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.