10 Things I Hate About You(r Blog)
Please Leave If [vol. 15]
This week I’ve been writing about some of my favorite blogs, but today is Friday, and on Friday’s here at joebunting.com, we helpfully exclude. That means today we will be sharing some of the blogs we think are less than worthy of our attention.
This is my 10 Things I Hate About You(r Blog) list:
10. Not enough content. Every once in a while I come across a blog like this one with like five posts. They started writing three weeks ago and haven’t built up much content. They’re newbs, freshman, and the only cure is to write more. Most blogs aren’t viable unless they have 10 posts per month for 3 months. Seth and Seth have been blogging since 2007 and 2005, respectively. When you see archives like that you sit up and listen, no matter how bad their writing might be. Consistency over a long period is one of the best proofs you’re here to stay and that I should be reading regularly.
9. Bad grammar / spelling. We all make mistakes, but when there’s one in every sentence my intelligence is insulted.
8. Too many ads. A little adsense on the sidebar or at the top is cool, but when it’s stuffed between every nook and cranny where you can’t even tell where a post ends and the next one begins, I get angry.
7. No Technorati. My friend Jessica Fairchild’s awesome photography blog isn’t set up with Technorati. I love Technorati and use it to keep all my favorite blogs in one spot. Since she doesn’t have her blog set up, I hardly ever read her blog. Bummer because she has some really great pics on it.
6 & 5. Posts are too long or too dense. My friend Rochelle started a blog to document her experience teaching in the toughest school in Chicago. It’s a great subject, but the problem is her posts don’t have any paragraph separation. Oh yeah, and they’re about 5,000 words long. It makes for a slow, grueling read.
4. Unfocused subject matter. Might be a good criticism for my blog. It’s supposed to be about my music, but it’s become anything I want it to be about, from driving to the art of blogging. Would I read my own blog? Would you read yours? Good question to consider.
3. Narcisism. I was reading this personal development blog (I’d link it but I couldn’t find it again) when out of nowhere the guy started talking about his new diet. I guess that’s kind of an okay thing to write about as a personal development coach, but the worst part came when he started talking about why he was writing about it. He said, “And since everything I write on this blog turns into revenue… blah blah blah.” I tuned him out after that.
What a creep! If you really think everything you write turns magically into gold you’re kidding yourself. What a narcisistic thing to say! As if the only thing that mattered was his making money, not content, not quality, just him. From a personal development coach! Not a very good once I guess.
2. Where’s the actual writing?! Before Joe Jr. changed his layout, the music coaching site, Spinme.com was one of the most frustrating blogs I’ve ever read. Instead of writing consistently, he put up links to things he was reading. This looked way too much like his adsense (placed before and after each post… yikes!), and so you never really knew what was his writing and what was him trying to make money. Now it’s less a blog and more of a website, which actually works for him.
1. When they die. Three weeks after My Little Ghost Friend promised in vain she’d be resurrecting her blog after a month long hiatus, I deleted her blog from my Technorati favorites. It was sad because I liked it a lot, but it had to be done.
Take my list with a grain of salt, like everything in this series. This is my opinion, and thus, is not true for everyone all the time.
For those of you writing your own blog, though, give it some thought.
Have a great weekend!
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on June 17, 2008 at 4:49 am Seth Barnes wrote:
good stuff, Joe. I like your blog.
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