'Do You Make These Mistakes With Your Blog?' — by Brian Clark

Here are his "Top 5".
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1. Use user-unfriendly RSS options that you bury at the bottom of the page, and leave out an email subscription option altogether

2. Hope to make money with your blog, and yet rattle on excessively about your personal life, your dog, your goldfish, and your recent appendectomy

3. Agonize over writing a great post, only to slap on some hastily-concocted post title that all but guarantees hardly anyone will read

4. Do what everyone else is doing with their blog in your niche

5. Write for search engines instead of people
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Well, let's see... there is an RSS option at the top of my homepage but — at least when I click on it — I get nothing but screens of gibberish. Maybe you have better luck. And there's no email subscription option.

I do hope one day to make money with bookofjoe yet I do "rattle on excessively" about all manner of nonsense like the stuff in his #2.

I don't agonize at all ever about writing any post, great or not; I do concoct my headlines in haste but I don't think they're all that bad, actually. 'Course, I could be biased.

I don't have a clue what my niche is (though I'm in alltop's gadgets section); I guess therefore I can't logically be doing what everyone else is doing, if I don't have a niche.

I never write for search engines instead of people; in fact, I write for myself and hope others might find things of interest.