{"id":136,"date":"2006-06-07T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantaccountblog.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2006-06-07T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2006-06-07T18:51:58","slug":"we-made-the-worst-blog-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/136\/we-made-the-worst-blog-list","title":{"rendered":"We made the worst blog list&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found a blog today that is a collection of what someone thinks are the worst blogs on the internet. I was surprised that someone has the time to write detailed reviews on what they think are bad blogs. The Merchant Account Blog coincidentally made the list which is why I&#8217;m writing this post. Normally I wouldn&#8217;t waste my time with something this trivial, but the blatant hypocrisy the author has by creating an awful blog about awful blogs is noteworthy. <a href=\"http:\/\/awfulblogs.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/awfulblogs.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In regards to the merchant account blog:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First of all, if business owners need to learn more about how merchant accounts work, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not going to get the information from this blog or from any blog. Secondly, most business owners just open a merchant account and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shop around to see who has the best blog. That would be a completely useless exercise. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess my tracking system is messed up since I tracked over 15,000 unique visitors, and 175 email questions, last month alone.<\/p>\n<p>The simple fact is that people who are fed up with getting ripped off on their merchant accounts and business owners who need more information on a particular topic related to merchant accounts show up here to find the answer. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Why would someone search for a merchant account blog?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>They wouldn&#8217;t&#8230; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>People search for answers to their questions and find them here. This site isn&#8217;t a blog, because blogging is a trendy thing to do and I&#8217;m trying to get into the blogosphere on a business level.<\/p>\n<p>Blogs are efficient, easy to read, easy to market, topically organized, and perfectly suited for articles and information like the ones that I write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a blog today that is a collection of what someone thinks are the worst blogs on the internet. I was surprised that someone has the time to write detailed reviews on what they think are bad blogs. The Merchant Account Blog coincidentally made the list which is why I&#8217;m writing this post. Normally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}