PB046: Do You Recognize These 21 Blogging Mistakes? - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

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How to Avoid Making These 21 Blogging MistakesToday's episode is all about the mistakes I see bloggers making, and an honest look at the mistakes I've made along the way in my own blogging journey.




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21 mistakes that I see bloggers makingThe mistakes I've made in my own blogging journey
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How to Start a Blog 
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Compress to smaller transcript viewGood morning and welcome to the ProBlogger Podcast episode 46. My name's Darren Rowse and today I want to talk about mistakes that I see bloggers making. If I'm honest, which I'm feeling today, mistakes that I have made along the way in my own blogging journey. We're going to go through about 21 different mistakes. At the end of this episode, I’d love to hear what you would add to this list. You can do so by going to problogger.com/podcast/46.

One of the most common questions that I'm asked when I'm interviewed about blogging, whether that be in media or other podcasts, is the age-old question: what mistakes did you make that you wish you hadn't made along the way or what mistakes do you see other bloggers making? I've got this stock standard three or four mistakes that I see all the time, but every time I answer that question, a whole heap of other mistakes sit in the back of my mind. Recently, I sat down and tried to write down all of the mistakes that I've made and all of the mistakes that I see other people making. I very quickly learned that there are literally hundreds of them we could talk about today. Today, I'm just going to pick about 20 of them, 21 maybe.

Like I said in the introduction, most of these things are not just things that I see other bloggers making in terms of mistakes, but they're also mistakes that I've made along the way. I want to say right upfront, some of these things I could even work on right now 13 years after starting blogging. We could all improve. I'm just like any other blogger in that regard. These are listed in no particular order. They're things that I'd encourage you to just ponder, is this something that I could improve on as I go through this list.

As I say, there are a whole heap of other ones that I could add and I've got another list of about ten others, but I kind of want to leave some room for you to add your own mistakes to what I've come up with today.

Let's get into mistake number one. This is something that I see a lot of bloggers, or at least pre-bloggers, struggling with. The mistake is putting off starting the blog altogether. This is something that many bloggers struggle with because many of us are perfectionists and we want everything to be just right before we launch our blog. We want to have the perfect topic, we want to have the perfect first post, we want our design to look perfect. We want to have all the social media accounts set up, we want to have our hosting all set up, we want to have everything ready to go. Whilst there's nothing wrong with being prepared and having everything lined up, the reality is that if we wait for everything to be perfect before we press go,

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