Your Blog Has Died and I Really Miss It!

6 Warning Signs That Your Blog Is In Trouble

Has your blog died? Could it be just hanging on thanks to steady injections of guest posts, blog reviews, paid postings, or anything else but original content from you? You may not even know it, but your blog is dead and I really miss it! Yes, it is time for you to resurrect the corpse and breath new life into your blog. Before you do that, let’s identify 6 warning signs that your blog has died or is fast approaching death’s door:

Payola Posts — Not too many people mind the occasional disclosed paid posts, but when ReviewMe and PayPerPost articles appear as frequently as your regular content, then your blog has caught a bad case of pneumonetization and an antiblogadic is the only thing that will save it at this point. Yes, your traffic is still strong as other posties faithfully stop by to copy (read) your arthritis rub on cream review, but your regular readers have long since moved on.

AdSenseless — How is pay per click working out for you? It must not be working out all that well because that new 336×280 mega AdSense unit is sitting squarely above the fold rendering all of your content unreadable. Guess what? Many of your visitors simply cannot be bothered with scrolling down to find your articles.

Widget City — I found more widgets on your blog then content! Okay, maybe that is a bit of a stretch but one or two nasty widgets are taking too long to load and I, out of sheer frustration, have long since moved on to the next blog.

Filler Posts — Market Yourself Mondays, Tribute Tuesdays, Wordless Wednesdays, Guest Post Thursdays, Friday Freak Outs, and other once-weekly “specials” are now dominating your blog. Transplants are for organs, not for filler posts!

Straying Way Off Topic — The one consistency about your blog is inconsistency. You started off blogging about your subject (e.g., mortgages, teeth whitening, male enhancement) but you increasingly have veered away to cover hang gliding, kitchen appliances, and your personal take on search engine optimization. Okay, fine. However, if you re-purpose your blog one more time your readership will avoid it like the plague!

Outright Abandonment — You’re too busy to blog (or no longer interested) and you haven’t told anyone why you have stopped. Well, if you appreciate your readers then you need to show loyalty to them. Either tell people you have quit blogging or consider mercy killing and post a notice to inform visitors that you have terminated life support. Finished. Kaput. RIP.

Please don’t take your readers for granted — your blog is nothing without their participation. The look of death is evident to everyone except, to you, your blog’s undertaker. I mean caretaker.