Top 8 Mistakes made by Bloggers That Costs Money

Mistakes made by Bloggers That Costs Money

Blogging is profession of many people's in the world now a days. Blogging can be very profitable if you do it on true manner and correct way But lot of people jump into blogging without thinking about it and they do not know how to be professional blogger

However I am a newbie blogger and want to make money through blogging,But I read and follow the top bloggers present in the market.

In this article we will discuss the Mistakes made by bloggers that costs money and Learn how to fix them?

1. Not Building E-mail List :

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“Your money is in this E-mail list.”

Main Aim If you are blogging to make money from it, you would soon noticed that your blogging income will be direct proportional to the number of email subscribers of your blog.

Make a growing email list will ensures that you have a steady stream of visitors as soon as a publish a new post on your blog.

If you got an amazing email list through subscribers then you can target your visitors by starting campaigns in emails and get reasonable visits and can advertise your product and can get enough money through it

If you have email lists you have authentic proof for google to grow you visitors online.

How you can start collecting emails through email list?

• You can Choose most popular service providers like Mailchimp, Aweber, GetResponse and thousands more.

• After you have signed up for any service provider, integrate their subscriptions form into blog design and start collecting emails through them. Ensure  to test and measure from which areas of your users subscribe more and more.

• Once again make sure to segment your email lists.Try to Send all your segments targeted emails. Keep an eye on key stats like open rate, click through rate. Test your subject lines and send times to maximizes these numbers.

• At last If you have a product that you sell like eBooks, Training, Tutorials etc make sure to set up a separate drips for new subscribers and see how they responds to your email. There are hundreds of great email marketing training’s available online, make sure you learn and keep improving day by day.

2. Not Building Good Relationship With Your Blog readers :

Build-Relationships

The Secret Behind Successful Bloggers is that they create strong and long lasting relationship with their readers.

In marketing there is quote that "Create superior values for customers and build strong relationships with them to take value from customers in return"which means that if you give superior values in term of blogging good contents then your readers will automatically visit your blog again.

Suppose when a successful blogger writes about any topic,thousands of people are commenting there is not because they are writing quality contents there but because they know the person who is writing on that blog

I hope w3seotips will fall in that category soon.Does not matter if your blog falls into penalty from google if you build good relation with readers So don't worry about this.

If you are building great relationships with your readers then you have many benefits of it.

• You are developing loyal followers
• You are making friends for lifetime
• You are making blog trust-worthy for first time readers
• If your audience have trust on you then can easily buy from you
• You will get more engagements in form of comments which gives you lot of traffic
• They will suggest your blog to other peoples
• It is not matter if he/she is blog owner, All of them open new avenue for you.

So it is quite clear that having strong and meaningful relationship with readers is beneficial in All situations as mentioned above

Here's a guide about how to start building strong meaningful relationship with your loyal readers

• Use conversational tone in your writing

It is so easy to write like this type of writings you can see that how i am writing this post.It is just like that i am talking to you indirectly.
Nobody wants to read a blog that is filled with Jargon which is just like that you are reading your boring school textbook and attending a lecture from your teacher and feeling sleepy and dozing while attending the class.So always use conversational tone.

• Write like a storyteller 

Always write like a storyteller you can see a view below

My friend when first time started a blog he doesn't know how to write about any blog post,he was very worried then he came to me and discuss with me after all i wan experienced professional blogger, i suggest him some tips and now he is running successful business online and earning enough.

In above paragraph you can see that how i was telling about my friend but now i am telling you that it was not real story but it have created some interest for readers and attract more people

• Encourage your visitors for comment to show engagements

Always Encourage your visitors to leave comment if they find this post interesting show their support in this sense,when new visitor lands to your website then he is not sure that your site is trusted or not?and thinks about he should comment or not?

The site with lot of engagements like social media shares, likes,Comments make trust worthy, lively and fresh 

Now Back to comments :

It is important that your visitors leave comments onto your site and it is always important to respond all the comments.When any person comment on your post actually he is talking to you face to face then if you never respond then how much rude he would feel.

