A month of better blogging
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We are celebrating(?) the first ten days of serverdome.org today. Getting this blog up and running proved both harder and easier to do than i anticipated. The technical part was easy, wordpress made everything a breeze and having experience installing and tweaking it for others certainly helped. Keeping up with a daily schedule was the hard part even during these first few days. I decided to keep a plan for the next thirty days of running serverdome and publish it here as an added incentive to stick with it.
Write at least one post a day
Making time each day for writing articles, my plan is to not only have at least a post a day, but at all times have at least the articles for the next two or three days already completed. Sitting down and writing a quality article to post that same day is almost impossible. The plan is 30 articles in 30 days without having to resort to top ten links posts to keep my pace.
Work less on the blog
I spend way too much time poking around analytics statistics, testing wordpress plugins and generally tweaking the site. It’s part of the oh my shiny new toy effect of having a new blog. I’ll but aside a few hours each weekend for improving the site and statistic crunching but stay away from analytics and the serverdome template during the week.
Write better copy
Sweet and simple. And hard when English is not your first language.
Improve on the Plickr template
Add support to the Plickr wordpress theme for many of the popular plugins like Flickr Album and Related Entries and rewrite part of the code to be more readable.
Things that would not deserve bold text on their own:
Comment on another blog once a day, fix some of the glaring SEO mistakes, remove or replace the blogrush widget with something better and finally open comments on the blog.
Most of the ideas here came from problogger.com’s “31 Days to Building a Better Blog” feature. If you’re just beginning with your blog and want something to read that will help you for a long time that is the place to start.