Here in this article I am going to list some of the most common mistakes bloggers should avoid.
Try to be specific on what you are writing and often use bulletted list. This is because most of the people who read stuffs online, will simply scan the overall blogpost before actually reading it. So you have to make the reader get an overall idea about the blog post and peak their interest. there is nothing wrong with long paragraphs, but its a little bit difficult to make the reader stay interested.
- Impressing the readers with your vocabulary
Your readers are reading your blog because they find it interesting. So make it simple and concentrate on the content. Make it interesting, not complicated!
- No images in your Blog Posts
As I said earlier, people will first scan your entire post before actually reading it. So including an image which describes the blog post will make it more attractive. These images give the key message of the blog post to the reader. It is good in terms of SEO also.
- Copying contents from popular websites
This is one thing you shouldn't ever do. First of all, people who have seen the original content are never gonna come back to your blog. Also search engines, sometimes punish the websites which have duplicate content.
If you have a blog, you should keep posting on a regular basis. This will get you frequent returning visitors and more pageviews. If a visitor return to your blog, and find no new content, most probably you will never have that visitor again.
- Having lots of Advertisements
I know you want to make money. But a blog with lots of ads are definitly a turn off for the visitors. If you want to make money, try to find a place in your blog with good visibility. In my opinion one blog shouldn't have more than 2 advertisements. Also be sure not to change the ad position frequently. That will piss of the frequent visitors. Do a proper research and find out a good place which has higher Click Through Rate(CTR) and never change the ad position. Also say no to all the pop ups and pop unders.
Buying links often end up bad for your blog. If you're careful enough to do a research on the links you're buying, it will not be a problem. But still there are risks of getting blacklisted by search engines. If the link you're selling/buying is known for spamming, or known for selling/buying links, then that's not good. Its always better not to buy links! Also beware of the automatic link submission services. If you're buying links from a provider which uses automatic tools for bulding links, you're blog WILL be penalized by popular searrch engines.
Try to be friendly with all your readers. That will get you more & more comments. Google loves blogs with lots of comments. If you never reply to the readers, your readers will stop commenting on your blog as they see no one to reply to their comments. By replying to the comments, you are sure to gain returning visitors.
- Posting about almost everything
If you're a beginner in blogging, I would recommend you to stick on one particular topic or niche. If you are blogging about almost all the topics available, you would never score higher in search engines. You should concentrate on one particular topic and post about that almost every day, if you can, make it twice or thrice everyday. Now this could get you a higher SERP.
- Trying to create backlinks anywhere possible
Backlinks are good for your blog. But it is good only when the links come from a website with similar niche. If the website on which you're creating backlinks, has nothing to do with your website's topic, then those backlinks does you no good. If your website has lots of backlinks coming from websites with different niche, then the possiblity of search engines penalizing you is higher.
Conclusion
If you read this and avoid all the stuffs I pointed out above, you're going to own a very successful blog. But you should give it some time. Success never comes easy. So be patient and keep working hard.
