In blogosphere, almost every blogger claims to have thousands of subscribers, getting lots of traffic and is making big money with his blog but that is right now common all around and has nothing wrong. But the problem arises after sometime when you are telling the fake statistics and you know it’s not going to help you anymore and you need the real thing.
Blogging looks more easy when it has real support of our fans, that is why we should try to avoid some common mistakes, which no doubt can stop the progress of a blog.
Mistake 1 – Worrying about earnings than our Readers
It is very clear than in order for our blog to function properly, we must have some money so that the cost of maintaining a blog can be taken care. But here we have to keep in mind that we are making money with our blog through the web users i.e the readers. I think we should really place ads on our blog for profitability but we must maintain a degree of respect for our readers. We should not treat them as a “Money Making System”.
Mistake 2 – Unconcerned of our blog
Considering that we have blog, we must know that it must be maintained, updated regularly and should correspond to the readers comments. Like first measurement we should answer all the questions,complaints or suggestion that appears from our readers side. Secondly we should take care that we are updating the blog content on regular basis plus also taking a little bit care of our blog design.
Mistake 3 – Not Linking and not getting Linked
For a blog to be known properly in the blogosphere it is important for that blog that it’s articles are linked from other blogs. Moreover a blogger should also consider himself linking other blogs as a part of marketing tactics. This way he can increase the readership on his blog plus he can also increase connections with other bloggers.
“Without connections, a blog practically can not progress.”
Mistake 4 – Wasting time for no reason
If the time you are getting for blogging is not limited then it’s no problem. But bloggers like me who have limited time for blogging should not waste time in stupid things, and the time we get for improving our blog should be considered worth gold. The time we get should be properly utilized in many things like improving the content we are going to provide, try to find different ways to build backlinks and do the best possible things to attract quality traffic to our blog. Wasting time is one of main reason why a blogger doesn’t succeeds. Our blog will improve very less if we don’t manage and utilize the time for blogging properly.
Mistake 5 – Not Participating in other Blogs or Forums
As mentioned earlier in this post; Time is worth Gold. That is why we must manage out time not only for our blog but also to take part in the conversation in different blogs. If you are going to comment, make sure it is not a spam, nor poor, nor by any nature destructive i.e. our comments must be constructive and should possess some degree of kindness, respect and should be helpful or informative for others.
Undoubtedly, all of us might have committed that mistake anytime from the growth of our blog. We must ensure that these mistakes should not happen again and again as it will stop the Progress of your blog.
So go on, think carefully on this article and tell me whether you have done any mistake ever in your blogging journey which could have possibly slowed down the progress of your blog and also do lemme know, what do your think about this article.
That is great advice and I especially like point #1, there are way to many bloggers that just are concerned about making money. The thing is those blogs will not last very long.
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Really good list and all of them are true especially u shuld always reply to your readers then only will they stay on your blog.
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awesome post….loved each word of it…i was suffering from #1 but you cleared my thoughts
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Straight to the point facts. I like it, and wouldn’t have said things any differently. A bit random, but just out of curiosity, how long have you been running Smart Bloggerz Dot Com?
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Basically SmartBloggerz got active in February month of 2009 when it shifted to WordPress platform. Before that it was using blogspot platform for appx. 6-8 months. In the month of September(i think) 2008, I got this domain. Before that it was using a custom domain of blogspot i.e templatestreasure.blogspot.com
@Typhoon, Awesome! You’ve made it quite far in a fairly short amount of time. Keep up the good work.
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This is my first comment on your post. I have read your description about five mistakes which can stop progress of our blog. I think you have insist on appropriate points in your thing. I look forward to your coming posts.
Take number of repeating visitors as your income. Income is not always interms of money. First earn the confidence of your visitors, then you will get what you want. MONEY 🙂
I think the not wasting time point is the hardest to master. It’s very easy to get stuck reading your Twitter stream or your RSS reader and not spend that valuable ‘work’ time on your blog. I’ve found that having a daily timetable allocating all the important tasks a specific time helps and then if I’ve not read all that’s in my reader I just ‘mark all as read’ and move on!
Cheers, Chloe
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I appreciate your points of view. these mistakes looks very common but in fact these make big different in your blog. thanks
This very good post. But i think it depend on the bloggers themselves. If they want other blogger to visit their blogs, they should pay a visit to others as well.
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very important points you have mentioned here.
Most important is don’t be too concerned about earnings…
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