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By: Things to do before taking a break from blogging…

Things to do before taking a break from blogging… — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:49:19 +0000

[...] | August 15, 2008 | Blogging Tips A couple of posts back, we discussed the scenarios that compel a blogger to take a break or even calls it quits from the blogging routine. It is always better that such a situation does [...]

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:16:29 +0000

@Shirley, In fact, I have not stopped contributing online for the past ten years or so… It will exist in some form or other – like code snippets, forums, personal sites, blogs… but I should admit that I didn’t have a particular blog or website maintained for more than 3-4 years. My personal domain is existing for about 10 years now but only used for mail services now…

You never know, I might think of writing in some other niche by the year end

By: Shirley

Shirley — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:34:01 +0000

Yeh, personally I don't like the idea of stopping anything. Instead, I often 'reinvent' things that have stopped being useful or enjoyable, like my personal blog.Shirley's last blog post... Google Maps’ Street View Helps Fight Crime!

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Blogger - Blog Reader Engagment Models - DollarShower.com — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:07:17 +0000

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Things to do before taking a break from blogging… - DollarShower.com — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:38:51 +0000

[...] couple of posts back, we discussed the scenarios that compel a blogger to take a break or even calls it quits from the blogging routine. It is always better that such a situation does [...]

By: Ajith

Ajith — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:04:52 +0000

@Matthew, you are absolutely right. Many times short term goals (especially money part) make people blind and they tend to cash in as much as possible in short time and move on. Usually, that is the case with younger generation (Rajaie acquitted )

Talking about that…
@Pras, you said it. Lack of focus is a definite reason. I have seen people starting a blog with a certain subject and suddently write about virtually anything either to create more content or the new topics have become hotter (read: keywords)

Thanks a lot for your views

By: Pras

Pras — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:39:50 +0000

I am in the blogosphere from past three years. I have never thought of quitting blogging, as it has become my passion. During my three years of journey, I have seen lot of people, who called quits for blogging just after few months from their start. I too agree with the five points that you have mentioned. Apart from those, I think there can be lot of other factors which can compell the bloggers to call quits. Two such things, which I like to mention here is ‘Lack of Focus’ & ‘Lack of patience’. If we are not focussed on a particular topic or a set of related topics it becomes difficult to maintain the blog in the long run. And I have also seen people who try to make lot of money in a very short span of time without even bothering about the quality of the content.

By: Matthew Castro

Matthew Castro — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:51:47 +0000

It’s weird to see businesses becoming more short trended instead of long trended. Before people were so caught up in creating a business for the long run, but when blogging hit the market, businesses became more of a short-lived trend, rather than a business that’s being built for the long over-haul.

By: Ajith

Ajith — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:13:27 +0000

Not sure if all his statistics were faked. But when I was posting the feed comparison tools writeup, I took a look at the feed trends of all blogs that I know. His was a perfect straight line which was rather intriguing!What I thought was, he got used to a writing style that was applauded and accepted well in the beginning, but then could not cash in that much after a few months. Genuine readership was drastically reducing...

By: Rajaie AlKorani

Rajaie AlKorani — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:37:08 +0000

It’s weird I didn’t hear about Alan’s blog closing down, you’re the only blog that talked about it. Although there were some rumors and opinions going around about his blog statistics being faked, anyway, great post