I have been doing blogging more than 10 years, and one of the things that I have learned throughout my blogging journey is:
“Mistakes and failure are the stepping stone to becoming a successful blogger”
It all depends on how you reflect, learn, and grow from your own mistakes.
However, you don’t need to make the same mistakes to learn from them.
This post will cover the 7 common blogging mistakes that millions of newbie bloggers make when they are getting started.
So let’s jump right into the mistakes and help you save your time and energy in doing the wrong thing that won’t give you any results.
7 Mistakes to Avoid as newbie blogger
Have you ever heard the quote “Making mistakes is not a problem but repeating the same mistakes again and again is the biggest problem”
To be honest I live with this quote, here is the reason.
When I started blogging, I didn’t know many things like you guys, but one thing that remains constant with me is the learning attitude.
I am always eager to learn, I have made many mistakes in many blogging journeys but I never ignore them and feel bad about it.
I always learn from my mistakes that is the reason I can become successful in my field and sustain it for more than 10 years.
Here is a list of the mistakes to avoid as a beginner blogger.
Self-doubt
It’s the most common mistake that most new bloggers make before they even start their journey.
They start doubting their niche whether it will work or not or whether it’s just a waste of time.
To be honest I have been there and I know how it feels but doubting yourself or your niche will not help you succeed in blogging.
In these ten years of blogging one of the things that I have noticed is:
“Self-doubt has killed many blogs than Google update will ever will”
And most newbie bloggers get into this trap before someone judges them they start judging themselves and give statements like
- I am not skilled enough
- I cannot do this
- My niche is not right
- I cannot write content
But I want to ask one thing:
How many people are born with the skills?
Nobody right ?? All successful bloggers are newbies and they all learn from time and their mistakes from other people.
You are not an expectation, so stop making excuses and start working on building the necessary skills.
How to avoid this?
The simple solution to getting rid of self-doubt is to learn and gain knowledge the lack of the right knowledge is the measure reason for the self-doubt.
Focus on gaining the right knowledge and remember one thing everyone learns from mistakes so don’t be afraid of making mistakes.
Blog Design
It’s the next common blogging mistake that most newbie bloggers make, before writing a single blog post on their website.
They spend hours and hours designing the blog, but I want to ask the question:
Does designing blogs help you get visitors?
The simple answer is “no”, then it’s just a waste of time to design the blog when you don’t have the visitor on your site.
So what should you do instead?
The simple things that you need to do are to focus on learning the skills of writing the content and writing content that helps you attract visitors to your site and in the end helps you to make money from your blog.
How to avoid it
The only way to avoid this is to remember that you can only make money from your blog when your blog ranks and gets traffic and it will only get traffic when you start writing the content.
So focus on writing the content instead of changing the color of your blog designs.
Chasing everything best
It’s not the mistakes it’s a virus that most new bloggers have when they are getting started and I have made these mistakes too.
When I have started my blogging journey, I always used to be in the search for the best things, like
- Best plugin
- Best theme
- Best design
- Best Colour
One of the core reasons behind this;
Different people suggest differently and in the end, newbie bloggers get confused and change the theme, plugin, and design every day wasting their time and energy.
How to avoid this?
The only way to avoid this is to find the one right person and follow what he is teaching or you can analyze your competitor and do it accordingly but always follow one person, as it increases your chances of succeeding.
Reaching successful people in blogging
In my initial blogging days, I used to think that pro bloggers or successful bloggers knew something that I didn’t know there was some secret that they didn’t want to reveal.
I used to reach out to them and ask them for their secret but as a result, no one responded to me I felt hopeless and it just wasted my time and energy.
It is the story of every new blogger, every newbie thinks that there is some secret sort of shortcut that pro blogger know, that help them make thousands of dollar.
But the main problem is that most new bloggers don’t ask the right questions of people, they always ask about.
- Suggest to me the best niche
- Will this niche be good or not
- Can I use AI tools
And I know all these because I also get such kinds of queries, nowadays very less people are interested in learning the skills, all are just looking for the shortcuts that help them to make thousands of dollars in one day.
But after making 100 + sites, ranking them, and making money I found that there is no secret it’s hard work and the right mindset that separates the successful blogger from the unsuccessful one.
How to avoid :
Instead of reaching out to people for bits of advice, it’s better to first focus on building a strong foundation once you build a strong foundation you will understand how things work and that will help you to make money.
Content writing laziness
Every new blogger can relate to this :
When you are new to blogging you feel lazy to write the content, and this is the problem with every new blogger.
You know that you can write the content but due to laziness, you don’t write the content which leads you to the failure of the blog.
Because in the end blogging is all about the content and if you write the content, you will not be able to grow your blog.
How to avoid
The straightforward of this issue
- Don’t try to complete your article in one go
- Create the outline before writing the article
- Take a break when you feel lazy and write again
These are the ways that you can use to get rid of the content writing laziness issue and always remember that content writing is the core of blogging, the more you write the better you will become.
