Give me 31 Days and I’ll Give You a Dramatically Better Blog… Guaranteed

Join 19,000 other bloggers and kick-start your blog with this 31 day challenge
Fully redesigned, revised and updated for 2012.
Have big dreams for your blog? Got a list of improvements sitting in the ‘one day’ basket? Visitor numbers a little embarrassing?
You’re not alone.
31 Days to Build a Better Blog is a downloadable ebook designed to help you revitalize your blog. One step at a time, it will transform your blog into the page view powerhouse you’ve always dreamed of.

Designed to Make you Think, but more Importantly DO

The workbook is divided into 31 easy-to-follow tasks that you can work through in your own time.
Each step in the workbook contains:

• A Task – something to DO that step.
• Teaching – each day you’ll be given in depth instruction on both the WHY and HOW of the task of the day.
• Further reading – so you can dive deeper on any task.

This three pronged approach is designed so that you come away from the challenge having not only learned how to build a better blog but you’ll have actually achieved something with the knowledge.

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“In the first day, I implemented 4 days worth of advice from the workbook and tripled my blog traffic overnight. Yes, really. Every day I read and implemented another few day’s worth of advice from the workbook and it has steadily improved my blog traffic without fail.” Yvonne Adele

A Better Blog, at your Own Pace, in your Own Way

Originally designed to be followed every day for 31 days, with 19,000 bloggers already taken the challenge, we’ve discovered 31DBBB is being used in a variety of ways including:

• Intense Training – set aside weekends or weeks to go through multiple tasks at once.
• 1 Task a Day – the way we designed it – one day at a time.
• 1 Task a Week – take your time with the challenge and tackle one task a week.
• Monthly Tasks – build the tasks into your monthly routine.
• Occasional Inspiration –dip into 31DBBB on a more occasional basis – using it on days when you have time or need inspiration.
• Gather a group – find a group of like minded bloggers and take the challenge at the same time.

The great thing about 31DBBB is that you can do it at your own pace and in your own way.

Perfect for Bloggers who want More from their Blog

31 Days to Build a Better Blog is for bloggers at different stages of their blogging including:

• You’ve just started a blog and don’t know what to do next
• You’ve had a blog for a while but it’s stalled in its growth
• You’re a blogger with bloggers block and lacking inspiration.

Note: This workbook is NOT designed for bloggers yet to start a blog (PreBloggers). It doesn’t cover setting up a blog. If that’s you check out the ProBlogger book which covers this aspect of blogging.

“Darren Rowse is the master. Absorb these lessons and prepare to grow your own success.” Chris Brogan

Take Small Steps to Travel a Great Distance

By the end of the 31 steps you’ll have:

• published a variety of different types and styles of posts
• learned techniques for coming up with new post ideas
• promoted your blog in a variety of ways and found new readers
• deepened reader engagement with current readers
• reached out to and developed working relationships with other bloggers
• developed an editorial calendar for your blog going forward
• discovered ways to be more connected to your niche/topic
• designed a plan for the next month of your blogging

… and much more.
After the 31 steps you’ll have transformed you blog into a valuable online asset.

“Darren’s step-by-step program will absolutely help you take the actions you need to build a better blog, based on his success creating niche content-focused communities that have nothing to do with blogging about blogging.” Brian Clark

2012 Update, 7 Bonus Tasks!

This new edition sees the introduction of 7 bonus tasks – that’s a whole additional week of blogging insight and action – bundled up in a bonus mini eBook.
Plus you receive:

• All the original material updated, redesigned and refreshed
• Case studies of blogs, big and small, who are doing it right. Get insights into blogs you may not have heard of, and learn from their expertise.
• Every task includes links to further information, reading and intelligence on the topic, so readers can take Darren’s advice as far as they’d like to go.
• Integrated with social media so you can connect and share you experiences each step—and learn from others.

This bigger and better 2012 update is a must-have, even if you already own the first edition.

