I have helped thousands of bloggers around the world to blog more effectively and I can say that there are tons and tons of mistakes made by lots of people. So I am going to share with you, based on what I have seen so far from all my customers and subscribers, the top 10 mistakes to avoid in blogging.

1. Avoid Black or Dark Backgrounds. Time and time again, I have seen many new bloggers when it comes to selecting a theme. They decide to select a theme that has a dark background or the text are displayed on a black or dark background. The recommended color for a background is always a light color or white. The reason why this is so is because, many readers who view a dark background website would associate it with a hacker’s website or something that is not nice.
2. Always Evenly Space Your Article Post With Paragraphs. This may sound fundamental to many, but I see it all the time. Bloggers post up articles on their blog and forget to leave paragraph spacing for their articles. Let me show you an example of the before and after effect:You will notice instantly the major different when you have spaces in between your articles, as it will make it easier to read the article. I recommend you start a new paragraph every 4 sentences.
3. No Affiliate Programs Or Products Been Sold On The Blog. This is kind of a weird thing and simple thing to say but I have seen many bloggers who blog online that are trying real hard to make money.However, when I see their blog I note that they are not even promoting a single product on it. Here’s the thing, if you do not post up products you like to promote you will never make a sale online and you will never earn money online! So if you have yet to post any affiliate links on your blog, I would highly recommend you go to Clickbank and sign up for a free affiliate account and start selling products on your blog.
4. Always Use A .COM To Represent Your Blog. Most people who blog online would use free services like blogger to create their own personal blog. However by doing this, you are actually not helping yourself in branding your blog to be a professional blog. It is always recommended to get a .COM for your own blog site. The recommended platform to create any blog is by using the Wordpress free open source software that can be found at this website. If you are looking for Wordpress themes, you can click here to claim your free Wordpress themes created by me
5. Post Articles Regularly On Your Blog. Blogging can be a real tiring thing to do on a daily basis. However, many fail to realize that if they do not update their blog often the chances of getting your blog exposed on the internet would be reduced. In fact, I have blogged for more then 2 years and what I realized is that when you have more content on your blog, you have more chance of it been picked up by Google once you know how to target the right keywords on your blog. This in return can help to bring more traffic to your blog and the best part is that it’s all free! The recommended amount of articles to be posted is at least one blog post every 3 days.
6. Install Tracking Software To Find Out What Your Visitors Are Doing. There are various free tools; you can use to track what your visitors are doing. It’s an important element in online business that many people always fail to do. Two free pieces of software that I use personally are the MyBlogLog tracking tool and CrazyEgg tool. With these two tools, you will be able to find out visually what your readers are doing on your blog and you will also be able to track what your readers like to click and read on your blog. This is important information for you
7. Interact With Your, ReadersAn active and successful blog will only be good if it manages to connect with its readers. Getting your readers to interact with you is another important part of blogging. What I have realized is the more you are able to connect to your readers, the more they are willing to trust you.Obtaining trust from your readers is important when it comes to selling products to them. Once they have trust in you, the chance of them buying a recommended product from you would also be higher
8. Failure To Collect Leads On Your Blog. Collecting leads is an important process in making money online. By collecting leads from your readers, you will not only build a base for your own business but also create an online community where you can update them constantly with frequent updates and products.
9. Failure To Get Your Blog Index On Google. I was really surprised to find out there are actually many bloggers around the world that forgot to index their blog to allow search engines to search their blogs. To allow search engines to search your blog is an important element no one should miss. This is because, you can leverage from the free traffic that will come into your blog once you know how to optimize your blog correctly to get targeted traffic. To find out more about how to do that, you can find out more in my guide here.
10. Drive Traffic To Your Blog!This part I would say is the most important part in blogging as many people who spend countless amount of time posting content on their blog always forget to drive traffic to their blogs. There are more then 77 ways you can actually drive traffic online and all you need to do is pick and master one or two methods to get your blog going.