I hope now your blog gets more PR and traffic.

@Vaibhav: I feel like saying, “You are exactly like me” ..lol..

I completely disagree with first point, if you ask me it is just a myth. I am telling this by experience and nothing else. I tried looking for some authentic source to support my view and found this – http://www.dailyseoblog.com/2007/09/is-tagging-a-post-in-multiple-categories-bad-for-your-blog/

I Did Not Understood your First Mistake…and as far as second is concerned sticking to blogger i don’t think it is bad since they also get good pr but it takes time…

I did this.. but it lasted for a while only and I realised the mistake that blogger + free host are nothing but waste of time if you are blogging to make some serious green cash..

Let me tell you my seo mistake – Not updating the site and permalinks on Joomla.. I made a site on joomla and it went okish for around 3 months. Sadly, I realised wordpress is the best; had to dump the site and didn’t make a backup too (whats the use of making a backup.. can’t import into wordpress).. another seo mistake was not to comment on awesome blogs.. glad that I am trying to eliminate it

@Bangaloreloka: Its sad that you lost your Jhoomla blog. But its always good to hear that you are progressing now and you have realised your mistakes and correcting them.

@Raju : I was given Advice by Harsh Agarwal on the first point! And, even Matt Cutts agrees with it. Even I was doing the same thing till yesterday as does ProBlogger Darren Rowse and You can see 8 Google sitelinks of my blog. So there is no grave mistake, but I found Harsh’s advice(and Matt’s too) logically correct, So mentioned about it. Anyways, Thanks for bringing the Darren Rowse’s Example to notice.

Commenting on Blogger is surely absolute pain.

I am not very sure about Multiple Categories thing but why take risks.

I don’t claim to be an SEO expert, but from what I know and understand, I can tell you this, when Matt Cutts says use single category tagging, he refers to those permalinks which use category name in them. For people like us, who don’t include category name in permalinks, it should not matter how many categories are being linked for each post, cos at the end there is only one URL from homepage, individual post page, sitemap, archives and categories.

A friend of mine was also on free hosting, he was familiar with the deleting of his entire blog. He always had his back up ready. But I don’t feel such thing is right. I believe we get what we pay. If we want to experience good hosting then we need to pay for it.

Lack of funds is a common problem for new bloggers, including me. I can’t afford international-quality hosting yet (paid with USD). So I use a nice local hosting here with a USA server package (can be paid with local currency). So far so good.

I try to always only use one category (need to check now to be sure!) because of the structure of my permalinks is category/postname and I didn’t want the URL to become a small book.

Wordpress is definitely the best, I got lucky and was pointed to wordpress when I first started and have stuck with it through 9+ sites.

Site looks good!

I’ve done some mistakes also…Just like you, the mistakes have to be corrected…By the way, you can use threaded comment plugin on your comment…Try it =)

I have wondered about using a blogger blog versus a self-hosted blog. I can see where it is difficult to comment and would discourage others from doing so.

Thanks for the tips.

Same here also .. still i am also using the free webhost ..some times my blog has been redirected to another site..
as soon as possible i had to over come from all my mistakes..
Nice tip…

@Raju: I got your point and I am now convinced over it! We don’t really use the category/postname URL structure so we don’t need to fear…Thanks for such a clear explanation!

@Keith: If you are using that permalink sturucture then take care that each of your post lies in a single category or it may really cause SEO problems for you. Raju here has clearly described the issue.

@Isaac: I hope we all start making good money soon, so that our financial problems end!

@Blinkky: I will surely act as per your suggestion soon. Thanks.

I don’t think adding posts to multiple categories affects your site. Firstly, the category pages still link back to the permalink and so Google can see where the original article resides.

Secondly, duplicate content itself seems to be over-stated. I had written about this sometime back on Gobala’s blog. Maybe you might want to look into it
http://www.profitblogger.com/is-duplicate-content-really-bad-for-our-websites/

@Anand: You are correct! The category will still link back to the the Original article, but if you are using a %category%/%postname% URL structure then it may be a problem for Search Engines to crawl your website because the same page will be present in different categories of a single website. I hope I have made my point clear.

