It’s really as simple as that.
Post 7 days a week. Be my guest.
Write about how you love being a SAHM. Do it.Give me dating advice based off your terrible online dating. Yes please.
Use the ‘perfect’ keywords to make the search words to your
blog explode. BRING IT.
When I first started blogging I just jumped into it. I went and swapped with every person I could find. Personally this was not a good idea for me. I felt overwhelmed trying to keep track of it all and I was ready to throw in the towel. Also. My writing was pretty terrible and so not me. I was putting on an act and trying to be this picture perfect newlywed and mom and omg I’m glad that blog when to the blog graveyard cause most of the writing was shit. ALSO. Oh this is my biggest regret. I would review products I either. One. Didn’t really like. Two. Would never use/buy. Three. Didn’t really fit into my blog. WHY? Because that's what bloggers do. That's what you're SUPPOSE to do. If I would have just listened to my inner monologue once then I could have saved myself a lot of time and trouble. For some people this might work. They can BS their way through it. I cannot and could not. It was a disaster and it was very apparent when I was trying to push something onto people and it was soooooooooo unbelievable.
So I then did the logical next step in my mind. I went and
look at all these posts on ‘blog rules’. Please do yourself a favor and don’t
look at it. Because the moment you do it WILL effect your writing. You will be
crippled with fear and anger that you try to write and you’re stifled by all
these ‘rules’. I’m not saying that the ‘rules’ some bloggers are giving aren’t
great. BUT. They should be advice. Because when you say rule it implies that if
you don’t follow it you are breaking the law and will get nowhere. That is a
lie. There are plenty of bloggers who do not follow the 'rules' and they are what
many people would deem as successful.
What I am saying is that there is difference between
blogging advice and blogging rules. Advice is something people give as a
recommendation. They are telling you what worked for them perhaps but you need
to know that it might not always work for you. I can’t stand when someone goes
and gets a consultation from another blogging and they are pissed because a
week later there stats aren’t through the roof. They were giving you advice.
They told you what they did. You and they are two different people. Your
background is different. Your writing style is different. You are not that
person. So for you to think that by doing exactly as they recommend that you
will become them is dumb on your part. Also. Why would you want to be exactly
like someone else? That’s no fun. Nor is it believable. You need to take what they did and gave as advice and put your own twist on it. Make it your own and people will be able to relate better. People can spot a fake person in blog land a mile away. And as shameful as this is to admit. I use to be one of them. It took me along time to realize it but people enjoyed me a whole hell of a lot more when I wasn't pretending to be someone else.
