Blogging Mistakes Are The Key To Failure
(Republished 2020-09-15)
Blogging offers a huge venue for people to reach millions of readers worldwide. But most inexperienced bloggers make these blogging mistakes that will lead to failure.
However, along with the benefits is the negligence that most bloggers tend to commit while maintaining their platforms.
Be it because of enthusiasm or because of the lack of awareness, there is no excuse that these top five blogging mistakes can be avoided.
5 Blogging Mistakes You Must Recognize
As a blogger, you have to recognize these mistakes even before you can commit to blogging boo-boo.
1. A blog with no purpose is a blog with no direction – When you are still visualizing and developing your blog, you might have asked yourself these questions at some point. What is the purpose of my blog? Is it to inform, to entertain, or to sell? What kind of audience do I need to target? How do I go through with the entire that I post? Will I treat my blog as a venue for professional growth or will it serve personal purposes?
Knowing what the purpose of your blog is will help out with your strategies as well as the goals that you need to achieve. A business-related blog should be able to help you generate thousands of traffic and increase the revenue of your sales. A personal blog that documents your weight loss or travel experiences should be updated not only when you have hit something spectacular but it should also to document your journey.
2. Inconsistence updates and postings – Have you observed how YouTube sensations seem to lose or disappoint their followers once they started skipping on their regular upload schedules? The same goes when you are blogging. When you skip posting content for almost three myths after a consistent update of an entire month, your readers will feel that you have neglected your blog and have explored other undertakings. It is even worse if your readers don’t keep a blog roar or signed up for your mailing list which updates them once you have finally updated the contents of your blog.
If you are having a hard time keeping up with daily updates, you don’t really need to post every day. But make sure that you have fresh and relevant posts within the different days of the week. You can also make use of scheduled post features that most hosting platforms provide.
3. Posting fuggy content – Posting content for content’s sake is another blogging mistake that might have been committed in order to prevent Blogging Mistake No:2 from occurring. However, being a smart blogger means that you have to provide relevant and high-quality content to your readers rather than posting generic entire just so your readers have something to hoard when they visit.
It’s like having a filler, it feels tasteless and bland since it does not really cater to the reasons why your readers keep coming back to your blog.
In everything that you have to work on, think quality over quantity and this is mainly essential when keeping a bog. Develop articles that are thought-provoking and interesting and post them within justifiable schedules.
4. Cluttered blog format – You could be an innate writer or you could have developed the skill in creating high-quality posts, but no matter how smart your entire may sound, your readers seem not to care. The answer might lie in the fact that your blog’s format is too cluttered and feels time-consuming to read.
When developing blog entries, you have to put yourself in the shoes of your readers. And you know yourself that reading long entries without breakers will inevitably make you feel bored or lose interest. Thus, keep your entries short and sweet. If you have a point to prove, use bullet points instead of lamenting about an issue in a continuously long sentence. Additionally, you can incorporate some images that will serve as breaks for your paragraphs. Readers, being visual creatures, will appreciate the fact that you can incorporate images with your articles.
5. Not inspiring interaction – As a blogger, you are writing for an audience. Thus at some point, you have to include your reader’s thoughts and ideas in your entries. By doing so, you can create an interactive and encourage discussion between you and your readers. You can include thought-provoking questions at the end of your entries or you can urge them to sign up on your mailing list so that they can receive regular updates.
Wrapping Up
These are just a few of the common blogging mistakes that surface almost every time. Have you committed any of these or are there any other blogging mistakes that you have observed from your fellow bloggers?
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