So always make it easy for you readers to leave a comment and you should always respond to them. 

3. Not Selling from First day :

Sale-is-on!

“If you don’t tell it means you won’t sell at all.”

You may be blogging for getting ad income, to establish yourself as the thought competitor, private branding, affiliates sale or for any more reason.

Now Whatever your objectives are, you have to sell in all situations!

Here Selling does not mean taking your products and pushing them in your readers face, it means gently reminding them that you have something for sale in your site.

Even if you create tons of great contents on your site, and your reader love you much, you won’t make any money if you don’t make Good sale.

Always Remember and keep in mind, you are not only running a blog, you are running your business.

A business makes sales and profits and also losses.

There are many benefits if you are selling from Day One.

1. You know which firms of monetization works best for your site
2. You are able to understand your readers better as you will be able to see analytics about different types of posts on your site.
3. You gain extra experience in selling 
4. It will boost/increase your confidence. The feeling of the first $$$ is un-matched. 
5. If sets expectations from your readers. If you have ads or products to sell on your blog to sell for too long, your readers will become used to it. Suddenly adding a product for sale could surprise your readers and be counter-productive.

Here’s what to do to sell from Day 1

1. If you have your own products to sell, make sure to add great values to the product
2. If you plan to advertise, put up ads quickly so, your visitors get used to them.
3. Set up your affiliate links and disclaimers as necessary.
4. Add relevant call to actions for your products.
5. Must Email your subscribers about your products.

4. Not Diversifying your income or traffic sources :

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The tricky one tip for you. If you are successfully monetizing your blogs, you should try to diversify your sources of income/making money.

However Your income should consist of a healthy mix of advertisement income, affiliate income, consulting, selling your products and many other sources like this.

• Advantages.

1. If your blog is quite new, you can still much more money from multiple sources than through a single source.
2. If you do not try different monetization techniques, how would you know which one is the best for you?
3. It teaches you different monetization techniques and methods that can help with consulting or any other blog that you want to start in the future.
4. It safeguards you from unexpected events. If for some reason one of your income goes down, you will still have cash flow to survive.
5. Even My many websites was hit with a Google penalty in the past that i was managing. If such a successful blog is not immune, then how can you be immune?

It serves different types of readers.

This is a tricky one tip have to be explained. Your blog will have a variety of readers and pople who visits you. Some read it only for fun,while some for learning, some read it casually, and some considers you an expert/professional. Different types of readers will read your blog differently.

Personally, I saved my all the long articles to the pocket apps and read them later when i want. If a blog depends on ads for income, they lost impressions even if I am a regular reader. If you have ads on the sidebars, readers on mobile won’t see them.

Some people like to use text to speech software to listen to the audio of a post on your site. If you depended on affiliate clicks, your income goes down and down.

By using different methods of monetization of site, you will ensure that all your readers gain values and also add to your bottom line e.g comment.

By Diversifying your traffic will also save you from the wrath of the Google Gods thats it.

5. Not Choosing A Good Design :

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“First impression is the last impression.”

Here is a good chance to make good impression about your website

These are Some wise words that you should follow when designing your blog on Blogspot or WordPress. Choose a good looking design is as important as choosing a good proper functioning design for a blog.

Your blog should not only be looking beautiful but also should performing proper functionality as well.

Functionally beautiful means your contents should be looking more beautiful and useful on your site

Your online readers should have no trouble for accessing the information on the blog.

Take care about at least the following things as described below

1. Choose a readable font size

Font size is most important thing for beautiful look so there are thousands of fonts. Make sure to choose the one that looks very  good and which is easy to read. Test the font size you choosed is readable on all devices.

Some bloggers choose different font size for paragraph and heading in thier blogs to diffrentiate them from one another.

2. Choosing a good look for your blog

Now second thing i want to tell you that unfair font will make your readers annoy more than choosing bad design for your blog or site

3. Managing your ads/popups

If you have filled your blog with lot of adds and popups that will annoy your readers and they want never come back on your site So reduce the number of adds.

