Reboot your Blog: FIN
Welcome to day 31 of Reboot your Blog!
Cheers! Hip hip hooray!
It seems like just yesterday you were starting off and yet…
It’s the end of a long road, isn’t it?!
No!
I mean, yes it’s the end of Reboot your Blog, but it’s not the end of the road for you pushing your sites and your business to be exceptional. To rise above the rest and become the example others strive towards.
I’ve put a pretty exceptional amount of work into creating this resource for you too! And while I haven’t asked for a thing during the Reboot your Blog, today I’m going to.
Share this incredible resource with your Twitter friends and Facebook fans. If you have a mailing list, let them know about Reboot your Blog. Bloggers, let your audience know what’s available for them in Reboot your Blog.
You’ve had 30 days with me and I’ve held nothing back. Now I ask this one thing of you. Let people know about Reboot your Blog. This is the page to refer people to so they can signup and experience it for themselves.
So that you have easy access to all of the course material, here’s a complete Table of Contents you can bookmark and refer back to at any time:
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- Eliminate unneeded and outdated IM files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!
08 – Week 1 Recap
09 – Your Niche is Evolving – Are You?
- Reaffirm that your main keyword phrase has proper competition and traffic, if not, select a new one
- Reaffirm that your long tail keyphrases have proper competition and traffic, if not, select new ones
- Find new long tail keyphrases that may not have existed or been attractive when you first researched your niche
10 – Know What Your Competition Doesn’t
- Install Google Analytics on all of your sites
- Link Google Analytics with Google Adsense
- Create an XML sitemap for each of your sites and submit those sitemaps to the search engines
- Create a Google Webmaster Tools account and add your sitemap(s)
11 – Search Engine Bait
- Optimize your home page for your main keyword phrase
- Install WordPress SEO by Yoast
- Optimize the long tail pages for their individual keyword phrase
12 – Linking To Your Own Content
- Set up automatic internal linking
13 – Open Wide And Stick Out Your Content
- Identify pages on your site that aren’t receiving traffic
- 301 redirected old, low traffic pages
- Updated old posts that could still be helpful to your audience
14 – Making Fresh Content Easy
- Loaded up your Google Reader account
- Opened a Posterous account and added your blog as an autopost location
- Started using Posterous to post curated content to your site with meaningful commentary and insights from you
15 – Week 2 Recap
16 - Earn More From The Same Number of Visitors
- Determine what questions your market wants the answer to that you can provide as an incentive to sign up for your email list
- Determine what format you’ll provide it in (video, audio, email course, PDF, articles on your site, etc.)
- Create the incentive piece
17 - Turn Your Niche Website Into a Real Business
- Get an autoresponder service
- Load your autoresponder with a series of messages
- Publish your opt-in form on your website
18 - Tracking & Optimizing Visitor Profitablity
- Add a “Goal” to your Google Analytics account
- Watch for Goal trends in your keyword and referring sites reports
- Capitalize on those trends by driving more traffic from sources that convert well
19 – Which Way Did He Go George?
- Open a CrazyEgg account
- Begin your first CrazyEgg test of your homepage
- Schedule a time in the future to check & act on your heatmap results
20 – Follow the SEO Trendline
- Start your Google+ account
- Add rel=me authorship markup to your site
- Add social sharing buttons to your site
21 – You Do You
- Added Buffer to your workflow
- Replied to conversation on social sites
- Set a time for this “social media” participation each day
- Set up your iPhone / Android so you can do this work on the go, when you want to
22 – Week 3 Recap
23 – Get THIS on Top of Your Backlinks
- Pull your current backlinks from Google Webmaster Tools
- Decide on a “backlinks for backlinks” service
- Start a process for adding your backlinks to the service
24 – Generate Link Building Momentum
- Review your current rankings and get real about what you’ve done in terms of link building – and how you’ll deal going forward
- Decide on what link building service is a good match for you going forward
- Consider outsourcing your link building
25 – Smart Syndication
- Submit your site to blog directories
- Submit your site to RSS directories
- Submit your site to podcast directories
- Add new posts going forward to Twitter, Google+ and Facebook
26 – Generate New Leads and Drive New Traffic
- Research the top 10 blogs in your niche to guest post on them
27 – Retrieve Lost Visitors
- Check and see if your current 404 page is actually helpful to your readers
- Created a custom 404 page that gives visitors other resources on your site to check out
28 – Satellite Sites
- Opened accounts on Tumblr and Pinterest
- Posted to them as a “normal” person – not in your niche! Get to know the environment!
29 – Week 4 Recap
30 – The Trusted System
- Decide on a trusted system for capturing to-do items
- Have a “brain sump” session where you add EVERYTHING you can think of into your trusted system
- Commit to accomplishing 1 to-do item per day (that’s a minimum to get you started!)
Let me know in the comments how Reboot your Blog went for you overall. Was it helpful?
Remember, this isn’t the end of the journey. YOU are meant for great things.





The effort that you put into this is appreciated. I found the information to be quite helpful and informative. Each day, I looked forward to see what the next installment was going to be.
Top Stuff Michelle!
I’ve managed to get things done that have been plaguing me for months. I reckon my businesses are closer to what I’d hoped for now than ever before.
Also, just updated the SS from Day 1 – Take Your Inventory.
I’m amazed at the change. I’m more amazed that I didn’t notice the change until I checked the spreadsheet…
I’d just like to say thanks for helping me do more and understand my businesses.
Goodonya!
Michelle
Thanks for all of the effort you put into this. I’ve picked up some pretty valuable resources I wasn’t aware of and I’m going through all of this a second time to make sure I captured it all.
Take care
This is/was brilliant. Highly recommended. The WordPress Plugins alone improved all my sites. There have been so many sticking points that have been cleared up. Thank you. I’m so grateful.
Thank you, Michelle. I wasn’t able to go with you day by day, and in fact I’m over a week behind, but I know you’ll keep this series available for a while and I’ll at least get one site upgraded by mid-Feb.
Thanks for the summary and the entire month of work! I realize everything you put into each and every post and appreciate it more than words can express. Thanks again!
Thanks for this Michelle, was a great series on all the stuff we should be doing!