Five Super Simple Blogging Mistakes To Avoid

Simple Steps To Keep Readers Happy

Listed below are five very common blogging mistakes that may cause visitors to get frustrated and leave before they even get started. All five are common mistakes we see daily on our blog rounds. The good news? They’re easily fixed.

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1) Hidden Feed Subscription Links

Let me find your RSS feed link above the fold please. Some of us still use feed readers. Have you ever found a great blog and wanted to subscribe to their feed only to give up looking for the feed subscription link? And use a feed service like Feedburner to avoid your feed showing up like this in some browsers:

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2) No Social Buttons

Can we socialize please? I’ve actually had to click on blog’s about or contact pages just to find a Twitter link. What are they hiding from? Links to your social networks should be easy to find.

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Tracking Trends For Blog Posts & Niche Blogs

image - Tracking Trends ChartFile this post under resources because I have a ton of links for you. Below you will find online resources for finding and tracking trending topics. Following popular trends can help with niche idea generation for blogging ideas, keyword research starters and niche blog ideas. We’ll go into much of this later but, for right now, you can browse these trending topic resources and see exactly what might work for you. Have I missed any? Feel free to add more in the comments below. Continue reading

Best Blogging Tip Tweets – 39.11

Best Blogging TipsBest Blogging Tip Tweets is where I post tweets giving or promoting the best blog tips. Each tweet below is just as on Twitter so you’ll be able to click the links included. You can even follow, reply, retweet and favorite right from this blog.

Would you like your best blogging Tweets featured here? Simply Add hashtag #BestBloggingTips to your tweets.
See:  Get Featured With Twitter Hashtag #BestBloggingTips

Let me know if this post is helpful in the comments below. Continue reading

Get Featured With Twitter Hashtag #BestBloggingTips

Update

I gave it the good ol’ college try but HashTags, while a very powerful Twitter feature, are proving to be an unreliable tracking method. They get buried very quickly and, very often, don’t show up in a search. While I still search Twitter for Blogging Tips, I’ll no longer push the use of the #BestBloggingTips hashtag. Thank you.

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Last week I posted our first Best Blogging Tip Tweets post and now I’m going to get proactive with it. Each week I’m going to post the best blogging tips I find on Twitter.

How To Get featured

Now YOU can be featured on this weekly series by getting my attention with your best blogging tip tweets. All you have to do is add the Twitter Hashtag #BestBloggingTips to your blog tip tweets. At the time of this post there are no results for #BestBloggingTips so it’s a clean and fresh hashtag. Continue reading

Blazing Minds Tells How She Mastered paper.li

Karen with Blazing MindsKaren Woodham of Blazing Minds was gracious enough to answer a few questions so youthe Blogger, can decide if Paper.li is for you and, if so, how to gain the most from it.

Today’s interview with Karen is directed at her success using Paper.li publications for her Twitter followers. Paper.li has been around for while, founded in 2008, and many have published their own papers using content from their Twitter and Facebook feeds. Few have enjoyed the success that Karen has with both Twitter and with her papers. Continue reading

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