Nearly 51 Known Bloggers Share Their Blogging Mistakes
51To err is human, to learn from others’ errors is smartness!
All of us make mistakes. So is the case with bloggers.
When I set out to ask about the blogging mistakes they had made when they got started from bloggers I know, most of them were candid and admitted to making blogging mistakes in the beginning of their careers.
Here, I share with you the blogging mistakes made by some known bloggers, hoping that reading about them will help you avoid making the same mistakes.
Blogging Mistakes Made by Some Known Bloggers
As I got up today morning, I thought of asking all bloggers known to me to share with me their blogging mistakes. I set forth on my task and sent messages to all Indian bloggers worth the name and also some others who have been into this field for some time now. I put this question to some part time bloggers and some full time bloggers as well, and am glad that most of them have responded.

I am listing down the names of bloggers and their replies here, in no particular order. Not yet 51 in number. But I’ll keep updating as I receive more replies.
Vignat Vora: My biggest blogging mistake was not posting fresh content regularly. However , due to studies and several other engagements , sometimes it becomes extremely difficult to spare time for blogging.
Evelyn Parham: My mistake was trying to be every where and not focusing on writing. If I had it to do over, I would have spent more time writing and less time on other sites.
Atish Ranjan: Life is full of mistakes….I’d have shared them here if I hadn’t made lots of them! No worries. Collection of mistakes called experience. So, learn to take blogging mistakes in your stride!
Rohan Advani: 1) Started blogging too late, still regret at times. But at least, I started. 2) Bloggers are considered to be lonely and I felt that too. But in the end, you find friends who are in the same industry. So, bloggers do have friends
That too, honest and genuine ones!!
3) Not attending blogging meets and events, I have started doing that .
Mistakes will eventually help you to grow and be wonderful bloggers as well as human beings ! Cheers to all the newbie, professional and budding bloggers!!
Pradeep Kumar: I don’t really see them as mistakes, I boost myself by converting or saying them as experiences. Mistakes, hmm, well, I used to work hard focusing on my blog stats and monthly income. But at one point I decided they have nothing to do with blogging.. blogging is expressing yourself, and don’t give a damn to anything.
Jatin Singhroha: My Mistake – Used Blogger and then started copy – paste, it made my blog down and it lost in the ocean of blogs. But now, I use WordPress and write 100% original articles.
Satish Cooltips: My biggest mistake, opening a Facebook Account!
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Ifham Khan: The biggest mistake I ever did in blogging is I started my blog to make money, but never earn a single penny but then done another mistake turn my service website into blog (mashdesigning) And that mistake pays me.
Chetan Bhawani: My mistake was.. thinking above the basics. Learned that sticking to the basics is more useful than trying out without full knowledge and failing, losing confidence.
Krinal Mehta: Not spending enough time on my own blog.
Shitij Jain: My very first blog was a mistake and though I earned good through it but at the end all the content was spam(torrents,movies) etc etc.
Manoj Chhetri: Starting with znet india.
Plaban Manna: I should have taken blogging more seriously.
Amitava Deb: Despite all knowledge..I started late..I won’t consider that as a mistake but ‘YES’ ! MISTAKE !! hmm.. I tried to be too smart with my 1st blog and tried integrating every possible stuff. I made the blog so complex that even mr. tony had to say this and I quote “I fail to understand your blog” ; but on the other side felt proud that I was able to produce something nonsense that made a geek turn gray. I feel I am on the right track now. #PHEW.
Rahul Kuntala: My mistakes are my most precious lessons. So, I don’t regret for having them. But, the most common mistakes any new blogger could make are: not focusing on SINGLE niche, not leveraging their blog’s traffic and not linking to others too often.
Shathyan Raja: Don’t ever think of money and jump into Blogging. And also, never worry about SEO. You just write an article perfectly and everything will follow you. Just share your knowledge.
Navdeep Singh Rana: lol. Honestly, I don’t think I made any mistakes. May be because I started India exam after learning from my other unsuccessful websites/blogs for about 3 years.
Sourya Abhishek: My biggest mistake was starting a movie blog with copy paste content on it and now starting zapworld with a .in domain….
