It’s here. The 2011 WordCount Blogathon starts today. Bloggers across the country – and around the world – will be blogging together for 31 days straight.
Based on sign ups – and as of early today there are close to 165 – many of you are blogging for the first time, restarting an blog that had fallen by the wayside, or looking to turn a hobby blog into a business venture.
Whether you’re an absolute beginner or brushing up on your blogging skills, here are tips taken from previous WordCount posts that you can use to make your blog look professional from the get go.
Now, go work on your blog.
Basics
- How to pick a topic for a blog
- Simple steps to starting a blog
- The well-dressed blog post
- 6 surefire strategies to get more comments on your blog
- Driving traffic to your blog
- Sex sells and other blogging lessons learned
Blog posts
- 25 ways to blog every day
- 25 more ways to blog every day
- 10 sure cures for blogging burnout
- Give under-appreciated blog posts a second chance
- Cheat your way to blogging every day
- The long tail of blogging
Blog tech
- 5 reasons why you should obsess over blog stats
- WordPress users can add ratings to posts, comments
- The use and abuse of Twitter to flog your blog
- Best WordPress plug ins for writers and bloggers
Make money blogging
Well, I’m off and rolling this morning. And I have enough posts in the can to make it through next Sunday. After that … it’s a test of discipline on my part.
Hi Michelle,
Thanks for the links. I’m excited about this month’s challenge.
Thank you Michelle for organizing this and making someone like me push herself out of her comfort zone 🙂
Ha – that makes two of us. Over the years, the blogathon is the reason I’ve learned how to use email marketing software (for the newsletter), pre-publish, host a twitter chat, and a lot more. It’s all about helping each other learn.
Michelle
Well, the dog didn’t eat my homework, but I moved from New Hampshire to Massachusetts last week and was computer-less for a while. I did post this morning. Is it too late to join the fun? If not, what do I do to get on board?
thanks, Michelle.
If you already registered for the 2011 blogathon write two posts today and post date one of them to cover yesterday. If you haven’t signed up yet, I’m sorry to say that registration for this year’s blogathon closed yesterday at 11 p.m. Feel free to follow along with us informally if you want – you won’t get the pretty badge, newsletter or be eligible for the prize drawing at the end, but you’ll still get the benefit that comes with blogging on a more regular basis. And you can follow the group on Twitter at #blog2011 – don’t miss our wrap party on June 1 at 10 a.m. PST.
Definitely mark your calendar for 2012. Typically registration opens in early April. I’m launching a WordCount monthly e-newsletter once the blogathon ends, so you can sign up for that and get advance notice of when the blogathon starts for next time.
Blog on,
Michelle Rafter
Michelle