“The very first challenge totally changed the way I blog!… How could it be improved?
Well, it could come with a shoe that pops out and kicks my butt so I do the tasks on time. That’s about it. :)” – Angela Mills

The Brains Behind the eBook

Darren Rowse has been blogging since 2002 on over 30 blogs. He’s been earning a full time living from his blogs since 2005. These days he focuses his time upon ProBlogger.net (Blogging Tips) and Digital-Photography-School.com (A Photography Community).
These two sites reach a combined audience of over 4 million a month. Darren is the author of ProBlogger the book, co-founder of the b5media blog network and speaks regularly on blogging and social media.

More Reader Reviews

“The workbook was a total success, I used it on one of my blogs that wasn’t performing very well, used the practices and exercises and the results speak for themselves. From 100 visitors a month to now over +1,300 and going.” – Obed Ward
“The eBook is also a godsend when I get writers block as I just get it up on the screen and look through it. I invariably find that I have inspiration after a few minutes.” – Tessa Shepperson
“I value your workbook because it sells no false dreams of instant wealth, no magic mantra to make us the best that we can be. I love it that you stress the importance of hard work, persistence, and humility. This workbook is brilliant in so far as we’re willing to incorporate these solid virtues as well as the valuable, practical blogging lessons it contains.” Jan Geronimo
“The biggest help for me was having some concrete action step each day to take on my blog. Many of the concepts and material were not new to me, but I need that daily shove to do the things I know.” – John Arnold

Download your Copy of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog for less than $1 a day

This 140 page resource is ready for your download right now at just $29.99 USD!
At just a few cents per daily task this is a resource that is designed to bring life and revitalization to your blog again and again as you continue to use it over coming months and years.

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If you are not satisfied with the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog PDF work book after 60 Days Just let me know and I’ll refund your money – that’s how confident I am that this is a resource that will help you build a dramatically better blog.
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Wordpress Plugin that Gives Great SEO Benefits

If you don’t have proper on-page optimization search engines won’t know what your web page is about and you will have an impossible time getting ranked for the keyword you desire. Some of the more important elements of on-page optimization includes title tags, meta descriptions, naming images, site speed, and the way you distribute link juice.

Linking content in the body of your paragraphs to another relevant blog post on your website  can be very time consuming. However, the more links that point towards a web page the more popular and relevant the webpage becomes. Accordingly, search engines will favor web pages with more links pointing to it and that web page will appear higher in the search engine. Of course, all of the on-page, social, and external factors still play an important role but internal linking shouldn’t be neglected.

Now I’m not recommending that you spend a lot of time going back to link all of your blog posts together. If your website is run on the  WordPress content management system then you’re in luck. Just add SEO Smart links to the list of plugins that you should become familiar    with.

SEO Smart Links Makes Internal Linking Easy

SEO Smart Links allow you to automatically link relevant keywords and phrases to other pages, posts, categories or tags right out of the box. For a society that wants instant gratification, you will be pleased with what this plugin can do.

If you want some customization then this plugin can provide that. If you you have a sales page or want one of your pages to get a lot of link juice then pick a keyword and the URL you want that keyword to route to. Once the keyword appears in any of your posts, the keyword will become a link to that URL.

The Benefits of No-Follow Links

Having links pointing towards your page is a good thing. However, if you have links point towards other sites you don’t want to always give away the link juice. For instance, when you sell affiliate products then you should always make sure the link is considered “no-follow”. To do this, you will have to go into the code and manually add the “no-follow” code to every one of your affiliate links. With SEO Smart Links you can turn all of your affiliate links into “no-follow” in the matter of minutes. You can also turn the content on your page to links that point to affiliate products that you want to sell with ease.

Does this sound to good to be true? Well it isn’t. SEO Smart Links is a very great plugin that can save the weekly blogger a couple of hours a month.

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Coolest Free Plugins

I know I find a really cool plug in when It works Perfectly & I don't have to pay for it.... I love Free Plug-ins That actually work. Well today I noticed that one of my websites did not have a log in page. I could access it from mydomain.com/wp-admin but I could not access it any other way. So I searched for a login plugin and I found Theme My Login or the link here 
http://wordpress.org/plugins/theme-my-login/. It matches the theme of your template. That is so cool....
I was wondering how I was going to get a regular Log in on my page. I'm so glad I found it. 
Another really cool plug in is User submitted post  http://wordpress.org/plugins/user-submitted-posts/
This plug-in allows users to submit an article to you and choose the category they want it to go under. Of course you get to approve or deny it. And it actually works-- and It's Free ! 

