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The blogging business is something you should enter into only if you have a sincere passion for what you blog about. When blogging to make money it is expected that your content will be top quality in order to attract and retain the typical blog reader. Not only does the content need to be good but it also needs to be fresh. Constant updating will require the site owner to be doing quite a bit of blog posting and this will take commitment.

If your goal is to become one of the most popular blogs within your niche these efforts will have to be maintained over an extended period of time to achieve this goal. Success does not come overnight!

With all this said it is therefore prudent not to engage in actions or develop habits that may sabotage your other efforts

Here are 7 common ‘bad habits’ that many who are blogging to make money may inadvertently develop resulting in a negative impact on their income.

Stealing Content

Plagiarizing in school was frown upon and for good reason. Passing somebody’s work off as you own is unethical and unoriginal. People visit different blogs to gather varying perspectives not to look at the same identical content under a different name. In addition this will only hurt your SEO efforts by being penalized for duplicate content.

Only Blogging for Money

Maintaining a mindset that your singular purpose for blogging is to make money will eventually inhibit your efforts to be successful. Readers will detect that their interests are not your primary concern and the result will be reflected in the numbers that unsubscribe from your blog.

Blogging to make money is all well and good but you must realize that the financial rewards results only after serving your readers.

Subscribers develop a ‘giving back’ mindset after they have been treated well and this is when they make purchases from you. If you are not focused on their needs they will not reciprocate by spending any money with you.

Losing Focus

Your blog was started under the intent of focusing on a particular subject and the blog reader is attracted to this ‘type’ of information. When you drift away from your theme with content unrelated to the original subject you confuse and frustrate your readers. After a while they will unsubscribe altogether leaving you with a blog that has no direction or subscribers.

Stay on point!

Infrequent Updates

Both readers and search engines enjoy and appreciate the fact most blogs are frequently updated with new content. This is what makes blogs the darlings of the web 2.0 era. By consistently neglecting to update your site with new information the site will grow ’stale’ and both readers and search engines have no reason to visit. The result will be a drop in subscribers and search engine rank.

Hiding Your Personality

The uniqueness of every site originates from the personality or perspective of the site owner in their blog posting. This is a major contributing factor that makes your site stand apart from the rest. By being ’shy’ with your opinions or perspectives you are ‘cheating’ your readers of your insight while also ‘cheating’ yourself of the benefits you derive from your own uniqueness.

Overly Concerned About SEO

On a blog you can pretty much take the attitude to heck with the search engines insofar as how you ‘deliver’ your updates. Your main concern is winning the appeal of the blog reader and the result will be more traffic which will then empower your standings with search engines anyway.

Ignoring Comments

By failing to acknowledge comments from any blog reader that may call for a response you are in essence sending the message that their input is not important. The interactivity at a blog is another reason readers subscribe. They want to be a part of something and you are not allowing that if you ignore their comments.

The blogging business can be very rewarding in many ways for the site owner however it does take a commitment of time and effort. The primary focus is to satisfy the blog reader and this requires developing continuous quality content. For many site owners blog posting can become a daily ritual and often this is required if becoming one of the most popular blogs in your niche is the goal. By recognizing some of the more damaging bad habits any blogger can easily develop as w

Learning a new language is daunting at the best of times, unless you are like myself and take it as a challenge, to improve your own skills and to develop your own personal being.  Most people you talk to will say that it is easy for children, but have you ever wondered why??

Babies and children mimic adults as a way of learning, what else can they do?? At nursery school learning skills are based on “show and learn” “copying skills” “do as I do” etc., developing language skills is exactly the same regardless of the age.

I teach english to primary students from the age of 7 through to 11 in a french school, I use very primitive methods of learning, I literally start the children off as though they are babies, which is logic as it is an initiation into a new language.  7 years of learning your own language is enormous in the life of somebody, listen to any 7 year old talk and take a mental note of the amount of vocabularly learnt in that space of time.

Using dvd’s aimed at the younger age group stimulates the students, they do not find it “babyish” because they are too busy listening to the difference in tonality of the english voices.  We use stickers, pens, papers, coloured pencils, building blocks – anything that will stimulate the younger mind – learning has to remain fun so as not to become boring.

7 is a difficult age to start to learn and in my view it is not early enough, children in Holland learn english from the age of 4, hence the reason why most dutch people speak fluent english.   English is taught alongside Maths, History and Geography, no particularly attention is paid to the subject, it is just part of the curriculum!!

At the age of 7 the face muscles become “stiff”, pronoucing new sounds that don’t exist in certain languages becomes difficult.  In France the sound “th” does not exist, that is why often you hear television presenters say “ze”, the concept of using the tongue to produce the sound “th” has never been developed therefore the muscles and the brain do not communicate to produce this sound.  It takes at least 3 weeks of practise to perfect this sound and then it is not natural so easy to slip back into the “ze”.  In everyday use it doesn’t matter, but when a child loses marks for pronunciation in exams in becomes very important.

The sound “r” as it is pronounced in english is pronounced systematically as a “w” when presented to a french child, the colour “red” becomes “wed”, hence the importance to develop language skills at a very early age.

If you ask a 3 year old to say “red” they say “red”, ask a 7 year old and automatically they repeat “wed”.  As a language teacher I have spent many a moment in studying the children’s mouths and watching my own mouth in the mirror in order to understand the differences and the difficulties.

Many people say that it is easy when you are a child, this is one of the major reasons why, you don’t have to worry about forming the right position with your mouth and even when you do know you have to, you don’t have to worry about whether you can or not.

A child’s brain is a sponge – we have often heard this said.  In fact a child’s brain has a lot more “empty” space, therefore things are more easily absorbed.  A child finds it easier to class information, to seperate into categories and remember things as and when needed.  Adults take on board information, their brains do not have the same facility in “filing” new information and often file it away in the wrong place – how often to we have to “rack our brains” to find that name or phone number or where we put the car keys!!!!!!  If the remote control goes missing at home I often ask our 5 year old, she inevitably remembers where it was last seen, ask our teenagers and they have no idea!!

To learn a new language as an adult is not always difficult, I myself found learning french fairly easy but then again I was very open to the idea and allowed my brain the time and the space to class the information as and when needed.  Associating the language to situations helped a lot and infact this comes back to a child’s teaching – look and learn.  Adopting the same attitude as an adult helps.

The earlier that you can teach yourself and your children a new language the better, it doesn’t have to be complicated, odd words, picture dictionnaires, holidays in foreign countries (take the phrase book), books, dvd’s, computer games, these days there are no end of “aids” on the market, including internet to help.

Happy learning!!

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