You check your traffic every day but all you find are tumbleweeds blowing across the landscape of your blog. Well, there’s a reason you’re not building readership. Your blog sucks. Most do, and all for the same reasons. The same 7 reasons.

1. Your writing is boring – Ever come across writing that are both educative and entertaining? The simplest way to add life into your articles is by writing your post the same way you talk. It adds personality in your post.

2. Your blog revolves around you – Stop talking about yourself already. I don’t know you personally, and I couldn’t care less about your ramblings. Tell me something I can use in my own life. Facts, stories, not boring personal stuff.

3. You’re repeating what others are saying – So what’s the whole point of reading your blog? I’m not saying you shouldn’t gain insight on what to write by reading other blogs, but always make sure to put your OWN two cent on the matter. Not a blatant copy paste of other peoples work.

4. Media on auto-play – Nothing irritates me more than finding videos, or music on auto-play when I enter a site. I can bet my life it’s the same for most people. Don’t do it.

5. Nothing but a wall of text – What was your immediate reaction when you see a wall of text coming your way? Hit the back button, right? So be kind to your readers by breaking your points into paragraphs. No one ever reads wall of text anymore. It hurts the eyes.

6. You post once a month – The worst you could do to kill your blog is by writing one hell of an article and leave it till next month before you get your new post up. For established bloggers, they might be able to pull this off. But if your blog is new, I recommend at least three posts a week for the first couple of months.

7. Your blog design is lame – It’s not about being colorful, nor was it about the amount of widgets you have on sidebars. It’s about functionality. If you have Adsense paste all over your blog, chances are, visitors are going to leave before they even read your articles.

Good news is, its never too late to correct these mistakes.

Nik Imran is the author of IMakeABlog, a blog that provides guide on blog setup. If you have no clue as to what constitute a blog, you can check his article where he answers the most basic question in elaborate fashion. What is a blog?

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