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I saw a few updates on X today.
I follow the #blogging hashtag. Heck; this is my niche after all.
User accounts generated by AI included similar, spammy-looking handles littered with numbers and fictitious names.
Identical content vomited from AI populated each stream.
Every profile used the #blogging hashtag. Can you be more obvious? I spotted this error easily. Using the same hashtag affixed to identical content spanning a slew of handles was a foolish move. But then again, fools never realize that they are the ones being fooled by the lure of quick, easy blogging riches.
Farming is an old skool tactic used by fools to fool users who rarely if ever trust idiots.
I apologize for using the word “idiot” but how else can you understand the gist of this post? Idiocy often arises when bloggers forget that they deal with fellow human beings in the online realm. Words fly by the screen at a breakneck pace. Traffic obsessions grow out of control, let alone profit motives. Yet people sit on the other side of their phone or laptop. Remember that to prevent your blog from becoming a tale told by an idiot.
The blogging system cannot be fooled. Blogging chews up and spits out 80% of bloggers – or more – routinely. A chunk from this failed lot desperately attempts to fool readers. Reality slaps them upside the head in the most violent fashion, smacking each blogger across the face with the truth.
I estimate that 80% number based on personal observation since 2008. Factor in the classic stat (82% of bloggers never make more than $100 USD) and you know that you can be fooled but blogging cannot be hoodwinked.
Nothing new exists under the sun. Humans are smart. Readers see right through foolish tactics, like the social media engagement farming BS hack I discussed above.
What person trusts content replicated identically across 5-10 different social media handles?
Would you trust a bot? Would you trust AI-generated content to yield accurate information consistently?
What Do I Mean?
The fools using AI to farm traffic and income through identical accounts have been fooled.
This strategy rarely if ever works to draw:
- loyal readers
- customers
- clients
to your blog.
Would anyone be fooled by:
- spammy sounding handles strewn with numbers and silly-sounding names?
- identical content posted to multiple handles?
Of course not; savvy social media users cannot be fooled. Even new social media users cannot be fooled because silly-sounding handles affixed to generic content flash the biggest red flags.
Yet the AI bloggers who have been fooled believe that they can and will fool social media users. This is why AI bloggers engage in spammy tactics.
X and the blogging world in general eats these guys up, spits ’em out and sends ’em into blogging oblivion. X will wipe out their accounts swiftly. Potential readers will never know of them. What happens when they scramble to use the same foolish approach for any social media site? The algorithm wipes them out. What happens if these folks use AI to publish generic content identical to millions of AI-generated posts? Human beings look past their blogs.
What happens if no people visit your blog?
Your blog becomes irrelevant.
Bloggers sans traffic or money quit in frustration.
Another blogging fool bites the dust.
The blogging system feasts on another fool.
Give It Some Thought
Can one blogger fool the blogging niche?
Can an individual pull the wool over the eyes of crazy smart entrepreneurs who own social media networks? How about the highly intelligent professionals who work just below these iconic entrepreneurs? Do you really believe that you can fool them?
Nobody reading these words can game the system to fool billionaires. The billionaires win. Social media algorithms win. Blogging wins.
Nobody owns the blogging niche like entrepreneurs own social media websites.
Yet the collective attitude in the blogging niche sniffs out frauds pronto.
Humble yourself.
Do the blogging work.
What Is the Solution?
Stop trying to fool people.
Help people.
Shift your focus.
For example, skip the manipulative tactics on a site like X. Setting up multiple handles to publish identical updates never works as a viable, long-term solution. X will close your handles sooner than later. Imagine if driving blog traffic was that easy? Pros would have been all over such an easy hack decades ago.
Blogging is not that easy.
Helping readers with content is the solution. Being of service is the answer.
Publish a steady volume of practical tips to solve reader problems via X.
I publish blogging tips to X on a daily basis. Bloggers migrate from there to here based on these tips.
I usually ship dozens of blogging tips each day on various social media platforms. Be consistent. Readers respect consistent bloggers because bloggers who show up grow on their blogging communities.
The process is simple but not always easy. Showing up daily feels uncomfortable at times. Writer’s block rears its ugly head. Algorithms shift. Narratives change. Social seems to be the slowest form of organic traffic; nothing happens remotely quickly over there.
At the end of the day, I deeply respect my readers. I intend to be truly helpful for them. I would never dream of fooling anyone by attempting to take blogging shortcuts. Besides; the joke would be on me. I have seen too many blogging fools disappear into the cyber ether after being chewed up by blogging.
Conclusion
No one fools blogging.
But you can be fooled.
Look genuinely at your blogging strategy.
Do you publish truly helpful content consistently?
If not, you may be trying to fool readers.
But the joke is on you.
Blogging never suffers fools lightly and it does not spare the rod.
Publish detailed, targeted content.
Respect your readers.
Trust the blogging process.
Be patient.
Blogging gives you whatever you give to blogging.
Isn’t that a comforting thought?
