Blogging Mistakes You Should Avoid

Common blogging mistakes and how to fix them for free

Common blogging mistakes that will drill all the energy and effort you have invested in your blog.

You have been blogging for sometime, months or a year. But you are not seeing any positive impression on your blog. It’s a horrible feeling but before you quite blogging, there must be something you are not getting right or you have not implemented, fixing the blogging mistakes you have made might change the storyline and drive traffic to your website.

you might asking:

What am I not doing right?

That is the question am going to help you answer. If you are planning to quite content marketing just because it isn’t working for you the way you wish, I have some tips and advice for you.

What is blogging?

Blogging refers to the act of writing, sharing your thoughts, photography and expertise on a particular subject in an online diary called blog.

Blog post must be in an interactive or informative diary style, blog post are presented in a chronological order in other for the newest post to come first at the top of your website.

A blog can be handled by an individual or group of person’s who shares common motive, specialized on a single and at times multiple topics.

Examples of multiple blog niche are lifestyle blog. Contents can be created by a single or multiple authors.

Is blogging a business or hubby?

Blogging seems simple but demands intensive hard-work to live up to it’s name. There is no magic technique’s, writing and posting your quality content sometimes doesn’t guarantee traffic and lead conversion. If you are really interested in blogging and want your blog to survive the test of time, you need a blueprint, a solid plan to survive the competition, a marketing strategy but have in mind that your strategies won’t work, not until you implement them, success won’t happen overnight!

Blogging can be very good business that makes money If you are really dedicated and committed. For business owners, blogging can provide a mainstream of income, a community you sell your product and service.

Infact blogging is the best way for business owners stay up with the competitive atmosphere in the digital era but often makes mistakes while starting out.

Back to the question, is blogging a business or hobby? The answer is; blogging is a business and should be treated as such.

Anyone can do blogging as a hobby but with business oriented mindset, preparing for anything that might happen in between, when Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook, he didn’t know that it would be as big as it was today but was prepared for anything. Few of the top established blog’s started out as a hobby but eventually, they are now business.

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Blogging is all about serving your audience the right content at the right time. Your articles should be informative enough to solve your audience immediate needs, to do that, you have to produce Rich and quality content.

In these post,I will discuss common blogging mistakes which are affecting your website negatively and how to avoid and fix them.

It’s never too late to breath life into your blog content marketing and SEO and avert all those blogging mistakes. Many blogger’s trash there blog even before they start making a dime.

List of common blogging mistakes to avoid in 2022

Poor/unfocused content
Trying to be everything to everyone
Unfriendly domain name and bad webhosting company
No niche (no target audience)
Blogging inconsistently
Copying from other blogger’s
Much focus on SEO/missing SEO
Not capturing lead’s/newsletter/email list
Low quality contents
No internal linking/backlink
Unattractive tittle
Wrong niche
Black hat SEO
Not showing your personality
Not interacting with your audience
Not marketing your content
Misunderstanding your audience
No commitment
Collaboration/networking
Bad writing style

Poor/unfocused content

If you are not spending much time researching because you want to have as many published content as soon as possible, imitating the big established media blog’s that published content every minute of the day. But one thing you didn’t figure out yet is that those big established blog’s hires hundreds of in house writer’s and they collaborate to produce a fine well researched original article with graphics. If you want to imitate them,it means that you have to write yourself to death.

Don’t rule quantity over quality, before settling down to write, ask yourself those questions;

Is this what I would love to read in other blog’s?

Is this what my audience would love to see?

What message is my content sending?

How would it help solve there immediate problem?

Is my content satisfactory?

Take notes for the above mentioned questions, it would you produce an informative content.

Narrow down your content to focus on solving a particular need of your audience.

TIP’S

Take time to research

Understand your audience

Try focusing on there needs and not your’s

Serve them what they want

Trying to be everything to everyone

Trying to be everything to everyone is another common blogging mistakes that won’t help, you can’t be a specialist in every field of study. If you have multiple interest, let’s just say you love reading fiction, writing, gaming football for example, you can’t incorporate all the above interest in one blog. There is a popular saying ” Jack of all trades, master of none”.

