10 Common Mistakes New Bloggers Often Make

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Top 10 Common Mistakes New Bloggers Make

• Mistake 1 Own a TLD (Top Level Domain)Blogging
  is a serious career and as such should be treated
  as one. If you want to succeed as a blogger you
  definitely have to own a TLD (Top Level Domain)
  like a .com, .net, .org etc. Comparatively, most
  successful blogs are on top level domains, I know
  its quite tempting to use a free sub-domain like
  wordpress.com or blogger.com platform for your
  blog, but one thing I can tell you is that not
  only will you not be in total control of your
  blog you stand the risk of losing it any
  time.Any blog on a sub-domain does not belong
  to you, for example if you are running a blog on
  .blogspot.com you could wake up one morning and
  your blog is gone. Fail one of Googles TOS and
  your blog will be deleted even without prior
  warning. It will be disheartening to lose your
  blog just like that with no chance of ever
  regaining it.

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• Mistake 2 Bad Blog Design and LayoutOver the
  years I have noticed that most successful blogs
  have one thing in common Design and layout.
  Your blog design and layout affects your
  visitors first impression and this is a very
  important factor to consider if you want such
  visitor returning to read more from you always.
  Avoid cluttered designs with widgets, encourage
  neat designs with white background and black text
  color. Make your site navigation easy and simple.
  If you cant design a professional blog, hire
  someone who can to do it for you.

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• Mistake 3 Search Engine Optimization (SEO
  Implementation)After your blog design next is
  publishing articles. Dont be too quick to rush
  into article publication if you have not learnt
  about Search Engine optimization SEO to know how
  best to implement it to achieve a great search
  engine ranking result. It will be a waste of time
  and resources to write when no one is reading
  it.SEO is very important if you are to succeed
  as a blogger. There are two types of SEO On
  Page SEO and Off Page SEO. You need to learn
  about both so as to understand how to implement
  it to achieve a good result. I will recommend you
  read as many articles from my Blogging
  Tips section. I have extensively written about
  this area in this blog, so take advantage of them
  now.

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• Mistake 4 Not having a Writing TechniqueA good
  blogger should be able to write for humans not
  robots. You should have a voice in your blog. You
  need to have a writing technique that is unique
  to you alone. Some call it writing style, just
  like you will notice I add personal experiences
  when I write my articles adding my voice to it,
  that way I am distinguishing Netmediablog from
  other Tech blogs out there that sounds like they
  were written for robots. Interact with your
  visitors, make use of call-to-action on your
  blog, ask your visitors to do something, write as
  if you are directly talking to them, that way you
  can form a bond between you and your visitors and
  this alone can bring them back to your blog
  always. With this you are not far from success.

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• Mistake 5 Not having a Blogging ScheduleNow
  you are at the stage of writing, your blog have
  been designed, you have learnt SEO and
  implemented them in your articles and yet you do
  not have blogging schedule. Maintaining a
  blogging schedule is quite proper, if you decide
  to publish everyday make sure it happens, if you
  decide to publish 3 times in a week, stick with
  it. That way your visitors will understand when
  you will publish next and be there to read from
  their favorite blogger.

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• Mistake 6 Avoid Plagiarized ContentsMost new
  bloggers fall into this mistake quite often. The
  copy and paste syndrome have plagued the
  blogsphere for long and most times you find out
  new bloggers are always the ones committing this
  crime. You have to be creative to come up with
  your own original ideas, that is the reason why
  you should blog on areas you are an authority at,
  that way you will never run out of ideas to blog
  about.You will be killing your own blog when
  you copy contents from other sites and publish n
  your own site. Search engines like Google are way
  too smart these days to know who copied and who
  was copied from. You will be penalized for
  copying other persons contents and publishing on
  your own blog. Desist from it if you are already
  doing this.

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• Mistake 7 Submit your Blog to Search EnginesAs
  a new blogger, I advise you submit your blog to
  search engines so it can be indexed. Indexing
  your blog will allow search engines determine the
  content of your blog and rank it. Read How to
  submit your website to Search Engines now for
  more insight.

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• Mistake 8 Not adding Social Sharing Buttons on
  your blogThis is the era of Social media and it
  has changed the way information is disseminated
  around the world these days. A friend or family
  member reads something interesting somewhere and
  decides to share it so other member of his family
  or friends can as well read it.  Not adding a
  social share button on your blog will affect you
  as search engines consider social signals as
  ranking factors.

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• Mistake 9 Not Promoting your BlogBlog
  promotion is the serious part when it comes to
  Off-page SEO. If you write articles and no one
  reads them will you call yourself a successful
  blogger? If you want to succeed you must promote
  your blog and there are so many ways to do this.
  Commenting on other blogs, commenting on
  forums, guest posting on other blogs,
  advertisements, word of mouth, hand bill etc. No
  matter the method you choose to use, the grand
  purpose is to promote your blog.

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• Mistake 10 Not having Patients and
  DeterminationAt first it will seem easy, half
  way down the road you will encounter challenges
  and at a time you will feel like giving up. Does
  that sound like you? Lolz You need a lot of
  patients and determination if you want to succeed
  as a blogger. If you are into blogging for the
  money, then you need to be very patient as the
  money may not begin to roll in almost
  immediately. You will have to build a credible
  online presence for your visitors to trust you.