95% of blogs are abandoned by their creators in the first year and that’s a scary figure to belong to
I am being generous with 95% of them, because many of them belong to someone doing the test and had no intention of continuing, but others were projects in which their creators had poured all their love and for a number of reasons they have not endured the first year of creation.
Why we quit blogging
Resisting the first year is hard and there are very important reasons that can make you leave your blog. In your first year did you think about quitting? I do admit it, I didn’t think I connected well, it also cost me much more to write and I embarked on long tutorials that in the end I didn’t dare to publish besides, the visits were few and the staff I changed it because it wasn’t what I liked does something similar happen to you?
YOU DO NOT HAVE THE RESULTS YOU EXPECTED FROM YOUR BLOG AND YOU DECIDE TO LEAVE IT
Normally what happens is that when people see that the results are not what they expected when setting up the blog, they get desperate and sometimes it is not for less with the effort that is used.
Perhaps you have not set yourself manageable goals in the first year, you may need to phase those goals better so that they are not frustrating.
YOU ARE NOT PASSIONATE ENOUGH ABOUT YOUR TOPIC TO STICK WITH YOUR BLOG
Sometimes it is because we are not passionate about the topic, yes, there are people who let themselves be guided by what would be the dynamics of the niche blog and the topic can become unsustainable, imagine writing about something you do not know and that you simply do not like by obligation. This produces a wear and tear that ends in abandonment.
YOU CAN NOT DEDICATE ALL THE TIME A BLOG NEEDS
This is the main reason for a blog to be abandoned, the lack of time, not everyone can manage to dedicate at least 4 hours a week to the blog at the very least, unfortunately effort and success go hand in hand. Organizing time is very important and planning the post.
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YOUR THEME IS NOT AS VIRAL AS YOU THOUGHT
This problem is one that we find, the same you are passionate about something that is minority so it is not easy to monetize in a classic way with affiliates or display ads.
Not having huge traffic is synonymous with success, there are very specific blogs that have a high conversion rate since they are micro niches, imagine that your blog has an 85% CTR in ads compared to 2% that a normal blog can have.
IT IS NOT ECONOMICALLY SUSTAINABLE
I already talked about this topic when I said that WordPress.org blogs can have a limited life of one year, since the cost of their maintenance is sometimes heavy and if the blog does not give the joys that you expect, it is easy for you to abandon it. .
Do not change from blogger to WordPress is a trap Having a blog and not being able to bear its cost after a year can be a possible cause of abandonment. If you want to know about how much it costs to have a blog in WordPress
TECHNICALLY YOU CAN’T STAND THEIR MAINTENANCE
Another reason that is not uncommon for abandoning the blog in the first year is technical problems, making changes, templates, plugins, maintenance, SEO and a large number of other resources that you must take into account when you start a blog, development takes time and it will force you to sink your elbows or open your wallet. For example, adaptation to the RGPD has helped many people decide to close because they cannot face the demands of technical adaptations and drafting of legal texts.
How to get through the first year of your blog
In this post I told you how to get through the first year like I did with this blog, I think it should work for anyone Overcome the first year of the blog. But there are things that if you know them before or at the beginning can help you become the resistance that endures with the blog against all odds!
CHOOSE THE PLATFORM THAT IS MOST COMFORTABLE FOR YOU AT FIRST
Then you can always change, you can start writing on Blogger, Wattpad or Medium and maybe migrate later and make changes, so the first year is dedicated to writing and attracting an audience.
REALISTIC GOALS = FRUSTRATION 0
Be realistic when setting goals, for example with visits, do not expect to reach 10,000 per month as soon as you start, try to set real goals according to your possibilities, which are defined and within reasonable periods of time.
ORGANIZE YOUR TIME AND PLAN YOUR BLOG
Good task management and saving time will make your blog last better over the years, well-planned tasks are more bearable over the years.
FOCUS ON FEW THINGS BUT DO THEM WELL
Don’t want to cover everything, start with the aspects you control best, invite other people to talk about topics in which you don’t have enough experience and optimize what little you do.
Setting up a blog does not guarantee sure success
Setting up a blog does not mean that after two days people start coming in to see what you have written, setting up a blog often takes a lot of time and effort. Perhaps that 95% that drop out is made up of people who have not known how to choose how to carry out the project and how to approach it, or as I am seeing, we chose an unviable project, or we simply have not put all the meat on the grill. Reasons why your blog does not succeed. In this blog we talk a lot about putting all possible means so that we succeed, yes with work here at no time will you have heard of a magic formula, or miracles or instant plugins, we have talked a lot about perseverance , good content, sea and optimization.
