Most Common Mistakes of New Bloggers

This is a very interesting post, but first of all let me give you two reasons why most new bloggers don´t succeed. These are also the main reasons why they make so many mistakes the first months of their blogging experience.

Reason number 1 – Because they don´t realize about the importance of blogging and about all the opportunities this activity offers. Many of these new bloggers don´t know how to blog , they just want to own a space to write and share with others. They don´t see it as a real business or maybe they are just afraid about it. Big mistake.

Reason number 2 – Because they simply don´t care. They don´t want to make money at all. These kind of bloggers forget their blogs after some weeks. It is not important for them or they have more important things to do.

Now the mistakes, these are very common, and believe it or not we all have commit at least one of them while blogging. The best advice is to avoid them as much as you can.

Mistake 1 – To always write about yourself instead of a good topic. Ok, there are few successful blogs out there where the main conversation is about the author´s life and hobbies, but lets face it, no one wants to read about you, unless you are a famous businessman or a famous celebrity, but also in those cases what people really want to read is about your experience and about your knowledge. So pick a good topic and stick to it.

Mistake 2 – Not updating. Yes, there are a lot of “death” or “dried” blogs out there, because their authors stopped updating them. Many bloggers stop updating their blogs after two or three weeks because they give up too soon in their blogging adventure, remember, success takes time. No matter what just keep updating as much as you can. Write frequently.

Mistake 3 – To forget your readers. I think that a blog is nothing without its readers, a good blogger is the one that cares about them. If you want to be a successful blogger just listen to your readers and try to please them, give them what they want, and always, remember, no readers, no money, no success therefore no blog.

Mistake 4 – Not replying to comments. This mistake is very similar to number 3, interact with your readers, this will increase loyalty and readership. If someone makes you a suggestion show them that you are paying attention to what they are writing to you and a good way to do so is to reply to that comment.

Mistake 5 – Not being unique. As I said one of the reason why many new bloggers fail is because they don´t know how it works, because they don´t know that they have to be unique and different, that´s what people are looking for. So don´t copy and use your own style. You can always write about the same things as the other blogs but try to be different, write your own opinion about that topic and go further.

Mistake 6 – To hide subscription options. There are many blogs , good ones in fact with no subscription options available, or with hidden RSS buttons at the bottom of the page, this is not a good thing to because you want to keep your readers informed and you want them to keep coming to your blog , so give them what they want, show them all the options you have available.

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