Getting Your Blog Ready For the New Year

Oh and do I have plans this year. Each year blogging has become more fun, more challenging, more rewarding, more exciting, and more habit. I no longer go weeks without touching my blog like I did in the past. It's become a part of my life that not only I look forward to doing, but that I consider important work!So today I wanted to share with you some links I've found from awesome bloggers who have shared their wisdom and insights on blogging, as well as free goodies like an email series to prepare your blog for the new year and blogging checklists!

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1. Kaleidoscope - If you check but only one of these links, let this one be the one! Amanda has created 15 Days to Prepare Your Blog and Yourself for 2015. It's a FREE email series loaded with amazing information and inspiration. And don't worry about signing up late, you will receive all of them! I'm seriously dying over this one, you guys.

2. 10 Must-Read Posts to Make You a Better Blogger - all of these posts were so helpful, from free daily/monthly/yearly blogging checklists to an interview with a lawyer regarding blogging and the law.

3. 50 No-Fluff, Content-Rich Blog Post Ideas - she wasn't kidding, this is a legit list of post ideas and with each idea she expands to give an example. This is one of the first lists I've seen with actual writing ideas that I could use.

4. 29 Tips to Increase Your Productivity as a Blogger - I love these tips because they're all about being productive without letting your passion for blogging turn into an overwhelming addiction! Or an overwhelming stress-fest!

5. 5 Tips to Using Google Analytics to Better Understand Your Blog - Great tips if you aren't very well versed in using Google Analytics. I check mine weekly, mainly to see what my top posts were and where the majority of my traffic is coming from.

6. 7 Great Rules for Submitting Your Writing - some very good tips here! Although I don't think all of them are necessary, but I'm going to make a blog post soon on this subject!

7. Media Kit 101 - I really like this post on putting together a media kit. I need to make one of these, stat!

8. How to Backup Your Blog - boring but necessary, so it's a good thing to know and Fran walks us through the steps for both Blogger and WordPress blogs.

I hope you find these links useful! I pin a lot of blogging-related posts onto my >blogging board<, but sadly so many of them are doozies. I can assure you that these links have been painstakingly perused and approved! Awesome, awesome tips/tutorials/freebies/ideas above!

Do you do anything special blogwise for the new year?