How to build a better blog in 31 days.

Darren Rowse has started a new project where he will be giving daily tips on how to build a better blog in 31 days. He will be discussing about

• finding readers
• building community/keeping readers
• monetizing a blog

So if you are interested, do bookmark Problogger.net to tap on his vast knowledge on blogging.

In conjunction with this latest project, Darren Rowse has also invited all his readers to take up his challenge and post our own tips as well. We can then submit the post to Problogger.net and Darren has promised that he will publish the tips that we have submitted. You know what that means. Yes, it means a link from Problogger.net

Darren posted his first tip today and the tip says:

Email a New Reader of Your Blog

It’s a viable tip, but to make the tip work, I would like to add in a tip of my own which I think everyone should train themselves first before attempting Darren’s tip or any other Guru’s tip for that matter.

Rid yourself of all the Lazy Bones in your body

I have plenty of those and my guess is, most of you do too. If we are not able to get rid of them lazy bones, no tips will work and there won’t be a Blog Guru in this world that will be able to help.

In my more than 2 years of blogging, I think I can safely say I have read all the tips there is to be read. So, why am I still lagging seriously in terms of success for all my blogs? Fact is, after reading what people say, I seldom, or if ever put those ideas into practise.

Take e-mailing my commentators for instance, I am pretty damn sure I will be too damn lazy to do it. I will prefer sending jokes to my friends or passing on dirty pictures that I receive, but when it comes to e-mailing the people that came to visit my blog, somehow, my lazy bones just takes over. It’s weird. I mean, the effort is not anything more than emailing porns to my friends, but somehow the burden seems very much heavier.

So the first thing a blogger should learn if he wants to be successful is, “Don’t be a Lazy Blogger”

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