Blog – SEO Consultant Specialist

1. Lack in patience and confidence.
2. Trying to write on a subject you don’t understand, or that you don’t enjoy.
3. Not knowing that there is a difference between a blog and a website.
4. Trying to use blogs to sell something instead of using them for credibility and trust!
5. Spending too much time thinking about the design and Search Engine Optimization, SEO.
6. Having too much clutter on the sidebar. This causes too much distraction.
7. Putting too much money towards the advertising of the blog and not the writing of the blog.
8. Thinking that you are going to start off with a ton of traffic.
9. Assuming you know everything about blogs and stop learning about them.
10. Anticipating that people will visit your blog without promoting it.
11. Not thinking about your long-term goals of the blog, and focusing too much on the short-term ones.
12. Not analyzing the traffic to your blog to find out what is working and what isn’t.
13. Forcing people to comment on the blog or to link to it.
14. Not including a top ten posts, archives, and recent posts.
15. Lacking in organization of the content of the blog by context.
16. Having no plan to go by.
17. Not having the need to learn.
18. Not learning from previously done mistakes.
19. Thinking that you will make passive money from blogging.
20. Not having enough social interaction and making your blog run solo.
21. Trying to target a very small market niche.
22. Not using English to target an international market.
23. Underestimating blogging by not giving it enough credit.
24. Failing to maintain the quality of your blog by controlling spasms.
25. Having too much irrelevant traffic to your blog.
26. The inability to handle incoming traffic.
27. Having links that do not work- broken links.
28. Not including a blogroll.
29. Having a lack of originality.
30. Lacking in regularity.
31. Writing on irregular posting.
32. Having a lack of dedication to your blog.
33. Fearing to go against others.
34. Not choosing the right blogging platform.
35. Blogs that are made for advertising only.
36. Having annoying ads.
37. Trying to blog to get rich.
38. Lacking in defined keywords to target in your post.
39. Not understanding the news and RSS readers.
40. Having too many blogs to keep up with.
41. Wanting to get everything with less than 100 posts.
42. Having too many keywords in your post.
43. Content writing with no research behind it.
44. Writing for search engines and not in a natural way.
45. Duplicating the contents from other blogs or within your blog.
46. Not using titles effectively.
47. Failure to use keywords at important places like subheadings, text links, headings, and bullets.
48. Using generic headings & subheadings. Not getting to the point.
49. Having a lack of facts and evidence.
50. Textual content is lacking or not there.
51. Trying to turn one post into several subjects. Showing people that you are uncategorized and can not stay on topic.
52. Writing about topics that are not helping the reader.
53. Having to posts and not mentioning them.
54. You have a blog with a lot of plug-ins.
55. Posts that come across as boring and not informative.
56. Having no links to other blogs with relevant information.
57. Prompting with poor or bad content.
58. Including a lot of duplicated content.
59. Lacking in useful content that people want.
60. Not having the ability to stay on topic.
61. When you do not proofread or spell check your post.
62. Having too many words in your URL.
63. Forgetting to add an ‘about page’ to tell people who you are.
64. Trying too hard to impress people with big words.
65. Having paragraphs that are not formatted properly so that they are easy to scan.
66. Being a very annoying blogger by spamming people.
67. Using blog posts that are too long.
68. Having no niche to market to.
69. Choosing a niche that has a big drop in the market place.
70. Other blogs that are competing for your niche, that you can not keep up with.
71. Using a niche that there is no demand for.
72. Skipping the basics of good SEO.
73. Opting to go with SEO methods that search engines recommend not using (called black hat SEO).
74. Trying to promote your blog before it’s done.
75. Using a different domain name for a blog that’s already up and running.
76. Running a blog that costs too much.
77. Wanting it all in just a few months.
78. Not including RSS feeds.
79. Failure to give an easy way to subscribe to your feed.
80. The ill use of animations and images.
81. Choosing a bad looking template for your blog.
82. Aimless writing with no attention to promotion or to design.
83. Colors that make your text hard to read, or making your text too small.
84. Not allowing people to use social bookmarking or to subscribe by email.
85. Having no option to leave comments or a way to get in touch with you.
86. Choosing to not be linkable.
87. Not having next, previous pagination.
88. Trying to buy visits or traffic to your site.
89. Not using offline promotions.
90. Ignoring comments and emails about your blog.
91. Leaving no meaningful comments on other blogs.
92. Having no link back from your comments to your blog.
93. Not commenting on other blogs in your same niche.
94. Having no network of friends. Lacking in a network of bloggers.
95. Not being indexed in the search engines.
96. The lack of links from other blogs and relevant sites.
97. Your blog does not have enough links from variety of sources leading to it.
98. Not using blog directories like pingomatic and technorati.
99. Having links to bad neighborhoods and blogs.
100. Forgetting to follow the tips we just talked about!

Tags: blogging mistakes, why blogs fail

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