Blogging can be a challenge for even the most successful blogger. Staring at that ‘blank page’ and trying to decide what to write can be totally overwhelming at times. And while most of us claim that we just write because we love to, the truth is we often really just want to know that someone out there is reading it. One of the goals of Arkansas Women Bloggers is to help YOU become a better blogger. Another goal is to bring traffic to your blog. We have listened to your feedback, taken your ideas and formulated some new approaches to achieving these two goals. Today I want to invite you to join us on a really fun blogging challenge.
Why should you participate in a blogging challenge?
- We provide the daily ideas for you! No thinking about WHAT to write, you just have to write it.
- The LinkyTool will make your blog post visible to other participants and site visitors hopefully generating a bit more traffic.
- You will have the opportunity to visit other blogs and leave comments and hopefully find a new friend or two!
- Involvement in the community of Arkansas Women Bloggers can lead to lots of great opportunities! We have several Arkansas businesses watching our site and looking for people who stand out and are involved in AWB.
- Prizes! We can’t tell you what the prizes are yet but there WILL be prizes awarded to a few lucky participants!
Each day of the Blogging Challenge we will have a reminder post for the daily topic and a link up tool where you can submit your post. In addition to entering your own post we want to encourage you to visit 2-3 other bloggers that have also linked up and leave a comment on their blog. Hopefully you will find a new favorite blog while you are looking around! Each post is meant to be broad so that you can be creative on how you address the prompt or how you fit it into your blogging niche. We can’t wait to read all of the wonderful things you write!
Here is a sneak peak at the prompts for each day of BLOGtober Fest:
Moday, October 15 – Fall Fashion and Decorating
Tuesday, October 16 – Halloween Memories
Wednesday, October 17 – Fall Traditions
Thursday, October 18 – Promote a Post from the Past
Friday, October 19 – {Foodie Friday} Favorite Fall Recipes
Interested in joining? Please sign up below. You must be signed up here to be eligible for any prizes.
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love this idea! I am trying so hard to plan posts out in advance (I have two done for this week!) and I need these kinds of challenges to keep me moving forward. Thanks, ladies!! 🙂
So glad! I hope we get lots of participation! I’ve been working on this idea for a while! ~Julie
Awesome! I’m going to be out of town that week, so I can schedule them all. What time will the link ups go live? I’ll be at a work conference in Vegas and will have to post to it during the day. Would be awesome if the linkups could go live early morning. 🙂
Bittney – I will set all posts and linky’s to go live at midnight that week. Hope that helps! All Linky’s will close at midnight on October 22nd.
What a fun topic for my first challenge!
I will be on vacation in Disney this week. So wish I could sign up, but not sure I will have time to write everyday. 🙁
I will def be checking out thoses who do blog though.
I’m in! Call me crazy but I’m already doing the 31 Days of 2012 challenge so what’s one more? I’m really enjoying getting back to blogging and feeling creative again.
Is there a hashtag for this challenge?