Robert Hruzek on Apr 2nd 2007 at 7:00 am blogging, learning, mistakes
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Last week I posted Blogging Mistakes: How Not to Run a Contest as part of a Blog Project by Daniel over at Daily Blog Tips to collect, well, a list of mistakes we bloggers have made, and what we learned from them. Amazingly enough, there are very few repetitions in the bunch! Definitely worth the time to read ‘em all.
Here’s the list of all 48 entries in the project:
My Blogging Mistakes and Their Outcome by Thilak
A Star for a day. What I learned by Clever Dude
My Biggest Blogging Mistake: Posting Frequency by Chris
Your Blog Will Perish for Lack of Vision by Shawn
My Biggest Blogging Mistake is not Updating Often Enough by Julian
DYH isn’t perfect? by Cory O’Brien
Don’t Change the Name by Denise
Why this Blog Looks this Way by Ben
My Blogging Mistake: Too Many Blogs by Green Llama
What is Wrong with my Blog. An Honest Self-Assessment by Bret
I Almost Ruined Everything by Annie
Common Blogging Mistakes by Vijay
How to Not Run a Contest by Robert
5 Things I Regret About March by Bill
Trying to Promote my Blog without enough Traffic by Nathan
Always Install Wordpress on the Root Diretory by Daniel
I should have included media contents by Madhur
The Biggest Blogging Mistake I did was not Blogging by Francesco
Learning from Mistakes: Opening Links in New Windows by Nirmal
Mr. Frisky Retreats with his Tail Between his Legs by Rory
User a Smart Permalink Structure on your Blog by Leftblank
Internet Explorer vs. Firefox Issues by Mark Paddock
Not Having Drafts Saved for Rainy Days by Inspirationbit
Don’t Underestimate the Commitment by Andrew
Get your Own Domain and Wordpress for your Blog by Andrew Flusche
A Clear Point of View is Crucial to Increase your Blog Traffic by George
Delete Your First Blog Post by Mark Alves
Don’t Forget to Use Blog Carnivals by Andrea
Why Blogs and Blogging Will Ruin your Self Discipline by Dave
Careful on How You Tag your Posts by Shankar
Should’ve Gone WP Yesterday! by Jimbo
Don’t Make the Mistake of Monetizing your Blog Too Early by Maki
Don’t Ignore the Basics of SEO by Simonne
Spending Too Much Time Link-Begging by David Paul
Lack of Predictability on Your Posts by Roberto
What to Do When You don’t Have Anything to Say by Philip Liu
Copying, Mimicking, Duplication by Paper Bull
Starting Too Many Blogs by Mohammed
Leaving the Amateur League of Blogging: the Hosting Lesson by Rene
Be Careful how you Choose your Domain Name by Cavin
The Ad King by Jason
Move to your Own Domain Now by Gaurav
Lack of Persistence by Blake
Not Commenting Enough on other People’s Blogs by Somu
Failing to Realize the Importance of Relationships with Readers by Ronald
Don’t Handle Important Matters Lightly by Amanda
Do not Underestimate the Important of RSS Feeds by Kevin
Why you Should Own your Domain Name by Engtech
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[...] For a real example of how this type of project works and how it can benefit all participants, see Daniel’s recent Blogging Mistakes project over at Daily Blog Tips. Here’s my entry, and this is my follow-up post. [...]