Simpliest Way to add an Image to Wordpress

Login to your Wordpress website  http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin

Them go to Media, add new, Click select files. Find the Image on your desktop folder that you saved the image in. Side Note- If you already have that folder opened on your desktop you can then just drag and drop them in as well.

Once the image is in uploaded you will then see it come in. Once it's done uploading then you can click on edit. Click edit then you can resize it, and set the Title,Caption, Alternate Text and Description.
If you click Edit Image, this is where you change the image size. The best suggestion is to change the scale size. Just change the "width" and the image will automatically scale itself. Click Scale and you will see it nicely transformed as opposed to be distorted. Then click update.

Once the images are all in your media, then when you are writing an article it is so much easier to add your image wherever you want it.

So when writing an article and you want to place your image just place your curser where you want the image. Then click "Add Media"
Then go to Media Library select your image, make sure to select alignment- This is really important.
Then click "insert into Post "

If it's not where you want it once it's in the article then click on the picture. You will see a  little image icon will pop up. Click the image icon and then you can edit the image again.
If you click the red X it will delete your image.


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Starting Joomla

Once you have bought your Hosting & domain and created your folder attached to that to domain, then you begin uploading Joomla. Joomla is different than WordPress, Joomla you do not have to modify any code before uploading the zip file. You can get Joomla secure zip file from http://www.joomla.org/. Please notice the .org. Joomla publishes new versions all the time. I find that Joomla 2.5 is the most stable version, plus you have to be careful with new versions. The versions still has bugs and most plugins/extension/templates will not be compatible with the newest version 3.0. With the most stable version 2.5 you can always upgrade to the newest version right from your admin panel. Joomla has not always been that way. If you are working with Joomla 1.5 then there is a whole process in upgrading to the newer versions.

I suggest you Download Joomla! 2.5.x http://www.joomla.org/download.html Once you have it downloaded it will be in a folder. On a Mac you would right click and click compress. On a PC I'm not exactly sure but you have to compress it into a .zip file. In order to install it must be a zip file. Also your MYSQL database must have already been created and active. I have had problems before when my MYSQL database was not ready I had to do it all over again.

Ok so MYSQL is ready and you know your username & passwords for your MYSQL, then you are ready for the upload. If you are in your File Manager then you can go to your public_html folders, choose the folder that is connected to the domain that you want to start your new site with and upload. Click the folder so it's open, then click upload. The upload will open your files in your computer. Choose the Joomla zipped file. Then ok- to upload. Once the file is uploaded then you have to extract or unarchive depending your File Managers terminology. Once the files are extracted, then you must select all the files and take them out of the original folder. Move them to the main folder. You can always delete the generic Joomla folder that the files came in on. Now go to your browser and type in your domain. www.yourdomain.com it should take you to an install page, here is where you have to put in the MYSQL database information.
You create the user name and password for your admin panel. Everyone says do not use the standard "ADMIN". Not a good idea.
With Godaddy you have to use the real Host name, with Cpanel I use "localhost"
If you have problems with this please contact your hosting company because they are the only ones who know what that should be, Hosting companies can be very different in some things.
Ok so once you have piyt in all the main username & passwords click install, then follow the rest of the directions.

Once everything is set up then you can go back to your domain www.yourdomain.com and you should see the homepage.If you type in www.yourdomain.com/administrator then you can put in your username and password to get to the admin panel.
In the Admin panel you can now start to upload your templates, extensions, components, plugins etc...
You can also start to create your menus, articles, and categories.

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Well Welcome to WordPress....

