John Chow gives us his top ten blogging mistakes:
Blogging Mistake #1 - Not Updating
Blogging Mistake #2 - Blogging Only For Money
Blogging Mistake #3 - Rushing a Post
Blogging Mistake #4 - Not Being Personal
Blogging Mistake #5 - Being a Copycat
Blogging Mistake #6 - Not Replying To Comments
Blogging Mistake #7 - Not Giving a Full Feed RSS
Blogging Mistake #8 - Not Reaching Out To Other Bloggers
Blogging Mistake #9 - Writing For Google Instead Of People
Blogging Mistake #10 – Not Reading John Chow dot Com 
It’s worth reading the points John makes on his blog: Bear in mind this is a guy that made over $3000 from his blog last month, but more to the point has a big traffic, and lots of faithful readers and commenters (of which I’m one). You may not be after making money, but I think we’d all like more readers and comment leavers?
I think I manage to avoid all of these, but some of them can be easy traps to fall into. I particularly agree with #1. I read lots of blogs, some churn out posts every day, some only a couple a week, but you know roughly what to expect. Blogs which post for a while then -nothing- tend to get deleted from my Google Reader list. The full feed RSS is also a very good one - only one of the 60+ blogs I read doesn’t offer a full feed, I would ask him why, but he never answers comments left either… Now, it is quite a successful blog, but could it be better if it took note of 6 & 7?
Do you disagree with John? Or have you fallen into some of these habits in the past?
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Interesting list — contradicts the previous post, of course, but we’ll let that one go. For the present.
I’m brewing up an anti-techno rant which I’ll get to soon — don’t want to rush it, you know — but I’ll be particularly interested in your observations when it does go up.
Contradiction is my middle name. Must have a word with my mother about that….
Sounds interesting C, and faintly ominous…