This is a guest post from Eric Heavilin who writes about blogging and improving your business at BluePop13.
You’ve heard of this blogging thing, you’ve been introduced to social media and now you’re hooked. You get to experience meeting new bloggers around the world and sharing what you know.
Only problem is, what are you doing about it?
Knowing is great but if you’re doing nothing about it, you’re just wasting your time, others’ time and ultimately killing your own blog.
1. Poor Content
You may post content to your blog but is it any good? Are you really putting any effort into it? You want people to come back to your blog but if you’re not producing kick-ass content then you’re not giving your readers anything worth coming back to… And aren’t they worth the time it takes and the energy to write something amazing? If not, you’re just killing your blog.
2. Laziness
No one is really lacking time because time is the same for all of us. Sure, we’re all in different situations but we have control over how we use our time so that can’t be it. That only leaves us with being completely lazy. This is sad because we’re not going to get very far if we’re lazy. We just think of how great it would be to post amazing content and do all these things and then never put any action towards it. How sad… Solution: Don’t be lazy!
3. Becoming Fake
If you’re fake, people will surely find out fast. It’s not hard to tell who’s real and who just doesn’t care. Become someone who no one likes and can trust and you’ll surely completely kill your blog. After all, if your content blows, people will know, and if you’re not putting any effort into replying to your comments, then people will know. Just be real because otherwise you will eventually blow your blog to pieces before your own eyes.
4. Leaving Spam Everywhere
I don’t like it and I don’t eat it and it’s up to you whether or not you really want to spam people but if you do this, well, say goodbye to a lot of great potential fast. Go to all the forums you can find in your niche (or others, because at this point it really doesn’t matter) and leave linkes to everywhere you like or don’t like. Make sure you don’t leave anything worth while to anyone there because after all, we’re trying to add spam here, not value, because doing so will destroy your blog.
5. Linking Everything
I’m not actually sure if this would annoy some people but it sure as hell would me. Write your entire blog post and then count the number of words you have and find that many websites out there completely unrelated to each word you write. This makes no sense to do and if you actually have time to do this, God help us all, but link each word to a different blog/website and I guarantee no one will come back to visit or stick around even 5 seconds on your blog.
What ways can you think of that would completely kill a blog?
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