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Google recently rolled out a <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/04/new-google-mobile-friendly-update.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Mobile Friendly update</a> on April 21, 2015, which boosts the ranking of mobile-friendly sites on mobile search results.  Google no longer favors fixed width layouts and recommends that all sites must provide better touch experience, where text should be readable without tapping or zooming, tap targets are spaced appropriately and the page avoids unplayable content or horizontal scrolling.</div>
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<strong>Running out of time?</strong> Let's read a brief summary to each part.</div>
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<span style="color: #ff8040; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Brief Summary</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;"><em>1. <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2013/05/design-responsive-blogger-template.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Design a Responsive Blogger Template</a></em></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #d16349;"><span style="line-height: 1em;"><strong>H</strong></span></span>ere we demonstrated what exactly are responsive designs and how they are created using CSS3 @media screen queries. Normally mobile browsers emulates a desktop view by squeezing big resolutions into small screens that is often difficult to read and browse. You must be familiar that how difficult it is to click a web link in iphone unless you zoom it.</div>
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Therefore we make sure all elements on the site from buttons, links and images/media provide a better touch experience. To make them look big and clean with clear resolution all that needs to be done is to add Meta Viewport tag in the page header and some CSS3 Media queries that does all the job. </div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em>2.</em> <em><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/07/common-device-breakpoints-for-blogger-blogs.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Common Device Breakpoints For a Responsive Blogspot Template</a></em></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #d16349;"><span style="line-height: 1em;"><strong>B</strong></span></span>reakpoints are points at which your layout design breaks or crashes. Breakpoints are CSS3 Media Queries that tells the browser which Layout to load for your website based on the screen size (viewport). It controls the display of your user interface (UI) on mobile devices.</div>
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With so many Mobile Products in market where each smartphone or tablet has a different Screen size, it is important that we select some <strong>Content Specific Breakpoints</strong> so that your blogspot page may adjust and fit perfectly to the different screen sizes and may not looked squeezed or poor in resolution<br /></div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3. Hiding Widgets & Scripts in Mobile Templates </span><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/07/Blogger-Mobile-Conditional-Expressions.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1],</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/07/disable-loading-javascript-and-html-in-mobile-devices.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">[2]</a></span></span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #d16349;"><span style="line-height: 1em;"><strong>S</strong></span></span>urprisingly blogger templates supports a rarely used mobile conditional expression i.e. <strong>isMobileRequest</strong> which is a Globally Available Data which can be applied to any HTML DOM inside the template. <strong>isMobileRequest</strong>  is a Boolean Data Type that accepts only two values which is either True or False. It can be used to show or hide HTML content or widgets containers in smartphone devices. It currently does not support Tablets or iPads etc. but you can surely use it to prevent rendering of unnecessary widgets and scripts on mobile devices to speed up your page load time on small screen devices.</div>
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This tag also helps you to avoid using CSS Display:none  to hide content on your site which is not a SEO friendly approach to responsive designs. Thus it is really a time saving condition that gives you more control and power over the blog content that loads in mobile phones.</div>
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<strong><em><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">4. <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/07/how-to-create-responsive-menu-in-blogger.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Design a Mobile Responsive Drop Down Menu for Blogger</a></span></em></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #d16349;"><span style="line-height: 1em;"><strong>T</strong></span></span>he fundamental part of a responsive design is the structure of its <strong>Header</strong> which includes your blog <strong>logo</strong> and <strong>navigation</strong> menu. This tutorial shares an easy to use responsive drop down menu with a search functionality. This menu can be displayed on both PC Desktop screens and smartphones and tablets. You can also choose to maintain your current desktop menu and instead chose to use this responsive menu for mobile screens only. A simple fix to the most important component of your mobile layout.<br /></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #333333;"><em>5.</em> <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/08/create-responsive-images-in-blogspot.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>Using Mobile Friendly Images in Blogger.</em></a></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #d16349;"><span style="line-height: 1em;"><strong>E</strong></span></span>ver wondered how to make your blog images to <strong>auto adjust</strong> their dimensions in mobile phones and tablets without effecting its resolution and quality? Images with large sizes often don't fit in small screen devices and as a result gives a bad UI impression. Images must be fluid in its behavior, their width and height dimensions should be stylized such that they may instantly change their overall size as the browser screen goes smaller or bigger.</div>
