In the midst of participating in “Be a Better Blogger” over at ClickNewz.com, I decided I just had to have a new blog theme. While I was customizing the theme I tried to incorporate the daily tasks and all of that has kept me very busy for days.

The BABB tasks I worked on over the past few days are:

BABB Day 4 – Sidebar Makeover – The goal of this task was to de-clutter the sidebar. I’m not sure if I’ve succeeded. It certainly is different than it was before and I’ve incorporated some new elements that have to do with the next couple of BABB tasks. There’s definitely more information in my sidebar now than there was before, but I think it’s all readable and worthwhile.

BABB Day 5 – Highlight Posts – This assignment was to feature some popular posts to give direction to new visitors. I chose to highlight some that I think are good starting points for visitors.

BABB Day 6 – Become More Social – The idea here is to make use of Social Media services such as Digg and StumblUpon. Admittedly I’ve been a bit reluctant to get involved in these types of social scenes, but it’s becoming more and more clear that social marketing is here to stay and can be quite valuable to online businesses.

I had joined a couple of blog directories some time ago and one, BlogCatalog happened to email me just a couple days before this task with information about the upcoming launch of their new social dashboard. So I’ve been exploring there and I’ve added other social tools to my blog, including the “ShareThis” tool that allows readers to easily share and bookmark content.

Today’s task will have to wait. I think it’s the most challenging to date. The assignment is to approach the most popular blog in your own niche and present them with a guest post idea. That’s definitely valuable project and I hope to accomplish it by the end of this month.

Right now my plan is to take most of the weekend off!

You might also like these posts:

• No related posts