Avoid & Fix 48

Blogging Mistakes

YOUR BLOG IS YOUR PROPERTY, YOU SHOULD TAKE CARE OF IT. MAY BE YOU ARE MAKING SOME OF MISTAKES, AND YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF IT
Are you making one of these 48 blogging mistakes? if yes fix it quickly, you can use 170+ best resources for fast and easy help. Take your blog to the next level today.
Chapters
1
You don't have a niche
2
No need to publish daily
3
You don't know your audience
4
Blog is not optimized for seo
5
You are not blogging
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Focusing on quantity than quality
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You are Copying from other blogs
8
You write only for yourself
9
You are not promoting your blog
10
Not joining blog communities
11
Displaying too many ads
12
You have poor posts title
13
Not publishing consistently
14
Your Blog is not responsive
15
Your posts are not formatted
16
You have poor typography
17
You have complex layout
18
You have unnecesarry stuff
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Your blog color shceme is bad
20
Permalinks are not customized
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No Recent and popular posts
22
You are not spending money
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Your Writing is hard to read
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You have broken site links
25
You have bad post conclusions
26
Not responding to blog comments
27
Wasting time on social media
28
You are doing everything alone
29
You writing long paragraphs
30
Not monetizing your blog
31
You have too many sharing buttons
32
You have too many images
33
You are missing call to actions
34
You dont have landing page
35
Not communicating with readers
36
Your first paragraph is weak
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You are not building email lists
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You are not creating list posts
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You are not using useful plugins
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You have not customized footer
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You have poor site speed
42
You have not secured your blog
43
Not backking up your blog
44
You have not masterd wordpress
45
Your favicon is missing
46
You are on wrong platform
47
You don't have a sitemap
48
You are not tracking visitors
Chapter 1
YOU DON'T HAVE A NICHE
You can write about different topics, but blogging on niche is where the traffic happens. Blogging about specific niche is easy, because you have one goal, one target, and this can save your time and you can produce right type of content for your audience.
FIX IT
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Tips to Help You Pick a Niche
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Niche Ideas Case Studies and Traffic
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Choose The Perfect Niche and Avoid Failure
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What is Niche? Purpose, Passion, Expertise
Chapter 2
YOU DON'T NEED TO PUBLISH DAILY
You may have heard many times, that you need to post daily to get traffic, but this may not work for you, because its all about quality not quantity. If you write the right type of content, even one post can drive thousands of visitors per day. After all the web is floaded with articles.
FIX IT
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Why Posting Every Day is a Silly Startegy
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Proof Publishing More Content Less Traffic
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Why You Should Not Post Regularly
Chapter 3
YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE
Do you really know who is your audience and why do you need to know? because you can deliver the right message, and it is important for your business. You can use different route to find the audience who care about your content, products and things you want to hear from you.
FIX IT
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The Complete Guide to Building Your Audience
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12 Ways To Understand Your Audience
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Why Do You Need To Know Your Audience
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5 More Ways To Know Your Audience
Chapter 4
YOUR BLOG IS NOT OPTIMIZED FOR SEO
You want to see your blog in first position in google. But do you think you will be in first page if you have not done the seo work for your blog. SEO is very important for your blog, and you could see your site in first page some day, if you done the seo work right.
FIX IT
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The Complete Guide To Blog Seo
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Seo For Bloggers How To Optimize Your Posts
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How To Build a Blog That Rank Top
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A Simple Step by Step Guide To Seo
Chapter 5
YOU DON'T HAVE BLOG AND NOT BLOGGING
You have website, and not blogging, why? may be you think its hard to create a blog, or may be you don't have time to create content, but blog is a needed feature, it can drive traffic and your audience will hear your voice, and its easy to create. Read the lessons to see how it works.
FIX IT
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How To Start a Blog In Less Than 10 Mintues
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Step By Step Guide For Starting a Blog
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Start Your Blog From Scratch In 20 Mintues
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How To Start a Blog in Differernt Platforms
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Starting a Blog in Only 5 Simple Steps
Chapter 6
FOCUSING ON QUANTITY RATHER THAN QUALITY
If your focus is only on quantity, then yes you can create 100 of posts each month, but what? will those posts give you any benefit, would it drive the traffic you want. I don't think so, If you really want the best result, then start creating quality posts, to drive quality targetted traffic.