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Our approach is based on CSS @media Queries unlike adaptive image methods which makes use of JavaScript of php. </div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #333333;">6.<em> </em><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/05/AdSense-Responsive-Ads-not-working-in-Blogger.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><em>Create Mobile Responsive AdSense Ads and Safely Hide AdSense units</em></a></span></span></strong></div>
<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #0084ce; font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px; outline: none;"></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #d16349; font-family: helvetica, arial;"><span style="line-height: 1em;"><strong>A</strong></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px;">re you among people who complain about AdSense responsive Ad units showing a </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px;">blank</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px;"> </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px;">space</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px;"> on your webpage? If yes then read this tutorial to fix this blank rendering issue and better style your responsive ads for different screen sizes using device breakpoints. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 16px;" /><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>7. <strong><em>Make Blog Sections Responsive:</em></strong> <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/08/design-responsive-blogspot-header.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><strong><em>Header Widgets</em></strong></a><em><strong>,</strong> <strong><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/08/make-blogspot-posts-and-sidebar--responsive.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Posts + Sidebar</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2015/08/make-a-responsive-footer-for-blogger-blogs.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Footer</a></strong></em></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #d16349;"><b>S</b></span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: 16px;">ince we have learned the core basics, now its time to start customizing different sections of your blog and make them auto adapt to mobile screens. This tutorial in chunk discusses ways to mobilize the 4 important sections of your blog which are:</span></div>
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Sometimes, when I tell people that I blog for a living, they roll their eyes. "That's so easy," they say. "You get a paycheck for sitting on the internet all day and writing. A monkey could do your job!"<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></em></div>
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That's when<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> I</em> roll my eyes. See, people are quick to deem blogging as a no-brainer job. But when they actually sit down to write their first couple of posts, it hits them: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">This is way harder than I thought</em>. Like any person starting a new job, they mess things up.</div>
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So for all of you beginner bloggers out there who are looking to get up-to-speed quickly, keep on reading. Below are 12 common mistakes most beginners make and some tips on how to avoid them.</div>
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How to Avoid the 12 Most Common Beginner Business Blogging Mistakes </h2>
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When you start blogging, ideas will come to you at random times -- in the shower, on a run, while on the phone with your mom. While the ideas may come at random moments, the ideas themselves should never be random. Just because it's a good idea in general doesn't mean it's a good idea for your company. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Solution: Your blog posts should all serve larger company goals.</span></h4>
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The reason you're blogging is to grow your business, so all of your blog post ideas should <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33898/How-to-Set-SMART-Marketing-Goals-for-2013-TEMPLATE.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">help serve those growth goals</a>. They should have natural tie-ins to issues in your industry and address specific questions and concerns your prospects have. </div>
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Need help figuring out what those goals are and how to address them? Chat with your manager about the larger company goals, and then schedule a meeting with someone on the sales team to hear what questions they get asked most often. After both meetings, you should know which goals you need to achieve and have some ideas on how to achieve them. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Mistake 2: Your writing's too stiff. </span></h3>
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Writing a blog post is much different than writing a term paper. But when bloggers first start out, they usually only have experience with the latter. The problem? The style of writing from a term paper is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">not</em> the style of writing people enjoy reading.</div>
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Let's be honest: Most of the people who see your post aren't going to read the whole thing. If you want to keep them interested, you have to compel them to keep reading by <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/hard-to-read-blog-posts" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">writing in a style that's effortless to read</a>.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Solution: Write like you talk.</span></h4>
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It's okay to be more conversational in your writing -- in fact, we encourage it. The <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-write-interesting-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">more approachable your writing is</a>, the more people will enjoy reading it. People want to feel like they're doing business with real people, not robots.</div>
