Follow Me on Twitter!

Weekend WrapUp – Week of Dec 29th

  • by admin
  • January 4th, 2009

Each Saturday I spotlight 5 of my favorite blog articles from around the net.  Hopefully you find these blog posts interesting, fun, and valuable to your growth as a blogger and as an individual.

35 Creative Ways to Market Your Blog – Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online
I recently heard Ted Turner say that if he could offer one piece of advice it would be “Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!”.  I’m not big follower of Ted, but after I heard that on the radio I thought how fitting for blogging.  This article offers 35 goods tips on the advertise piece.

Link Building Is Like Losing Weight – Are You a Linkless Fatty?
By Winning The Web -  Talk about a grabbing headline!  I opened this article immediately when I saw it in my RSS reader.  That in itself is a testament to writing “clever” blog titles.  This article is very creative and draws some very interesting parallels between building links and losing weight!

Your Audience, Your Content, Your Sucess – Blogussion
It never hurts to sharpen up your writing skills and this article provides some valuable insight on focusing your content.  If you want to learn a little more about blog writing tips this is a good article.

101 Blogging Tips I’ve Learned in 2008 – Thou Shall Blog
This is a great list of tips that will help propel your blog to new heights in 2009.  Yan has shared some very valuable content on how to become successful in a short amount of time and what it takes to grow a strong blogging community.   I’m pretty confident you can find a couple of items on this list that apply to your site.

69 Questions to Ask to Review Your Blog
– Problogger.net
Now that 2009 has officially started, it’s probably a good idea to reflect back on 2008 and form a plan for the new year.  Darren Rowse is veteran of blogging and has a ton of experience.  This article offers a great list of things you can immediately implement into your strategy for 09!

Hope you enjoy the articles this week and have a great weekend!

Related posts:

  1. Weekend WrapUp – Week of Dec. 1st Each Saturday I spotlight 5...
  2. Weekend WrapUp – Week of Nov. 24th Starting today we’re going to...
  3. Weekend WrapUp – Week of January 5th It’s that time of the...

9 Comments »

Comment by Taris Janitens

Did you have some database problems earlier??? I came to your blog but it gave me 404 errors in each of the post sections – the rest of the blog worked though, just the posts wouldnt display

Taris Janitens’s last blog post..OnePoke.com Progress Update: Delayed Again

 

Thanks for mentioning our article in your post, we appreciate it and I hope your readers find it useful. :)

 
Comment by AverageGal

@ Taris:
Yeah I was having some trouble with one of my databases. The site was down for a bit, but I eventually got to the root of the problem and fixed it.

AverageGal’s last blog post..Weekend WrapUp – Week of Dec 29th

 
Comment by Barock

i like “101 Blogging Tips I’ve Learned in 2008″ thoushallblog.com simple tip but so valuable
thanks from your list it had affected me.

Barock’s last blog post..Cute Boy pronouncing Al-Quran

 
Comment by Blogging Tips

Thanks for the mention, Gal. The other 4 are equally superb. I enjoy the one written by Gyutae. All the best in 2009.

Yan

Blogging Tips’s last blog post..Interview with Jim Regan – The Net Fool

 

Rachel:

Thanks for the list. They certainly give you something to think about.

Dee Langdon – BloggerNewbie’s last blog post..Courage is

 
Comment by Salwa

Great list of links. More reading for me :D

Salwa’s last blog post..How to Find Winning Ideas for your Blog Topics: A Blogger’s Online Manual

 
Comment by Gyutae Park

Thanks for including my post on this list! I’m finding that titles are the most important component of every blog post and deserves the most attention. I’m glad you liked it. Best of luck to you in the new year!

Gyutae Park’s last blog post..Stop Building Invisible Links – 3 Ways to Find Them

 
Comment by Laura-Whateverebay

I certainly enjoy Blogging Tips – he has a great site with tons of valuable information. Its nice to come here and find post that influenced you. Thanks for sharing them :)

 
Name (required)
E-mail (required - never shown publicly)
URI
Subscribe to comments via email
Your Comment (smaller size | larger size)

Trackback responses to this post

Click Here to Advertise on AverageGal


 

Top Commentators This Month

Recent comments:

  • bondage: all we need is (comment) love :) nice blog...
  • Pendants: I am wanting to start blogging full-time, in order to drive traffic to my website, however am stuck with how to optimize...
  • RFW: Thanks for the shout-out! RFW’s last blog post..SC Access to Justice: Orlando-bound!...
  • Condos Florida: First Congrats to read milestone, your blog and you deserves such milestone, blog get the result of clever and hard work...
  • Healthcare Management: Really good via comment love you rewarded readers like us who regular love visit your blog with your informative post , ...
  • Armand: That's great, but I'm having a little problem with my Comment-luv, however I'll go fixing it....
  • Odzyskiwanie Danych: Why post the icon for RSS? There's always one icon in the address bar in ff and opera (I don't know about ie but I think...
  • Odzyskiwanie Danych: Wow congratulations - 500 comments is pretty nice achievement for 3 months of time. writing comment-provoking posts is o...