7 Blogging Mistakes You Should Avoid

Blogging is more than opening up a text editor, writing incoherent sentences, and bragging about yourself... at least it can be.  If you're interested in being successful of course. So why do so many people still approach it in the wrong way?  I tend to think it's because they don't know any better. Everyone's always in a hurray to tell new bloggers what they should be doing, but never telling them what they shouldn't be doing. Here ar...

When starting a blog, the task of writing great content day after day can seem almost overwhelming, much less having to worry about posting in forums as well.  But forums and blogs are the perfect pair, and when used together in the correct way, can be an unstoppable force of traffic and idea generation. What Is A Forum? The simplistic definition of a forum is a place where people have the ability to start communication (in the form of threads...

This is day 4 of the "Building A More Successful Blog In 30 Days" series.  So far we've discussed: setting goals for your blog, a simple & effective method to help create those blog goals, and why creating an "about me" page is so important. Next in our little journey is a topic that has the potential to literally skyrocket your blog into success very quickly.  I'm talking about Guest Blogging. What Is Guest Blogging? Guest blogging is...

This is day 3 in our journey through the "Building A More Successful Blog In 30 Days" series.  Before we dive off into the more fun things you can do to build a better blog, I want to really impress upon you the importance of setting those blog goals we talked about on day 1.  In fact, I want you to focus on them so bad, that I asked Mathew Ringer of SmallBizBee.com to write a more in depth article on setting your blog goals.  So here it is: ...

This is day 2 in the "Building A More Successful Blog In 30 Days" blog series.  If you missed day 1, you can click here to catch up. Today we talk about one of the most important parts of your blog.  Your "about me" page.  Many times this page or the lack of one, will cause a new reader to stay or leave.  New readers to your blog don't know a thing about you.  They've probably never heard of you in their entire life, and you just expect t...

This is the first post in a new series called "Building A More Successful Blog In 30 Days".  In this series, I'll talk about some key things you can do to help increase traffic, build your brand, increase your profits, and much more. I want you to take each day's topic, and use it in your own plan to build your blog's success.  If you come up with some creative ideas or different ways to implement the topic, then share with everyone else by ...