This is a master list of all the blog improvement advice I share on Twitter.

Follow me on Twitter and you’ll see dozens of blogging tips throughout the week, interspersed randomly among my other updates (blog consulting client work, fun links, conversation with blogging friends, etc.).

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Blog Improvement Tips by Easton Ellsworth

1. Link out more.
2. Eliminate waste. Simplify-implify-implify. Your readers need all the focusing help they can get.
3. Consider your true purpose in blogging. Do all your blog-related activities aid or hinder in its achievement?
4. Publish content as regularly as possible. Readers like predictability.
5. Ask a total stranger to look at your blog and tell you what they like/dislike most.
6. For SEO, give all images keyword-filled file names. e.g. “blue-eye-iris.jpg,” not “DSCF0043.jpg.”
7. Use http://browsershots.org/ to test whether your blog appears properly in different Web browsers.
8. Check your blog’s traffic once a day for anomalies. Just once!
9. Ask your blog visitors why they like your blog and what they would change.
10. Privately surprise a random blog visitor with a free sample of whatever you have to offer. Make their day.
11. Use a loaded post template for faster and better blog content publishing.
12. Keep track of your time. Blogging likes to suck time. Know where you spend it.
13. Get people together. Run a contest, lead a project, host a meetup. Build a bonfire.
14. Use a tool like Jing to record and share screencasts/screenshots on your blog.
15. Use the Technorati blog directory and BlogCatalog Search to find bloggers.
16. If you want your blog visitors to do something, just ask them simply, clearly, directly and politely.
17. Write everything down. Every little half-baked idea. You’ll have blog post ideas coming out of the wazoo.
18. Publish for the same audience of one every time. Picture her in your mind. Smell her thirst.
19. Publish when most of your target audience is reading online (e.g. 6-8 am U.S. Eastern time Mon-Thu).
20. Once a month, take a few minutes to insert relevant links in your older posts to some of your newer posts.
21. Love the people and have fun. Do those six words eternally and your blog will succeed, guaranteed.
22. Base everything you do with your blog on building relationships that lead to mutual benefit.
23. Tell your blog visitors exactly what you want them to do and how to do it. Are you sure you’re doing that?
24. Talk to your blog visitors. No, really talk to them. In person’s best, phone is 2nd, email distant 3rd.
25. Keep an integrated publishing calendar for your blog and social media pages. Know what to say and when.
26. Develop faith in yourself as a community leader, hope for a successful blogging future and love for your blog visitors.
27. Once a month, evaluate your blog’s growth and progress. Adjust goals as needed. Amazing how few do this.
28. Check Google Trends, Twitter Search or another memetracker to find hot search terms to blog about.
29. Watch carefully what your blog visitors do. What do they ignore? What do they embrace?
30. Infuse lyrical power into your blogging. Forget that many will never recognize it. Those who do will be rocked.
31. Do all you do in your blogging to serve other people.
32. Make sure your blog content tells a story that readers will want to hear again and retell.
33. Evaluate your blog content once a month. Did it do what you wanted it to do?
34. Spend more time improving your blog content than anything else – design, community, monetization, etc.
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36. Relax. Work like a burro, but relax.
37. Remember that numbers are meaningless by themselves. Your blog audience is people, not digits.
38. Be consistent. Consistency is the feeding trough for long-term blog growth.
39. Write your blogging goals in one place. Review them regularly and track your progess in one place.
40. Never give up. Blogs are notorious for being abandoned frequently.
41. Less is not more. More is more. So make more of the best stuff you’ve got.
42. Visit your blog from a stranger’s computer. Does the design work as well?
43. Check to see what content appears above the fold. What should be moved up or down?
44. When you fall off your blogging horse, just get right back on. Fresh content is the best apology.
45. Use tools like http://search.twitter.com/ or http://google.com/trends to find hot topics 4 content.
46. Ask: does each thing appearing on your blog really help your visitors, or just you? Zap the fluff.
47. Use http://www.dead-links.com/ regularly to check for broken links on your blog.
48. Coming soon – follow @easton on Twitter or bookmark this page for updates