3 Major Bottle-necks That Stop Bloggers from Being Successful

Posted on 08. Apr, 2010 by Ashwin in Blogging

Blogging isn’t easy. Anyone who tried making money off blogging would stand testimony to that fact. However, the mistake basket lies entirely on a bloggers’ lap. Knowingly or unknowingly, bloggers commit a lot of mistakes and we have covered these mistakes in great detail. However, it just doesn’t seem to end. As I continue blogging, I am aware of the many mistakes we make at bloggingelements.com and I thought sharing it here should help some of you be aware of the potential pitfalls bloggers make:

Changing focus too soon, too many times: I was guilty of this many moons ago when I first started blogging. My attention span isn’t great enough to write home about and I tend to be disinterested very easily. I crave for variety and change. With me being like that (and some of you are just like me in this regard), staying on course and blogging about just one thing for years together might just not be the thing. Well, I trained myself to go against my natural tendencies. Now, I don’t shift my niches and my focus anymore. However, it could be one single problem you will really need to deal with.

Shifting schedules: Mike and I had these problems here a t BE; It’s a huge problem of not being able to discern as to when your posts need to go live and at what time. We are still trying to figure out what the best times and days are for posting on Blogging Elements. We have tried 3 posts a week and eventually settled at 2 posts a week. We then tried day-clusters like Wed-Fri, Fri-Sun, Sat-Sun and many more. For a while now, we are doing Thurs-Sat combination which seems to be doing well. So, we might just coast along. Shifting schedules isn’t as bad as shifting focus, but still, we must find our best posting frequencies as soon as possible.

Not promoting enough: I rant and rave about this a lot and I will continue to do so until I am able to scream this sub-heading out when you kick me awake from a deep slumber. We buy hosting, domain name, post like crazy, invest time, effort and money into it all but we just don’t promote it enough. It’s time you wear your sales hat and go out to the streets (or the virtual streets, for that matter). Promote the heck out of your blog because nothing else matters.

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