I’ve got murder on my mind. Are you responsible for any of these?

1. Do not have an ‘about me’ page on your blog
2. Your ‘about me’ page takes more than a few seconds to find
3. Your ‘about me’ page starts with these words – ‘this is an example of an about me page…’
4. The number of followers you have is more important to you than what you write
5. Poor quality posts
6. Have broken links on your blog which you have no idea are broken or can not be bothered to fix
7. Do not respond to comments
8. Do not respond to questions
9. Ignore your readers
10. Do not treat visitors to your blog as guests
11. Have no name to be called by
12. Do not read other blogs
13. Do not comment on other blogs
14. Believe that blogging is going to make you rich
15. Leave links with no relevance (usually to your own posts) on the posts of other bloggers
16. Do not promote your blog
17. Refuse to use social media
18. Refuse to keep up to date with blogging technology
19. Think readers will find you rather than you find your readers
20. You publish posts that contain too many ‘block’ paragraphs
21. No ‘contact me’ page/details
22. Do not thank people for sharing your posts
23. Do not use images and/or photos in any posts
24. Use images, photos and words (including lyrics) on your blog which are copyrighted and not free to use
25. Do not ask for permission to use photos and/or images owned by other bloggers, before using them
26. Ignore all copyright advice
27. Respond to constructive negative comments in an unprofessional and unfriendly manner
28. Keep begging other bloggers to reblog a post, visit, or follow your blog
29. Leave worthless comments on other blogs
30. Leave worthless comments on other blogs which clearly show you’ve not read the post
31. Do not edit posts before publishing them
32. Do not preview your posts before publishing them
33. Inundate followers with too many posts in a short space of time instead of scheduling them out
34. Respond to comments left by trolls in the comments section of your blog where all can read them
35. Allow trolls to leave comments on your blog
36. Allow spam comments onto posts
37. Attack other bloggers in the comments section on your own or other blogs
38. Steal the ideas of other bloggers and publish them on your blog as if content is original and has been written by you
39. Fail to maintain and house-keep your blog on a regular basis
40. Keep reblogging your own posts which are less than a few months old
41. Do not have a ‘landing’ page that will keep visitors coming back
42. Ignore advice and feedback from other bloggers
43. Believe that blogging will only take up a few minutes of your time every week
44. Wake up and dread opening up your blog because of all the comments you will need to reply to
45. Keep telling your readers that you are giving blogging up, and keep coming back
46. Allow blogging to stress you out
47. Allow blogging to make you feel guilty
48. Your blog and/or blog posts are poorly laid out
49. Have a widget on your blog that says ‘This is an example of a widget…’
50. Choose a font and background combination that makes it hard for visitors to read your posts
51. Fail to categorise all your blog posts (including reblogs)
52. Fail to add ‘tags’ to your blog posts
53. Fail to understand what a ‘pingback’ is and how to use one
54. Your blog has no ‘search’ bar
55. Fail to add your blog details to your gravatar
56. Have pop-up boxes on your blog that can not be removed unless somebody subscribes to your mailing list
57. Have pop-up boxes on your blog which keeps popping up every time someone visits or until they have subscribed to your mailing list
58. Keep suffering from blog envy when you read a post that you’d wish you’d written
59. Regularly publish posts that tell your readers to buy your book(s) rather than allow them to decide if they want to buy them
60. You believe that blogging is all about the quantity of blog posts you can publish on a daily basis rather than what you are writing about
61. You think you have the superpower to read and comment on every single new blog post on all the blogs you follow
62. Fail to update your blog when away for an extended period of time (more than one month)
63. Lose motivation and a desire to carry on blogging when your blog stats take a nosedive
64. Believe that everyone will enjoy reading every post you write and publish
65. Think that all your followers will read and comment on all your posts
66. Get upset when your blog loses followers
67. Follow other blogs in the hope that they will follow back, before unfollowing them again
68. Believe all your readers will agree with everything you say
69. Think nobody will dare to disagree with what you have to say by leaving you a constructive comment telling you why they disagree
70. Criticise other bloggers behind their backs (in the comments section of your own blog or on other blogs) for wanting to help other bloggers
71. Fail to take some time away from blogging (knowing that you need to) because you believe the blogging world can not survive without you

Some of the above will kill your blog far quicker than others will. Others may slowly kill your blog when combined.

What about you? Can you add anything to the list?

 

If you have any blogging tips posts that you have written and published on your blog, please feel free to leave a link to them in the comments section.

Meanwhile, you can find the answers to solving many of the above issues by clicking on ‘blogging tips’ in the menu bar at the top of my blog, or by visiting my ‘blogging tips’ page on Flipboard. Click here for access.

You can also find advice on blogging by following and reading blogs such as Mostly Blogging, which is hosted by Janice Wald, or by visiting the blogging and social media tips section of other blogs such as Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog.

Whatever you do, keep Blogging Fun!

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