Some Common Blogging Mistakes You Need To Avoid

Blogging is not for everyone! Just some other dude who knows good English can NOT be a good blogger. Blogging requires skill and experience. You need to know how and what to write on. Failing to write a proper post will not only disappoint your readers but will also reduce your page's ranking. Blogging sounds easy, but has some teeny tiny details you need to take care of to make it work. Let me introduce you to some of the very basic and common blogging mistakes every blogger must avoid.

Blogging is a profitable business from the commercial point of view provided done nicely and is literally a time waster otherwise. A blogger takes several complex things into account so as to make his blog work but ignores the most basic and important ones usually. While the important ones matter, the basics and fundamentals need not be ignored. Let's take a look at some of those mistakes and their solution.

1. Working without a goal

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder", Thomas Carlyle. Ever asked yourself, Why am I blogging? There is a reason why blogging isn't meant for everybody. Before you start your own blog, you need to set up a proper goal and aim to achieve that from blogging. What you want could be money, popularity or just fun, but you need to answer this 'What'. You can never achieved an undetermined and unimaginable goal. Decide on why you'll start blogging and devise a proper plan to follow and strive hard to achieve it.

2. Ignoring SEO

The search engine robot is as important to you as your blog reader. Yes, you should write quality articles for the benefit of your readers but the hard truth is, you need to keep a good balance between both the search engine robot and your reader. Ignoring SEO is what is going to stagnate your blog progress. Unless if you're blogging for fun, SEO is THE most important step in blogging. There are several SEO techniques and tricks you can use to make your blog important and essential in the eyes of the search engine robot.

3. Bad post formatting

With several running blogs, gaining reader's preference is a hard step especially if you don't care about the post formatting. Your blog post must be a hybrid of technical and informal writing so as to make it easy to understand and interpret for your reader. You should use proper highlighting techniques like using breaks, headings and sub-headings, bold face, proper font and shorter paragraphs to make your writing look neat and easy to interpret.

4. Using too much text in a single post

Do you think your reader has all the time in the world to read your post? Don't know your answer but mine is NO. If someone told you putting tons of information in a single blog post of near-to-infinite length would be ideal to generate traffic, you were probably dreaming or that someone was playing with you. We've already covered the ideal post length topic, do take a look at it. The length to depth ratio of your blog post should be unity.

5. Bad posting times

Ever wondered what the Schedule feature is on Blogger? Or do you just Publish? Well, you should decide a proper scheduling time for your post. Deciding that time might be hard in the start but will become easy for you once you start gaining readers. Try to find the peak times of traffic on your blogs and post on those times. Unless if yours' is a news blog, you should try to post at an appropriate time where you can get your writing to touch the most of the readers.

There are several other blogging mistakes that bloggers including me can commit. One fine way of analysing and determining the mistakes while blogging is to put yourself as the reader. Would you like to follow an improperly planned blog? Or read a poorly ranked blog? Or take a look at a poorly formatted post? Or read a 5000 word post? Or get to read articles posted at strange timings? NO, you won't want to do any of that. You'll also get the answer to several other answers this way which will help you identify the mistakes bloggers commit and their probable solutions.

So did you like this post? Do you commit these common mistakes or find some other worth mentioning? Hop on to the comments section and let us know.


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