Abhi Balani: I don’t really call them mistakes but still I would answer this: I used to worry a lot about my stats and rankings, and I used to write for search engines only. Not none of them matters to me.
Anchit Shethia: I agree with Abhi Balani. I wont call them mistakes…but lessons…one thing I have learned is: never run for PRs, Alexa’s and money when u have started to blog straight away. I have stopped worrying even about traffic. I don’t get much. But I keep posting…
Ramandeep Singh: I don’t think I made any noticeable mistake because I always try to do something new after proper discussion with or suggestions from our team.
And if I made mistake (Which I don’t remember now), then I would call it ‘Experience’ which makes our work more perfect and keep going.
Nishant Shrivastava: My biggest mistake was migrating my old blog to WordPress. WordPress is awesome but migration from bloggers can create lots of problems..
Kingsley Felix: The biggest mistake is putting “Make Money” first.
Ehsan Ullah Khoshbakht: 1st big mistake: I was greedy to make money NOW. 2nd big mistake: Not starting an email list from day one.
Hamza Sheikh: There are lot of mistakes I made in my career so far. Thinking a lot, planning, and failure at execution.
Avoiding the Basic SEO for some moment (post-Panda). Lot of stuff, but no success from last couple of months. Actually, I don’t call mistakes. I learned a lot, and these days I am digging deeply in PPC models, paid discoveries, and a whole new world is open to me even after 5 years.
Harneet Bhalla: The one single mistake I did is to try to do everything on my own. I never outsourced the stuff out to experts. I tried to learn all the things and then do it myself which cost me a hell lot of time. And now I realize time is money.
Regarding my blog, consistency is what I lacked. Nowadays, I started concentrating more on improving my blogs’ consistency and I really think, that is so important. As I’m blogging for part-time, its becoming so hard to maintain a daily plan so as to work productively.. These days, I’m happy that my day is organized better.
I have some serious projects to get launched that could double-triple my annual income, but then.. I am lazy
I need to join a gym, do regular exercise and keep my mental health active and fit.
Jaikee Jaiswal: I am not into serious blogging. I just learned over the internet about WordPress and Blogs. I love the tech things and this pushed me toward writing. First I created a blog on Nokia phone on blogspot. I was not sure about making money. I then started working for Vivek Yadav who owns Techstroke. I kept writing and learned a lot. Some of the mistakes I have made in my blogging career. I have made some mistakes like – I was late in the blogging arena. I started with manually spinning the articles and concentrated only on content and Google hit me with Panda and penguin. This is really stinky as a new blogger can be as good as old blogger and what if his blog do not get leverage from Google then He will die soon.
But to answer your question.. the BIGGEST MISTAKE a blogger can make is to try and impress everyone.. You’ve got to stick to ONE niche… and voice YOUR opinion to stand out in the crowd..
I would like to thank all my friends for sharing their mistakes and bloomers with us, for the benefit of the community at large!


















Now blogging has become too competitive. If you make some mistakes, you may not get second chance to correct it. So it’s always better to take lessons from other’s mistakes. The article will help newbie bloggers.
Plaban Manna recently posted…Connectify Dispatch Combines Multiple Internet Connections into One
It’s not competitive at all while giving a 10th class exams everyone will write so do you quite writing exams ? Come on if you do mistakes find out and correct them .
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I’m glad that I ain’t doing any of these mistakes “NOW”.
Nice post as always.
wOW… U Really Turned that status into a post…. nice… now everyone will learn a lot from this…Thnxx for including my comment,…..
Sourya recently posted…Android Vs IOS: Basic comparison of Ops
Mistake are the secret of Success. The more you make, the more you learn. More than learning things from others, it would be the best and real time experience to commit a mistake and know it practically on hat to do and how to do it in future.
Shathyan Raja recently posted…Price of Samsung Galaxy S 4 in US, UK and India
Great list of mistakes
Good! It shows Indians have better experience
as they did many mistakes and as I said above in the post Mistakes are needed to get better experience
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Good Work Ambika Di
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Thanks, Plaban, Shathyan & Atish.
