30 Blogging Tips to Screw Up
April 28th, 2008 / Blogging Tips, General Blogging / 447 views
Having a successful blog is not an easy thing. It takes time, dedication, creativity, knowledge and patience. There aren’t many roads that lead to success and finding the one that’s right for you can be a daunting task. It’s obviously hard to make a name for yourself and it gets harder when you think about how easy it is to mess things up and in how many ways you can do so. Just read the following “blogging tips” to screw up and judge for yourself.
- Start a blog when you know for sure you won’t have time to update it regularly;
- Blog about everything when knowing too little about anything;
- Blog about one particular topic without any experience in the field;
- Blog without passion;
- Blog without personality;
- Write more about needs and less about solutions;
- Publish copyrighted content without the author’s permission;
- Translate and publish content without even mentioning the original source;
- Don’t pay attention to simple things in life, where you could find inspiration for content;
- Ignore the basic rules of structuring an article;
- Talk too much about yourself;
- Don’t read other blogs;
- Don’t read the news;
- Don’t take part in your blog’s conversations;
- Ask your readers to register to post comments;
- Ignore your RSS readers;
- Don’t pay too much attention to spam comments and trackbacks;
- Start flames with your readers;
- Start flames with other bloggers;
- Don’t comment on other blogs in your niche;
- Ignore the importance of SEO;
- Write excessively for search engines;
- Over promote your blog, or don’t promote it at all;
- Ignore your statistics. Nothing interesting there! Nothing about your most popular articles, nothing about referrals or search engine appeal;
- Think first of how to make money, and then how to be a better blogger;
- Publish more advertising than content;
- Take all blogging tips and advice for granted and don’t pass them through your personal filter;
- Fill your blog with unnecessary plugins and widgets;
- Keep your blog’s default design theme;
- Don’t update your blogging platform, theme and plugins.
See how easy it is to screw up? Do you want to be successful? Do you want to make money with your blog? Then, think first about how you can improve your blog and your blogging skills. Nobody is born successful. Real success is built brick by brick!
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Really great tips!
[…] and trying to think up something to blog about on my other blog when I came across this blog on 30 Blogging Tips to Screw Up. This blog entry is pretty much just a list of things new bloggers do to screw up, but I did find […]
Good tips, you can’t ignore the SEO especially Google just updated pageranks and the blog I have been doing the best with that one on went from pr 0 to pr 4.
Another thing you can screw up on is nofollow. It is one thing to no follow your homepage and you should to prevent duplicate content links, but nofollowing your comments makes people less likely to want to spend time on your blog, especially if they are those nice niche bloggers who come for a visit…
Hello Bradley!
Indeed, the removal of nofollow can generate more comments on your blog, but also, you will have to watch more over them and even interfere more for editing, just to prevent spam.
Telling Google to follow external links to spamming websites can be disastrous to your blog.
When you have 3-4 comments per article, it seams like an easy task, but when you get about 40-50 comments per post, is not easy anymore.
There are other possibilities to encourage your readers to comment more, like a Top Commentators plugin/widget with nofollow removed.
Or organize competitions each month with rewards for your most active readers and commentators.
There are a lot of possibilities, you just need to explore them.
Right on! An excellent list! I pay attention to all of those things and have gone from 0 to more than 7,500 unique visitors per month in less than a year’s time. My fellow reader, follow this thread’s sound advice!