A Gift for the Blog Challenge Participants

Hey gang. I started working on something yesterday. It initially started as something that I wanted to do for myself during this challenge but I decided this morning to make it available to everyone who’s doing the challenge.

When this started, everyone began posting their links in Tiff’s daily blog challenge pages. It became apparent REALLY fast that, while I wanted to go check everyone’s posts out and provide feedback, that it just wasn’t going to happen unless that’s was going to be ALL I was doing… and I have my own business to build too. 🙂

So I started saving the sites as favorites so I could go back to them later that day. I got to a few of them and even registered to get regular updates. I’d put an “*” at the start of the Title when I made them a favorite so that when I went back that night I’d know which ones I’d already subscribed to. But then I’d get wrapped up in getting my own stuff done and didn’t make it back to all of them. Not to mention that when I started saving the Day 2 ones, I had no idea if I’d signed up yet without going to my list of Day 1 posts to find the asterisks.

Not cool… and definitely an organizational nightmare in the making!

So, here’s what I’ve done so that I can have quick access to everyone’s post during my weekends.

I’ve gone to each of Tiffany’s daily posts and pulled everyone’s links from the comments, compiled them by day into a spreadsheet, and saved it as a PDF so everyone can use it.

Important Things to Know

• I only pulled the links where someone said “Here’s today’s post” or “Today’s post is in the CommentLuv link” rather than including all the CommentLuv links automatically. I know that some people are posting new stuff or starting new blogs but they still have other blogs or posts that they may be wanting backlinks for that they may also be including when they comment.

• Another thing to note is that what I’ve listed as “Day 1” or “Day 2” is only in synch with the day that it’s posted on Tiffany’s blog. Here’s what I mean. Tiffany is posting each of her blogging days, which is 5 days a week. Some of us are posting only three days a week, others are posting once per week. What I’m doing is, regardless of what day the participants are one, I’m keeping them with the day they’re being posted on TIFF’s blog. That way, if you find a post you’re looking at that could use some feedback about layout or technical issues, you an immediately go to the link for Tiffany’s blog, do a quick search for the person’s name or blog post title, and provide them feedback there.

• I included a blank column at the beginning of the rows so you can keep track of which blogs you’ve signed up for so that you don’t have to figure it out each time you go read a new post on the site.

• Some of you seem to be linking to your general blog each day rather than the individual posts. If that’s the way you want to keep it, awesome. But for this list, it means that each day’s post will be sending people to your blog, rather than that day’s post. Just an FYI.

• Oh yeah. You’re going to see days with the same person posting more than one post. That’s not a typo… It’s just our folks who are extremely motivated, slightly crazy or simply just never sleep! (Kidding gang… keep up the great work!)

Feedback from Participants

I’ve alphabetized the days by the person’s name (as it shows up on Tiff’s comments). That way you can find everyone’s posts or even your own posts quickly. If you use the list and see that I didn’t include the right link for your challenge post, drop me a note so I can get it changed. I know that this challenge has a lot of people changing the way they blog and I’d like to make sure that you don’t have an old post from a different blog going into your new style stuff. 🙂

And, if you have any suggestions or ideas for improving it it any way, shape or form, please feel free to send those ideas my way as well!! (You CAN’T offend me so please just throw it out there). 🙂

How to Get the List

UPDATE:

Since I’m participating in the challenge for 6 weeks, I’m creating a weekly list, along with a list of the blogs that participants are using for the challenge. The links are here (I’ll update it weekly). They each open in a new page or you can right-click and save.

The Freaking Fantastic Blog and List Building Challenge Participant Blogs

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The Freaking Fantastic Blog and List Building Challenge Participant Posts-Wk-2

The Freaking Fantastic Blog and List Building Challenge Participant Posts-Wk-3

The Freaking Fantastic Blog and List Building Challenge Participant Posts-Wk-4

The Freaking Fantastic Blog and List Building Challenge Participant Posts-Wk-5

I was feeling a bit overwhelmed by the number of blogs I haven’t been able to make it to because I really want to see them all! This seems to be making it a little easier. Hopefully it can do the same for others who might be feeling the same way (I KNOW what Tiff followers are like in the “I want to help” arena!)

I’ll also be adding a link onto my sidebar over the weekend so that you can download an updated version at any time!

**Feel free to let other people know too and share this with your lists. Even though they may not be in the challenge, what everyone’s doing could very well assist them in bettering their own blogs!

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