7 Mistakes To Avoid When Blogging For Cash!

While there are loads of people blogging there are 1000 times more that aren’t getting any traffic to their blog at all.

That’s pretty sad isn’t it?

After all, the whole point of having a blog online is so you can share your thought and insights with like-minded people and communicate about them.

So what is it that makes a blog fail? Several things do but here are 7.

1) Not having a goal for blogging.Before you start a blog, ask yourself, what do I want to achieve with this blog? I believe answering that question objectively will assist you stay on focus.

2)Content isn’t updated regularly - with a blog you need to post at least once a week to keep the search engines interested and sending you traffic.I make posts almost on a daily basis and if you must succeed as a blogger,you need to update your blog frequently.

3) The content isn’t targeted - if your content isn’t targeted and is too broad, no one will read your content; stay on your blog or return. Focus on the focus of your blog and I tell you, you will make good money sooner than you can ever imagine.I see people make this mistake often.Posting articles on internet marketing on a mother care blog.Please avoid this if you want to suceed as a blogger.As Bishop David Oyedepo will say,focus on your focus.

4)Another mistake is to write about a topic you don’t care about just for money. You have to be able to sustain your own interest over the long term, or blogging about the topic will be too much of a chore to keep up.

5)Giving up too easily and too early. Our expectations of instant gratification in the internet age make us impatient for results. Sure there are bloggers who get instant success, getting 4,000 readers a day within 3 weeks of launching a blog. But that kind of success is the exception, not the norm. A successful blogger said that blogging is not a sprint but a long distance marathon. The ones with consistency and perserverance will triumph ultimately simply because the others have given up too soon.

6)Expecting people to visit
Most of us make this mistake when we begin blogging.When I first started out I had no idea how to attract new readers, commenters, interaction etc. I had the impression that if I published new content I’d automatically find readers in my niche.

How wrong I was.Successful blogging involves time, effort, and reaching out to fellow bloggers / publishers / authors (whatever you prefer). You can find articles on getting readers to your blog right on this blog.

7)Underestimating the time commitment.Blogging is not for lazy people,it is for people who are serious about making a living online,so,don’t underestimate the time commitment.It requires time to research your articles,write them and publish them.

If you watch out for these 7 pitfalls, you’re already way ahead of the crowd.

Tomorrow,I will post an article on Understanding RSS Technology.Please stay tuned!