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Bad Blogging Practices
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As I go through blogs in the dofollow blog directory, I run across some interesting blogs. Some are interesting in a good way, and some are interesting in a bad way. Some really point out people that are desperate to make money and that leads them to do some really annoying things.
Here are some of the bad blogging practices I see as I review flagged nofollow blogs.
A blog full of advertising banners really does you no good. You may think that the more banners you have on your site, the better chance you have of someone clicking on that banner, and the better chance you have of making money. Wrong!
It’s okay to have banner ads on your blog, I have some on this blog. But, I have seen blogs that are using banners in the header, banners at the bottom of the blog, banners in the left sidebar and banners in the right sidebar. Plus, banners in the post.
All those banners say to me that the blog owner is trying so hard to make a few bucks that they don’t really care about providing any value to the reader. The banner clutter is annoying, and it often causes the blog to load very slowly. If your blog is slow to load due to too many graphics, people will leave your blog without even having a look.
Again, it’s okay to put a few banner ads on your site, just make it a few banners. Also, make sure those banners don’t slow the load of your blog too much.
Another thing that really bothers me, and will cause me, as a visitor, to leave your blog, is opening more pages in the background. I have visited a number of blogs that open another browser window in the background when their blog is opened. This is annoying to me, but tolerable. But, a few blogs will open more than one window. Then when you close a window, another window is opened, and when you exit the blog yet another window is opened.
When I see this nonsense happening, I just automatically close all those stupid windows and will never buy anything from your blog, and will probably not even read your blog. When new windows are opened like that, they are opened in a new browser, which uses more computer resources, which can slow a computer to a crawl. I have even seen it lock up a PC.
Why would you want to make visitors mad at you? Of course you don’t want to upset your visitors, so don’t do it. I suggest you don’t open any windows in the background, even on exit. If you want to present something to a visitor on exit, there are programs that will pop up a box when they attempt to leave. I suggest you do this instead of opening a browser window.
These are a few blogging practices you should avoid.
Thank you to those that are using the dofollow blog directory and are reporting blogs that are nofollow.
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Have to agree with you, banners and pop ups are really annoying.
I hate it when you leave a web site and are hit with new window, after new window being opened. I’ve had a few where I have had to open Task Manager and close the browser to get out of the constant new windows opening.
The reviews are very interesting. These tips serve as a guide of good bloggers. Blogs or sites with a lot of banner ads is to make us less comfortable. The presence of banner ads should be proportional. Slow loading sites should also be avoided. Thanks for your sharing.
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I am ok with sites with lots of banners, ads as long as the owner design the site properly and the site doesnt look cluttered
Banners are really annoying. If I arrive at a site and all I see is google adense and banners everywhere I leave right away. But ultimately it really depends on your site…Some sites are there just to try and get those extra clicks, and sometimes it works.
I have too few adds in my blog but I try to keep them on the side. I really hate blinking adds, pop-up adds and background adds. One other thing is people who have music or sounds on their websites. These are definately no-no for me.
I think that adds that really work for me are the ones that are done for that site only. They might even be a part of the site´s graphic elements.
If you think blogs that open one solitary new window are slightly annoying, wait until you come across a zombie popup.
“*blog opens new window*
Buy things!
*I click the X to turn it off*
*window opens new window*
No, you can’t just close it. I’m begging you to buy things! Click Cancel and BUY THINGS!
*I try to click that off*
Sorry Dave. I can’t let you do that Dave…”
Those things fill me with unquenchable rage.
Really too many banner ad displays will defeat the purpose and will get you nowhere.
Most of the blogs online today are form making money and that is why they are full of advert.
The advertisement shouldn’t be annoying unless you won’t get enough of really quality traffic.
The posts are very interesting. These tips is a good guide for bloggers. The presence of banner ads should be proportional. Slow loading sites should also be avoided. Thanks for your sharing.
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The tips that you have defined for bloggers are really informative. Thanks for posting such an informative article.
There seem to be programs out there that will create multiple sites for people whereby they capture so many words, then link back to your site. To me, that’s still scraping, although those folks say it’s not because it’s giving people attribution for what they’ve written. I disagree because it happens almost immediately after I’ve posted, so it has the potential to take away from me. At least that’s how I feel
It isn’t so much the banners that I find annoying as it is the blinking, crawling, flashing banners. Visual clutter is not good in any form of advertisement, be it print, television, or online. Even millenials like to see clean lines and simpler layouts, despite their short attention spans.
