All of us make mistakes, even bloggers. Find out how to make your blog the best one out there by avoiding these common mistakes.
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Links with “NO FOLLOW” Attribute
If you have any advertisements on your blog, or simply did some paid reviews. Remember to link to Your affiliates with “no follow” attribute. Google is lowing your page rank if You do not do it. Also by adding “no follow” to most of Your links You won’t turn Your blog in links junk.
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Not Unique Content
I know, the easies and the fastest way is to ctrl-c, ctrl-v some articles from Articles directories. But what for? You want to do a blog, which will have some meaning and maybe You’ll be proud of it if it gonna bring some revenue, or do You want to have another spam blog that quotes others words all the time? In my opinion writing about something in your own words, even if that subject has been talkeb 100 times over and over have more value than copied content.
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Posting Your links in the Wrong Section of Forums
If there’s a thread on forum about political issues – DO NOT post there with Your “how to boost adsense earnings” link. If You want to link to your blog on any forums do it with some sense. Don’t spam in every category. If You have something to say about Web hostign do it in web hosting section etc.
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Long Page-Loading Time
It is very important how long user need to wait to see Your blogs. That’s why the best thing to do is putting every scripts from other sites on the bottom of Your page. For example, You have a banner on start of You blog from the site, that temporarly is shutted down. The image cannot be found and the page isn’t loading for about 40 seconds, after that time in place of image there’s a text “NOT FOUND”. User had to wait 40 seconds – propably he resigned already. There’s a solution for that – download every banner from Your affiliate to Your server and then ut it on Your site.Faster loading time = happier user.
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Too Much Contrast
First of all Your blog should be themed with steady, non contrasitng color, why? It’s easier to read and it is more comfortable for user. Secondly, if You want to put some banners on Your site make sure, that they are no “flashing types” banners. Best banners are static, nicely mixing in Your blog climate, then user thinks that this is a part of the site, no a advertise screaming “HEY! I”M HERE! CLICK ME!”
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Too Many Ads
Yes, I know, that every blogger wants to have some income from his blog. But, putting 3 Adsense text ads, 4 banners of affiliates and a popup window is a bad thing to do. User cannot just read Your content – he needs to find it first in this junk of ads. To let the user read what he wants and have some revenue from ads You need remove some, and rethink what should be removed. In my opinion 1-2 text ads and 2 banners are enough ( 1 at left/right side of Your blog and one at the bottom ).
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More Patience
Every good blog needs time to rise. Good income will not flow in matter of 2-4 days, or 1-2 week. No, You need to put some work to Your blog. Make it worth to stay and read what You write about. Read and always search knowledge letting Your blog to be a better than it is now.
Sun, Apr 6, 2008, by Geekhall.net Admin
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