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Social media appears to be a blogger time suck.
Note that I said “appears”.
Social media serves you what you consume through the respective platform.
The social media algorithm assesses your user habits. What do you click on? How do you scroll?
Whatever appears in your feeds reflects your viewing habits back to you.
By default, the algorithm tries to shovel mainstream horse shit into your public stream.
But following my easy tip solves that problem quickly.
One Easy Social Media Time Saver
Visit the search bar for the social media site.
Query a competitive key phrase or keyword for your blogging niche.
Work from that stream.
Stay in that stream.
Migrate between:
- posts
- groups
- media (images and videos)
for the remainder of your day.
That is a quick, easy, 3-5 second solution to save perhaps 1000’s of waste-filled hours on social media.
I cannot make it easier, can I?
Invest 3-5 seconds of your time to invest your full social media day to:
- creating content for your perfect readers on social media
- engaging your perfect readers on social media
Perfect social media users – for your blog – gradually migrate to your blog if you follow this simple approach. Some become loyal readers. Others become customers. Others drive referral traffic. Some drive referral business.
Every blogger loves these end game scenarios.
But saving time feels best.
What feels even better?
Not wasting time.
The Purpose of this Post
Open:
- XÂ
- YouTube
What do you see?
Unless you display immense clarity in picking friends and folks to follow or to subscribe to, the jambalaya of posts yanks your focus in many directions. Toss in a dash of mainstream news (courtesy of the lovely trending topics sidebar on X) and you have the perfect storm for wasting 1, 5 or 10 hours on social media daily.
The world shovels mental fecal matter into the minds of the general population. The general public spoons it mindlessly. Fear rules this world. The world you see is fear. Look closely enough; you will see this sooner than later.
Anyway, even if you follow, sub to or befriend seemingly positive users, you still suffer from a time-wasting error, albeit a sneaky one: these people are *not* your perfect:
- reader
- customer
- referral traffic builder
- referral business builder
by and large.
The really popular X users with huge followings are not the ideal Blogging From Paradise reader who wants blogging tips; nor are any my perfect customer, referral traffic builder or referral business builder. Engaging with them or their followers proves to be a massive time suck. Ditto for most Facebook friends. Some blog, but typically publish content not related to blogging tips. Ditto for my YouTube channels that I subbed to.
How I Do It
I query:
- blogging tips
on Facebook, X and YouTube.
I scour each stream carefully for the entirety of my social media day. I drop some genuine comments. I share some of these blogging tips themed updates to my wall. I like a few. I publish a heavy volume of blogging tips; some content populates these streams.
I deem this strategy to be brilliant because I only speak to bloggers who want blogging tips or publish blogging tips. Can I use my social media time more effectively? No way! Never mind that I invest most time creating blogging tips for social media users which draws blogging tips hungry bloggers both to my user handles and Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.
How much easier does it get?
Spend 3-5 seconds to query a competitive keyword or key phrase. Work from your perfect pool of social media users. Speak to your perfect reader. Create content for these individuals. Engage your avatar.
Conclusion
Stop wasting time scrolling through the non-targeted main stream.
I think those X guys generate enough engagement already.
Your well-meaning Facebook buddies probably sit outside of your blogging niche.
Channels you sub to on YouTube typically are not within your blogging niche.
Query your most competitive blogging niche terms. Work from that stream all day long.
Use social media only to draw highly targeted traffic to your blog.
Free yourself from time and location by tapping into half of the world’s population.
