1,000s of new blogs come up, and 1,000s die everyday in blogosphere.
It’s natural. You can say “it’s business as usual.”
Just think a bit – Why a blogger blogs?
Every action in the world is associated with a motivation. Even the breath you’re taking right now. And the act of reading blog/blog-post which you’re doing now is also associated with a clear motive. But most of the time our motives are subconscious in nature.
The answer to my above question is broadly like this: A blogger blogs 1#Either to maintain an online diary to fulfill his passion for blogging Or, 2#Hope to earn some money by blogging.
When blogs become crappy?
This happens to those bloggers who are extremely ambitious and jumped into the blogging band-wagon with a single motive (reason), that is – to earn huge amount of money by blogging.
The problems with these type of bloggers are – they have a very short-term goal. And want to make big-bucks with a very short period of time. And even overnight!
Their all blogging actions are motivated by money only.
They do hard labour on their blog. Everyday, day & night. Finally they make their blog famous and reputed. And make themselves a well known figure in the online world (at least in bloggers community).
One fine day they discover they are earning only few peanuts every month. From Google AdSense to affiliate sales, and from other sources. They still continue blogging for another couple of months. And finally they give-up!
It’s absolutely their decision to decide whether to continue or quit blogging. But it hurts – When highly famous & established bloggers fill-up their blogs with crappy posts in the name of content. Once in a week, or even once in a month.
They loose all their reader base. They don’t get more number of blog comments which they were getting in their heyday. Because people feel cheated. Moreover they even ask for money when somebody wants to guest post on their blog (to some extent it’s OK).
Filling your blog with useless posts and adding a section like – “How to make money” is the worst thing you can do to your blog.
Do you know – lot of blogs get hit by Google Panda only for publishing off-topic blog posts. Or, publishing topics like “How to make money online?” Many a times they recover from Panda penalty by simple removing the money making section (category) or deindexing/ deleting off topic blog posts.
The solution: If you’re really busy in your life – don’t publish at all. Instead of filling your blog with crappy posts. That way your readers will understand your problem. At least they will not dislike your blog.
The problem doesn’t end here. They buy even more domain names and produce a fleet of blogs; with the hope of dominating the blogosphere. And finally they fall flat. This also happened with Darren Rowse of Problogger.net– one of the legendary blogger of our time. In his initial days he had 2 blogs. But he made another 28. A total of 30 blogs within a couple of years. All his blogs failed miserably. Except the initial 2 – that are Problogger.net & Digital Photography School.
Final thoughts: Stick to your main blog and publish quality content. If you’re too busy in your life don’t post at all; instead of low quality posts.
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