Blogging Mistakes: Two You Can Fix Now
There are several blogging mistakes that one can make in the first few months (and I will address them in future posts because trust me, I have made most of them) but I am always surprised at how many bloggers continue to make two of the obvious mistakes that are the easiest to fix.
What new bloggers don’t seem to realize is that your entire blog is a reflection of you and your credibility. If you have spelling or grammatical errors, broken links, too many ads, these all say something about who you are and we as users are much less likely to stick around and see what you have to say. Also, we will most likely not buy from you. If you can’t take the time to use spell check or install a free word press plug-in to fix your broken links, how good do we think your product is going to be?
- Posts authored by, “admin”
This really should be fixed. We need to know who you are. If you don’t know who you are, why should we care? Admin?! Stop it. Now. This is easy to fix.
If you are using WordPress, you can go to your dashboard, USERS (it’s under Plugins), click on the little icon and add your name and nickname. There will be a drop down menu for you to choose which name you want to show as author of your posts. And even better?! Add a few other names and get some guest posts!
- Posts categorized as, “uncategorized”
Please don’t do this. Again, if you don’t know where on your blog your post is supposed to be, or what the topic or category is, why should we care? I am not trying to be harsh. Some of my favorite bloggers make this mistake and I am happy to (gently) point it out.
Sort of like having spinach in your teeth.
For this one, head back to the WordPress dashboard, open up POSTS, and there will be a drop down with, “categories”. If you have a multi focused blog, by all means – create some categories (and go back and categorize all your old posts!). If you have a niche blog, just change “uncategorized” to one word that makes sense. (like dogs, or cats, or photos) and all of your posts will be automatically assigned to that category.
Done. Fixed! No more spinach in your (blog) teeth.
Got it, sprocket?
