The Best Blogging Advice

Blogging is still a little difficult. There’s different ways to blog and still not sure which style I want to write in.

Blogging was really popular in the early 2000’s and with that many personal blogs being written and uploaded to the internet for people to read, there’s now a lot of advice from veteran bloggers on the do’s and don’t’s and “I wish I’d done this when I first started blogging”

I opened up YouTube and searched TED Talks Blogging and found several TED Talk videos discussing blogging.

This one video in particular was the most helpful. I highly recommend to watch the video in its entirety but I’ll write the main points that I learned from this video.

People will not remember you by one particular post you wrote. They’ll remember you as the person who blogs all the time.

Don’t spend weeks or months just on one blog post. Post something every 2-3 days or once a week. It doesn’t have to be long. Don’t make blogging feel like writing a 10-page university paper.

Don’t focus on growing a tree. Focus on growing your garden.

You might put all your efforts into one high quality blog post and get low engagement. Then you have that blog post that you put the least effort in get the most engagement.

In the long term, producing only high-quality content might give you more credibility. But striving for perfection in a blog, tweet, photo and any kind of content can lead to creative burnout.

Don’t take it too seriously, keep posting. You’re going to have ups and downs but if you post your writing or your art consistently, the quality will naturally get better.