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Never underestimate your secret urge to get something for nothing.
Maybe this temptation feels tiny in your mind.
Perhaps you rarely try to get something for nothing.
But the belief exists somewhere in your head.
Giving in to the temptation puts you on the failing blogging path.
Taking blogging short cuts leads to fast failure. Short cuts skip the work required to become credible, seen by targeted readers and to gradually build a thriving blogging business.
The successful way requires more time but proves to be a wise investment in freedom. The shortcut way requires less time but proves to be a foolish investment in struggles, pain, failure and quitting.
What route makes greater sense?
Does it seem wise to succeed over a greater period of time?
Or do you prefer to fail quickly, again and again, before quitting permanently?
You make the call.
You choose.
You win.
Or you lose.
Take the Successful Blogging Route
Taking the successful blogging route requires:
- time
- generous service
- practice
- patience
- persistence
Each quality seems taxing to give. I get it. I have blogged since 2008.
But the long, sometimes challenging blogging journey leads to success. Blogging short cuts always lead to quick failure. However, bloggers who take short cuts again and again experience long term failure.
Whether you take short cuts now, 5 years from now or 10 years from now, you will fail now, 5 years from now or 10 years from now. The length of time you work short cut strategies never forces success out of failing strategies.
Never Trust the Illusion
Currently, AI bloggers may experience fleeting success by taking shortcuts.
But never be fooled by this illusion.
Everything will eventually collapse for these bloggers like a cyber house of cards.
Glowing Example
Imagine ranking at position 1 for AI-generated snippets.
What happens if individuals click through to your blog?
Most readers will instantly notice that your content sounds identical to millions of bloggers using similar AI prompts.
Boring.
A few disillusioned readers exit immediately.
Far more readers will exit stage left after ruminating this one:
“This blogger cares so little about their readers, reader problems and tailoring genuine solutions, that they outsource the process to an artificial article spinner for a couple of bucks per month. Screw that. Buh-Bye!”
THAT my friends is the house of cards cyber collapse.
The illusion is that taking shortcuts with AI leads to page 1 Google traffic.
The truth is that the humans you need to drive organic traffic and blogging income bounce from your blog quicker than a bullfrog dancing on the road in Death Valley.
Illusion = Take shortcuts to get big traffic.
Reality = No blogging community and no income.
People want bloggers to create tailored content based on personal experiences. People want bloggers who exhibit compassion, empathy and care. Folks want highly skilled bloggers who invest 1000’s of hours towards mastering their blogging craft.
Blogging Short Cuts Never Lead to Success
Blogging short cuts never lead to blogging success because good things require time and generous service. The most successful bloggers drive traffic and profits by giving years to blogging the right way. Creative, connected bloggers honed their skills over 1000’s of blogging hours. Allow this idea to imprint itself onto your mind. Success is a marathon run over years not a sprint lasting months.
Never Sprint
Of course, bloggers try to sprint spanning weeks to months for overnight riches. Hacks, shortcuts and the quickest route possible occupy these panicked, frenzied, greedy minds. But the quick route leads to failure. Even if you work hard trying to game the system, the system yields no money for desperate bloggers demanding quick riches to flow their way.
Blogging sprinters fall flat on their cyber face.
Working hard at taking shortcuts makes no difference; expect to face-plant consistently – and savagely – by attempting more asinine, foolish shortcuts.
Skipping the work required to succeed skips the traffic and income, too.
Every future pro blogger baby steps their way to a full-time blogging career.
Take those steps.
Even the tiny ones – most will be seemingly short – build up to something spectacular over the years.
But you need to keep stepping consistently to experience exponential blogging returns.
You’ll get there.
I Paid My Blogging Dues
I paid my blogging dues. Blogging has been good to me in many regards because I have been quite good to blogging. Blogging mirrors back to you what you give to blogging. Observe the reflective effect of this powerful medium. The successful way is the long way because one needs to develop skills over years to make a strong impact online.
Slow down your mind. Stop craving short cuts. Cool it with seeking hacks for getting rich quickly. All blogging short cuts lead to failure because fear goads short cut seekers and fear-driven bloggers do unintelligent, failure-inducing things. My spam folder collects shortcut seekers daily.
Instead of creating valuable content to help people and earn trust this crowd looks for a short cut. Spammers want to gain exposure via a worthless comment and link to their business. Spammers want to capitalize on any success I’ve experienced over the years through my diligent, patient work.
Pay Your Dues
Stop trying to get rich quickly. Pay your dues.
Give to get. Let that idea burrow deep into your mind. Concentrate on the concept. Build your blog by being a generous servant. Be truly helpful. This is the way.
Create helpful content. Connect with bloggers by:
- publishing genuine comments on respected blogs from your niche
- promoting bloggers on your blog
- promoting bloggers through social media
- publishing long form blog posts
- creating practical content for social media
Conclusion
Creative, connected bloggers succeed through their generosity, patience and persistence.
Shortcut takers fail 100% of the time because no one gets something for nothing.
Everyone needs to earn their blogging success over the long haul.
Give to get. As your giving expands your getting expands.
Give freely.
Receive consistently.
