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2009 was the first full year of How To Make My Blog and it has been quiet a year. There has been an exceptional response to the content featured on my blog. More than 250,000 unique visitors, 490,000+ page views, 3,500 comments, visits from 200+ countries and more than 150 blog posts published.
Join me as I travel back in time and remember this year’s best articles as voted by your page views, comments and social media shares.
Blogging productivity
- Planning to start a blog? Don’t plan it, just blog it!
- Are you a blog consumer or a blog producer?
- 8 tips to optimize your time for blog writing
WordPress blogging
- How to install WordPress – step-by-step guide
- 9 settings I always adjust as soon as I install a new WordPress blog
- Best practices to keep your WordPress blog safe
Blog design
- 6 ways I customized my WordPress blog theme and how
- 8 Thesis theme design tips to make your blog better
WordPress blog plugins
- 24 plugins that I currently use on my blog and why you should use them too
- 18 most downloaded WordPress plugins ever
- Top 5 Twitter plugins to incorporate into your blog
Blog post writing
- 10 elements of style of blog post writing
- 13 blogging lessons learned from Stephen King’s On Writing
- How to put your best blog posts back into the spotlight
- Thoughts on writing timeless blog posts and post bylines
Blogging celebrities
- How Gary Vaynerchuk built a multi-million dollar empire around a video blog
- 8 things every blogger can learn by studying Perez Hilton
- 9 reasons why Mashable rules the social media
Blog traffic
- From 0 to 200.000 visitors, 8 blogging lessons learned
- How to use the year end to grow your blog traffic and subscribers
- How to get your guest post featured at biggest blogs
- Case Study: ProBlogger Guest Post Effect On My Traffic
- How one blog comment can bring you 230+ unique visitors
Blog SEO
- Do not worry about SEO, just concentrate on your blog readers
- Google’s Matt Cutts on WordPress as the best blogging platform for SEO
- How I got my blog from Google PageRank 0 to PR4 in two months
- Top 33 silliest search queries people have found my blog with
Social media
- Make your blog go viral with Twitter ReTweets
- How I got my blog post retweeted by @problogger, @GuyKawasaki and 250 more
- 10 Simple Steps To Increase Blog Traffic Via StumbleUpon
Make money blogging
- How I earned $1000+ in blog revenue last month
- Living the pro-blogger lifestyle by selling you the blogging dream
Blogging tips
- 58 ways to build a better blog
- 6 steps to make your blog visitors loyal commentators
- How Google Wave will reshape the blogging world forever
- 90 awesome blog posts that inspired my blog’s growth in 2009
Happy blogging in 2010
I would like to say a big thank you to all the HowToMakeMyBlog readers, thanks for being the part of the experience. Please share this post with your friends that need some blogging inspiration and advice. I wish you all the best in the 2010!
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Happy New year Marko, this year your blog has plenty of resourceful articles and thats helped us a lot. Hey do you allow guest posts please do tell me about it.
Regards
Vishal Sanjay
Yeah, I do. Please do get in touch via the contact form with your ideas for the guest post and I will get back to you.
Hey Marko,
These are great stats, sounds like you’ve had a terrific year.
Wishing you greater success in 2010
Happy New Year mate
Thanks, all the best to you too!
Happy New Year Marko, in 2009 your blog has given good tips to reader. The post you have given really need to any marketer to achieve like you!
I need few advance tips how create guest posts from you. Can you give few hints.
Same way you create any other posts, make them the best you can. There are few articles on it in my archives. All the best in the new year!
Wonderfull job by you marko usefull articles which will help beginners.
I wish u a very HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Thanks for the ideas you put forth here. It’s great to see someone else’s personal experiences.
Happy New Years to you Marko! Sorry I disappeared for awhile
but now I am back!
I am back as a frequent reader of your wonderful blog.
Regards,
Kai Lo
Happy new year to you too!
great collection indeed, happy new year and all the best for whole 2010 year.