Did you see the blog challenge announcement but wasn’t sure if it was for you? Michele Scism wrote a blog post yesterday sharing the top 5 reasons you may want to join a blog challenge (you’ll find that below).
I was thinking… the coolest things I got out of participating in the #blog30 challenge in June… were connections. My traffic did go up significantly, and I connected with people who purchased services or ebooks from me, but beyond that I connected with people that I can grow together with in business, who I’m happy are becoming friends. Can’t put a $ value on that (okay, maybe you could, but I’m not up to that kind of math tonight – when I finished calculus 10+ years ago I decided no more crazy math).
And of course, the more obvious benefits are that I have 30 more posts on my blog that can draw traffic and help people with their websites, blogs, and small businesses. Those 30 posts I can re-purpose into things like articles, expand into ebooks, and so much more.
You’re invited to a blog challenge! Michele Scism of Decisive Minds and I had such a blast in the last blog challenge that we decided to host one of our own – Ultimate Blog Challenge.
You’ve got two basic choices in promoting your business:
I’m writing this from the airport at 7:03pm. My goal is to be done at 7:13pm and schedule this post. I’ve got 30 minutes until my plane boards and I can complete three small tasks to move my business forward. Here are some ideas:
The brilliant Jeanette Cates (who put together the 30 day blog challenge I’ve been participating in this month) is now sponsoring a mini blog challenge between now and the end of June – 7 posts in 10 days. Come on, give it a try!
Melanie Kissell (13)
Amy (9)
Uzi (7)
Gonzalo J. Suarez (5)
Lisbeth Tanz (5)
Michele Scism (4)
MJ Schrader (4)
Brandon (3)
Kathryn Griffiths (3)
Lisa Rothstein (3)
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Understanding “Do Follow” and How to Tell
After my recent post on rewarding your blog commenters I got several questions asking what “do follow” meant and how to tell if a blog has “no follow” or “do follow” on it’s comments.
What is “No Follow”
By default most blogs are setup so that the links to a commenter’s website are marked “nofollow” – that means that the search engines won’t follow the link and won’t count it towards the linked site’s PageRank or popularity.
Here’s what a no follow link looks like:
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