I decided to participate in Bookending Winter, and Tidyathon is a part of that. Originally I didn’t think I was going to participate, but the more that I thought of it, the more motivated I became. Tidyathon is basically a month long event where a bunch of us tidy up our blogs. If you want to read about it please click here! Everyone is welcome to join.
So for Tidyathon there are a lot of things I want to accomplish. I will post weekly updates about what I’ve accomplished.
What I Hope to Accomplish During Tidyathon
- Find broken links and fix them.
- Remove 15 titles from my TBR instead of 5 when participating in the weekly TBR Lows and Highs.
- Take some photos for standard graphics.
- Hand letter titles for standard graphics
- Create some standard graphics for things like reviews and blog tours.
- Update Review and Giveaway pages that are both super out of date.
- Finalize my logo and get it up on my blog.
- Cross post some reviews to Amazon.
- Use Kaleena’s spreadsheet and get ALL of my ARC’s into it.
- Look through my emails and make sure that all of my author requests are on my Goodreads list.
- Organize a reading schedule for ARCs on TBR.
- Update How to Get ARC’s post with resources that I have bookmarked.
- Create Most Anticipated Winter Releases blog post.
Obviously I don’t think that I’m going to accomplish all of this in one month, but I need to start working on it and the Tidyathon is a great reason to get a little bit more organized. The timing of Kaleena’s spreadsheet is perfect for this event.
Let’s Chat!
Are you participating in Tidyathon? What things do you need to do to clean up your blog? Do you have any tips for any of this stuff? What other maintenance tasks do you think I should include? How do you keep everything organized?
What tool/tools do you use to check your links? I would love to run something but I am not self-hosted.
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LOL I literally just asked the same question on Twitter as I am not self hosted either. Hopefully someone can enlighten us on how to do this. There HAS to be a way.
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I sure would think so. Would you mind letting me know if you get a response on twitter?
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Of course!
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I just got a response, I don’t know if you saw it!
https://www.uptownoracle.com/blogging-101-tidy-up/
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FABULOUS!!! Thanks!!
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I just went through them all. I had 21 broken links. Was able to fix them all in about 20 minutes. It made it very easy.
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Oh my gosh! That is GREAT!
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I hope that you get your links fixed too!
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That will be on my to-do list for tomorrow! 🙂
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That’s great. This tidyathon is really motivating.
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ok, ok guys I found the post! Becky participated in the first ever Tidyathon and in her post she include the website we can use to check broken links!
https://www.uptownoracle.com/blogging-101-tidy-up/
also I love that list, it’s ambitious and varied. Most of mine is gonna be reformatting, formatting after I finish the graphics and goodreads xD
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Thank you so much! It’s really ambitious, and I probably will not accomplish it all, but at least it is all written out and I know what I want to accomplish!
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EXACTLY! it’s written out, you know what you’re aiming for 🙂
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I just did the broken links. I thought I didn’t have any! I had 21! I fixed them all in like 20 minutes. That thing is a lifesaver.
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yeah I do not want to look through mine, I know I’ll have a crap ton thanks to my weekly wrap ups so erm….I’m just gonna leave them broken cause this is how we do it on Book Dragons….unless of course it’s my own links xD I’ll fix internal broken links haha
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LOL I just fixed them all in less than 20 minutes, soooo I think it was worth having on the list. It didn’t take me long and I get to cross it off.
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We should both BR our ARCs together and have the same schedule if we can. That way we can encourage remind each other about when we need to post stuff. 😛
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That would really help! Do you have all your ARCs on a Goodreads list?
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Uh kind of. I keep changing my shelves. I just have to go into Netgalley and Edelweiss and put them on my shelf again. Takes me like 20 min max? I only have like 30 ARCs right now. 🙂
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Okay, you already know I have more than that. Once they’re done let me know and I’ll see what we have in common.
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Done! It’s my ARC Netgalley and ARC Edelweiss shelves. 🙂
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Okay I’m going to look through. I just went through my TBR and requested titles that were on Edelweiss, as I don’t look through their catalog much. So I might get some of those titles later.
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Oooh. *fingers crossed*
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Good luck with the tidyathon, I am also participating!
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I have a pretty ambitious list. But I have already fixed all my broken links and worked on a few graphics! I am going to post some updates along the way.
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