Megrisoft

Google is slowly killing blogging. Blogging used to be about providing off the cuff updates, sharing unique perspectives, and interacting with blog comments! Now Google has forced bloggers to make everything SEO optimized, long form, and tightly focused around a single keyword. If you don’t bow to Google’s will, you don’t get traffic! Now, with the Helpful Content Update, they’ve gone so far as to say that “unhelpful” articles on your site can penalize your ENTIRE site! This is ludicrous. If you wrote about a personal update or something just “fun”, does this now make your entire site “unhelpful”? So, we have moved “blogging” in the traditional sense away from our site and onto social media. Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or wherever is now where you get the real “blog” updates. You no longer get that on blogs, no more true insights, because heaven forbid Google deems a post as unhelpful and penalizes your entire site. The ironic thing? Google ranks Reddit extremely well BECAUSE people are providing off the cuff comments and doing what bloggers used to do! So, Google is killing the individual bloggers, but sending tons of traffic to a major corporation (Reddit) instead, because Reddit users are doing what bloggers used to do. Thanks for crushing traditional blogging, Google. (PS - what you just read is the type of thing I used to write on my blog, but I can’t do that anymore…).