Your blog is a place where you connect with your community of readers. There are a lot of bloggers that do not understand how to connect with their community. Connecting with others is not easy. Connecting is not just about writing your thoughts in your blog posts. Connecting with your community takes strategy and planning.

Today, lets look at 6 blogging mistakes that you need to avoid in order to help build your blogging community. If you want to be a successful blogger then you definitely need to avoid these mistakes:

Blogging Mistake #1 – Not Updating Your Blog On A Regular Schedule. I have seen quite a few blogs this past year that were started at the same time as I started my blog where the blogger is excited about the new blog and they start posting daily, sometimes even several times a day. Then a few weeks later they are posting less and less frequently until they get to the point of either posting very infrequently or stop posting all together. Nothing will kill your blog faster than a lack of keeping it updated with new posts. If you are going to blog then pick a posting frequency and stick to it. Whether you decide to post one a week or even several times a day, just make a commitment and stick with it.

As blog owners we all dream of having thousands of blog readers.  As of right now I have 85 people that have subscribed to my RSS feed.  I also have quite a few (I never really counted) people that comment on my blog regularly (thanks to you all!).  Even though I want to grow my readership, I do know there are some people that do read my blog and find it interesting.  With that being said, ignoring those people would be a disservice to not only them but myself as well.

What’s Going On With These Blogs?

What I have noticed while doing some blog hopping recently, was there are many bloggers with large readerships that ignore their readers by never participating in the comment area.  I noticed there were quite a few questions that have gone un-answered.  I do not personally understand this.

Am I Any Different?

Yes, I admit it, I have messed up on my blog. 

I recently ran into a couple of problems that really messed up my blog.

I recently tried a couple of new plugins that I thought were pretty cool.  However, after installing these I noticed they created some issues on my blog.

The first plugin that was a problem for me was the MyLiveSignature plugin.  I created my signature at their website and installed the   have my signature posted at the end of each blog post.  The problem I found after installing the plugin was that I received and error message while creating a new post and then I realized that after I published the post, it actually double the post.  I don’t know about you but this really bother me.  It looked terrible, not professional at all, not to mention it was basically written twice.

So I deactivated the plugin and everything was back to normal.  I have since went ahead and deleted the plugin.  I am now trying to figure out how to add the html code directly to the theme so it shows up automatically without the plugin.  It is possible that my WordPress theme had an issue with this plugin and that I will work okay with yours.  You will just have to test it a see how it works.