failures/mistake you've made w/your blog

[melvin]

well i guess talking about failures in life is a very broad so lets settle for failures you've made in your blog/s... i made a blog post about it but i think its more interesting to know yours.. Mine includes:

1. Selling my blog in DP
2. Putting widgetbucks into it...
3. installing some form of pop-up advertising on it...

how bout yours?

[Nathan]

Starting on a subdomain rather than my own domain.
Putting too many widgets on the site at the start.
Not using a customized template sooner than I did.

[joewatt]

Originally Posted by melvin

well i guess talking about failures in life is a very broad so lets settle for failures you've made in your blog/s... i made a blog post about it but i think its more interesting to know yours.. Mine includes:

1. Selling my blog in DP
2. Putting widgetbucks into it...
3. installing some form of pop-up advertising on it...

how bout yours?

Buying a design i didn't know how to use
Promoting things before they're finished
not taking the web design courses earlier

[Mkcoy]

I don't really have none yet other than I wish I would have started blogging many many years ago or at least not stopped blogging for so long after I had just started. I hope to have many blogging mistakes lol Hope for successes too

[melvin]

@joewatt, wow i think those are terrible mistakes..

[HandyAndy888]

Is "not starting earlier" classified as a mistake???

[Mkcoy]

Originally Posted by HandyAndy888

Is "not starting earlier" classified as a mistake???

Yes when you consider how well a blog could be doing if you had carried on with it and not stopped blogging for about a year because you know it would have probably made you some money. I would consider that a mistake.

[story starters]

Spreading myself too thin. I have too many blogs to keep updated. One is about all I can handle consistantly.

[QuirkyJessi]

In the earliest days, I hotlinked some photos instead of uploading them myself. I didn't know it was eating up someone's bandwidth! Fortunately, I had a really nice site owner mention it to me and I've uploaded them myself ever since. (I always gave credit, but sometimes they were just Flickr images or they weren't on someone's personal site, so I didn't think much of it).

Of course, my lesson was especially learned that day when I went back to make sure I had all my other photos uploaded myself....only to find that there was another one that I hadn't, and oops, that site owner wasn't so nice. Fortunately, I didn't have many visitors to the site at the time and I doubt anyone saw the horrendous p*rn images that popped up in that post instead, haha.

[melvin]

i don;t think not starting earlier is a mistake.. I mean everyone can still do it these days right? with maybe proper mindset and understanding of stuffs...