Welcome to Boost Your Blog in 100 Days! I’m so excited you have chosen to take this journey with me and my dear challenge hostesses! I hope to get to meet you a little bit along the way via facebook, twitter, pinterest, and your blogs. My goal for this 100 days is to spruce up our blogs together and kick our usage and understanding of Social Media into high gear.
Are you a numbers person? I’m a total nerd when it comes to numbers and I LOVE DATA! So an extra little challenge today is to check your stats! Yep, check your facebook fans, twitter followers, pinterest followers, monthly page views, Alexa rating, and anything else you want to monitor. Keeping track of your stats weekly will tell you what is working and what is not. I even created a handy-dandy spreadsheet for you to use. Aren’t I nice:)
Today’s Boost Your Blog challenge is to comment on 10 different blogs. Read a blog post that sounds interesting to you and provide a thoughtful comment of 2-4 sentences if possible. I will be providing you with 10 blogs each day during this challenge to comment on. You may also wish to follow some bloggers on their other social media platforms as well, but this is not required during the first 10 day challenge.
Commenting on other’s blogs will provide you will back-links to your blog. Creating these links to your blog will help with SEO by lowering your Alexa rating and possibly boosting where your blog lands on SERP. Thoughtful comments may peak readers interests from those blogs or from the blog author’s themselves thus getting traffic and comments in return.
Remember to leave a quality comment for each of the 10 bloggers. I did my best to try to bring quality blogs that welcome comments and the chance to meet other bloggers during this 100 day challenge.
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Today’s Lucky Bloggers are…
Thank you for the tracking tool! I am really enjoying this challenge.
I am meeting such wonderful people – that I wouldn’t have met otherwise!
Thanks so much for including me on this amazing journey!
Thanks for putting this together! Its work but it’s kind of fun too. Nice to meet so many other bloggers who are hopefully keeping up their end of the challenge.
Thanks for the spreadsheet. I had already halfway been keeping up with comments. This really helps. Finished day 3.
Looking forward to the handy-dandy spreadsheet. Thanks for creating it. Also, enjoying the challenge
Thank you for the information. I didn’t know that leaving comments on other blogs had anything to do with that technical “stuff” (my technical term for it). I just thought it made bloggers happy (it does me). I am really loving this challenge so far.
Really enjoying reading all these wonderful blogs and meeting new virtual friends!
I’ve already had a few comments on my site. This is a fantastic way to network with other bloggers. As a newbie, I certainly need all the advice I can get on the technical aspects of running a blog! Thank you for creating this!!
I’m here and catching up with commenting! No idea where the instruction email went but I’m basically just reading along and following the directives each day. #BYB100
I have really enjoyed this challenge. I know very little about blogging outside of the writing. I am looking forward to what I can glean from these 100 days!
Thanks for the tracking tool! Thank you also for organizing the 100 days…. I have learned so much already! Looking forward to seeing all my numbers in an easy, tracking spreadsheet… !
Holly,
I’m so sorry your email went MIA! Just to update you we changed twitter tag to #BB100. You’re doing fine if you find the 10 blogs of the day to comment on.
Aimee,
There’s definitely a learning curve when learning to blog well. Hoping you get lots of tips and ideas over the course of #BB100.
Thanks so much for the challenge and the spreadsheet. I’m ready to take my blogging to the next level and this challenge looks like small enough steps that I can complete each day. I’ve enjoyed exploring your blog and am looking forward to the good things to come.
Tracy,
you don’t even know the half of it. I’ve spent over 15 hours this weekend along working on behind the scenes stuff! I still have to get my comments in as well. Glad you are having fun.
Jean,
Yes, there’s lots of stuff to learn about blogging. Keep it up you’re gonna learn lots.
Kirsten,
Glad you are enjoying the challenge. You’ll be amazed at your growth once you begin to track certain stats and then try to improve them.
Meeghan,
I am glad you are learning stuff already. I love watching my stats climb and setting new goals.
Thanks so much for putting this challenge together. It’s only day three but I’m already seeing the benefits and I’m connecting with people I wouldn’t have found otherwise. I really looking forward to seeing what else will come out of it and all that I will learn. After three + years of blogging I still feel like a wee baby when it comes to actually knowing how things work so I’m excited to learn new things!
Thank you very much for the spread sheet! I’m really enjoying this challenge so far – visiting new bloggers, and getting new ideas!
I am so excited that you decided to do this challenge. I’m finding so many new blogs to read and making new bloggy friends. Thank you so much for organizing this.
Alanna,
Unless you devote lots of hours or attend a couple blogging conferences it can take a long time to learn. Keep it up and you will reap the benefits.
Merri,
You are exactly the blogger I created this challenge for! Those small steps will make a big difference in the long run:)
I am so excited to have come across this! I’ve been looking for ways to get my blog out there and I think this will be a wonderful opportunity =)
Thanks for putting this together!
Catching up- I have enjoyed finding some great new bloggers to follow!