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So loosen up your writing. Throw in contractions. Get rid of the jargon. Make a pun or two. That's how real people talk -- and that's what real people like to read. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Mistake 3: You think people care about <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">you</em> as a writer.</span></h3>
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It sounds harsh, but it's the truth: When people first start out blogging, they think that their audience will be inherently interested in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">their </em>stories and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">their</em> interests ... but that's not the case. It's no knock against them as a person -- it's just that when you're new, no one is interested in you and your experiences. People care way<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </em>more about what you can teach them. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Solution: Show your personality; don't tell it. </span></h4>
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Even though people don't really care that it's <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">you</em> that's writing the post, you can infuse parts of your personality in your writing to make them feel more comfortable with you. How you do that is entirely up to you. Some people like to crack jokes, some like to make pop culture references, and others have a way with vivid descriptions.</div>
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<span class="content-post__body" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625;">HubSpot's</span> Director of Content <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreyeridon" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Corey Wainwright</a> is particularly good at this. Here's an example from the introduction <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-crowdsource-blog-post-google-docs" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">of one of her posts</a>:</div>
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To infuse personality into your own writing, try looking for ways to relate to your readers on the topic you're writing about -- then write in the first person as if you're hanging out with them and chatting about it. Make your tone personal, approachable, and engaging, just like you would in a face-to-face conversation.</div>
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Mistake 4: Your topics are too broad.</h3>
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When people start blogging, they generally want to write on really big topics like:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; line-height: 1.625;">"How to Make Money on the Internet"</li>
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Topics like these are far too broad. Because there are so many details and nuances in these topics, it's really hard to do a good job answering them. Plus, more specific topics tend to attract smaller, more targeted audiences, <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/definition-long-tail-keyword-100-words-sr" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">which tend to be higher quality</a> and more likely to convert into leads and customers.</div>
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So, to get the most short-term and long-term benefits of blogging, you'll need to get way more specific.</div>
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Solution: Create very specific working titles.</h4>
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Nailing really specific topics is crucial to knocking your first few posts out of the park. My colleague Corey <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-choose-solid-topic-next-blog-post-ht" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">wrote another fabulous post on how to do that</a>. Go read it now. Seriously. She'll tell you how to pick a topic that works for business blogs, and walk you through the process of narrowing it into a working title.</div>
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The working title isn't final -- it's just a concrete angle you can use to keep your writing on track. Once you nail those two things, it's much easier to write blog posts.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Mistake 5: Your writing is a brain dump. </span></h3>
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Sometimes when I get a great idea I'm excited about, it's really tempting to just sit down and let it flow out of me. But what I get is usually a sub-par blog post.</div>
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Why? The stream-of-consciousness style of writing isn't really a good style for blog posts. Most people are going to scan your blog posts, not read them, so it needs to be organized really well for that to happen. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Solution: Use a specific post type, create an outline, and use headers.</span></h4>
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The first thing you should do is choose what <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">type </em>of blog post you're going to write. Is it a how-to post? A list-based post? A curated collection post? A SlideShare presentation? For help on this, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;"><a href="https://offers.hubspot.com/blog-post-templates" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">download our free templates for creating five different types of blog posts</a>.</span>Once you have a template down, it'll be easier to write your outline.</div>
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Writing an outline makes a big difference. If you put in the time up front to organize your thoughts and create a logical flow in your post, the rest becomes easy -- you're basically just filling in the blanks.</div>
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To write a blog post outline, first come up with a list of the top takeaways you want your readers to get from your post. Then, break up those takeaways into larger section headers. When you put in a section header every few paragraphs, your blog post becomes easier and more enjoyable to read. (And plus, <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/seo-friendly-blog-post-checklist-ht" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">header text with keywords is good for SEO</a>.) When you finally get to writing, all you'll have to do is fill in those sections.</div>
