7 ways to avoid Blogging Failure

Really you don’t have to be a Blogging Failure

1. Use spell checker

While this sounds like child’s play, many fail to use it and therefore there posts look unprofessional. Use it and even if you get a few words wrong if the content is great the readers will forgive you, as most likely they will learn more about you, so don’t be shy letting them know English is not your first language. Give it some time, and read up on some grammar books and within no time you won’t have a problem.

2. Become Regular

Whether it’s once a month or once an hour, you simply need to develop a schedule for posting or adding new content to your blog. While many have shown that it doesn’t need to be everyday, you can rest assured that the more frequent the updating the better you readers will enjoy you blog. With that said, if you take the time to develop a once a week post, and you do it regularly your reader will become accustom to it and you could develop a successful blog that way.

3. Develop a Name for yourself?

The biggest single most important factor for breaking out of the crowd is to develop a name for your self, and by Branding yourself and your site you will create not only a recognizable logo but you could become famous as well. Take Carl Ocab, he is famous for what??? He is the original make money with a 13 year old blogger. He has developed a brand as a great place to learn how to make money, and you get the feeling that if this 13 year old kid can do it: you can too. BlogSavvy used UniqueBlogDesigns to design the new site, and it does accomplish the brand!

4. Write for Readers

While you are trying to get as many hits as possible you are really trying to get as many readers as possible. The readers are what truly matters, search engine traffic is limited at best, as most just “Bounce”. If you write for your readers they will become more loyal and will return more often, and readers like to share who they read and like, that will drive more quality traffic, anyway.

5. Always give Link Love

If you hope to play in the global internet sandbox you will need to learn that links are like Golden Tickets, while they might seem like they are insignificant they have intrinsic value. Not only is a mention valuable it is also appreciated. This helps your ranking with search engines, Alexa, Technorati etc, etc. Plus if you do happen to read someone else’s work and want to expound on it, you Always give credit to the original author, by mentioning them in your post and giving them a link back. You would want the same if you wrote a great article and then the entire web took it as their own and didn’t give you credit for it,

6. “DO” marketing

Create a Budget for marketing, if you have no money then create a budget for your time, go out post on others sites, comment, submit to directories’, the simple fact is to DO something, every day, or every week, but to have a plan. It can be simple at first, and as the site grows and as you generate money you can pump that back into the site to create even more.

7. Commit

Obviously… its easier said than done, but the fact remains, if you want to do something you have to be committed to it or at the first sign of trouble you will give up. Being committed to blogging simply means that you will do it whether or not you make any money at it or not. It is a sense of why, more then When, if you are asking your self why do I blog instead of when am I going to be rich, you aren’t committed, on the other hand if you are committed to making $5000 per month from blogging wouldn’t you keep blogging until you have hit your goal? Stay committed.

Check out the 7 Reasons you are going to fail at Blogging over at CarlOcab.com.