To-Don’t List: 11 Blogging Habits To Stop Now

Posted: August 21, 2013

[caption id="attachment_11512" align="alignright" width="250"]© kikkerdirk - Fotolia.com[/caption]This post will not tell you what to do to be successful as a blogger. It will tell you how to lose your bad blogging habits to make sure your blog survives. Start your "to-don't" list today.

Marko Saric shares his To-Don't List: 11 Blogging Habits To Stop Now.

You are reading this because you want to start your own blog or because you want to make your existing blog more successful. One way to become a better blogger is to look at reasons why other people don’t do well in blogging and why many blogs fail.

In other words you can learn from the negative. You can study failure. Avoiding the worst and most common blogging mistakes should automatically give you a better chance of succeeding. Review errors you and others before you have done, and turn them into clear instructions on how to do things right. This makes you more likely to avoid these same mistakes.

So let’s learn what not to do as a blogger, the common habits that you should strive to eliminate to become a better blogger.

Stop working too hard

Don’t work hard, work smart. You are busy so you might just as well optimise the time you have to get the best out of your efforts. If you align your tasks with your goals you will magically become more productive and you won’t need to complain about not having enough time any more.

Don’t be a victim of analysis paralysis

Many newbies can become victims of analysis paralysis. It is easy to keep planning, keep researching and endlessly refining your ideas. Most of this can be quite unhelpful, as it not only wastes valuable time but most plans often have to change when they enter the real world.

Stop working without a deadline

If you don’t have a deadline your tasks may end up expanding so as to fill the time available for its completion. This may prolong the whole process and waste unnecessary time. Make sure to set a time limit for your tasks. This makes you focused and you can do tasks much quicker than when working without a deadline.

Read the entire article To-Don’t List: 11 Blogging Habits To Stop Now, at HowToMakeMyBlog.com.