5 Lies We Have Been Told About Blogging Which We Innocently Believed!

Myth #1 | Only Blog posts between
300-700 words are the best
When you have an audience that has
the patience of a fruit fly, you have to
get in and get out. The truth is most
blogs with helpful content — are the
posts that will get indexed by Google.
That’s where and how the traffic comes
rushing in. Social Media sharing only
works as hard as you do. SEO only
helps your posts work for you long after
you’ve finished promoting the post.
Most Of The Long Articles On My Blog
Have Almost 60,000+ views each and
still get views daily.
Myth #2 | Blogging is all about writing
There are two answers to this :
Yes ..and no. The main idea blogging is
really about education and
entertainment. As a blogger like you're
the owner of a school. It’s your job to
produce content and information that is
relevant, insightful , and entertaining.
It’s your job to make someone’s life
better and more meaningful.
I've had situations on my blog when
people comment and thank me for
writing a particular post, all i can do is
smile because that's what it means to
be a blogger.
Writing is also part of this equation, but
if there's one word to encompass
blogging, it certainly wouldn’t be
writing.
Blogging is about content curation.
Myth #3 | Using a lot of plugins /
widgets can ruin a blog
This myth is quite tricky, on one hand it
is true . But do you know that it can
take just ONE plugin to bring your blog
to its kneed? That’s right. One line of
misplaced code and your whole blog will
break to pieces .
Be very careful about the plugins or
widgets you install. Even if someone
says so much about it, you don’t know
how it’s going to work with YOUR
template /theme and the other plugins/
widgets you have already installed. Even
if the plugin/widget doesn't give you
any trouble for months, it can stop
working all of a sudden with your
theme/template or WordPress
(especially if there is an update).
Myth #4 | Google + is not necessary to
get traffic
You'll probably think that with
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, why do
you need yet another social platform?
Many bloggers tend to assume that
their audience is just not there, so it
makes no sense to share posts there .
On the contrary Google + has one of the
most active and intelligent communities
and believe me a simple Google plus
share (+1) is better than 100 Facebook
likes
Myth #5 | Avoiding sharing a
competitor’s blogs so you don’t lose
readers
Most Nigerian Bloggers are guilty of
this, it's very rare to see a Nigerian
blogger link to another blogger on the
same niche
All the same it's quite normal to feel
intimidated by someone who has a
better blog or bigger audience. But
sharing a competitor’s blog posts does
two things.
First , it helps to spread the blog's good
karma online.
Secondly, it shows your readers and
followers that you really want to help
them, even if it means going to
someone else. .