How To Avoid The 48 Worst Blogging Mistakes
5 Apr
Daily Blog Tips featured a group writing project on how you can learn from bloggers’ biggest mistakes. Glancing through the list is a helpful exercise. Not only will you find good tips for your website, but you’ll also see what separates an irresistible headline from a bland one.
I’ve organized the 48 entries, including one from me, into five general categories, plus a sixth catch-all category where the nature of the advice wasn’t immediately obvious from the headline. Check ‘em out.
Content Ideas and Writer’s Block
- Not Having Drafts Saved for Rainy Days by Inspirationbit
- What to Do When You don’t Have Anything to Say by Philip Liu
- Don’t Underestimate the Commitment by Andrew
- A Clear Point of View is Crucial to Increase your Blog Traffic by George
- Lack of Predictability on Your Posts by Roberto
- The Biggest Blogging Mistake I did was not Blogging by Francesco
- My Biggest Blogging Mistake is not Updating Often Enough by Julian
- Lack of Persistence by Blake
- My Biggest Blogging Mistake: Posting Frequency by Chris
Marketing
- Don’t Forget to Use Blog Carnivals by Andrea
- Careful on How You Tag your Posts by Shankar
- Don’t Ignore the Basics of SEO by Simonne
- Why this Blog Looks this Way by Ben
- Spending Too Much Time Link-Begging by David Paul
- How to Not Run a Contest by Robert
- Trying to Promote my Blog without enough Traffic by Nathan
- Not Commenting Enough on other People’s Blogs by Somu
- Failing to Realize the Importance of Relationships with Readers by Ronald
- Do not Underestimate the Important of RSS Feeds by Kevin
Domain and URL Naming Issues
- Don’t Change the Name by Denise
- Get your Own Domain and WordPress for your Blog by Andrew Flusche
- Be Careful how you Choose your Domain Name by Calvin
- Why you Should Own your Domain Name by Engtech
- Delete Your First Blog Post by Mark Alves (moi)
- Move to your Own Domain Now by Gaurav
- Use a Smart Permalink Structure on your Blog by Leftblank
Number of Blogs
- My Blogging Mistake: Too Many Blogs by Green Llama
- Starting Too Many Blogs by Mohammed
Administration and Organization
- Always Install WordPress on the Root Diretory by Daniel
- I should have included media contents by Madhur
- Learning from Mistakes: Opening Links in New Windows by Nirmal (Daily Blog Tips also discussed this previously)
- Should’ve Gone WP Yesterday! by Jimbo
- Leaving the Amateur League of Blogging: the Hosting Lesson by Rene
- Copying, Mimicking, Duplication by Paper Bull
- Your Blog Will Perish for Lack of Vision by Shawn
- Internet Explorer vs. Firefox Issues by Mark Paddock
Monetizing
- Don’t Make the Mistake of Monetizing your Blog Too Early by Maki
- The Ad King by Jason
Unclear Categories At First Glance
(Interesting headlines in some cases; just can’t immediately determine content without reading the post)
- What is Wrong with my Blog. An Honest Self-Assessment by Bret
- I Almost Ruined Everything by Annie
- Common Blogging Mistakes by Vijay
- 5 Things I Regret About March by Bill
- Mr. Frisky Retreats with his Tail Between his Legs by Rory
- Why Blogs and Blogging Will Ruin your Self Discipline by Dave
- Don’t Handle Important Matters Lightly by Amanda
- My Blogging Mistakes and Their Outcome by Thilak
- A Star for a day. What I learned by Clever Dude
- DYH isn’t perfect? by Cory O’Brien
Which ones are you going to try?
I really like how you’ve organized and categorized all these blogging mistakes
I hope those at the bottom of the list feel the same way! :-0
You’ve got a great design there at InspirationBit and some interesting conversations going. It’s wonderful how these group writing projects have introduced me to new blogs.
Fantastic list
I had a very catchy title for my entry: The blogging mistake I did for 25 years but Daniel changed it to the more descriptive “The Biggest Blogging Mistake I did was not Blogging” … so my heart is with the guys at the bottom of the list
Klampert — thanks. I think you’ll like an upcoming post I’m doing on church newspaper ads.
Fra — well that explains a lot. I adjusted my headline after submitting it to Daniel so I assumed others had done the same. Hmmm, maybe there’s an interesting article to be done on evaluating Daniel’s editing skills.
Categorizing the blogging mistakes was a great idea! I’m just jealous I didn’t think of it first!
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Thanks! I was rather pleased with my categorization until I saw Hamelife’s impressive version recasting the list as blues lyrics:
http://hamelife.com/the-great-big-blogging-mistake-blues-album-25-heart-breaking-tracks/
newspaper ads…very cool cant wait
Newspaper ads — right, gotta get that out of my drafts folder soon :-\