15 Most Common Blogging Mistakes in 2024-Ways to Avoid

Blogging has been growing rapidly as a way of sharing knowledge, ideas, and information, building a brand or even earning money. However many bloggers often find themselves in some common mistakes that can delay their blogging progress. So if you’re already in the blogging industry or just starting, knowing and avoiding those common mistakes is a smart move and a good strategy for your blogging success, I think from my experience. So that’s why, we’ll read and discover the 15 most common blogging mistakes in 2024 – ways to avoid them and to see the progress in your blogging journey. 

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1. Not Having a Clear Niche

When we started as a blogger, we always found it hard to decide what to write, how to write, and how to choose a topic and industry.  Because of that, we all try to cover many topics at once, thinking that there will be more traffic and more readers to our blog. With the larger topics, confused and diluted messages come. 

How To Avoid:–

Find out the topic that you have an interest in and are passionate about, then write articles on those topics or industries for some time until you have some credibility. If you’re on the right topics, you’ll surely find it easier to write content. With time and experience, you can also branch out to other fields or topics to attract more. 

2. Not Posting Regularly

Being consistent is what it takes to make a business success. I choose to upload atleast 1 or 2 quality long-form articles every single week without fail which helps me to write and cover more topics. With regular schedule and posting can help your audience to be more active and impact your blogging’s growth. 

How to Avoid:–

Find a balance with your routine or capability whether to write and upload the content once or twice every week or monthly. After it doesn’t matter how many articles you upload, it’s about consistency. This also helps in SEO’s ranking not only building trust with your audience. 

3. Not Practicing SEO 

It can be hard to practice SEO but it’s a mandatory thing to make Google recognise your work and increase your ranking. This is difficult to learn and understand but once you do, it’ll surely help you to increase your visibility and will improve the organic traffic to your blog. 

How to Avoid:–

Once you set your niche and posting schedule, try to learn about SEO as much as you can. There are basic SEO practices such as keyword research, on-page and off-page SEO, link building and more. You can also use SEO plugins like YOAST SEO (which I use) or RankMAth which is quite popular. YOu can start by focusing on and using relevant keywords, writing meta descriptions and building more backlinks systems.

4. Poor Website Design and User experience 

Content is the leads but what makes the readers stay in your content is your design and the experience they get from your website. So to keep engaging with your content, make sure to use and design your website with the best theme and increase your user experience. Keeping neat and clean with an easy navigation system is also a good approach. 

How to Avoid:–

I used Astra for my website which is free from WordPress which is working effectively for me and planning to upgrade them later. So I recommend you invest in a responsive design which easy to navigate. Don’t forget to optimise your website as mobile-friendly because the majority of the audience will be from mobile devices. Increasing your loading speed and making the visitor get the content as fast as it can will also help you to grow your blog. 

5. Monetizing Too Early. 

Yeah, it’s quite tempting to earn money from blogging as most of the bloggers are sharing their income reports here and there. Set yourself a standard like not putting ads or monetising your blog until you hit some milestone like until you hit 10,000 visitors. 

Monetizing your blog too early will make your audience feel disturbed in reading your content and might leave your site. 

How to Avoid:-

I recommend you build an audience or community first by sharing good quality content which helps them or improves their life before monetizing. Once you have steady traffic, you can easily monetize through ads, sponsorship posts, affiliate marketing or selling digital products. 

6. Not Engaging With Your Audience 

One of the common mistakes that new bloggers make is failing to understand that blogging is not just about publishing content and vanishing. It’s about interacting with your readers and building a community where your visitors can find answers to their ideas and problems. 

So don’t forget to interact with your readers. 

How to Avoid:–

Respond to comments, and opinions, ask about their experience and feedback and take advantage of social media. Building a loyal community for your brand will increase your traffic and more consistent loyal readers.  

7. Not Taking Advantages of Analytic

With analytics, you can have an overview of your performance. You can check which type of articles works for you or not, and how can you improve your content, which keywords work or not. 

So don’t stop yourself from taking advantage of this analytics. 

