Your Content SUCKS! Should You Quit?

QUIT?

Who cares if your content sucks?  Ok probably mostly everybody is, but then again, why should you care whether your content sucks or not. Although this is highly debatable, I’ll get this part into 2 sections.

You shouldn’t give a damn…

1. if you’re writing out of interest and everything you write is just simply out of fun and within the list that makes the time goes ZOOOM.
2. if you’re a zombie and blog just for the sake of passing the time, hence your content does not need to be good, as long as your fingers get their exercise and your brain gets out what it wants to say. Yes there are such people out there that does this, and don’t ask me why.
3. because it’s your own blog, and as long as you get your main ideas out, it doesn’t matter if your grammar sucks like monkey’s balls, or you mix like a million languages in it. But hey, at least make it understandable. Draw if you must. Accept constructive criticism from your readers and improve as you go along, but try to avoid trolls who come and go.
4. if your content is unique, special, different from others, just that it’s not presented the way the “others” want it to be. Remember, you blog because you simply like to blog or probably being forced to blog, the main idea here is not to allow others to fully dictate what and how you should blog. Learn and follow from good examples are good way for improvements, but don’t tie a leash around your neck and let the rest pull you around whenever and however they want.
5. if your main objectives are either to blog to satisfy the mass or you’re just simply blogging to satisfy or express your own personal feelings and ideas. If you’re going for the mass, then criticism is essential to your improvement. Not that constructive criticism is bad, but you need to vary and adapt to different kind of feedback according to your approach. Accept and reject as you see fit.
6. if you’re a hardcore mass blogger producer of the century. I’m pretty sure all of us know of the availability of blog auto generators that can chunk out 100 blogs per minute, and auto posts for you, while you’re sleeping or walking your dog. This is called splogs (spam blogs), which are generally rubbish all over the net. Nobody can control what one can do, but bloggers who do this usually don’t care the quality of their content.
7. if you’re still a rookie blogger and still have no idea on the main elements of blogging. Not that you need to have a license to blog, but I guess in this super sophisticated world, everything has unwritten rules and certain trends that we must adhere to or we will be the aliens of the community. My point is, making mistakes in the beginning are normal, learn as you go along, and your content will definitely improve as time goes by. Practice makes it perfect.

You should give a damn…

1. if your livelihood depends on it. It’s only logical that negative, or should I say constructive criticism should be taken seriously if it provides beneficial future improvements.
2. Great ideas come from a well rested brain, so if you’ve been working way too hard on your blogs, get some rest and continue your world domination conquest later. No point squeezing the very last drop of your brain juice to get your blog rich with super unique and interesting content, only to know that more than half of your readers ended up leaving comments in your post saying that your content sucks!
3. if you’ve been caught red handed stealing content, or “borrowing” content without establishing the proper acknowledgment to the original author. Interesting to know how small key presses of CTRL+C and CTRL+V can actually generate an overwhelming wave of negative responses.
4. if your readers are your treasure. Without them, a blog is not a blog. Appreciate their criticisms and apply the necessary changes appropriately.
5. if you’re a perfectionist.