There are a lot of blogs like this out there in the blogosphere and there are a couple of reasons for this:

1. Someone starts off with good intentions, then forgets to add any more posts
2. The blog was built purely to create a link to another site

At least #2 is deliberate, but it does tend to fill up the internet with useless spammy sites. It also uses up all those “useful” URLs such as asdfgh.com

If you don’t keep updating your blog then you might get an initial spike of interest and you might pop up on Google for a couple of days. These will both disappear after a while though. Not really a long term solution, is it?

If you want a successful blog then you need to add posts regularly so that search engines find you and your visitors keep coming back for more.

This is a great way to guarantee that your readers (the ones that are left) become bored and uninspired by your writing. If you write the same as everyone else, why should anyone read your stuff?

Successful blogs usually involve some discussion through the comments and the best way to get this going is to be interesting. Take a stand on some issues and be controversial. There are a million other voices out there – why should anyone listen to yours?