Why Following Unsuccessful Strategies Is Driving the Wrong Way Down a One Way Street for 1000s of Miles |

Ryan Biddulph April 17, 2026 blogging tips 🕑 5 minutes read

Manhattan Beach California USA

I drove from Los Angeles to a bit south of San Francisco yesterday.

6 hours.

Smooth ride.

But the last 20 seconds of the 6 hour journey proved most turbulent; ain’t that how the ego wants it?

I saw no “One Way Street” sign even though most appeared to be parked one way. Was the street wide enough for two cars to fit? Hell yeah. Two large trucks could have passed one another.

Based on my prior observations and subsequent patterns – watching traffic patterns in the USA and all over the world – I did a U-Turn then drove back to the house after I passed it.

Of course, the ego had to send 3 cars my way instantly. The first was a woman who beeped a few times. I and she approached each other slowly. She kindly explained that it was a one way street. I sheepishly apologized and noted seeing no sign. The subsequent two people crawled by as I smiled and waved.

Here’s the deal.

I slowly, cautiously and carefully drove the wrong way 200 feet up a one way street to reach my goal (the house).

Imagine if I tried to drive 11,000 miles the wrong way up a one way street to Bali? How long would that take? Well for starters, I would likely crash and die within the first 5-10 miles because insane strategies dripping with resistance often lead to quick termination.

But if I crawled for, say, 30 years from now, and avoided dying in a horrific car crash, my body would die from natural causes before I reached Bali. I would face so much resistance with millions of cars flying at me, angered, terrified and appalled, that I could only inch forward at 1 – 5 MPH, then would stop, and wait, then would inch forward, then stop and wait.

TOO MUCH RESISTANCE!

Why Following Failing Blogging Strategies Is Like This

Bloggers who follow failing blogging strategies never reach their ultimate goal of worldly success and freedom because each runs out of time based on facing staggering resistance.

In the average human lifetime, all of the people who drop,

“Hey great post! Nice job! I will refer this auspicious post to my cousin!!”

comments on Blogging From Paradise Dot Com will die of natural causes before their 100,000 generic, spam, value-less comments inspire thousands of human beings to:

deem each blogger as being credible
click through to these blogs to click ads, buy affiliate stuff or do whatever nets said bloggers profits

If you behave like an online asshole for 10,000 times daily for the next 45 years of your life, a few fools will trust you, click your link, buy stuff, you will make a few pennies or bucks….then your body will die of natural causes in 45 years. You will have $100 to $500 USD to show for these mad strategies.

You will never reach a meaningful life goal because:

your strategy fails
your strategy slams into too much resistance
you run out of time because the resistance is too great during an average human lifetime

How Do You Get to Bali in a Realistic Time Frame?

Versus trying to drive the wrong way up a one way street for 11,000 miles (metaphorically of course) you buy a plane ticket to get there in 23 hours. Sane people take the sane, successful route. You get there pretty quickly because you use logic not nonsense.

How Do You Become a Pro Blogger in a Realistic Time Frame?

Follow successful blogging strategies:

publish detailed, highly practical content to your blog and offsite sources consistently
appreciate your readers by listening to their problems
solve reader problems with long-form blog posts
meet new, targeted readers offsite by engaging these individuals
read and reply to all comments on your blog
opening multiple income channels
promote your online courses, eBooks and services consistently

Look at those bullet points. Each is like buying a plane ticket to Bali.

Look at the spam comments in your trash folder consisting of,

“Hey great post!”

to see someone attempting to drive the wrong way up a one way street for 11,000 miles to Bali.

Failing strategies bring failure for the next 50,000 years because failing strategies never work. Working really hard at something that never works ensures that it never works.

The Big Dawg of Social Media

As I write these words from Redwood City, I am a few miles from Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park.

Mark Z did not drop spam comments on 200,000 blogs saying, “Hey great job nice post!” to point a few jackasses back to a spammy, error-ridden blog filled with no value and affiliate links.

He built something that most of planet earth finds useful and joined as a user.

He invested thousands upon thousands of hours intending to get most of the world to:

connect
communicate
find some value

through a website.

He is worth $230 billion as of this publish date because he spent decades of his life building something that most of the world values.

He is not your goal or your model as an individual blogger. Ethical concerns aside, you are doing things a bit differently for a different audience with a somewhat different strategy.

BUT……

……you must stay in your lane and put in your work like he had to put in his work to follow:

intelligent
effective
efficient
successful
freeing
leveraging

blogging strategies for 5,000, then 10,000, then 15,000 hours and more to keep reaching a large demographic of highly-pinpointed human beings who:

want your offering
appreciate your value
buy your stuff
hire you
drive referral traffic
drive referral business

which is radically different than following failing blogging strategies which bring no one to your blog no matter how hard you work these struggling forms of blogging fool’s gold.