Mistakes that Bloggers Do

There are more than thousands of thousands blogs in internet and surprisingly most of them are dead. Dead means, those blogs do not have any traffic from search engines. A blog can survive with traffic, but what’s the point it it? A blog is where a person writes his thoughts and others comment on it.

There are few common mistakes that a new blogger do. Let’s see what they are so that every blogger read this post do not make those mistakes. Chances that I may skip some points so asking my experienced readers to comment.

1. Lack of Updates
This is the mistake every blogger does, not only new comers but some of the experienced bloggers too. When a new blogger creats a new blog, posts are come like a flood like three or four posts a day. After a month or two, the pace of updates reduces and comes to one post a month. Search engine loves frequently updated websites and tends to rank them high. So, when you create a new blog, do not flood it with new posts, instead, go with a slow but steady frequency of posts all life long. Ow!! That remembers the story of the Hare and Tortoise.

2. Blogging for Money
People think blogging is a quick way to make some cash!! Totally wrong. If you are blooging only for making money online, then blogging in not for you. Of course you’ll have your ROI, but not with a new blog dumped with a few posts. So, blog only for yourself and your readers. Once your blog establishes, you can earn money with it using Ad Networks like Google Adsense.

3. Copying Others
Copy posts from other blogs is what kills a new blog instantly. You might think you are updating your blog regularly, be it some copied content, but in fact, you are pushing your blog to a ban from Search Engines. Copied posts will rank nowhere in search engines and leaves a negative impression on your readers. There are other risks too, like receiving a “copyright infringement letter” from the original author, penalty for duplicate content etc.

4. Blogging for Search Engines
New bloggers too caught up with stuff like stuffing key phrases, density of keywords and making sure the post is 100% search engine friendly. Don’t do this. Write for your visitors, not search engines. You can have the most perfectly written search engine optimized post in the whole internet and yet not ranked number one, just because, search engine follows people. Your visitors will not read your post written for search engines because that makes no sense.

5. Not following other bloggers
The best way to get your blog noticed is by saying hi to other bloggers. The easiest way to do this is to comment on their blog. Do not do it for the sake of getting just a backlink, but contribute something to that post. When you do it, you’ll get noticed and chanced that the readers of that blog come to yours.

Apart from those, you should keep doing SEO to your blog so that your blog gets some ranking in search engines. Without ranking, no traffic and no traffic, no ROI.