Hello fellas, Today I am bringing you the 17 most common WordPress mistake made by newly bloggers. WordPress is seemingly the most favorite CMS(Content Management System) but still most of the people make lot of mistake while using it. Now I am not saying that everyone did it or these are all compulsion that a WordPress user must follow. But these are the things that should be avoided to make your WordPress site more better.
So I have listed some mistake made by newly WordPress bloggers.
17 Most Common WordPress Mistake Made By Newly bloggers
1. Forget to change the default permalink structure
As we know that the permalink is very important for the seo. If you don’t know what pemalink is then let me tell you.
Permalink is the static complete hyperlink to your blog posts. Since WordPress is the most awesome CMS, hence it provides 5 types of permalink structure.
The default WordPress structure should be like http://wpblog.com/?p=456. You should change it to http://wpblog.com/sample-post/
This will help you in two things. First which I mentioned above the SEO, just keep your targeted word in the URL.
Second thing will be, it will show a more appropriate URL. Cause I really don’t like the structure of the default URL . So change the default structure of permalink first and then put your focussed keyword in that and you have a SEO optimized URL.
2. Using the same Tag Line “Just another WordPress Blog”
Don’t you think that means your blog is not special. Well I hate when some one say anything about my blog and some guys are saying about their blog themselves. You should change it as soon as possible.
When you change it, try to put your logo over their instead of a headline or title. Cause a logo shows your trademark which no other can copy.
So it does two things, first it is making your blog special by not saying just another WordPress blog and secondly it is showing that you are a serious blogger who give much attention to his blog.
3. Choosing the WordPress.org or WordPress.com
I have seen many blogger who selected the WordPress.com as their host and after that they cry why I choose that. In my opinion before choosing either of them we should research.
WordPress.com is a hosting environmemt provide by Automattic. As the name suggest mostly things are done here automatically. It is best for Photgraphers, Poets, Personal Bloggers etc.
But for those who wants the complete control over their hand should choose the WordPress.org.
As we already knew that custom made themes which is premium themes and premium plugins do not work with WordPress.org. So before investing the money choose carefully.
4. Keeping the default favicon
Favicon is the small icon present seen in your browser window. Mostly theme come with default favicon icons and most of the bloggers forgot to change them.
It doesn’t matter if you are a graphic designer or not. Just took any picture or may be the first word of your site title, convert into a 16 * 16 or 32 * 32 picture and replace it with the default image.
Mostly themes come with an option to change the favicon but if your theme doesn’t have that than there are few plugins available in the WordPress plugins store which can sort out your problem.
