Should You Always Give Readers What They Want? |

Ryan Biddulph August 6, 2025 blogging tips 🕑 4 minutes read

Bath England

“Give the people what they want.”

I know that you have heard this talisman of business-building wisdom.

But is it true?

I enjoy challenging commonly held business and blogging concepts here on Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.

Sorry guys; I give you what empowers you. Sometimes, you want to hear it. Other times, I am sure that you do not want to hear it.

Perusing my social media group spam folders reveals how most bloggers want things their way which injures them – blogging-wise – right to the point of quitting.

What if you desire the idiotic?

What if you want something that brings you struggles, failure and an early exit from blogging?

Never blindly give readers what they want.

Offer your community what empowers them.

Shortcuts

Should you give readers shortcuts if they beg for the quickest way to solve their problems?

No.

Readers may want the quickest way to reach a goal. But the quickest way typically bites people in the butt both sooner and later.

Beginner bloggers – and struggling veterans – want the shortcut to page 1 Google traffic. Most believe that there has to be a quick way to reach the top result of the search engine behemoth.

Shortcut seekers cut all content creation corners. Who the hell has time to write a:

well-researched
highly-detailed
heavily targeted
practical

blog post, right?

Shortcut takers slap together a thin, non-targeted, 700 word blog post to go live as fast as possible.

Do random, 700 word posts rank at position one on the Big G?

No.

Google tends to rank long form content at position one. Never mind how factors like domain authority heavily influence the algorithm.

For example, I queried “blogging tips” recently. To my surprise, one of my blog posts – based on tips for writing a blog post – sits on page 1.

I never optimized the post for that keyword. But I did publish hundreds of blogging tips themed posts since 2014. Google figures that hundreds of highly-detailed, targeted posts about blogging tips makes for an authority blogging tips blog. I did not take shortcuts to get there; I invested years of my life to publish this full body of blogging work.

Never publish short cuts guaranteed to direct readers to ruin.

Doing thorough, patient work brings lasting results.

Easy Hacks

I wish I received $100 USD for every blogger who asked me:

“What’s the easiest way to (insert fundamental activity) with blogging?”

Bloggers want to know the easiest way to drive traffic, make money and build business.

But the easy way never creates lasting success.

If readers want the easy way you better not make any foolish promises. Do you genuinely believe that me and other 17 or 20 or 25 year blogging veterans would have missed the easy way over the prior 17, 20 or 25 years?

Tell readers how it is. Be transparent. Peace, freedom and external blogging success flow to bloggers who make temporarily uncomfortable decisions at times.

Blogging becomes easier after you face fears, work consistently and gain invaluable experience. Nobody alive – save ascended masters – believes that facing fears, working consistently and gaining experience over 1000’s of hours is easy. I can assure you; blogging is quite uncomfortable here and there during some rough patches with enough good times and fun mixed in to propel you forward.

Short-Sighted Strategies

Consider this one to be a poisonous meld of the prior mental errors.

Do not give short-sighted readers what they want.

Chasing a big goal with ridiculous quantum leaps versus mindful baby steps is one of the great curses of the human race.

I’ll give you a personal example.

I hiked for 4 hours today all around the hills of Bath England. A small percentage of humanity currently has the mental and physical ability to hike hills with 12% grades for 4 hours.

Why?

4 hours of serious hill work is easy for me now because I’ve likely walked to Bali (11,000 plus miles) over the past 14 years of my life. Since I became a digital nomad in 2011, I have walked almost every single day.

I have hiked for 22 miles on some days (my record). Other days, I walked for 30 minutes. Sometimes I run. Other times, I jog. Taking small steps daily for 14 years becomes a long term quantum leap. Hitting big hills for 4 hours is easy after you have 11,000 miles of walking/hiking/running practice on big mountains, modest hills, beaches, plains and sidewalks too.

Oh yeah; the human curse. Most unconsciously want to do 4 hours of hill hikes easily today after doing zero practice. You know what happens next; the masses ridiculously push themselves, throw up after hiking the hill for 3 minutes then quit exercising for the next 3 months.

Publish content to benefit readers over the long haul.

Empower your community with practical tips to bring about lasting change.