Of course, blogging is great fun otherwise there would not be 50 million blogs in the world. Why blogging is fun? Different people will answer it differently. I think that 3 of the most common reasons for blogging are:
1. It is very easy to blog. You can publish without knowing any code.
2. Blogs are interactive by nature. Anyone can participate in the discussion.
3. You can blog without spending any money and even you can earn some money if your blog generates enough attention.
However, blogging is not sometimes fun. From my own experience as a blogger and after reading many entries and conversing with many bloggers, I have realized sometimes blogging is not fun at all. Here I have compiled a list of the situations when blogging is not fun. Well, I just tried to make the list a bit funny. If you agree or disagree with me, leave a comment.
Blogging is not fun when:
1. You don’t know much about the blogging tools.
2. You don’t have idea about putting RSS feed in your blog.
3. You have typed an entry of 1000+ words and while uploading, it vanishes into the thin cyber air forever.
4. Your blog's rank in Technorati is 1,999,999.
5. After writing 100 entries in one month, your Adsense earning is $1.11.
6. After writing 100 entries, your daily hit is 11.
7. You are determined to write 5 entries a day but you cannot find time to write even one.
8. Your spouse complains that you are not spending enough time with her/him.
9. Your friends and relatives don’t know what is blogging and think that you must be crazy to write so much for so little or no money.
10. You don’t know about SEO but everyone says it is very important.
11. You write to some of the top bloggers every week for a link but don’t get it even after one year.
12. Your 1000+ word entry makes the front page of Digg or Fark and then you have to suffer dozens of negative comments about your writing skill.
13. Someone links you and then get annoyed why you did not pay back the favor.
14. Everyday, you get 10 offers for link exchange in which 9 are spam blogs.
15. Everyone acts like an expert and gives confusing and contradictory advices on a message board.
16. Your blog receives 100 spam comments in 1 hour and then you have to spend 10 hours to remove them.
17. Some people give you advice about quality when they have none.
18. Others come with weird theories about blogging (if you write more than one article a day, you lose your quality and visitors. Technorati is an unpaid exercise etc).
19. You leave your full time job to become a blogger and find that it cannot even provide you 1 packet of cigarette everyday.
20. You suffer a lot of negative comments about every other thing except your main point in an entry.
21. You receive 10 comments one day and 9 of them are about how bad your article was.
22. You understand that writing a good article is only half the battle- you have to promote it yourself.
23. You have a breaking news item in your hand and guests came to your home.
24. You make a silly typo and it becomes a big deal.
25. You have to give more time to revise your articles for errors than the writing itself.
26. Someone else submits your entry and your blog gets reported in Digg.
27. Others give you knowledge how easy blogging is and you don’t find blogging success easy at all.
28. You make a resolution to follow all tips of Darren Rowse and SethGodin but after few days cannot give time.
29. One day, you have one thousand visitors but no one clicks on your Adsense ads.
30. You applied to be listed in dmoz but even after many weeks your blog still could not make it.
31. You want to apply in a blog directory and after going through the application process find that without reciprocal link it is not possible.
32. Your blog gets 500 hits on Friday and then on Saturday you have just 50 visitors.
33. Blogger Scheduled Outage happens.
34. Being fed up with Blogger Scheduled Outage you decide to leave Blogger for WordPress and then find that Google search is not following you.
35. You are registered user of a top blog and after you write a long comment it goes into moderation.
36. On the day you get linked by one of the top blogs, your Stat Counter (be it Sitemeter or anything) gives problem.
37. After hoping for 3 hours to be Farked, your entry does not make it.
38. You write 10 comments in other blogs but your blog does not get even one.
39. Someone after giving you a reciprocal link deletes it.
40. In your mail box you find that 10 comments have come for your blog and then in a happy mood you discover that all of them are spam.
41. You wish that you knew a bit more about web design.
42. Others ask you to change your code but you don’t know how.
43. Your off topic posts get huge hits but main topics do not attract even 10% visitors.
44. Other bloggers copy your content and do not acknowledge it well.
45. You get 20 thousand headline impressions in BlogBurst but not even 2 'Click Throughs' to your blog.
46. You try to upload your content and get an error message.
47. You go to a vacation for one week and after coming back find your Sitemeter to be in all time low. You have to start again to attract visitors.
48. You blog for your company but you don’t get paid any extra money for it.
49. You lose your job for your personal blog's content.
50. A teenager brags about his misdeeds in his blog and then gets caught by parents or teachers.
51. Blog's RSS feed has 500 subscribers this month and next month 400 of them vanish.
52. You feel that you have covered everything in your niche and you cannot find new ideas for your content easily.
53. You suffer from blogger's block and cannot write anything in your blog for a while.
54. You have written a great article but your friends don’t appreciate it.
55. You write to big companies for interviews and they do not support you.
56. You are not a person who can accept criticism easily.
57. You do not know how to make del.icio.us delicious and get noticed there.
58. In one blog you read that your blog entries should be short while in another blog you find the opposite advice.
59. You complain to everyone that blogging is a very ill paid work and then you open another blog so that you can nag more.
60. You know everything to become a successful blogger but you just don’t have the time.
I hope you enjoyed reading it. Actually, I just tried to assume many of them and I know that most bloggers do not suffer most of these problems.
Finally, again, I like to reinstate that blogging must be a lot of fun otherwise so many people would not get involved with it in the first place.
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