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The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes by Wendy Piersall
Jun 20 2007

A couple of weeks ago, I ran across a wonderfully helpful post by Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home called The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes I Made in My First Year.  Since I’m pretty new to blogging, reading her list of mistakes was an eye opener for me.  They all make great sense and the ones that I still need to figure out are:

4 – I did too much self-promotion

I’m not sure how much self-promotion is too much self-promotion because I’m not really promoting myself but my company, Babble Soft…which at this moment consists of myself, my husband (part-time), a development team in India, and a publicist (part-time).

8 – I didn’t promote my feed

I honestly don’t really know how to promote my feed.  We have some email subscribers and some RSS subscribers but other than joining MyBlogLog and Technorati and sending out a mass email inviting my friends/family to join, I haven’t had time to figure this one out.

9 – I waited too long to learn about SEO

I have heard a ton about SEO, but I also hear to get great SEO results you have to hire a guru who can be quite expensive, and we are all about keeping expenses low right now.

Wendy PiersallA picture of Wendy

I have signed up for Wendy’s 10 Days to a Better Blog free e-course and look forward to seeing more traffic to our blog in 10 days!  I’m already a day behind and I’m only on day TWO! 😯

I have one more blog post to write today and a user case study to finalize before getting to work on the e-course!

Aruni

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3 Comments on “The Top 10 Blogging Mistakes by Wendy Piersall”

  1. 1 Robyn Tippins said at 4:30 PM on June 20th, 2007:

    Wendy is indeed right on the money. She’s a hoot too! 🙂

  2. 2 babblesoft said at 9:35 AM on June 21st, 2007:

    Robyn – Wendy is a great blogger and a very likeable person who writes on very relevant topics! I have really enjoyed reading her posts. By the way, I forgot to mention that Connie Reece at Every Dot Connects (http://www.everydotconnects.com) is the one who first told me about Wendy. Connie also told me about MyBlogLog! 🙂

  3. 3 Carole Hayes said at 5:56 PM on June 24th, 2007:

    Thanks for the link — I have a LOT to learn, and she has plenty of good advice! (And I definitely need to start posting more. It really doesn’t take all that much time….)