FIX IT
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How To Produce High Quality Written Content
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11 Reasons To Focus On Quality Content
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Easy Guide To Write And Create Quality Content
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5 Wasy To Write High Quality Content Fast
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Stop Creating Backlinks, Quality Content First
Chapter 7
YOU ARE COPYING CONTENT FROM OTHER BLOGS
Copying content is easy right, it save time really. This is the act of noobs. Just copy pasting or stealing content won't take your site to the first page of search engine. It has reverse effect, your site will be band, and you could face breach of contracts. Be proud to write your own content.
FIX IT
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How To Write Cornerstone Content
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The Advance Guide To Content Marketing
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22 Ways To Create Compelling Content
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How To Be A Professional Content Writer
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Even More Web Content Writing Tips
Chapter 8
YOU ONLY WRITE FOR YOURSELF
Who said writing for yourself or about yourself is bad idea, it is only best if you have a personal website. But if you are on business, you have a blog, audience, products, you need traffic. What now? target your audience with the content they are looking for, that's why they will keep returning to your blog.
FIX IT
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How To Write For Your Intended Audience
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How To Write Blog Posts For Your Audience
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10 Writing Tips To Reach Your Audience
Chapter 9
YOU ARE NOT PROMOTING YOUR BLOG
You created your blog, nice design, created appealing content. No Traffic, your effort is wasted. Because without promotion, it is next to none to get the traffic you wish for. If you spend 5 hours creating a post, then you need 15 hours or more to promote the post, this is how you can get the result you want.
FIX IT
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107 Tactics To Promote Your Blog Content
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The Ultimate Blog Promotion Guide
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31 Ways You Can Easily Get More Blog Traffic
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How To Promote your New Blog
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17 Advanced Methods To Promote Your Content
Chapter 10
YOU ARE NOT JOINING BLOG COMMUNITIES
Blogging communities are great places, where you can spread your business. bloggers and people will read your content, you can find customers for your product, this is a easy source of driving massive traffic to your site. Don't miss building your audience from the blogging communities.
FIX IT
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Five Underrated Blogging Communities
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Top 26 Best Blog Communites
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9 More Blogging Communities
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List of Top 100 Blogging Communities
Chapter 11
YOU ARE DISPLAYING TOO MANY ADS
Displaying too many advertisement on your blog is a bad idea, i have seen website with different ads sections like ads on sidebar, on footer top of post bottom of post, this dramatically distract visitors from your content. You should use advertising spot wisely on your site.
FIX IT
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13 Reasons Why Blog Ads Are Bad
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Reconsider Using Ads On Your Blog
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Google Penalized Pages With Too Many Ads
Chapter 12
YOUR BLOG HAS POOR POSTS TITLE
You spent hours, and created a compelling blog post, but if your post title is not appealing and catchy, then you are not putting the value and importance to your content. Poor titles will make your content poor. Freeze your audience with a title which they can't avoid reading.
FIX IT
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Catchy Blog Title Formulas Boost Traffic By 438%
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How To Write Effective Blog Post Titles
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71 Terrific Templates For Blog Post Titles
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Blog Post Titles Generator Easy And Catchy
Chapter 13
YOUR ARE NOT PUBLISHING CONSISTENTLY
Consistency is professional. It is a flow of your business, keep publishing consistently and don't stop flowing. keep updating your site with fresh content, this is how your audience will not get bored, and your blog traffic will keep increasing. Its not like that you create one post and came back to publish next post after 5 months.
FIX IT
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How To Produce Great Content Consistently
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How To Publish More Consistent Content
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The Reason You can't Create Consistent Content
Chapter 14
YOUR BLOG IS NOT RESPONSIVE
You can reach your content to more mobile and tablet users, as you know its 2017 and you can guess how many people are using smart phones. If your site is not responsive, take action right now, why lose traffic and why lose sales. Making your existent site responsive is easy.