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Mistake 6: You don't use data as evidence.</h3>
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Let's say I'm writing a blog post about why businesses should consider using Instagram for marketing. When I'm making that argument, which is more convincing?</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; line-height: 1.625;">"Instagram’s user base is growing far faster than social network usage in general in the U.S. <a href="http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Instagram-Continues-Double-Digit-Growth/1013612#sthash.jucUQgyf.dpuf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Instagram will grow 15.1% this year</a>, compared to just 3.1% growth for the social network sector as a whole."</li>
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The second, of course. Arguments and claims are much more compelling when rooted in data and research. As marketers, we don’t just have to convince people to be on our side about an issue -- we need to convince them to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">take action.</em> Data-driven content catches people's attention in a way that fluffy arguments do not.</div>
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Solution: Use data and research to back up the claims you make in your posts.</h4>
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In any good story, you’ll offer a main argument, establish proof, and then end with a takeaway for the audience. You can <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-use-data-in-marketing-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">use data in blog posts</a> to introduce your main argument and show why it's relevant to your readers, or as proof of it throughout the body of the post. </div>
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Some great places to find compelling data include:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; line-height: 1.625;"><a href="https://research.hubspot.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">HubSpot Research</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; line-height: 1.625;"><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Pew Research Center</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; line-height: 1.625;"><a href="http://www.marketingsherpa.com/freestuff.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">MarketingSherpa</a></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f; line-height: 1.625;"><a href="http://www.stateofinbound.com/?__hstc=20629287.3968b39863a868c7f7140e838cfea4c7.1495881822692.1495881822692.1495881822692.1&__hssc=20629287.1.1495881822693&__hsfp=1037945881" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">HubSpot's <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">State of Inbound</em> report</a> </li>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Mistake 7: Your content borders on <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">plagiarism</span>.</span></h3>
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Plagiarism didn't work in school, and it certainly doesn't work on your company's blog. But for some reason, many beginner bloggers think they can get away with the old copy-and-paste technique. </div>
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You can't. Editors and readers can usually tell when something's been copied from somewhere else. Your voice suddenly doesn't sound like you, or maybe there are a few words in there that are incorrectly used. It just sounds ... off. </div>
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Plus, if you get caught <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/internet-content-theft" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">stealing other people's content</a>, you could get your site penalized by Google -- which could be a big blow to your company blog's organic growth.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Solution: Learn how to cite others.</span></h4>
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Instead, take a few minutes to <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33098/How-Not-to-Steal-People-s-Content-on-the-Web.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">understand how to cite other people's content in your blog posts</a>. It's not super complicated, but it's an essential thing to learn when you're first starting out. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Mistake 8: You think you're done once the writing's done.</span> </h3>
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Most people make the mistake of not editing their writing. It sounded so fluid in their head when they were writing that it <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">must</em> be great to read ... right?</div>
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Nope -- it still needs editing. And maybe a lot of it.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Solution: Take 30 minutes to edit your piece.</span></h4>
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Everyone needs to edit their writing -- even the most experienced writers. Most times, our first drafts aren't all that great.  So take the time you need to shape up your post. Fix typos, run-on sentences, and accidental its/it's mistakes. Make sure your story flows just as well as it did in your outline. </div>
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To help you remember all the little things to check before publishing, <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/ultimate-editing-checklist" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">check out our checklist for editing and proofreading a blog post</a>. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: proxima-nova, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Mistake 9: You <span class="content-post__body" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.06em; line-height: 1.5; margin-top: 30px;">try to make every post perfect</span>. </span></h3>
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I hate to break it to you, but <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;">your blog post is</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;">never</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 800;">going to be perfect. </span>Ever. </div>
