31 Days To Build A Better (Football) Blog
So you want your football blog to make more money / get more readers / get more comments / get better search rankings / help you meet football players.
To be honest, when it comes to blogging about football, my first and foremost motivation has always been ‘just talking to friends about football’, but I’ve been lucky enough to have built a decent business around that motivation. I’ve seen many good football bloggers build kickass blogs over the last 3 years, but I’ve also seen some very good people fail despite their best efforts because they didn’t know what to do.
It doesn’t have to be that way. You can, and you should, get help when needed (provided that you’re willing to follow the advice given to you).
Soccerlens and Football Media have done well, but I know I could be doing more to improve them. If you’re like me and you want to improve your blog (football, personal or otherwise), I recommend that you do the following:
1. Start with a SWOT analysis for your blog. Learn how to do it here.
2. Sign up for Darren Rowse’s 31 Days To Build A Better Blog Challenge. ProBlogger.net – Darren Rowse’s blog – is the #1 blog about blogging and has been the #1 blog about blogging for the last 3-4 years. I’ve written a lot about blogging in my days at Performancing but Darren is an excellent teacher, and it pays to learn from him.
Darren, in his own words, on the 31 Days Challenge:
What is the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge?
The idea behind this is simply to have a group of bloggers setting aside 31 days of their time to work at improving their blogs – a little each day. While we all want to have better blogs sometimes it becomes one of those things that we’re going to do…. one day.
I personally find that I improve (in all areas of my life) when I’m more intentional and set aside a specific time to make the improvements. That’s what this project is about.
Go ahead, sign up for the 31 Days Challenge. It starts on April 6th (Monday), and goes for 31 days. You are GUARANTEED to improve your blog in all aspects if you do a little bit, every day, to follow Darren’s tips.
Best of all? No strings attached – the sign up is via email, it’s free, and you can bail out any time you want (ideally at the end of the 31 Days and not during them).
I’ll be following the Challenge – I might know a bit about blogging but it never hurts to get outside professional advice and motivation to ‘get to work’.
Sign up for the 31 Days To Build A Better Blog Challenge here.
Great stuff … doing the Challenge now and after 2 days, so far so good.
Highly recommended …
Interested to hear what other football bloggers think.
This is a great initiative from Darren. I’ve signed up and have already learned so much in the first five days.
I think that if you have a blog you should definitely sign up for this!