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July 10, 2007

12 Detailed Checklists to Spit Shine and Promote Your Blog

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 8:57 am

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Vovo over at Business Traffic Ideas threw this idea to me. He caught it from Patrick Schaber at The Lonely Marketer who spotted the idea originated by Matt McGee over at Small Business SEM.

The thought is that so new subscribers in recent months might like to know about posts from times gone by.

12 Detailed Checklists to Spit Shine and Promote Your Blog

Every human is drawn to what we like and away from what we don’t. The beauty of a well-written checklist is that it checks for what we might have forgetten. The best blog promotion is quality — content, design, and linking. Use this dozen checklists to give your blog a spit shine and show it off.

  1. Classic Revisited: The Blog Review Checklist

  2. Checklist for Linking to Quality Blogs

  3. Editing for Quality and a Content Editor’s Checklist

  4. Choosing for Our Readers: A 5 Point Pop Quiz

  5. Blogs Aren’t Books, But Revising Is Still Revising: 6 Gating Questions to Make Revising Easier

  6. 6+1: How-to Blogging — Stomp Out Swiss Cheese Knowledge

  7. Eye-Deas 3-Photo Content Checklist

  8. Editing for Quality and a Content Editor’s Checklist

  9. A Blogger’s Personal Narrative Checklist

  10. Checklist for Starting a Directory Listing

  11. Blog Design Checklist

Taking care of the details, any designer will tell you is the killer app in the most elegant and well-cared for presentations. Any great writer will agree with that opinion. Yes, number 8 is missiong. :)

Quality feels satisfying to generate and to use. Quality is a blog’s best promotion of all.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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11 Comments to “12 Detailed Checklists to Spit Shine and Promote Your Blog”

  1. July 10th, 2007 at 10:24 am
    Juggling Frogs said

    I was about to ask, “What happened to #8?!”

    What a cute way to make your point about “taking care of the details”.

  2. July 10th, 2007 at 10:48 am
    Patrick Schaber said

    Thanks for joining in! I appreciated seeing some of your previous work. I bookmarked the Blog Design Checklist post - nice work!

  3. July 10th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
    Mitch said

    Geeeesch Liz.

    You hit it out the park with another pearl of wisdom!

    Thanks for helping me to keep it fresh!

    You’re awesome.

    Keep it up!

    Mitch

  4. July 10th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Juggling Frogs,
    You are a born teacher. Thank you for the benefit of the doubt. All of this time I thought I was leaving out number 7. :)

  5. July 10th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Patrick,
    This was such a great idea! Congratulations! I was delighted to participate! :)

  6. July 10th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Golly Mitch!
    You’re no boring stick in the ground yourself! I’m delighted to find a way to let folks make use of this content. :)

  7. July 10th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
    Josh Bickford said

    Haha, got me on the #8 too! Good list by the way!

  8. July 11th, 2007 at 6:36 am
    Jesse Petersen said

    I saw the gap and started to compose a chat box message, but stopped when I got to the end of the post because I wanted to say more than “oops.”

    I should have known you did that on purpose. :)

    This is a great compilation for veterans and newbies alike. You can never rehash certain design and writing techniques enough.

    More than half of your composition time should be revising, proofing, and evaluating, but in blogging, I think it’s much more than that; the evaluation part never ends with the blog itself.

  9. July 11th, 2007 at 6:39 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Jesse!
    The part is that you have to leave room for folks to have a conversation . . . but what you offer, when you put stuff for them to talk about needes to be storng and worth their time or they won’t stick around long enough to want to talk. :)

    I read somewhether this week, all of the traffic in the world won’t help if your quality sucks. :) :) :)

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