August 9th, 2009 Add Your Comments Bookmark and Share

Every now and then I get fed up with blogging, it usually comes down to one or 2 reasons but I guess over the years there have actually been quite a few. To be fair some of these points are specific to the make money online niche but they could relate to other areas where blogs are popular. I’ve decided to list my top 10 reasons for giving up blogging:-

1. It is BY FAR the least profitable use of my time I’ve found online
2. I hate dealing with hundreds of spam comments every day
3. Readers who are demanding yet contribute nothing. If I haven’t responded to your e-mail it’s because it’s either a stupid question or the answer is openly available on the blog.
4. Never ending updates to Word Press, it’s enough to make you write your own CMS!
5. The feeling that I’m giving too much away, I can fully understand why 99% of bloggers in this niche push out “you can do it” and “making money is a mind set” nothing posts.
6. I kill my own income streams. Seriously, every time I write something up a hundred people jump on it but rather than adding their own spin they have to do EXACTLY what I’m doing. It’s the whole reason I’m pulling the $100 Day Adsense post – I’m staggered at how many people can’t think of niches to target?????
7. Pretenders. There is definitely an under current of people in the MMO niche that will never ever make any real money online because they are terrified of spending money. They are usually first to comment with something like “I’m definitely going to do this”. They see everything I write as a con or trick designed to get them to part with money. This doesn’t exist in any other niche I work in. If I say something works it is because I am using it and IT WORKS.
8. I don’t need to blog, it does not improve my life in any way shape or form.
9. I hate the label blogger, I don’t know why. I’d rather be labelled as a Catholic than as a blogger (I’m not by the way)

And finally my favourite for today -

10. “You made a spelling mistake”, e-mails. Nope, the odds are that I either made a typo or I’m targeting a typo search phrase (I can spell but I’m not a professional typist) but thank you very much for e-mailing me about it THREE F’ING TIMES!

So there we have 10 solid reasons why to give up blogging. But if I did that where would I write down my rants when I wake up in a grump?

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