5 Bad-Blogging Habits That Makes Your Website Unpopular. (Number 3 And 4 Will Surprise You).

Did you know that machines too are smart and they think?

They are not just robots or auto-programmed gadgets, but they are intelligent machines at the same time in this digital technology age.

Infact they are so smart that nowadays you can't beat their technical intelligence i.e, the artificial Intelligence when it comes to differentiating what is intended to be right, and what is actually the right thing to do? And so Google too due to its algorithms - and as the search engine platform - is very smart to know the intention of your content(s), i.e if it's meant for the search engines or for your users.

In the advent of quality algorithms that are meant to ensure greater (UX) user-experience, Google came up with content monitoring techniques through algorithm updates like Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird etc and these technologies are being updated and released every now and then, every year to ensure that your site visitors get the best.

Just to do quality-control for every website launched and produces content including yours. So it uses those software updates to check what you create and that's what will determine if either the blog posts or contents that you publish deserve to appear on Google SERPs or not.

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Unpopular Blogging Habits that Makes Your Blog Appear Nowhere on SERPs.

If you don't know or if you have been doing things (mistakes/habits) the wrong way on your website, then this is an opportunity for you to improve and redeem the image of your website. Not necessarily for the SERPs but ultimately for your site visitors.

I believe that every webmaster always works harder and dreams of achieving a top spot on the search engine results pages (among the top 10 pages or URLs of any search engine results pages). And that should be your driving factor.

So Google being the top search engine, many website owners strive to meet its standards and to make their web and/or online presence be felt. But this can never be a reality if you still do let a number of blogging habits-turn-mistakes here and there within your website, that you must eliminate so that you improve the health of your blog.

Good thing is that you can easily change all of them if you try and work hard at them.

Find out which ones are your diehard disapproved blogging habits among the following 5, and work on them by changing to improve.

Bad-Blogging Habit #1: Keyword Stuffing of Blog Posts.

Keyword stuffing is a technique that is used to flood a blog post by strategically placing of keywords allover it especially on the post titles, alt text, meta tags, subheadings etc, with the hope that whenever that post is crawled by search engine bots then it will boost that post and give it high chances of featuring among the top 10 titles on the SERPs based on the search intent.

NB: It is an old on-page post ranking technique (its an outdated method or strategy) that most publishers used to do including myself (I used to do, not anymore) but search engines today are too smart for such techniques especially Google which is the top ranking search engine on the web.

With such bad habit tactics be informed that Google will definitely snub your blog or website if you do keyword stuffing with the hope that it will rank higher.

That should not be the case lately. Infact it will make your blog appear nowhere on the search pages.

Nowadays Google expects you to publish contents that adds value to your audience, because readers are looking for solutions to their problems and that's why they are reading your posts. Not posts that are meant to trick search engines for it to help rank your posts on the top 10 of the SERPs. So create contents that meets your readers needs.

But despite that, note that keywords are still very much important because it is one of the factors that makes a post to be crawled and indexed, and it is what leads visitors to your posts or website because of their search intents.

• Read also: How To Do Keyword Research: 4 Steps Guide.

Bad-Blogging Habit #2: You Don't Work Smart at Your Site.

Don't just work hard for your site, but try to work smart for it. Put more efforts on your site or let the site management tools work for you.

Do both the onpage and offpage SEO, ensure the website has a simple site navigation, check if its loading speed is good etc. Success of a blog or website lies on the hard but smart kind of work that you put on it. It doesn't matter how long it will take you to succeed, but try your best.

You can check the performance of your site through tools like SEMrush which will help you also to understand the backlinks and many other site audit information for your site. And with the SEMrush pricing I believe you will find the right match for your overall site's SEO.

You don't just create your site, publish a few posts and sit pretty relaxed that all is now going to be well with it. No, you are wrong.

That's a mistake that you need not to be doing at all. Work hard at it, come up with proper blog marketing campaign plans to create its awareness out there, especially targeting the social media platforms e.g Twitter. Facebook, LinkedIn etc. But at the end of the day success needs smart but hard work.

• Read also: 7 Affiliate Marketing Strategies for Your Small (Online) Home Based Business.

Bad-Blogging Habit #3: Writer's Block or Paralysis.

Yes, writer's paralysis as the name suggests I would say is kind of a bad habit. But don't be suprised, because it happens that the more it delays you, the more it hurts the success of your site because you end up with nothing to post/share regularly.

As a writer or blogger, have you ever experienced low moments in your writing journey, a feeling that makes you loose interest in writing for quite sometime? You feel totally not in a mood to write?

That's what is called writer's block or blogger's paralysis if you had no idea about that.

Its a serious problem with many of us publishers, bloggers and/or writers, not because you won't be able to write and publish ever again, but because you are not in your best moods as a content creator or writer for quite sometime. Its more or less like laziness (thats why I say it is a habit), but that does not really mean you are lazy, no. Thats not the case.

But to me I believe its a habit, because if you have a list of blog posts that you are working on then you should not lack ideas to write on. You have no reason to be affected by writer's paralysis.

