DailyBlogTips.com Project: 48 Experiences of Blogging Mistakes

Being a blog owner, I read dailyblogtips.com every day. A couple weeks ago, I found that Dan was running a project to collect stories of mistakes we bloggers have committed in the past, how we fixed them, and what we learned from them.

If you’ve been following Clever Dude for at least 2 months, you might remember when I “made it big” on Lifehacker with my wife’s Frugal Lunch post. I also made a booboo and used a picture from Flickr without attributing it to the owner. I learned a little bit about Creative Commons that day. I wrote a post about my experience (see list below) that fits perfectly with Dan’s theme, so I submitted it right away. Turns out I was one of the first submissions, so my post is near the top.

I plan on reading through each one of these articles as I don’t want to commit the same mistakes myself (if I already haven’t). I invite you to do the same:

• My Blogging Mistakes and Their Outcome by Thilak
• A Star for a day. What I learned by Clever Dude
• My Biggest Blogging Mistake: Posting Frequency by Chris
• Your Blog Will Perish for Lack of Vision by Shawn
• My Biggest Blogging Mistake is not Updating Often Enough by Julian
• DYH isn’t perfect? by Cory O’Brien
• Don’t Change the Name by Denise
• Why this Blog Looks this Way by Ben
• My Blogging Mistake: Too Many Blogs by Green Llama
• What is Wrong with my Blog. An Honest Self-Assessment by Bret
• I Almost Ruined Everything by Annie
• Common Blogging Mistakes by Vijay
• How to Not Run a Contest by Robert
• 5 Things I Regret About March by Bill
• Trying to Promote my Blog without enough Traffic by Nathan
• Always Install Wordpress on the Root Diretory by Daniel
• I should have included media contents by Madhur
• The Biggest Blogging Mistake I did was not Blogging by Francesco
• Learning from Mistakes: Opening Links in New Windows by Nirmal
• Mr. Frisky Retreats with his Tail Between his Legs by Rory
• User a Smart Permalink Structure on your Blog by Leftblank
• Internet Explorer vs. Firefox Issues by Mark Paddock
• Not Having Drafts Saved for Rainy Days by Inspirationbit
• Don’t Underestimate the Commitment by Andrew
• Get your Own Domain and Wordpress for your Blog by Andrew Flusche
• A Clear Point of View is Crucial to Increase your Blog Traffic by George
• Delete Your First Blog Post by Mark Alves
• Don’t Forget to Use Blog Carnivals by Andrea
• Why Blogs and Blogging Will Ruin your Self Discipline by Dave
• Careful on How You Tag your Posts by Shankar
• Should’ve Gone WP Yesterday! by Jimbo
• Don’t Make the Mistake of Monetizing your Blog Too Early by Maki
• Don’t Ignore the Basics of SEO by Simonne
• Spending Too Much Time Link-Begging by David Paul
• Lack of Predictability on Your Posts by Roberto
• What to Do When You don’t Have Anything to Say by Philip Liu
• Copying, Mimicking, Duplication by Paper Bull
• Starting Too Many Blogs by Mohammed
• Leaving the Amateur League of Blogging: the Hosting Lesson by Rene
• Be Careful how you Choose your Domain Name by Cavin
• The Ad King by Jason
• Move to your Own Domain Now by Gaurav
• Lack of Persistence by Blake
• Not Commenting Enough on other People’s Blogs by Somu
• Failing to Realize the Importance of Relationships with Readers by Ronald
• Don’t Handle Important Matters Lightly by Amanda
• Do not Underestimate the Important of RSS Feeds by Kevin
• Why you Should Own your Domain Name by Engtech

Thanks for the project Dan!

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