There are some weird blogs out there. Everyone thinks they are an SEO and they love putting their face on their site.
Thanks for listing all the do-follow blogs here. This made my work simple. We too have an dofollow blog with us
In my opinion, by installing a do-follow the logo, it means we are committed to provide comment back to anyone who commented on our blog. Is not that right? But that’s just my opinion only.
Nice article.
Very well done to this short but excellent outline of the basic SEO mistakes. A non professional can easily understand it and think with it. It helps as well for online reputation management.
Nice post describing some of the bad practices in blogging. I agree with you. Good tips.
I really hate the ones that yell at you when you are trying to leave. Like a popup is going to make me change my mind. Yeah right. I am leaving for good when that happens.
I don’t mind blogs with a billion advertisements as long as their not;
1) Noise/speaker ads- these seriously piss me off and i leave in less then 3 seconds
2) When I click a topic it opens and ad- this is garbage and ruins the whole web experience.
So to people with sites like this think about changing that your bounce rate will dramatically improve.
anyway thats my 2 cents.
I totally agree with your post. A lot of these blogs are just ridiculous. So many ads you can’t even find the article.
Yes that right putting load of banner ads is not good on our blog. It take too much loading time as well as our visitors also do not like to browse blogs which are load of sponsored advertisement.
Totally agreeing with you it is very annoying to see only publicity on a blog also much of them has pop-ups, this is horrible.
I totally agree with you, the more banner ads the more you want to close that site. True, it’s reaaally annoying !
Some new ways some blogs advertise as well is by taking you to a YouTube video with sound? This happen to anyone else?
You are absolutely correct.These are nothing but MFA (Made for adsense) sites which contains little or no content, with only intention being to make money without offering anything valuable to readers.I put only adsense ads and text link ads on my blog and they hardly affect the load time as i use a very simple fast loading wordpress theme.
When I see a site with that many banners I often just think it’s a spam site to try and make money and not really contribute anything or allow comments.
Thanks for the tips, I have recent made my own blog site and hope not to make those mistakes. I guess again that there are only few people with the passion to provide something raw and satisfying for their visitors and than there are others who simply want to make the dollar bills
I’m amazed how many blogs out there smother you with banner ads, I have never clicked on any banner add, ever! I appreciate that they are trying to make a buck but over doing it just screams “scam” or “no substance”.
I think the biggest mistakes bloggers make is not finding a balance between content and advertisements. Too much content you are leaving money on the table, too many ads, and readers tune out.
I agree, some people are just way to desperate to make even a few cents on adsense. Hard work gets you there, not thousands of banners. This is blunt, but if you want to make money on the internet you have to make it seem like you don’t want to. Otherwise people will think you’re just using them, and they’ll stop reading your blog.
I hve a lot of banners on my site but these are all relted to the post/topic or offering some value to the user like a special offer. The main goal for the blog is to make money but I like to think the articles and information also helps my users with their training routines / diets etc.
Rich
Actually, a blog with full advertising just for a short time business, not for a long time.
Great post mate, I have suffered many errors and problem that you have put up here. I just think blogging as a guest blogger is definitely a way forward now.
I completely agree about the banners! The blog is for content and community interaction, not to shamefully plug the service or products offered (although there’s roundabout ways of still sneaking it in there without being too confrontational).
I also appreciate that you mentioned opening extra browser windows. If I navigate to a blog or website and it tries to force open other windows, or annoying pop-up boxes that say something like “Do you really want to leave this page?” when you try to go back, I mentally blacklist it straight away. I suppose there are some gullible people who will be all over those pop-ups like a winning lotto ticket, but the average net-savvy user is going to hate you for it.
If a blogger is at his initial stage he will focus on making more money by ads and will pay less attention to the content of the blog but as the time passes he will get to know that content is king.
I think that some people make their blogs dofollow, and then soon after they are accepted into these directories, they make them nofollow. I have see a LOT of blogs in do follow directories that were really nofollow.
Many banners don’t relate the sites, and they make me annoyed. When I see them, I immediately want to kick them away from the sites, or turn off my computer right away.
On the contrary, there’s still have some ads which are truly interesting
Hey I really feel blogs are for either keeping your views or accepting or having other’s views and these advertisements or banners which just arise like that in between whenever I click makes my blogging experience very bad. There should some limit for this. It shouldn’t be that whenever we try going to some link a pop up window appears.