FIX IT
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How To Turn Any Site Into A Responsive Site
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How To Make Any Wordpress Theme Responsive
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How To Add Bootstrap To Current Site [Video]
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How To Make A website Responsive in 15 Mintues
Chapter 15
YOUR BLOG POSTS ARE NOT FORMATTED
Even if your blog post is amazing and that is full of quality. But if it is not formatted the way it suppose to be, then it will lose its quality quite easily. Spend a little more time to professionally format your content and make your post stand out from the rest.
FIX IT
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A Comprehensive Guide To Formatting Your Posts
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How To Format Your Blog Posts
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10 Tips To Format A Perfect Blog Post
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16 Rules Of Blog Writing And Layout
Chapter 16
YOUR BLOG HAS POOR TYPOGRAPHY
Typography is very important, never ignore it, your visitor can be bored so quickly if text is hard to read. Typography is the foundation of your site. Top class typography can be achieve in many ways and its easy just try try and see what works best, there are many typography trends and fashions, but choose whats fits your site.
FIX IT
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A-Z of Web Typography Learning Guides
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Web Typography Tutorial From The Series
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26 Digital Typography Rules For Beginners
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Responsive Typography: The Basics
Chapter 17
YOUR HAVE COMPLEX LAYOUT
No one likes complexity, and when it comes to websites, its huge fail. Guess what, visitors scan your site only for a few seconds on visit. So if your site design did not catch their attention you can lost that traffic for ever. Make your site more clean, easy scanable and readable.
FIX IT
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A Guide To Layout Type In Design
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5 Ways To De-Clutter Your Website
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How To Make Your Website Easy To Read
Chapter 18
YOUR HAVE UNNECESSARY STUFF
WordPress is huge platform, it has many files and folder, themes and plugins etc. Some time you don't need keeping all the stuff, for example if you don't need some of the plugins, you should remove them from your blog, also its best for security removing unused stuff, like plugins, and themes etc.
FIX IT
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Wordpress Cleaning Toolkit A Complete Guide
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10 Quick Ways To Clean Up Your Site
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5 Best Ways To Clean Up And Optimize Your Site
Chapter 19
YOUR BLOG COLOR SCHEME IS BAD
Coming up with a color scheme which fits your niche, is an important aspect of your site. Colors are everywhere, and it can be hard to choose the best color combo for your site. One easy way is to check your competitor, what colors they have used, this will save your time and you could choose the best color scheme for your site. And other way is to use online tools.
FIX IT
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100 Color Combos How to Apply To Your Site
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12 Essential Tips To Picking A Color Scheme
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25 Awesome Tools For Choosing Color Scheme
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How To Choose A Color Scheme For Your Site
Chapter 20
YOUR PERMALINKS ARE NOT CUSTOMIZED
You may have seen ugly links, and you don't want ones like that. Wordpress has its own permalinks structure, you can leave it by default, and for sure it will work, but when it comes to search engine optimization, then you should customized it. It will look professional and easy clickable.
FIX IT
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Advanced Wordpress Seo Permalinks
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The Ultimate Guide To Wordpress Permalinks
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In-Depth Look At Wordpress Permalinks
Chapter 21
YOU DON'T HAVE RECENT AND POPULAR POSTS
Showing recent and popular post on your site is like candies for your audience. Visitors will easily jump to next post and read it easily, and will stay for longer in your site. There are a lot of great popular plugins which makes this job done easily. It will make your site more interactive.
FIX IT
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8 Flexible Recent Posts Plugins
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Top 10 Best Recent Posts Plugins
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Top 15 Plugins To Add Popular Posts
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6 Best Popular Posts Plugins
Chapter 22
YOUR ARE NOT SPENDING MONEY
You can host your wordpress blog with free platform, and with sub domain, but if you want professional business you need to spend some money, buying a domain and hosting for your company, and other useful tools and services if needed, and buying advertisement, if you want instant traffic.
FIX IT
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How To Create Realistic Budget
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Blogging What To Spend Money On
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How Much Money You Should Spend
Chapter 23
YOUR WRITING IS HARD TO READ
You write 10000 words of post, If no one can read and understand your content, then its a waste of time and effort. You need to take the right approach for appealing content, write catchy post title, introduction, paragraphs, conclusion etc. Avoid spelling mistakes, use catchy sentences etc.