Write down your interest and prioritize them. Choose the one’s that interest you the most, I was opportune to meet a new blogger, according to him, he loves fashion, writing, technology gadgets and relationship counseling and I was like, which one are you going for?. He said all, because he wants readers of diverse interest.

Can you sense anything?

Would you subscribe to a blog that covers your interest or a blog with multiple diverse interest?

TIP’S

Choose a niche and focus on it to build authority

Unfriendly domain name and bad webhosting company

Choose a good domain name that is not confusing, unfriendly or worse hard to spell is one step to avoid common blogging mistakes that many do. It must be easy to remember, two or three keywords that defines your niche will do just that, avoid using symbols in your domain.

A domain with defined keywords tends to rank higher on search engine. Am not saying that domain name with no keywords won’t rank of Google search engine results page.

When I started newly, I made that mistake, I registered my domain with domainhosting.com.ng but within few months, I saw that it didn’t reflect on what I was doing, I made another mistake of registering another domain name but went too niche, I later realize my mistakes.

Lesson

Think before buying!

The webhosting company you choose play a Vital role in your success. It’s easy to choose quantity over quality, a cheap webhosting company will do you more harm than good, before changing my hosting company, I was had content,as usual, I wanted to login but all to no avail, long story cut short,I was told it was a server issue which took eight days to fix but all my content disappeared after eight days.

Lesson

Don’t choose cheap webhosting company and even if you want to choose because you are starting out, there are few with good rating, check out our list of top webhosting companies.

No niche

No niche might be similar to been everything to everyone but there is a huge difference which am going to let you know.

It’s another common blogging mistakes you should avoid, No niche results to no audience, the broader to niche, the fierce the competition. Don’t jump into any niche because of it’s money making capacity, you will soon loose interest.

TIP’S

BE SPECIFIC

CHOOSE A NICHE

Blogging inconsistently

Try updating your blog with fresh content, create an editorial calendar and stick with it. If you are blogging part time with your regular job, it makes sense to choose how often you post and stick with it.

It helps in your search ranking and Google love website that are updated consistently, it boost your search appearance.

TIP’S

Update your website/blog frequently with fresh content.

Create an editorial calendar and stick with it.

Copying from other blog’s

Especially for beginners, indulging in copyright will reduce the trust you worked so hard to earn. Copying the intellectual hardwork of your fellow blogger’s is a wrong move. Sooner or later, you will run into copyright issues.

Google love’s creative original Unique content and graphics, Google credits you when you produce one.

Copying from other blog’s kill’s your own blog, it’s another blogging mistakes you should avoid.

There are possibilities that you can be sued for that singular act but come on, think of it these way, what will happen if your audience finds out what your are doing?

TIP’S

Strive for original content.

Do research

Don’t copy from others, I believe that before you start blogging, you’re creative, create your own tune and style.

Much focus on SEO/missing SEO

According to Wikipedia, Search engine optimization (SEO) Is the process of improving the quality and quantity of website or a webpage from search engine. SEO are unpayed traffic generated by search engine.

Don’t focus much on SEO, Google Is clever even without keyword stuffing. Am not saying that you shouldn’t optimize your post to rank for your desired keyword, but you should create a balance in-between focusing and missing SEO. In a simple language, be natural with keywords.

Producing content for search engine, your audience are human reader’s, before hitting the publish button, read out your post aloud and see how it sounds, If it’s not flowing naturally because of keyword stuffing, you have work to do, an extra ear might be essential.

TIP’S

Write naturally

Don’t focus much on SEO and don’t miss SEO but strive for balance in-between.

Avoid keyword stuffing.

Avoid black hat SEO, thinking it’s the only way to get your website to appear on Google front results page can cause you more problems.

Maybe you’re just starting out and your blog is relatively new and you decide to do it later. You need to start capturing lead’s, build your email list, it helps bring back your audience who might be your customers.

FACT: Majority of your blog visitors will never return.

TIP’S

To bring back your visitors, you need to start capturing lead’s.

Low quality contents

Low quality contents are as a result of poor writing skills, little or no research, unfocused content, no target audience and short content, it also falls below google content requirement

Don’t compromise quality with quantity, ten quality contents Is better than a thousand low quality contents.

