New blogger always choose blogspot or wordpress to start their blog and I think that this is one of the mistakes done by them. The following point will explain the mistakes done by most newbie.

1. Using free domain name

If you cannot afford to buy your own domain name, actually you can try to use co.cc free domain.

2.  Choosing a nonsense domain name

I have several friends who have a personal blog on blogspot. They got a long and nonsense name and sometimes got numbers too. That’s not including the word blogspot.com or wordpress.com as a domain name. For blog like this, I always put them in bookmark. Not because I want to follow the blog, but the main reason is I’m not sure whether I will be able to memorize the blog address or not.

3. Using abbreviations (abbr.) and slang

Using slang is fine if u create a blog only for your region readers. But if you want to make it for Malaysian readers, you should avoid using too much slang in your articles. Besides that, there is some bloggers that use short form in his articles. Most of the articles are not different than SMS. For me, they have a quality information and content in their articles, but SMS writing style make me feel unmotivated to continue reading their articles.

4. Too lazy to blog hopping

You should go to other blog because there are a lot of benefits. Not necessarily for them to visit your blog, but may be their readers will visit your page due to the link that you left there. If you did leave it there.

For me, blog hopping is something that distinguishes between a blog that has many comments or not. But it is okay if you’re a talented writer like Aisyah Rozi. Just imagine, when the number of her posts not exceeds five, number of comments received by her has been dozens.

And the most important thing a blogger should know is to never give up. Sometimes, a blogger use the number of comments to measure his success. For me, it’s not really important because there are a lot of blogs that only receive several comments per post but still have huge traffics. I always keep in mind that contents is king.

The main factor to get a high ranking in SERP and a good number of visitors is fresh contents. The more you can post new contents a week, the more Google loves your blog.

However, it is tiresome to update your blog seven day a week by yourself. Besides that, the motive to make a lot of posts in a limited time could result to poor quality post.

That’s why it is a good idea to make your own blogging team. Make a blog and find 5 blogger to manage it. Assign each member to post at least 2 post a week. Having frequently updated blog, I am sure Google and other search engine would visit your blog frequently.

Blog promotion and advertising

Another benefit of having your own blogging teams is in blog advertisement. If you could get 30 people by advertising yourself, figure out how much new visitors your blog will receive if you have 5 people doing the promotion. This will boost your blog Alexa’s rank in a short time.

Easier link building

Sometimes it is a hard task to find webmasters to exchange link. However, if each of your members have their own blog, then you can put the link of the main blog in each members’ blog in order to pass link juice to the main blog.