Now! As I had been there and done it all types and am an expert in driving away the traffic from my blog, I want to share how I single handed drove the masses away from my blog... a few simple facts but really effective means of driving away the traffic from your blog...

0 - 10 blunders I made:

Cero: I started to think of blog as my space and do whatever I wanted.  Right from picking a skin, with Shakespeare's photo on it, with a black background and green font... Adding to that, I gave a small list of people which included lists of my family, friend and pets to whom I dedicated my blog.

Uno:  I loved music and I selected a few tracks I loved and started to play it auto... When people visited my blog the music will be on full blast and unfortunately a few of my friends who were in their workplace, had to hide an embarrassed look and till today I am not able to bring those followers back to my blog.

Dos: Adding google ads, a big chimpanzee dominated my page and grinned at people who visited my blog..."mail chimp" though an assistant, a definite put off on visitiors.

Tres: Dowdy template with dowdier fonts... Though I thought it was innovative to have different fonts for different posts, the blog looked like a circus ring with crazy fonts, crazier glitters and put a disgusting look on those who accidently bumped in to my blog...

Cuatro: My first post was to thank Muse... My readers thought that either I don't know how to write or Muse did the writing.  So, they started to hunt for Muse's own blog and stopped coming to mine

Cinco: Long posts that ran for pages, with no proper punctuation marks and full of compound sentences and jumping from one incident from another and all of a sudden turned to jump back to the first incident.. I understood alright but the poor folks who read my post were as confused as a hungry baby in a topless bar...

Seis: 8 out of 10 posts were about love.... in that 7 posts would be poetry.  My passion was towards poetry and I loved poetry and named my blog as "poetry my passion".   Felt it was justified to write just poetry as labelled my blog under poetry.  I kept telling myself that I wrote for my  pleasure alone and my blog is my space... Only that later I realised, it was too cold and lonely out there at my blog, with out visitors.  When I went back and read my poetry, I felt that they sounded like coz I made sure it rhymed at the ends...

Siete: Wrote a long story about me, my family dating back to great grand parents and about my son's grade and a photograph of a lovely little rose.  Who the hell wants to see a flower and a dowdy autobiography in "about me"...

Ocho:  Had no idea on what RSS feed was and disabled it and also turned off the comment section...

Nueve: Not even an inch was wasted in my blog... I placed so many badges in myriad of colours and it used to hit the eyes of the readers and they bookmarked my blog and made sure not to visit the blog again.

Diez: For safety reasons, I hid my blog and chose a few ?privileged members and invited them to read my blog.  Don't ask me why I hid my blog.  It was for safety reasons.. I didn't want people to steal my chimp and red rose photograph... My thought could have been what if people can trace me by my name and trace my work place and kidnap me and demand ransom to release me and I was more worried what if my family refuse to pay the ransom?

I listed only up to 10 coz my Spanish is limited to these 10 numbers and I don't want my current set of followers to comment, listing this post as one of the reasons on how I drive the traffic away...