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Now-a-days, the most common activity on the internet is Blogging. Every day new blogs and new bloggers are coming up. It is simply great for the blogosphere. Being a blogger, we must feel proud about it.
Some of the bloggers make some common mistakes in their initial stage or even in some later stage. Today I am going to discuss 5 blogging mistakes which must be avoided.
Lack of Quality Content
People love to visit your blog because they love the quality of your content. A blog without good and interesting content is good for nothing.
So, bloggers must concentrate on the content, rather than giving emphasis on other factors like SEO, building backlinks, etc.
Yes, SEO and backlinks are important. However it can be useful only when the blog has quality.
Expecting Returns without Hard Work
Some bloggers want quick success. They want traffic, money, backlinks, exposure and what not. They want all these from Day 1 of their blogging career. It is simple impossible.
If you look at the successful bloggers, you will find that they have worked really hard in their initial stages to get success. However they did not stop at any moment. They continued to work hard in order to hold their success and achieve even more.
Thus you can easily understand the importance of hard work. Do not expect success without any hard work. If you work hard, success will definitely come; maybe it can take some time.
Blogging for Money
Some bloggers want traffic, name and fame from the starting phase of their blogging career. If they do not get it, they become impatient. Some of them even leave blogging.
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Nice article, You’ve listed mistakes most of us do. I’ll keep them in mind when blogging. Thanks for sharing
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Yeah all of these mistakes are commonly made by bloggers. However, blogging for money is the biggest mistake IMHO. It’s not as easy as some people say. If one blogs for money and the money didn’t come in, then he/she will be easily gave up on blogging as he/she determine the success of blogging by the money earned.
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I think you made a good point especially when you say that new bloggers become impatient very easy and want to up-rise very fast. I met a few myself over the years.
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5 rock solid tips.
Nuff said.
Thanks.
This will helped me a lot , because i am a new guy in blogging, Thanks for sharing
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Hey Amrik,
I really appreciate your #4 point. The difference between any website and blog is that you can actually engage with blog owner, ask for assistance and so on. However on website you deal to make any purchase.
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Awesome points Amrik…
When I started blogging then I made one of these mistakes and that was not engaging with my readers. But I have learned it and from the past few months, I have realized my mistake and improved it.
These type of posts should be read by bloggers before they start their journey because today we see how many people just start a blog and leave it in few months because of impatience and because they don’t get to their target. Keeping the content on top preference is the point I liked the most.
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I think that most newbies to blogging,just don’t realize how much time and effort is needed to make their blog successful. That is why so many of them give up.
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Good Read article amrik. I have read lot off your articles and this time articles in blogging internet world. But today you article is very informative. I got some valuable and informative information in this article. really amrik i like it.
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It is possible to earn money from blogging. However we can earn it without doing hard work. Hard work and quality always matters to achieve success.
I guess the problem is that at the back of our minds, we all want the money fast and often times we see it interfering with our blogging prowess
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Very well written article. I truly agree with you. Everybody seems to have a blog these days and their main goal is only Money which is not good I think because i believe it will destroy the beauty of blogging.
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Excellent post for the newbies who want to enter into make blogging as life. I committed these mistakes in my blogging life in starting.
Another good point or maybe it’s a quality to successfully getting started is being able to talk to yourself. This speaks to your point of people expecting rewards without hard work. But it doesn’t have to be hard work, and maybe just another way to look at it.
If you can hold a conversation with yourself, see things from different angles and try to deliver points from all sides then I think blogging is easy. If I write on a topic where I can’t do this then it’s hard work, and I know the quality won’t be there.
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Those are common mistakes that bloggers (me included) do. Still, it doesn’t stop us from keep repeating it. Honestly, I always struggle to engage with my readers. And me being impatient as well makes it harder to move forward. Thanks for the timely reminder. I will strive to improve myself in the future.
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A blogger always should blog for fame and passion and if he/she having passion then bunch of money is waiting for them .
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Though I was already following all the points except “engaging” with the readers. I will pay attention to this one. Thanks.
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Every single thing you mentioned on your list is true. I would say that the most important thing is a great captivating content. That is the whole purpose of any blog. And once you got great content on your blog, you need to work very hard to get it discovered by people. That’s the only way to success!
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Hi Amrik,
Thanks for sharing the information ,i also believe that many blogger do such kind of mistakes and which leads to the pot hole oin quality of blog, which stands no where and in the end that kind of blogger fell frustrated and many of them leave.
Thank You
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Content is king. Copy and pasting junk, then spamming links all over the internet will only get you so far and it will be short lived. With the changes Google keeps making, just making good content and reaching out to people is all you need to do. this is easy to do when you blog about things you love.
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Some very good advice Amrik. Blogging to me is something fun, I don’t do it to make money, but I know there are a lot of folks that do. Of course if I’m able to make money in the future, then that’s great. I’m just focusing on keeping true to my theme and try to keep things entertaining. It’s just so much fun, I love it. I believe if you enjoy what you’re doing then things will come to you naturally.
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Engagement has been my motto as of late. I now pay close attention to my mentions and retweets on twitter and this has caused a steady drip of new followers and I’ve made some great connections to other salons looking for my products.
I’ve been blogging religiously for several years. My content is stellar. But I don’t make a dime and I have no idea how to start. Not complaining — just honestly don’t know.
