No matter what will be the reasoning behind people telling you that blogging today is no different from blogging ten years ago, it’s not true. Usually, the people saying this are the ones that want to sell you another blogging gimmick, an online course, or are simply the ones that have been around too long to understand that blogging today is just not the same as it was when they started their journey.

Of course, I am not perfect either. I have also written plenty of blog posts around the question of how to find readers for your blog, the conventional way. Mostly, it requires googling around, finding old and popular blogs, and trying to imitate them while copying their keywords. Then, you go on spamming your blog’s links all over the internet, hoping that people will click through. Of course, there is more to the process, but you get the point. In my defense though, when I wrote about these techniques, they were a lot more effective and I was using them myself.

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