The myth of the blog, the True Lie

Blogs are the myths of blogging, the so-called blog success, but most of them are the kind of real lies that can cause new blogs to end up dead if you follow them. Then, many new bloggers are obsessed with these blog myths, they are not only convinced but also strictly enforced, because they may be heard from some respectable and admired bloggers, but the step-by-step result is that they choose to close their blogs in frustration and confusion, Because they never get any results from their efforts to stick to these blogs.

The author (note: Onibalusi Bamidele,young entrepreneur Blog blogger) has a relatively successful blog, in addition to observe some other successful bloggers, The author realizes how dangerous and deceptive the so-called blog myths and blog Ways are. Therefore, I want to expose these false myths in this blog post, and let them reveal the true nature of lies. Although, expose these false myths may let you be shocked, may also cause many words war, but the following text all is the author's experience.

　　One myth: "Content is king"

In fact, how can this be a blog myth? You must be amazed by the fact that most bloggers and you are all convinced. A very successful blogger and writer called Blainclach, who said that if a text was not read, it would not give them life. However, no matter how great your content is-you still need someone to read it and share it! The most important thing is that even if someone really shares your blog post, even if it is like a plague, you need a community to keep the plague from growing and spreading.

From many readers ' letters from the author, I have found many great and wonderful articles from my blog readers ' blogs. Perhaps, their article on my blog will really cause a huge plague, because my blog has a very large readership, but why their blog can not create such a spread of the trend? So, no matter how great your article is, if you don't have a reader, your article won't spread, and your blog will not be successful.

Many new bloggers sleep and sleep just to write great articles, because they believe in the myth of "content is king," but they don't get anything at the end. Why, then? Because, the content is not king!

　　Myth Two--marketing as King

The author is not the only one who does not agree that the content is the myth of the blog, but there are many people who are skeptical about the myth of content as king, but the myth of blogging success is marketing. Wrong! You have absolutely nothing to sell! No matter what means you use to advertise your blog, but if your blog as long as a mediocre ordinary blog, your final result is naught.

On one occasion, the author contributed to write an article in a day for my blog attracted 1000 people visit (write that article before my blog's average visit to 150 people per day). But? After only two days of 1000+ 's visit, my blog has plummeted back to an average of 150 passengers. At that time, although I was a little frustrated, but also aware of the decline in the number of visits, it is because I did not store and ready for continuous good articles to do that article backup, so my blog will not be able to keep the unexpected visitors.

So, no matter what kind of marketing strategy you use, no matter how much money you spend on promotional blogs, if you don't have continuous good content as a solid backing, all your efforts are a waste of money and waste of life. Therefore, marketing is also not King!

Content is not king, marketing is not king, then what is the king? Perhaps, you will not expect, because I believe that only the blogger himself is the real king. Bo can mainly grasp the content and marketing balance point, this is your blog to the only way to success.

　　Myth three--social networking site for Wang, do seo rather than bubble social networking site

Maybe Twitter or digg can bring 1 million of visitors to your blog every day, but have you ever really sat down and thought about the real value of these visitors as high as their numbers?

Blogging's success doesn't have much to do with your traffic-but it's more about the quality of your visitors. Social networking sites can bring you hundreds of thousands of of visitors a day, but do you think it's more valuable if the visitors are all searching through search engines? I remember finding a professional blog from Google, and I remember finding a blog with a good article from Google, but I really don't remember being a blogger on a social networking site one day and becoming a loyal reader.

In addition, the traffic generated by the search engines can bring your blog to success more than the traffic generated by social networking sites. The author has written a blog about the success of the famous aphorism, at that time I did not find the flow from the social networking site, but then I spent a few days for the blog to do SEO, but from the search engine where a lot of visitors, and after a few days from Twitter received a good thousands of of visits.

In short, the flow of social networking sites is difficult for your blog to bring the search engine traffic, but the search engine traffic will certainly bring you more social networking site access. In any case, any number of visitors will only mean that your article has more people to share (social networking sites), but that's not to say you can improve your blog's Ser search engine rankings (because only a lot more outside the chain works).

　　Myth four: Social networking sites are of no use

I have heard this point more than once, and most of the bloggers who touted the idea as a blog myth are all relying on the traffic generated by search engines.

The author said earlier that SEO is more important than social networking sites, but it's not that social networking sites are useless for our blogs. Some bloggers have nothing to do with blogging, but they can use social networking sites to turn their blogs into first-line blogs and even bloggers, and that's a lot easier after microblogging Twitter-but what really matters is not how much traffic the social networking site brings you. It's about how you use and use these social networking sites.

Instead of focusing on how to get more traffic from social networking sites, you should concentrate on attracting these visitors to become loyal readers of your blog, because they are the only ones that make the biggest contribution to your blog's success. That's right! Social networking is the future of the Internet, but a good blogger will never gamble-we have to adapt to this change and make it work for us!

