Blogging Mistakes: 48 Personal Experiences
I have a collection of favorite blogs I visit on a daily basis. One of them, Daily Blog Tips, consistently lives up to its name by making quality posts that typically spawn lively discussion from the readers, which makes it a favorite daily destination for me.
Recently, Daily Blog Tips, made an open invitation to submit a post detailing your personal blogging mistakes. The top submissions would receive a link in the follow up post provided they agreed to blog about the same topic and provide a link backs to the same top submissions.
Link backs and a potential increase in overall traffic is the obvious benefit to participating; however, I honestly thought the real benefit was the inclusion in a list that might help other new, and some experienced, bloggers. It’s one thing to learn from the success of others but equally powerful to learn from their mistakes. And, since TechTraction is about technical tips and blogging insights, a list of personal blogging mistakes is more than appropriate.
I’ll spend the next day reading these posts and will follow up next week with my favorites and why. In the meantime, enjoy these personal stories of woe:
- My Blogging Mistakes and Their Outcome by Thilak
- A Star for a day. What I learned by Clever Dude
- My Biggest Blogging Mistake: Posting Frequency by Chris
- Your Blog Will Perish for Lack of Vision by Shawn
- My Biggest Blogging Mistake is not Updating Often Enough by Julian
- DYH isn’t perfect? by Cory O’Brien
- Don’t Change the Name by Denise
- Why this Blog Looks this Way by Ben
- My Blogging Mistake: Too Many Blogs by Green Llama
- I Almost Ruined Everything by Annie
- Common Blogging Mistakes by Vijay
- How to Not Run a Contest by Robert
- 5 Things I Regret About March by Bill
- Trying to Promote my Blog without enough Traffic by Nathan
- Always Install Wordpress on the Root Diretory by Daniel
- I should have included media contents by Madhur
- The Biggest Blogging Mistake I did was not Blogging by Francesco
- Learning from Mistakes: Opening Links in New Windows by Nirmal
- Mr. Frisky Retreats with his Tail Between his Legs by Rory
- User a Smart Permalink Structure on your Blog by Leftblank
- Internet Explorer vs. Firefox Issues by Mark Paddock
- Not Having Drafts Saved for Rainy Days by Inspirationbit
- Don’t Underestimate the Commitment by Andrew
- Get your Own Domain and Wordpress for your Blog by Andrew Flusche
- A Clear Point of View is Crucial to Increase your Blog Traffic by George
- Delete Your First Blog Post by Mark Alves
- Don’t Forget to Use Blog Carnivals by Andrea
- Why Blogs and Blogging Will Ruin your Self Discipline by Dave
- Careful on How You Tag your Posts by Shankar
- Should’ve Gone WP Yesterday! by Jimbo
- Don’t Make the Mistake of Monetizing your Blog Too Early by Maki
- Don’t Ignore the Basics of SEO by Simonne
- Spending Too Much Time Link-Begging by David Paul
- Lack of Predictability on Your Posts by Roberto
- What to Do When You don’t Have Anything to Say by Philip Liu
- Copying, Mimicking, Duplication by Paper Bull
- Starting Too Many Blogs by Mohammed
- Leaving the Amateur League of Blogging: the Hosting Lesson by Rene
- Be Careful how you Choose your Domain Name by Cavin
- The Ad King by Jason
- Move to your Own Domain Now by Gaurav
- Lack of Persistence by Blake
- Not Commenting Enough on other People’s Blogs by Somu
- Failing to Realize the Importance of Relationships with Readers by Ronald
- Don’t Handle Important Matters Lightly by Amanda
- Do not Underestimate the Important of RSS Feeds by Kevin
- Why you Should Own your Domain Name by Engtech
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Morning - I was one of the respondents on this workshop as well (12th from bottom). I too am going through the list of each entry and have (obviously) come across yours. I can offer a couple observations from my standpoint if you wish - and can do that when I’m home later this evening.
In the mean time; could you share the techniques you used to add the Technorati tags & Digg / Delicious buttons at the post bottom? They’re the least obtrusive ones I’ve come across thus far.
Wow! That’s a lot of mistakes you’ve listed.
Seems like some interesting reads in there though. Nice work.
Hi David, thanks for the feedback. I’m still plowing through all the links myself. Some of the stories are very good.
Welcome thepaperbull - thanks for the comment and yes, please share your observations I’m always open to feedback. As for how did I do the tags, here is a quick run down.
Technorati tags you see at the botton of each post is done with the SimpleTags plugin. You can find it at this web site: http://www.broobles.com/scripts/simpletags/
Digg tag was taken directly from this part of the Digg site: http://www.digg.com/tools/buttons They provide the image and the code you need to insert to it into your pages.
Del.icio.us tag was added with code from delicious but I made the image myself. I just brought the Digg image into Photoshop and used it as the template for the delicious image. Once I finished that I inserted it into my WordPress theme the same way I added the Digg image. If you like the delicious image I created, you’re welcome to take a copy on use it on your site.
Despite making those tag customizations, I’m planning to remove them in the near future in favor of Share This plugin from this web site: http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress This plugin offers an easy interface to several social networking sites with one simple button.
Hope that helps. Let me know if you need further detail.
Thanks Bret. By coincidence I stumbled upon Alex’s site about an hour after posting my request to you. Just installed his Share This Plug-in on my blog and am very pleased.
cheers
Excellent post and I have to admit I have made several if not all of the mistakes listed. Of course it is really nice to see I am not alone in my errors. Now as for the sites you like too, I think I have just found a few new favorites.
Thanks for dropping by LifeIsRisky.Com and hope you found something of interest. I noticed your icon in the MyBlogLog and just had to check out your blog.
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I’ve made a few mistakes myself, so it’s nice to know i’m not alone. We learn from mistakes and grow, and seeing what other people have done or tried helps you learn as well!
Hi Deb. Thanks for stopping by. Nope — none of us are along when it comes to making mistakes. Nobody likes making mistakes and owning up to them is perhaps harder than the mistake itself; however, sharing the mistake and the lesson learned often helps me shake it off and get back on track.
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Unfortunately, a few of these are familiar. I think the biggest mistake I’ve made is not having started with a domain of my own. Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and at the time, I didn’t think my blog would become anything more than a place to find out what the big deal was with blogging. Live and learn, I guess.
Robert, you are correct: hindsight is 20/20. Fortunately, at least with blogging, most mistakes only have temporary negative result. I’ve managed to correct my initial mistakes. Of course, that’s not to say I won’t make new ones in the future.
Thanks for the comment.