With the web 2.0 bubble becoming bigger than ever, the internet has seen nothing short of a mass production of blogs and bloggers, looking for their cut of the profit.

Unfortunately for the rest of us, many of these blogs fail to meet any type of quality or design standards, where the content is just uninteresting, the content is stolen, or the blog is littered with ads, making the actual content unreadable.

Luckily for all of you, I’m here to write a rant post of my opinion about the types of blogs I find most annoying, uninteresting, or otherwise of low-quality.

1. Make money online blogs

Yes, as if I even needed to list this one, make money online blogs are my most major annoyance to come across when using the entrebar to drop my entrecard. Not only do they rarely present any useful information you didn’t already know through common sense, they are also presenting the same information presented by thousands of other make money online bloggers already.

I only need to hear the words “content is king” once, but hey, I think I’ll also check the opinions of the other 3,000 bloggers who use the exact same “content is king” catchphrase for their blog post titles. That’s a surefire way to ensure I’m only getting the most unique and original tips and tricks from a make money online blog.

And only a genius could figure out that “Affiliate Link + Advertising = Possible Profit”. Thanks for posting that, I never would have figured that out on my own.

2. Mommy bloggers…with a twist!

Judging by the ever increasing tower that is a list of mommy blogger blogs, I’d assume it’s been awhile since the whole idea of being a mommy blogger was ever convieved. Since then, the whole idea has been stretched to the limit, causing me (and probably a good amount of other people) to instantly label any new mommy blogger blogs as ‘boring’.

Of course, like any idea with a mass of followers, there are the bunch who want to milk the idea to its limits, making it appear original without actually changing anything. I like to call these bunch the “mommy bloggers, with a twist!”

You see, some mommy bloggers have discovered that the label of mommy also comes with a label of boring, so they include a description of their blog that makes them look dangerous, edgy, or cool. An example would be Mammadawg, whose description is: “She’s sweet and motherly… and a growlin’ bitch when need be…”…Oooo, dangerous.

However, as I go through the infinitum of websites, I discover that almost none of these “mommy bloggers, with a twist” even come close to meeting their description. Seriously, with a description like Mammadawg’s, you think there’d at least be a “rants” or “bitch” category, something to live up to the standards that the description claims exists, but instead we get treated to the mundane and expected mommy categories of “motherhood, my spirituality journey, and wifeyhood”.

Seriously, I don’t want to see “I’m unique and interesting” in the description when all your blog says is “I’m platitudinous and monotonic”.

3. Ramblings of a Web-Entrepeneur

Translation: “I don’t know shit about making money online, so I post about my personal life instead. I only call myself a web-entrepeneur to attract readers who hope to get a quick tip about making money online.”

4. Contest Blogs

I’ve got nothing against sites that make it easy to find contests all around the web. Seriously, it’s nice to be able to type in a url, and find the contests I can enter and win something I want.

However, it’s easy to spot a blog that lists contests JUST for the sake of entering them without sacrificing any post space on their actual blog. A list of contests: awesome; a blog dedicated to ONLY entering contests: stupid.

I mean, it’s almost becoming pointless to even sponsor contests if you’re only going to get backlinks from contest blogs, which have almost 5,000 links to other contests and their sponsors anyway.

5. Blogs About Cats

I used to be cool with blogs detailing the lives of the blogger’s cats, since cats are my favorite animal. I can find them cute when need be. However, there seems to be an annoying new trend infecting new bloggers who wish to blog about their cats.

They seem to find some originality in blogging from the cats perspective. It was somewhat cute the first time someone blogged that way, but now I just find it to be stupid and ridiculous. Not to mention that many of these bloggers end up referring to themselves as “mommy”.

Seriously, throw us a curveball and give these cats some personality, some hate, some discontent. Not some “I layed down all day and mommy worked on the website”. I want to see some “I got sick of doing shit, so I layed down and watched that bitch pretend to be me on this blog”.

Do YOU have an annoyance with a certain type of blog?

If you have an annoyance with a certain type of blog, or wish to argue with this post, feel free to leave a comment. I’ll try my best to comment back.

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