Michele Martin's Blog (5)

So one of my goals for the next month was to create another Sneeze Page. I kind of cheated with that one because I knew I'd already started it, but hey--this community-building stuff is hard work! This one summarizes the entire 31 Days to Building a Better Blog Learning Experiment.

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Today, 31 things I learned in 31 days of building a better blog. I may need to do a companion list on 31 Things I Learned in 31 Days of Building an Online Community!
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Wrote today on The Bamboo Project about the growth in community that came from the 31 Days project. What was most striking to me in all of this was the extent to which I began to feel more connected to other people as a community. As I said in the blog post, I used to feel when I came online like I was looking for a place to sit in the cafeteria. Now I feel like I have a group that calls me over to j… Continue

Although I managed to make it through most of the 31 Days of activities, I know I still have a few I wanted to go back through. So the goals I've set for myself this month are to:

• Finish my mission
• Re-do my SWOT in light of my mission
• Analyze my "competition" (easier once I have a mission)
• Do at least one more Sneeze page, although I still need to decide on what.

I've also decided that I'm going to keep track of most of my efforts related t… Continue

The results of my 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project:

Google Analytics
From July 31 to August 31.

• Visits--Up 59.76%
• Pageviews--Up 93.6%
• Pages per Visit--Up 21.18%
• Bounce Rate--Down 7.59% (remember, bounce rate measures how many visitors leave your site without visiting another page, so a lower bounce rate is good).
• Average Time on Site--

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