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By: Stay Tuned For More Originality… Hopefully! » Proud To Be Amateur!

Stay Tuned For More Originality… Hopefully! » Proud To Be Amateur! — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:30:48 +0000

[...] Stay Tuned For More Originality… Hopefully! Written on March 26th, 2006 by Vince Chan :: One of my motivations for starting AmBlogger is to hopefully contribute original thoughts to the Blogging community. As such, it is not very often that I use the daily stuff I read to generate new Blog ideas. I mean, I try my hardest not to. I wanted to sound in about blogging with passion, referring to Paul Chaney’s “The Joy Of Blogging“, but Darren has already done it. [...]

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:17:25 +0000

Hehe I bet they get more traffic and revenue than my sites though :)

Well if you change your mind and they’re interesting subjects…

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:08:52 +0000

yep thought of that Andy – however to be honest the sites I’m talking about are sites with very little traffic and very little income. It’d be hardly worth anyone’s while to continue with them at present.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 09:04:06 +0000

Darren: I don’t know which sites you are referring to, but have you thought of inviting other people on board to write for them, maybe with some kind of revenue split?

It might be that the subject just doesn’t do well for you, either in visitors or revenue, but fresh blood, fresh ideas could breathe new life into a site, and if it’s one that you were going to drop anyway, you might find it easier to give away some control over it.

Just a thought.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:26:08 +0000

Being a newcomer to the blogoshpere, I haven’t really been too bored with my subject; it’s something that I really love doing. Hopefully I won’t get burnt up anytime soon, I have a lot of great ideas.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:12:44 +0000

Its an interesting concept, I’ve not heard it called ‘retiring a site’ before, but it somehow fits.

One of my sites, which had become hardwork to keep upto date on a daily basis has slipped to monthly updates. Its not a blog as such, but fresh content was its lifeline, or so I thought. Having slowed the updates down to a managable level without shutting it down completely, it still brings in a high number of visitors – in fact I’ve seen little or no drop in the numbers at the moment. Whether this will remain once google figures out the content isn’t as fresh as it was will be interesting.

Its a difficult decision sometimes to stop working on a site you were once passionate about, but if the returns don’t outweigh the costs, you sometimes have to decide with your head and not your heart.

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:57:56 +0000

Even if you retire a blog it still has the potential to earn some revenue. I have seen some people completely delete sites they’re not maintaining anymore. Unless you’re totally embarrassed by a site (and it will still show up _somewhere_ in an archive) then leave it up. One of my sites that is no longer maintained still pulls in visitors and revenue – probably not as much as if I were still maintaining it, but some articles are still working for me, plus it links to some of my other sites and has a good PR.

By: Prince

Prince — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:06:51 +0000

Hi Darren

Your new pic is nice

I dare not appear in such a hairstyle

Excuse me for the irrelevancy of the comment

BYE

By: duncanriley.com » Recapturing the Joy of Blogging

duncanriley.com » Recapturing the Joy of Blogging — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:51:12 +0000

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By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:54:05 +0000

There must be something in the air. Toni and I have just started reviewing every aspect of our business from our cash flow right through to the people who work for us.

We have been extremely busy for so long that we stopped looking at the big picture and have just let things happen. Now we want to take control again so it’s time to start looking at facts and figures so we have a clear picture of what is working and what isn’t and who is performing and who is really only making more work for us.

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:37:39 +0000

I occassionally take a break from posting on my blog. I've always wanted by blog to reach business level, but now I'm not so sure.

By: Cary

Cary — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:26:59 +0000

I know the feeling well, and at the first of this year I pulled myself from every on-line project that I wasn’t absolutely excited about…the result is that the projects I’m still working on are much better because of it, and I no longer dread sitting down to blog about something I just don’t care about any more.

Sometimes we just have to figure out what does and doesn’t work, and have the courage drop what is no longer important to us, or perhaps no longer successful ;)