In case you missed it Copyblogger gave away 3 reasons WHY you should shoot you Blog in the head. Your blog qualifies if:
- You don’t get any comments, emails or even tweets
- You can’t find any blogs to link to
- You lost all motivation to write
Lets continue this thread and examine our options for how to execute this burial ceremony.
How to Shoot your Blog!
1. Sell It
Based on overpopulation of boring blogs and ease of setting them up, most likely your blog is worthless, as in $0 dollars. However you never know, the saying one man’s garbage is another’s treasure, teaches us a valuable lesson, so it might be worth trying to put your blog up a for sale on the market where people buy websites and blogs, and let the market decide if it’s really worthless.
2. Death by Neglect
If are monetizing your blog with adsense and/or other means and your pitiful amount of traffic brings you some monetary satisfaction, might as well just neglect your blog. Until this revenue stream dries up completely. Don’t forget to factor in the time you spent on even the most minimal maintenance task associated with it, such as for ex. checking you adsense account, before selecting death by neglect.
3. Turn It into a Parking Page
Turn your dying blog into a parking page and let the pennies fill your piggy bank. If you’re lucky this non-lucrative revenue model will cover the expenses of the annual domain name registration and maybe will leave you with enough funds to buy yourself a beer, or take out your significant other to the movies. You might even find a potential buyer for the domain name if you have chosen an attractive and commercially viable, domain name.
4. Just Kill It
If none of the above options are worthy of your time. Delete the domain from your registrar’s account and cancel hosting. You have learned from tis experience and now shot the blog and closed this chapter in your copywriting career.
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