Comments on: The Biggest Mistake Every Blogger Makes (And How to Avoid It)

By: Shivam Sahu

Shivam Sahu — Wed, 27 Dec 2017 11:20:55 +0000

Hey Derek,

Great list. I’d like to add one! ‘You write in block paragraphs and don’t reformat your post to emphasise certain messages’.

It’s true that people reading a post/article will skip through to find key messages. Why not make their life easier (and allow them to read efficiently) by making words bold, italic, using bullet points, increasing text font, in order to allow key points to emerge.

By: ketan

ketan — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 05:11:41 +0000

thanks for giving this information

By: Sameer Panda

Sameer Panda — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 07:15:09 +0000

Useful tip, very silly but important. I used to add a caption to my most important images, now on I will add a caption. Thanks for sharing Derek 🙂

By: Ratko

Ratko — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 12:38:55 +0000

Not sure if you’re sarcastic. But on the off chance you’re not, there are a lot of people doing blog commenting for the purpose of driving traffic. You can avoid this by moderating your comments. And on the followers who try to get you to click on their site, I wouldn’t worry too much about them, it’s normal to get followers who try to get your intention and promote themselves. I follow back only the people/companies that are worthwhile

By: Ahmad Rasheed

Ahmad Rasheed — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:00:16 +0000

Informative, and important thing which i want to add here is, interlinking your content, before user leave your blog, he should see many related links regarding the same, so that he may find what he intend to.

By: Alicia H.

Alicia H. — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 03:00:35 +0000

I’m going to start implementing this tip on my blog! Great post, thanks!

By: Shawn McConnell

Shawn McConnell — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:39:54 +0000

People who find you will spend more time on your blog, and people who are not interested in a particular topic are more likely to read your other posts than to merely dismiss you and go elsewhere.

By: Jan van der Walt

Jan van der Walt — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:57:50 +0000

I have just one major bug on my blog, what a call “spy followers”. It seems that nsome people try to get followers by just “following” for no reason what so ever, excpet that they want you to visit their site. And then they try “you site was so informative and great and they really found value in it”. Point is that the particular post they comment on was just a Contact me page. How do you get rid of these bugs.

By: Sunil Thakur

Sunil Thakur — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:52:35 +0000

Soo brilliant this post . Love the metaphor tip. I catch myself using them alot in real life interactions (everything in my world is like childbirth) but it’s great to see this laid out as a point to consider for blog posts. Total gem (no metaphor pun intended)!

By: Sam Adeyinka

Sam Adeyinka — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:45:43 +0000

hey Derek, I’m so glad to have found this post.

This post is really short and insightful. Since I’m trying to put together some blogging mistakes I think this would help me know how to go about scribbling down my stuff. Thanks! 🙂

Sam