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Top 3 Newbie Blogger Mistakes

By Gobala Krishnan

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Most new bloggers I've met over the last year or so seem to be doing the same mistakes over and over again. I guess with all the hype about how much money you can make from your blog, these guys are in a rush to get on the blogging bandwagon by any means necessary.

Still, mistakes will cost you in the long run.

Although these mistakes appear to be random at first glance, a deeper look reveals that there are not more than three really BIG mistakes that can be easily avoided.

1) Ignoring Search Engine Optimization

This happens for a simple reason; lack of planning. When someone starts a blog, all they can think about is how much money they can make by next Monday, when they have to drag their feet to office and join the other lifeless beings we call "co-workers".

They try to build an online income and quit their jobs in 30 days - after all, isn't that what all the hyped up ebooks promise?

So they start pounding out article after article, blog post after blog post, trying to get as much traffic as they can. Search engine optimization is an afterthought for most people - if they even think about it at all!

When reality sinks in however, they realize that blogging is a lot of work, and it will take a while before they can see any level of sustainable income at all.

They also realize that to get a sustainable amount of traffic in the long term, they need to depend on Google as much as they depend on their writing skills. But the articles they created in the past few months aren't optimized at all, and achieved no significant ranking in Google's search results.

To re-optimize existing pages is way too much work. If only it was done correctly from the start!

2) Focusing On The Technical Stuff

Between installing and modifying WordPress themes, to sorting through hundreds of free plugins to get something to work the way you want, you tend to forget what's really important for your blog - Content!

The more content you add, and the more you engage with your readers, the more blog traffic you'll get and the more money you make.

But it's so easy to get trapped in the vicious cycle of switching themes and hacking plugins. It may all seem like actual "work" while you're doing it, but it isn't.

It's just not worth your time. Outsource the tech stuff to someone else, or just make do with the fact that you blog isn't the best looker on the Internet.

3) Not Getting The Right Hosting

Most bloggers tend to try and cut corners by opting for a cheap web host. This may not seem like a real problem in the beginning, until you start to experience problems with your host.

90% of smaller web hosting companies just disappear after a while. Even if their service is still up and running, the captain has abandoned ship a long time ago, and the service itself is not heading anywhere.

Support is important, especially if you're a one-person operation without a permanent webmaster of technical staff to assist you when things go wrong.

If you're REALLY treating your blog as a business by itself, then won't it make more sense for you to make sure you're with the right hosting plan right from the start?

So that's it - the three biggest mistakes most new bloggers make. Neither one of them is particularly dangerous by itself, but if you have a mix of all (like most people do), you're sabotaging your success right from the start.

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