Did you Abandon a Blog within its First year? Why?

Hello,

I think this is a great subject and one that I am interested in as well. I've started various blogs in the past but never took them seriously and let them go. I come from a professional background working for corporate businesses in the Pittsburgh, PA area and didn't take internet marketing seriously at first. More recently however, I've come to see how serious of a business it is and how much money can be made in the field.

I'm embarrassed to reveal this, but everyone has to have had a beginning. So here it goes. I started an IM blog based on a course I had purchased and it was strictly auto generated content. I received TONS of traffic and didn't make one dime. It was up and running for more than a year and I didn't make one red cent. My count was over 2,000 unique visitors per day. I learned a tough lesson and wasted my money on a course that preached how important traffic was, but missed the mark when it came to good solid content, monetization and CTR.

A few months ago I completely deleted all content on the url and to this day it sits idle. I plan to go back to it soon, but I know better now and will do it right. I deserved what I got by providing my visitors with nothing valuable. Today however, I have multiple sites up and running successfully. I've learned the right way to set them up and produce genuine traffic through various SEO methods.

So I guess I had a good idea by wanting to provide a site where marketers could come and find information that would help them build their businesses and avoid obstacles, I just initiated it in the wrong way. So I canned it.

For anyone reading this, stay away from auto content, it's not worth the hassle. Generate unique content, it's much more useful and is more rewarding in the end.

Well I have abandoned many blogs within first year mainly because of revenue generation was less compared to the amount of efforts. Some blogs I had to delete due to inappropriate niche selection.

It all depends on what purpose your blog serves.

You can do very well with only 1 or 2 posts per week. It all comes down to how much real value you are providing.

The very first blog i had, i quit because i had no idea of how to drive traffic to it except for PPC. I would write 1 article to the article directories (not Ezinearticles), and looked for overnight traffic - but it never came. I would write articles on the blog, but still no hits. I didn't even know about blogging and pinging back then. I know now tho, and right now... my new blog is doing pretty good.

I tend to abandon my blogs only because they served their purpose. Except my main blog and a couple of others if I decide to build a blog is for "sniping" on a particular product launch, but after the buzz around the product is dead I don't care much to write content on the blog.

Dont start blogging if you dont know how to write. You cant pretend as blogger for long term.

A lot of people who have worked consistently on a blog without substantial results and so they end up abandoning their blog

I think a year is a fairly sizable amount of time to figure out whether the efforts put into monetizing that blog are worth it in terms of rewards, as long as you have been constantly uploading content etc on it.

A lot of people without proper business plans also end up abandoning their blogs because they simply did not see whether creating such a blog would be beneficial or not. I think you should advise your audience to think about the long term when they consider creating a new blog.

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Well I think the most important factor that contributes to this is a lack of interest and lack of planning for the road ahead. If you set out on a journey with no fixed aim on what you seek to achieve you are bound to fail sooner or latter.

Because people soon realize that blogs suck to make money.

It all boils down to passion and motivation. That's why I abandon my first blog.

Writing good articles every day is hard. Sometimes people run out of things to say.

Being a writer isn't easy, and that's really what you have to be.

you shouldn't abandon your blog until you start seeing results this could take a while

I started my first blog in 2006/7 on Livejournal then moved it to Wordpress.com in 2008. It's still running even though it's now self hosted. It is my personal blog and I monetized it very little. I've started others since then and most are still running. I have been tempted to abandon some, and actually did abandon others for a while but then I went back to them.

Yes no traffic...did not make a profit..

I am a new user of blog but i don't think that i will abandon it ever never .I think this is a great subject and one that I am interested in as well. I've started various blogs in the past but never took them seriously and let them go

It depends on why some one created the blog.

Most people create blogs to make money. They Expect to make money from it in a very short period of time. They forget that by design, everything that you expect to Milk from, you must feed it, water it and so on.

How do you water a blog?

You give it unique content. Post on it an a manageable interval.

You them give it links. Both to home page and deep links. This takes time.

But even, the blog must be fully optimized for the search engines (on page SEO). Most beginners have no crew about what this means. They think it is all about writing.

Factoring into account the Sand Box and other things, some people never see a cent from there blogs for a couple of Months. Then they think it is worthless. They abandon it in search for to chase other pipe dreams.

It can surprise you that most blogs are abandoned at a time when they were just ready to start bringing in money.

