Blogging is considered one of the most profitable ways to make money online.
Many people, when they read this statement, start to research to learn how they can start a blog, because they think that having a blog means that they will begin to earn a monthly income, right away.
I suggest you to take a look at these seven blogging mistakes in order to avoid them when starting out with your online career.
1. You Expect Fast Results
If you want to develop an effective blog that makes money, you should stop considering yourself as solely a content author and start treating your blog like its a business.
Blogging is, without question, one of the best ways to earn an income with the Internet, but that does not mean you should hurry into it without having a plan.
Sam Baitz, CEO of ShieldFunding, suggests:
Look at what other businesses are doing wrong so you can do the opposite.
Focus on creating an audience, because you can never make money without loyal readers.
After building the right audience, all you need is a monetization strategy.
2. Writing Isn’t For You
The most crucial aspect that will help you determine if you will be as a pro-blogger is if writing is not your thing.
“Writing isn’t for you” means that you are terrible at English, or you don't know how to create a phrase.
Actually, you don't need to have a perfect level in English before being successful as a blogger. By practicing, you can keep improving your skills.
The issue, however, is if you discover that writing is incredibly tedious whenever you put your fingers on the keyboard. Maybe you should focus yourself on another activity instead?
There’s no need to think too much about this, and you should have been able to find out.
From now on, try to develop an interest for writing, and use every chance you get to work on a new topic.
You will soon discover that writing is absolutely simple and exciting.
3. You Don't Improve Your Knowledge
If you want to be an effective blogger, then you need to understand that you have to regularly improve your knowledge, by reading about your industry.
How many times a day do you invest in reading? What do you study during that period? Is it just a publication restricted to your area, or any other topic?
Invest a certain amount of your daily time in reading popular blogs of your niche, or listening to podcasts. I particularly suggest you Tai Lopez “Book Of The Day” Show, it's about business and wealth and Ms. Ileane‘s podcast, where you can learn about build an online business, by finding your voice and capturing your audience.
You need to begin investing more time examining anything you can get your hands on. It can be anything, from that publication suggested to you by a colleague, to the newest informational content platform on the horizon.
Every individual content you study adds up, and will end up being an excellent source of creativity in the future.
4. You Got No Passion
Many people enter into the blogging game with the sole purpose of making money.
Of course, everyone wants to make money blogging, but you should not expect it from the first day of your blogging career.
Passion in what you do defines your success with it. If you are passionate about blogging, then nothing can stop you on becoming successful.
Gary Vaynerchuk in an interview on FastCompany says:
Give as much time to what you love the most. You can grow with it. You will be bigger than you could ever imagine if you do the thing you love the most.
5. You Are Greedy
Most of bloggers have built a blog for passion, but also because they saw an opportunity to earn an extra income.
The idea of making money with a blog belongs a little to all of us bloggers.
The most common mistake, however, is to do everything according to the gain. It ‘s a good idea to have a plan of action to follow, but it is wrong in my opinion to focus only to the income.
You need to build first a community of loyal fans, of readers, giving them useful and high quality content. Only then, you can adopt a monetization strategy, even according to the needs of the users.
If you start immediately thinking about an income, you won't get the same results, then just creating content with added value for your readers. There is no hurry to make money, stop being greedy.
6. You Don't Have a Plan
The lifestyle of a blogger comes with many difficulties.
Internet is full of distractions and losing time by browsing social media or playing games is really easy.
What you need is a strategy. Something that works for you. Before you begin your working day, plan ahead what you want to accomplish. Focus on dedicate a specific amount of time in creating new content, for example, or promoting your blog, building your products, following up with your mailing list.
It is the work of a blogger to be able to manage himself and be productive. Failing to do so will result in struggling in your earnings.
7. You Don't Have Patience
As already stated, getting success in blogging is a slow process.
If you are in the misunderstanding that success will be yours after a week or two, then it's time to update your thinking.
Blogging is a slow process and small steps will take you to the height of success. So you should be patient enough to wait for your efforts to bring results. By experience, patience is the key to success in blogging. If you don't have this quality, then sorry, blogging is not for you.
Still, the last choice is yours. Join it, if you are brave enough!
Final Words
Now you know these 7 blogging mistakes which may lead to failure as a blogger. Try to avoid them if you want to succeed online.
The only thing you have to do now is to take action.
Nothing will happen if you read the article and you don't know nothing. Starting working today, become productive and your earnings will start to increase by time.
What about your blogging mistakes or obstacles?
Please share them here in the comments, so to learn by each other experience!
Great!
Weldone Erik, I love the way you always grind out great content on a daily.