1 link = 100 words but you really need to focus on the content for SEO purpose. Your blog must have at least 10 pages before starting linking. Then you aim at 100 pages to feed properly search engines : visits will follow according to your positioning.
I can consider myself like the average net-savvy user and blame the banner poping without ever even notice it that is paradoxical, but, there is no law in it. Not fill to much, and before internet, my imagination of the nasty filthy internet expansion television is slow-surely promoting like, all stranger look the same and have the same invader-indifferent look so much those zillons of shit pages on the web.
I am still ok with banners here and there. I just don’t like pop ups. Especially the one when you are leaving the site.
This article should be a good reference for those abusive in banners and ads. Anything that is to much can cause undesirable outcome towards the receiver. I hope someday there should be an implemented standard and professional protocol on this, that is based on professional ethics.
I have visited a lot of blogs, it seems to be ture of what you mentioned. They are really many blogs are not very meaningful for the visit, and I think the blogger should create some highly qualified articles for the visitors to read and enjoy.
Definitely using banner excessively looks bad and annoying. I agree with you that we should ensure those banners don’t slow the load of our blog too much.
what about the value of dollow blog high PR instead low PR?
Thanks for the great post, I couldn’t agree more with you. It just makes it that more obvious that their trying to sell you something or get you to opt-in to their list. The visitor should actually want to, not be forced to take action.
Thanks for the post and great directory!
You’re right, when it comes to banner adverts less is definitely more. When you have too many ads on your blog the reader will just block them out or leave. Both are result you don’t want.
Banner blindness is something people bloggers deal with a lot these days. As a result, text link ads are sometimes a safer alternative. Innovation in creating ads will ensure that you convert when you do happen to promote different offers on your blog.
This article is extremely useful for all the webmasters who are new to blogging. Following these rules + getting so me additional feedback from the other posts will definitely allow them to avoid many mistakes and to create a really good blogs in the future. Great article, keep up the great work you are doing.
Well I have to say that what is mentioned here in this post is definitely true, I usually research on how to have a successful blog writing and so as to submission. I have to agree with the majority of the posts, that banners and popups are really annoying, usually I turn off popups on the options of whatever search engine I use, it is also the root cause of viruses and rootkits
Thanks for these tips about what NOT to do. I think the template is a critical factor, too. A clear white, 3 column background looks best with few banners like this and good contrast in the text. Content that’s helpful and not just a sales pitch. I must write some good articles now instead of just plugging some ClickBank product offering
This is a great post. After reading it I am thinking I will need to narrow down so of my own ads.
I’ve chosen good page rank websites to link on and backlinked a ton, but it seems this blog alone has made me more money.
I have another one for your list – badly spun content! I hate coming across a blog with posts that make no sense whatsoever…
I have to admit in the past I have been a bit naughty and placed too many banners and other adverts on my blogs and websites, but I would hope that I am slowly learning to get the balance right.
I have also been in such a rush to get my post completed and move on to the next task, that I have not always posted content as good as I should.
Its mostly over eagerness on the part of inexperienced bloggers who get carried away with the power of their new toy!
I have just given myself a slapped hand and hope you will all forgive me.
Yeah em totally agreed with you.. Pop ups are the worst things ever.. u know what em doing some critical kind of work they suddenly appear and show me a message…
“Then when you close a window, another window is opened, and when you exit the blog yet another window is opened.”
That’s because your ultimately being used for the websites statistics in a sense in order to sort of increase their chances of keeping you on the site. The trouble is, the site is bad enough to deal with but yet they hold your arm saying you can’t go. If there was only a button which you could press to slap
In most of the time I am spending in front of my computer, I’m mostly reading various blogs. Everyday I’m stumbling upon new ones and I’m starting to see that lately people stopped caring about the content, they are posting, rather they are just there for the quick buck. 90% of the blog is covered with all kinds of ads which makes it terrible to read. Of course I’m never clicking those ads, as most people. So all in all in my opinion those kind of blogs can’t make any real money.
I hate it when you leave a web site and are hit with new window, after new window being opened.
yes.. too much advertise banners should not be placed on the blog. It makes our blog very stuffy and it doesn’t look well.
Your tips is awesome… I follow you.
Goog article, I just hope that some of the anoying bloggers that use these habits. See the error of their ways.
90% of the blog is covered with all kinds of advertising which makes it terrible to read. I think the blog can not make any real money.
Thank you for encouraging people to use better quality blogs. There is no purpose to cheat the system. Just post honest, high quality content and you’re bound to be found!
