PB031: How to Plan the Next Steps For Your Blog [Day 31 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog] - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

Congratulations for making it to day 31 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. If you're new to the series - check out previous episodes here.

How to Plan Your Next Month of BloggingToday's episode is about how you can plan the next steps for your blog. Great blogs are built upon many small but consistent useful actions over time. We look at how you can use the last 31 days of challenges to set up healthy blog habits and make them stick. 

Street of the Valley of Fire by Andi Hofstetter on 500pxIn this Episode
You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). Today we talk about:

How to make healthy blog habits stickHow to create content on a regular basis
How to promote your blogHow to grow your blog community
How to keep up with blog admin tasksHow did you go with today's challenge?
What are the next steps for your blog? What habits will you try to establish for the health of your blog?I'd love to hear about your experience in the comments below.
Want more activities?There are 7 bonus days in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog workbook.

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Compress to smaller transcript viewWelcome to day 31 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog and the 31st episode of the ProBlogger podcast. Congratulations on making it to the end of our 31-day challenge. Those of you who've been doing it on a daily basis have achieved an amazing feat by getting through this month and those of you who are still catching up, that's totally fine as well. You hopefully will have seen some real benefits from your blog.

In today's episode ongoing to talk about planning the next steps, particularly looking at the next month, and trying to build some habits based upon some of the things that we've covered over the last 31 days. You can find today's show notes at problogger.com/podcast/31. Let's get into today's episode.

Hi, this is Darren from ProBlogger and welcome to 31 Days to Build a Better Blog, day 31. Congratulations on making it to day 31. Hopefully, you've found some of the challenges that we've done over the last 31 days to be useful. I know I've really enjoyed putting this podcast together. It's got me back to some of the basic tasks that I've been talking about for many years that I've started to do a little bit more myself over the last 31 days and have seen some real improvements in my own blogging over this period. I hope it's been true for you.

Since I created the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog program a number of years ago now, tens of thousands of bloggers have walked through it, both in the workbook but also on the blog and I guess now in the podcast. I've had the opportunity to connect with many bloggers who've been through the process and I've heard all kinds of stories about how it's helped people to improve their blogs. I'd love to hear your stories as well if you'd like to shoot them to me on Twitter or Facebook. There's one observation that I've made of those bloggers who've had the most success with this program and I wanted to share that today.

The people who seem to have benefited the most have gone beyond the 31 days. They've taken these challenges, or at least some of the challenges, into the rest of their blogging. Now, not every challenge that we've covered over the last 31 days is going to be completely relevant to you, your blog, your niche, and the stage that your blog is at. That's totally fine, leave some of them behind. But some of them could be quite useful if you incorporate them into your regular blogging workflow at differ...

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