Cringe-Worthy Blogging Trends of the Past that WILL NEVER Work Now

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Past blogging trends are building blocks of what websites are nowadays. Who would ever know that the internet would be such an integral part of our daily lives? The internet has changed so much, so fast in the past few decades that there are so many design trends that the younger generation of internet users never knew existed. Design trends that older generations of internet users wish to forget.

Designers were pretty much experimental when websites were starting to get popular. Any form of movement or color in a website is an indication of how great the world wide web was and could be. Generally, the ’90s and the early 2000s were very cringe-worthy periods in terms of styles and trends. This was also very much evident in the way websites were designed during the time.

Here are a few cringe-worthy past blogging trends that will never be popular again:

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Old Blogging Sites That We Thought were Gone

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There are many old blogging sites we all have forgotten now that social media is such a big part of our lives. Little do teenagers now know, blogging was the viral craze for teenage millenials back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. At the time, there were so many websites where anyone could post their journals for free.

Originally known as “web logging”, it was the first instance of personalized “presence” on the internet. These are brief posts of their thoughts and idea – basically an online diary or journal. It became quite popular and trendy. Everyone just had to have an internet presence, whether it is “airing out” your personal diary online. If anything, these old blogging sites GAVE BIRTH to social media.

What many people are unaware of, whether they rejoice or cringe about it, is that some of these old blogging sites STILL EXISTS ON THE INTERNET. Here are some of them:

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3 Tips for Blogging About a New Product

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A new product represents a new opportunity for a growing company. Of course, how a company markets a new product is almost as important as the quality of the product itself. As such, it’s crucial for professional copywriters to understand how to write content about new products in order to generate interest –– and eventually –– leads and sales. With that in mind, today we’ll take a look at a few ways that writers can approach a blog about a new product or service. Check out our top three tips on the matter here: [Read more…]