I will discuss now the top 10 blogging challenges all bloggers don’t follow When they start blogging I bet you at least 2 or more I and you had fallen in
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I list them below in chronological order based on How critical to your blogging success journey Let me begin with
To provide them with what they really love to read about
Then you need to figure out how to do that?
You have to come up with a list of websites from your best influencers in your niche
Just go to buzzsumo.com and type your URLs which you collected earlier
It will display the top posts which got shared
Don’t be afraid to write down the same ideas other bloggers wrote about
As in fact you can make it better
For example if the best shared posts on specific URL on buzzsumo is about top 10 tricks/ideas about so
And so then you can search other bloggers site
Then come with top 15 or whatever the number you come up with
Here you are adding value and educating yourself
And by doing that you can come later on with a better idea to represent your post as an infographic (long image) listing all your posts headlines and share it on Pinterest or Instagram
3) Blogging should be on a very narrow topic
One of the Blogging Challenges is to create a blog on broad topic like how to make money with all possible methods (Forex, Investment, Savings…etc.)
Always start very narrow, build your traffic then go broad if you want, you will be building an authority site
When I started my diet and fitness website the one I mentioned earlier which was a total failure
I wrote about different broad topics like diet, fitness, gym, exercise and training
So not only I did not connect to my readers’ own problems
They were also not able to navigate my blog due to lack of relevant posts
Again I did not have any experience/passion about this topic I went very broad so readers were not able to find any related posts to keep them connected to my blog
Although there are so many examples
I recently found on some blogs about two or more broad topics like Making money, family finances and mommy tips but in fact every topic is relevantly covered by many linked posts very highly connected to each other
In fact, if I am able to write about different topics in different niches
I would rather create separate blogs for each one but again this is my opinion
4) Blogging should be about quality and not quantity
Fourth mistake is to write short posts not covering everything, I am not against short posts
if you decide overcome blogging challenges by writing your blog posts
Please make sure to cover everything and make it epic (quality)
Adding 50 posts to a blog with few contents due to the rush of completing your post and moving on to the next one (quantity) will not help you in SEO and even for your readers who are coming from social media sites
I remember a fellow blogger once said that he took 16 hours to write an epic post
And when I heard this I went to my blog log (excel file where I keep track of my daily activities) I found that I have posts that took 20 hours to complete
Assuming you work 2 hours daily (undivided attention) then you need 10 days to complete one post
I sometimes visit my existing posts and I try to make them more perfect as when I write my posts
I read others so I may come to something I wrote before
But I missed a point or an idea so I return back to my existing post and try to make it perfect
5) Blogging is not only about writing but also promoting your contents
Fifth mistake is to only focus on writing and you think that traffic will come through search engines
Always plan for driving traffic to your posts unless you are very talented in SEO and you know what you are doing
If you write very long epic posts with fantastic images and you stay there hoping visitors will come to your blog
Then good luck as nobody is going to see it, you should plan for driving traffic and promoting your blog
I would rather say when you start a new blog your focus will be 100% on writing your contents and after reaching a certain limit (I would rather say 35+ posts)
You should start switching your time to 80% promoting your blog and keeping 20% to writing new posts
When you start promotion especially on social media sites you will completely be surprised by finding your hard work being perceptively shared less than you expected
Based on your readers combined opinions which you cannot deny
I go to Google analytics and I find some posts which I really put great efforts in to perform OK
And the posts which I spent less time and wrote them without diligent research perform very well
By the way that’s a good sign because you still have to room to enhance them
You will end up to getting a sense of what you will work on more and what your readers would like you to write about
In reality, you will find yourself writing some posts again from different angles
6) Blogging is about consistent writing (stick to a schedule)
Sixth mistake is to write lot of blog posts when you start
Stop for a month or two then write again, this is a fatal mistake
Although I talked above about giving 80% of your time to promotion
You should still dedicate consistent time to writing new contents
Sticking to a realistic schedule for posts writing will help you with search engine traffic to stay steady as blogs which don’t get updated frequently lose all the search engine traffic gradually
So stay focus as I mentioned earlier you will end up writing fresh contents based on your visitors’ engagements
Meaning every time you write a new post and share it on social media sites
Your visitors will reply with remarks, questions and notes that would give you an idea of what they really expect from you
Actually some bloggers take the contents creation to a new level
They add a survey link on their blogs to collect their visitors feedback as not all visitors will leave a comment (SurveyMonkey is an example of survey sites to gather your visitors feedback)
7) Blogging should be engaging your readers (allowing comments on posts)
Seventh mistake if you don’t see your blog posts from readers’ perspectives
I never thought why would someone create a blog and remove the comments from their posts
But what happens few bloggers cannot handle criticism
I keep all opinions and I remove only comments which carry bad language and off points comments
You have to approve all comments (called comments moderation)
You can go to Settings –> Discussion –> Comment Moderation and check your settings to make sure you have full control on your visitors’ comments
08) Blogging is not free, there is a cost
Eighth mistake when you start blogging on a free blog platform without realizing that the best way to start blogging is by buying your own web hosting
Yes, not much cost but there is
If you are building your blog without any intention to make money from then it does not matter if you run it on free blogging site like Tumblr or Google Blogger
Then keep in mind that free bloggers will not let you put any advertisement on their sites nor affiliate links (free WordPress sites allow some affiliate links like Amazon and eBay)
You will be very limited in your options to choose your affiliate links
So why the hassle when you can buy affordable hosting like Siteground (that’s the one I am using)
You can save with this offer for 3.95$ you can get a StartUp plan
Which covers you with hosting one website plus your domain name (name of your website)
Remember starting with the right web hosting will help you down the road
When your site gets some traffic from search engines like Google and Bing who knows and you don’t want to lose all traffic coming from search engines because of your slow page load speed
I have a detailed post on Google page load speed and that’s why I changed my web hosting
9) Blogging time is always unlimited
Ninth mistake when you think that one day you will not put any effort in your blog
I hope I can explain this better
First I will start with the fact that blogging is never ending journey
If you write a book you know that one day you can finish it but when you begin blogging there is no end
When you start a new blog there is certain steps to follow to start making money from your blog
These steps are
1: What your blog with be about
2: Choosing your blogging platform (I use and teach WordPress)
3: Choosing your domain name
4: Find a web hosting (I recommend Sitegroundas best web hosting)
5: Installing WordPress (I recommend WP101 course to fast track your WordPress learning process).
