8 ways to kill your blog (and make sure it stays dead).
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1.) Stop posting for weeks at a time, then only post to say that you haven’t been posting much.
2.) Stick to a stable diet of paid posts and sponsored reviews.
3.) Stick enough ads to your RSS feed to drive away even the most dedicated visitors. Then fill your site with ads to drive away even new visitors.
4.) Never, ever reply to a comment.
5.) Stick to personal posts, possibly about your pet, or even lolcats.
6.) Never use a spam blacklist or moderate comments.
7.) Expect traffic to stay the same, or even rise, during your two month vacation.
8.) After a long absence do a list post, much like this one.
December 14th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Yes, this is a pretty good list of things not to do in order to become a successful blogger. Fortunately, I think that I have managed to avoid doing any of these “blog killers”, although I did slip in a couple of sponsored posts from Smorty recently. But hopefully 2 out of 250 isn’t overdoing it.