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There will <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">always</em> be more things you can do to make your posts better. More images. Better phrasing. Wittier jokes. The best writers I know, know when to stop obsessing and just hit "publish."</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Solution: At a certain point, just ship the post.</span></h4>
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<a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/good-enough-content-creation-design" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">There's a point</a> at which there are diminishing returns for getting closer to "perfect" -- and you're really never going to reach "perfect" anyway. So while you don't want to publish a post filled with factual inaccuracies and grammatical errors, it's not the end of the world if a typo slips through. It most likely won't affect how many views and leads it brings in.</div>
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Plus, if you (or your readers) find the mistake, all of you have to do is update the post. No biggie. So give yourself a break once and a while -- perfect is the enemy of done.</div>
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Mistake 10: You don't blog consistently.</h3>
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By now, <span class="content-post__body" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625;">you've probably heard</span> that <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/blogging-frequency-benchmarks?_ga=1.30446463.1733063552.1465306056#sm.0001ralmokx9oe96wpl15ahh67v4e" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">the more often you blog</a>, the more traffic you'll get to your website -- and the more subscribers and leads you'll generate from your posts. But as important as volume is, it's actually more important that you're blogging <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">consistently</em> when you're just getting started. If you publish five posts in one week and then only one or two in the next few weeks, it'll be hard to form a consistent habit. And inconsistency could really confuse your subscribers.</div>
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Instead, it's the companies that make a commitment to regularly publishing quality content to their blogs that tend to reap the biggest rewards in terms of website traffic and leads -- and those results continue to pay out over time.</div>
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To help establish consistency, you'll need a more concrete planning strategy.</div>
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Solution: Use an editorial calendar.</h4>
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Use it to get into the habit of planning your blog post topics ahead of time, publishing consistently, and even scheduling posts in advance if you're finding yourself having a particularly productive week.</div>
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Here at HubSpot, we typically use good ol' Google Calendar as our blog editorial calendar, which <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/create-robust-editorial-calendar-ht" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">you can learn how to set up step-by-step here</a>. Or, you can <a href="https://offers.hubspot.com/blog-editorial-calendar" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">click here to download our free editorial calendar templates</a> for Excel, Google Sheets, and Google Calendar, along with instructions on how to set them up.</div>
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Mistake 11: You concentrate your analytics on immediate traffic. </h3>
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Both beginner bloggers and advanced bloggers are guilty of this blogging mistake. If you concentrate your analysis on immediate traffic (traffic from email subscribers, RSS feeds, and social shares), then it's going to be hard to prove the enduring value of your blog. After all, the half-life for those sources is very brief -- usually a day or two.</div>
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When marketers who are just starting their business blogs see that their blog posts aren't generating any new traffic after a few days, many of them get frustrated. They think their blog is failing, and they <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/blog-failing-change-perspective" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">end up abandoning it prematurely</a>.</div>
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Solution: Focus on the cumulative potential of organic traffic.</h4>
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Instead of focusing on the sudden decay of short-term traffic, focus instead on the cumulative potential of organic traffic. Over time, given <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">enough </em>time, the traffic from day three and beyond of a single blog post will eclipse that big spike on days one and two <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/seo-friendly-blog-post-checklist-ht#sm.0000o5c3iom8gdkipdw2l236rj19q" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">thanks to being found on search engine results pages through organic search</a>. You just have to give it a while.</div>
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To help drive this long-term traffic, make sure you're writing blog posts that have durable relevance on a consistent basis. These posts <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/31501/Why-Every-Business-Blog-Needs-Evergreen-Content.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">are called "evergreen" blog posts</a>: They're relevant year after year with little or no upkeep, valuable, and high quality.</div>
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Over time, as you write more evergreen content and build search authority, those posts <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/hubspot-blog-compounding-posts" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">will end up being responsible for a large percentage of your blog traffic</a>. It all starts with a slight shift in perspective from daily traffic to cumulative traffic so you can reframe the way you view your blog and its ROI entirely.</div>
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Mistake 12: You aren't growing subscribers.</h3>
