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A week ago I posted my Blogging Mistake That I Still Tend to Make as an entry to a bigger group project hosted by DailyBlogTips. Frankly, I expected to learn about hundreds of blogging mistakes from other bloggers, but only 48 have participated. Still it’s more than enough to learn from and avoid those mistakes in future.
So here you go - a must read for any (A-Z-List) blogger - true confessions of blogging mistakes by 48 mortals, including “moi”:
- Do Save Drafts for a Rainy Day by Inspirationbit
- Don’t Make the Mistake of Monetizing your Blog Too Early by Maki
- Don’t Ignore the Basics of SEO by Simonne
- Don’t Fail to Realize the Importance of Relationships with Readers by Ronald
- Don’t be in a Frisky mood when commenting on other blogs. by Rory
- Don’t Handle Important Matters Lightly by Amanda
- Do not Underestimate the Important of RSS Feeds by Kevin
- Do offer email subscriptions and don’t add a hyphen to your domain name by Thilak
- Don’t forget the etiquette and copyright law. by Clever Dude
- Don’t neglect Posting Frequency by Chris
- Do establish a focus for your blog by Shawn
- Don’t desert your blog, do update it regularly by Julian
- Don’t end up choosing a wrong name for your blog by Cory O’Brien
- Don’t Change Blog Name or URL by Denise
- Don’t tackle too many blogs by Green Llama
- Don’t Promote a contest on your Blog without enough Traffic by Nathan
- Don’t run a boring blog by Madhur
- Do start blogging now. by Francesco
- Don’t open links in a new Window by Nirmal
- Do Use a Smart Permalink Structure on your Blog by Leftblank
- Don’t Underestimate the Commitment by Andrew
- Don’t let Blogs and Blogging to Ruin your Self Discipline by Dave
- Do be Careful with How You Tag your Posts by Shankar
- Don’t Forget to Use Blog Carnivals by Andrea
- Don’t Start Too Many Blogs by Mohammed
- Do comment on other People’s Blogs by Somu
- Don’t Spend Too Much Time Link-Begging by David Paul
- How to Not Run a Contest by Robert
- Why this Blog Looks this Way by Ben
- Importance of An Honest Self-Assessment by Bret
- I Almost Ruined Everything by Annie
- Five Common Blogging Mistakes by Vijay
- Five Blogging mistakes in March by Bill
- Always Install WordPress on the Root Diretory by Daniel
- Remember about the Internet Explorer vs. Firefox Issues by Mark Paddock
- Get your Own Domain and WordPress for your Blog by Andrew Flusche
- A Clear Point of View is Crucial to Increase your Blog Traffic by George
- Delete Your First Blog Post by Mark Alves
- Should’ve Gone WP Yesterday! by Jimbo
- Lack of Predictability on Your Posts by Roberto
- What to Do When You don’t Have Anything to Say by Philip Liu
- Copying, Mimicking, Duplication by Paper Bull
- Leaving the Amateur League of Blogging: the Hosting Lesson by Rene
- Be Careful with how you Choose your Domain Name by Calvin
- The Ad King by Jason
- Move to your Own Domain Now by Gaurav
- Lack of Persistence by Blake
- Why you Should Own your Domain Name by Engtech
great advice! got to take some time to read all of them ;) but I’ll go through the whole list
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it’ll be a time well spend, trust me on this :-)
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This really drove me a lot of traffic, and people are still visiting that particular post…. :!
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I have read several of these. Most all of them are good advice. Once again I come here and find something useful.
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how about your Technorati ranking, Shankar? I bet it’s up as well :-)
Thanks, Joey. Btw, are you in Mexico yet?
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@ibit,
Technorati, you’re asking me about that!
Technorati is CRUEL to me :(
I have claimed the blog. But the ping doesn’t work.
I ve got over 170 links now, but the status is still “NO BLOG LINKS HERE”.
All this bcoz the ping doesn’t work for me.
I mailed them. No response. Probably, as you said earlier, they’re busy with the top 100.
I would have got so much more traffic if the ping had worked. I really feel bad about Techorati. :(
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hmm… now I’m angry with Technorati. :-(
You should email them again, bug them until they get your ping working.
Are you sure that your Technorati ping is set up properly on your blog?
Did you manually ping your blog from Technorati? You can do it from http://www.technorati.com/ping
I just went there and pinged your blog. And also I favourited your blog. Hope it’ll change your Technorati status.
Good Luck and keep me posted on this.
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Thanks for the fave and the ping. I just use embedded claim on my blog. I did ping via the official Technorati Ping page. I have to bug them, till they respond. I’ll keep you posted.
It’s really worse when people see
“Shankar’s Tech Blog - No blog links here - Not updated for 100 days” :(
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Awesome advice! Anyone who wants to blog should DEFINITELY read this!
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Vivien,
Regarding my Technorati problems, I’m not the only one. In fact, many many people are facing this problem.
Just look at the flood of complaints in here. Many people have this problem. Most of them over there have a blog @ blogger.com and I think this is the cause behind the broken pings.
This is not the only topic that seems to talking about this problem. See here: http://support.technorati.com/search.php?q=ping
There’s been no response as of now.
Gonna wait and watch. It’s really awful :( I am really worried about the rankings. They matter to me.
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hmm… that’s not good at all. I wonder what can be done about that?.. looks like nobody is replying on those forums. I’ll see if I can find out anything about it. Meanwhile, don’t despair, keep the chin up.
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Okay, let me wait and see :)
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Hmm… It’s been a while, but the good news is that the problem is resolved now :) Happy. Now my blog has a ranking of around 28000 something, and it shows the links and all that. It lists the latest posts as of now. Pinged.
Somebody from the support desk finally responded to the issue! Everything goes normal now @ technorati for my blog :)
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Hey, That’s really Great News, Shankar. Finally! Congratulations! Looks like that support desk has fixed other blog pings as well. Thanks for sharing the good news.
Looks like today was your lucky day - won $25 prize and your blog now ranks pretty high on Technorati :-)
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Hahaa… yeah it was a lucky day :)
Hey, have you installed an anti-spam plugin here? :)
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