New Trend, New Blog, and New Focus
Another problem that I have seen with the new bloggers, they never stick with one thing and they always run after the trend.
This is the core reason for achieving success in blogging In the end they feel hopeless and demotivated.
Here is the main issue when you go with the trend, they compare themselves with other people, like
- If someone is making money from news blogs, they start making news blogs
- If someone is making money from web stories, they start making the web stories
- If someone is earning from event blogging they want to start the same
- If someone is getting traffic from Google Discover they want to do the same
They always get influenced by seeing the earning screenshots of people who don’t even have a basic understanding of blogging, and in most cases, you don’t even know whether they are making or faking it.
If you are a newbie in the blogging field, then these are the common blogging mistakes that you need to avoid as a beginner bloggers.
Now let’s talk about :
- What are things that make the new bloggers successful?
- What are things successful bloggers did that made them successful?
- What skills have they mastered to become successful in blogging?
In this section, I have shared the 3 key skills that you need to master to become successful and make money from your blog.
These are the 3 skills that have helped me to generate more than $100K from blogging, so make sure you read till the end.
But Before that let’s understand the concept of money
Concept of money
First, all you need to understand every work you do in this world requires skills and that’s the foundation of making money in any field.
And if you don’t have the skills no one will pay you any single bucks.
So what do you need to make money?
Work + Skills = Money
To make money the first thing that you need is to build skills and you can only build the skills when you work hard and invest your time.
The foundation is to build the skills, and helping the people with those skills is the path to making money from your blog as well.
As a blogger, your responsibility is to help people solve their problems with your content, so focus more on solving their problems with your skills.
Things to avoid in blogging
As I have also mentioned at the beginning of this post you don’t have to chase the shortcuts to make money from your blog.
You need to focus on learning the skills that make you a successful blogger and make sure you don’t use
- AI tools
- ChatGPT
- Copy Pasting
- Spinning tools
To write content, the simple reason is that these tools cannot make you a successful blogger, only your skills can.
Skills to master to get success in blogging
I don’t believe in any secret and I suggest the same to all newbies in my ten years of experience I have not seen any person who has generated consistent income with blogging by using any kind of hack.
So here are the 3 skills that you need to master to become a successful blogger in 2024
Content writing
When I started my blog I hated writing the content and I know 90 % of new bloggers have the same issue.
But one thing that you all need to understand in your mind, is :
Blogging is all about content if you do not write the content by yourself you will never be able to make money from your blog.
So you should accept that you need to learn to write the content if you want to be successful in blogging.
But now the question “How to write good content”
The answer is to “start writing” There are no shortcuts in the beginning you may feel
- Frustrated
- Depressed
- Demotivated
- Clueless
But it happens with all the successful bloggers, you need to keep practicing day in and day out, and most importantly don’t judge your writing you will get better with time.
Golden tip – Make a habit of writing 300-500 words daily on your favorite topics. Start small, gain confidence, and get better over time.
You can write in any language in the beginning because the main motive is to build the habit of writing the content and watch the video related to content writing to learn about it and improve your skills.
Become PRO of On-page SEO
Writing content is not enough you also need to learn to optimize the content that ranks on the google.
Because in the end that is what matters, writing content has no use if does not generate any traffic.
Put simply, you need to learn about on-page SEO to rank your blog and make money from it.
How to learn on-page SEO?
The first thing you can do is to read our guide on-page SEO, and the next thing that you can do is to read the blog of other people.
Another that you can do is watch the video related to page SEO and observe how big sites are doing the on-page make notes and replicate it to your blogs.
Golden Tip – You need to observe what top blogs are doing and implement it in your blog
Master keyword research
No matter how good content you write, if you write on the wrong things you will never be able to rank on make money from your blog.
So what should you do?
Master the art of finding the most profitable keyword, and this is one of the biggest failures of new blogs.
Most of the new blogger target the wrong keyword and complain that their website is not ranking and when I talk to them they don’t have a clear understanding of keyword research.
How to master keyword research?
The first thing that you need to understand is finding the profitable keyword is a skill and you can only do it through practice, so you need to practice it regularly.
Second, you can check our guide on keyword research to get an in-depth understanding of keywords and how to find profitable keywords.
The last thing that you do is to watch the video around the keyword research and read the blog about it.
Golden tip – Finding the profitable is difficult, but once you learn the art of finding the right keyword it can change your life, it has my life as well.
These are some of the skills that you need to master to become a successful blogger and I know it may sound obvious but these are the things that matter for blog success.
Conclusion
With this post, you get the idea of the common blogging mistakes to avoid as a beginner, and we have also shared tips to avoid them, if you are making any one of these mistakes let me know in the comment section.
Always remember people will pay you for your skills not for your talk so ensure to master the necessary skills that I have mentioned in this post and make your blogging successful.
Keep writing and keep publishing 🙂
