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Most Annoying Things on Blogs -Add Yours
Posted by ishansharma001 • 4/08/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: annoying, annoying things, blogging
What are most annoying things on blogs? Popups, too much ads? What else?
Here's a small list, feel free to add more things:
- "Admin": Many bloggers do not care about changing their nicknames and let it be "admin" or similar. It appears as if blog is written by a ghost or a bot.
- Comments by "Keywords": When commenting, some bloggers show how hungry they are for optimized links and leave names like xyzblog, xyztips. Again, this is big irritant.
- Popups: Popups are once again returning. And this time, popups are shown through scripts on page and not in extra windows, so browsers can not even block.I know that the blog has RSS feeds and don't want a popup. So, why annoy me(and possibly make me hit that "close" button on tab.
- New Windows/Tabs Many bloggers think, "Hmm..... If I Open new tabs, visitor will not leave my blog and I will have more chances of getting him subscribed." But dear blogger, there is something like a back button on browser, if you have good content, reader will hit it and can do anything he wants. Why increase clutter a bit more?
- Heavy-Promotion: Many people place lot of ads in sidebar hoping this will increase chances of getting clicked. This only annoys readers and many will leave to never return.
Add more to list. What annoys you most on blogs?
User Comments
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One more to list: Flashy Images. Not necessarily ad but too shiny!
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Slow-loading ads
Ads that "hang" the download of the site
More ads than content
Puerile content
Music
Pop unders
Sites that won't close when I click the close button
Unexpected referrals to other sites...I don't want to go to someone else's site when I click a button on yours unless I specifically make that choice.
Content so poorly written I have to figure out what the writer is trying to express.
Poor grammar, punctuation, and spelling: If it is worth publishing, it is worth publishing correctly.
Opinion presented as fact.
I could go on...and on...and ON...-
Big List there! Thanks for adding so much points! Bad English and pop(unders/ups) also annoy me a lot!
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It has so many ads or gadgets it makes my computer burp.-
Lot of gadgets can make any PC burp. Bloggers should definitely avoid lot of them!
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Long Blog Posts
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Long posts are not necessarily bad things. But if they are not enhanced visually (A post on "Dressing Up" Your Best Blog Posts: bloggingwithsuccess.net/how-to-gussy-up-best-blog-post ), they may turn visitors down!
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LOL thanks for the link.
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Home pages that contain over 10 full blog posts and take fooooooorever to load..-
That's the reason WordPress has "Read More" functionality! (And I use them on homepage for displaying 10 posts!)
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broken links for downloads or references. those 404s are annoying really.-
404! Yes, they are big annoyances!
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spammers
bloggers who want to ex-link but don't link back after linking them up-
Reciprocal linking is nothing more than waste of time. Search Engines do not give much weight to them!
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