Why people fail in Blogging

1. Blogging for money

This is a serious problem with newbie’s. So many people are failing in blogging because they lack the positive mindset. Money is not supposed to be the first priority when it comes to setting up a blog. The money aspect of blogger should come after building up the website or blog to a reasonable extent. Forget about what that guru will tell you about Google ad-sense, affiliate marketing and overnight dollars in your account. Blogging has gone beyond that. You must satisfy your readers (visitors) before you start thinking of money and this brings us to the next one.

2. Having No knowledge of what you teach

A lot of people are failing in blogging because they lack the basic knowledge to teach what they practice. Most Nigerians are going into blogging thinking that the content will just come from free. Blogging is beyond that. You need to have knowledge on what you teach to gain peoples trust. The people that are reading your blog post are not illiterate. They will ask you questions on what you teach through comments or email and if you can't give them some reasonable answer, then they would lose trust on you.

3. You have to spend before you gain

Some people don't want to spend their hard earn money on their investment online. The truth is that you need to spend money to get money, no two ways about it. You must be connected to the internet 24/7 which is one part that would make you spend more. You will also spend on advertising your website either through Google adwords, Face book ads, website ads etc. All this constitute spending and if you are the type that doesn't want to spend, then blogging is not for you.

4. Copying Content

Some people go into blogging because their friends are doing it. Blogging is not for everybody and thus one should discover his or her talent on every other thing to know what to blog about. Just because your friends are claiming to be making cash from blogging does not mean you should engage yourself in it. Copying some one's content is against Google terms of service and authors TERMS OF SERVICE. You are not allowed to copy other people's content if you are not permitted to do so, else the person may report you and your website will be off from Google search engine and your web hosting.

5. Passion for it.

This was supposed to even be the first stage to blogging. Before anybody could think of setting up a blog, he or she must be passionate about it. It is only when you have passion for something; you would be able to overcome any obstacle along the way. There must be passion for you to start blogging. A musician without passion for music will find it hard to excel, a footballer without passion for football may find it hard to excel and so as bloggers without passion for blogging may find it hard to excel.

6. Fear of competition.

In every business, there is always a competition which makes the business to have strategies to service their customers. Newbie’s into blogging usually falls victim of this and end up giving up. In everything we do online, there is a starting point; you must be willing to compete with your counterpart in other to gain grounds.

don’t  be afraid of that giant blog you see on the first page of Google search engine. They started from making one post. You too should have that positive thinking to become number one in the future. So removing the fear in you to compete with you counterpart would go a long way in achieving your goals.