Creating Content For Social Media Good Or Bad

by LaTease Rikard

There is a rumbling in the blogosphere on whether you should blog for Social Media or for your readers.

Here are the pros and cons:

Cons:
Blogging for Social Media is difficult. It's hard to know what the next great thing is.

If you are not the first one with the information you won't get much love. In fact, you may be penalized for it.

Your readership may not be targeted. You could end up writing for a flaky audience.

You have to find the right Social Media audience for the content you provide. Otherwise, your posts will fall on deaf ears.

You must continually test and trial until the right Social Medium is located.

Pros:
Once you find the right audience for your content, you could find an endless source of targeted traffic.

It's free, its only cost is time.

You will find great sources of networking.

Valuable blogging friendships formed.

If you decide to write for Social Media make sure you choose the appropriate device to get your posts in front of the right readers.

© LaTease Rikard, All rights reserved.

Submitted on Feb 3, 2009