FIX IT
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8 Incredible Ways To Get People Read
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How To Write The Perfect Blog Post
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10 Tips To Write Irresistible Blog Posts
Chapter 24
YOUR BLOG HAS BROKEN LINKS
404 error, have you ever came to a site, did you like it, you wanted to read and you hit by 404. Fixing broken links improve seo, and it will not frustrate your audience. There are different approach to fix broken link, make your site professional and seo optimized and easy to read.
FIX IT
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How To Fix Broken Links To Improve Seo
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How To Remove Broken Links On Your Blog
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Two Different Tools To Remove Broken Links
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7 Best Tools To Check Broken Links
Chapter 25
YOUR BLOG POST HAS POOR CONCLUSION
Better conclusion is what makes overall of your post worthy. Poor conclusion will make your post weak and your audience will think it is written by noob. There are a lot of different ways to end your post with a conclusion your readers understand and take action on your site.
FIX IT
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7 Powerful Ways To End Your Next Blog Post
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How To Go Out In Style With Your Ending Post
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How To Write A Conclusion For Your Blog Post
Chapter 26
YOUR RE NOT RESPONDING TO BLOG COMMENTS
Leaving comment on other people blog is surely best for increasing traffic to your site, but did you know that responding to a comment on your own blog increase search traffic from search engine, because of keywords and comment text, the more comment the better result. But make sure you don't have spam comments on your blog, you can use plugins to filter it.
FIX IT
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Is It Worth Responding To Blog Comments
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7 Reasons Why You Should Respond To Comments
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Responding to Blog Comments Help With Seo
Chapter 27
YOU ARE WASTING TIME ON SOCIAL MEDIA
You may thing that using too much social media and spending time there increase traffic and sale, but it is a wasting of time. Because it is not the only source of driving traffic, and a lot of social media traffic is not targeted visitors. Don't waste too much time on social media instead you can use other approach to drive targeted traffic to your blog.
FIX IT
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Why Your Business Waste Time On Social Media
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Social Media: A Time Waster Or Waste Of Time
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Stop Time Wasting Social Media Habits
Chapter 28
YOU ARE DOING EVERYTHING ALONE
You can write appealing content, you can promote your blog, you code and develop wordpress themes. But doing alone, all these work need too much time. If your business is new or old, there are many great resources where yo can find affordable, freelancer, content writers,, seo specialist, etc.
FIX IT
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Take Full Control Of Your Conetent
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Expert Outsourcing Service For Wordpress
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Hire Expert Freelancers For Your Job Online
Chapter 29
YOU WRITE LONG PARAGRAPHS
Writing Long And descriptive post can increase your seo traffic. But writing long ugly paragraphs will frustrate your audience. specially when it comes to online reading. Short paragraphs are catchy. On web reader scan, if your copy frustrate them,you will lose your audience.
FIX IT
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Why You Should Write Shorter Paragraphs
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Learn The Art Of The Paragraph For Your Blog
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10 Practical Reasons To Use Short Paragraphs
Chapter 30
YOUR ARE NOT MONETIZING YOUR BLOG
Earning money with a blog is easy, if you have traffic you don't need huge traffic. But if your blog is brand new, and you start selling advertisement, and think you will start earning money, its not nice idea. You need to learn how to monetize your blog properly without losing your audience.
FIX IT
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30 Ways To Monetize Your Blog & Make Money
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How To Monetize A Blog That Generates Traffic
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7 Case Studies For Newbie Bloggers On Monetizing
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31 Instant Ways To Profit By Monetizing A Blog
Chapter 31
YOU BLOG HAS TOO MANY SHARING BUTTONS
A lot of new blogger even advance blogger think, adding too many sharing buttons will increase site traffic, and if the blog is loaded with catchy social media sharing button, the content will be shared fast like a bullet fire. It can affect reversely, your audience can stop visiting your site.
