Why Your Blog Sucks Sewer Water

If you don't know your faults, you aren't very attentive. The rest of us can see them. Why not write about them on your blog?

Now, let's not have any unnecessary flagellation. You aren't looking to belittle yourself. Simply contrast what people see as your weaknesses with the opposite quality, which is usually a strength.

For instance, I am not an organized person. I don't like what I perceive as dull, boring details. On the other hand, one of my strengths is that I can produce competent work in the midst of chaos.

For this blog, chaos works. I write when I want, and I write about what I want. I frequently have absolutely no idea about the topic of my blog before I actually begin to type it out. I very rarely have writer's block, and I find that a stream-of-consciousness mentality works very well for me on this blog.

So I don't mind telling you that I have trouble with organizing my schedule, my writing, my life. I view that as inconsequential on this blog. My posts do not relate to other blog posts. They stand alone, and a lack of organization is not a flaw on this blog.

My biggest strength is that I am the opposite of organized. I can pop out an article any time I want. I can beat writer's block nearly every time, and I think my lack of organization helps on this blog.

I have just started a site, To Make A Site, that explains in simple terms how to start a website. On that site, if I was going to admit to my faults, I would admit, not to a lack of organization, but to being inaccurate or incomplete in my writings. Sometimes to be technically perfect in an explanation of websites and the Internet, you have to use words or phrases that would be beyond my target audience: absolute beginners. So I choose to give simple explanations that may fudge on the details, and I wouldn't mind telling my readers that I do so.

My strength on that site is that I can take technical mumbo jumbo and turn it into understandable, straightforward instructions and explanations. For instance, if you follow my easy directions, you can submit your site to Google in about ten minutes from the time you begin to read my instructions. It's pretty simple. My readers may not get the same fully detailed explanation that you find on other sites, but I guarantee that they will be able to submit to Google in short time with no confusion. Click here for the instructions to submit to Google.

In this post, I mentioned two faults: lack of organization, and incomplete or inaccurate writings. I also told you why those two faults are not real faults. If you examine things carefully, you will see that my qualities are the opposite of those faults, and my qualities are why you should be visiting my blog and my site regularly.

So what I really did was write a promotional article for myself and disguise it as a blog on my faults.

What are your faults? What are the opposites of those faults? They are probably your best qualities. Mention your faults. Then push your qualities at your readers.