Are you a newbie blogger? Do you follow the sheep or do you ’sheep’ it on your own? Whatever you do, I believe this post will shed some light onto mistakes that you might already have done, or are doing, and what to do about it. No one is perfect nor born with the knowledge of a expert blogger. When you start of course, everything seems to be one big mess because everyone starts as a newbie (now that’s a bit obvious). How good we actually are depends on how efficiently we evolve, right?

When you were going to create a web site of even going to edit a simple web page, did this question cross your mind? Well, to me, hundreds of times. Microsoft FrontPage and Adobe Dreamweaver (formerly Macromedia’s) has got some definite advantages over each other. So this is my code of choosing between the applications.

1. The experience level.

First and foremost, you have to figure out the expertise you have on the field. If you’re relatively less-experienced, FrontPage is the tool for you. It’s ultra simple and you don’t have to write even one line of code to get the most complicated thing done.

Here’s a question – Do you timestamp your posts? Or are you just simply ignoring that – not knowing what you can achieve with it? Most bloggers do not utilize this feature when posting… are you one of them? If so, listen closely.A lot of bloggers can’t find the time to write around the clock. Or at least, post an article at 12 noon and then again wake up and post it at 12 midnight – just like I seem to do. Yes, I post on MindBlogger in 12 hour intervals. And I write my articles, one time, covering for like two days in advance.

When I first heard about this 301 redirect thingy, I didn’t take it too seriously. But now, I’ve found enough and more reasons to take it into consideration. And I think you should too, before it’s too late.

What’s the big deal?

Well, you know that once you have a domain of your own, you can address it with or without the ‘www’ right? And any sane human being would know that http://www.rockfuse.com or http://rockfuse.com mean the same. But those search engine spiders do not get it. Yes, in fact, they treat those two URLs as URLs of two different sites. Even Google!

Are you on FeedBurner? (Well, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t!) If so, if you’re not making use of the FeedFlare service, probably, you’re not reaping all that you can of your blog.

You see those links under this post? Comments count, Diggs count and all that? Well, I got all those from the FeedFlare. What it basically does is, it displays these links on the footer of every blog post that you have. Links to Digg, Technorati, Comments, E-mail, StumbleUpon and many more. These links, called flares, can even be created by you. Yes! FeedBurner gives you the option of creating your own personal flares.