4. Sending timely and related emails

It is also important thing that should notify if want to make good repute in market. Do not send Email every day one day your readers will fed up from your blog news and they will be unresponsive towards your site

6. Not Creating Visual Content :

Visual-contents

Visual contents play an important role in website time spend by use and give it attractive look and make your website interesting

Here is some example that

Have you login your Facebook account recently? Next time you do visit, compare the number of photos and videos you see to the number of text updates you see in fb id.

If my estimation is correct, over 90% of your updates will contain a photo or a videos.

Why is it that?

The Facebook’s job is to make its news feed more engaging for its readers.The word Engaging means that users see what they liked, spend more time on their website, like and share much more.

The Facebook long discovered that users like to see more images in their news feed. If Facebook is adopting this rule, Then why are not you adopt it.

It is the key-point that "An image is worth a thousand words". here is truth to this statement.

Images are easily processed by the brain according to science. An average person will digest information a 100 times faster than text post. That is the reason info-graphics became so popular on the internet.

If you still not convinced, think about it. when you was a child, you must have enjoyed books with lots of cartoons and graphics. The same story presented in a textual way would not have been that interesting.

Take a look at my earlier articles. Its filled with images and even has an animated header images. That sure grabs some eyeballs all over the world.

Visual content is going to win in the long run and you should prepare yourself for the contest.

This is how you start creating visual content

1. Hire professional designer

This is the easiest but very expensive way, but i hope will work best. You can use service like Fiverr where you just need to pay about $5 dollars or use Truelancer to hire affordable designers.

2. Use designing tools

There are hundreds of tools available out there, but the simplest ones are Canva, Infogr.am etc. For advanced users, Photoshop or GIMP would be suitable and good.

3. Learn how to Design

It would be the cheapest way to design by yourself but it will be time consuming to learn how to design visual contents for your site

7. Not Making A Fast Website :

First of all Website loading speed is not only now useful for Search Engine Optimization, but also for user experience.

You can visualize your speed from Google tool

The aim of telling you is that nobody like slow loading website so monitor your site and minimize time loading page however a half second costs lot.

There are several ways to make your website fast. I will share some of the techniques and techs.

Let’s get started from here.

1. Choose a good hosting for host your site there

A hosting is the first thing that you find when you start a blog. Much has been written about choosing a good host and I’m no expert. It’s better to consult an expert or professional. Mujtaba has been running this blog successfully for many years. Here is what he recommends for hosting WordPress website.

2. Choosing a good CMS(content management system)

I recommend WordPress for your site. It’s the blogging standard on the web and for good reason. No CMS comes close to the functionality of WordPress today.

3. Optimize your WordPress database

Over time, as your blog grows, the size of your database can grow muti folds. If not properly optimized, it can lead to slow DB performance. A slow DB means a slow website.

Its easy to fix this. 

4. Using Caching Plugins

Technically i am speaking, a WordPress website is a dynamic(moving) website. That means all the data is stored in a database/ DB, and all the pages are created using the code at the time of a requests. That means that whenever a user tries to access your website, WordPress will access the database and generate that requested page. This works when you have a few visitors on your site, but when the number of visitors rises, the load of the database will become un-sustainable.

that is why i recommend you to use caching plugins

8. Not Promoting Your Blog :

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Web promotion is necessary as well as creating quality contents.In previous article i have already discussion on “Content is King”.

I am sure you must have heard this quotation hundred of times. I agree with this statement.

Suppose sorry to say that If no-one is reading your blog, the best content in the world will not help you.

The secret sauce of all the successful bloggers is a promotion of blog.

You should spend as much time promoting content as you do in creating it onto your site.

Without great promotions, your great content will not viral.

With mediocre content, you will get mediocre results.

But if you are spending time reading this post, I’m guessing you don’t like mediocre results.

So how do you start promoting your own blog? here are some techniques.

1. Be Social
2. Engage with other successful people in your blog niche
3. Find out where your target audience asks questions and answer them

The above mentioned mistakes are those if you correct them which makes you blog worthy and costly So every body who is facing with these type of issues be frank to ask questions and send private massage through contact us form.if you find this article more interesting show your support must share it and keep watching see you again soon