Blogging is a powerful tool for increasing traffic to your website and boosting your online profits. However, many bloggers fail to use their blogs to increase the money they earn on the internet because they commit some typical mistakes.
1 Some bloggers don’t blog on a regular basis, and their blogs do not have fresh and unique content. Blogs can be powerful in driving traffic to a website if they have high quality and unique content which makes search engines visit them and index the content. After the blog is indexed by search engines, people looking for information on search engines that relate to your blog’s keywords will be directed to your website, and you therefore get high volumes of traffic
2 Lack of useful and captivating information on the website. It is important for your blog to have information which your visitors will enjoy and find useful. If you have high quality information on your blog, you will get many visitors and some people will also bookmark your blog and visit on a regular basis. This increases the traffic to your blog and website, and results in more sales. It is also important for you to make your blog unique and attractive by adding interesting images and any other information that will be of interest to your blog’s visitors.
3 Lack of keywords in your blog categories and blog content. This is the most powerful way to increase traffic to your website. You must know and use all the keywords that relate to your niche when posting on your blog. If you have some headings for categories on your blog, make sure that you use your keywords on the headings of these categories as this increases the visibility of your blog on search engines.
4 Some bloggers do not increase the earning potential of their blogs. If you want to earn money with your blog, you must sell your own products and services on the blog. You can also identify affiliate programs that match your niche and sell these affiliate products. All you need to do is to add your affiliate links on your blog. You can review these affiliate products and include the keywords in your blog content. You can also increase the money you earn from your blog by adding some Google Adsense adverts on your website. When someone clicks of the Google Adsense adverts from your website, you earn some money.
If you want to increase your online profits from your blogs avoid these four mistakes!
Do you any more blogging mistakes that you would like to share? I would love to hear from you so please leave me a comment below.
To your success
Thanks for reading
Pauline
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Gerald Martin from SEO Reseller
Twitter: GeraldNitram
says:
Some may be blogging just for fun, and not for the money. Yes, it’s possible to make money out of it, but if they just want to have fun, why not, right? Anyway, when you mention keywords and blogging, the first thing that comes to mind is becoming visible on the search results. Keywords can do that, but that doesn’t mean you can just put them here and there just to get noticed by the search engines.
Pauline says:
Hi Gerald
Thanks for stopping by my blog, it’s nice to have you here!
Yes I agree a lot of people only want to blog for fun and that is okay, I did that myself a long time ago before I ventured into the Internet Marketing business
Keyword research is essential to make it work for you and get you noticed in the search results so good points you have made.
Thanks again for visiting, hope you have a great day
Pauline
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Dave Card
Twitter: davidcard7
says:
Does that mean your not having fun? I thought we were.
Dave Card
Twitter: davidcard7
says:
See, I spelled (your) wrong ( you’re ) how fun was that?
Adrienne
Twitter: adriennesmith40
says:
Hi Pauline,
These are great tips on what people should not do. I often get asked why some aren’t seeing the results and they aren’t taking consistent action. Either it’s not blogging on a regular basis or doing the action steps it takes to drive traffic to their blogs.
I spoke with a young man yesterday and he was contemplating doing paid traffic methods. His friends are getting a lot of great results from that yet they aren’t selling any products. So they’re definitely getting the traffic, I told him it’s the content that aren’t enticing people to purchase.
There are so many things that have to fall into place in order to have a successful business. It’s not just one or the other.
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Pauline says:
Hi Adrienne
Yes I agree some people just don’t get it why they are not getting results, you must be consistent with your blog that is the key!
Hope you have a great weekend, I can’t believe how fast this week has gone lol
Pauline
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Andrew says:
thank you for sharing this post and the tips that we need to look out for in the future thank you great post.
Pauline says:
Hi Andrew
Thanks for stopping by today and I’m glad you enjoyed the post and the tips, hope they will help you!
Hope you have a great weekend
Pauline
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Leo from Accountant Salary says:
Useful tips as usual, Pauline. Do you have a recommended minimum number of posts per week that a blogger should make?
Is an RSS feed on the blog (with updates from another webiste) considered as new postings, or that doesn’t help at all?
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Pauline says:
Hi Leo
I would recommend the minimum number of posts to be 2 per week as you want to keep your readers interested.
Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a great day!
Pauline
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Pete Goumas says:
Hi Pauline ,
This is my first time visit to your blog and it is simply amazing. I am wondering that why I still had not visited your website.You have shared key mistakes that bloggers usually make and even I did few listed mistakes when I was a newbie.Your post is very helpful especially for those who just started blogging.
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Pauline says:
Hi Pete
Thanks for stopping by my blog, it’s nice to have you here
I’m glad you enjoyed the post and hope you found some useful information.
Hope you have a great week!
Pauline
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Dave Card
Twitter: davidcard7
says:
As in my replies above, proper grammar and spelling are important. Most blogs I let little things go but the others where they consistently use the wrong grammar and spelling causes me to run away.
Too many ads with flashing arrows.
I myself don’t post enough, and I don’t monetize much. I’m happy right now just building a reputation and occasionally will throw in an affiliate link.
I don’t want to get too pushy and sound like a salesman, not that there is anything wrong with that.
Dave
Cararta
Twitter: VickiArta
says:
Think I’ll copy your 4 reminders and post on the wall above my PC.
I’ve been using a lot of my time lateley doing other things
which you cannot do if you want to keep your traffic up and your readers
interested.
Adrienne asked a question the other day, I answered honestly: Consistency doesn’t seem to my strong point…
Time to make some changes!
Thanks Pauline. Always enjoy your messages.
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