Comments on: What is the Biggest Mistake That You’ve Made as a Blogger?

By: Passionate Eater

Passionate Eater — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:10:23 +0000

I am going to echo the sentiments of many bloggers–my biggest mistake is letting my blog go pretty much idle after being selected as a blog of note by blogger. Thus, I effectively let my blog content go stale. I saw many other blogs who started after me, quickly surpass me in viewership (because of their content). However, it is a struggle to balance the demands of life and a blog. I was getting married at the time to a long distance finance and planning the destination wedding, so I let go of my obligations to my blog.

By: Sam With Traffic Is King

Sam With Traffic Is King — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:20:37 +0000

The biggest mistake for me is not deciding on what to focus my blog content on and to whom. I must have spent months trying to figure out how I wanted to talk about my topic and who my audience should be. Just took to long to figure this out and I lost out on some serious content development time.

By: Benny

Benny — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:31:41 +0000

yeah, same here. should’ve started earlier.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:45:31 +0000

My biggest mistake was probably not starting my own blog sooner. I could have ended up with more content by now.

By: JennyHow

JennyHow — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:37:29 +0000

I supposed mine is not starting a blog sooner, way back in 2004.

By: Zath

Zath — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:56:47 +0000

My biggest mistake was changing my permalink structure and didn’t use the right plugin – it broke my links and after 9 months of blogging (and just starting to receive some decent Google traffic) I think I was effectively sandboxed again and it’s taken another 5 months to get Google traffic back again.

A tough lesson to learn, but hopefully no matter how annoying it felt at the time, it didn’t actually put my blog’s development back a full 5 months.

By: guradian angel

guradian angel — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:13:21 +0000

Hi,

I hope my comment still has space here.

My biggest mistake so far and still suffering from it is my long URL i guess. Although sometimes I land on Google’s first page and somehow have regular visitors, I still believe my traffic would have been better if I made my URLs ( my other blog URL is also long) is quite shorter.

Thank you for asking, and hoping for a clear advise.

By: paulscholes

paulscholes — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:49:08 +0000

Maintaining too many blogs and cluttering the site with ads.

By: Travis

Travis — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:23:44 +0000

Not starting sooner.

By: PegasusTeam

PegasusTeam — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:25:38 +0000

I started way too many blogs to maintain, so they all turned into splogs where I was just posting affiliate letters to try and make some money. None of the posts were even good content. I totally lost the focus on all the blogs.

I have cut back to just a few and I’m trying to sell the domains for a few of the ones with potential, then I will just focus on just my main blog.

By: StuckS

StuckS — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:59:11 +0000

Spending too much time on the blog design and didn’t even focusing on the content.I think that is what i regret till now and many more new blogger will.

By: Adam Donkus

Adam Donkus — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:21:41 +0000

The biggest mistake was not taking up several bloggers on the offer to write guest posts due to having a self doubts about the quality of my writing. Passed up a few good opportunities to network with some excellent bloggers.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:52:10 +0000

Stupidity. I had only been blogging 40 days and I messed up royally. Didn’t read a service agreement, infringed on someone’s copyright, posted things I had no business posting, and did not not take enough time to learn the medium, read about blogging and such before I tried it. Understandably and deservedly got me into trouble and my reputation attacked. I’m still in recovery mode, pulled the blog down and haven’t put up another up yet as the incident is still fresh. I am back in learning mode and reading, reading, reading.

By: Dark

Dark — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:13:18 +0000

I bashed all my old links when I switched from a ‘normal php site’ to the wordpress blog. Lost a lot of traffic because my site was linked to the old structure. No 301 redirect. But now i’m getting traffic back slowly. Still good index google rank for my keyword ;-)

By: Venkatesh Varalu

Venkatesh Varalu — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:06:10 +0000

In the beginning… i started to blog, i was so curious and eager and started so many blogs. Thats the biggest mistake. And later things got out of my hand and i deleted the blogs one by one.

Now i have only 2 blogs and concentrate extensively on them and make posts regularly.

What i advice new bloggers?
Do not have many blogs. Start, work and end with one.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:40:05 +0000

I’ve just started a blog about my exploits making money from the internet, I’m trying not to make mistakes but they’re inevitable I guess! I really like it if you could check it out and let me know any beginners errors I’ve made. Feel free to leave a comment!

http://freemoneymine.blogspot.com

By: INconstantIN

INconstantIN — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:09:00 +0000

My biggest mistake ever was thath I started a blog on Blogger, and not Wordpress.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:14:02 +0000

I was one of the earliest authors online to break this so-called news story about a celebrity couple, only to find out that it was just a rumor. That is something that I would have done differently, with the difference being ignoring that particular bit of news.

Since it came from a popular newspaper, I figured it to be truth. Later on, I read interviews with the two celebs who said that the “news” was false and that gossip started building after someone misinterpreted a particular action taken by one of them. Since my blog is not primarily focused on celebrity gossip, rumors, or anything related to what would be shown on primetime entertainment news shows or posted on TMZ, I should have ignored that bit of news.

I posted it because I had a feeling that not many people knew about it and since they were popular, it would bring a lot of traffic to my blog, which it did. Even to this day, this one post is still one of the popular posts on my blog, despite the fact that I re-posted the real news and made it clear that what was said initially was false. While it has become a popular post, the outcome of that has influenced me to change the way I approach news about celebrities and also how I approach attracting readers to the blog.

I am no longer in much support of what many people call “celebrity news” if it has to deal with the personal lives of celebrities. Therefore, it is not reason to post it on a blog. No one should really care about what celebrities are doing in their personal lives and who they are dating, where they party, etc., etc.! It doesn’t matter. What should matter when it comes to celebs are which movies, music or TV shows they are working on or have appeared in.

Unfortunately, our society is so nosey that it seems like celebs will always have a lack of privacy. While I may be the author of just one blog that is not an extremely popular blog or in the Technorati 100 for that matter, I still plan on having one of the blogs in the blogosphere that focuses less on the private lives of celebrities and more on their work and art.

By: Peter Lawless

Peter Lawless — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:17:41 +0000

Going to a site that had the wrong type of content and writing a truly inspiring comment to find it later in the wrong place

well not truly about blogging – I wrote an article called “fishing for leads” and hey, well its now on about 10 fishing sites!

By: Marc (Trioman)

Marc (Trioman) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:13:50 +0000

The worst mistake I made as a blogger was not realizing the responsibility that comes with blogging. You must create a following by constantly keeping original content so your readers can keep coming. I was not keeping my audience captivated.