Blogging Misconceptions for Beginners

There are a lot of misconceptions about blogging, below are a few of them. If you are just starting out as a blogger or considering blogging as a business, make sure you understand these misconceptions, as key to success in blogging or any business depends a lot in your understanding of the business model.

In a bid to market e-books and seminars, marketers create some misconceptions about blogging. However, they are just doing their job. Advertising is supposed to be metaphorical, so it is your fault if you buy it completely. Here are some popular misconceptions to get out of the way in your blogging venture.

Blogging is an easy & fast way to make money

A lot of people started blogging because it was marketed to them as a get rich quick method of making money. This has led to a lot of lazy and charlatan bloggers joining the Nigerian bloghood. These lazy bloggers simply copy other people’s content or just scribble very short posts.

The truth is that making money from blogging requires that you build the traffic and reputation of your blog. Doing both takes time. Writing posts on your blog is easy, monetising your blog is easy, building traffic and reputation is the hard part.

Just post a few articles and seat back and watch the money role in

This is another popular misinformation. The truth is that no money will role in with just a few posts. You need to write a new topic each day. You need to promote your posts, manage your blog, respond to comments, share your links on social networking sites, and so on. And you need to do this on a consistent basis.

Making money from blogging is a scam

Because of the way blogging has been wrongly promoted as a get rich quick method of making money, a number of people who have tried and failed in blogging have concluded that blogging is a scam. However, the truth is that people are making money from blogging, yours truly included. Last year, I posted a five figure income (in US Dollars) and I have my eyes set on a six figure income this year. So, don’t be deceived you can make money from blogging but you need to build traffic and reputation first, and that takes time.

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