Reboot Your Blog Week 1 Recap
Welcome to Day 8 of the Reboot Your Blog!
Today is a recap day if you’ve not finished any of the past week’s assignments. If you have, it’s a rest day – enjoy!
DAY 08 OBJECTIVE
Catch up on any #31DIMM assignments you’ve not yet finished!
DAY 08 ASSIGNMENT
Review the previous Reboot Your Blog posts and their tasks and complete anything you haven’t gotten to yet:
01 - Take Your Internet Marketing Inventory
- Gather all your domains and sites
- Fill out the Internet Marketing Inventory spreadsheet for each project
02 - Cull The Herd
- Assess your projects based on earnings, time to complete, backlinks, traffic, etc. and determine which are keepers, maybes and losers
- Color-code your Inventory spreadsheet rows as green, yellow and red (for keepers, maybes and losers)
- Ensure you’re not categorizing green or yellow projects as such for emotional reason, if so, re-categorize them as red
- Sell your red sites on Flippa
03 - If Deleting Hurts, You’re Doing It Wrong
- Upgrade operating systems
- Upgrade software (Market Samurai, Screenflow)
- Upgrade phone operating systems / firmware
- Eliminate unneeded and outdated IM files
- Organize remaining hard drive files
- Use Dropbox & Mozy for backups
04 - Look Ma! It’s the FTC!
- Update WordPress
- Update WordPress plugins
- Add a Privacy Policy to your sites
- Update sites’ copyright notice for the current / coming year
- Understand local business license and permit law, start the application process if you are required to do so
- Update sites’ testimonials and product endorsements to comply with new FTC regulations
05 – Preparing For Utter Interwebs Disaster
- Start an automatic backup plan for your WordPress installations
- Planned for moderating comment spam
- Installed WP security plugins
- Started a cacheing plugin
- Run Broken Link Checker plugin
06 – All About You
- Created an “About” page for all of your sites
- Created a “Contact” page for all of your sites
07 - 11 Resources For a Better Looking Website
- Installed modern, appealing themes to all of your sites
- Activated Photo Dropper or found/bookmarked another source for in-post graphics and photos – and committed to using them!
We’ll see you tomorrow for the next step in your Reboot Your Blog!
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It would seem that I’ve tuned in late, and will be forever catching up…. Thanks for tweeting!!!
Any thoughts on what and how on compliance with these guidelines or even if they apply when you don’t use testamonials?