I completlty agree with all the points. Being impatient is one of the common mistake that amsost every new blogger is doingthese days. Blogging is a rough process which needs hardwork and dedication. Thnx fr this amazing post friend:)
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Being greedy and impatient are two biggest mistakes that a blogger must avoid throughout his/her blogging career.
These factors are inversely proportional to the passion. As the greed increases passion will lose and ultimately it will affect the quality of the content.
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Hi Amrik,
You are right, not getting engaged with other bloggers and on social media sites is the biggest mistake these days. A blogger must be open for communication with his fellow bloggers. I would like to refer you to read this article if you want to know more about blogging mistakes
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Content is Great . Copy and pasting junk, then spamming links all over the internet will only get you so far and it will be short lived. With the changes Google keeps making, just making good content and reaching out to people is all you need to do. this is easy to do when you blog about things you love.keep it up
All too often bloggers “I, myself included” find patience to be something that you really have to work for. Without a little self-discipline, this can lead to inconsistant posting or even completely giving up. It’s important to realize that your blog needs to slowly mature and that immediate results are probably not going to be something that is realistic. Thanks for sharing your insights.
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i think the impatient part applies to everyone who gets a site.
initially they want everything now.
they dont understand that it actually takes hard work to be successful in this industry sector.
once they do understand though, they usually are successfull. its the ones that simply dont learn that you will have problems with!
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Not engaging is one of the cause of lack of quality content. For long time, you will not get nothing.
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I totally agree with your points. Building a blog is not an easy task. It may take several months or maybe years to become a decent blog or blogger. Quality content, good design and patience are important parts. These are also what Google wants. So if you follow best practices then search engines will like you as well.
I total agree with you, however, I also think that blogging for money is a great idea to get started
Right?
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It’s difficult blogging and getting little feedback, I think you just have to accept that a lot of people are readers rather than commenters and really don’t like to put their name to paper. A number of times people have mentioned my blog posts back to me, quite often the ones I’d thought no one had read – it definitely makes it more worthwhile.
I definitely agree with the comment about not blogging for money – there’s nothing turns me off a blog more than sponsored post after sponsored post, far too many bloggers sell out for the sake of the freebies…
Great tips. Don’t forget that stuffing your posts with keywords is also a bad idea.
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Nice information you have provided here we almost done these mistake as these are you can say loop holes which we do due to less time or less reading.
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Hi, Amrik,
I think you missed out on a valuable point: The importance of intro/summary paragraphs. It kind of ties in to points 1 (Thinking that people will read the whole post) and 2 (Using Paragraph format), but it was never mentioned outright.
The intro paragraph is absolutely critical to piquing readers’ interest in the rest of the post. If I can’t figure out what message you’re trying to deliver in the first 30 seconds, there’s no way I’m going to invest the next few minutes of my time reading through the article when I don’t even know if it’s interesting or will help me or whatever I’m looking to gain.
The summary paragraph is slightly less important; it’s mostly good for longer posts where you’re expecting lots of scanning.
Anyway, I really enjoyed your article, and I’m definitely still guilty of a couple of points. Thanks for the tips!
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Amrik I’m fully agree with you, many bloggers start their blog to earn money, and they choose unknown niche so after few months they bored with blogging. Also in the starting many blogger just copy paste others article.
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To become successful blogger, everything began with create great content. In blogging, content is the king. By providing great content you will attract many visitors. Because you serve great content to visitors, they will give you organic backlinks. As a result you will get good position in SERP.
From the process above, we can get conclusion that success in blogging need process. It takes time and determination to learn many aspects about blogging. It’s almost impossible to success instantly in blogging.
Thanks Amrik for posting
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Nice article, You’ve listed mistakes most of us do. Thanks for sharing,I’ll keep them in mind when blogging.
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My mind is concentrated on high quality content because of the high PR, get backlinks, high traffics and site improvement. thank you for your great tips and ideas. it is really beneficial for every web publishers.
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Good points.. personally, I have to enjoy what I’m writing about or else I have no depth in my articles and no feeling. Blogging can be rough, with very little “instant gratification” which can be extremely frustrating at times. Keep creating quality content though and it will eventually work out in the end.
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Quality content is must for blogging otherwise no one would like to visit the blog again so my primary focus is on content quality.
BTW thanks for the tips
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High quality and engaging content is important for blogging, alot of people try to turn out articles at an alarming rate without really putting alot of thought into them
Thanks for the post
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Hi Amrik,
Every beginners should keep in mind all these 5 tips for successful blogging. Yes, expecting without hard work is what every beginners do. Good list, bro.
Hi Amrik,
These 5 blogging mistakes you mentioned are very true, especially for those who are new to the world of blogging. Having a blog is really hard work and somehow I see it like “taking care of a living being, like a pet or plant.” We have to take care of it, spend time with it, constantly nurture it, or else it will die. It’s as simple as that.
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It truly is all about engaging and building relationships, it seems so odd at first to try and go build relationships online with seemingly random people, but after a bit over a year and then some of all this blogging, it really makes alot of sense, I feel like I have global friends now who can assist me on the numerous challenges that arise with running a few websites, each with their own expertise etc.
Great article, thx ^^
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Amen to quality content and time! When I write I concentrate on content, not keywords. I am of the opinion that keyword phrases used in good content will with time rank without even promoting any; just my opinion though!
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Consistency. I think bloggers must have this.
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