What happens to your Blog after your death?
Tomorrow is Tomorrow, the unknown but we are here to see it as today!
You can not tell just when, how, and where you will leave this planet. We hear that all the time.
Is it worth putting out a post that brings a chill through our spine yet it is about a reality? I have no idea really but i thought i should go ahead. If you can not digest this post, please close this window!
Free sites would probably kill inactive blogs, some of those would be ours and we could watch it happening from heaven or h-e-l-l. That would be a very very sad moment.
Perhaps blog sites that ranked well would still be kept alive, and free hosting providers would love them as they would be making money from them with banner ads every where on your blog pages! That’s nothing new, we see that right now when a domain is hijacked – someone fails to renew it and someone buys it and puts up bunches of ads to make money. Buying a domain that already has a page rank is like winning a lottery!
Some free hosting sites might keep our blogs for ever in a category called RIP! Here people would come to findout who died and what kind of thoughts they put out before they left the earth.
Now, what about the blogs hosted on paid servers such as godaddy?
Someone will buy your domain after it expires or someone in your family will keep it alive.
Say, your blog was doing good with page rank, and perhaps making some money from web advertisements, why should you let it die when you die ? Can you pass that income to your family members ?
I believe blogs are our souls not just thoughts. They can live forever whether they make money or not. The choice is really upto us. It is worth sharing our account details such as password with someone very close in our family – it could be with a husband, wife, brother, sister etc. You know they are not going to wipe-out your blog entires, unless you have a crazy brother like mine who always gets mad and takes a revenge by going to my blog and acts like a real SPAM BOT!
Creating another account for your brother or sister, and giving him/her the administrative privilege should not hurt. If they are not into blogging, teach them. And if they are, you will surely benefit from their expertise as well. If they have a blog, get involved again to make sure their blog lives on too….
Share username and password for hosting accounts and domain names that way your family can renew the services before they are expired. Teach them how to login to service provider’s website such as godaddy.com.
We should be prepared – who knows one of the coming days, so called “tomorrows” might not be “today” for some of us!
Our blogs should go on, ever after…