　　Myth of the five--high flow = high income

This is probably the biggest lie in the blog myth. If a certain name Bobo 100 visitors can earn 1000 dollars, the number of visitors that I need to earn that number may not know how many times.

How to maximize your flow into the revenue, there are many many important factors, but the most important thing is the blogger's own authority and reputation. If your visitors just think of you as a mediocre, ordinary blogger, your earnings numbers won't be much different even if you have high traffic. Instead, if people think of you as an authoritative blogger, you can influence every new visitor so that your flow is maximized into revenue.

I know a lot of blog traffic is not as good as my blogger, but they have several times more subscribers than my blog. So, it's not much to do with simple traffic, but the most related is the relationship between you and your visitors.

　　Myth Six--not replying to a comment means you don't respect your readers.

I have always wanted to be a successful blogger, but I never knew it would become a burden one day. Countless emails waiting to be read, countless comments waiting to be answered, and writing better posts are starting to weigh heavily. However, even if you reply to all the comments, then you will not be translated into your blog traffic: Because only good content to do!

One of the best decisions I've made in my blogging career is that I will only respond to comments that really need to be answered. However, the decision also caused a lot of controversy, and some readers began to refuse to comment on my blog, and even a reader to vote to veto my decision.

But after a few months, the average reading length of my blog's readers increased from 2 minutes to 7 minutes.

Do not do unnecessary things, even if others feel that they must do. Instead, spend more time doing something that really makes sense-writing better articles to make your every visitor a loyal reader. If you always work hard to write your best articles, your true and loyal readers will always be there for you, and they will invite their friends to the audience. However, if you do the best you can but can only write some shoddy and sloppy things, so that even if you every comment is a reply, your readers will eventually abandon you.

　　Myth Seven: Long speeches can bring more traffic

The author has not been a victim of this blog lie two times. In the past, I noticed that other successful bloggers were writing long articles, so they followed a lengthy blog post with more than 5000 words. Although I was also one of the victims of this lie, I was fortunate in the process to learn priceless things-the best articles are well thought out and flow naturally like water! No, that's it! Whether your article is long or short, it all has nothing to do with the word count, but more about your article and the uniqueness and consistency of your blog.

In fact, long articles have long articles of good, short articles have a short article, the most important thing is to let your readers from your article to find your voice. As for the length of the blog or to see the need, short articles can be effective then you should not hesitate to paste up, if you have been long speeches and achieved good results, then you do not go back to do so!

　　Myth Eight-selling ads is the best way for blogging to make money

The blogosphere has been spreading the myth that selling ads is the best way to keep a blog, and I believe every blogger is influenced by it. In fact, I personally think that selling advertising is the end of the way, is the least worthy of a method.

The crux of the matter is that many bloggers are blogging only to make money-they don't really focus on building a circle of their own blogs, and it's the circle that makes their blogs commercially valuable. If your blog does not have a communication circle, then you absolutely can not earn a penny. So, stop spending your mind on play anything your ads incorrectly, or focus on building your blog's Circle of communication! Once you've got your blogging circle, you'll find it hard to make money using your blog.

The author does not completely exclude online advertising--in fact, there are many successful bloggers who sell a small piece of advertising every month to make a good thousands of dollars, but the reality is that bloggers have millions of visits a month. Unless your visits are not as shabby as they are, you should stop trying to sell ads to get a fixed income.

　　Myth # Nine-the best way to get the flow is to resort to extremes.

It's not bad to learn and try many ways to get traffic, but remember that the biggest secret of flow conversion is mastering the way you will.

I also have some people always recommend me to get the flow of methods, I have personally tried many of them, such as in the comments, submissions and postings, but it seems that only the contribution to me still a bit of use. At that moment, I decided to give up other methods and began to focus on the route of submission, from then on I have an unexpected harvest.

If you're a new blogger, you can start with a few more methods, but you have to see which one works best for you. Then you stick to that approach and give up other avenues, because other methods may not take you further.

　　Myth Ten--the key to blogging success the outside chain of famous Bo

You may have been hoping to have a chain on the site of the famous blogger or the mainstream media, but it doesn't matter--your success cannot depend on others, except yourself!

Recently, the author read Blainclach wrote blog, he said his blog has not been successful in the name of the blog has been outside the chain. So, you do not wait or expect this lucrative (name Bo friendship link) of the matter--must not be able to rely on their success to others, except yourself!

The key to blogging success is the blogger yourself, the key is whether you give yourself the greatest and best effort and stick to it.

Finally, these so-called blog myths or blog path, you still believe it? Or, what has really worked for you? What is a pure lie to you?

English Original: Ten Blogging myths you must Ignore

The Chinese translation: Mo

Author: Onibalusi Bamidele (young entrepreneur blogger)