Your Blog Sucks and I Got 20 Reasons To Back It Up
Just face it. Your blog sucks and you know it. If any of these reasons below reflect you and your blog, then you might as well stop blogging. Oh, and if you do suck at blogging because of any of the reasons below, well, do something about it!
Your Blog Sucks When…
- You have more ads, banners, and/or widgets than you have words that you have written.
- Your blog’s color scheme hurts the eyes. Literally.
- Your last post was written 3 weeks ago.
- Your blog only has one reader everyday: yourself.
- Your blog does not offer RSS or email subscriptions.
- You blog about making money online, but you have never made a cent.
- You waste hours putting random ads everywhere instead of writing content.
- Your content is poorly written with bad grammar and spelling.
- Your blog has no visuals that appeals to the readers.
- Your blog is not usable at all.
- Your blog does not link out to any other.
- Your blog and its content is not search engine optimized.
- Your blog has no information about how to contact you (or who you even are).
- You do not have a statistic/analysis meter.
- You don’t network with other bloggers.
- Your blog is not using permalinks.
- Your blog has no focal point whatsoever.
- Your blog’s home page has no comments in any of the posts.
- You don’t do anything to promote you and your blog.
- You put no effort into blogging.
From the Readers:
Maki from Dosh Dosh says -
A blog sucks when its content is simply boring.
Jake from Jatecblog says -
Your blog sucks if you write sponsored content regularly.
Glenn A from Write for Blogs says -
Your blog hasn’t evolved/changed in the past year.
Did I miss anything? I know 20 reasons is not much, but I’ve basically summed it all up in there. Anyway, go ahead and leave your own tip in the comments below. If I like it, I might add yours to the From the Readers list above. I’ve already got one from Maki to start you off.
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Great list!
That’s a pretty depressing (but effective) list you got there. You’re following reason #11 pretty well.
Pretty good list. I hope my site does not fall under any of those. Well done.
Oh, don’t forget #21:
Your blog sucks if you don’t link to my cartoon blog or use my free cartoon blog widget available at http://pastexpiry.blogspot.com/
Wooooo Hoooo !
Cool blog
I like what your doing your post is on point.
LMAO loved it. I hate you though, as sick as I am I just LAMO Thanks for the mention.
Vic
be honest we don’t need 20 , one or two would turn me off very fast
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Interesting list.
I suppose I should add Email Subscriptions so I can get my blog off of the sucky site list…!
Your blog sucks if you write sponsored content regularly.
1*check
2*check
3*check
4*check…
And for not to be mistaken for a spammer, I end the list there
Great post Sly !
^^ Amazing list.
Glad I only failed one of those.
LOL!
OMG, my blog DOES suck..
Looks like I passed the test, whew! Now I just need a post for 2008. (Lack of recent post really glaring in a new year.)
I would add:
Your blog hasn’t evolved/changed in the past year.
I plan redesigns for all my blogs on their birthdays. Seems like a good policy.
Great Read! I guess my blog sucks because I’m not getting any comments! I love the look of your blog!
I love this post! Great job!
Nice list I guess,
Good link love
My blog is not 100% i guess.
You also need to be a little care yourself.
Surely your grammar checker missed out on number 11
“You do not have an statistic/analysis meter.”
Great article! I enjoyed it.
Hi,
I have landed here thro’ DP forums. Really a worth reading post. You have satisfied all the needs before posting those mistakes. Hats off today…
@ Everyone else - I’m glad you guys and gals liked this!
#22 - Your blog sucks when you post a single sentence consisting of 5 words that are used to link to someone else’s blog without providing any valuable content yourself.
I hate people that do this and then bitch about how they never have any visitors or comments ….
I’ll have to disagree a little bit with reason #3. If you’ve positioned a niche blog well in search results you can not post for a month or more and still bring in considerable traffic. For example, I have a niche blog that brings in 4 times as much traffic as I get on OpTempo and the last article on it posted in November.
Something that would be the death of a social blog won’t even scratch a niche blog and vice versa.
no you blog sucks! =P great list! lol this is really a good link bait too, nice job!
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good post and several of those are depressing lol
Thanks for the link Sly.
your blog sucks and it’s because of reason #8 and I can quote your grammar mistakes to prove it
but seriously though, it’s still an interesting post
Great job! I think this is useful for many people. Thanks for the article.
GREAT POST!
Your blog sucks when it fails to help me pay my mortgage. This site however does. Great post.
I’m useless at networking so I guess I suck
One more reason… if the blog takes forever to load…
may be a bad hosting company or too much widget & scripts..
Woohoo! I just checked it looks like my blog doesn’t suck! LOL! Thanks…
Jay
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Generally, I think my blog is OK
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Ok, so I agree with those twenty. Your blog also sucks if you don’t filter spam comments and trackbacks just to make it look like you have some readers.
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Great list Sly. Depressing, yet true…
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I guess my blog sucks because several of those reasons apply to my blogs , I do hope that my readers altho my blogs suck that they still bear with me until I can get it together. And I do have more then one reader Smile..
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Oh yay! My blog doesn’t suck!
Great list!
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Your blog sucks when you write it according to your preferences but whine when there’s no comments from readers.
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Yup, I agree. Although my blog color scheme probably hurts some people’s eyes!
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great list, you are making some good points we all need to reevaluate from time to time
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now i am guilty of that “last post was 3 weeks ago”
how can you help it if you are too busy with other things… i know blogger has scheduled posting but i cant seem to use it
Nice list
Very creative, of course. It’s a nice list of standards us serious bloggers should work to prevent. I know some people who claim to be serious bloggers but haven’t written a post in months. But then again, I also know environmentalists who write 50 page pamphlets on saving the trees.
Environmentalists. Who needs them?
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Entertaining and true. That’s what I love to see SlyVisions!
Keep up the solid work
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My blog pass all criteria
My blog sucks as i very rarely link to any websites
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I knew it! I knew my blog sucked….it’s official now…
lol
Great list, I agree with some of the posters as well. Writing sponsored content on a very consistent basis could be signs of you have contracted myblogsucksanicantfixia!
Hey, is there a doctor in the house?
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Lolzz..
Very good list to relate with, well not really.
Readers gonna enjoy it.
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These 20 are a no,no to blogging if you really are serious blogger.
Another thing, you and your blog sucks if you call yourself a problogger yet you are using blogspot blog.
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It seems like there are endless things to learn on building the perfect blog! Thanks for sharing
Definitely. Because there’s no such thing as perfect blog. Every blog makes mistake and has the possibility to sucks.Every blog and even if problegger.net has haters.
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For me, its when bloggers get comfortable and shift their content from useful information to wordy fluff pieces. There are a lot of blogs I use to read that provided great information, but slowly transformed into blogs that provide no quality content.
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I hate blogs that are always down. And telling that they make money online but still they are in blogspot or in a sucking host.
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