1. Visitors can't find an 'About Me' (or About Us) page or information.
2. You place too many ads all over your blog.
3. You have too many blinking text or distracting animation in your blog.
4. Your long blog entry of 400 to 500 words is lumped into one chunk of a paragraph.
5. You're not encouraging people to comment in your blog. (Say "Add a smart comment!" or "See what others said.' or something to that effect.)
6. Your blog starts playing an announcement or mp3 without visitors' approval (this isn't helpful for those who have multiple tags opened at once that may mean 10 audios playing automatically at the same time).
7. Your blog uses too many pop-under pages or ads upon visitors' exit.
8. You did not set up your blog's autoresponder correctly. For example your blog uses an autoresponder to sends emails without a "contact address", unsubscription instructions and also without your own email address that subscribers can contact you directly.
9. Your blog is not open for comment to bloggers outside blogger.com or blogspot.com
10. You have a blog that forces people to register before they can post a comment.
11. If you're not using any anti-spam plugins or add-ons for your blog, you have too many unwanted spammy comments which you do not care to delete.
12. You do not respond to comments made in your blog (or read them).
13. You blog once in 6 weeks or lesser.
14. You do not offer rs feeds or if you do, you do not provide information what they are and how they can be used. not everyone who visits a blog knows what RSS is.
15. You blog in flowery language that only a geek or a pharmacist understands.
16. Your blog is a language other than English, without option for translation.
17. You use ultra-small font types in your blog that's hardly readable to most.
18. You have lotsa mispelled words you don't care to corrrect. For example, you mix up "It's" and "Its", "You're" and "your".
19. Your blog's opt-in form (other than a blog subscription form) without informing how people's email addresses are to be used (eg. are they only to be for announcements or also for statistical purposes?)
20. There's too many polls or quizzes in the sidebar of your blog.
21. You outsource all blog posts! What happened to your natural personal voice? Are your blog entries really your OWn opinions and thoughts?
22. Use ambigious (or useless) blog titles like Just Had breakfast! (You might as well use Twitter.com to tweet that.)
23. When using images and content from other sources, you don't care to give the content-owners or bloggers credit.
24. You use a blog template that looks like a thousand other free blogs around the net.
25. Well, actually I've left #25 for you to "fill in"! Sorry!
Can you think of more blogging mistakes bloggers make? Talk back and share your experiences! Would love to hear what you think!