How to Avoid:- 

Use Google Analytics which can help you to see your blog’s performance, traffic acquisition, conversion and user behaviour. Analysing the data will help to go through the major setbacks in your blogging journey by making informed decisions and improving your performance. 

8. Not Being Real

In the process of publishing more content, some bloggers fail to produce quality content instead they copy from other bloggers. This can lower their SEO ranking and decrease their credibility. Instead, be real and write about your experiences on the topic.  

How To Avoid:-

Don’t make the same mistakes as I did. Always focus on creating original content. And if you’re covering popular content, don’t forget to add personal views and angles of perspective, this can increase your loyal audience. 

9. Not Doing Email Marketing From The Start. 

Email has been growing its power as it’s a form of direct marketing. This has the most conversion rate, building a royal audience, and increasing traffic yet many new bloggers overlook its importance. 

How to Avoid:- 

Don’t forget to collect email from day one. You can do that through free ebooks, exclusive content, or checklists.  Keep your audience engaged and visit your website by sending a newsletter regularly.

10. Not Promoting 

Many new bloggers fail to understand that writing and publishing content is only 30% of the game. They think that the people will eventually find the content on its own but the real answer is in the promotion of the content. 

How to Avoid:-

You can start by sharing your content on social media like Pinterest, Instagram or Facebook which is quite an effective way to bring your readers to your blog. And if you can’t do that, consider promoting through paid advertising. To increase the chance of visibility, start promoting your content from the start. 

11. Not Updating old contents 

Another common mistake of new bloggers is not updating the old content. Updating your old content can increase your relevance, increase engine ranking, user experience, organic traffic, and brand consistency and improve the underperforming content. 

How to Avoid:- 

Regularly review your contents and update them. You can new ideas, delete outdated information and optimize your content for SEO rankings. 

12. Overloading on Ads

Yes, ads can be a good source of income for you but too many ads can affect your website traffic. Having too many Ads on your content can irritate your readers which eventually reduces user engagement. 

How to Avoid:- 

Don’t overdo the number of ads on your website. Check for the Ads placements to ensure not disturb your readers. User experience can make your readers a loyal audience so it’s a wise decision not to do too many Ads. 

13. Not Clear CTA

Not having a clear message on your blog,  whether entertainment, information or persuasion.  So find ways to include a call to action in your content to increase the effectiveness of your content.  

How To Avoid:- 

Include effective calls to action like commenting, sharing your posts, offering a free product or signing up for your newsletter, this will guide your readers on what to do. 

14. Not building backlinks

Bankslinks are effective ways to increase your blog credibility, authority and SEO. To speed up your blog’s growth, try to find ways to build backlinks from day one. 

How to Avoid:- 

Reach out to other bloggers to discuss blogging or collaborations. The more quality backlinks you have, the more blogs will increase the performance in the search engine. And also try to produce quality content that the other blogger wants to link. 

15. Quitting too soon

Many new bloggers are likely to quit the blogging journey if they don’t get the desired results in a short period. Blogging takes a lot of time, discipline, effort, and good strategies.  So don’t quit too soon, keep writing quality content and try to increase your visibility. 

How to Avoid:-

It’s not an overnight success so have patience and persistence. Produce quality content, engage with your audience regularly and optimize your blog regularly. Consistency is what it takes to become a successful blogger. 

Final Thoughts!

Blogging is a long-term project and it will come with a lot of challenges. It takes a lot of hard work, patience, trial and fail experiments. But don’t just give up if you’re just having small setbacks. By understanding the 15 most common blogging mistakes in 2024 – and ways to avoid them, you can avoid the mistakes that every new blogger makes and set yourself on the path to success.
Don’t forget that you’ll make a lot of mistakes along the way and keep learning from them and moving forward to your goals. 

Continuous efforts to improve your content, avoiding common mistakes, and good strategies are all it takes to your blogging success. Be consistent in your publishing schedule, stay focused and enjoy your process, no two journeys are ever the same. 

Happy Blogging!