Comments on: Learning From Business Blogging Mistakes

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By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:10:23 +0000

Here are some additions from me:
Mistake 4: Getting paid for promoting other’s sites and products. It is a good idea to earn by writing reviews of others’ products and sites in your blog (you can earn anything between $10 - $150 per review depending on your PR and Alexa rank), but if your general post vs sponsored post ratio becomes more than 1: 3, then you face the risk of getting penalized by Google.

Mistake 5: Irregular posting. It happens with most bloggers, but is a terrible mistake. There should be a regularity, or you risk losing your loyal readers. I came across a site called http://www.writer4me.com and hired professional bloggers to maintain some of my blogs. They were good, For $199/month, they wrote one blog post daily. Good option if you are too busy to maintain your blog regularly.

Mistake 6: Choosing free blogging platforms like Wordpress.com. It is true that making a free blog (as a subdomain) is hassle free and takes a minute to start, but you do not have the freedom of posting links in such blogs and may be banned by Wordpress for posting links.

By: Francis Moran

Francis Moran — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:24:23 +0000

Really good points, Lee.

When we launched our blog (www.inmedialog.com) about 10 months ago, it had a clearly articulated editorial strategy (a legacy of my previous experience launching a variety of print publications) and clear evaluative criteria against which we could measure our success, including, eventually, ROI.

We’ve adhered to all three of your central lessons, and a few more of our own. We recently passed post #250, and reported to our readers on how we are doing so far.

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1st Commandment of Blogging | EZ Marketing Tool — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:11:12 +0000

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By: Kathy Hendershot-Hurd

Kathy Hendershot-Hurd — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:40:10 +0000

I’m STUNNED at the number of large corporations who have considerable resources and yet are in direct violation of the “Control Your Blog” commandment. Nice post!

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Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:08:53 +0000

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By: abeen

abeen — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:59:25 +0000

Nice tips from your posts. In fact I should know about such mistakes beforehand. Need to take care for blogging.

I am starting to blog at http://www.javra.com/blog