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5 reasons Why People don’t read your blog and how you can fix it

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You have a blog, and so does Him, him, him, him, and her too. Now what makes your blog different from theirs is that no one reads your blog. What a cold harsh fact, but its true. You know it. Here let me tell you what could be the reasons why people don’t read your blog.

No one is reading your blog

  1. You have nothing to say – Your blog is empty! Well maybe not. You have 5 posts. Or you have 100 posts which are extinct. Meaning you haven’t updated your blog in ages. People look at your first post and the date. If they see the post is old, the automatic reaction would be whether the information is still good. Once they have put the first doubt on your post, they won’t trust anything what you are saying later on. Next, why in the world would someone want to read a blog which hasn’t been updated in ages. If you don’t care about your own blog, why should they care about it. You think your audience is that stupid who will just visit you and click your ads even when you don’t update your site? Pfft.
  2. They get no benefit from reading your posts – Yup I just said their is nothing in it for them. No one wants to know how you survive with your 9-5 job. If you have a MMO blog than talk about making money online not about you spending $3 to get your lunch at McDonald from their $1 menu. Write something that benefits them. Perhaps a tutorial, or share your past experience in the niche.
  3. Bullshit is not allowedYou don’t make $30,000 / month from your blog – Well the only way people will read your blog even if it sucks and have no use is when you have insanely high income with proof. You have insanely high number of subscribers. You have high rankings in social media networks. Basically I am saying that unless you don’t have the high numbers or you aren’t a celebrity people won’t waste their time on your BS. So either make something like youtube or bigger and sell it to Google for a few million dollars, or just face the fact no one is reading your blog.
  4. Whining not allowedYou Whine too much – You are whining about your traffic how it is seeing a downfall. You are whining that you are not making enough money. You are whining that your business partner screwed you over because you are a dumbass. No one cares. Stop whining and work on making it better.
  5. P A S S I O N – That spells to be passion. And you don’t have it. Well maybe for sitting around you do, but it sure is not for blogging. Make your posts interesting will ya? Add some pictures to it, interesting words, give it your voice. Show your readers that their is a human writing this post and it have errors. Not a computer with high vocabulary (which half of the people don’t understand). Just make your post interesting not some dreading peice of words that is keep going.

Damn it must suck for you. You are doing all these things wrong, and some are not even in your control. Well there are a few that are in your control, and I am not sure exactly sure if I can help you. But I sure can give you some tips that might get you some loyal readers.

Make him your loyal reader

  1. Write 1 post every day – Yup try to write one or more posts every day. If you update your blog weekly than do that if that is what keeps you going. But I am hoping if you are updating weekly you have some excellent content. Or bunch of new posts.
  2. Help your users – Don’t be snobby. Try to share what you know. I mean you didn’t just learn it all. You probably analyzed others, wasted your time experimenting with techniques. Why not help others. Trust me you won’t get left behind, but people will love you so much they will help you move forward by simply making your blog more popular.
  3. Can’t help you with #3 – If you don’t make $30,000 / month or you are not Bill Gates. Just stop writing BS content. Write good content and quality content. Thats the only way people will read your site.
  4. Stop Whining Already – Stop whining already. Instead of showing people your 50 visitors a day stat screenshots, why don’t you save those and work on improving them. Here is the 13 ways I promoted my Blog to Success. Take it as a guide not an ultimatum. Feel free to try other things. But don’t whine. It won’t help you….
  5. Be Passionate – Don’t make it seem like that Passion is just another word in the dictionary for you. Make it so people get into your post. Like you are in this one ;) So at the end of your post they don’t say ah finally its over. The reaction instead should be “what? its over already.”

I hope you will not take this post offensive at all. This was just in response to a few emails that I get every now and again which ask me to promote users and when I visit their sites, there is nothing there that I find interesting. So make your site interesting and make sure you have all the above before asking me to write about you for FREE!



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14 Comments »

2008-08-15 11:23:28

People always want a benefit from reading your blog. Even if it is some stupid information they still want to remember it so that they can tell others. The benefit out of that is that they know something that others probably don’t. So make sure you are giving them information that they probably haven’t read before.


 
Comment by Angad Sodhi
2008-08-15 12:19:34

Nice post. Providing nice content in your niche is important. But if you ask me, spelling/grammar mistakes are a real put-off!

Of late you have started using some great pics in your posts. Loved all of them in your recent posts. Makes the posts lively. Is there a particular source of these images or do you just google them??

And thanks for the mention :P


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-15 12:46:01

no these are actually free stock images… Some are googled, some I made myself.


 
 
Comment by melissa Subscribed to comments via email
2008-08-15 13:06:49

I love the part about not whining. Whining never got anyone anything good. It just puts people off and the last thing you need to lose is more subscribers ;-)


 
Comment by Amino
2008-08-15 14:13:38

Promoting your blog requires hard work, you can’t get people to read your blog if they don’t:

a) Know about it.
b) Enjoy/make use of its content.
c) Feel you’re in it for its worth

Stop whining as above, and get to work :D


 
Comment by myln
2008-08-15 16:14:17

Excellent post, first time in your blog..you just a gained a new loyal reader.

Thanks again!


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-15 18:39:41

Welcome to my blog and hopefully you will stay forever :)


 
 
Comment by Authority Directory
2008-08-15 20:48:30

Excellent Syed – I love the energy in this post. It is what gets you all those readers.


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-15 23:53:24

this post is actually inspired from a few other blogs that I dont like. I might like the owners but sometimes they make mistakes and I try to point it out to them on IMs and here so others won’t do it.


 
 
Comment by Enkay Blog
2008-08-16 00:12:29

Great posts. I think the main point as you mentioned is BE PASSIONATE. If someone isn’t passionate it completely shows in their blog and the way they write posts as the posts are hurried with no particular format so yeah being passionate is a requirement almost. Great post here Syed!


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-16 01:37:37

That is one quality that distinguish between excellent bloggers and just good bloggers.


 
 
Comment by jeflin
2008-08-16 21:29:24

The whining part is unbearable, we are dealing with time constraints and have so many blogs to read per day, so it has to be something useful.


Comment by Syed Balkhi
2008-08-16 23:12:42

can’t agree with it anymore.


 
 
2008-08-17 07:32:54

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