What The Top Bloggers Don’t Teach You About Blogging
By Matt Jones on Jan 28, 2008 in Creative Blogging
A lot of bloggers say that blogging is about “the long haul” and they then quote statistics about how a massive xx% percentage of business fail, or how bloggers give up after a few months, or how it generally takes 3 - 5 years for a blog to become successful.
This annoys me.
If all new bloggers are to believe the best strategy is to write great content day in day out, network, participate in social media sites and all the usual tactics, then how will blogging evolve?
Those tactics are a necessity and practically guarantee success in blogging in 3 - 5 years. What bloggers fail to teach is how to generate new innovative ideas for growing a blog quickly.
The vast majority of bloggers are aware of the essentials and carry them out, but are not taught to think creatively.
Conclusion
I don’t have all the answers, but what I am trying to explain is that top bloggers don’t have them all either. Try taking a break from reading the same blogs. The chances are if you’ve been reading them long enough you have gained all possible knowledge the author has.
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I guess this is probably sound if the only blogs you read are on the subject of how to blog, but I’ve got 2 or 3 hundred feeds in my reader accounts and I’d say only about a dozen of those are blogs about blogging…
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Yes I’m talking about blogs about blogging, good point
Good point, Matt! As I’ve grown as a blogger I’ve noticed how boring most of the meta blogs are. Everyone just regurgitates the same thing over and over (StumbleUpon, Comments, RSS and now PepperJam).
I’ve found myself slowly whittling down my subscriptions because I simply don’t have the time anymore to read everyday about how to get more comments ;P
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That’s funny- I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a blog about blogging but the funny thing is those social networks you mentioned haven’t even been around 3-5 years, Entrecard is 3 months old, I wonder how old the other ones are? I think 3-5 years, in a technology-based industry is a crock of crap.