Comments on: What Happens To Your Blog When You Stop Blogging?

By: John Media @ server hosting

John Media @ server hosting — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:03:02 +0000

Yeah surely traffic would decrease and visitors would lessen. You would likely loose visitors if you’d stops posting new articles and new topics to your blog site. It would also lessen your income as reduced visitors from the site.

By: Wayne@Free Home Based Business Leads

Wayne@Free Home Based Business Leads — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:54:34 +0000

Hey Sheryl,

That is interesting, I would of assumed traffic would decrease, but not the spam increase.

Interesting, I better keep my regular posts up then! lol

By: Robert Bravery

Robert Bravery — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:49:08 +0000

I’m quite surprise that the spam would increase. I could understand that the spam comments would be more prvelant.

But perhaps if your not blogging you’re probably not moderating, this would then certainly leave those unwanted spam comments on

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:54:27 +0000

For over a year and a half, I posted an article daily on my blog, understandinginternettechnology.com. I followed every SEO technique known to man, including Grizzle Bear’s advice and I still get only one or two visitor’s a day.

The competition to gain visibility and search engine ranking is so fierce that I have finally given up on attempting to get any traffic to either of my blogs. At some point, you just have to throw in the towel and accept defeat.

By: Udegbunam Chukwudi

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:43:04 +0000

I’m not sure how not posting frequently leads to reduced traffic. Even Grizzly Bear would argue that. With regards to the issue of spam, some top commentators plug-in come with the function to nofollow all links and that’s exactly what I’ve done on my blog.

By: Text to Voice Mobile App -

Text to Voice Mobile App - — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:33:21 +0000

I don’t update my blog for 2 days. Specially RSS feed subscriber count goes down to 50%. Spam problem is never faced by me in such ways because I’m not using top commentator plugin.

By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:25:23 +0000

Wow, you seem to get loads of spam.

I use to have top commentators on my site, but then removed it. It seems spammers know about the flaw and abuse it to the max.

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:15:58 +0000

I can notice decrease in my organic traffic even if I don’t update my blog for 2 days. Specially RSS feed subscriber count goes down to 50%. Spam problem is never faced by me in such ways because I’m not using top commentator plugin.

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:17:51 +0000

@Shirley,
You were spot on as far as your analysis goes. I suffered from all the above in the past two weeks and the organic visits came down to as low as 35 visits on a day. And the worst was the spam caused because of the top commentator plugin. I had many silly comments with a lot of keywords in the name during this period. But it did not end there. Somebody marked my blog as spam and all comments I was making on the blogs in my reading list was getting caught by akismet. I hope somebody has despamed me already else this comment will end up in your spam folder as well.

Cheers,
Ajith

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:21:39 +0000

Well do your catching up now! Its never too late..

By: Velvet Blues

Velvet Blues — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:10:57 +0000

@stratos & @Dennis: Yes, the break is over.

@Kurt: Oh no, not an experiment. But the statistics are very interesting.

@Gerald: Yes, that is the overall moral. I am going to keep track of the spam and see if I notice a substantial drop as the entries pick back up.

@Ben: Thanks Ben. Yes, I’ve also been somewhat absent from reading blogs as well. Everyone’s published so much new content… I’ve missed out on a lot!

By: Ben Pei

Ben Pei — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:55:41 +0000

Awwww Sheryl, you were away for a long time! I am glad you are back now..

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:52:57 +0000

The increase in spam certainly is an interesting phenomenon.

It seems pretty clear here that the moral of the story here is that there are many disadvantages of putting your blog on hold.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:19:33 +0000

Very interesting analysis, thanks or that.

So you back now?

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:57:18 +0000

You were doing an experiment about Stop Blogging Effect? :S

By: stratosg

stratosg — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:19:55 +0000

I hadn’t thought of the top commentator thingy… That sounds very reasonable. I hope your break is over though and you come back with more insightful articles