Blog publishers make a lot of mistakes when there blogging, and wonder why there not succeeding or moving ahead of the game I should say. This could be for many reasons. Anyways let me list some of the reasons, which not every single reason is a vital factor, but it sure does help. Check the list out below.

1. Not Motivated, Come on now the publisher must be very motivated. I was recently talking with John Chow which is now making 12k plus a month in profit from his blog alone, and he was talking about how persistence is the key. I would have to agree 200 percent thats whats got me where I am today, and thats whats got my family business / companies bringing in the profits they are.
2. SEO, Quite honestly I think the all blog publisher that want to be successful, or I should say the ones that are successful have someone an understanding of SEO, so in other words I think the blog publisher need to have a very good understanding of SEO, and how it works.
3. Viral Mind Set, I think a lot of publisher should be famaliar with marketing such as viral marketing and etc. Well all marketing in general if you ask me, but when your in a viral state of mind and always writing viral content then the chances of that content getting links is higher.
4. Comment Communication, This is where a lot of publishers fail, they don’t respond to there comments. You must interact with your visitors and when they ask questions answer them. Which there will be a time you get so busy that you won’t be able to answer all the questions.
5. Accept All Comments, This is another thing I see people doing some people think there too good to accept every ones comments, and thats totally pathetic and unethical. Thats what blogs are about is open communication with other people, and sharing ideas and etc. Any one that is a full time blog publisher or does it for a living will understand what I am talking about. Make sure that you even accept negative comments, negative comments can be a good thing which sometimes its hard to take in on what every one says, but hey who cares.
6. Link Baits, See what some people don’t realize or I shouldn’t say every one, but when they do something special or something that a lot of people have not achieved brag about it, this will lead to success and build your blog brand, and increase your RSS subscribers.
7. RSS Feed Directories, I’ve always suggested to people that they submit there rss feed to rss directories the reason being is because you can get a nice link pop out of it, and everything adds up. Which of course higher page rank links are always a plus plus.
8. RSS Visibility, Visibility of a feed is HIGHLY important, make sure that you feed is visible to every one else, see what my feed says at the bottom. Well believe it or not it works quite well, or you can use a bigger images like search engine journal does Loren Baker.
9. Speak Freely, Be sure to speak freely no matter what any one else says. The thing is when you speak more freely about your believes people will respect you a lot more, just make sure its nothing thats going to back fire on you if you get my drift.
10. Controversy, Some publisher believe in non controversy, well create some kind of controversy whether it being good or bad, even sometimes bad controversy can be great. I’m not going to lie I have created some major controversy towards my self which was nothing bad, but in turn out to be positive in the end, and I drew in over 20 leads like every day for a week straight from it.
11. Usability, Yes usability plays a vital roll believe it or not. Make sure your weblog is well categorized, fast loading, excellent design, easy to read, and etc. Which granted your blog don’t have to have the design of the year or anything, mainly just make sure everything is well categorized, and easy to read things to that nature not every one is all into designs some people read blogs for educational information and etc.
12. Links, Building links into your blog is good, I don’t see anything wrong with it. Build some heavy links into it quality inbound links, and therefore the blog will get shown more on the search engine. Unless your one good viral marketer then you might be able to pull it off, which I know I did :).
13. Quit Posting, I have even seen blog publisher making this mistake there weblog starts to take off, and everything is going fine, but then all suddenly they quite posting. Don’t make no sense if you ask me. then what happens eventually every one leaves, once you get them first subscribers stay on the ball from there on out. May I say Link bait Link bait.
14. Social Networking, Yes believe it or not I have talked to a lot of blog publisher that have no idea what a social network is, which I several publisher I communicate with every day on daily bases due to our contextual program, and they ask me questions like why am I not getting traffic, and etc. Then I look at there blog and to come and find out they don’t even have there social network buttons installed, or they have no clue what Digg, Reddit, and etc are, so get famaliar with social networking if you don’t know what they are, and use these to leverage your subscribers.

Which there is several things I see publisher doing wrong all the time, but hey who am I to say what there doing wrong, I”m just giving my opinion thats all, and I do this for a living and have ranked some of the most competitive keywords in numerous markets, and very famaliar with social networking and marketing, but anyways there several factors involved when building social networks up with blogs.

The thing is I’m quite surprised about is all my blog publisher that is in our database they don’t know what social networks are and etc. That one really surprised me, but hey I guess every one starts somewhere, and eventually begins to learn. Quite honestly any one can make large quantities of money on the web, but do they have the work ethic to do it, can they set down and work for 16 hours a day for a year straight with out no pay check.

if you can do that and have motivation then you’ll probably get pretty far, ask your self that and see what your response is. I mean think about it you can go to college you will have pay for education and work for someone else, or would you whether work for your self and makes 10* as much money in the future and work in the convince of your own home on your own time.

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