Step 5 regarding installing WordPress can be overwhelming for non-technical users
But WordPress is not intended for technical users
It is easy platform where few courses like WP101 managed to explain it in 3 to 4 hours and you can easily fast track your WordPress learning process
Steps from 8 to 10 are always ongoing steps and they never end
You always need fresh contents to add to your blog, keep looking for new affiliate programs to try and keep promoting your blog
Successful bloggers always tend to write good contents in short period of time to minimize the time required to establish their blogs before they start the promotion step
Creating 35 to 50 new fully researched contents like roundups, How Tos, long list posts, cheat sheet posts…etc. takes lot of time and energy
If you remember the roughly 20 hours range which I estimated earlier for each post and multiply it by 50 posts this means you need 1000 hours of hard work
Assuming you work 3 hours per day so you need one full year for writing good contents only
I am not putting these numbers to discourage you, absolutely not
What I am trying to do is to make sure you realize how important not to get distracted by any activities but to focus on writing your contents and putting your best effort to deliver long posts in a short period of time
The good thing is that you actually don’t need 1000 hours because if you start writing and avoid all distraction at all levels (putting your cell phone on mute, closing your email program…etc.) you will end up writing more than 2000 words in less than 4 hours
I created 10 long posts around 2000+ in less than a month with images while working 2 hours a day, keep in mind that English is not my native language and my English level is like grade 9 students
Yes you can do it too but having said the above, always keep in mind to give yourself 6 months before you start making money as writing contents alone can take 3 to 4 months alone
Here is a hint for you, always try to come up with 3 to 4 blog posts so you move from one post to another without wasting time on what to write about when you finish your current post
I learned this when I found that I can spend like 2 – 3 days doing nothing because I have no idea what to write about so don’t fall in this trap
10) Blogging perfection can waste your precious time
You waste lot of time on making everything perfect, please this habit as it is one of the blogging challenges that take you nowhere
This is my top weakness; I spent one day almost 4 hours looking for a simple theme with full page width and another day testing all of them to choose the best one and another 3 to 4 hours just trying all possible plugins for Google ads and other ads network
Top one priority is to write your blog contents and when you get tired/bored of writing and think about switching tasks, you can look at what you have on your list by using a website called Trello where you can keep track of all your wish list and track your accomplishments
Another big time waster is to stop in the middle of writing to search for topic on internet only to find yourself moving from one page to another losing track of what you were initially doing (this is called analysis paralysis)
Then followed by the comparison trap where you watch other bloggers’ website comparing their contents, images and layouts to yours leading you to being discouraged
Another big time waster is not having a plan for your current week ahead of time, keeping a plan with your progress (percentage of tasks completion) will make you focus on completing your tasks before your due dates
Always make sure your weekly plan is very reasonable in time and never miss a week without having the content creation on your list
To summarize the above post, I talked about the top 10 blogging challenges all bloggers abandon
Blogging should be for niches with real passion
Look for you passion in niches that make money like
Don’t write about your own interests but write about your audience problems, you can write about yourself on how you solved these problems
Blogging should be on a very narrow topic
Always start very narrow, build traffic then go broad if you want (building authority site)
Blogging should be about quality and not quantity
Try to write long posts, make it epic, do lot of research and always keep your posts on mind, if you find something to add to existing posts, go and edit them
Blogging is not only about writing but also promoting your contents
Excellent blog posts without traffic are useless
Blogging is about consistent writing
Best way is to stick to schedule like 1 post every week or 2 but always try to be consistent
Blogging should be engaging your readers
There is nothing wrong about allow commenting on your blog
It is OK to do comments moderation (approving all comments before being published)
Blogging is not free, there is a cost
Yes expect to pay reasonable fee like any other thing in life we pursue
Blogging time is always unlimited
There will never be that one day where you will stop touching your blog
Blogging perfection can waste your precious time
Wasting time on tiny details as this will distract you
Just focus on your task at hand
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