Comments on: 5 Soul Crushing Mistakes That Beginner Bloggers Make

By: ankush

ankush — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:42:50 +0000

GREAT ADVICE. THANKS

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:03:07 +0000

Thanks for this informative post and also for the advice. This absolutely makes sense.

By: Rich Girl

Rich Girl — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:31:23 +0000

Great points But I think that Ads are not harmful at any stage of your blog. Why do you think it is ok to put Ads when you have good traffic and not ok when you don’t? People who are visiting your blog don’t know what traffic your site is generating, so I think it is not about the traffic, it’s about deciding to place ads or not place ads at all on your blog.

By: fitness and weight loss blog

fitness and weight loss blog — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 17:11:03 +0000

Bemore here

After reading this I can say that I will be removing my ads. I can see where your coming from.

I just launched a fitness and weight loss blog in November and I’m getting sucky traffic right now and I know its only the beginning.

I focus on SEO and getting certain posts to the top of google so that I can get organic traffic.

Thanks for the informative posts. I have 4 of the 5 covered. Time to lose the ads

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 14:34:22 +0000

You offer some good advice here for beginners. However, I would like a small bit of clarification.

Did you pick the 10,000 visits per month arbitrarily – or is there a solid basis for it? I understand the concept and thinking behind not plastering ads around right away – but the point at which advertising should/could be implemented would have to depend on niche and niche size. It would also have to depend on audience engagement. If the audience truly believes 100% in what you are doing and you can count on a decent percentage of them benefiting from your advertising, then it is worth it to add it regardless of traffic statistics.

Thanks again for a good post and thinking material!

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:34:47 +0000

Thanks. I just launched my first blog today and was searching around for tips on blog promotion. Luckily, I came across this post. I had already made one the mistakes listed here, but thankfully, the blog has only been up less than 20 minutes and I had a chance to rectify it.

By: Ferzam of Davao city

Ferzam of Davao city — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:31:24 +0000

your tips on neophyte bloggers is relevant. very relevant. thanks a lot.

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:32:11 +0000

Some great tips for a brand newby, thanks!

By: srikanth

srikanth — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:37:22 +0000

I agree with the above points but there are people who make money with free domains like blogger and typepad. a custom domain would please the the visitors but i dont really thing blogging in free domains is bad.

By: Craig Wilson

Craig Wilson — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:24:59 +0000

I pretty much agree with everything you say.

Content is king! I read plenty of vanilla looking blogs with killer content.

Once you get to 10,000 page impressions a month don’t necessarily jump on the Adsense band wagon either – look around for the best advertising solution that will fit your design and also your niche!

Last point, if you have been thinking about it for 6 months and still have not put anything into action then I wouldn’t bother! Move on to the next idea…