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Once you start blogging, it's easy to forget that blogging isn't just about getting <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">new</em> visitors to your blog. One of <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/the-benefits-of-business-blogging-ht" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">the biggest benefits of blogging</a> is that it helps you steadily grow an email list of subscribers you can share your new content with. Each time you publish a new blog post, your subscribers will give you that initial surge of traffic -- which, in turn, will propel those posts' long-term success.</div>
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The key to getting significant business results (traffic, leads, and eventually customers) <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/grow-blog-subscribers-grow-traffic" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">all starts with growing subscribers</a>. <span class="hs-cta-wrapper" id="hs-cta-wrapper-7925d2df-4129-4a61-a296-d814fb00ea18" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625;"><span class="hs-cta-node hs-cta-7925d2df-4129-4a61-a296-d814fb00ea18" data-hs-drop="true" id="hs-cta-7925d2df-4129-4a61-a296-d814fb00ea18" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.625;"><a class="cta_button" cta_dest_link="http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing" href="https://offers.hubspot.com/cs/c/?cta_guid=3b744739-c884-4898-9c47-47f1474ddd22&placement_guid=7925d2df-4129-4a61-a296-d814fb00ea18&portal_id=53&redirect_url=APefjpGLUo4lGLKAIWkkVTElHtz3XVf9iDfJXh4P3EvDhhrUyw-f-Izqof3A4xT9nbjeNkDBHaF38BMoEvkktNB-4QuTu_Ycbz33zNdh34DS-pAGlTcYS51VTZjHmWLMw-zF5HoPklV_VlrS8OEdwEZP5HnLamrJb7-BJdiIsXGGsROqJs7qvh1psIO_UxtAGZzMS-yphe_wv-ent_dV0Snd8RXBEt5o1f_1bbxntre2F4sXhEudyIHXAHK7iDjgUQWMDDA5_wvPqxVoc7agv6PRWHouyZZ1AQ&hsutk=3f35e9df180e1dd95699171eb5e890a3&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.hubspot.com%2Fmarketing%2Fget-subscribers-blog-ideas&canon=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.hubspot.com%2Fmarketing%2Fget-subscribers-blog-ideas&__hstc=20629287.3f35e9df180e1dd95699171eb5e890a3.1456497919278.1471098356818.1471173594420.610&__hssc=20629287.11.1471173594420&__hsfp=4043512290" id="cta_button_53_3b744739-c884-4898-9c47-47f1474ddd22" style="box-sizing: content-box !important; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: middle; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><img alt="Download our free introductory guide to A/B testing here.  <http://offers.hubspot.com/an-introduction-to-ab-testing> " class="hs-cta-img " id="hs-cta-img-7925d2df-4129-4a61-a296-d814fb00ea18" mce_noresize="1" src="https://blog.hubspot.com/hubfs/hub_generated/resized/c639d718-6b58-4243-bffa-eebc1d49912c.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; max-width: 100%;" /></a></span></span></div>
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Solution: Add a subscription CTA to your blog, and set up an email send.</h4>
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First, use your email marketing tool to set up a welcome email for new subscribers, as well as a regular email that pulls in your most recent blog posts. (HubSpot customers: You can <a href="https://knowledge.hubspot.com/blog-user-guide-v2/how-to-configure-your-blogs-subscription-options?_ga=1.173330083.1866822358.1456501228" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">use HubSpot's email tool to easily set up these regular email sends</a>, as well as <a href="https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/cos-blog/how-do-i-send-a-blog-welcome-email" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">set up a welcome email for new subscribers</a>.)</div>
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Next, add subscription CTAs to your blog (and elsewhere, like the footer of your website) to make it easy for people to opt in. These CTAs should be simple, one-field email opt-in forms near the top of your blog, above the fold. As for <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/types-ctas-blog" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">where to put these CTAs</a>, we typically place our blog CTAs at the bottom of our blog posts or add a slide-in, which you can <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-add-a-slide-in-call-to-action-to-your-blog-posts" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">learn how to do using a free tool called Leadin here</a>.</div>
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You can also <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/customers/bid/109514/Why-You-Need-A-Blog-Subscription-Landing-Page" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">create a dedicated landing page for subscribers</a> that you can direct people to via other channels such as social media, other pages on your website, PPC, or email. (For a list of more simple ways to attract subscribers, <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/32703/20-Simple-Ways-to-Boost-Blog-Subscribers.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;">read this blog post</a>; for more advanced ideas, <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/get-subscribers-blog-ideas" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">read this one</a>.)</div>
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Don't worry if you read through this list and are now thinking to yourself, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Well this is awkward ... I've made literally every single one of these mistakes. </em>Remember: I used the word "common" to describe these mistakes for a reason. The more you blog, the better you'll get at it -- and you'll reap the benefits in terms of traffic and leads in the process.</div>
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We hope you'll use this list of mistakes as fuel for the fire to step up your blogging game. After all, the <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/the-benefits-of-business-blogging-ht" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1da1db; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">benefits of keeping up a healthy business blog</a> will be well worth the time and effort.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What mistakes are we missing? Share your thoughts in the comments below.</em></div>
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August 17, 2016 12 Blogging Mistakes Most Beginner Bloggers Make Written by Lindsay Kolowich | @ lkolow SHARE 1,142 in...

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