… I observed the following:

1. The vast majority don’t know how to write properly.
2. A lot offer SEO and blogging tips on wordpress.com or blogger. People also offer tips on how to get easy money over the internet on these services.
3. Most don’t use the MORE tag when posting videos or any other flash content.
4. Blogger is used more than wordpress.com although blogger sucks when it comes to design and functionality.
5. Loads of people use widgets like calendar and categories. As far as I know, these two are considered useless. Also have seen a lot of flash clocks.
6. Some can’t read. On the first page you have a post stating you are not accepting link exchange requests and someone leaves a comment (in romanian on an english blog ) on your latest post (without any link the the post’s topic) while there’s a nice ‘Contact’ link in your blog.
7. The easiest way to make a blog is putting miniclip games on your site and naming your site something-containing-the-word-games. This can be done with or without your own domain. In the case a domain is used then it’s double trouble. You just wasted some money.
8. Most blogs (on blogger and wordpress.com at least) are made in a moment of boredom.
9. The most common description in About pages is “I am me (and no one else)”.
10. Some have captcha + moderation + akismet activated on comments.
11. Right-click protection is so ’95. If I want to steal something from your site, that will not stop me.

Did I miss anything?

I see various people, trying to help others with SEO tips or just posting “how-to”s for bloggers on Blogger or wordpress.com. The vast majority have blog designs that just suck.

If I was seeking SEO or blog help I would first look at the design. Having a good blog design can mean:

1. The guy knows enough about computers and can actually design his own theme
2. The guy had success following his own SEO/blog tips that he made money to pay someone to make him a good theme

Either way, the blog design proves 50% of the problem. The second problem is Blogger/wordpress.com. Posting tips on one of these free blogging platforms proves you aren’t very professional. It’s kinda like what Matt Inman says here. This is only in part true. Of course, you can be a n00b but still know about GMail (Google advertises GMail on it’s homepage ).

Same goes for those offering help with “money over the internet – fast and easy”.