By Corbett Barr

Websites fail. They fail all the time. I don’t have any hard statistics, but if my experience reflects the Internet in general, then four out of five website projects will fail.

Websites and blogs fail in the sense that a site doesn’t reach whatever goal the creator set out for it, whether that goal was fame, fortune, a book deal or the next viral hit. After the failure some sites sit around collecting web dust and others shut down altogether.

I’ve watched plenty of my own online projects fail over the years. I’ll share the reasons why they didn’t succeed in upcoming posts, but first I want to hear your take on online failure.

Why do most websites fail?

That is the question for this week’s ask the readers segment. If... More...