7 signs you’re a bad blogger—and how to get better

It’s OK if some of these describe you. Start applying the advice as soon as you can, and you’ll be bringing in readers in no time.

Let me start off with an assumption: We all want to be good bloggers, right?

But we don’t get a lot of direct opinions about how good we actually are. Your friends and family will tell you you’re great. Haters will tell you that you suck. But it’s not like these opinions reflect the actual situation.

The negative voices are always more vocal than the positive ones, and your friends, well, they just don’t have the guts to say anything bad.

How you can find out if you’re really a good blogger? To start, let’s explain what it means to be a good blogger.

Who is a good blogger?

Being a good blogger is not the same as being a good writer. Writing is a single activity-you take an idea and write an article around it. Blogging involves many more elements. Bloggers have to:

Taking all this into account, here are seven signs you’re not a good blogger:

1. You don’t publish regularly.

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