20 Common Blogging Mistakes To Avoid Part One

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Make Money Online with Some Useless Info The make money online blogging arena is a tough one. A small handful will succeed in creating a credible source of online income, many will settle for making little more than spare change and most will fall by the wayside, having given up the fight for their share in the make money online market.

With blogs being so easy to create using free services like Blogger, it is little wonder that there a blog is created every second with 175,000 new blogs created every week, according to CNET.

The competition for readership is tremendous and with so much information readily available, unless your content is more useful, more entertaining or more attractive in some way, chances are, faced with information overload, readers won’t stay or won’t return.

To increase your chances of creating a successful blog, here are some common blogging mistakes to avoid.

PART ONE: PERSONAL MINDSET

1. Not enough research and planning. Most bloggers start blogs based on their interest or pick an area that they think will make them money, such as how to make money online blogs. Know your target audience and find out whether is is a sufficiently large enough audience for the type of content you are planning to produce. Follow up your choice with research and see what existing blogs on your subject of interest are like. Do you feel confident of producing at least equal or better content than them?

For example, you wouldn’t start a blog that is a direct competitor of EnGadget or TechCrunch simply because these sites are the leaders in their topic area. Doing so would pretty much guarantee failure. So do your research.

2. Not knowing your own strength. Some topics are tougher to write because they require extensive research which can be both time consuming and tiring. Unless you are a prolific writer which most of us are not, we rely on readily available information whether on the internet or elsewhere for our material. Does your area of interest have ready sources you can tap on for regular material? Are you able to produce at least one article a day on your topic of interest? If thinking up what to write and searching for relevant information are a daily challenge, you will not enjoy blogging and soon burn out.

3. Thinking internet marketing is a get-rich-quick solution. With some bloggers showing off their hundred-thousand-dollar AdSense paychecks, you could be forgiven for thinking the internet is a surefire way to get rich instantly. This way of thinking leads you to rush into the internet marketing without proper research and planning. When results do not live up to your expections of instant large rewards, you get disappointed very easily, very fast.

4. Not working hard enough in the beginning. Monetary rewards are achieved with hard work - at least in the beginning. Bloggers who say they only blog 2 hours a day and then spend the rest of the afternoon playing golf and having coffee with friends are where they are only because they worked hard in the beginning. Unless you are already earning the kind of money you want with your blog, being lazy won’t get you that kind of lifestyle. The early stages of blog building require lots of hard work, long hours and good old-fashioned commitment.

5. Thinking e-books and courses guarantee success. Buying an e-book or attending a course on internet marketing will not guarantee you success, whatever the program promises. Just as if you sign on for an MBA program, there is no guarantee that your MBA is going to get you a good paying job although it may increase your chances of getting one. Among other factors, it depends on how you are able to apply yourself, seek out opportunities and make the most of your knowledge gained from these resources.

6. Giving up too easily and too early. Our expectations of instant gratification in the internet age make us impatient for results. Sure there are bloggers who get instant success, getting 4,000 readers a day within 3 weeks of launching a blog. But that kind of success is the exception, not the norm. A successful blogger said that blogging is not a sprint but a long distance marathon. The ones with consistency and perserverance will triumph ultimately simply because the others have given up too soon.

Continue to 20 Common Blogging Mistakes To Avoid Part Two - Proper Blog Setup

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