Do You Need to Change Your Blogging Strategy?

Blogging gives you what you give to blogging.

What you give to blogging consists of mindset and help.

If blogging does not seem to:

• feel fun
• yield slow and steady worldly returns in traffic and profits terms

it may be time to change your blogging strategy.

Ask yourself the blog post title question now.

Do you need to change your blogging strategy?

Is your blogging strategy fun to work? Does your blogging strategy slowly but surely seem to be yielding successful results?

On checking my comments this morning someone dropped roughly 150 of the same comments into my spam queue. Did this person have fun copying and pasting the same one sentence comment and link to hundreds of blog posts on Blogging From Paradise? Of course not; no human enjoys doing mindless things from a panicked, desperate, frenzied, fear energy. Did the person see slow and steady, successful gains? Of course not; every comment went to spam which I deleted in seconds.

Imagine spending 30 minutes or an hour wildly copying and pasting 150 spam comments only for no human being outside of a fellow blogger to see the comments. Doesn’t this sound frustrating?

Does this individual need to change their blogging strategy? You bet they do. Will they? I have no idea but that decision is their choice alone.

How Do You?Know?

How do you know that it is time to change blogging strategies?

• blogging no longer feels fun
• blogging feels like hard, stressful work
• you are not helping people genuinely
• no slow, steady blogging success seems to be unfolding

Everything begins with your feelings. If some blogging strategy feels stressful you are on the wrong track. Stress is fear. Fear-driven tactics bring panicked, frenzied failure.

How do you feel about blogging now? Good or bad?

Honestly express your feelings about blogging to see whether or not it’s time to change blogging strategies.

My Journey

I stopped:

• publishing 7000 word posts
• guest blogging
• blog commenting
• promoting 100 plus eBooks
• selling eBooks through Amazon

because each strategy:

• stopped feeling fun to work
• yielding diminishing returns

during various stages of my blogging career.

As of post publish date, it feels fun and steadily brings greater returns to:

• write and publish one new post daily
• update and re-publish one post daily
• answer questions on Reddit and Quora

comment on #blogging LinkedIn updates

• promote blogging tips related content on Twitter

My current blogging strategy works because:

• I have fun helping people with this strategy
• the strategy yields increasing returns

The moment this strategy — or any of these sub-strategies — feels heavy, stressful, burdensome or bothersome I will let it (or sub-strategies) go because I know diminishing returns follow.

First, what felt fun feels like hard work. Next, the traffic and income stop growing. Then, the traffic and income come to a halt. Everything begins with your mindset. Everything starts with your feelings.

Is It Time to Quit Blogging?

Maybe instead of changing blogging strategies it’s time to quit blogging.

Perhaps it’s time to move on.

Only you know, based on honest personal analysis of your:

For example, if you began blogging mainly to make money you need to:

or

Passion influences you to be generous, patient, persistent and calm, all pre-requisites to making money through blogging.

Money-chasers are stingy, lack persistence, bleed impatience and blog from a desperate, greedy, chaotic energy, all pre-requisites to failing and quitting.

Ask yourself if you need to change blogging strategies now. Wait patiently for an honest answer.

Perhaps you need to change your blogging approach but maybe you need to give up blogging all together.

Your happiness, freedom and overall well-being always trump any worldly goals.

Remember that.

Originally published at https://www.bloggingfromparadise.com on September 23, 2022.