Blogging Mistakes Update
This list is part of the Blogging Mistakes group writing project. If you have a blog or are considering writing one, you might want to have a look through this list. There are some great tips here on common mistakes to avoid when starting your blog. I recommend using to Blog Carnivals, especially when your blog is new. Here are the other submissions:
Green Llama write about starting too many blogs at once:
By trying to juggle a total of 5 blogs ( remember, this is a very-much part time for me, with 80 hour day-job weeks and a family at home to take care of ) , I was losing focus on all of them. My posts were spread out very thin, and the content suffered pretty badly at times.
Denise suggests getting your own domain name straight away rather than starting with a hosted blogging account like wordpress.com:
I started my blog under the name/URL, themarketing411.wordpress.com. Then 6 months later I changed the blog name and the domain (to ViralVoice.net). All of the links gone. Visitors dropped off and it took several months to rebuild.
Dfinitive suggests updating on a regular basis and I agree that this is very important:
I have only been blogging since the 15th January 2007 and started with the best intensions, within a day the second post was live, great I thought. But then other jobs got in the way and before I knew it nearly six weeks has passed, oops.
Ways to Save Money suggests writing a few blog posts at once and then setting them to post over the coming weeks – another great idea.
I spend a day or two each week to write enough posts to last me a week. I schedule them in advance so that I don’t have to worry about whether or not I have posts going up today, tomorrow or for the next week. During the next five days, I am at liberty to think about what other things I should be writing about.
Life Rocks reminds us that it is best practice not to open links in a new window:
One of the mistakes which I did while blogging is opening links in new windows. Initially when I was blogging using Blogger, all links were opened in same window, but when I moved to Wordpress blog, it gave me an extra feature for selecting the target and I always used “Open in new window”.
Mapelli’s biggest mistake was not blogging and I couldn’t agree more. Get blogging now!
Getting the right permalink structure from the start. I couldn’t agree more and regret my current permalink structure. I’ve corrected this for new blogs but do regret how I set up this blog.
When I did start to figure out how to use a smart link structure after reading some about it, I set up the pretty ‘common’ and simple structure ‘/%postname%.html. While this works pretty good – in fact, it’s close to ideal, as it displays the post title and still looks a bit like a static page because of the .html postfix, which is my own favorite, but I doubt it has any ‘real’ purpose.
Other blogging tips:
- Beer Wine and Food writes why the blog looks the way it does.
- Tech Traction does an honest assessment of the blog.
- Didn’t You Hear writes about the importance of a name.
- You need a vision for your blog according to Shawn.
- Clever Dude writes on the perils of using other people’s images.
- Blog Talks make a couple of suggestions.
- Comment wisely suggests Hamelife.
- Madhur says to add images to your posts when you can.
- Daily Blog Tips advises to install your blog in the root directory of your site.
- You need traffic before you run a contest.
- Bill2me mentions a few regrets.
- How not to run a contest by Robert.
- 5 mistakes from Vijay.
- Be careful what you write about.
- Lack of predictability can be a problem.
- Don’t bother link begging.
- Blogging tips and tricks.
- Don’t monetise your blog too early.
- Finglish.
- Shankar’s Tech Blog writes about tagging your posts.
- Self discipline and blogging.
- Delete your first blog post.
- Don’t be vague.
- Get your own domain name. Don’t even think twice about it I’d add.
- Don’t underestimate the commitment.
- Learn from your mistakes.
- To make money online.
- Get your own domain name.
- Get your feed organised.
- Be careful when upgrading.
- Blogging is all about relationships.
- Comment on other blogs.
- Be persistent. It takes time to build a successful blog.
- Another vote for getting your own domain.
- JDsBlog tips.
- More domain advice.
- Now you’ve got your domain, what about hosting?
- Too many blogs is a common beginners mistake.
- Do your own thing.
- When you don’t have anything to say.
Well that’s it. Sorry this is off topic but a little marketing is required now and then so… Oh, before I forget (and while I’m off topic anyway) I’ll put in a quick plug for the Wonder Cooker which is an all in one cooker so it’s a slow cooker, steamer, grill and deep fryer.
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