Have you been blogging for a while, and you haven’t increased your readers? Here’s a list of reasons why this may be the case.

• You don’t provide readers with useful content
• What you say, readers already know
• You are just copying other people’s idea’s
• There is to much information already out there
• You are not writing your best content
• You have no authority in your niche
• Your writing has to many spelling and grammar mistakes
• You aren’t doing enough marketing
• You are doing too much marketing (spamming)
• You write for Google and not for people
• Your blog is always down
• You make it hard for people to navigate around your blog
• You have to many broken links
• Your website is hard to find
• You don’t have any content on your blog
• You are not capturing your readers details such as email addresses to tell them to come back
• You don’t know what you are talking about
• People can’t understand your instructions
• You don’t have any fresh idea’s to write about
• You don’t read into the full story
• You don’t spend enough time Blogging
• You read more than you write
• You failed English or you don’t speak English
• Everything you do is put off until another day
• You are not part of a community
• You are too predictable
• You don’t understand what blogging is
• You don’t put yourself in your readers shoes
• You don’t invest time, money, and effort into your blog
• You hurt or mock your readers beliefs, values, and feelings
• You don’t have any initiative or goals
• You aren’t inspired by other people
• You hate blogging
• Your expect to much from yourself
• You are too negative
• You don’t see the whole picture
• You don’t explore or take risks
• You don’t make use of your opportunities
• You have not analysed your strengths and weaknesses
• Readers don’t know who you are
• You always say “I can’t” or “I’ll do it later”
• You don’t have a schedule or you do, but don’t stick to it
• You don’t set a clear picture with your writing
• You don’t analyse the information you have
• You are against your competitors, not working with them
• You are too secretive
• Your content is lame
• You don’t want to blog, or don’t have a passion for blogging
• You are not consistent
• You lie, or twist the truth
• You break your promises
• You think about yourself, and not about your readers
• You spam your readers with ad’s to make money

So if you try and not do the following, you will  be well on your way to creating a successful blog. Do you have anything else that should go on this list?