1 Glaring Problem with Page One Blogging Tips Results on Google |

Ryan Biddulph February 5, 2026 blogging tips 🕑 5 minutes read

Encinitas California USA

I searched for “blogging tips” on Google.

Never mind how a post with the year 2024 came up in the title. That is another story.

Two results had 25 tips. One result had 20 tips.

I barely remember one tip these days. Do you believe overwhelmed new bloggers seem best served by receiving 20 to 25 tips?

I do not condemn bloggers or Google.

I point out commonly overlooked problems.

Simplicity wins. Sharing a few practical tips guides new bloggers along the straight and narrow.

Hell; even the highest level pros do simple things. But blogging leaders practice doing simple things for an extraordinary length of time.

I care not to assassinate the famous Bruce Lee quote. He basically said he never fears a guy who practiced 10,000 different kicks but definitely fears a guy who practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Do These 25 Different Things……HUH?

That leads us to the inherent problem with page 1 results for blogging tips.

Google sends readers to sites guiding bloggers to do 25 different things.

Huh?

Sounds a little bit like the struggling individual who practices 10,000 different kicks, doesn’t it?

Meanwhile, whether you agree with it or not, my page 1 post for a blogging tips search lists 8 practical steps for writing a blog post.

Any new bloggers can follow 8 steps consistently. 8 ain’t 25 tips, or techniques.

Think of it: would you rather be guided to follow 8 simple steps to solve a problem or be overwhelmed with 25 tips? Do you prefer to have your mind lassoed in 25 different directions or to be led with 8 practical, step-by-step guidance to go from A to Z?

More Is Not Better

More is not better.

Simplicity is power.

I can share 30 tips for bloggers to try to over deliver. But do bloggers need 30 tips to get started? When you are new to any discipline does it help to be bombarded with 30 different tips?

I share not to condemn bloggers or Google but to point out the issue.

The world loves more. Google proves it.

More is not better.

Practical guidance wins.

Offering bloggers a small collection of practical steps wins. From there, break down each step into more steps, connecting the dots to create a seamless experience.

Readers want simple solutions to follow not an orgy of advice to confuse the hell out of them.

Do what is necessary to reach the goal.

Be thorough but get the hell off of the blogging stage before confusing readers with blogging bloat.

Give readers exactly what readers need.

Exit stage left.

As for Google

Perhaps you may cease worshiping at the Google altar after reading this post.

The elite search engine sends a steady volume of bloggers hungry for blogging tips to these results.

Mind you, I am not saying that my page 1 result is the best content out there. But all 8 steps are accurate, helpful and pretty much lay out the fundamental blogging tips to follow in order to drive organic traffic.

Google is prone to err because human beings design the algorithm. Humans are imperfect. By default, the algorithm is imperfect.

I am imperfect just like you.

But my Blogging From Paradise blog posts are more likely to be accurate than page 1 Google results.

Why?

Google wants to get. Page 1 results clearly reveal this because the errors are too great to look past.

I want to give.

Helpers offer the best service because they do not have their hands in your cyber pockets, attempting to squeeze something out of you. That’s me. That’s Blogging From Paradise. I am not trying to get your:

email address
attention span
money

because my blog design proves it. No opt-in forms, no hard sells, nothing of the sort.

Google, X, Facebook and the corporate world in general needs to keep getting attention, traffic and profits to exist. This is why each eventually sells out and/or pushes an aggressive upsell at every opportunity.

This is also why trusting them less and trusting generous, genuine, largely detached bloggers more makes perfect sense.

The world has every right to make a living.

But how someone makes a living is another story.

Ethical individuals hellbent on serving go pro peacefully. Follow these individuals. Follow their lead, too.

Emulate genuine bloggers.

Look past everyone else.

Honor this rule of thumb to thrive peacefully.

Should You Trust Google?

Yes and no.

First off, try not to trust Google in and of itself as an individual entity. Look at individual page 1 results to assess content credibility. The algorithm spits out accurate content sometimes and screws up at other times.

Trust Google results pointing to truly helpful, relevant resources.

Do not trust Google results pointing to thin, dated or even overwhelming content typically designed to game the algorithm.

Listicles are popular but practically-speaking, these titantic-sized blog posts are as useful as tits on a bull.

Sharing 20 to 30 to 50 tips as a practical solution makes little sense because the world has the attention span to use 5 tips not 50 tips.

With that being said, consuming 50 tips from, say, 10 blog posts makes sense to me because 5 step solutions to problems jives with what the world defines as being practical.

Popular May Not Be Practical At All

I can publish content that becomes popular in the world.

But just because a bunch of people read the content never means it is truly helpful for the individuals.

A truly helpful solution to a “blogging tips” query on Google would be something like:

“7 Practical Blogging Tips to Follow to Go from Amateur to Pro”

Any aspiring blogger can say to themselves:

“Excellent. Now I have 7 specific tips to follow to go pro.”

No confusion. No overwhelm.

Blog with Your Reader in Mind

Publish posts to solve specific reader problems simply.

List practical steps to follow.

Baby step readers from problem to solution.

Never overwhelm your tribe. Stop trying to impress your community. For the love of all that is good and holy, stop trying to rank on page 1 of Google. This post should be proof enough that Google is a highly imperfect traffic source, from time to time.

Help your readers by solving their issues.

Be thorough but respectful of their time.