Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
In: Education| Marketing By: Brian Armstrong
10
Jul
2007
This is day 23 of my 30 day marketing challenge to demonstrate that blogging can be a profitable and inexpensive business to start.
Today I started reading through Matt Huggins awesome list of 55 essential articles every blogger should read, especially the section on Increasing Traffic & Retaining Readers.
One thing I realized while reading CopyBlogger.com is that they have a great sense of design. Contrast this page for example to some of my previous posts. It’s just so clear and readable, and beautiful. I’m no designer, but one thing I realized is that I need to make subheadings for my 3 points bigger and bolder. So I’ll try that on my post today.
My three marketing tasks for the day were…
1. Rewrote the About Page
I was reading this article on about pages and realized that mine could use some work. It contained lots of info, but wasn’t captivating.
I decided to write it more as a story about me (people can’t help but listen to stories, it’s the most basic form of human communication) that ended with a call to action (subscribe!) and you can check out the latest version here.
Here is the old one for comparison.
Quick poll: do you think it will improve or reduce the % of people who subscribe from that page? By how much? I’ll post the results in a few days. (Post your answer in the comments.)
2. I finished the article for ProBlogger.net
I finished the article from yesterday about the confusion over RSS and sent it to Darren so see if he wants to post it. I think the article turned out way better having written it, then let it sit for a day, before making the final version.
3. Comments
I’ve been keeping up answering comments on this site. I’m thrilled to see that we’re getting some real discussion. It let’s me know that this experiment is working!
Other thoughts:
At some point I should probably write a viral eBook which will take a bit longer than one day, but I imagine it would be quite effective.
This post is part of a series on Website MarketingTable of Contents:
- Building Website Traffic – Three Items Per Day For A Month
- Day 1: FeedBlitz, SEO, and Post Series
- Day 2: New Article, Amazon Cover Upload, and Digg Comments
- Day 3: LinkMachine, Google Website Optimizer, and ProBlogger
- Day 4: Interviews, SEOMoz, and Technorati
- Day 5: First Page of Google, Bugs, Article Marketing Lifehack.org
- Day 6: Email Signature, Blog Carnival, StumbleUpon
- Day 7: Link Structure, Pings, MyBlogLog
- Day 8: FeedFlares, Reciprocal Links, Broken Links
- Day 9: Page Cache, 301 Redirects, and Submitting to Blog Search Engines
- Day 10: Removed Bad Links, Earning $5639 Per Year, Tracking RSS Subscribers
- Day 11: Article for ProBlogger.net, StumbleUpon campaign, and Longer Domain Registration (attempt)
- Day 12: Extended Domain Registration, More Incoming Links, Article Submission
- Day 13: Successful and Outstanding Bloggers list, Backlinks Advice from Yaro Starak, and DMOZ
- Day 14: MindPetals Article, Slow Server, Google vs. Yahoo indexing
- Day 15: Submitted MindPetals Article, Conversation with Liz Strauss, and LifeHack.org Article
- Day 16: Engaging readers in conversation, Interview on Calling All Authors, and a Research Tip from John Reese
- Day 17: Posted Interview Audio, Faster Server, and New Business Cards
- Day 18: Article for LifeHack.org, Contacted About.com Contributer, Updated my LinkIn profile
- Day 19: Barnes & Noble, Froogle, and Shopping.com
- Day 20: Meta Keywords and Descriptions, New Article, 37Signals Blog
- Day 21: New Video On YouTube, Creating a Personal Balance Sheet, and Article Marketer
- Day 22: Purchased a Water Buffalo, Apple’s Marketing, and RSS Confusion
- Day 23: A New About Page, ProBlogger Article Finished, and More Comments
- Day 24: Keyword Research, more Links Exchanged, Article Distribution
- Day 25: Translated into 8 Languages, A Version For Mobile Devices, and Submitted To Dozens of Blog Directories
- Day 26: More RSS Directories, Alumni Networking, Alexa Screenshot Update
- Day 27: New Article on Audio Books, Removed Translation, and Networking Tips
- Day 28: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon!
- Day 29: Zero Million, Yahoo Answers, Wikipedia
- Day 30: Wrapping Up With A Few Final Links
- Conclusion
Biswaroop Todi
July 17th, 2007 at 4:27 am
To get high Search Engine Rankings and more targeted traffic to your web site, it is essential to work out a focused linking strategy to establish link popularity on the web. Getting higher quality of relevant one-way coming links can gain better your search engine rankings and internet visibility. Submitting your website manually to hundreds of search engine friendly directories can help you develop natural looking links.
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September 7th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
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Brian Armstrong
July 17th, 2007 at 11:23 am
Biswaroop, Sounds like a good idea. Is there a list of directories like that you had in mind? I’ve submitted to a bunch already in some of the later articles in this series, but if you have another list of good ones please share it! Thanks,
Brian
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