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A few moments ago someone replied with a comment to one of my updates:
“Crikey, mate….it is 2025. Blogging is dead.”
(He didn’t really say that but if he is reading….I keep things light.)
Taking some shrimp off of the blogging barbie, his comment:
- appeased the Facebook algorithm
- proved engagement
- offered me the opportunity to drop two genuine comments in reply to his thought
- offered the Facebook algorithm 3 genuine comments
- proved that blogging is alive and well – on Facebook at least – because the algorithm gives that post greater exposure in front of bloggers who crave the information
- lent me a blog post idea which amplifies my success and makes blogging even more important, relevant and as timely as ever
Do you want to poke fun at the blogging is dead crowd?
Thank them for disproving their point. Thank them for proving themselves wrong. Thank them for proving that blogging is alive and well.
One Comment Increases Organic Traffic and Blogging Income
Facebook loves comments.
Comments tell the algorithm: give this post exposure in front of targeted people keen on engaging.
People who own social sites like FB become billionaires by getting really good at designing an algorithm following this most basic of signals.
So…..my update discussed some blogging fundamental. Croc Dundee told me that blogging is dead in 2025.
Facebook observes that comment and filters it this way: “this content is relevant because one user dropped genuine engagement here.”
Does dead mean relevant?
Nope.
Relevant means alive and well.
Whether on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or anywhere online, negative and positive comments give updates relevance.
When you comment:
“Blogging is dead.”
Facebook and pretty much all social media algorithms say:
“Whatever topic this post covers is relevant, important and worth giving targeted exposure to.”
Literally, you cannot shoot yourself in the foot more. Commenting in reply to an update makes it relevant so claiming irrelevance via the comment disproves yourself instantly. Funny…..right?
Users replying to updates tell the algorithm to give the update increased exposure in front of the right eyes. Relevance increases. Positive exposure grows. Potential organic traffic grows. Potential blogging income grows.
So…..thanks guys!
You prove the blogger right and yourself wrong, all by opening up your mouth.
Bloggers love this.
Keep talking!
When Is Blogging Dead?
Blogging is dead when no one talks about it anymore.
Blogging is dead when your government decides to:
- create all laws in video format
- teach through video formatting alone in primary school through college
- do away with the written or typed word
When humanity decides to step reading, then bloggers will stop writing/typing.
Perhaps this could happen in my lifetime.
But that is highly unlikely.
Perhaps this could happen in 100 years.
But that is highly unlikely.
If people are talking about blogging it gains enough steam online to be highly relevant. Discussions create relevance in the online realm. Money comes from 2 people or more engaging in an active discussion.
I dropped 2 genuine comments in reply to the user’s comment above. Relevance increased.
Facebook decides to give the post a boost because people want to talk about it. Giving the post a boost obviously gives me a boost. More become aware of Blogging From Paradise Dot Com. More become aware of blogging. I am a blogging tips mentor. I win. Bloggers win. Blogging wins. Even if people disagree with me, as long as they speak up, I win. Now, these people do not necessarily lose other than losing face or taking a kick in the ego’s nuts. But that is not really loss, but a gain.
Blogging is good as long as people:
- read
- write
- talk about blogging
Never mind the fact that people crave human-generated content more than ever with the emergence of AI Blogging.
Wait until everything REALLY collapses with AI blogging and Google. It will.
Guys like me – who did everything from scratch with their own humanity – may become even more relevant (than ever) when that AI blogging cyber poop splatters across the fan.
I am not particularly intelligent.
But I am a meteorologist who knows when storm clouds are forming on the horizon.
Why Would Someone Claim that Blogging Is Dead?
Some are robots.
Some react to life unconsciously.
Some lack confidence in what they do; the knee jerk reaction is to claim that others are irrelevant, when you consciously and unconsciously believe in your irrelevance.
When you fear journeying within, you try to hurt, hold back or discredit others.
If you want to see this embodied pretty much to perfection, carefully observe the political system.
Anyway, I still have not seen a “blogging is dead” proponent lay out a:
- logical
- clear
- fact-based
- unbiased
- intelligent, coherent, sound strategy
why humans have already (remember; they said *DEAD*) stopped reading blogs for other.
Even if someone lays out a somewhat coherent argument, everyone will need to stop:
- reading my blog
- joining my social media groups to the tune of 100’s of people weekly (some weeks)
- reading all blogs
- dropping genuine comments on my blog
- dropping genuine comments on all blogs
for blogging to be truly dead and buried.
Do you think this is happening anytime soon?
Why Would I Write this Post?
I want to give you newbie bloggers confidence.
I want to dissolve disinformation.
I want to disband any amusing movements.
I want to dispel rumors.
I want to:
- create content
- boost traffic
- boost blogging income
- empower readers
with the barbs tossed our way via blogging critics.
Keep This Idea in Mind
Open discussion is critical.
I read and approve every relevant comment.
Please post a well thought out, fact-based, statistical comments below to share your point and to:
- boost my engagement
- grow my community
- enhance my social proof
- boost my traffic
- boost my income
- prove blogging relevance
- statistically make blogging alive and well
LOL sorry!
Ya know I had to do it on the way out. 😉
I sincerely hope the “blogging is dead” crowd falls for it again. 🙂
Love ya guys!
