You slave away at your keyboard writing content you think is awesome and about things you think everyone will want to read and stumble, well you can just get the fuck off the Internet and delete your blog if you think that. Your blog is a piece of crap, nobody thinks it is great, nobody cares.
If your blog applies to one or more of these on the list, then it needs some work before anyone is going to keep coming back.
- You are using the default theme that comes with your blogging software. Wake up! your blog looks boring. You may think that people are only coming for the content, but people eat with their eyes before their mouths first. If you’re using the default theme, you’re a douchebag and deserve no traffic to your blog, and that is exactly what you will get
- You don’t proofread or spellcheck anything you write. If you misspell a word or two it’s a common mistake and your readers will love pointing that out to make themselves feel more superior on the Internet. But if your blog posts are riddled with spelling and grammatical errors, don’t expect anyone to understand a word you are saying or to return again
- Your blog is completely unoriginal and boring. If you’re writing about the same things other blogs are writing about, what reason would someone have to visit your blog? People love interesting, unique and new things to read. Nobody likes reading or hearing about the same thing 100 times. This goes for all Twitter acquisition talks, Yahoo! acquisition talks and rants about Windows Vista especially
- Your blog is a proverbial graveyard of boredom. People come to your blog because they seek something to appease to their eyes and minds, stuff that is interesting, witty and funny. If people wanted to read something that put them to sleep, they’d read Time magazine instead. Throw in a joke or two, share a funny picture, embed a funny Youtube video of a man getting hit in the nuts, anything!
- Too many fucking ads. People come to your blog to read, not have to close 100 fucking pop-up ads and sift through content riddled with Google ads placed after every paragraph. Your blog will make next to no money whatsoever in the early days. If you’re going to use ads, use them sparingly and put them in non obstrusive positions like the sidebar. Placing ads on a small-time blog actually has a negative effect as it will most likely repel visitors and make you seem money oriented rather than content oriented
- Hurry up and load. If your site takes more than 5 seconds to start loading something and be fully loaded a few seconds after, kiss your visitors goodbye. Nobody wants to wait, your blog probably isn’t important enough for a visitor to be patient and wait, unless they have a reason too, but they don’t.
- Your hosting sucks. Sometimes other people may think your content is awesome and it’s shared on StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Yahoo! Buzz, Delicious and other places – if your hosting is completely crap and can’t handle a little visitor hike, be prepared to lose a lot of visitors. If you’re serious about blogging, go with a proper host that can handle the traffic.
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