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Today’s challenge is another one that I read through on ProBlogger’s site and it immediately clicked with me. Every website that’s been around for a few years suffers from link rot to one degree or another. Sites that you linked to may disappear. Even worse, if you’ve moved your blog from one site/engine […]

Today’s challenge is a relatively simple one, and likely one that you probably do on a regular basis subconsciously. Today we’re just going to do it consciously. Basically, the idea is to spend some time visiting other educator’s blogs that fall into the same niche as yours, and analyze what you see there. […]

Some of the challenges have clearly been targeted more towards people whose blogs are more established. Today’s could be used by anyone, but will probably benefit newer bloggers the most. For those of you that remember webrings, they used to be a way for individual sites to congregate into communities and connect to […]

Raise your hand if you’re within reach of a a device capable of connecting to the internet for about 90% of your waking hours. Ok ok, all of you put your hands down. Between gaming devices, handhelds and mobile phones all being able to connect to the internet, there are so many ways […]

On Teach42.com right now, I have 764 blog posts. I’ve written a few more, but they got lost between transitions before I settled on Wordpress. Of those 764, 10 appear on the landing page. So when someone comes to visit my blog, those are the posts they see. If they have […]

First of all, before we even get started, congrats to everybody who is participating in this challenge! Today marks the halfway point. Some of the challenges have been easy, and others I know have stretched some of you. The second half will be more of the latter than the former. We’ll […]

Since I’m posting this one on a Friday evening at 10:00pm (yeah, the day kinda slipped away from me), and this week’s challenges have been fairly ‘meaty’, I figure it’s time for an easy one. In order to pass this challenge, all you need to do is look at your front page and ask […]

Well, you knew this was coming. Part one of the challenge was zooming in on the blogroll, assuming that your blogroll was even IN your sidebar of course. Part 2, today’s challenge, is to go through the rest of sidebar with a fine toothed comb and de-clutter it. This is one of […]

Well, today’s challenge is the first of a two-parter. The longer you have a blog, the more cluttered your sidebar winds up. New social site? New widget! And it all adds up. Pretty soon your sidebar is a veritable circus of colors, banners and links. It’s time to reign it in, […]

I gotta say, I’ve been blown away by how many people are participating in this challenge! Absolutely fantastic so far, and more people are jumping in every day. It’s never too late to start, and you can always work through these challenges at your own pace. Don’t forget to list yourself on […]