I abandoned it, but picked it up again. Blogs are so super. They literally wait for you. Well, that is what we are now seeing.

With one blog I got diminishing returns for my effort. The first few articles got a lot of traffic in, but additional articles made no impact to traffic. So I kept the blog, and made some cosmetic changes now and then, but in terms of content it was abandoned and used as a cash cow.

People abandon websites all of the time when they realize that the time invested far exceeds the income they are receiving from it.

People start websites with a profit incentive, and when that incentive seems out of reach, they quit.

People get internet-ADD (or WSO-ADD). They start one project, and when it doesn't make them millions in one year, they jump ship and move on to the next product/WSO/idea.

Honestly, people will make as much money as they want to with enough determination. The only problem is, people lack determination. They may say they have it, but many, many people really don't.

If someone really wants to become a millionaire, they will. And I mean they really are determined, and nothing will stand in their way.

That's a good rule....although I up it to at least 300 articles/reviews.

People generally give up or abandon anything if they find it not worth their time and investment. Same as blogging. Lots of people have given up as they did not see any returns or simply get tired of it.

The most important thing is Consistency and Perseverance. Just keep doing it and you will see results soon. People also need to ask themselves what are the underlying reasons for setting up a blog, is it for personal branding, reaching out to your target audience or simply to create exposure? People setup blogs for different reasons.

Blogs take more time than other methods but it is a really effective way to communicate with your customers. Which is crucial in any businesses.

for me, getting no traffic and the overwhelm involved in how to do so

I've abandoned a few blogs, actually.

The funny this is that in the last 2 weeks, I've heard 2 successful marketers recommend having an IM blog.

So I think that if it's done right, it can work very well. You want people to trust you, which will largely come from having a blog.

I gave up on all my money making blogs and only kept the three I actually enjoy writing and feel good about sharing with the wonderful internet world. All about content. My first couple were pure adsense and I absolutely hated writing about the subjects since they were super niche. Don't make a blog you don't enjoy writing there are better ways to make money with things you don't enjoy doing.

Mostly the reason for me is that it is that I'm no making any money with it. Had a plog for a year, moderated over 3000 spammy comments, 1 person wanted to sucscribe to my list. Takes a lot of time to blog and if there are no results, why bother. Now I have another blog, with the sames issues, but I will be making videos and hope to get better results.

I can only maintain so many blogs at once.

If a blog is:

- Not making money,
- Not getting traffic, and
- Not on a subject I'm passionate about...

I don't have time for it.

I'll maintain a blog that makes money because, well, it's money.

I'll maintain one that gets traffic, because "attention is the currency of the future."

And I'll maintain one that I'm passionate about, because passion is the spice of life.

But if a site has none of the above, I just don't see the point.

Meanwhile, I do check stats, so I don't delete or remove the blog because it may at any time pick up and generate a buttload of interest. I just leave it sit and don't post on it until that happens.

truthfully it only takes a couple of weeks to make money on one blog if you have a good layed out strategy

I aimed for building and maintaining an authority site in the conspiracy niche. Did some extensive SEO and other promotional methods, within 3 months I got 15k unique visitors a day with a very responsive public in terms of interaction and buying. But then new oppertunities crossed my path and I got side tracked, the website is now still gettin 300 visitors a day but it's nothing like it used to be.

To summarize, yes I left my websites after 6 months. Forgot to sell it to get some profit out of it as well and now it's still collecting cyber dust.

Lesson; stick with successful adventures.

When I first started out I built blogs without knowing about proper keyword research, SEO etc, and so I realized that my domain names and key words were only actually getting a tiny amount of searches each month. I maybe made a few dollars adsense but that was about it, so I just abandoned them to cyberspace.

I think people get busy and they find other things to spend their time on. I am someone that has several blogs, but I have not kept up with all of them. Most of the time, I'm busy writing for other people and it's not something I really have time for. I always put my own clients before my writing.

Do you post all 50 articles at once or spread them apart....say one article every day?

I just started on the internet about 3 months ago and I started a blog because everyone and their grandmother suggested it. So, I have a blog that gets 20 viewers a day on average but I don't know what I am doing with the traffic, and I can tell you I am completely overwhelmed with all the possibilities online. CPA, Affiliate marketing, SEO, niche sites, blogging... I just don't know.

But, I am determined to not be another statistic of failure. I have way too much drive and motivation to fail, and now I have all you Warriors!