So many blogs are launched on a daily basis, but only few make it to their cherished goal for which they were started. Most of them die a premature death. To ensure a successful blog requires professional discipline from you as a blogger. The following are some of the most common blogging mistakes that you should avoid.
Most new bloggers start with a false notion that blogging will enable them make quick money, on the contrary blogging requires time and persistent efforts to yield results. It takes focused efforts to make your blog known and popular. Therefore it takes time and continuous dedication to start making money on your blog.
Before you even start a blog, you need to decide on a single niche, which you want to blog about. Failing to do so, is perhaps one of the biggest mistake made by bloggers. Don’t choose multiple niches. Your audience/readers should be clear about what they get from your blog. It should be a niche that you are passionate about. Also having a single niche, is good for search engines as it helps search engines to position your blog hence directing visitors to your site looking for topics about the niche you are writing about.
The content you write should not be copied, it should be original. You should start by researching the topic before you actually begin to write the content on the blog. This enables you to write unique content that is useful to your readers. Your content should have value and easy to read. Quality content is the main influencing factor for your visitors.
Over stuffing your content with keywords to rank high on the search engine results page can spoil the flow and relevancy of the content. Though your content can rank high on the search engines, but it may be of no value to the visitors as they simply fail to understand what the content delivers to them. Make a compromise, whereby your content is liked by both your readers and the search engines.
Starting a blog is one thing, and maintaining it through frequent writing of posts is another. Choose a frequency say weekly or monthly and stick to it. If you don’t write regular content on your blog, then you tend to lose visitors and this can affect your search engine rankings too. A blog with no fresh content becomes stagnant and is equivalent to a dead blog. Blogging on a regular basis is vital element for a successful blog. This helps to keep a regular flow of traffic of visitors to your blog.
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If you just write and do nothing, then no one will visit your blog. You need to use social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn to get vital source of traffic to your blog. You also need to use Content promotional Communities like Quibb, Feedly, Quora to drive more traffic to your blog.
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Your fellow bloggers especially in the same niche with whom you have a good relationship can comment on your posts, write about your posts, providing quality back links which is good for SEO and they can also share your posts on social media hence enabling your posts to reach wider audience.
By not replying to comments, you tend to discourage your readers from further commenting. Some may stop visiting your blog altogether. Reply to the comments on your blog to ensure your blog remains popular with your audience.
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On-Page SEO involves tasks like proper headings, title tags, font size of the content, proper formatting of the points in your content, setting up image size etc. On-page SEO helps your content rank high in SERPs and thereby stand a better chance to gain a lot of traffic to your blog.
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Link building is an important factor in the overall SEO. The more backlinks you have on your post, the greater the preference you get in search engine results hence more traffic to your blog. If you don’t do link building then, you are losing out traffic to your site.
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I admit #1 &2 were my downfall. I started a blogging a few months ago and literally wasted countless hours on end for 2 months straight months only to think of money and my blogs were all over the place. Constantly worried about visitors, not getting feedback, and the worst money. I've shyed away from the money aspect because of the constant feedback and number of visitors on a daily basis. Thank you for this I hope new bloggers see this and don't make the mistake I have made. Good article.
Hi, thanks for your comments. The first few months of blogging should be wholly be dedicated to developing the blog. With a good blog, with great content, you will attract audience and money will follow. Build a blog, promote it, get traffic, then monetize. That should be the procedure. Not the other way around.
Great information. My biggest struggle is picking one single niche. For me, blogging has always been able writing out whatever comes to mind. That's my next goal for my blog, though.
Hi, thanks for commenting on Business and Life Blog. Picking a single Niche has many Advantages as compared to handling multiple niches. You can have a given niche but handle different topics under the same.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
Thank you for these great tips, writing regularly and having great content is key to not only keep your readers wanting more but also teaching them something in return. Great post.
Hi Joan, thanks for your comments. Yes, writing quality posts on a regular basis keeps your blog live. This maintains the blog's traffic.
Very helpful! I just started my blog a few months ago. I am currently working on 6, 7, and 10! This is very clear and concise. A good read. Thanks!
Hi Brenda, I too started just recently, am working to be a better blogger daily.
Thank you for sharing. This help out those of us that are new to this.
As a beginner blogger I find these tips very useful. Happy to come across your page it's a great resource!
Hi Sarah, I appreciate your comments on this. You can use this as a reference.
Thanks for the comments.
I am so glad I started blogging frequently! It has really made a difference. And you are definitely right about monetizing your blog! It takes constant attention and it's not as easy as I thought it would be!
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Hi, thanks for your comments. You can earn an income from blogging, but it takes time and a lot of work to reach that point.
Thank you so much for this post John, it has been most useful!
Blogging takes time, money and effort, had to learn the hard truth through experience.
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Thanks for your comments, to be successful, you need to have patience and persistence as a blogger.
Thank you for all of these tips! They are so helpful and I appreciate you sharing.
Hi, thanks for commenting on Business and life Blog.
Some of these are difficult for me to work on, but these are all so very true. I think a professional presence, even for "just a day in the life" kind of blog is paramount as well.
Hi Brittany, you don't need to work on all of the above, just start somewhere, and with time everything will work out as you discover more and more information with regard to blogging world.
This is incredibly helpful for a relatively novice blogger like myself. I started my site in November and I'm always trying to learn more about making my site better... this is truly helpful :-) thank you!
Thanks for your comments. Am not an expert either.I started my site last year in December, but I keep on learning new things everyday.