Here is the continue of 10 Common Blogging Mistakes, if you’ve not yet read the Part 1 of this post, you can always read it here, 10 Common Blogging Mistakes - Part 1. I hope that you won’t make any of these mistakes after you’ve read them here. The following 5 common mistakes are:

6. Poor Link Description
Have you ever come across to some blogs or websites that have links on it, but the links don’t have any description. For example :
You can find more info about it here and here.
This will make your readers confuse and they don’t know where the link will lead them to. Make sure that your link has proper description. Your readers are not you, they don’t know what you’re doing if you don’t explain it. If you want your readers to stay longer and read more about your post, you will have to make your readers understand what you’re going to say about.

7. Links To Other Blogs
Blogs are meant for people to publish their opinions, ideas and voices about what they think. Therefore, you can introduce and recommend your readers about what you like to read about too, so they can enjoy what you likes as well. Blog is a space for people to amplify each other’s opinions and voices. Not only so, by linking to each others blog, you will enlarge the network of information sharing on the web. Do not worry about linking with your competitors, generosity is the key. Besides that, by competition, only then your blog’s quality will increase, in other words, without competition, there’s no reason that your blog’s quality will rise.

8. Poor Posting Content
No one will read something that is poorly written, boring and difficult to read. In reality, only 30% of people will finish a book or audio program that they’ve bought. Well, here are some tips for you when you’re writing a post :

• Be sure that you write something on your own. Don’t copy and paste, you’ll get penalised by search engine.

• Use simple language that your readers can understand, don’t use jargon that your readers don’t understand and sometimes even you yourself not sure of the meaning.

• Try not to introduce too many ideas in a single post, you can always add your ideas in another posts.

• Make sure that your writing in a single post is not very long. Although your post content can be very informative, but if it is too long, your readers might not finish it or some even lazy to read. You can make your divide your post into a few parts, just like this post, I separate it into Part 1 and Part 2.

9. Missing ‘About’ Section
I’ve come across some blogs that don’t have the ‘About’ section. For bloggers, this ‘About’ section is a must. You need to let your readers know more about you, readers need to know who they’re dealing with. Here, you can write something about yourself, your hobbies, what you do for living and etc. The more you let readers know about you, the more friendly they will be, thus the more they can trust you and your blog. If possible, you might consider to insert your photo, this will increase your credibility and impression of your blog. Some people said including an author photo is a must for blogs, this is because it shows that you’ve got nothing to hide from your readers, and if you have many readers, faces work better than names, they can recognise you better.

10. Too Many Ads
Seen these kind of blogs before? Their whole blog are surrounded by ads. When there are too many ads in a blog, you might make your readers confuse between your content and your ads. Yes indeed you wish to make money from your blog, but sometimes reducing the number of ads is a better way to increase your profit. Some of the ads might bring down the quality of your blog, and some people said if you want to have a quality blog, don’t put ads. (What do you think about the ads in my blog? Comments are welcome)

Ok, these are the 10 common blogging mistakes that I think most bloggers did. In fact, there are many mistakes you can make in blogging, so what are the other mistakes? It will be left for you to discover yourself. The most important thing is that you learn from your mistakes, and the best is learn from other’s mistakes. Don’t repeat other’s mistakes.

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Posted on June 17th, 2007 by Shawn
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