Common Mistakes on Wordpress Blogs
April 11th, 2010
Wordpress is arguably one of the easiest and best ways to get a site or blog off the ground, and millions of webmasters use it. However, since pretty much anyone can build a site with Wordpress, there are a lot of mistakes made and quite a few Wordpress-based sites that are simply low quality. If you want to make a quality site, be sure to avoid some of the common mistakes described below.
1. Too many ads
Wordpress makes it extremely easy to place ad blocks into your site, but that doesn’t mean you should just go ahead and add 10 different ads! Having too many ads looks very unprofessional, and though you’d think it would make you more money, it actually reduces ad revenue in many cases, as visitors get annoyed and leave. To fix this problem, just try to limit yourself to 1-3 ads per page. If you’re trying to increase ad revenue, change the placements of the ads and make them more prominent.
2. Comment spam
Wordpress makes commenting on posts extremely easy, which is both a good and a bad thing. Real comments from real people are good, but it is simple for bots and spammers to post spam comments on your blog. Generally Wordpress blogs don’t require registration in order to post comments, which means bots don’t have to do much in order to spam. Read the rest of this entry »
