Long Beach California USA
I completed my morning cardio in Long Beach California today.
Fog rolled in early; typical for this micro-climate along the Southern California coast.
I did about 2 hours. Kelli and I walked along the inlet before doubling back along Ocean Boulevard.
Did you know that Clark Gable and W.C. Fields summered in posh residences along that road? I figure Long Beach to be a bit old school in terms of celebs living here. Most reside in Los Angeles or the surrounding hills.
But make no mistake about it; swanky Belmont Shore sits a hop, skip and jump down the road from us.
Why I Use Personal Stories
Re-read the prior few paragraphs.
Imagine AI attempting to:
- scrape
- package
- generate
content from Blogging From Paradise Dot Com based on the prior paragraphs.
How will that work out?
I shared first person stories. I have shared first person stories for well over a decade through my:
- blog
- online course for sale
- eBooks for sale
Can AI scrape, package and generate first person Ryan Biddulph stories and submit via a guest post somewhere else? How will that look when I am Ryan Biddulph and AI is a lifeless, non-sentient, artificial program? How does that look in terms of establishing credibility? Imagine claiming to be me, scraping my content, generating a post then attempting to use that content on a site other than Blogging From Paradise Dot Com?
That would be an insane approach.
AI can talk about me from a third person perspective by using my stories. Good. Send people back to my blog through this sweetest form of free advertising for me. AI bloggers appear to steal my content and re-package the suckers but my strong personal brand makes it impossible for them not to funnel readers back to my blog the moment one mentions my name. Otherwise it could be plagiarism considering the depth to which I add first person stories to my content here. I would never pursue these avenues but their credibility would be flushed down the shitter if any dingbat even attempted this silliness.
Using first person stories makes your blog AI proof.
Embedding personal experiences with the good old “I” word infused makes copying your blog impossible. Neither AI or humans can copy a first person account and making it their own without sounding like a jackass. Seriously; you are literally attempting to be another person and selling it as your own content. Not a good look, especially if the goal is to earn credibility in reader’s eyes.
How Does This Help You?
I now give you permission to inject first person accounts into your blog posts.
Go ahead.
Do it.
People need it.
Readers want it.
Humans appreciate a first person perspective because readers get to be in your shoes. On one level, you and I fantasize a bit by reading another’s first person account. We cannot necessarily be with the writer at the moment but we can picture ourselves being there. Think of it as living vicariously through someone. Re-read the first few paragraphs. I bet you felt a little like you were cruising down the coast in sunny California. Perhaps the image of Clark Gable even popped up on the screen of your mind.
Good!
Mission accomplished.
Now you do it.
Work first person experiences into your blog. Stand out in a positive way. Be unique by sharing genuine experiences no one else can claim. We live similar experiences. But no one else is in our mind or our body save ourselves. Consider this to be the blogging secret weapon; your first person story.
The Danger of Third Person Blogging
I searched “blogging tips“ on Google.
A highly popular resource came up on page 1 position 1.
Now, please do not take this as a dig but a learning example. I submitted 1000 posts to the site under different ownership. Content on the site is helpful under new ownership but there is one glaring issue with said content.
AI can easily scrape it and repackage it because most content on the site is 3rd person. I did see some “We’s and Ours” yet not one instance of “I”. The first blog post I scanned was 100% 3rd person. AI can nab that blog post, slice and dice it and generate dozens of similar posts with alarming speed.
That is a problem, my friends.
If AI can easily copy, reproduce and amplify your content under a different domain name, that potentially makes your blog irrelevant.
The site is strongly branded and boasts helpful content but since it is a 3rd person recount what’s stopping AI bloggers from replicating the 3rd person perspective and blowing it out of the water with a dizzying array of similar posts? 3rd person content can easily be copied and upgraded by AI because there is no:
- first person element
- personal stories
- unique perspectives
- genuine takes
within the content.
Scroll down a few more positions to see one Blogging From Paradise Dot Com post.
I dropped at least 2-3 “I’s” within the first few paragraphs.
AI always loses to these “I’s” because Ryan Biddulph:
- experienced it alone
- shared his unique take
Something artificial cannot say, “I am Ryan Biddulph and here is my take,” because everyone knows it is lying.
Ryan Biddulph blogs at Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.
Every other site is fake and sports zero credibility.
Goodness knows I possess a tiny online following, but the closest thing would be those celebrity fan sites one sees here and there.
You can copy me or talk about me but Ryan Biddulph only blogs at Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.
Personal Branding
Now do you understand why I have implored you to build a personal brand since 2014?
I did not see AI coming. But I did see many attempt to copy my work and sell it as their own during my early blogging years.
Adding personal stories to my blog ended that pronto because my name, my creations, my stories and my blogging guidance are at Blogging From Paradise Dot Com and nowhere else.
I built my personal brand patiently to the point where the world knows if it came from here it is me and nothing else online is me.
THAT is the power of personal branding.
THAT is why blogging solely from a 3rd person perspective is pure folly.
Conclusion
I need to go hit the beach.
Those Southern California rays are too tempting.
Tell your story.
Share a first person perspective.
AI cannot copy the original.
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