{"id":447,"date":"2007-09-24T08:33:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T07:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cornwallseo.com\/search\/index.php\/2007\/09\/24\/29-reasons-you-need-to-stop-blogging-right-now\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:46:46","slug":"29-reasons-you-need-to-stop-blogging-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cornwallseo.com\/search\/29-reasons-you-need-to-stop-blogging-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"29 reasons you need to stop blogging right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

You need to stop blogging right now if you think:<\/p>\n

1. Blogging is easy
\n2. All I need to do is scrape content
\n3. Your best way of getting backlinks is to trawl the dofollow lists
\n4. You don’t need to study blogging or learn much about the technique
\n5. Starting a blog in the “How to make money” niche is the way to go
\n6. Darren Rowse only made it because he was in the right place at the right time
\n7. You don’t have to spend time on crafting your headlines
\n8. Linking to other blogs means you will leak Google juice
\n9. You don’t need to know anything about your target area (there are exceptions to this, but only for those who know what they are doing)
\n10. Blogging is only about making money
\n11. Linkbait is simply about being controversial
\n12. You can use a blog to simply sell your products
\n13. I can blog without having to write long, informative posts like here<\/a> and here<\/a>
\n14. Slapping a ton of ads on your blog will bring instant riches and traffic
\n15. You only need to post once a month
\n16. You don’t need to spell check
\n17. Purple on red is cool for text
\n18. Animations are fun and it makes the blog come alive
\n19. You can easily rewrite articles from other blogs
\n20. Black Hat techniques are the way to go and will always work
\n21. Your first comment on someone elses blog can contain nothing but talk about your own blog and a link to it
\n22. You only have to write about what someone else has written and not have to bother with anything original
\n23. You don’t need to understand the difference between your and you’re or there, their and they’re
\n24. John Chow is cool
\n25. You can only make it if you have a ready made network of A list bloggers and conference buddies
\n26. You don’t need to bother with stats, feedburner and Google analytics is such drag, and installing them is such a waste of time
\n27. You never need to back up (which reminds me) and that no one will ever hack you
\n28. You think you can make your millions on blogspot or even use blogger.
\n29. You never have to reveal anything of you and your life and you can simply get away with filling your posts with keyword rich text<\/p>\n

If you think any of these things are true, stop blogging right now, go and run in the sunshine, run on the beach, sit on the sofa and open a huge bag of Doritos and watch the movie you just downloaded on a torrent.<\/p>\n

Do anything else, because if you blog, you are just wasting your time and blocking up the interwebs tubes like fatty cholesterol clogging the arteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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