The problem is that if it affects you for so long then it will make your performance in writing and publishing consistently be very poor, and the more you publish content irregularly due to writer's paralysis then it means you won't have fresh contents to publish and Google won't recognize your blog that much.

When your blog or website is crawled and no fresh content available on a consistent basis then it will be ranked lower, or it will appear nowhere on the SERPs. It won't be popular.

• Tips: So, to overcome it (writer's block) come up with a list of between 5-15 assorted blog topics within your niche to write about from your keyword research, to reduce the chances of boredom and improve your consistency in writing. And from that you won't lack something to write home about.

Remember; if you don't publish frequently, your blog gets unnoticed very fast and in the long run it becomes unpopular.

• Read also: 6 Best keyword Research Tools.

Bad-Blogging Habit #4: Irregular Publishing or Posting.

This does not mean you experience writers paralysis, because you can be having a number of posts that you are working on and is scheduled to be finished within a period of time, whether its within the next 3days, 1week, 1month etc. But thats not the problem, the problem or habit might be that you are not regularly publishing fresh blog posts as you should. Maybe because of your timing to post.

Now, how many posts should you publish to fit the threshold of a regular publishing schedule? That too also depends on how many posts you normally produce and publish per week. There is no universal standard number that makes it regular, as long as it's frequent and at the same time not deemed to be too much.

Google crawls websites frequently, and its able to identify fresh contents in your blog. At the same time fresh posts attracts visitors into your site because they are able to find refreshing value in new contents that are published periodically.

• Tip: Come up with a publishing schedule that you can strictly follow, whereby you line up between 5 - 10 posts that you are working on per week (this doesn't mean you will publish all of them within one week). That way you will be able to work on a different or specific post(s) if you are not feeling interested in continuing with the other one.

You might have different ideas to continue with more posts and stay in your publishing schedule.

But you can publish a post after every 3 days per week, that makes it atleast 2 posts a week maximum. Or you can decide to do one post per week (thats a total of 4 posts per month). Some publish like 2 posts every single day, but to me I think search kind of schedule might bombard your readers a lot, because before they are through with your yesterday's posts you already publish another list of posts.

That would be too much for your audience. Find a balance.

• Read also: How to Navigate, Write and Publish Your First Blog Post in Blogger.

Bad-Blogging Habit #5: Placing Too Much Ads On Your Website/Posts. 

In one of my blog posts I talked about 5 affiliate marketing mistakes that most webmasters do, and I am not immune to it because I have been a culprit of that habit too. I mentioned ad placements (these can either be contextual ads from Google AdSense, Media.net etc or from affiliate ad networks) that some publishers do as a habit in their content marketing strategies.

Well, you need to understand that too much ads in your website, be it on the landing pages or blog posts, is definitely a sure turnoff for most site visitors.

If it is your habit then stay away from it.

No one likes to see ads popping up everywhere and lurking at every corner of your website. They are looking for value from the contents that you publish.

This excessive ad placement habit on your blog will definitely make your site unpopular among visitors, especially the first time ones. The moment your targeted audience leaves in droves then that will make Google too to snub your website as a result of too much ads.

You should not place too many ads on your posts, maybe for the short-form posts (between 500-1500 word posts) you can just have one well placed Ad, but for the long-form posts (between 1500-2500+ words) you can have atleast two Ads strategically placed. Thats adequate based on Google's Ads best practice.

• Read also: How to Get Faster AdSense Approval and Start Earning Money.

Key takeaways:

• Avoid keyword stuffing: Keyword stuffing of blog posts is an old ranking technique and it doesn't work nowadays. SEMrush is a good keyword research tool that works best to help you with your keyword research.
• Work hard, but Smarter: Take atleast an hour or so and work on your site's onpage/offpage SEO and social media/forums/guest post promotion strategies everyday.
• Overcome Your Own Writer's Paralysis: Address writer's paralysis thats causing you delays by having a writing plan. Schedule between 5-15 posts in your niche so that you have something to write about at any given time without running out of ideas or something to write about, and beat writing boredom.
• Publish Regularly: To post regularly you can schedule between 5-10 posts that you can work on at a time, it will boost your writing morale due to various topics of interest that you can switch on to as you prefer. If you want more effective keyword research tools then try KWFinder, Ubersuggest or Keyword.io for that purpose.
• Minimal to No Ads: Place minimal, between 1-3 ads per post if you must, or none at all per page and/or a landing page, depending on its length, structure or layout. If its a shortform post then 1 ad is enough, if longform place 2-3 ads.Then stick to the ad number that works best for you and test their performance.

Conclusion.

Getting traffic, high quality, targeted and more of it has been the dream of many website owners. I know thats your goal too.

But that can not be achieved, unless you address by changing or stopping altogether those 5 blogger bad diehard habits that I have highlighted above. I would not recommend any of them to you, but to advice you change all of them for your site to start gaining much needed traffic and improve its blog authority and/or popularity on the SERPs. That way your earnings potential will also increase.

If this post helped solve any of your problems then I am very happy to hear that, and if not so then also let me know on the comments below what you think.

And also feel free to add any bad habit(s) that you think makes a blog unpopular.

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