Why Bloggers Do Not Succeed? 10 Reasons

Ever thought why most of the bloggers do not succeed?

There are lot of reasons behind this but here are top 10 reasons:

1. Lack of Passion: They are not passionate about their topic. They start a blog out of excitement and end up deleting it when they can not think of a new post idea. Remember, Carefully choose the topic for your blog. Further Reading: Finding the Topic that will make you Successful.

2. Lack of Determination: They see top bloggers like Darren Rowse and John Chow and dream to be like them but give up quickly after having initial low traffic phase. Everyone has these “low traffic” days and only a few manage to come out of these.

3. Black Hat Methods: They are attracted towards Black Hat methods. What they don’t realize is that these methods are for short term gain only. In long run, they only cause harm and make their blog  ”just another blog in the crowd”.

4. Money-Money-Money: They do not see blogging as a method to share knowledge and build reputation. Instead, they see the money. Either they stuff pages with ads or join click fraud groups. Next things that happen are:  1. They get Banned Out of Ad Network, 2. Try another network, 3. Repeat Same story there, 4. Never get paid, 5.Curse Ad Network for their good filtering, 6. Leave blogging.

5. Write-Hit Publish-Forget Approach: They write posts in hurry and post without taking a second look. No matter how much precautions you take, some mistakes always skip our eyes. It is important to proof read the posts at least twice.

6. No Interaction: Even if they manage to attract people to their blog, they forget most important part: Interaction With Readers. They do not reply to comments and lose readers.

7. No Calls for Action: They think that some mysterious power will make people comment on their blog without their asking. Always remember, “There is no Free Lunch”. If you do not ask people to comment, they will never. Further Reading: Encouraging blog readers to comment.

8. No Face: They fail to give a face to their blog and content by missing the essentials: About Page and Contact Page. Even worst, some never take time to edit default about page (on WordPress) and make themselves look foolish.

9. Bad Grammar: They write blog posts horribly! I am not saying that their should not be any mistakes in posts but having lot of them makes blog unattractive.

10. Traffic Exchanges: Many people  join traffic exchange websites and get hundreds of “hits” per day. But guess what, these “hitters” (not visitors as they can be bots!) never: 1. Leave Feedback, 2. Click anything! (Ads Included). Further Reading(err…… voting): Poll: Do You Use Traffic Exchanges?

Some Extra Reasons:

11. Automatic Blogs: They buy one of those “auto blog/content” packages out there and think the “unique content” promises hold true. In turn, they get content(already published on 100 other sites) delivered on blog, get penalized by search engines, waste money and give up!

12. No Time Management: They fail to manage their time and end up wasting time in other things(weekly design changes) instead of writing quality content.

13. Reading Articles: Reading articles is a good way to fail. Why? Because it is not reading that matters, its following that matters. Further Reading: Reading our Articles will Not Help you Succeed.

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