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posted January 1, 2009
5 Mistakes to Avoid when Creating a Blog
written by Kim McDougal and taken from personal experience (LOL) :0
#5: Don't switch blogging platforms in midstream. Decide which one you're using: Wordpress, Blogger, or any other and stick to it. Too many changes will further complicate your site and prolong launching it. Plus, you should like the way it looks so that you'll enjoy the experience of blogging. I have created sites that I later on hated and it was hard to work on them. Choose wisely what platform you like and it easiest for you to work with.
#4: Don't build pages off your template too fast. Once you've decided on blogging platform, choose the template by which all your pages will look like and take your time building this one file first even if it takes you a month before you know whether or not you like it. Because once you build other pages to your site too quickly, making changes will become cumbersome, tedious, and just plain stressful.
#3: Don't fill up your template with a bunch of ads. You're building a community and people are more likely to buy from you once they know you better and that they can trust you.
#2: Don't even bother to design your blog until you know your audience. Before you decide on a blog, do you have something to say? Are you passionate about something or good at something that you can share? You need readers to make your blog successful. And it must be an interactive site so that your readers can respond back. Good content is important to what your audience is interested in and you need be sure you have plenty and you won't run out. New and fresh content should be posted frequently to keep your audience coming back.
#1: Creating your blog with the wrong domainname. It's ESSENTIAL to decide on the correct first so that all #2 - #5 will work, but also so that all the SEO, link exchanges, directory portals you do will have this name. And whatever your blog is about should be in your domain name. Nothing's worse than creating a site based on either a subdomain or some other domain name, but it isn't relevant. You don't want to buy the domain once you've already established your blog to have transfer all your files over and then go back through Search engine submissions to wait more months for the spiders to crawl your site again.
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