Top 10 Mistakes Need To Avoid For Success

10 MISTAKES
BLOGGERS ARE STILL
MAKING

THIS IS HOT INFORMATION WHICH WILL
HELP YOUR BLOGGING EFFORTS!

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LET’S TALK ABOUT THE 10 MISTAKES
BLOGGERS ARE STILL MAKING
We all make mistakes in our efforts to become the ultimate
blogger, but every once in a while we need to be reminded of
some of them to be successful. Today’s presentation is more
about success than criticism; we all are guilty of some
these. So take a peak and you may find yourself compelled
to re-evaluate some of your posts or even move a totally new
direction.


TOO MUCH COMPLEXITY
Remember the first rule of communication and getting your
message out, your audience. Who is your
audience? Sometimes it is often thought complexity is a
sign of achievement, intelligence, or sophistication. But
actually the opposite is true. Stick with terms and language
of your audience and you will never miss the mark on
communicating. Always put your personality in your writing
as well. People follow or purchase from people after a
relationship is built not products. Injecting your personality
is key as they will get to know the real you.


PUBLISHING DAILY MAY NOT BE GOOD
THING
Believe it or not publishing daily to your blog is not a good
thing. This can cause all of your automatic social notifiers
and email notifications to spam your clients email
boxes. This is not a good thing and your most valuable
resource, your clients and partners, just get pounded by your
email and notifications. It can by annoying. When you do
post to your blog ensure your posts are relevant and provide
valued information


EDITING YOUR POSTS IN LIGHTENING
SPEED
This is a big one and we see this is the MOST common mistake made by
bloggers. Proofreading your work is really big. As you put your post
or article together run it thru a spell checker such as Word or other tool
to ensure your spelling is correct. We prefer to use Notepad to write
our initial article and then transfer to Word. There we proof and check
for grammar and spelling. It is also super important to read
your article or post aloud to yourself. I know this sounds really weird,
but when folks read they typically hear in their head the article as they
read it. You want your article or post to make sense and come across
clearly.
Other considerations may be:
- Does each paragraph naturally follow the paragraph before it?
- Polish each sentence.

The more effort you put into editing, the easier your post becomes to
read. Your message becomes clearer, and your readers will be grateful.


SHOW YOUR PERSONALITY
As mentioned before people by people and their service not
products. Folks want to know that you support them and the products
you recommend to them. This is crucial to your blogging business and
can’t be emphasized enough. Additionally, we all write, have written or
will write about the same topics. What stands out about you? It is what
you put into your articles and posts that are different.
What can you do differently?
- View topics from a different perspective
- Present converse opinions to suggest an opposite approach to what
most people believe is right
- Share your personal experiences and fortunes to guide your readers
- Show them you have a sense of humor and entertain them

You make your articles and posts unique. Your readers don’t just come
back for more useful tips. They engage with you because of who you
are.


WEB-FRIENDLY FONTS RULE!
If you want consistency you don’t want fonts that are not
web-friendly. Cool is good but doesn’t always work. We
suggest you utilize the sans-serif
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif) font for all your main
body content, and try not to use too many different fonts on
one page or post. If you want to get creative then use some
of the fonts at dafonts. These display the font and give you a
proper way of creating your masterpiece while being webfriendly.


OPTIMIZING YOUR PERMALINKS
This subject we have seen quite frequently. A good example
of a bad or not so friendly SEO permalink is
http://www.yourblog.com/p=123. Your permalink is what is
displayed in the Search Engines when folks find your
material. Here is an example of a good permalink
http://henrybradysblog.com/10-top-social-and-traffic-toolsfor-your-blog-in-2014/. This displays better, informs the
reader what the title to the story is and brands your SEO
much better for the search engines to read. If you are using
WordPress, you can change your permalink settings, go to
(Settings -> Permalinks and select Postname)
If you don’t have the post name option yet, you’re not on
WordPress 3.3, you possibly need to upgrade. You could
wait a bit for the update, or you could just add /%postname%/
as a custom permalink structure.

NOT UNDERSTANDING YOUR AUDIENCE
Okay so you got your blog together and your products (if
applicable) and you are getting traffic. But no one is
responding or converting? Could be you are not getting to
know your audience to know what they need, want or how
you can assist them. There are many ways to get to know
your audience. Our favorite method is Survey Monkey
(https://www.surveymonkey.com/). It is easy to use, free and
provides you all the tools necessary to pop some questions
to your audience. Measure the feedback for your articles,
promotions, website, etc.. To see if you coming out with the
correct material to assist your readers.


SEO IS THE TARGET
Learning SEO or Search Engine Optimization is crucial to your
blog. According to
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization) the
definition of SEO is:
“Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting
the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s
“natural” or un-paid (“organic”) search results. In general, the
earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more
frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more
visitors it will receive from the search engine’s users. SEO may
target different kinds of search, including image search, local
search, video search, academic search, news search and
industry-specific vertical search engines.”
Perform a little SEO at the minimum is so important. Ensure you
look at some SEO Tips and Tricks to help you. You will notice a
great increase in your search engine ranking and overall organic
ranking. You can get some free training here.

INTRO PARAGRAPH CAPTURES THE
READER
You got the graphics, the fonts and the permalink good to
go. What about your first paragraph? Does it grab your
reader’s attention? Does it answer a question or pose
intrigue? These are good things to insert into your first
paragraph for any article or post you put on your blog. The
eye view as it is called (the top and first part of your blog
visible upon opening) is what keeps your readers eyes glued
to the article or post. Take a little time to be creative with
your first paragraph and look at your reader’s
perspective. Add a little personality and pose a question


ARE YOU TALKING THE SAME SUBJECT
OR BRAND
We know we have been guilty of this one. If you are a blogger
that really likes to put your message out there, you can get
away with the occasional post that strays from your primary
message or brand. But if you are trying to build traffic, you
need to find an editorial focus and stick to it. A tighter focus
leads to higher traffic. This is why we have tried to narrow
our own focus to three areas: leadership, traffic, and
publishing. If I want to write on something else (e.g., fitness),
we do so through one of these three lenses.


CONCLUSION
There are other mistakes, too; we doubt this list is all
encompassing. But we think we have covered the major
ones. Be sure to keep an eye on future posts here as will
continue to cover these and other important subject to make
you successful.

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