You don’t update it enough

To have a successful blog you need to update it often, once or twice a day or at least once every other day. There is nothing more annoying than someone who does not update their blog often enough. Yes I am aware of the irony as I have not updated this site in a while :) But you need to get new posts up and running as quickly as possible.

You update it too much

Yes it is possible to have too much of a good thing. If you update your page too much visitors could get bored and have a hard time keeping up with the new content. Also having a 1 or 2 line post every few hours is garbage. Come up with some nice rich content.

You don’t promote it

Guess what kiddies – your blog or website isn’t going to get visitors on it’s own. You need to get out there and promote it. Get out on other blogs and websites and promote yourself – DON’T SPAM, just promote.

Over Advertising

Some people think their readers are morons (some blog readers are morons) – you shouldn’t over do the ads. I know I have a few banners but that’s as far as I want to go. I’m back and forth on them right now. I only have them in case I help someone out they might want to give me a referral ;)

Your posts SUCK

Writing posts on irrelevant topics don’t get you any brownie points with your audience. Except maybe in John Chows case where he posts pictures of what he eats. Most of the time that crap won’t fly. Writing repetitive posts are just as bad, if your readers already read it a month ago, why would they want to read it again just reworded?