Blog Project: Blogging Mistakes

It is time for another blog project! On the first one we collected 30 traffic generation tips from 30 different bloggers, and the result was a pretty useful list. The new topic will be something different but equally interesting: blogging mistakes.

John Powell once said: “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing”. That is the spirit of this blog project. I am pretty sure every blogger committed at least one mistake, whether it was related to the site design, to the domain name, to promotion techniques or search engine optimization. The important thing is to learn from them, and on this project we will hopefully learn not only from our mistakes but also from the ones other people committed so that we avoid those pitfalls.

Here are the rules to participate:

Write a post on your blog about one blogging mistake that you did on the past. Describe how the mistake affected your blog and how you managed to correct it. There are no limitations on the number of words so feel free to write a short or long post.
Send an email through the Contact form with your name, post title and permalink of the post.
After I publish the final list of entries you write a post on your blog linking to all of them.

The objective of this project is to collect some blogging tips, to allow people to discover and interact with new bloggers and to share the link love. As I mentioned on the first edition I always liked group writing projects, but one thing that I did not like was the fact that some selfish participants would receive backlinks and not link to other people.

That is why I inserted rule number 3, so that every participant agrees to link to every other participant. The mathematics behind it is pretty simple, if 50 people participate on the project you will write a post linking to 49 people and in exchange you will receive 49 backlinks.

Entries can be submitted until the midnight of next Sunday (April 1st) and the final list of entries will be published on the following Monday. I will also publish my entry later this week… man did I mess up the first time I installed Wordpress.

Anyway I am looking forward for your blogging mistakes!

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Daniel Scocco on March 26, 2007 | Filed Under Blog Projects

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84 Responses to “Blog Project: Blogging Mistakes”

Leftblank on March 26th, 2007 4:26 am

A nice move I must say; an easy way to get backlinks for both you and the people who join (thanks to your third line). I’ll be glad to post about it, but I’m a little busy this week, I’m not sure if I’ll make it before the deadline.
Daniel on March 26th, 2007 4:31 am

Yeah Leftblank. Not only backlinks though, the list of traffic generation tips the last project created received a lot of attention.

The last time people emailed me the entries and I published them, so I received most of the traffic also. This time people will need to visit the blogs of the participants so they everyone will receive a share of the traffic also.
Madhur Kapoor on March 26th, 2007 7:24 am

I like such group writing projects , i will definately participate .
Leroy Brown on March 26th, 2007 7:46 am

Very good call on rule #3 - it helps get people in the free-linking spirit. I’m in for the contest, and I already know what the topic will be. Time to get to work.
Thilak on March 26th, 2007 10:36 am

I’ll participate early tomorrow.
Daniel on March 26th, 2007 10:57 am

Thanks everyone for participating, the first entry is already in, I am sure we will learn a lot from those mistakes!
engtech on March 26th, 2007 11:18 am

Great twist. I’m already thinking about which specific mistakes I should write about.
Cory OBrien on March 26th, 2007 1:20 pm

I loved the last project, so I’ll definitely be writing a post for this one as well. Can’t wait to hear what everyone is doing wrong!
Mark on March 26th, 2007 2:25 pm

Hi Daniel
Great idea, not only for useful content and lessons learned but also great traffic builder for you and your participants.
Hope to meet the deadline.
Daniel on March 26th, 2007 2:46 pm

engtech, people loved your entry on the first project, If I were to hand out a prize you would definitely be getting it.

Cory and Mark, I am also eager to see what other people are doing wrong actually the first entry has a pretty interesting mistake that even myself might be doing…
Jack on March 26th, 2007 9:21 pm

I’m in. I’ve learned a lot from this blog, and others about mistakes I have made, so, this is going to be interesting…
Ben Evert on March 27th, 2007 3:33 am

I’m in. Can’t wait to read what others have done. I bet most have us have done the same mistakes in our blogging career.
Daniel on March 27th, 2007 4:09 am

Ben, so far the mistakes the people submitted are very different
Scott Townsend on March 27th, 2007 5:28 am

I enjoy reading your blog. One of the things I appreciate is the brevity. This morning I am conducting a test, to see how long it actually takes me to read all the blogs I subscribe to. So far, I’m at 35 minutes and still have a ways to go. People who can say the most with the least amount of words are the blogs that work for me in this time-crunched world we live in.
Shankar Ganesh on March 28th, 2007 6:38 am

I’ll be joining you all soon…
George on March 29th, 2007 6:44 am

My entry can be found here.

I look forward to reading the rest of the entries.

Thanks for the great group project,
George
Nirmal on March 29th, 2007 10:49 pm

I have already participated in the contest.
Check the mistake i did-http://www.nirmaltv.com/2007/03/29/learning-from-mistakes/
Shankar Ganesh on March 29th, 2007 11:59 pm

[...]I realized my mistake and then started giving appropriate and relevant tags for my posts. This resulted in a clean blog with a clean look…..This post is a part of a Group Project run by Daily Blog Tips.[...]
Shankar Ganesh: Blogging mistake I did: Messed up with tags on March 30th, 2007 7:53 am

This is the right URL, sorry for mentioning the wrong address in the previous comment.
Nirmal-Learning from Mistakes on March 30th, 2007 9:33 am

Here is the correct url of the story
Daniel on March 30th, 2007 3:20 pm

Thanks for all the participants, we already have more entries than on the last project so I am pretty glad, there will be plenty of links and mistakes to learn from for everyone!
calvin on March 31st, 2007 6:36 am

Hi Daniel,

I made a post on this topic, but somehow the trackback didn’t appear here at your blog. please check it here http://blog.mscholars.com/blog.....main-name/
Somu on April 1st, 2007 10:33 am

Hi y’all. Just now found about this group writing. I will be soon writing my entry.

ciao!
engtech on April 1st, 2007 3:48 pm

Daniel — I am participating in this.

I’m going to assume you mean midnight EST for the deadline so I have another 4 hours to write it.
Daniel on April 2nd, 2007 4:16 am

engtech, I received your entry, and yes it was on time
Deepak jeswal on April 17th, 2007 10:02 pm

Oh hell, I came in very late and already missed the deadline!

Will participate next time round.

Regards
Deepak Jeswal
http://www.deepakjeswal.com
Borin on May 16th, 2007 4:50 pm

I just realize i am late after reading Deepak Jeswal comments.. I’ll participate in the future too.
games maniac on June 6th, 2007 3:41 am

Hi,

My biggest mistake is to start 100’s sites… You can earn owned only few sites !
Paul on March 19th, 2008 5:45 pm

Looks like I was a year late but I started a whole website devoted to my blogging mistakes.

http://www.imakenomoney.com

Let me know what you think.