There are more than ten factors that are getting on my nerves about a couple of bloggers and
their blogs, but after thinking about all these factors, I’ve boiled everything down to 10 major factors or things that bloggers should avoid doing.
- Have the I Blog For Money Only Character – You’re not blogging for making money, aren’t you? ’cause if you are really only blogging for money, but a big disclaimer up and let everyone know what for a money lusty person you are. Oh, and don’t call yourself a blogger if money making is your sole purpose of the blog.
- Choose Blogspot – This counts for those bloggers who can afford buying domain, hosting and all other things, do you really need to choose the shorter when you have everything you need to lift your blogging career to the next level?
- Spread the Word about EVERY SINGLE POST you make – There’s no need to let the whole world know about EVERY SINGLE POST you wrote, it’s okay to do so for post that you are really confident about which may catch the attention of other people lurking the world wide web, but I doubt that a lot of people would be interested about what you had as your breakfast meal.
- Fake your subscriber countParagraph 4 – I know a couple of blogs that are trying to fake their subscriber counts in many ways, with a little feedburner hack, or maybe by just modifying a few html codes to make their feed count look like thousands, while in reality, there are just more or less hundred people subscribed. There’s no need to do something silly like this, are you really proud faking your count whilst other stand out their own, legit way?
- Write about the same topic on the same day – I noticed specifically Google indexing only 1 page/post per blog for a specific keyword or keyphrase, after it, you will see your next post related to that keyword a few mile pages behind. Try targeting another set of keywords or keyphrases when you tackle a similar topic on a single day.
- Use a Gravatar with your site URL on it – Do you really need to have your gravatar say from which
planetsite you are from? Add your real face to it to attach the personal feel to your comment, especially on your own blogs. Readers might think that they are talking to a both addictive to blogging if you won’t show your human side every now and then. - Clutter your website with advertisements – I hate it, other users hate it, and I know that you hate it too. There are a lot of ways to close a browser, ALT+F4, CTRL+F4, pressing the red X button in the upper right hand and many more. You don’t want that to happen, do you?
- Encourage clicks – It can kill you, it has killed me before, I don’t want to meet you in hell yet.
- Blog more than sleeping – Blogging is dangerous to your health, especially when you replace blogging time for your bed time, you don’t want to look as ugly and thin like me? Although, blogging and surfing the web to the extreme extend I’m doing it (it’s 12 midnight now) is a real nice way to loose some fats for those thick people out there.
- Run more than 3 blogs – I know people who have problems even maintaining a single blog, while I do also know people who managed to take more than three blogs to a higher level, but do you really think that they started immediately with all three? Or established their online presence via a single blog first?
- Commenting One Liners on Other Blogs –
- It’s annoying, especailly when all you’ve got to say is “care to link ex?”. Hey, it’s very insulting you know, the blog owner can still read their tag box (most of them, but I don’t have one); you don’t need to emphasize your request by leaving a spammy comment, it’ll only lead for being ignored.
- Would you mind sticking to the topic for some time? Even a few lines about the topic can make a blogger really happy and start a friendship between the two of you, good comments are often paid back with good comments, if you get a one liner back, don’t mind it and say to yourself “he/she is not a blogger”.
- Write PPPs all the way – Readers are interested about real content, and not content that you are forced to write about.
- Last but not the least, you should not forget to leave a comment, else, you’re not a blogger! :p
So, there you have my 10 random things that a blogger should not do, I have made use of the numerical bullets for a little change, but all of these are not ranked according to importance of significance, but ranked according to what I had in mind that very moment I pressed the Enter button.
What are other things that you could suggest that bloggers should avoid doing?
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Wow, at nakapaglabas na rin ng mahabang post, nice post again kevin, but where are the people who comment here frequently? :p
i have to two more: don’t make changing domain every week a hobby and, never group message your post through ym every hours. its annoying.
Kevin, you should be following your tip number 9. Blogging more than sleeping. The title says “13 Blogging Mistakes” and yet you keep on repeating there are “10 random things that bloggers should not do.”
So I am adding the 14th pointer, review and edit your post before you publish it. Publishing it without the additional editing may mean you don’t think much of your readers.
