What Has Changed About Blogging over the Past 16 Years? |

Ryan Biddulph October 21, 2024 blogging tips 🕑 3 minutes read

Doha, Qatar

Nothing meaningful has changed blogging-wise over the prior 16 years.

Meaningless aspects of blogging have changed over the past 16 years.

Worthless changes mean nothing. Who cares?

Meaningful concepts remain eternal.

Time will never change this truth: being truly helpful stimulates peace of mind and worldly success. Generous, confident bloggers drive quality traffic and blogging income because this immutable law spawns skills, exposure and credibility expansion. Quality traffic and blogging income follow skilled, seen, credible bloggers.

Traffic channels change like the tide. Observe any Google algorithm update.

I watch bloggers all but take a “New York Swan Dive” over losing all traffic and income each time Google shakes out bloggers hellbent on gaming the system. Even bloggers who appear to do things intelligently suffer Google Smack Downs these days; I cannot give a specific reason other than Google being a political vehicle as any massively scaled organization tends to become.

Traffic channels (change like the wind) behave in far more meaningless fashion than most admit because each false idol seems to be a smart scapegoat or source of lazy-minded bloggers terrified to make their content (timeless) the source of their success.

What Has Changed Over My 16 Year Blogging Career?

Google.

MySpace.

TypePad.

Twitter.

Facebook.

LinkedIn.

YouTube.

Guest blogging.

Blog Commenting.

I can add billions more if you wish; blogging for 16 years is like being around since the Jurassic period in online terms.

What does not REALLY matter changes because it does not REALLY matter.

What REALLY matters?

Help targeted people with content.

Bloggers who help targeted people with content make bank.

What Stays the Same?

Help targeted people with content.

As of now – and for 16 years prior – most successful bloggers use WordPress Dot Org. I know that could change because mediums for helping people with content can and do change. But this platform seems fairly iron-clad…..for now.

If WordPress Dot Org went away simply create content for a targeted reader through a different blogging medium. Do what always works to succeed. Focus on the meaningful.

I use Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Instagram, YouTube, guest blogging and blog commenting to help targeted readers with content because it is meaningful and timeless. However, should the less meaningful channels go away you will never catch me crying over spilled blogging milk. Who cares about the seeming meaningless other than minds making the error of attaching meaning to the meaningless?

We have already established the fact that if it changes it is not important.

But if you chose to mentally frame the unimportant as important you will become confused.

Why?

You will avoid doing the changeless, important, traffic and income boosting blogging work (creating content for a targeted reader) to distract yourself with changing, largely meaningless activities NOT based at all on creating helpful content for a targeted reader.

Distraction-Ville

Every single freaking day some kind mind asks on Threads:

“Is blogging dead? Is blogging still a thing? Do people still read blogs?”

The minds proceed to invest 5 seconds, 5 minutes, 5 hours or 5 days debating the meaningless versus doing the timeless; create content for a targeted reader.

Imagine learning from a professional blogger how to succeed. Picture yourself investing 5 of your hours writing a detailed, targeted blog post. Envision yourself sharing the post in targeted spots.

Blogging will not be dead, it will be a thing and people will still read blogs if you engage in the timeless, changeless activity of creating content for a targeted reader. Yet most minds drip with fear, doubt and self-sabotage so the distraction-ville tendency takes off like a headless chicken via hours spent volleying on threads at Threads.