Comments on: Don’t Abandon Your Blog! Mothball it to preserve your asset value

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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:34:19 +0000

That’s exactly what I’m: taking little breaks here and there.

There is so much more to being a successful blogger than writing blog posts. The writing is the easiest part. It’s all the other stuff I have to take a break from, whence the writing suffers as well.

Lately, I’ve been writing on blogs tucked away where nobody can see them… doing plain old fashioned web logging!
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By: Justin Germino

Justin Germino — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:28:11 +0000

I have had to mothball a few blogs already and two of them I did actually end up cancelling and not renewing their DNS name. But blogging is in my blood and if I fall into a lull I just take a few days off and wait for inspiration to strike again.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:39:34 +0000

Ralph, get it into maintenance mode, and just let it steep. It will start to pick up traffic magically over time.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:38:34 +0000

Age gives you that coveted Google boost!
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By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:15:27 +0000

My abandoned first blog has been getting hits lately. I have no idea why. I have considered just deleting it but maybe there is a better idea. It is very frustrating coming to your blog because every time I come. I learn something new and find that there is something more I need to do. Come on. I need some time to create that valuable content.

By: Deacon

Deacon — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:35:46 +0000

Strangely, one of my blogs has *increased* in traffic since I stopped posting. Weird.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:39:22 +0000

I could see that.

In the particular case mentioned, her material is uniquely hers.

For a more commercially oriented blog, your suggestion of selling it and moving on sounds pretty good.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:45:14 +0000

Gabe, could well be a market. I may write it up anyway, even if I don’t get any takers. If I do, the whitepaper won’t be free.
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By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:24:18 +0000

Brian, you have already done it!

It really doesn’t take very much time or effort, just a couple of hours of clean up, reset some options, make sure hosting is paid for… done deal.

Someone who didn’t want to pay for hosting any longer might able to move everything to WordPress.com, but there might some issues for preserving links. Just a thought, possibly worth looking in to.
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