It’s discouraging to see so many dead blogs online. When I started this blog I had a quick scout around for other blogs in the same make-money-blogging type of niche. There were lots of them, but as this is something I’ve been writing about on other blogs (dragging those blogs off topic) I wanted to put some time into learning how to make money online and then put that knowledge into use on other blogs.

Now when I revisit those same blogs that I went to little over a month ago, I find that the authors have just given up. Why would you put so much time and effort into starting a blog only to give up a few months later? Here’s a handful of blogs that are dead in the water:

www.iblog-youblog.com/ - last updated August 2
www.seotoast.com/ - July 17
fundszine.com/ - July 25
www.erikvossman.com/ - July 28
www.thecashblog.com/ - August 15

After preaching to the world about how to make money online or how to blog, these people all gave up. Looking at reasons why bloggers give up, here are my ways to combat them:

Not making any money

This one must be the single biggest reason why people just give up on their blogs. Confident of being the next John Chows or Pro Bloggers, people get sucked in by the big lights and expect the world to come to them. That’s not how it works. You have to work your ass off to get the world to come to you. And you can’t expect to make money right away. You know what I do? I rarely check my Adsense account and minimally monitor how much money I’m making. Every now and then something turns up in my Paypal account, but for the most part I’m working on other elements of my blogging first; the money will come later.

No traffic

You can write the best posts in the world, but if you haven’t got any readers then you may as well talk to yourself. When you start blogging, there’s no need to religiously monitor Google analytics. Put your time and effort into writing content and learning. Analyzing your stats won’t help you unless you have a sold foundation to blog on.

No ideas

There may come a point when you simply have nothing left to say and you feel like you can’t do anything else to make your blog better. There are a few ways you can avoid this situation:

1. Write down an idea for a blog post as soon as you have it, no matter where you are.
2. Work on improving your blog’s design, removing unnecessary clutter, cleaning your template.
3. Read other blogs, learn something, digest it, use it, blog it.
4. Revisit older posts, analyze how your opinions or methods have changed and then write about it.
5. Check Google News for interesting topics to blog about.
6. Blog about what you have achieved, what you are proud of, what you are still yet to achieve and what you are aiming for.

No time

This is the one that gets me most often. There is no way hell I could ever find the time to be a full-time blogger, and nor would I want to, so I have to work this around my working and social lives. I’ve gradually found this easier to do by blogging at about the same time daily, at night when I get home and I have no other engagements. At the weekend I usually blog on Saturday afternoon after work and then in the evening on Sunday.

I wrote before that I didn’t keep a blogging schedule, but I’ve found that to do this seriously, some sort of routine is necessary for discipline. I try and write multiple posts and then use the “Post timestamp” feature on Wordpress so I can schedule my blog posts. One post a day is enough for now.

Leaving a blog unattended is one surefire way to drive people away. Even if you’re only gone for a few days readers will be wary of lengthy gaps in between posts because of the number of people who simply leave their blogs to die.

Don’t give up!

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