Day 31 of 31 days to be a better blogger
Well, I have made it to day 31 although I do still have some challenges to go back and complete. My learning curve has been incredibly steep. Below are some of the biggest lessons learnt:
- blogging is about contacting, collaborating and commenting
- google analytics will tell you how many people are visiting, where they are from, what they are looking at and how long they look at it amongs other things. In fact I have learnt so much here that I have put google analytics onto our website . What I also know is that my intended audience, literacy subject leaders in Devon, are not visiting the blog. This means that we will promote it at our next subject leader meetings and then I will be able to track the impact that has and whether people come back again
- technorati will let me know about the links to my blog and rank me (very low). This has been useful as I have had a couple that I didn’t know about
- good blogging is about having content that people are interested in
- that posts may become popular some time after you have written them. I had one about digital fiction which has steadily grown in popularity probably because there is a link to it from a much more popular blog
- that I don’t have any free time any more
I must say a big thank you to the rest of the group that are doing the 31 days challenge. They are writing some great posts. I subscribe to them all and will keep on reading them and commenting on them. I will also come back top the challenges that I have missed out and complete them when the time is right.
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