Comments on: The 5 Biggest Mistakes I’ve made as a Freshman Blogger

By: Laptop Repair Tech

Laptop Repair Tech — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:35:13 +0000

Never copy content from other sites. If you want to reference an interesting article, make a quote and ad your thoughts. But never copy it 100% as some people do.

By: Girish

Girish — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:32:53 +0000

These are good pointers indeed. Basically one of the important part of growing up as a blogger is retrospecting how things are at the moment, after a while of blogging. I recommend every aspiring blogger to do so.

Success comes not only through hard work, put through hard work and proper planning.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:07:50 +0000

Thanks for a thought-provoking post.

Interesting point about Digg … For a while there I was reading nothing but positive blog posts how powerful Digg and the other social bookmarking sites could be for your blog.

But then I read a horror story by one blogger who ended up on the first page and got so much traffic it ate up all her bandwidth.

And now I’ve read about your experience. So, it seems social bookmarking isn’t that great after all …

I’m very new to blog marketing but I think that the last point is the most useful. That is, just keep building contacts in your niche.

That, and posting often and well, of course!

By: Don’t worry too much if your posting frequency drops

Don’t worry too much if your posting frequency drops — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:53:19 +0000

[...] Stark recently wrote about this in his post ‘The 5 Biggest Mistakes I’ve made as a Freshman Blogger‘. He said When I first started blogging, I was really gung-ho and was posting at least one [...]

By: Stark

Stark — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:28:44 +0000

Also, I have already 301 redirected the RSS feed from Fuzzy Future to this feed, so hopefully everyone that’s subscribed won’t have to do anything to keep getting our updates…

By: Stark

Stark — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:25:42 +0000

I have actually transferred all the posts and comments from Fuzzy Future to here already. I’m actually trying to figure out how to resend all my trackbacks and pings. Once my current contracts run down at Text Link Ads, I plan to 301 redirect all the old posts from Fuzzy to here so that I can at least keep the page ranks and incoming links…

Eventually I’m going to turn Fuzzy into more of a formal business information page, with the hopes that it will make me look at bit more legitimate and help us get better affiliate and advertising opportunities…

By: Laptop Repair Tech

Laptop Repair Tech — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:39:16 +0000

I was really gung-ho and was posting at least one post a day, sometimes two or three. After the first few months though, I started to find it really difficult to keep up that pace.

Yep, been there. People, do not become a slave of your own website. Enjoy it. If you can post only one good article a week then post only one article a week. Your readers prefer quality, not quantity.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:14:57 +0000

Good to see your still blogging Chris. I had noticed fuzzyfuture’s posts slowing down and I thought you were moving away from blogging…clearly this was keeping you busy

Are you going to transfer/migrate the posts to this blog from fuzzyfuture?

Best of luck with bookmarkbliss (I’ve subscribed!)

By: Kelly Sutton

Kelly Sutton — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:48:47 +0000

As a regular reader of FuzzyFuture (and now Bookmark Bliss), I agree with your very honest reflections. The only problem is, I have to figure out how to stop making these same mistakes myself .

I love the new site and am looking forward to continuing to read your stuff.

By: Stark

Stark — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:04:39 +0000

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I completely agree with the “quality” over “quantity” consideration. I think a lot of people look at sites like problogger, techcrunch, and johnchow and think that if they aren’t posting 3-5 posts a day, they aren’t doing enough.

Little do they realize that most of the time those sites have teams of people working including multiple bloggers (problogger, techcrunch) or they post a ton of filler (johnchow with his food and car posts).

To be honest, most of the blogs I keep up with and visit frequently post on a very infrequent basis, but when they do post it is always quality…