Is Blogging Dead? Should You Start A Blog in 2024?

with the new Google algorithm updat slapping around bloggers SEO and Niche site owners does this mean that blogging is dead not at all in fact you're going to learn the five ways that I'm still using my blog today plus you'll learn what's changed so you know exactly what you need to be working on next first and foremost on your blog I think that your top navigation is one of the most valuable parts of your blog what this does is it allows you to create Pathways for your visitors no matter where they enter your blog you can lay out that pathway for them to get on the road to success that you help them with so how this looks for me is I start with a start here post so if somebody enters in through a blog post that they find whether it's on Pinterest whether it's a blog post they find from a Facebook link or on social or from Google they're like man this sounds great but boy I need some context I need to know the big picture well they'll look on my navigation they'll see the start here post and voila they're going to find a pathway that I've built for them to get through my best Big Ideas to help them get the results that they want more quickly and that is how you and I make money online is by helping other people get the results that they desire then I lay out the first three steps for them which is generally speaking step one step two step three find a niche grow an audience and grow your email list then I have a free course offer which grows my email list and I have an office hours offer which grows my cash flow and my little Inner Circle um mentoring program that I have going on so fully utilizing your navigation is one of the best ways for you to further engage the traffic who is reaching your blog regardless of where they are coming from and that brings up the question well where are these people coming from to get your blog this is the second way that I use my blog is my link in BIO so I've got 878 videos here on YouTube I've had over 12 million views on my YouTube channel and when people new people to my world find my videos on YouTube they'll often go to my channel page maybe they want to come here to subscribe but they will then see my on line call to action that says need help pointing down this start here post on my blog reveals the path to profits with a link to the start here post so what I'm doing here instead of calling people to action with an optin from here I'm going to give them the pathway again that same concept that we just talked about I'm giving them the pathway through my content to help them get what they want right viewers who find my videos online they're not looking to entertain themselves right they're looking to learn how to build a business online how to automate their income how to scale their income so they can start growing 10K to 100 Grand per month cash flow using one two three hours per day maximum that's what I teach people but it's a long journey so I then use my blog as the landing page to lay out that journey to help people who click from YouTube you could do this from Instagram this works from Tik Tok this works from every single social media platform and also YouTube itself the Third Way is through stepbystep deep dive tutorials so here's one miles becker.com best-free-porn-pics.com update a YouTube video when something inside of the process changes but when it's a bunch of screenshots and step by step on my blog then it's really easy for me to go in and change those two or three screenshots when the platform that I'm showing changes something in their user interface and it's key to remember that I'm usually driving traffic to that blog post directly from my email list and directly from my start here post and directly from that other post that is grow your email list because whenever that user is at the step in their Journey where it's time for them to go grow their email list and start the process of growing a list I link that user over to my step-by-step tutorial that's best laid out and managed on my blog it also has my affiliate links inside of there so it helps my users get what they want and it gives me an opportunity to you to earn a commission by just being helpful now the next way that I use my blog is link redirects so as an affiliate Market marketer you're going to need to like mask your links in order for you to Pro promote short links in your emails on your YouTube video descriptions on social etc etc and you can see here right here miles becker.com eClass when I click enter on this you'll see it redirects to my affiliate link so I'm using a plugin called the pretty link plugin this is a free WordPress plugin that allows me to go take this crazy affiliate link and really condense it down to something that's memorable something that's easy for me to remember something that's easy for me to speak out in a video and something that's easy for me to add into an email or a social post when relevant and when you start to remember all those short URLs for your opt-in pages like I've got one miles becker.com free and that redirects over to my opt-in page um this allows you the freedom to start to leverage multiple platforms potentially right I'm promoting dozens if not hundreds of different affiliate links through my website through my YouTube videos through my blog posts through my automated emails etc etc and I don't have to go remember each and every one of those plus pretty link allows me to go in and see how many times they've all been clicked on which helps me kind of keep track of my data so I think that alone is one of the best reasons to be using a Blog that you manage and WordPress is you know it gives you the ability to add plugins like pretty Link in order to run those redirects and a little Pro tip there you don't need the pro level you can get away using just their Free level to run your redirects and then the number five reason is because I host all of my lead page landing pages on my website through the WordPress plugin so right here you can see that I'm on Miles becker.com Pages sales breakthrough now this URL is actually displaying a lead page that I've built and managed inside of lead page What I've Done personally is I've set up a second WordPress installation on my blog at for SL pages and what that does is it allows me to run all of my lead Pages under this SL Pages domain I do this because I just don't really want to have all of my landing pages on my main blog that has all of its native plugins because there is a conflict potential with plugins not playing friendly with each other so I have a separate WordPress installation on my blog so I actually have two WordPress installations on my blog one at/ pages that has like nothing else on it other than this one Pages landing page and it's super easy for me to go in I just choose a page I type in the URL I want and voila so you can see right here at Miles becker.com Pages sales breakthrough this allows me to promote my sales breakthrough bundle here on my own website if I really want to get tricky with this I would then set up a redirect so I could do miles becker.com breakthrough so I could remember that easily I could speak that out easily on a video and if somebody goes to miles.com breakthrough it would redirect to sales this exact URL don't go there cuz I don't think it'll work I'll put this link inside of the description if you want this but I'm just kind of helping you understand how you can use these different Technologies together and those are the five ways that I'm still using my blog I'm still going to keep my blog up and running so what's changed right like there's been a lot of freak out from the SEO World from the blogging community and the niche site community so what's actually changed the only thing that has changed is the Reliance on Google to be your main source of traffic is a Fool's Adventure at this point in time time in our world because Google is showing that they can't be trusted as the sole source for traffic for your blog but that just means you need to go drive more traffic to your blog you can create Pinterest pins you can go into Facebook groups to promote your content you can run a Facebook fan page you can create a YouTube channel you can do Tik Tok you can do Instagram you can do LinkedIn you can go on quora there are a million and one places that you can go grow your audience and drive traffic to your blog and once they're on their blog you've learned the five ways that you can engage them more you can help them better you can display more affiliate links you can earn more revenue and ultimately you can promote all of your products and offers as seamlessly and effectively as possible on your blog this is why I love my WordPress blog I'm never going to change my WordPress blog and I'm going to keep adding to it and making it better because that thing just makes me a ton of money because it's all set up and structured in a way to be useful for my audience who are looking to solve their problems and when you really follow through on helping your audience get what they want and leverage these blog based Technologies to get them to do that you'll be amazed at what you create if you like this video give me a thumbs up subscribe do what you do I'm going to keep making more videos for you I look forward to connecting with you on the next one until then be well

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