1. YOUR READERS
They love you. And not in the creepy internet stalker kind of way (hopefully, at least). If you stop writing for your blog, you’re letting your readers down. You’re bound to have at least one regular readers who simply loves your content and would hate to have it suddenly disappear - trust me. Another upside of readers is the comments you get. Since they love you, as we’ve established before, they’re also going to be leaving positive comments for you (them and the spambots that just say “good post mate, visit myviagrasite.com”) - and everyone loves positive feedback!

2. IT’LL ONLY GET BETTER
The more posts you write, the more content you have. The more content you have, the more search engine visitors you’ll get. Additional content also has the benefit of giving you the chance for more links from other sites. All of this translates into more traffic, backlinks, fame, and RSS subscribers. The worst thing you can do to your blog is to stop writing on it - it completely stagnates all of your growth. The best possible outcome of not writing on your blog is to maintain the status quo, and that’s looking optimistically. If you really want to know what happens to your blog after you stop writing for it, read this.

3. BECOME SMARTER!
Let’s talk about blogging as if it were one of those miracle pills you often see on TV: Blogging is an excellent mental exercise that encompasses creativity, writing skill, social know-how, reading comprehension, market prediction (gotta know whats coming up in your niche), marketing, and finances. Now, I may not be a real doctor, but I do think I have the credentials to say that those things are all good to know. Blogging will help you in life in some way or another.

4. MAD MONEYZ
It probably won’t make you a millionaire, I’m sorry to say, but there are plenty of ways to make money blogging. Even if it’s just a measly ten dollars a month, that’s enough to buy yourself a pizza. And pizza is delicious. Making money with a blog goes back to the second point about consistency: if you write more, you’ll get more visitors which in turn will click on more of your ads. No longer will you have to tell your friends to click on that Adsense banner of yours!

5. PORTFOLIO
If you ever need to bulk up your resume, just write that you’re a marketer, SEO, and problogger.

IN SHORT, there’s no good reason not to keep blogging. You’re only hurting yourself if you stop so strap yourself in and keep on bloggin’.

Posted by Max Miroff | 16 Comments »

A classy cartoon explosion, complete with one of those completely unprofessional StockPhoto watermarks in the middle. Curse you, non-free awesome images!

It’s the moment you’ve been waiting for all your life - the return of Blog Badly. That is, if the moment you’ve been waiting for all your life was the moment that some guy named Max with a funny blog about marketing and SEO decided to come back to writing on it after a four month (well-deserved?) vacation. And if that’s true, then you’re really weird (but awesomely so).

If you haven’t noticed yet, you should look at the title of this post and note my usage of alliteration. That’s right, FIVE B’s. It practically took me SECONDS to think of that. I think that warrants some applause, so I’ll just wait here while you go and do that.

Done yet?

Keep clapping.

Almost there.

Alright! Let’s continue on discussing this exuberant event. Now, what does the return of Blog Badly mean to you? It means that you’ll be getting tips on how to get visitors to your website and become filthy stinking rich as many times as I feel like diverting my time from the other wholly important stuff I do (sleeping, Facebook) per week. That number will probably be around two or three, by the way.

Now this isn’t the first time I’ve risen my blog from the dead, nor will it be the last time I depart you all only to come back again with a clever post about leaving your blog unattended. I really don’t know where I was going with that thought, but I do know that I can now cram two internal links into this post and crank out more pageviews from you guys, my loyal readers. See, I’m already getting back into the game!

So now you know what that gaping hole in your life has been for the past few months - a lack of Blog Badly. Now, all you have to do to fill it subscribe to my RSS feed (all the cool kids are doing it) or just visit Blog Badly every day. Either way, you’ll be getting the most interesting information about the blogging world since August 20th.

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