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5 Reasons Why You WILL Fail At Blogging!
Posted In: Blogging November 15, 2007
There are over 100,000,000 blogs in the world. That’s right over 100 million! That is a lot of bloggers and I bet less than .001 percent of them are making over $100 a month from their blog. And here is 5 reasons why you are one of the 99.99%.
1. You ‘re A Quitter!
It will all get to hard for you. When your traffic doesn’t grow as fast as you want and your subscriber count drops, when you get tired of making $0.10 a day of from your adsense ads (if you even make that much), you will chuck in the towel and quit thinking that there is no way you can make good money from blogging.
2. You’re a Copycat!
You are to lazy to spend even 15 minutes thinking up a creative blog post that will actually give your visitors a reason to stay and your subscribers a reason not to leave that you just join with the 100’s of other lazy bloggers and just post about whatever John Chow or Darren Rowse post about. Why? Cause it is easy and doesn’t take effort, and making money online is supposed to be easy right?
3. You are Just Plain Greedy!
I bet you are one of those bloggers that started the blogging journey by installing wordpress and then adding adsense and a plethera of other advertising widgets and affiliate links - before you even changed from the standard theme. You don’t care about providing quality content for your visitors and subscribers because it is all about making a quick buck.
4. Your Content Sucks!
Finally you have written a unique post. You are getting all excited because of all the traffic you are going to get from it - but you get one visitor from your signature link in a forum and even your 2 subscribers don’t even bother reading. Why? Because your post was boring. Ever thought that people subscribe to your blog because they want your opinion not a review that looks at things from boths sides and is just a wishy washy piece of trash?
5. You Are Too Cool For School!
You don’t need to network, right? You can be a success on your own so why waste time getting to know your fellow bloggers and building relationships? I mean you are much to busy filling your posts with affiliate links to bother about building relationships that could open up opportunies. You are too busy tweaking your adsense so people accidently click it instead of reading other blogs and learning more about your niche - from someone who may actually know more about it than you.
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Going full-time into internet marketing,
I split my time between my blogs,
affiliate marketing and my blog design
company.
Quite a worthwhile article… and it is what I would call ‘a kick in the guts’ to the majority of us who think the Internet is just a giant untapped oil field.
Nice one! Ouch!
I agree with the fifth one for many. Even though I don’t think you should use your blog to make money anyway, just for traffic (is that consider using blog to make money???).
Some very valid points there Tom.
I started blogging because of the prospect of making lots of cash. Of course I didn’t start making money overnight but as soon as I started to churn out quality content and got more visitors I’m now making a couple of hundred dollars a month.
Quality content is king.
Excellent article. Good one mate!
Haha, a fresh perspective, albeit a bit pessimistic and blunt. You’re right there are over 10 million blogs in the world, but the number of actual active blogs is much much smaller than that because of the reasons you mentioned. Nice.
Great article. So true. Known many people start and stop in less than a month!
I guess I’m lucky since I’m in the .001 percent.
I think these are some good tips about blogging.
Great article. People ARE quitters, when things get tough they don’t try anymore.
I like your style.
Great post… I count myself lucky that I still continued when I got a massive 9 visitors after a week
Great article Thomas, you really need to stand out of the crowd nowadays in the blogging industry.
Got your link from DP, great article, thanks for sharing!
Pat
Hey Tom
A great post and reminder….
Here are 3 other reasons people fail at anything, including Blogs
1) Information Overload..Looking for the next big answer
2) Lack of Focus …Jumping from one project to another
3) Ignoring the basics - Failing to Learn, and apply in simple steps
Leo Hanes
GREAT ARTICLE!!!
I also dugg this. Fantastic. Hopefully this will wake a few people up
It’s also helped me think about my own blog. I really need to try and add more exclusive and unique stuff. There just ins’t enough of it.
Some good points were made, many take blogging not too seriously but to be able to become an ACTUAL blogger, you’ve got to take your blogging seriously.
And I should’ve mentioned in my last post which I didn’t remember, IMPLEMENT KEYWORDS INTO YOUR POSTS. That’s a rule of thumb many bloggers use, implement keywords into your articles could make it easier to find when someone tried to search for something that you provide in the search engines.
And don’t be afraid to start off slow, then climb up the ladder. Don’t try and do it all at once.
Well, I think I’m the lucky one as I fall in the group of .001 percent which is making $100+ from blog. However, this is not enough and I should move on.
Yes, Thomas, you are right that I need to network more and write more good contents for my blog. The monetization should be put at the last.
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Touche. Well written, sir.
Wow, so angry. Take a Midol.
Good article, added to stumbleupon.
Chris
Very interesting… as always! Cheers from -Switzerland-.
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I like your style; plain, straight and to the point.
yes this is true why people mostly fail… keep the quality coming and money will come its way this is what i have learned