Entries Tagged ‘stop blogging’

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 not arise, but if it is unavoidable there are a number of things that you could do to make the exit as smooth as possible.

Taking care of the existing content

If you decide to stop blogging, it is always better not to delete the blog itself or remove it from your hosting account. If you had written some good timeless content in the past, there could be still some visitors that are coming from hard references or via search engines. Hence as much as possible, keep the content intact.
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Last week, Alan Johnson of The Rating Blog closed down his popular blog! From an outsider’s perspective his was a reasonably successful blog and really had all the essential marketing ingredients in it. The blog’s health index (Google: PR5, Alexa: around 100,000 at its peak, RSS Subscriptions: 12K plus) was not bad either and he had quite some followers, including yours truly.

Since Friday, I was pondering why would one stop blogging if it is passion for him/her or even career by choice? Well, I am not particularly talking about Alan and his blog here, but about the possible reasons that could persuade some one to call it quits, in the general context. I could already think of some valid reasons.

Top five reasons to stop blogging

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