How to Make Readers Avoid Your Bog Like the Plague

John at Finding the Money offers us these 20 points on what not to do if you want to generate traffic to your blog.

1. Never analyze your blog from the perspective of a first-time reader
2. Whether in design or writing, show no passion
3. Be as wordy as possible
4. Always link to well-known blogs, never to obscure ones
5. Write uninteresting titles
6. In all things, avoid variety
7. Focus on frequency of posts – not frequency of good posts
8. Don’t reply to comments
9. Post infrequently
10. Avoid displaying personality at all costs
11. Provide only a partial RSS feed
12. Be self-congratulatory
13. Avoid paragraphs and white space
14. Make links open in a new window
15. Never add pictures to your posts
16. Write about what everyone else is writing about, but add nothing new
17. Fill your sidebar(s) with irrelevant pictures, widgets and ads
18. Frequently post outside of your blog’s theme
19. When you link to other blogs, provide no compelling reason to actually visit them
20. Never, ever say thank you

Powered by blogger, John’s blog is a great example of a blog that offers great content and proves that you don’t need to be web genius or a techy to get blogging. So what are you waiting for?