Yea..we all learn from our mistakes. But if we are smart enough, we can avoid some of them by learning from the mistakes of others. And that exactly was the purpose behind this post.
hi Ambika, this articles give me much more boost in my blogging skill and now i avoid most of this mistake in my blogging career so i boost up fast. thanks
Good post Ambika.. It’s a great way to get opinions and make them into posts. Good way to build a community.. Good job.. Keep it going!
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my mistk was…i wasted mt lots of time to making designing of my blog…

and i was not regular
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Yes, Kuldeep. Though designing is an important element of any good blog, one has to take care not to overdo it. Good you analyzed it yourself. I’m sure that will help you take care of it in future. Good luck. (Y)
Great idea and great execution to compile and present information in such presentable way, offering great opportunity to the new entrants of the blogging field to get the right direction and avoid wastage of time, money and efforts. Thumbs Up!
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Oops this is the first time I got featured on any blog. Well mistakes are many and sometimes even mistakes turns to some fortunate event.
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Hi Ambika,
Learning through other’s mistakes is the best way to gain more experience in life. Life is too short to commit all mistakes and get lessons from.
I liked your concept of post and its truly interesting to learn what different bloggers say about their mistakes. Love the statement of Siddhartha “if you’re not making any mistakes then you’re not going to get anywhere”!
Suresh Khanal recently posted…Twitter Cards and how they can improve traffic
people learn from there experience and we get experience by making mistake. i also made too many mistakes in my 1 yr blogging career and learn many things so when you make mistake you should learn from that to get some thing more we deserve .
mistakes are always included in a better experience .
thanks for sharing such a useful post with us.
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Wow, Newbie Blogger should read this post for not repeating those mistakes which already did Expert Bloggers.
Great Work Ambike. Well-done.
Cheers.
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Thank you every one for appreciating this write-up and also for sharing your experiences with me here. Hope all of you have a rocking weekend ahead!
Hi Ambika,
Thanks for sharing these mistakes in post, I think this will really help newbies, they can learn many things from these mistakes and if they want to become successful they have to avoid mistakes from these bloggers, I know there are many new bloggers in the list like me but still very helpful guide for newbies.
Thanks for sharing..
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Thanks, Nishant.
It has helped me immensely- I have now started building an email list, as suggested by one of our friends here. Though I have always made sure that I come up with stellar content, I have also learned to take small failures and setbacks in my stride.
Thanks a ton to all you guys!
That is the best thing about blogging community, I believe- sticking to each other and always being there to help each other. (Y)
Proud to be a part of the community.
Wishing you all the very best.
Really a nice n unique post. Great Ambika! Stumbled with your idea of making this post. Surprised n curious to read the mistakes of great bloggers. Thanks for sharing, keep writing!
Nirmala recently posted…Content creation and tips to generate web traffic
Great post Ambika, this post will surely help newbie bloggers to be perfect in what they are doing.
Thanks For sharing this,its obvious that the mistake made by Most bloggers is not dedicating enough time for there blog.
thanks for sharing such a useful article with us, also your blog look is awesome !!!
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Great post. Happy to see there are lots of new bloggers who generally are Students. Love your spirit, mam.
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Ambika Didi @ It is wonderful list and informative for newbie bloggers like me. But I have not seen a name who has also done a few wrongs in his blogging career , I am pointing about the owner of PerfectBloggersTech.com .
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This is really amazing! So many bloggers are tagged in a single post! Thank you so much!
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Haha… this one is very nice.
It definitely going to help lot of bloggers, especially newbies. It’s good to read mistakes of all these successful bloggers.
And I am glad to see my name in it.
Now this is a proof, we need to do mistakes to be a successful blogger. LOL!
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Wow great and lengthy list I too have made many mistakes in my blogging journey, As saying goes mistakes are the stepping stones of success every successful person fails at least once before he succeeds.
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Really a great idea of collecting mistakes of top bloggers it will surely help newbie blogger
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Its your perfect idea of collecting the mistakes of the best bloggers . I think i have read this post first time in my life .
Good ! Keep it up ..
