by doing shorter quick ones or even better writing some in advance and time stamping them to post at a reasonable hour.
Burning bridges is never a good idea when it comes to associates as you live a long life and who needs enemies. However when dealing with yourself you see your best friend and worst enemy in the mirror so the best way to commit to something is to make a public statement about it like I am doing right now.
Numerous people have already tried this challenge and there has been quite a discussion about it at the blog forum. Click here to read the thread.
That’s it; I guess today’s post is the easiest of the lot and it’s time to prepare and start crafting bloggeries. Bottom line is I think this is a wonderful proactive approach to growing your traffic and if you’re serious about your blog and you can’t post daily… You should know that your competitor most likely is! With such few barriers to entry in the blogosphere can you really afford not to set the pace or at the very least keep up with it?
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Good luck, hope you ll get a good result, I will try to start a 30-day plan tomorrow!
I started out my blog posting daily, and it helps a lot with building content for search engines to find. I’ve since scaled back to weekdays only…those couple days to catch up and rest are important!
Good luck on your next 29 posts!
Best of luck Franca and thanks for the encouragement Jay!
Doing that isn’t as easy as it seems. I have just started blogging like 2 weeks ago and am already finding it hard to keep up the quality every day. i definitely respect the people who have been blogging for like 4 years.
Coming up with something new and fresh each day is difficult. Most things have been talked about so on days when you aren’t feeling overly inspired just look up something relevant to your niche and write it from your perspective.