FIX IT
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Why To Stop Too Many Social Media Sharing Buttons
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How To Get More Social Shares: The Definitive Guide
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Why Social Sharing Buttons Might Not Be Needed
Chapter 32
YOUR BLOG HAS TOO MANY IMAGES
In theory people visit your blog to learn something and read your content, collect information. If you load your blog with images and banners, it can frustrating to your readers, and your audience will be distracted from reading your content, and you may fail blogging.
FIX IT
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Why To Stop Using Too Many Images In Your Blog
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How To Find And Use Images For Your Blog
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The Ultimate Guide To Finding & Using Images
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Tips For Using Images On Your Blog Post
Chapter 33
YOUR BLOG IS MISSING CALL TO ACTIONS
Call to actions are like a sign posts to your audience. Think a road without directions, driver will lost and go to wrong places. Come up with a effective call to action plan, lead your readers, make them take action in your site you wanted. You can use different techniques.
FIX IT
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How To Write A Call To Action In A Template
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21 Call To Action Examples And 3 Rules
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How To Create Effective Call To Action Buttons
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How To Take Your Readers to The next Step
Chapter 34
YOUR BLOG DOESN'T HAS LANDING PAGE
A catchy landing page is all about sales, lead, action, it will increase email subscriber and increasing traffic. A dull and sample page will not work. It should be special from your other blog pages, make it stand out with buttons and typography and appealing colors.
FIX IT
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How To Create Landing Page From Scratch
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The Begginner's Guide To Creating Landing Page
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How To Create Landing Page In Wordpress
Chapter 35
YOU ARE NOT COMMUNICATING WITH READERS
Web communication is not like talking in phone, you don't need to call your audience, it can be achieve through different techniques. When you write your content on web you are actually speaking with your reader. And then on comment section you reply, collecting emails and you send newsletter, there are various ways for web communication.
FIX IT
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How To Communicate Effectively With Blog Readres
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How To Attract Your Blog Readers Tips And Tricks
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How To Keep You Readers On Your Blog
Chapter 36
YOUR POST FIRST PARAGRAPH IS WEAK
First impression is all what you need to make it perfect and catchy. If your first paragraph is weak and not catchy, your reader will leave your site without reading the rest of your content, even if you have written irresistible blog post. Visitors don't waste so much time, because web is full of articles.
FIX IT
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The Ultimate Guide To Writing Post Introduction
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How To Write Irresistible Blog Post Introduction
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10 Ways To Write An Intro To Your Blog Post
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10 Brilliant Examples Of How To Open Your Post
Chapter 37
YOU ARE NOT BUILDING EMAIL LIST
How many time you have heard this phrase? Money is in the list. You can get traffic from search engines from referral, and different sources. But emailing list is what can increase your traffic and sales. Think if you have 1000 subscriber then you have 1000 visitors, you can send your products and content to 1000 visitors right away without waiting for search engine.
FIX IT
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How To Build Email List Better Than Ultimate Guide
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21+ Easy Ways For You To Build An Email List
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Email List Building Strategies: Learn New Ways
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How You Can Build Email List As Quickly As Possible
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An Advanced Guide To Building An Email List
Chapter 38
YOU ARE NOT CREATING LIST POSTS
Creating a blog post has different approach, One of the popular post type is list post. Creating list post is easy and quickest way, it is catchy and easy readable. One of the huge benefit of list post is that, if you want you don't need to create your own content, you can curated other blogs and resources.
FIX IT
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The Quickest And Easiest Way To Create List Post
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10 Steps To The Perfetc List Post
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7 Reasons Why List Posts Will Always Work
Chapter 39
YOU ARE NOT USING USEFUL PLUGINS
There are thousand and thousands of useful wordpress plugins to download, and you can use them according to your blog needs. Plugins are huge time saver and very effective, it can solve your blog problem very easily. You can use plugins like, security, backup, seo, recent post and name it.
FIX IT
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37 Essential Wordpress Plugins You Should Know
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List Of The Best And Must Use Wordpress Plugins
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Essential Guide To Must Have Wordpress Plugins
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Use The Best Wordpress Plugins Ever Created
Chapter 40
YOU HAVE NOT CUSTOMIZED FOOTER
You have start your blog amazingly, don't end your blog poorly. Footer is the end road of your site. Actually don't end it, you can make your blog footer actionable and take your visitors to where you want to they click, make it fancy and catchy, put some useful information.
