Patrick Togun
Member
Blogging is NOT dead. Arbitrage blogging specifically.
But I agree, a lot has changed about it.
The problem with most people whom you often see complain that blogging is dead is melleability. The ability to change with the times without breaking. You can call it plasticity as well.
A particular traffic arbitrage method worked in 2015 down to 2020, so you hold on to it with all your life, wanting it to work forever.
The minute Google comes up to say, “this particular method is no longer serving our advertisers” or “we want to change how we serve our advertisers to ensure they are getting more value from us, so they don’t lose faith in our ad ecosystem” you go bunkers.
You become frustrated. Because ideally speaking, you would always want what worked or what is working to continue working for you, for as long as this world remains, even if it means it’s not working for the advertisers at the other end of that Google ad ecosystem. Yes, we’re that selfish as humans naturally.
You become angry. Because you know with that change will come some uncomfortable realities. First you may lose an account or two, or even more. And secondly, you’ll be forced to change, to think deep, research and come up with new strategies. And nobody likes these things.
So when you’re unable to adapt to that change or find new working strategies and even face the brunt of remaining with the old system, you start looking for who to blame. And the easiest to blame is new entries into the system and those who taught them about the opportunities in there.
You start writing posts, blaming and dragging them up and down, instead of using the same time to research and figure out things that are currently working. Instead of collaborating with people you perceive as your enemies to join heads together and find out best possible ways to stay afloat.
Somewhere in your mind, you seemed to have forgotten that you were not born with that knowledge.
Somebody taught you.
And somebody else taught the person that taught you.
So it was okay for somebody to have taught you and helped you find your way out of the trenches, but not okay for the same person to teach another person other than you?
Sit down and think about it. What if they kept that information from you? Would that have been cool? If that’s okay, why are you still angry with that brother or sister of yours that have refused to show you what is working for them now?
Lol. Think about it
Human beings and selfishness are like this 
For me, I think the fight should be against recklessness in the system.
I think the fight should be against not playing by Google’s rules and regulations. Directly violating their policies. Like some of the few mistakes we all did when we started.
I think the fight should be against poverty, not ourselves.
I think the fight should be to send a message to Google regarding their inconsistent policies. Maybe one of us makes a post on this via their support communities and the rest of us massively comment on it, calling their attention to our pains.
Because the policy changes and bans are not peculiar to bloggers.
It’s happening to YouTubers as well.
Admob guys are not left out too.
Go and ask.
It’s not peculiar to us.
The YouTubers are not pushing external traffic to their contents. Neither are the Admob guys. Yet they are victims too.
As long as you are monetising with any of Google’s monetization services, you are at their mercy. This is the greatest risk in dealing with them.
That is where your focus should be. Not attacking one another always, like mad dogs.
Blogging has been here. For over two and half decades.
It is here now.
And will remain for a very long time.
It’s not going away. Not anytime soon.
However the greatest winners, the people who will always milk the opportunities in it, are those who are flexible enough to embrace the changes as they come each day. Those who understand that things will not always be the same and are ready to always adapt to the new changes as they come.
Some will be painful of course. If you cannot handle it, you leave quietly and peacefully to other things. Blogging is not the only digital skill in the world that pays. And it’s even expensive and a lot riskier to run.
But as long as you have conditioned your heart to always embrace the changes as I have. As long as you have set your heart to always research what is currently working and collaborate with others in the industry as I have.
As long as you are completely in tune with your business evolvability as a blogger, an arbitrage blogger in particular, you will always have a way to come out on top. Always I say. The only thing that may occasionally limit you is the funding to operate some of the ideas that may come naturally to you or through your research.
Blogging is not dead. Neither is arbitrage blogging.
But I agree, a lot has changed about it.
The problem with most people whom you often see complain that blogging is dead is melleability. The ability to change with the times without breaking. You can call it plasticity as well.
A particular traffic arbitrage method worked in 2015 down to 2020, so you hold on to it with all your life, wanting it to work forever.
The minute Google comes up to say, “this particular method is no longer serving our advertisers” or “we want to change how we serve our advertisers to ensure they are getting more value from us, so they don’t lose faith in our ad ecosystem” you go bunkers.
You become frustrated. Because ideally speaking, you would always want what worked or what is working to continue working for you, for as long as this world remains, even if it means it’s not working for the advertisers at the other end of that Google ad ecosystem. Yes, we’re that selfish as humans naturally.
You become angry. Because you know with that change will come some uncomfortable realities. First you may lose an account or two, or even more. And secondly, you’ll be forced to change, to think deep, research and come up with new strategies. And nobody likes these things.
So when you’re unable to adapt to that change or find new working strategies and even face the brunt of remaining with the old system, you start looking for who to blame. And the easiest to blame is new entries into the system and those who taught them about the opportunities in there.
You start writing posts, blaming and dragging them up and down, instead of using the same time to research and figure out things that are currently working. Instead of collaborating with people you perceive as your enemies to join heads together and find out best possible ways to stay afloat.
Somewhere in your mind, you seemed to have forgotten that you were not born with that knowledge.
Somebody taught you.
And somebody else taught the person that taught you.
So it was okay for somebody to have taught you and helped you find your way out of the trenches, but not okay for the same person to teach another person other than you?
Sit down and think about it. What if they kept that information from you? Would that have been cool? If that’s okay, why are you still angry with that brother or sister of yours that have refused to show you what is working for them now?
Lol. Think about it
Human beings and selfishness are like this For me, I think the fight should be against recklessness in the system.
I think the fight should be against not playing by Google’s rules and regulations. Directly violating their policies. Like some of the few mistakes we all did when we started.
I think the fight should be against poverty, not ourselves.
I think the fight should be to send a message to Google regarding their inconsistent policies. Maybe one of us makes a post on this via their support communities and the rest of us massively comment on it, calling their attention to our pains.
Because the policy changes and bans are not peculiar to bloggers.
It’s happening to YouTubers as well.
Admob guys are not left out too.
Go and ask.
It’s not peculiar to us.
The YouTubers are not pushing external traffic to their contents. Neither are the Admob guys. Yet they are victims too.
As long as you are monetising with any of Google’s monetization services, you are at their mercy. This is the greatest risk in dealing with them.
That is where your focus should be. Not attacking one another always, like mad dogs.
Blogging has been here. For over two and half decades.
It is here now.
And will remain for a very long time.
It’s not going away. Not anytime soon.
However the greatest winners, the people who will always milk the opportunities in it, are those who are flexible enough to embrace the changes as they come each day. Those who understand that things will not always be the same and are ready to always adapt to the new changes as they come.
Some will be painful of course. If you cannot handle it, you leave quietly and peacefully to other things. Blogging is not the only digital skill in the world that pays. And it’s even expensive and a lot riskier to run.
But as long as you have conditioned your heart to always embrace the changes as I have. As long as you have set your heart to always research what is currently working and collaborate with others in the industry as I have.
As long as you are completely in tune with your business evolvability as a blogger, an arbitrage blogger in particular, you will always have a way to come out on top. Always I say. The only thing that may occasionally limit you is the funding to operate some of the ideas that may come naturally to you or through your research.
Blogging is not dead. Neither is arbitrage blogging.
