blog terminator tutorial: 3 proven ways to ruin your blog

There are quite a few ways to ruin a blog. The competition is enormous, there are thousands of better bloggers out there and in order to be read and recommended, you have to beat this competition. However, there are also many ways to unintentionally ruin your blog and the sad thing is, many good bloggers (i.e. informative bloggers who have something to say) do it. The techniques I list below were not tested on toptut.com (nor on animals) but were tested on friends’ blogs and are based on solid theory as well as common sense and logic. Should you decide to watch your blog suffering a slow and painful death, I’d recommend to implement all of the 3 methods for best results. So…

1. Stop updating. You worked hard and added a lot of content already, readers should be grateful you bothered to write all this already. Don’t bother anymore and most important don’t get tempted to post about some new gadgets or upcoming news.

2. Require to register in order to leave a comment. Believe me, your blog’s visitors have no life nor anything better to do than to take the time and register in your blog, then log in every time they re-enter. These are the little hassles that make the surfing experience slower and more annoying, but they’re going to love it. Remember to keep the accounts waiting for manual activation.

3. Animate the dull world. Who will read a boring text against a boring layout? Take example from Las Vegas (biggest world’s ‘wow’ factor) and create your own little “Las Blogas”, — blinking and colourful. Ideally you should add a lot of affiliate banners that promote money making sites (”pay us 20$ and we will pay you 20000$ tomorrow”-style; this would be very much Las Blogas!). The more affiliate banners - the better, but to add some more zest to the design itself, I’d suggest using red font text against black animated background - your readers will sure have their eye sight destroyed, but perhaps it was worth it. The good thing is, if they’d want to complain about it, they can’t - they need to register in order to comment and since your blog will not be updated anymore, you won’t get to activate their account anytime soon. You see, all thought through.

Now, this was a quick “blog terminator” tutorial. Hope it was of use and will help you to achieve the results fast and easy. I’d want to add however, that if you are unwilling to see your blog dying in pain, it could be a good idea to try and avoid all the generously given advices you just read.