All I can say is the rest of October is going to be huge for StandOutBlogger as I prepare myself for the next version of Blogging Idol – which starts on the 1st of November! You may remember that the initla success of this blog came from a great performance in the initial Blogging Idol contest, where I placed in the Top10 for largest RSS feed increase. I am looking to improve on my results from last time and my RSS count goal for the end of the year is 500(Been stable around 180 for the last month)!

I have been harnessing the power of networking with other bloggers and I have managed to score myself a bit of a warm up for Blogging Idol, an soon to be published interview about me and my blog and a few creative blog promotion ideas.

So lets take a closer look at what you can expect from StandOutBlogger for the rest of October:

  • 2 Week RSS Challenge With Shannon From InfectedByBugs.com
    After answering Shannons call for a challenge competitor, we have decided on a RSS contest. Launching with a bang on this coming monday, we will have two weeks each to gain the most RSS subscribers for our blogs. We don’t have money on the line. We don’t have prizes for the winner. What we have to fight for is something much bigger and much more important. PRIDE. You will have to wait til we launch on monday to find out what is going to happen at the end, but let me just say ‘PLEASE DONT LET IT BE ME!’ :D

    This is going to be a fantastic warmup competition for me to try and re hone my skills after plateauing a bit ove the last few months, and let me tell you, the ideas are already flowing. I am going to have to kick it up a notch with Shannon having close to 3 times the subscribers as me, but Shannon had better watch out, cause this challenge is mine!

  • I Am Going To Be Interviewed On MomsCashBlog.com
    A short while ago  was contacted by JJ from MomsCashBlog.com and asked if I would be willing to participate in an interview. I readily agreed for a couple of reason:

    1. JJ is a valued regular at my blog
    2. It gives me an opportunity to get StandOutBlogger.com seen by all her visitors! :D

    I have just received all the question and am looking forward to answering them. Just from the questions I can tell this interview will be quite a bit different to most blogger interviews and you wont want to miss it (so I’ll make sure I link back to it when it goes live!)

  • The Blog Debate Concept!
    I am really excited about this one! Adam from Creadiv emailed me just the other day with a very interesting concept to help us both gain more visitors. After chatting with him on MSN for a bit about it I instantly jumped at the opportunity.

    The idea is that we select a topic and it is literally like a debate. I will take one side and Adam the other and we will both write 5-10 points on why we believe our side of the story is the right way for bloggers to go – of course linking to the other bloggers post! This is something I have never seen before and I am looking forward to seeing your response to it.

  • My Most Popular Blog Post Ever
    I know thats a big call but I have already spend a couple of hours researching this and with a fair bit more to go I just know its going to be a hit with the social media websites! Yes it’s a list. Yes it’s blogging related. But for now, that is all you will know. You are going to love this one!
  • Possible Teaking Of My Blog Design
    Although I love my design and it has served me well, especially with branding. I am always seeing new designs and learning new thing, and there are a few things with the design I would like to change. Like:

    • Removing the RSS, latest posts and Social Bookmarking buttons row.
      Looking at it, I don’t think it is that important and is just taking up space and making the design look a little bit cluttered. Of course I would move the rss info the the top of the side bar.
    • Look at better use of individual post pages
      Right now I have the image asking people to subscribe at the bottom of each post, but I think this whole section of the design could be redone to include relevant posts, RSS and social bookmarking buttons, and possible a little bit of advertising.
  • I am looking for guest bloggers because I will be away for a week!
    With all these great things said, I am actually going on a road trip to Sydney for about a week from the 17th-24th of October with two friends of mine. We are mainly going for a one night event called ‘Passion World Tour’ but just chilling, shopping and site-seeing for the rest of the week (with shopping probably being done more than anything else :D)

    The Passion World Tour is a Christian even that will include Louie Giglio speaking, and two massive international names in Christian music, Chris Tomlin and David Crowder Band (I linked to videos instead of their websites because that would give you a quicker idea of what im going on about) I know it probably all doesnt interest you that much, but another thing I am super excited about doing is going to Hillsong Church and Youth when we are down in Sydney. Hillsong is a church produces some of the most sought after music and their youth band United play to crowds of 30,000 all over the world. Here is one of their songs called ‘Point Of Difference‘.

    Anyway, all that aside, I need some guest bloggers for while I’m away – so Shannon doesn’t get ahead of me in our challenge :D. So hit me up if you’re interested!

Well that is the extent of my October (Plus working!). It’s going to be full on, but it should be a whole heap of fun! If you have any thoughts or comments comment below!

Arrows to ecourse

About Thomas Sinfield

Thomas run multiple blogs and is busy testing different strategies and systems to increase profitability and exposure. He is currently working on a new project (yes another blog) that is set to be his most profitable yet.