I have to agree with Raju for the first point, when comes to my mistakes i dont know what exactly my mistake is but something is wrong with my blog, it is failing to get indexed and rank better in SERP.. still working on that..

I have come to your blog first time, get very nice information.

Well I do not agree all of your point that you mentioned here. I do not think free host effect on crawling webpage, my blog is on blogspot, but I am getting good traffic from search engine. If you noticed ever that moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com rank is one for the popular keyword “make money online”.

But I agree that freehosting blog do not look professional

Using multiple categories for a single post is perfectly fine, if you are doing it right. Start using All-in One SEO plugin and you can block your Category pages from being crawled by search engines.

Hosting a site with good hosting provider will help a lot in seo.

I wont call it mistakes. People learn from their mistake.

Hi, I’m using Blogger now and I don’t have any problem yet. We can use Disqus, Js-Kit or IntenseDebate for the commenting system. See http://webupd8.org/, it’s using Blogger and has huge traffic. “The most important is the man behind the gun” bro..

“Failure is the pillar of Success!!”, So its the common problem which all the Successful bloggers faced once in their blogger carrier…

moving to wordpress and a paid host is surely the first steps to professional blogging, good to see you on the right track

there might be no harm in tagging the same post in multiple categories, but i don’t really see a reason to do so… besides what works for a pro blogger might not work for you, but there’s more to it. tags are categories can be made nofollow and noindex, or conocial(spelling?) tags are another way to go about it…

@SocialBlogr: You are bang on target! “The most important is the man behind the gun”

@Uttoran: Yeah, what works for one blogger may not work for another, so we must take care about it.

bad to see i still follow the first mistake, single post in multiple categories, i will correct it from now on. thanks dude

Now you know the mistakes, you will not do again, so cheer up

great post.. there is one more mistake that u are still doing.. no sitemap..try that..

@machbio: I have a working Sitemap!

@ Shivaraj, Why still in free space ?.

selecting a multiple categories for a post is not a mistake. It’s very cleared from raju and rohit by the way of commenting here.

Thanks for sharing this

Duplicate content has been debated over and over again ad it’s seems Google ain’t really bothered about them as some reports show.

What’s with the 60 days delay? Was your money refunded to your credit card and now you have to wait 60 days for it to reflect on credit card? (I had this issue with Hostgator when ordering with Mastercard Websurfer. Since I was ordering from Nigeria, they had to screen the order for fraud )

The first one is not a mistake from my view. The 2nd and 3rd are good move to have own good hosting. WordPress does have more power compare to Blogger.

@Udegbunam Chukwudi: It appears that Google has penalized blogs over Duplicate content, so it is better to stay away from such mistakes. Because of Nigerian Economy, you may face some problems with Credit cards.

@Jayce: Thanks for dropping in.

It’s always cheaper to learn from someone else’s mistakes than your own. Thanks Rohit for sharing yours!

I would like to know more about using the Title attribute for Anchor links.

@Tim: Title attributed will help the search engines find the relevancy of the hyper-linked words with the hyper-linked content. The Title Tag will basically tell what the destination content is, thus giving SEO advantage to the destination page.

I have just checked and I had a couple posts in multiple categories and I just fixed it. I am not sure if it is a myth or not but I would rather error on the side of caution.

@Tycoon Blogger: Its always good to be safe rather than repenting over your mistake.

Hmm,

I had a blogger blog also for about 3 years.

What a mistake to have stuck with it for so long without using wordpress.

On the issue of categories, you could define that bots do not search you categories, archives, pages etc to prevent duplicate content penalty.

@Udegbunam Chukwudi
i have the same issue too – for about 2weeks we were trying to sort things out. They even gave me a concession that did not work. Going with GoDaddy seems to be a way out for us Nigerians

For about 1 hour I spend my time on your site. I just wanna say that your articles are very good.

Congratulations.