Blogging Mistakes will surely help shorten the ration of bloggers guessing their way around the craft.
Thank you for this.
Off to Share!
Iyiola.
P.S Hope you do remember me Erik?
Of course I do remember you, I also contributed to your traffic generation roundup post.
Thanks for the awesome feedback here, Iyiola!
Hi Erik,
Great tips and you’re right, it takes a lot of persistence to grow a blog. There’s always so much to do, it’s important to have some type of strategy to help you get things done.
Whenever I sit down to work or stand in front of my standing desk, I already know what needs to be done.
I’ll focus on those important A tasks first thing in the morning. I am a morning person, therefore, I’m more productive in the mornings.
As long as those important A tasks get done, then I consider that a great day. If I manage to work on anything else for the day, then that’s just gravy.
We all know that there’s always something to do with our blogs. Not to mention, I still have freelancing work.
So it’s extremely important for me to break away from my computer at some point. I always stop working at 3:00 PM. That’s when I call it a day and I’ll enjoy time with my family.
Thanks for sharing these tips, I have no doubt they will help people realize what it takes to build a profitable blog.
Have a great day 🙂
Susan
I think persistance was among the top reasons if I lasted until today. Having started my online venture in 2010, I was able to build a steady income only a few years later.
I’m a morning person too! I remember when I was younger, I use to stay up until late, while since my 30’s, I love to wake up early and get lots of things done during the first part of the day.
I’m normally offline after 4/5:00 p.m., as I dedicate some time to myself, each day. Training at gym, jogging, reading, or just relaxing.
Thank you so much for reading my new contribution at Ileane’s place.
I appreciate your feedback! 🙂
Hi Eric,
I agree that persistence is the key to blogging success.
But I also would like to add another key factor: luck. Sometimes few people that you think are successful (bloggers) just got lucky. Yes, they might have done everything to achieve success but luck definitely would have played its part at the right time.
Bill Gates wouldn’t be in such a great position if her mother wasn’t working with IBM (and IBM didn’t sue him for his OS copyrights). That’s luck!
That being said, you should have a plan and patience to really start making from blogging.
Great tips buddy!
I did not know that story about Bill Gates.
I guess some times it’s a matter of luck! 🙂
Thanks for sharing, Anil.
Hi Erik,
Best tips from you to start a now blog and to grow up very nice. I’ll go on the long tail mode to increase the best !
Have a great day, Best regads . Andrew
Thanks for the positive feedback, Andrew.
Very interesting points you have raised there..
i guess for most bloggers they get discourage when they try for few months and see no money coming out of their blogs.
The idea of making fast money from blogging blinds them they fail to be motivated after few months of bad result.
Thanks for sharing. Hopefully my friend and i will avoid these mistakes ..:)
I’d go with a regular job and part-time blogging, until you are able to replace your full income.
Thanks for the thumbs up, Adraham.
And don’t forget to mention you need a phone with speech recognition enabled and Google Docs downloaded to the phone. You can easily connect to the web on the fly and save your content you speak into your phone on Google Docs and use that either as a blog post or content to publish in a YouTube video description with links to your blog or website in the header of the YouTube video to boost SEO. When amateur writers and side hustlers start seeing improved SEO and affiliate profits, they’ll feel inclined then to take the “blogging side hustle” seriously and write to their heart’s content. Agree? 🙂
Excellent advice, Drewry!
Hi Erik!
It’s great to see you featured here on Ms. Ileane’s blog!
I agree with all seven of these tips. My mistake was expecting fast results. It took me a whole year to regroup and start over. If it wasn’t for the passion I had for the blogging journey I was on, I probably would have quit. 🙂
Thanks for putting this together. This is awesome advice for new bloggers. Sharing this one for sure!
Hope you’re having a great week. 🙂
Cori
I see your point, Cori.
The beginning is indeed the most exciting, but also stressful part of working online, or an internet business.
There’s this great will to do lots of things, but there’s should also be a plan, with the awereness that results will take a while to come.
Thanks for sharing your experience and I appreciate the share and your kind words.
There’s always that tension between quantity and quality and how to find that balance.i really LOVE this list of mistakes and bookmarked this for future use 🙂
Thanks for the nice comment, Lineisy!
Hey Erik,
Great piece of work here. You have described all the main and real mistakes lots of bloggers do. Even, i had the great problem with patience. But now, i have overcome it anyhow. If you want to get feedback from your blog, you mustn’t do these works what Erik said. Great speech and keep it up.
