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.
Have you seen any blog designs you like or despise? Have you seen how some have lots of small post snippets on the front page while others have a full post? What did you choose and why? How did you choose your blog name, theme, and layout? Would love to hear more from you!
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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This challenge has definitely gotten me thinking about my own blog layout. I’m still undecided about whether or not I like to have the whole post or parts of it visible, and have gone back and forth with the idea. Seeing so many other blogs has really given me a lot to think about!
I started out with full posts because personally when I go to a webpage I don’t like snippets. I switched to snippets because it allowed more content to choose from on the front page of my blog. Being new to this, I am still playing with it. I switch occasionally to see the difference. My blog name comes from a combination of ‘kingdom’ mentality and one of my life verses and life mission Deuteronomy 30:11-20. Choosing my theme took longer than anything else for me…searching, searching, searching for one that looked the way I wanted it to with my content. Even after purchasing one I am not completely satisfied – but content for now.
Woohoo!! I am completely caught up on my #100bb challenge posts for the last two days. I am now fully prepared to cook a fabulous meal with my homeschooled children wearing a DIY outfit that looks totally designer 😉
I recently had my blog redesigned and I’m in love with it! It completely signifies the name “Life Over C’s” with the world map background, the plane on my logo and the Pin It! button that I absolutely adore. My blog name choice was quite simple. I live overseas 80% of the time and I travel extensively in the U.S. when we are there. My blog is about our life. 🙂
I prefer to see the post all at once and that is how I have it set on my blog but I can understand it from the perspective of offering more choices as well. Time to go get caught up on all these great blogs from the past 2 days (busy end of week for me and I’ve fallen a bit behind on this challenge).
I used to have the full post on the main page, but I personally like seeing a snippet, so I can see a greater amount of posts to choose from. Plus, when a reader clicks “read more”, it helps lower your “bounce rate”.
Yuliya,
Glad you have seen a variety of designs which have given you something to think about.
I go back and forth between having the whole post and having snippets. Emma’s comment about “bounce rate” is interesting. I may go back to snippets as a result.
Ooooohhhh! I LOVED your design when I visited!
I went to longer snippets. My posts tend to go long, so I put enough out there to, hopefully, be interesting, but not too long so you can see a number of posts. If my post is short, I’ll leave it in full. I dislike snippets that are too short – it’s hard to get a feel of the post. But then I also dislike the pages that only have one full post per page. If I want to read more posts it is a lot of paging.