71,000 Reasons To Quit Blogging
- It takes effort to think of topics for posts
- You have to spend time actually writing posts
- You have to try and make posts sound interesting
- You have to spend time on marketing
- Spending lots of time reading and researching articles
- Reviewing stats can be disappointing
- Nobody is reading the blog
- Analyzing SEO techniques is boring
- Checking keyword density takes effort
- Too much contradictory advice
- Shitty spam sites have higher PR
- Shitty blogs rate higher on Alexa and Technorati
- Getting rid of spam takes time
- Get tired from all the negative comments
- Responding to comments takes time
- Not enough readers
- Not sleeping enough from staying up to date with news
- Hosting fees cost too much
- Making no money
- OK, I am bored with this list now, if you can think of any others, leave them in your comments and I’ll include them here.
- Trying to explain to your girlfriend why you blog takes up a lot of time. Contributed by Jani Helle
- Trying to make her understand that blogging is not a COMPLETE waste of time takes up even more time. Contributed by Jani Helle
- Trying to make a long list such as this one stops you from thinking about anything else (I try to limit myself to lists of ten, althouh 71,000 sounds a lot better) Contributed by Jani Helle
- Having to explain to everyone that a blog is not necessarily an online diary is a lost cause. Contributed by Jani Helle
- Unable to make the Front of Digg Contributed by Saedel
- Reddit users downmodding post submissions Contributed by Saedel
- Readers not stumbling post Contributed by Saedel
- A click on Adsense is worth .01c. Wow. Contributed by Saedel
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Comments
Hi Jani, thanks for your input. Many people write as you do, simply for the pleasure. Whether you write for pleasure or money, or a combination of the two, most will suffer from similar sentiments as yours, and the others on this list.
I’ll ad yours to the list to see if it can get to 71,000.. 
Hi Pro, your email doesn’t have any links but I assume you were talking about this post. if not, just let me know.
Here’s my share:
- unable to make the Front of Digg
- Reddit users downmodding post submissions
- readers not stumbling post
- a Click on Adsense is worth .01c. Wow.
- and yes, blogrush sucks (borrowed from Frank, so dont put this one 
)
I’ll leave the rest to others.
I’ve pretty much given up on stressing about how many readers I have (3), and I can’t be bothered to try to squeeze a few pennies a month from my blogs, so I just write for the fun of writing.
Got a few more for you:
-Trying to explain to your girlfriend why you blog takes up a lot of time.
-Trying to make her understand that blogging is not a COMPLETE waste of time takes up even more time.
-Trying to make a long list such as this one stops you from thinking about anything else (I try to limit myself to lists of ten, althouh 71,000 sounds a lot better)
-Having to explain to everyone that a blog is not necessarily an online diary is a lost cause.
Good start to the list though! Lol