Blogging Mistakes

Every one of us makes mistakes at some point; blogging, starting businesses, etc. Being real with those mistakes is something that a lot of people can’t do though.

Back a couple months ago, I stated that in order to be a great entrepreneur you need to know both your strengths and your weaknesses. Unfortunately, a good precursor to learning your weaknesses is establishing your mistakes.

Learning from your mistakes is often the single best education tool you can ever go through. Why else would I try to start all these different initiatives? It is me trying to learn.

All of the different websites and businesses and ideas all lead to one very common goal which I have set personally; to learn everything that I can about starting a business. What works AND what doesn’t.

My good friend Dan, from DailyBlogTips.com just finished up his last group project. The project: Blogging Mistakes. Here is a complete list of all the entrants. Have fun sifting through them! There is a ton of fantastic information in there..

• My Blogging Mistakes and Their Outcome by Thilak
• A Star for a day. What I learned by Clever Dude
• My Biggest Blogging Mistake: Posting Frequency by Chris
• Your Blog Will Perish for Lack of Vision by Shawn
• My Biggest Blogging Mistake is not Updating Often Enough by Julian
• DYH isn’t perfect? by Cory O’Brien
• Don’t Change the Name by Denise
• Why this Blog Looks this Way by Ben
• My Blogging Mistake: Too Many Blogs by Green Llama
• What is Wrong with my Blog. An Honest Self-Assessment by Bret
• I Almost Ruined Everything by Annie
• Common Blogging Mistakes by Vijay
• How to Not Run a Contest by Robert
• 5 Things I Regret About March by Bill
• Trying to Promote my Blog without enough Traffic by Nathan
• Always Install Wordpress on the Root Diretory by Daniel
• I should have included media contents by Madhur
• The Biggest Blogging Mistake I did was not Blogging by Francesco
• Learning from Mistakes: Opening Links in New Windows by Nirmal
• Mr. Frisky Retreats with his Tail Between his Legs by Rory
• User a Smart Permalink Structure on your Blog by Leftblank
• Internet Explorer vs. Firefox Issues by Mark Paddock
• Not Having Drafts Saved for Rainy Days by Inspirationbit
• Don’t Underestimate the Commitment by Andrew
• Get your Own Domain and Wordpress for your Blog by Andrew Flusche
• A Clear Point of View is Crucial to Increase your Blog Traffic by George
• Delete Your First Blog Post by Mark Alves
• Don’t Forget to Use Blog Carnivals by Andrea
• Why Blogs and Blogging Will Ruin your Self Discipline by Dave
• Careful on How You Tag your Posts by Shankar
• Should’ve Gone WP Yesterday! by Jimbo
• Don’t Make the Mistake of Monetizing your Blog Too Early by Maki
• Don’t Ignore the Basics of SEO by Simonne
• Spending Too Much Time Link-Begging by David Paul
• Lack of Predictability on Your Posts by Roberto
• What to Do When You don’t Have Anything to Say by Philip Liu
• Copying, Mimicking, Duplication by Paper Bull
• Starting Too Many Blogs by Mohammed
• Leaving the Amateur League of Blogging: the Hosting Lesson by Rene
• Be Careful how you Choose your Domain Name by Calvin
• The Ad King by Jason
• Move to your Own Domain Now by Gaurav
• Lack of Persistence by Blake
• Not Commenting Enough on other People’s Blogs by Somu
• Failing to Realize the Importance of Relationships with Readers by Ronald
• Don’t Handle Important Matters Lightly by Amanda
• Do not Underestimate the Important of RSS Feeds by Kevin
• Why you Should Own your Domain Name by Engtech