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Are You Making These 11 Blogging Mistakes?

March 16, 2015 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Common Blogging Mistakes To Avoid

Do you know if you are making any mistakes as a blogger? If your blog is not improving and doing better than it was last month, then you are making some mistakes. These mistakes are hurting your blog and preventing it from growing into something greater than it already is. One of the best ways to combat mistakes is by becoming aware of the mistakes you are making. These are the 11 mistakes that you may be making with your blog:

 

#1: Not Learning More About Blogging

No blogger knows everything there is to know about blogging. Even the most experienced bloggers are still looking for more blogging tips, tricks, and tools they can use to amplify their authority on the web. You should read at least three articles about blogging every day. You can skim through some articles and just absorb the key takeaways. Regardless of how much of the articles you actually read, you need to read more articles about blogging and absorb the key takeaways.

 

#2: Not Growing On Social Media

Social media growth is one of the biggest aids towards more blog traffic. Social media provides direct traffic (you tweet one of your blog posts and people click the link) and indirect traffic (social media traffic helps out with SEO traffic). If you are not growing on social media, then you are missing out on one of the biggest streams of blog traffic.

[tweetthis url=”http://bit.ly/1ApibCx”]If you are not growing on #SocialMedia, then you are missing out on one of the biggest streams of #blog traffic.[/tweetthis]

#3: Not Building Your Email List

Your email list is where the money and returning visitors are. People love to check their email, so that’s exactly where your content need to be—in the inbox. If you are not building your email list, you must stop what you are doing and optimize your blog to get more subscribers. You could get thousands of visitors every day, but if none of those visitors are subscribing, then those visitors may neither come back to your blog nor buy your products.

 

#4: Poorly Communicating With Your Email List 

Once you have an email list, it is important to properly communicate with the people on that list. An email list, regardless of its size, means nothing if you don’t interact with that email list. When you interact with your email list, don’t simply tell people that you wrote a new blog post or launched a new product. Let your subscribers know what the product or blog post is about by providing a summary. Then provide the link so your subscribers can either read the rest of the article or see the sales page for your product.

 

#5: Not Building Relationships With Readers

Building relationships with your readers is the most crucial step towards getting returning visitors. Building relationships does mean interacting with them through emails (when they join your email list), but that also means responding to comments and making the readers feel welcomed on your blog. I use the WWSGD plugin on my blog to display a welcome message to all of my first-time visitors and a different message for returning visitors. Welcoming your visitors to your blog allows you to build the relationship you have with them.

Perhaps the best way to build relationships with your visitors is to respond to their comments. Some visitors will be encouraged to return to a specific blog post just to see if you responded to their comment. In order to make this work, you need a good reputation for responding to other people’s comments. In some of your blog posts, let your visitors know that you respond to other people’s comments. That way, visitors who have read enough of your blog posts will know that you respond to other people’s comments.

 

#6: Not Optimizing Your Blog For SEO

SEO is another major traffic outlet. Even though billions of people visit Google every month, few people are taking the time to learn SEO and optimize their blogs for the search engines. Some people get hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors from SEO alone, but even if you utilize SEO properly, it is important to not rely on SEO. If Google comes out with another big update that becomes famous minutes after it comes out, the rules of SEO could possibly be redefined. However, it is still necessary to optimize your blog for SEO in order to get more traffic which leads to social media followers and email subscribers. Here are some tips for optimizing your blog’s SEO that work.

 

#7: Not Putting In Enough Time Towards Writing Good Content

No matter how much traffic your blog gets, its success comes down to content. The value of your blog’s content is a critical factor that determines how long visitors stay on your blog. If people appreciate the value of your content, they will subscribe to your blog to receive more updates and become returning visitors. Some of these people may even become returning visitors.

 

#8: Thinking That The People Will Come

One of the biggest misconceptions in blogging, marketing, product creation, and business is that the people will come. There are dozens, hundreds, thousands, or even millions of opportunities similar to the one you provide. There are numerous books about making money and become successful. People won’t buy your book just because it is on Amazon. If that were the case, every self-published author would be making a six-figure income regardless of a book’s actual value.

You need to differentiate your blog from the crowd. A good design, valuable content, and an interactive section are three of the various ways you can differentiate your blog from the other blogs on the web that are related to yours.

 

#9: Settling With Where You Are

If you settle, then you cannot move forward. No matter how successful your blog is, it can always move forward. If your blog is getting 100 daily visitors, it can get 200 daily visitors. If your blog is getting 1,000 daily visitors, it can get 2,000 daily visitors. Even if your blog is getting 10,000 daily visitors, your blog could end up getting 20,000 daily visitors. If you refuse to settle with where you are, you will find a way to amplify your authority and spread your message and content farther.

[tweetthis twitter_handles=”@MarcGuberti” url=”http://bit.ly/1ApibCx”]Never settle with where you are. You’re better than that![/tweetthis]

#10: Not Thinking About Joint Ventures

In a joint venture, you and another blogger occasionally promote each other to the other person’s email list. You can go on joint ventures with other bloggers in your niche who would then occasionally promote your content and products. The most successful marketers are constantly promoting each other’s products and services. Ian Cleary and Kim Garst promote each other just as Brendon Burchard and Jeff Walker promote each other. The leaders promote each other and all elevate together.

