Peter’s Lookout, New Zealand
The blogging fundamentals remain constant.
Create and connect your way to success.
But the ways to create and connect change from time to time. Being flexible allows bloggers to grow through change versus getting stuck.
Spot what no longer works.
Replace with tactics that do currently work.
Learn consistently.
Respect how in an imperfect world, change is the prime constant.
Take genuine blog commenting. I guide bloggers to comment genuinely on blogs but sparingly these days. The advent of AI blogging combined with a general blogging trend influenced most bloggers to close commenting. I teach bloggers to create offsite content for social media sites first and foremost as a stable traffic generating tactic. Employ commenting as a secondary or even tertiary tactic because times have changed.
Bloggers often find themselves skilled to handle a world that passed them by years ago.
Someone recently emailed me asking if I could place a sponsored post. But if he followed my blog he would know that I stopped accepting and placing sponsored posts years ago. I estimate that date to be late 2019. That’s a fair chunk of time compared to the publish date of this place post. Imagine how much things changed in the volatile blogging world during that time frame?
He also asked if I would honor the old rate but the old rate insulted me and my prospective clients. My mind mired itself in many fears fueling worthiness/deserving issues during those days. I value myself and what I do a little bit more these days; to put it lightly.
When did the prior email from our thread date? September of 2019.
Imagine the News and Its Dramatic Changes
Imagine all news changing over the prior years. Look up a newspaper from September of 2019. Pick up a newspaper today. Now, multiply the 6 years by 10 to understand that 6 years in the online world is like 60 years in the offline world. The online world moves like a rocket compared to the offline world. Change is severe here. Change is typically wild, if not absurdly erratic, because the cyber-nature of this place lends itself to this constant state of flux.
What were you doing in September of 1965? How has your life changed from September 1965 to May of 2025? How many changes occurred during the past 60 years of your life? Think. Why would you think someone blogs as one blogged 6 years ago online? Why would someone be the same person offline as one seemed to be 60 years ago?
Most of you did not exist on this plane in 1965. I was born in 1975. But if you were around in 1965 you know; it was a radically different place to live in back then.
Sparing you any romanticizing, the spirit of this post is this: the business-building fundamentals of that day remain constant but the tools, strategies and techniques to relay your message are completely different. People used landlines, their legs and public meetings to build business in 1965. People in 2025 use blogs, email, mobile phones and social media to build online businesses, as one general strategy, of course.
I can guarantee you that few humans these days use snail mail to send letters and maybe a few more use landlines to robo-call potential customers. A few, but barely any at all, because communication channels changed dramatically over the past 60 years.
Wake Up
Wake up! Stop sleeping. Wake your sleeping mind. People tend to fall asleep in mind. Being asleep in mind guarantees that you anchor yourself to a blogging past long since…..passed.
Imagine being highly skilled to deal with blogging in 2014. In 2014 I guest blogged for money. Paid guest blogging seemed to be all the rave. Awesome. But Matt Cutts published one update completely obliterating paid guest blogging for links. He decided Google had seen enough spam results on page 1 because businesses bought enough links through guest blogging.
Guest blogging for money on thin, weak, multi-topic blogs (content mills) with no authority disappeared overnight in 2014. Imagine if I still clung to 2014? Imagine if I still tried to guest blog on multi topic blogs for paid links? I established this income stream from 2012 to 2014 but that channel dissolved the moment Google changed the algorithm on that day.
I got current in 2014. Matt Cutts did away with paid guest blogging. I began writing and self-publishing eBooks. Writing and self-publishing eBooks allowed me to monetize my writing passion. However, more importantly, I remained current by letting go of paid guest blogging and replacing the income channel with an in-demand niche. Currently, people still read eBooks so I am good. I also created and sell an online course to appease the desire for remote learning.
Imagine when I began blogging in 2008. What did I know about blogging? Nothing. But I got current. I followed a few blogging tips blogs. Slowly but surely I acquired knowledge to begin publishing content. Most content seemed to be evergreen content. But I only followed this path because I chose to be current, informed and up to date.
I do not put my blogging head in the sand.
Read. Learn. Be open to change. Remain abreast of working strategies. Be eagle-eyed for what no longer works. Being informed is the way to do it. What worked in the past as far as tactics may not work effectively now. This is for you to learn.
I invite you to wake your sleeping mind. Stop clinging to the blogging past. Be awake. Open your eyes. Follow top blogging tips blogs. Stay current to position yourself to succeed.
Conclusion
Did you decide to get back into blogging?
What worked in the past may not work now.
Keep current. Dive into leading blogging tips blogs. Learn about what strategies work now from the current blogging authorities.
Start intelligently.
Remain informed by learning about how to blog successfully.
Be true to the fundamentals of creating and connecting.
Be flexible enough to use timely strategies.
The fundamentals do not change.
But the tools, techniques and tactics do change from time to time.