Those mistakes are so common in blogging. Especially having no plan. Thanks for the reminder. Really useful article
Hi Peter,
many “experienced” bloggers often forget to follow the basics in blogging and avoid these common mistakes.
Thanks for checking them out!
Hi Erik,
Great collection. Every blogger will make one or the other mistake in his blogging career. I made a mistake of not persisting with my last blog when it was growing. Sometimes we just need to keep ourselves motivated and keep pushing forward.
Thanks,
Sanjeev
Persistance is the main reason of my online success.
Keep it up, Sanjeev, and the results will come.
Hello Erik,
Great tips over here 🙂
Indeed blogging is one of the ways which can make us quick money, only if its done correctly.
A lot of patience is required when we are up for this profession. People thinks that blogging is just a one day game, as
they come up with a good content and grab all the money and gone in seconds. This is were many bloggers seems to end up there
journey. Blogging needs to be planted well, provide extra care and support it well so that it can bear us a sweet
fruit in terms of money.
I surely expected fast results when I was fresh into this profession, this was my biggest loop. Yeah gradually the concept
went clear and I had to start the things in a fresh manner to get the most out of it.
Watching our opponents and learning from their mistakes and including that very loop parts in our blogs can help us a lot.
Thanks for the share.
Shantanu.
Patience, hard work, good connections, a smart plan….every of these things are needed to succeed.
Thanks for sharing your views, Shantanu.
I appreciate the thumbs up here!
Hey Erik,
Great article. It really covers the problems experienced by most bloggers who are still just a beginner. I agree that expecting fast results and running out of patience can be the most challenging mistake for a beginner. They tend to force the idea out of their heads instead of just letting it flow. It would often result to a stiff and boring post.
Cheers!
Lucas
Thanks for the positive feedback, Lucas.
I really hope this post is going to help some new bloggers.
Nice article.
As an amateur blogger, its is recommended to keep the screen time under 2 hours per day esp. if someone has already spent 6-8 hours on screen at work.
Keep writing informative articles.
Thanks.
Thanks for the suggestion, Doctor Walter.
It’s also good to make breaks, at least one per hour. Just wake up and leave the screen/desk, and take a walk around the office, room or home.
Hello Erik,
There are so many problem i have suffer and you have mention. This article is really great and helpful for me. Thanks for sharing it with us. I really like your blog.
Glad to have you helped, Ahmed.
Thanks for the comment!
Exaclty most of the bloggers face these problems so they quit writting blogs.
Nice article
That’s right. Hard work is needed, but, most of all, persistence!
Thanks for the nice feedback, Sahil.
Blogging demands patience. That’s what I understood after blogging for a really long time now. Even if your methods are best what could be possible, you don’t get to see results quickly. So, hold on and carry on with your passion.
Wise words, Saurabh.
Nice post! I like the advices you made for every number. I am newbie in blogging and this will eventually help me to improve my blogging skill and to promote our website. Thanks for sharing your post.
Good luck with blogging, David!
Most important thing is a blogger should have patience to become successful.
Well written Thumbs up!
Thank you, Shiva! 🙂
Really its 100% true article as most of all blogger have no passion or no patience that’s why they become fail in blogging career.
Most of the newbies quit within their first months of blogging, because they don’t see any monetary compensation in return of their efforts.
You are right in all of them but I guess many purposes of creating a blog is to make money. who is there to waste time?
That’s right, but you need a plan.
If you want to make money, it’s like any other business. You need a strategy.
Hi Erik,
Thanks for the wonderful words.
I do blogging for my company EPIC VILA. I am doing blogging for about 4 months. I want to ask what are the different ways, except social sites like Facebook, to get traffic on the website?
Thanks
There are plenty of good posts on how to get more traffic here at BasicBlogTips, Kaushal.
Here’s one you want to read:
http://basicblogtips.com/tips-to-increase-traffic-instantly.html
Thanks for the very informative post! This is a great post I eventually learn on how to success in blogging. Again Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the thumbs up, Sean. 🙂
Exaclty most of the bloggers face these problems so they quit writting blogs.
Nice article
This is one of those posts who makes people productive and I love it. patience is the virtue!
i still dont know why my ranking does not improve although i got aroung 40K visitor per month and update my blog in average 1 post/day
Hi Erik
Great list. I’d like to add one! ‘You write in block paragraphs and don’t reformat your post to emphasise certain messages’.
It’s true that people reading a post/article will skip through to find key messages. Why not make their life easier (and allow them to read efficiently) by making words bold, italic, using bullet points, increasing text font, in order to allow key points to emerge
Hello Erik,
I want to thank you for sharing this blog, very informative and I want to learn more about it.