Well, my week’s stint as the guest blogger over at Problogger.net is almost over. Judging by the comments, it went well, I think.
I saw Darren’s offer as a huge opportunity, and although I am sorry that the rest of my blogging obligations suffered (my apologies to my colleagues over at the BlogHerald and Thord over at Bloggertalks), I am glad that I was able to produce fresh content every day.
Particularly in an area that I don’t usually blog in.
This week, over 5 posts, I was able to pump out almost 10,000 words of fresh content — which, when pasted into a word document at 10 point Arial Narrow, works out to be 32 pages worth of stuff.
Not bad. ;)
For my own record (and links), they included:
1. 5 Prerequisites for Blogging Success – Where I talked about successful habits for blogging, such as the willingness to commit time and resources to actually doing the thing, and the importance of marketing. Seemed to really hit a nerve with the “time commitment thing”.
2. The Rules Behind Creating a Great Blog – The focus here was on the principles of great content, a good blogging behaviour. Transparency, Integrity, Passion, Engagement, Authenticity.
3. How To Find News For Your Blog – Giving tips on what I actually do here at DeepJiveInterests, since I tend to focus more on my own snarky take on web2.0 news.
4. How to Market Your Blog in 2007 — This post almost killed me, but I’m glad I did it. Put together a list of 41 marketing methods bloggers might use … almost all of the are free. Got Dugg and Delicious’d as well. I guess some folks appreciated it! :)
5. A Few Last Lessons On Blogging – where I dispensed a few universal lesson’s I’ve learned over the past few months, including on the will to do what it takes, and the necessity of networking.
At any rate, I will post a few smaller posts over the weekend, but with traffic lightening up as it usually does, I thought I would focus my posts for the past business-week.
Looks like I missed out on MyBlogLog being gamed (but maybe I’ll post on that later), the iPhone collective orgasma-frenzy (coupled with Cisco’s lawsuit), amongst a host of other topics.
At least Digg wasn’t sold (whew!).
Anyway … thought I’d check in with a few thoughts and let you all know I’ll be back to the blogging grind here at DJI in a couple days.
I hope my efforts leave Problogger in as good a shape as Darren left it because it was a blast. Having said that, however, it’ll be good to be back home. :)
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If Darren agrees, put those 32 pages in a PDF and give it one away on your blog.. Tons of people would benifit from your advise.
Tony you did good with those articles and I am sure you will have some new readers from now on. I am one.
For your own record? Who are you kidding? This index is going to be bookmarked and del.icio.us-ed by at least one reader (me, that’ll be me) and referred to at regular intervals.
It was a superb series. Superlatives completely justified.
“It went well, I think.” Awww, shucks.
I really enjoyed your guest posts. One thing that would be an interesting follow-up would be Technorati’s data on their top blogs: every one has at least 500 posts and has been around for at least two years. To me this says that committment is critical to success, reinforcing your point about dedication. It took me, a professional writer, albeit with a full time job, several months to hit the 100 posts mark. Interestingly enough my miniscule traffic has been increasing as I neared that mark. From an SEO POV I think this is simply logical- more writing generates more keywords equals more search hits. But you have to be true to your subject or you won’t get tagged, subscribed to or bookmarked.
Thanks again.
That was a good idea by Amit .. you need practice packaging up all this knowledge you possess into eBooks :D
Add one more set of congratulations to the pile, Tony. You did a great job over the course of the week at ProBlogger; many of your observations and bits of advice were very useful.
In this particular article, I would like to stress the point about “sticking to it”. No doubt that as you persevere, more and more of your competition drops out of the race. What’s more – who can expect to establish the required authority for a successful website in just a few weeks of work? All good things come in time.
i do agree with Amit !
i saved every article you wrote on problogger ;)
DEFINETELY A MUST READ !
Great one Mr. Tony ;)
Lol i was thinking on the same lines.We need a book of those posts.Coz they were really different.A 5 day speed marathon.
I agree with Amit and Qureyoon, if yes we need a pdf and i can bet it will have the highest number of downloads.
Enjoyed you articles a lot.
Regards
Ashish
Great to have you over at Problogger Tony. It may not be your main topic, but you did a great job and now you have an avid subscriber here as well. I guess at Blog Herald too, but I promise, I’m not stalking you… yet.
Cheers.
You must have done a great job because it took me a while to realise that it wasn’t Darren writing those posts :)
I think you did great mate. :)
I had a great time with your articles over at problogger.net, I can’t say it enough.. it was informative, fun to read, and a lot of substance..
God Bless!
You did yourself proud Tony.
One new feed reader here.
Hello, very nice site, keep up good job!
Admin good, very good.
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[...] I was halfway through this post, The Biggest Question Any Blogger Must Answer, when I thought, “This is such good stuff, easy to read, applicable…” I checked who the writer was, and, Who else? Tony Hung. I like to go to Problogger for blogging tips, but I don’t really find that it speaks to me personally. However, Darren Rowse made a contributor’s coup when he hired this guy. His writing really hits the spot for me. I think he might be guesting every Friday. Whatever the case, he recently did a week’s worth of writing for Problogger, and every post was a cracker. He has indexed those pages on his own blog, Deep Jive Interests. You can find them here: Index of Problogger Posts [...]
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