Comments on: 7 Ways to End a Blog

By: Dolls Auctions

Dolls Auctions — Sat, 22 May 2010 18:43:38 +0000

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By: century 2100 tens

century 2100 tens — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:01:31 +0000

Coca Cola spends tens of millions every year, even though it’s number one¡ just building the brand.

By: Abdul Battuello

Abdul Battuello — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:35:39 +0000

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By: Stewart Rieff

Stewart Rieff — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:04:03 +0000

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By: Words of Wealth

Words of Wealth — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:35:03 +0000

Like you, I’ve started to many blogs because I thought they would be good Money makers. I’ve also been Something of a domain name investor over the years and it can be difficult for me to pass over good ones when I find them.

Mediocre stuff has been deleted over the years but most is either Sold – in full as well as domain only – or been left online as static archives. I have successfully re launched a few but like you said, that only works in some cases.

By: Rahman Mehraby

Rahman Mehraby — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:50:36 +0000

I think the post number 5 is very interesting. You never know what you may do in the future with the blog you don’t want to continue. Just a few years ago, all the sites were like that – static without any new updates. Give it a rest for some time and focus on what you want to do later.

However, if your decision is to sell it, just sell it and get that thought out of your mind and concentrate on the new project you have in your mind. You have only to make sure what you’re doing is the right thing.

By: John

John — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:05:17 +0000

I’ve got a site I’ve re-purposed for the third time now. Main reason was changing interests over the years – found that it’s much easier to write about a newer more compelling interest than keep slogging after the old one. Key is to keep the site name generic.

By: Wallpapers

Wallpapers — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:56:18 +0000

This post and the previous post are some what depressing to me. It makes you think about the option of ceasing the posting on your blog.

Currently, that is not an option for me because my blogs are still growing and have plenty of potential. Still, wondering what if kind of creeps me out.

By: Lyns

Lyns — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:15:34 +0000

Great post, food for thought!

By: drt

drt — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:39:01 +0000

My blog has a PR-4 but covers a wide range of topics. After reading 31DBBB, I decided to concentrate of my current passion on WELLNESS. However, before long I got some positive suggestion to narrowing down my topics, and I thought it’s time to move my WELLNESS topic into a new blog and keep the old blog as is prior to change it into a WELLNESS blog. If I want to write any topic other than WELLNESS I will post it on my current blog.

By: Lucian Apostol

Lucian Apostol — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:51:38 +0000

Few years ago i had a blog on a subdomain of my main website. The main website was doing pretty well. The blog on the subdomain received low traffic by but i never linked to it from the main website. I was not paying to much effort to the blog, i was just writing the articles.

Suddenly, i deleted the blog. I didn’t had any reason for doing this, It was just a spontaneous thing, i felt the need to do some cleaning and keep things clean. I considered the blog garbage and i moved it to the trash.

The articles are now fine on buzzle and other article directories. I counted tens of thousands of views on buzzle only.

By: Ronald Redito

Ronald Redito — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:15:25 +0000

I have been blogging for less than a year and have been earning a few thousand dollars from my blog. However, as I would like to be personal, I used my name as a domain.

I have had friends from this blog as well as those people who wanted to bring me down. As a result my site was compromised and malwares were uploaded. I don’t know the exact cause.

Now I have a dilemma whether to keep the domain or completely shut it down.I can’t seem to get rid of the infection on my blog.

I am not a really a techie and I don’t know how to get rid of these viruses or trojans. I just don’t want to be accused of being part of those spreading malwares in the web.

If there is still a way to salvage, let me know. I would greatly appreciate your help.

By: Games388

Games388 — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:19:07 +0000

Just stop writing and let it stay there

By: Gayla Baer

Gayla Baer — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:22:44 +0000

I’ve sold blogs, I’ve retired them and I’ve redirected them. It all depends on the topic, content and traffic as to what I actually do.

Although I do prefer to sell! I sold a couple on Flippa – but had some luck with ebay too.

The best case happened to be offering my site to affiliates I used who knew how much I made with them and could imagine how much I made with others. It was the easiest and quickest transaction ever.

By: Jeremy Hilton

Jeremy Hilton — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:54:18 +0000

Not going to offer an alternate suggestion, but offer a reason why deleting the blog, IMO, is a bad idea.

I noticed a comment from Karol who refuses to go into archive mode and deletes her blogs, even one with what seemed like a considerable following.

Before deleting a blog, always keep in mind that it’s a component of a “web” and look at how many back links you have pointing to your posts. Bloggers are frequently referencing other bloggers ideas within their own. In many cases, that external piece of content is central to their post… without that context, their point loses relevance.

So before you delete, consider the effects that your action will have on your fellow bloggers.

IMO,

By: Aglolink

Aglolink — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:42:48 +0000

Join in many social media is very helpful. I also use social media to increase traffic, and 70% traffic comes from here.

By: turisuna

turisuna — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:36:37 +0000

For me it depends on the content, for blog with long lasting content such as self motivation or picture gallery, I won’t delete or sell it, I just keep it for my collection :P But for blog with dynamic content which needs to be updated everyday, such as about celebrity or news, I choose to sell it because the blog will be useless if there’s no new content.

By: hokya

hokya — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:08:20 +0000

i just want to share my idea:

i think letting visitor or other relation doing a guest post is one of the typical of website that will be going to and end

By: Marie Prentice

Marie Prentice — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:52:04 +0000

Just as a general rule, if you no longer wish to continue blogging, you shouldn’t ever let your domain delete without at least trying to sell it beforehand! There are great domain name marketplaces available with tons of viewership looking to snatch up domains with traffic.

Try these to start:

Sedo.com
Pool.com
Snapnames.com

Good luck!
Marie P.

http://www.affinityclick.com

By: Anne Wayman - About Freelance Writing

Anne Wayman - About Freelance Writing — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:15:32 +0000

Thanks Darren… didn’t know about Flippa… and I do have a couple of blogs out there I’m not doing a darn thing with.