The Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make

I spent a few hours yesterday thinking up all the mistakes that I see new bloggers make. I broke the list down by categories, including:

Domain & Hosting
Style, Design, and Basic Blog Ingredients
Blog Comments
Links
Blog Content
Blog Promotion & Traffic Building
Blog Monetization
Feeds

Here are a handful of the points . . . for the full list, you'll have to stop by.

6. Using background music
16. Commenting on other blogs with nothing to say other than “nice post”
37. Stealing blog content
64. Not entering Blog Carnivals to start building traffic

Read The Top 77 Mistakes New Bloggers Make

If you've got any mistakes that I forgot, please share!

 

thats actually a helpful list to recommend to some of my friends who i am helping start blogs.

 

background music should be the #1 no-no on any web site! nice list!

 

Yeah, I almost did a Top 5 worst mistakes in addition to the 77 listed . . . backgroud music would have been #1 or #2

 

whats worse is when it automatically restarts. I visited a lot of personal sites and people do that but its so annoying when its on EVERY PAGE

 

I have been doing all the mistakes sometime.

 

Sorry, but I'm a newb. and I don't understand why deleting the first post and comment is bad. (not that I'm disagreeing of course, I'm just curious why that is).

 

No problem! You should delete the first post and comment. Most blogs come with a generic first post and first comment. You never want your readers to think you don't care enough to do something as simple as deleting them.

Hope that helps clarify things

 

still haven't entered a blog carnival...I think that's been on my todo list for over a half of year. Kind of embarrassed now...nice post

 

Don't be embarrassed, guy. Just do it. Go to http://blogcarnival.com/bc/clist.html right now, find a post that you've written that is worthy, search for carnivals of interest, and submit.

Should take you all of 3 minutes to do.

Motivate and make it happen . . . stop giving yourself a reason not to do it.

 

Good List, I just wrote a brief entry on one of my blogs and yes, linked to yours so others could read the full list.

 

Thanks Patti! I eventually found the post on your site. Seems like you're quite the busy blogger. I'm glad you're out there helping publicize it! All my best.

 

Thought I'd share with everyone that there is now a Spanish edition of this post:
Los 77 errores que un blogger no debe cometer

I hope that this is helpful to some folks out there!

 

Yes. Thank you. That makes sense to me now. For some reason, I read your advice to mean NOT to delete the first post and comment.

 

great healpful for me , as i am also a new bloger

 

thats pretty cool list dude. thanks for putitng it up

 

Nice list! Will keep in mine XD

 

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Thanks for your messages guys! I'm glad it came in handy for you!

 

Very nice list. I'll make sure I don't fall into one of those newbie categories!

 

just have read. That's definitely useful and practical list, thanx bigp!

btw, what is a blog carnival?