Another List of Blogging Mistakes

In no particular order here are a list of blogging mistakes I’ve made (and wished I didn’t) or have watched friends make (and secretly laughed at them wished they didn’t).

Use a “dot com” domain without hyphens, funky misspellings, or other associated nonsense. Keyword domains are great, and exact matches do help, but non misspellable made up, or seldom used words work just fine too.

Limit the the blog to 6 or 8 real subject categories. Okay 10 if you like but that’s it. You can go to eleven if you need a miscellaneous one but that’s it, I mean it really.

Try to imagine if you are ever going to take client jobs and if you do blog from your company domain. It’s saves some explaining and weird glances down the line.

Women, don’t even try and understand them, it’s just not possible, all the software in the world, can’t override the male hardware, and make it work. The best you can hope for is knowing when to do or say absolutely nothing.

Choose a unique and non common nickname and stick with it. It’s really annoying to have to wonder if those embarrassing pictures finally managed to get on the web, or if someone really is looking for