Well where do I begin. I did not like Wordpress when I first started using it.I started off with Joomla. I taught myself Joomla then one day I had this sudden urge to learn WordPress. I kept hearing and seeing wordPress so I started teaching myself how to upload it and then how to use everything else. You should be reading this after you have bought a domain, purchased hosting and have your folder and domain connected so that whatever you put in the folder shows up on that specific domain. If not please refer to FTP File Managers, domains & Hosting. Once you have all that figured out then you can begin here. So if you have chosen to upload Wordpress as your CMS of choice then we will begin here. Go to www.wordpress.org NOTICE the .org. This is not a .com site. .org is totally different than .com, .com  will make you pay for things. the proper site is www.wordpress.org and they are the originator and owner of the Wordpress foundation etc.... So you go to www.wordpress.org and the first step is to download the Newset version Wordpress 3.5.1 it is a blue button on the right. Ok so once you have downloaded that file, click on the file and copy and paste it into a folder in which you may call My website, My web stuff etc, something like that. Once you have renamed it, open it. Once it's open you should look for a file called  wp-config-sample.php Rename this file to wp-config.php.
Now Second thing that  I would do is make a copy of the original WordPress. Copy the original Wordpress file and paste it into the same folder. Now you have wordpresscopy 2 right ? Change the Copy # WordPress file to your domain name.  I would change the name to whatever the name of the website is going to be, this way I know which domain I am working with since I work on many sites.
Third take the file with the name of your domain and open it. Look for the  wp-config.php . This is the only file that you have to change. You open this file with Textedit or Wordpad. You need to change these things that I have highlighted .... Do not change anything else. 

Note **** To get the Key go here 

Secret Key Generator - WordPress API https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ Click on the above link and get a New Key code and replace this one.  define('AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here'); define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here'); define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here'); define('NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here'); define('AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here'); define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here'); define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here'); define('NONCE_SALT',       'put your unique phrase here');

<?php
/**
 * The base configurations of the WordPress.
 *
 * This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
 * Secret Keys, WordPress Language, and ABSPATH. You can find more information
 * by visiting {@link http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php Editing
 * wp-config.php} Codex page. You can get the MySQL settings from your web host.
 *
 * This file is used by the wp-config.php creation script during the
 * installation. You don't have to use the web site, you can just copy this file
 * to "wp-config.php" and fill in the values.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'database_name_here');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'username_here');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password_here');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

/**#@+
 * Authentication Unique Keys and Salts.
 *
 * Change these to different unique phrases!
 * You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/ WordPress.org secret-key service}
 * You can change these at any point in time to invalidate all existing cookies. This will force all users to have to log in again.
 *
 * @since 2.6.0
 */
define('AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here');
define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here');
define('NONCE_SALT',       'put your unique phrase here');

/**#@-*/

/**
 * WordPress Database Table prefix.
 *
 * You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique
 * prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!
 */
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';

/**
 * WordPress Localized Language, defaults to English.
 *
 * Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen
 * language must be installed to wp-content/languages. For example, install
 * de_DE.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to 'de_DE' to enable German
 * language support.
 */
define('WPLANG', '');

/**
 * For developers: WordPress debugging mode.
 *
 * Change this to true to enable the display of notices during development.
 * It is strongly recommended that plugin and theme developers use WP_DEBUG
 * in their development environments.
 */
define('WP_DEBUG', false);

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php');

Now that you have  only changed the highlighted areas save it. Save the  wp-config.php. 
Now zip the whole entire file that you named after your domain. 
Once that file is Zipped then you can upload it into your ftp file manager. You can do this by filezilla or directly into your hostings file manager. Once the file is uploaded in to the proper folder, you then have to unzip -unarchive-extract the folder, depending on what your file manager calls it. 
Once the file is unarchived then you should open the domain named folder. In this folder should be all of the wordpress files. Highlight and move all those files directly under the main folder. When you bring in a zipped file like that all the folders need to be removed and placed into the proper folder. They do not automatically come in to the proper folder. 
then you can delete the folder it came in as and also the .zip folder, you don't need any of those. 
To check and see if the files are proper, open a new browser and put in your domain name
ex. www.yourdomain.com then add this /wp-admin. So it will look like this 
www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin
If your WordPress is installed properly it will take you to a Set up page with the name of your Website, username & password setup. If not then you did something wrong. 
Once you set up the first page then you can log into the dashboard and start making your changes. 

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