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Get It on Your Blog Immediately

Ever since I unfollowed 47,000 people on Twitter, Twitter bots force me to follow 1-5 people every day. I followed 4 human beings manually over the past month. Each day, Twitter automatically follows 1 or more strangers on my behalf. I checked my folks followed today: 12. Why? Twitter has a narrative. Twitter has an agenda. Twitter sets the rules. I love the people I befriended on Twitter but spend less time on the platform each day because Twitter owns Twitter and at times does dishonest, deceiving things, in the best interest of Twitter, but not in the best interest of me, or of other Twitter users.

Knowing this, get any Twitter or Facebook videos on your blog immediately. I always link to any Twitter or Facebook video I create immediately to own my brand, to build my brand, and to never be dependent solely on less than honest powers that be at Twitter and Facebook. I appreciate each platform in that I befriend folks through each platform. But less than honest practices push me off of each platform a bit more daily. I also self-promote quite a bit more on each platform for the sole reason that even engaging freely, link-free, with no promoting, creates less and less organic engagement.

I do not mean to complain about either platform. I tell it how I clearly see it. I also know this: I own Blogging From Paradise. Why make Mark Z or Jack D more powerful, for each titan to speak their narrative in confining fashion? I happily add content to their platform via my videos and updates and gratefully appreciate all the photo storage space, but am 100% in the business of building up Blogging From Paradise, more than anything else. Being 100% in the business of building up my blog, brand and business means I embed or link to any social media video via my blog immediately after I publish the social media video. This is a no-brainer.

Why? Social media sets social media rules. Like it or not, stats get suppressed. Algorithms change. But nothing changes on my blog as far as rules because I make the rules. I make the difference. I am the boss on my blog. I boost video views via my blog because my loyal readers boost video views. But if I depended solely on Twitter or Facebook to increase video views, I would be in deep trouble. Do I really trust a platform whose algorithms automatically force me to follow strangers I have no interest or resonance in?

Would I trust said platform owners have my best interests at heart, running through brick walls to grow my traffic and profits? Heck no. Double heck no. I am the 1 person on planet earth with Ryan Biddulph’s best interests at heart. Knowing this, I immediately publish all social media video content to my blog to:

  • build my blog
  • build my brand
  • build my traffic
  • build my business

with the content I created on social media. I create a separate, video-only, blog post for every video I record on Twitter and Facebook I am all about ownership. I am all about branding, taking control and building up my cyber real estate.

Spend most time and energy on your blog and on the blogs of your buddies. Do not spend much time on Twitter and Facebook because Twitter owns Twitter, Facebook owns Facebook, and site owners set all the rules, operate with their narrative in mind, build THEIR brand and sometimes do so in dishonest fashion, to your detriment.

Develop blogging posture; buy my eBook. Spend more time on your blog and less time on social media to build your blog, brand and business.

Written by Ryan Biddulph

Ryan Biddulph is a blogger, author, and world traveler who's been featured on Richard Branson's Virgin Blog, Forbes, Fox News, Entrepreneur, Positively Positive, Life Hack, John Chow Dot Com and Neil Patel Dot Com. He has written and self-published 126 bite-sized eBooks on Amazon and can help you build a successful blog at bloggingfromparadise.com

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