How to Improve a Blog

I saw that problogger has a one question interview series, and an interesting question.

What one thing did you do on your blog in 2007 that improved it the most?

The responses should prove helpful to anyone interested in making money from blogging.

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/12/27/one-question-interview-summer-series/

Here is my response:

I actually got the idea to start blogging in 2007 from http://problogger.net. I started http://systemnotesorg.blogspot.com with the idea that if my posts were useful to me whenever I needed to remember how to do something, then they would be useful to other sysadmins.

The one thing that put my blog on the map was to publish a 17-page study guide for a Red Hat Linux certification -- the RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer). Within a week of publishing, the traffic went from a few visits a day to over 500, and then gradually tapered off to around a hundred a day.

People say content is king for a blog. That may not always be true, but in this case some comprehensive, quality, original content that people want made a huge difference.

I used google analytics to watch what people were searching for, and saw that people were interested in RHCE topics. That's when I decided to publish my guide.