Blog improvement is a tree whose trunk is vision.

Emerging from the trunk are nine main branches:

1. Blog content improvement – Making your articles, photos, podcasts, videos, etc. better at grabbing your audience’s attention and leaving them constantly satisfied yet hungry for more
2. Blog design improvement – Making your blog look, feel and work better for the people who visit and engage with it
3. Blog community improvement - Building a more vibrant community around your blog
4. Blog traffic improvement – Getting more of the right kind of people to discover your blog, and helping them become its greatest supporters
5. Blog subscribers improvement – Increasing the number and fanaticism of folks who subscribe to your blog’s updates via feeds or email
6. Blog search engine optimization (SEO) improvement – Strengthening your search presence – that is, getting better rankings in major search engines and moving more people through Google/Yahoo!/Bing/etc. searches to your blog
7. Blog social media optimization (SMO) improvement – Working to improve your blog’s presence on various social media, social networking and URL sharing websites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.)
8. Blog conversion improvement – Moving more blog visitors through the process of becoming customers, ad clickers, or even just avid readers
9. Blog value / return on investment (ROI) improvement – Making your blog more worth the time, money, sweat, tears, etc. for yourself and for those who come to it

No matter what kind of blog it is, it’s got these nine areas to possibly improve. Trust me on that one.

I’ve published a free step-by-step guide on how to become a better blog commentator, based on my three-plus years of making an average of approximately 20-30 blog comments per week around the Web.

My goal is to provide you with nothing but the finest resources on blog improvement anywhere on earth. Please check out my Blog Improvement Checklist (complete) and Blog Improvement Resource List (work in progress) for examples of my work.

I’m actually just fixing up the last part of the commenting guide right now so don’t be surprised if you see a dangling participle or misshapen paragraph. I hope you don’t mind.

You can read it online or download a printer-friendly PDF version.

Thank you to everyone who helped me write it.

Please let me know if you find it useful and how I could make it better!