It’s not a good look for bloggers to pop windows with unrelated garbage. The worst pages are those that try to auto-install malicious scumware/adware. Eventually, these bloggers will either see the light (by reading posts like this), or they will swear off online money making and go around complaining that it does not work.
Thanks for the information now I will decrease the number of banners from my blog till now I was doing bad blogging practices but know I realize thanks for the information.
Here is a list of dofollow blogs are very useful for me or those who are looking to write this blog due to follow up such comments or information useful and necessary for a new site. I also wrote many reviews for different blogs, my purpose is advertising on his company’s products through the website, the internet or blogs …. etc.. But that is not the most important thing I need, which is I want to use dofollow blog with lots of links to many other bloggers post comments and get better advice or other information better.
I agree that too manu banners detract from the site experience. Less is More really…
Many blogs have banners and pop ups everywhere it really detracts from the visitor experience and hardly entices you to click on an ad.
I do agree with this post pop us are so annoying for me. Post is really good
Thanks buddy for you great tips about the banners, yeah em totally agreed with you blog, banners most of the times slows down the speed of opening any page.. and they are the irritating things,,
Quite a few Firefox users are able to bypass ads entirely using the plugin called AdBlock. Of course, a site that overloads on ads so much that you need to block everything probably doesn’t have content worth seeing in the first place. (Hopefully, they allow ads on the sites that DO provide worthwhile content.)
Absolutely right that if you have a blog with full of advertisements then it cannot leave a positive effect on their blog followers. It will be better to use only one banner at top and not use much banners anywhere.
I am agree with your post.Thank author sharing.At this is once!.Here is a list of dofollow blogs are very useful for me or those who are looking to write this blog due to follow up such comments or information useful and necessary for a new site.
I myself am guilty of having one of my pages of my blog utilizing a few too many banners. The banners are for popular traffic exchanges and are appropriately listed on my “Traffic Exchange” Page. They don’t affect my page loads much(1sec page load), and they give a better insight as to the look and feel of each specific Traffic Exchange before deciding to enter.
As far as “dofollow” goes, I use Blogger and set my ‘robots’ file to “index” and “dofollow”. Is this enough to encourage readers to comment or is there another method I could employ? Curious to find out more.
I don’t mind banners if they add value, like details of special offers.
The thing that annoys me the most is masses of adsense ads. A few is fine, 20 is not!
I hope you never stop! This is one of the best blogs Ive ever read. Youve got some mad skill here, man. I just hope that you dont lose your style because youre definitely one of the coolest bloggers out there. Please keep it up because the internet needs someone like you spreading the word.
Interesting article. Well done and good luck with your very great work. I wish you have a luxury time to consider using benefits articles can offer. Thanks for sharing.
I’m a huge fan already, man. You’ve done a brilliant job making sure that people understand where you’re coming from. And let me tell you, I get it. Great stuff and I cant wait to read more of your blogs. What you’ve got to say is important and needs to be read.
I totally agree with you every site needs advertising, but if you over load it you will put off your readers.
I totally agree that Blog commenting is not all about building links for PR and SERPs sake only. It should also build reputation and pull potential traffic back to your website. Above all, it should be a give and take relationship.
I agree with you, but dofollow blog’s attract more traffic.
Blogging is really a big thing in online business. And having a good blog will make you visitors come back and long for more, so that’s important to take care of your blog. Choose your words and see the taste of your visitors.
Add some banners on your site is not a wrong thing. But when you decide to add, you should consider so carefully. The banners have to suite your site and moderate quantity. If not, your interface site will be messed up.
Thanks for your note.
Thank you so much for listing all the do-follow blogs here. This made my work simple. We too have a dofollow blog with us.
The ads thing is so annoying. I hate when I visit blogs and am assaulted by tons of ads or a popups. Bloggers should realize that establishing credibility is the key to making money online. Flooding your visitors with ads does not establish that for sure.
You need to place presentable ad banner and keep your blog look clean.
great information provide about dofollow blog comment keep it up this good work.i will add a my bookmarks list in this blog
Thanks for commenting on this issue, I guess some of the blogger online today, primary purpose is to used the blog to make money.
I’m a huge fan already, man. You’ve done a brilliant job making sure that people understand where you’re coming from. And let me tell you, I get it. Great stuff and I cant wait to read more of your blogs. What you’ve got to say is important and needs to be read.
Good blog,I must say.