I would also like to add a note on number 1 and number 3. It is OK to blog for money. I am blogging for money. But I know in order for my blog to earn money, I have to give something to my readers. I also disagree with your point number 3. I think bloggers should spread the word for every post they make, because that is why you are blogging – to let the world know about your ideas. A more relevant suggestion would be Never to Blog about things you think others would not be interested in.
These are good tips,, but I do not agree that each of them are a NOT to DO by bloggers.. I wanted to expand more, but I just feel lazy typing,, hehe
byt the way,, you have so many scripts,, try to simplify them, cause it slows your site loading,,
Thanks a lot for the tips i am also a blogger and this kind of information do help me.
thanks a lot for this, i’m not a much of a blogger, but one day i would like to be and these are some great tips for a begginer
Hmm, these are very useful tips. I’ll try to keep in mind some of the things you mentioned here.
Well said. On my part, I’ve already made a booboo by choosing Blogger. Oh well. What hosting would you recommend?
@Richie – Ops, I added 3 more rules than I had in mind before I wrote the actual content of the blog XD People can make mistakes, ayt?
Note about #1, since you are trying to give something interesting to your readers, you are not blogging for money ONLY, what I’m referring to are specially those MFA blogs.
Note about #3, since it’s your blog, you decide what to post, interesting or not, a blog is there to let out what you want to share, and often tend to represent what you feel, so if you have got a personal post, for example out on your blog, it doesn’t really needs that much attention than other posts, does it?
Sadly, I’ve done many of those, especially the domain changing every week one. I was never successful.
Thanks for the tips.
Cool ano, ako ‘yung nasa #4. I’m doing it for fun, nainggit lang *siguro* kayo kasi ginaganun ko subscriber count ko. Laging tandaan na nilagay ko ang salitang “siguro” so it’s only an assumption.
Go, awayin niyo pa ako. Just keep me informed kada inaaway niyo ako thru my blog kung sakali para masaya buhay ko. =D
@Mikko Paano kami maiinggit eh, 800+ real subscribers naman ang amin? 0.0 konting HTML editing lang kelang para idadag ang text “thousand other subscribers” noh? haha..
I love this.
Go, awayin niyo pa ako — makakatulong rin ‘yun sa pagrami ng visitors at *real* subscriber count ko.
😀 Have fun.
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I am using blogger platform because I am more familiar with it. I guess blogging is not about the platform. It is the content that really matters.
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Domain Changing every week IS REALLY VERY BAD. If changing a design weekly is totally not recommended, then how much more changing your online trademark? (name)
I would recommend Blue Host, because that is what my friends are recommending, I can't recomend the host I'm using because our servers are full haha LOL
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I cannot leave a comment on the Link Love page, so I decided to leave it here.
Thanks for the invite, Kevin. I can see that you have an interesting site. However, I just want to say something about establishing link exchange or blogroll.
It only works better if both have a common niche.
One may remove you link on their blogs, and it is hard to monitor them.
One way link (link bait) is better, as it can really attract more traffic.
If you will check my sidebar, all the links there are related to my topics – family and blogging.
But here’s the kicker, I am collecting a lot of Pinoy blogs that I think are interesting and can be proud of. With this, I decided to include your blog on my post about it – Thanks for the invite, Kevin. I can see that you have an interesting site. However, I just want to say something about establishing link exchange or blogroll.
It only works better if both have a common niche.
One may remove you link on their blogs, and it is hard to monitor them.
One way link (link bait) is better, as it can really attract more traffic.
If you will check my sidebar, all the links there are related to my topics – family and blogging.
But here’s the kicker, I am collecting a lot of Pinoy blogs that I think are interesting and can be proud of. With this, I decided to include your blog on my post about it – A Salute to all Filipino Bloggers.
Thanks and good luck!
It’s me again, and I am sorry for my confusing comment above. Anyway, here’s my comment about your interesting post.
Now, here are my suggestions on what bloggers should avoid doing.
1.0 Having useless widgets on your sidebar. Make it neat, and good looking.
2.0 Add huge photos that can make your blog slower to open. The first 7 sec. is very important.
3.0 Require commentators to compute math problems, or CAPCHA. You can moderate your comments, anyway.
4.0 Blog about your complains about life. Instead, inspire your readers and help them unselfishly.
5.0 Avoid using long URL. The shorter, the better.
6.0 Engage in word war with your commentators. If you don’t like his comment, don’t approve it.
Hope that helps.
nice tips 🙂 blogger rules ! 🙂