4 silly mistakes that first time bloggers tend to commit (here’s how to avoid them)

Blogging is in. Look at BlogSpot and WordPress. They’re some of the most thriving communities living and interacting online.

Every day hundreds and thousands newbies join these communities with unbound passion and expectations. But most of these quit in a month or so – completely oblivious as to why blogging failed them.

So here in this article, I’ll tell you about 4 silly mistakes that take the fun out of equation for the first time bloggers. See whether you can get something out of this.

1. They start with dreams – not backed up by a plan. I’ve met quite a many bloggers. They often have stars in their eyes when they first set out to blogging. They expect people are out there, eagerly waiting to hear from them.

And often, they begin without a plan – as to what sort of posts they’d update their blogs with, how often they would update the blogs, and how they’ll market their blogs.

Someone wise has declared long before that failure to plan is a perfect plan to fail. See if you’re a first time blogger and do not want to get failed at your attempt (though failures aren’t that bad if you learn from them), start with a plan – no matter how ordinary the plan turns out.


2.They do their best to hurt the user experience (UE). I have seen so many blogs out there online with outstanding blog posts – but I do not read them at all. Why?

Because the fonts are just readable. Every time I try to read a sentence, I have to strain my eyes. And I don’t like to strain my eye and brain muscles.

If you’re a first time blogger and want people to read your posts, then try writing in a font and design that is reader or user friendly.


3. They have no idea that they need to promote their blogs. No matter how awesome your posts are, nobody is going to read them unless they find it in search engine result pages, on social media channels, or sites they often read from.

I have a blog on WordPress and another blog on BlogSpot.What I do the most to promote my blog is reading blogs of my fellow bloggers and liking and commenting on those blogs (of course, you’ve to read those posts and your likes and comments should be thoroughly genuine).

In return, they come back to my posts and read them. I also write guest blogs posts – these posts that I write for the site of other more popular bloggers help me get valuable links pointing to my site – this helps me get better visibility in search engines.


4. They behave miserably when it comes to consistency in their posts. No matter how awesome you write, you are not going to reach anywhere, if you’re not consistent in your writing and publishing.

You can choose to write one post a week or even 5 posts a week, but whatever you choose, just try to stick with that schedule.

Write awesome, and write frequent – that’s the mantra for you to succeed as a blogger ion this ever growing online blogging sphere.