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Resuscitate Your Blog: Recap

Posted on 01 February 2010

This is the end of our blog series “Resuscitate Your Blog. I hope you have enjoyed it.
Here’s a recap of everything we have covered this month! What were your favourite posts? What did you get out of the series? What actions did you take? Let me know by leaving a comment below.

Why You Are Neglecting [...]

Resuscitate Your Blog Day 26: Guest Bloggers

Posted on 30 January 2010

While blogging is fun and allows you to be creative you may want to consider asking someone else to be a guest blogger.
What they get out of being a guest blogger:

Exposure to your audience
SEO (links from your site to theirs)
Ability to help your audience with their expertise
Increase their list (ie. newsletter, twitter, rss)

What you get [...]

Resuscitate Your Blog Day 25: Remember Why You Blog

Posted on 29 January 2010

While you have been resuscitating your blog it’s important to remind yourself why you are blogging to keep you going. Some of the popular reasons my clients blog are:

visibility
promoting their products and services
journaling
creating content for a future book
building an audience
creating a tribe
increasing their web traffic
educating their market
affiliate income
testing a new market

Why do you blog? Remind [...]

Resuscitate Your Blog Day 24: Show Off Your Blog Series

Posted on 28 January 2010

If you have been writing a blog series, like I have all month, why not show it off? You’ve been working so hard on this series why not bring your visitor’s attention to it?
I have found this wonderful plugin that lists the posts in your blog series on your sidebar. (Click here to check out [...]

Resuscitate Your Blog Day 23: Ask Your Audience Part 2

Posted on 27 January 2010

Yesterday we talked about asking your audience what they want you to blog about. Don’t stop there. People love to give their opinion so why not create polls and publish them on your blog often?
Once you have gathered their opinions write another blog post about the results. What was shocking about the results? What option [...]

Resuscitate Your Blog Day 22: Ask Your Audience

Posted on 26 January 2010

It’s easier to know what your audience wants if you do one simple thing, ask them! Have you noticed how people love being asked for their opinion? So ask them what it is they want you to blog about.
For example, I am asking you, what do you want me to cover in February’s blog series [...]

Resuscitate Your Blog Day 21: Let Them Know What’s Coming

Posted on 25 January 2010

One way to get visitor’s to come back to your site is by letting them know what they can look forward to on your blog. If you schedule posts to be published in the future then consider using this plugin which will list your upcoming posts along with the dates in which they will be [...]

Resuscitate Your Blog Day 20: The Dip

Posted on 24 January 2010

Three weeks ago I started this blog series, Resuscitate Your Blog, in hopes to inspire others and to build a habit of publishing a blog post each day. Today, I’m feeling blah. You know when you have one of those days? It has been raining all day and I have had little energy today.  I [...]

Resuscitate Your Blog Day 19: Ask The Expert

Posted on 23 January 2010

Yesterday we talked about looking at your outbox for blog content ideas. Another thing you can do is create a page called “Ask The Expert” or “Ask [Your Name Here]“. Give your visitors the opportunity to ask you a question to be possibly answered on your blog in the future. Make it clear that you [...]

Resuscitate Your Blog Day 18: Check Your Outbox For Ideas

Posted on 22 January 2010

If you are stuck and don’t know what to blog about look in your email outbox.
Your email outbox is a gold mine for blog ideas. When your clients email you questions your answers can be turned into a blog post. If you do a quick scan of your outbox you will find great content that [...]