As a blogger, what should you do about social media censorship? Should you fight the machine? Or does surrendering better suit you? How does censorship affect your blogging campaign? Where do you need to look for traffic sources not named Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Or should you stick to heavy social media sites? How should you use social? What should you think about social media? How should you frame social media?
Let’s answer these questions today.
Own How Social Media Owners Can Do As They Please
Every entrepreneur who owns social media sites can do as they please because it is their website.
Let go what you cannot control. Focus on what you can control.
Publish High Energy Content on Social Media
Publishing:
positive updates
inspirational updates
loving updates
is the easiest way to completely avoid bans.
But assess your version of high energy content. Publish nothing political because “high energy” and “political” never mix.
Any time you lend your power and the power of other humans to one person or a party to control you, that is know as “fear”, my Young Blogging Padawans. Fear sits on the low end of the energy spectrum. Love sits on the high end of the energy spectrum.
Stick to love. Avoid censoring. Avoid being shut down. Keep accounts open to inspire people and to publish helpful blog content for sharing on social media.
Publish Content Related to Your Blogging Niche on Social Media
Think business, not personal.
Posting blogging business-related content keeps you out of the social media dog house.
I publish blogging tips themed content. No social media algorithm has issues with blogging tips themed content, as far as I have seen.
Use social media only to spread good vibes and to share helpful content from your blog.
Scout Emerging Websites to Open New Communication Channels
Scout emerging social media sites as alternatives or add-on’s to big social media. Connect with like-minded people on sites promoting free speech, tolerance and kindness.
Check out sites your buddies are talking about. Feel free to join to stay connected across multiple channels. But never get attached because in this day and age of social media censorship and general social backlash any emerging site can bite the dust fast due to worldly pressures.
Own Your Blog Own Your List and Create on Real Estate Owned by Blogging Buddies
The easiest and quickest way to divest yourself of social media chaos is to:
own your domain
buy hosting
publish content on your blog
publish guest posts and genuine comments on blogs owned by your buddies
own your email list
Email and blogging divests you of social media. Whatever happens on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram has nothing to do with your blog or email list because each behaves independently on social media channels.
Commit to Your Online Real Estate
Everything depends on your commitment to sticking to the bread and butter activities of creating and connecting through your blog and buddy blogs and by owning your email list.
Seek to divest yourself from social media versus investing yourself more deeply in social tendrils. I get it; we all intend to meet somewhere relatively popular online. But why not make that popular meeting site your blog? Why not build your blog into something special?
Give most attention and energy to blogging and list building to increase your traffic and profits independent of social media.
Admittedly, this feels uncomfortable sometimes because nothing appears to happen blogging-wise for a bit.
Being blog-focused lets you avoid social media chaos but also goads you to build your blog into a trusted resource.
Build your blog first and foremost. Spend most time publishing detailed content and bonding with bloggers via their owned online real estate.
Treat social media as a secondary or tertiary channel at best to grow your blog effectively and to frame social media usage in the appropriate light.
Conclusion
Social media is here to stay.
Why not focus on your blog and use social as an added bonus for connecting with potential readers?