FIX IT
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15 Tips For Creating A Great Site Footer
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Website Footer Design Best Practices
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50 Examples Of Blog Footer Design
Chapter 41
YOU HAVE POOR SITE SPEED
Do you like Ferrari with poor speed?. Think your blog as Ferrari not old foxy like turtle, how is the speed of your site. make it load fast, you are the driver, only you can fix the speed issue with different techniques. Fast loading site is best for search engines and you can reach your audience fast as they don't wait for the site to complete its loading.
FIX IT
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How To Speed Up Your Blog A Complete Guide
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10 Ways To Speed Up Your Website
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15 Easy Ways To Speed Up Your Wordpress Blog
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The Complete Check List To Speed Up Your Blog
Chapter 42
YOU HAVE NOT SECURED YOUR BLOG
Your site is your shop and property, you need high security, other wise theft will stole your valuable stuff. Web is full of hackers, don't give them a single chance to get into your data. Securing your site is not hard job, even you can use some plugins to secure your site to some extend.
FIX IT
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How To Secure Your Blog The Ultimate Guide
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Complete 17 Steps Guide To Secure Your Blog
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How To Secure Your Wordpress Blog From Attacks
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Wordpress Security For Your Site In A Few Steps
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A Complete Guide To Securing Your Wordpress Site
Chapter 43
YOU ARE NOT BACKING UP YOUR BLOG
Backup is huge time saver, take action first, later you will not be frustrated. For example, you are writing on notepad and spend 20 hours and created quality content, now you want to hit the save button, but what something happened, and you lost all your effort and content. That's why backup will save your time.
FIX IT
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How To Back Up Your Wordpress Blog
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11 Best Free Backup Plugins For Protecting Your Blog
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What Is The Best Way To Backup Your Blog
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How To Backup And Restore Your Wordpress Blog
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8 More Best Backup Plugins For Your Blog
Chapter 44
YOU HAVE NOT MASTERED WORDPRESS
Wordpress is a popular platform, how to use use it? How to take full benefit from all its features. You need to master it, spend some time to learn all the options and features. This will save your time and make your work speedy. Its not hard to master the wordpress, just need some time.
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Learn How To Use Wordpress Front And Back Ends
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The Series: Learn How To Use Wordpress
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How To Use Wordpress And Learn Next Steps
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Easily Learn How To Use Wordpress
Chapter 45
YOUR FAVICON IS MISSING
Favicon is your site unique brand, showing on top of the browser when your site or any page is opened. When a visitor open more than one browser windows, your site favicon image will be different and user will know your site by favicon image like your domain name.
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How to Create Favicon For Your Site In 8 Steps
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How To Create Favicons And Touch Icons
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40 Best Online Favicon Generator For Your Site
Chapter 46
YOU ARE USING WRONG BLOGGING PLATFORM
Blogger use blogging platform according to their needs, you need to know whats your need and what features your business site need. Some platform are very simple and easy to use like tumblr, while other are quite advanced like drupal, wordpress etc. You can learn about different blogging platform.
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18 Best Blogging Platform: A Comprehensive Guide
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Top 15 Blogging Platforms: A Detailed Comparision
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Learn About Free And Premium Blogging Platforms
Chapter 47
YOU DONT HAVE SITEMAP FOR YOUR BLOG
Sitemap is important for search engine optimization and for your users too. sometime new customer lost in your site and once they visit site map, they find all your site links and information, so its very useful to add a site map, and it doesn't require too mcuh time, its easy.
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What Are The Benefits Of Sitemap
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How To Create A Sitemap For Wordpress
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Learn Why To Create Sitemaps Online
Chapter 48
YOU ARE NOT TRACKING YOUR VISITORS
Tracking your site visitors is very important for your business. If you don't know where your audience is coming from, then it will be quite hard to increase your site traffic. You should know how visitors is coming to your site, are they coming from search engine, or from referral, You need to find out.
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10 Most Popular Statistic Plugin For Wordpress
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How To Check Traffic From Wordpress Dashboard
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6 Powerful Statistic Plugins For Worpdress