Blogging Myths

Some libraries get discouraged by their blogging attempts. Maybe this posting is helpful:

5 Blogging Myths That Are Killing Your Blog

Myth #1 – Content is All That Matters (aka “Content is King”)
Myth #2 – No Traffic/Comments = My Blog Sucks
Myth #3 – There Are Already Too Many Blogs Out There
Myth #4 – I Can’t Blog Because I’m Not a Good Writer
Myth #5 – The Blogger with the Most Posts Wins

“There is a point in time where the post you’re writing reaches the “good enough” stage, where any further effort to make it better produces diminishing returns and that time could be better spent promoting/marketing the post or your Blog, or even writing another post.
Learning to balance quality and quantity is important. Just don’t fall for the trap of thinking that if you come up with some elaborate scheme of pumping out crazy amounts of content, it’s going to make you ultra successful because the search engines will see you have a lot of pages of content.
Remember that ultimately it is people that are reading your content, not search engines. If all you produce is worthless drivel in large quantities, it’s not going to get you anywhere.
Instead try to focus on delivering value, while at the same time not trying to be perfect.
Remember, if the Blog post is totally perfect – you waited way too long to click Publish.”

Read the whole post.

Stephen