PB026: Improve Another Blog [Day 26 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog]

Challenge: Spend 15 Minutes Improving Someone Else's Blog Today's episode is about how to help another blogger to achieve their goals in some way. This might seem a little counter-intuitive, but if you help others you create a good impression that just might come back to help you improve your own blogging. gesticulation by Marczak Marcin on 500px In this Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). Today we talk about: How helping another blogger to improve their blog can end up helping you to improve your own blog 13 easy, practical, powerful ways you can improve another blog How to come up with even MORE ideas of practical ways you can improve another blog Further Reading: How to Help a Fellow Blogger: You Baby Me Mummy Five Ways to Connect with Fellow Bloggers: Daily Blog Tips Why Bloggers Need to Support Other Bloggers: The Wetherills Say I Do 10 Ways to Promote Other Blogs: Crafterminds Seven Steps to Writing a Successful Guest Post: Michael Hyatt How did you go with today's challenge? What did you do to improve another blog? What ideas did helping someone else give you for improving your own blog? I'd love to hear your feedback on this approach to growing your community in the comments below. Pick up the 31DBBB eBook at 50% Off Don't Forget You can also grab the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook with a 50% discount using the coupon code PODCAST50 during the checkout process here. Finally - if you have a moment we'd love to get your feedback on the ProBlogger Podcast with this short survey which will help us plan future episodes. Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Good day, and welcome to day 26 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog and episode 26 of the ProBlogger Podcast where today, I'm issuing you with another challenge. Today's challenge is to not focus on your own blog, but to focus on someone else's, and to improve another blog. This could lead to all kinds of wonderful relationships or collaborations with other bloggers but you also should learn something today about your own blogging. You can find today's show notes at problogger.com/podcast/26. Hi there. It's Darren from ProBlogger. Welcome to day 26 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today, I want to challenge you to help another blogger achieve their goals in some way, to improve another person's blog. Now, this might sound a little counterintuitive. You might ask, isn't this 31 days about improving my blog? Well, yes, it is, but one of the ways you can do this is to be outward-focused in your own blogging. I found over the years that sometimes when I focus on helping someone else in my blogging or other areas of my life that it comes back to help me in different ways. Some people might call it karma. I think it's just being a good human being in many ways. It's also really satisfying to do and might give you a little bit of burst of energy to see someone else reach their goals in some way. You might also learn a thing or two about your own blog by doing it. There are many ways that you can help other bloggers achieve their goals. Some of them are really big and some of them are really small. I want to encourage you to do something today. Don't just leave 50 comments on 50 blogs and help 50 bloggers. Focus upon one today. Do something as significant as you can for them. There's a whole heap of things you could do. I'll just give you a few examples, but really let your own creative juices flow and look around you at the bloggers that you interact with, that you read, and find something that suits their needs in some way. The other question to ask to help you identify what would help another blogger or achieve their goals is to ask the question a...