6 Common Blogging Mistakes To Avoid AnyHow
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6 Common Blogging Mistakes every Beginners Make
Here, in this article we will be getting familiar with some of the Common Blogging Mistakes To Avoid which are obviously expected as a beginner.
As a Beginner Blogger you must have thought about Why do Bloggers Fail? or maybe What is the most common mistake for first time bloggers?
So, here below is the in depth discussion for this. Lezz Goooooo!
Is Blogging Cool thing for you?
As a Beginner, Blogging might be a Cool thing for you which you can do comfortably part time while travelling or while gossiping at a tea break at your office. It's all untill you get to know about the true hardships behind successful blogs and the reality of this highly demanded skill/work.
Do you Think Blogging Similar to Writing?
If you also think that Blogging is just the another way of Writing, so let me correct you that it doesn't work like this. Unlike Writing, Blogging brings along the tasks of Search Engine Optimization, Trend Research, Audience Research, Publishing, etc....
So Overall, Blogging needs Digging, Grounding and Research.
Traditionally Beginners use to work on their skills before stepping into Blog Writing, however these days they try to direct dive into this, which results in causing some Serious Impacting Blunders.
Still, comparing Blogging with your new Business or your new job, it's just totally normally that blunders happens and you might end up in messing things up.
But, rather than to repeat the blunder cycle it's good to bring into light your own mistakes and try to rectify them. This practise will be directly reflected into your traffic insights.
Before that if you are new to Blogging and want to create your own blog check this out.
- Blogging Mistake #1 Ignoring the Audience
#1 Ignoring the Audience
As Blogging is done something related to certain topic, and that particular topic has a part of audience interested in, this audiecne is called your Target Audience. So, take back a moment, sit and relax. Now, start figuring out about who are your Target Readers.
You need to recognise them and analyze them on the basis of their Interests, Age, Location, Income, Gender and in depth as much as possible. Are they from India, America, Middle East or Japan. Maybe if you are focusing on Indian Readers, where should they belong from, which part of India. What kind of topic they might be interested in?
Now, its the time that you need to push your thinking limits logically about what
Age Group you want to target, like obviously any 70 year old guy probably won't be interested in your Technical Blogs or any FAshion related items. Whereas on the other hand 15-35 years Age Group will have more chance for their interest in tech and you can easily lure them to your blog provided you have quality content.
Keep your Niche as a center to think about audience. What Blog you are running, are you a Food Blogger, Travel Blogger, Fashion Blogger, Tech Blogger or etc. Regarding it think deeply. If you have a food Blog, People from which part of world will try to search for what type of food based on their Climate, Weather, Interest and most important Trend.
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“If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.”
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Neil Patel.
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Now, I dont't need to explain Who is Neil Patel! I hope being a blogger you know this guy. So, try to know your audience if you have any and if you do not have any audience yet, try to figure out what is your Target Audience.
- Blogging Mistake #2 Not Publishing Frequently
#2 Not Publishing Frequently
Just like Youtube or another successful things you need to be consistent in posting Blogs on regular intervals. But, while fulfilling frequent posting condition you should not post random contents. This not only babbles your readers but also result in loosing interest in your Blog as a brand.
Suppose you have a subscribed a news channel on Youtube but now the channel has started posting the funny videos, surely you will be ignoring the upcoming impressions of that channel as you had already loosed interest in it.
Hubspot says that Websites publishing atleast 16 blogs in a Month get 3.5x more traffic than those who publishes 0-4 articles every month.
So, keep 16 Blogs a month as your target.
For this you can start maintaining a calender or a planner where you can create your own customized schedule to fulfill your targets.
- Blogging Mistake #3 Write as you Talk
#3 Write as you Talk
Writing a blog is a kind of different thing than your university papers. Generally, Beginners use their Paper writing skills on blogging too, however, your readers won't be reading everyting you write.
If you want your reader to stay for a longer time, you need to keep them interested in your content. So, start writing blogs in more of a coversational writing.
This will enhance kind of trust among readers making them to feel they are communicating with some person and not the dead robots' generated scripts.
Keep readers holded by using some jokes, funny incidents and avoid using jargons as you will have a wide audience from all sectors.
- Blogging Mistake #4 Not enough Comprehensive articles
#4 Not enough Comprehensive Articles
Many Bloggers usually keep questioning that even after answering tonnes of questions on blogs, they are still lagging behind in traffic.
But when those blogs are audited, they are mostly found to be underlength and does not answer the question handfully. Its not all about length here.
Rather than focusing over length, you should be focusing on whether the Answer for Question is provided fully or not.
Keep in mind that your Reader should not be left in between and should not feel unsatisfied after investing his time reading your lengthy article.
Whereas on contrary, Search Engines Prioritize blogs on basis of their length.
From studies done by SERP IQ and Backlinko, by reviewing average length of top 10 results for Millions of Search, they found it close to 2000 words in length.
Still, 2000 is kind of a huge, so minimum of atleast 700-800 words should be in your blog. But if your are performing with 1500+ words your chances of getting ranked in Search Resuls increases upto times.
But keep writing till you provide satisfactory answer to the question you opted.
- Blogging Mistake #5 Not Updating Content
#5 Not Updating Content
Mostly Bloggers once hit the Publish button, never turns back on it for updating the content.
You just worry about the next articles and never updates the previous ones. This impacts organically over readers.
If you dream to get your page Ranked on First Page, you need to keep updating your content time to time.
If you have aquired significant traffic on a page with descent raking, Updating the content is important, as it can lead to lossing of those readers over time.
Take moment and design out your complete schedule when you need to revisit and update the old ones.
- Blogging Mistake #6 Poor Formatting
#6 Poor Formatting
Though your lengthy article might be the perfect answer reader is searching for, however not formatting the presentation, nobody would stay till end.
How to Fix this glitch?
- Proper Titles and header-footer
- Whitepsaces
- Points in Bullet
- Highlight Important Matter
- Numbering the contents
Try to use proper indentations and paragraph wise information with some CSS styling.
Size of text and font should be proper and in proportion. Too large text is not readable smoothly.
Complete article should be smoothly readable without causing any eye-strain to figure out.
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