Taking The ProBlogger 7 Post Challenge

This post is inspired by ProBlogger Darren Rowse‘s post 7 Links for Bloggers in which he took his own 7 link challenge and wrote a sneeze page post about his past shenanigans on his blog. This is my attempt to take his challenge and do the same, hope you enjoy!

1. Your first post – The very first post I wrote here on Code My Own Road was a bit of a weird one, it’s called Why Am I Doing This?. It’s one of those “What the hell am I doing” type of posts. I think I’ve reduxed this many times over (probably each time this blog has reinvented itself actually).
2. A post you enjoyed writing the most – This one is actually an early one, I did a really cool comparison chart of the three hosting services I was tossing up at the time. This article is still one of my most viewed posts, I really should tidy it up.
3. A post which had a great discussion – I don’t get loads of comments here on Code My Own Road, but I still wish I could choose two. Okay, it has to be my post Stop Talking About Doing, And Do. I was basically shitted off at my self when I was writing that post and I think it came through in the writing. It’s only got 10 comments at this stage, and even though it’s long winded and not very well structured I think it was the most “me” in a post I’d written in a long time. Obviously I struck a chord.
4. A post on someone else’s blog that you wish you’d written – It has to be Chris Ashworth’s article on pricing called My 2 Bucks On Pricing. I came across it via Karol Gajda a month or two ago. Best damn article I’ve ever read on pricing products, go and read it NOW.
5. A post with a title that you are proud of - I just love the title of my post The Lazy Mans Guide To Designing Your Customer’s Website. I mean, you would click on that, right? Right??
6. A post that you wish more people had read – This has got to be my little two part series on Branding that I did ages ago (Branding part 1, branding part 2). I wrote it at the time the company I was working for was going through a major rebranding effort so I was trying to learn what I could from the experience. I actually spent quite a bit of time on that and it was disheartening to see that it didn’t really get the attention I was hoping it would.
7. Your most visited post ever – Going by raw Page Views alone, it’s actually a post that I deleted (Stupid, Stupid, Stupid – Where’s the list for top 7 most stupid mistakes? I seem to have done them all!). The post was called How To Get Google Wave Sandbox Access Plus Cool Resources and in a month or so it shot through over 1700 visits. I was having a mid-blog-life crisis at the time though and stupidly deleted the post because it didn’t gel with everything else I was writing about. I just randomly got excited about Google Wave when I first heard of it and wrote a post or two for no real reason. I instantly regretted deleting the thing and I was punished in due course by Google for it. My Page Rank went from 3 to 0 and all my search visitors dried up overnight. My PageRank and search ranking are still recovering to this day almost 6 months after I finally figured out how to correct the problem.
   My next most popular post (that still exists to this day) is a really early one called 7 Free Corporate Ready WordPress Themes. It routinely ranks for corporate wordpress theme keywords and has recently started to send me a lot of traffic for some reason. Only took 12+ months for it to start ranking in Google, haha! But I think it’s great because this little sucker took me 5 minutes to knock up and has provided over 600 unique page views, most of which came in the past couple of months. I like those low-effort, high return type posts.

That was pretty fun! If you want to take the 7 post challenge. Check out Darren’s 7 post challenge article for details.

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