TIP’S

Take time to research your content

Develop your writing skills

Internal linking/backlink

Interconnecting your post is known as internal linking. It is vital for SEO, it gives your audience more opportunity to explore your content.

while interconnecting your post is good, linking to external resource is also good If done the right way but will cause you heavily if done wrongly.

You have to create a content that other blog’s will find resourceful enough to link to but avoid sites labelled spammy by Google. Only build link from authority website in your niche.

How many backlink Is enough?

One or two backlink monthly is okay.

NOTE: linking to authority website in your niche don’t guarantee automatic ranking or traffic.

There are few things that determines your website appearance on Google front page?

Domain age
Domain authority etc

TIP’S

Build link’s only from authority website in your niche.

Interlink your post.

Unattractive tittle

Creating a compelling SEO title that invites your visitors to take action increase your click through rate of your website.

Your title contribute to your organic traffic, fewer people read your blog post when compared to those that reads your tittle.

A blog tittle is a short descriptive words that describes the main content of your blog. Your blog tittle is the first impression you have to make on your visitors and If it’s attractive enough, it gets a click but if not, you will loose potential traffic.

To create a good headline, you have to know your target audience, what interest them,why they would love to read your post and benefits.

TIP’S

Be precise

Keep it short

Communicate your message

Wrong niche

To avoid blogging on a wrong niche, it means you have to plan everything. Blogging on a niche that you are inexperienced in because of the money making potential of the niche is like digging a grave for your blog, sooner or later, you will realize your mistakes, that’s the essence of these post, write down the topic you are interested in, differentiate between your fantasy, interest and passion.

TIP’S

Choose evergreen niche that you won’t get tired of.

Black hate SEO

Black hat SEO is the practice by webmasters to increase a website ranking through uncompromised means that violates the search engine terms and service, your website can be banned from search engine.

Getting unworthy link’s pointing to your website from spammy website to manipulate search ranking. If you are building link’s for your blog, will the link’s benefits your audience? If not don’t.

Practice that defines black hat SEO:

Keyword stuffing
Cloaking
Private link network

TIP’S

Use the right SEO tactics

Hiding your personality

Personality matters alot in blogging, get interactive, share your story only when necessary, reveal your true identity, truth be told, you will get negative comments, it’s better than to please everyone, 1000 loyal audience is better than a million interactive audience.

TIP’S

Be real

Not interacting with your y

Replying to comments on your blog is a step building a solid relationship with your audience. It shows you appreciate there effort in reading your content, If they contact you, give them a listening ear.

TIP’S

Interact with your audience

Not marketing your content

After taking time to create your content, don’t wait for your content to be found by your audience, push it to there screen, share on social media, it pays on the long run.

It invites new audience to your blog.

Optimize your post for SEO, social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram are the key major social networks but If you want faster results, niche social networks will do just that.

TIP’S

Get active on social networks.

Create ads

Share your content

Misunderstanding your audience

There is a huge difference between what your audience wants or needs. Try identifying the type of content that interest your audience, a quick way to do that is to go to your Google analytics page.

Find post get the most click’s and popular and tailor your content towards that direction.

No commitment

If you are blogging for fun, sorry but blogging has grown beyond fun or hobby, it’s a business that needs attention and commitment.

Even if your blog revolves around you, like a personal diary,it needs your attention to get the desired attention you want it to have online.

Create an editorial calendar and stick with it.

Collaboration/networking

In as much as you want to be a successful blogger, you can do it alone,a tree can’t make a forest.

Find established blogger’s in your niche, read there post as often as you can, comment when necessary, build a relationship with them, follow them on social media.

They would in return,read your blog and leave a comment, guess blog for other blog’s and Link back to your blog. It tells search engine that you can be trusted.

TIP’S

Connect with other blogger’s in your niche with geniue purpose.

Bad writing

If you avoid all the above mentioned Blogging mistakes and still have a poor test of language, there is still much left to be done.

Create a writing pattern that will set you out from other blog’s, improve in your diction, there are a number of apps and plugin to help you out.

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