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The mirage of blogging keeps on attracting more and more people each day and with it, bloggers and online publishers hurry to launch debates on tips and best practices.

There is no secret that some of these blogging tips available on many blogs out there are written out of the desire to catch a profitable train or only to align with a publishing trend.

Some of these blogs only offer tips based on myths, without a reference or statistic background. What are these myths and my arguments against them?

Click the link to see some of the biggest blogging myths busted. Busting myths is a great way to get some easy traffic to your blog. People love conventional wisdom, but they love it even more when someone discredits the conventional wisdom. Think about it like this – It was pretty cool when Einstein figured out relativity. It explained a lot of things. Now, how cool would it be if someone came along and said Einstein was all wrong – that would raise some eyebrows.

If you’re in need of a boost, bust some myths.

I came across this post at Blogussion yesterday and was immediately turned off. It’s wrong, just wrong.

To get us started, Rob Stretch says the old adage ‘if you build it, they will come’ just isn’t true.

The Field of Dreams myth is alive in many bloggers just starting out. Many new bloggers get an idea for a niche they want to infiltrate, build and host a blog, and wait for traffic. And wait some more. And the traffic never comes.

The e-marketing myth is that the internet has so many users that if you take the time to build a website it will generate its own traffic. More simply put, “If you build it, they will come.” This is not an accurate assumption.

Before I go on, let me say this – Rob isn’t wrong, but he isn’t right either. If you build it, they might not come. In that case, he’s right. But — and here’s the important part — if you build it right, they will come.

If you do what it takes to build a good blog, they will come. If you offer great content, a unique opinion, do it frequently and have a readable design – then you’ll get traffic. You’ll have to do some promotion along the way, but it will happen.

Blogging isn’t a big secret, hard thing to do. It’s pretty simple. It’s not easy – but it’s simple.