Great mind you have, and the main think is that you covered maximum bloggers
I will also use this information in my own way to create a best blog
lol
I would like to share my mistake too. Its a horrible mistake which i made few months back. Changed my Blog Domain name which had PR4, I dont know why i made that stupid mistake. Now i lost my whole 1 and half year work. But i got PR2 for my new blog. What ever i learned more in this mistake.
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Hi Vincent, What you did is not completely unheard of or unusual. I did the same 2 months back to broaden the niche of my blog, since Health is a very narrow.
I did a 301 redirect, due to which all the link juice was transferred to this blog. Due to that, I was able to get a PR2 within 40 days. (My health blog was also PR1).
If your content is still lying on your old blog, you can still do a 301 redirect, I believe.
Hi Ambika, I did the 301 Redirect, thats why i got PR2 in 1 month like you.
Now my blog gets same traffic. and Now i removed my 301 Redirect and brought down the old domain name. 
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nice to hear the mistakes of other blogger. This will help blogger before starting new blogs as blogging is not easy as we thought.
Anwar, please get a gravatar. We will not b approving comments without gravatars in the near future. Most good blogs wont do so.
That’s nice to hear from the great bloggers. We can learn a lot fro these mistakes.
Nice post Ambika….
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Pl offer email subscription facility to your blog’s feed. Thanks.
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Interesting lessons that can help newbies who are venturing in the blogging world. The article is honest and some of the bloggers that I follow, personally for me it has been a good read. Being everything at every time is not possible hence we should focus our effort on quality blog posting and reap great successes.
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Really nice post mam. Well it is informative as we all know very well but more than that I like such unique title and content based posts like the one you posted.
I personally like such posts and I wish I will also write and think such unique posts which is 101% informative to us as well as readers and yes off course newbies.
Simply awesome blossom. 
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Dear Ambika, You really did a great job and gather all bloggers experiences here for guidance of people like me.
Well-done & Keep it up Dear
Thanks lot admin,i like your blog very much,its quite interesting.
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now am running forex niche website and trying to get 1000$ check monthly from adsense lets see what result will i see in future.All webmasters are struggling these days.
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Hey Ambika. That’s a well put article. Congrats and thanks.
Optimizing your content for search engines without a limit is just another Big Mistake. Right? You have to put your readers first on the priority list and should make it easier for the them to scan and read it. That’s how you win loyal readers
Thanks
Thanks for the appreciation, Rafeeq.
Of course, there is no point writing without adequate keyword analysis and optimization. And also, no point just publishing articles which no one is going to read!
Making your content search engine friendly is of utmost importance.
As is taking care of your readers’ expectations and needs.
I’m so used to posting old articles, now, i’ve learnt my lessons, this really helps.
Going to change my bloging mentality now.
hello Ambika..
what a awesome idea of teaching and giving blogging tips to your readers i.e. all in one place.I am new to blogging so i can’t say anything about if I made a mistake or not now.But I read all they mistake made by all above bloggers and think of not to doing anyone from above.You really did a great job Ambika.I think all newbie must read this post.Thanks again for such a nice information
This is really cool….Lots of things to learn from this….
Even I would Like to Share my Mistake :
” I had posted about illegal things and pirated software on my first blog: abhisoftwaretips and adsense banned displaying ads on it… so guyz never repeat this mistake…:) “
Hi Abhishek,
Nice to see you here.
I will surely add ur experience to the list up there.
Hope to see you here more often.
Ambika,
I am so glad I found your blog! I love this article. I can relate to some of the mistakes although I am trying to avoid them. Posting at least once a week is so critical. Keeping a narrow topic, or niche is important. Don’t try to cover too many topics in one blog. Getting Lazy is another killer. It happens to me every once in a while, and then the blog posts are NOT created and the blog drops in Alexa rank. Also, it is so important to pick a topic you love because blogging can certainly become a grind sometimes!!!
Thanks for sharing!
~ Jupiter Jim
Hi Jim, I am such a huge fan of yours and enjoy watching your videos. Its an honor for me to see you visiting my blog!
You are so right- ennui gets the better of most of us at times. That is the reason I always keep a few articles up my sleeve all the time to deal with situations like these.