This is day 9 of the Better Blogger Challenge. The mission is:
Day 9. Offer a free service to your readers (without expecting anything in return). Whether it’s a logo redesign, free post ideas, a design review, social media votes or 15 minutes worth of free consulting, giving something valuable away for free without expecting anything in return will leave a lasting impression on your readers (and might attract a few links, too).
Hmmm…I don’t have anything free to giveaway other than my green cleaning guide and I removed that reference a few months ago. The above suggestions won’t work because the blog I am working on is not a business blog. I already offer free consulting in a round about way because I encourage everyone and anyone to email me via the blog and I answer about 10 personal emails a day…all from readers with questions or comments. So I freely give my time…
I have however been tossing around an ebook idea and I really dislike the thought of charging for it. So maybe I need to get cracking on that, get a professional cover designed for it, and offer it free to my readers. Okay…I see a goal coming. I need to get a valuable freebie on my blog asap.
This mission is still in progress.
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This is day 8 of the blogging challenge. The mission for today is:
Day 8. Craft a great resource-list. Resource lists are very popular with social media and can be quite easy to make, particularly if you already have the resources on hand. Pick a topic your target audience is keenly interested in and create a list of resources relating to that topic. You can use your own bookmarks if you have enough. If you’re short on links, a del.icio.us search for your topic will return hundreds if useful links people have saved using your chosen topic as a keyword.
Woot! Another one bites the dust. Some of most popular blog posts are actually resource lists although I never thought of them in those terms before. Not only do I get awesome comments on these posts but I get more backlinks too….TONS of backlinks. Oh and sales….let’s not forget those. My resource pages get daily sales.
They were a lot of work to put together but so worth it. Here are some examples of my resources pages:
Eco Friendly Birthday Party
Eco Friendly School Supplies
Technorati Tags: blogging, resource pages, sales
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This is day 7 of the blogging challenge. The mission for today is:
Day 7. Pitch a guest-post idea at the most popular blog in your niche. Guest-posting is a fantastic way to raise your profile and bring targeted traffic back to your blog. Navigate to the most popular blog in your niche and think of a post idea you think would work well there (but make sure it’s one they haven’t posted about before). Pitch your idea to the blogger and offer to write the full article if they’re interested. If not, you can always use the idea on another blog, or on your own blog.
This one I have done. Last year I guest blogged for 2 popular green blogs and 1 parenting blog. I intended to pitch a guest post to the big daddy of green blogs Treehugger.com but they featured my blog on their own…yehaw! This year my Naturemoms blog was featured on a new site called Green Mom Finds. I actually hesitate to guest blog for other people because I am so short on time but I do agree that it is an excellent way to gain new readers.
I will be on the lookout for more blogs to partner with this year…I have my eye on one already.
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