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Do you know almost 95-96% blogs shut down during their early days between six months and one year? Those who survive this period almost 90% do not have any backlink nor receive Search traffic from search engines. Do you fear that your blog is running like that way? Don\u2019t worry here we will discuss the top 10 blogging mistakes to avoid and by avoiding these blogging mistakes you can be a successful blogger. Stay tuned.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n In a nutshell, you are going to share your knowledge through the blog post which will help the people to solve any problem or to simply get information about anything. In order to get succeeded in blogging your article or content should be very beneficial to the readers so that they can get satisfied with your articles. As a blogger, you should focus on your articles to make them attractive by giving insights, data relevant to your niche. Now to create useful content you must have enough knowledge and interest in the articles you write.<\/span><\/p>\n You may choose that field in which you feel interested and have likings. You should select your interest and think carefully about what you can write about that field. It is seen that bloggers choose the field of health for writing in their blogs just because someone else is making so and is quite successful. So many bloggers select the wrong field to write even though the respective blogger has expertise in Investment and Personal finance niche. In this way, your articles are of inferior quality and cannot attract backlinks. Then owing to this your website does not get any search traffic. Eventually, within 6 months you get demotivated and then give up.<\/span><\/p>\n And counting…….<\/span><\/p>\n Have you got any search results when you search in any search engine like this?<\/span><\/p>\n I am sure you have not got any search results like this. Apart from that free blogging platform has the following drawbacks.<\/span><\/p>\n If you are a serious blogger then you should start on self-hosted platforms such as Bluehost<\/a>\/SiteGround<\/a> <\/span>which offers<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n In addition to this, you are now the owner of your blog and the content written is now your copyright. The copyright can be defined as people are required to get your permission to use your content unless properly link back to your content or images.<\/span><\/p>\n This is a dangerous blunder and every novice blogger should avoid it. Suppose you are in investment and personal finance niche. You are writing in such topics that you think are worth writing but your target audience is not interested at all. Many professional bloggers have admitted that they have failed in their very first blog owing to the lack of proper keyword research.<\/span><\/p>\n In order to get a targeted audience for your website through search engine i.e. Google, keyword research is as important as oxygen for living. Keyword research helps you to find various phrases and terms that your target audience searches through the internet. To cut short, you need to clear that \u2018for which word\/term you want to rank\u2019 i.e. in the first page of Google. Once you get the \u2018target keyword\u2019 you need to optimize images, prepare a content strategy to draw quality traffic to your blog from search engines.<\/span><\/p>\n By making use of Keyword research you are able to,<\/span><\/p>\n You need to make proper keyword research by making use of Long Tail Pro and Buzzsumo.<\/span><\/p>\n If you have started a micro-niche blog, find profitable keywords that can easily rank, have high CPC of various competitive keywords and boost your affiliate earning, you can make use of Long Tail Pro. This tool is quite handy for,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Statistics show that there are millions of blog posts published every day. So how will you research\/ write and promote content to attract backlinks, social share? Buzzsumo is one of the few tools which can help you to do all. Buzzsumo helps a blogger by following ways,<\/span><\/p>\n The majority of Novice bloggers have a common misconception that after creating an excellent blog post [contain insights and infographic] and after submitting in Google search console Google will index the blog and the blog post will appear on the first page of the Google search results. This is the biggest blunder a blogger makes.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Google\u2019s Penguin algorithm the search engine index, there are 200 ranking factors to rank any blog post or any website. The most crucial factor among the top 200 ranking factors is that Backlinks pointed towards any website or blog.<\/span><\/p>\n You need to promote your blog by making use of Quora by answering various questions and link your articles, Reddit communities, Facebook groups, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n Yes, I admit that building a high-quality Backlink from an authoritative website is a herculean task. But you can build Backlinks by make use of Guest blogging in your industry blogs. Let\u2019s make it clear with the help of the following example.<\/span><\/p>\n Once I had e-mailed to one of the famous bloggers in our niche of investment for a guest post. In order to they publish your blog post, you need to concentrate on content which is top-notch and then send these blog posts to famous bloggers in your niche. <\/span>The reply of that e-mail is like this,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Once the Guest post was published in that blog a link directed to my blog was pointed from the author box.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n I have created a blog post on financial planning and sent an outreach e-mail to one of the famous bloggers in my niche.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n And the reply of the e-mail outreach campaign is like,<\/span><\/p>\nBlogging Mistake #1. Wrong selection of Niche<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
Solution<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
Get started in that niche where you have an interest and expertise. Needless to say, every niche has a monetization technique. By making use of the monetization technique, you can also make money with traffic of 100 visitors a day.<\/span><\/h6>\n
Here are the famous niches to start your blog,<\/span><\/h6>\n
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Blogging Mistake #2. <\/strong><\/span>Get started on free platforms like Blogger, WordPress, Wix<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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Blogging Mistake #3. <\/strong><\/span>Don\u2019t Make any keyword Research<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
Solution<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
There are two types of keywords namely,<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Why Long Tail Pro?<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Why Buzzsumo?<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Blogging Mistake #4. <\/strong><\/span>Never try to build backlinks nor e-mail outreach<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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