 

#11: You Don’t Take Social Shares Seriously

Social shares are one of the most overlooked parts of blogging. The more social shares your blog posts get, the more traffic your blog posts will get from social media. In addition, getting more social shares also has a positive impact on SEO. Out of all of the social shares, +1’s for obvious reasons (+1’s are from Google+) have the greatest significance on Google. Include social sharing buttons at the bottom of your blog posts so they get shared more often

 

In Conclusion

If your blog’s progress has hit a ceiling, that does not mean progress has come to an end. The ceiling just means mistakes are being made. By identifying the mistakes you are making with your blog and doing something about those mistakes, you will break through the ceiling that is holding you back. These 11 common mistakes plague many bloggers. All of these mistakes can be avoided or corrected so your blog sees an increase in traffic.

Filed Under: Blogging Tagged With: blogging mistakes, blogging mistakes to avoid, blogging tips

The Biggest Mistake Bloggers Make With Their Subscription Boxes

May 29, 2014 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

There are millions of blogs. Although a majority of bloggers have a subscription box on their blogs, many of these bloggers are creating ineffective subscription boxes that take up space and get no subscribers. In order to establish a powerful presence for yourself on the web, you need to have a subscription box that is going to get you more subscribers.

Here’s where the mistake comes in. Most bloggers decide to caption the button something like, “Subscribe Now” or “Subscribe For Free Updates.” The mistake is that the buttons include the word “Subscribe.”

Even when my blog’s traffic started to increase rapidly, I continued gaining a small number of subscribers. Even though my blog was getting thousands of extra visitors I was not getting a lot of extra subscribers. In some cases, I would not get a new subscriber to my blog for a week.

Then, I made a small change to the subscription button. The original button said, “Subscribe Now For Free Updates,” but I decided to make that button say “Count Me In!” Right when I made that change, I immediately got more subscribers. Now I am gaining several subscribers every day.

Growing your list is one of the most important ways to build a strong presence for yourself on the web. By growing your list, you will be able to get in contact with more people who want to buy your products. Does your subscription box say “Subscribe Now” or something similar? If you are using the word “Subscribe,” then you need to change that to get more subscribers.

 

Filed Under: Blogging, Subscribers Tagged With: blogging mistakes, blogging mistakes to avoid, how to get more blog subscribers, how to get more blog traffic

The 5 Most Common Blogging Mistakes And How To Fix Them

November 27, 2013 by Marc Guberti 4 Comments

Creating a blog has become very easy. Over a million blogs are created every day. However, most blogs get stuck at only a few visitors a day and stay that way too long. There are a lot of mistakes that get made, but these are the 5 most common mistakes that most blogs make.

  1. Not posting consistently. People who just created their blogs get excited and write blog post after blog post. This short burst of energy leads to 5 blog posts being written in a single day. However, there aren’t any blog posts for the next day or the day after that. Weeks, months, or even years after the first blog post, when a new blog post gets published becomes uncertain. People then lose interest in that blog.

How To Fix The Problem: Schedule blog posts to your comfort, but schedule them on a consistent basis. If you want to publish a blog post once a week, schedule all of your blog posts a week in advance. As you publish more blog posts at specific times or days of the week, your visitors will notice. If people know when to expect new content, they will be on your blog at that time. I recommend publishing at least one blog post every day.

  1. Giving a really big sales pitch too early. The purpose of a blog is to allow people to know you for free. After they subscribe to your blog, they will get to know who you are through your content. If they like what they see, then they will buy your product. If you promote a product all over your blog before people have the opportunity to read your content or subscribe to your blog, you will scare people away.

How To Fix The Problem: Showcasing a product on your blog is important. However, you shouldn’t showcase the product too many times on your blog or else first time visitors will be annoyed. Show your products on the sidebar of your blog so they don’t get in the way of your content. The content on your blog leads to people buying your products.

  1. Not having social media sharing buttons. Some of your visitors may want to share one of your blog posts with their followers. Without social media sharing buttons, the process of sharing your blog posts becomes more difficult for the visitor.

How To Fix The Problem: Make it easy for your visitors to share your blog posts by adding these buttons to the top or bottom of all of your blog posts. For my blog, all of the social media sharing buttons are at the bottom. When you put these buttons in your blog posts, give your visitors a bunch of options. I have social media sharing buttons for five social networks. Some bloggers also have a slide down on the side of their blog with more social media sharing options.

  1. Not sharing your own social networks. Once people leave your blog, they won’t come back unless they remember who you are. The best way to help people remember who you are is by giving them links to your social networks. Without giving your visitors the links to your social networks, there is a risk that they forget about you for a while.

How To Fix The Problem: By including the links to your social networks, you will be able to get more followers on those social networks, and people will remember you. There is a lot of competition on the web, and in order to claim your place, people need to know who you are and not forget. There are a lot of WordPress plugins that will make your social network buttons look good and link to your accounts. You can also have a picture of the social network’s logo on your sidebar and have it link to your social network when it gets clicked.

  1. Not Utilizing SEO Properly. There are a lot of ways to increase the SEO of your blog. However, a blog that is not utilizing SEO properly will not appear anywhere near Page 1 on Google. SEO leads to more traffic from Google which is where a majority of blogs get found.

How To Fix The Problem: There are numerous ways to increase SEO. One way to increase SEO is by reducing your blog’s bounce back rate. There are also some tips about increasing SEO here.

By fixing these problems, your blog will grow dramatically. When I fixed these problems on my blog, my daily traffic had a 300% increase. By fixing these mistakes, your blog will be able to grow dramatically.

 

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