Mike Futia – Stupid Simple Blogging
- Launch a new site in a low-competition niche
- Publish 100+ articles targeting long-tail keywords
- Build a dozen or so high-authority backlinks
- And wait for Google to send you thousands of free visitors every day
It was paying for my entire rent in Manhattan back then. I couldn’t believe it.
That was 10 years ago.
Did Google effectively kill blogging?
My honest answer?
But honestly?
In 2024, you don’t need SEO to have a great blog that makes a great income.
That may sound funny coming from a guy who built his entire *business* around SEO.
I started a new site at the beginning of September, 2023.
As it turns out, this was *right* before the Helpful Content Update hit and wiped away a lot of Google traffic for a lot of folks.
The timing of this coincidence has stuck with me as we’ve grown this site over the past seven months.
But with our new site, we saw the writing on the wall back in September, and so we made the pivot.
We made the pivot to be everywhere our audience is at all times.
And so we went all in on those two platforms.
The result?
Which has been great.
But those are STILL just platforms.
Platforms that have their own algorithms. Algorithms that can change.
Sound familiar?
Platforms are great for getting free traffic, don’t get me wrong.
But with this new site, the goal has been to take that free traffic, and funnel those people onto our email list.
We’re now collecting about 800 leads per day.
Some of that is organic.
Some of that is with FB ads.
800 leads per day.
When you have a list that’s growing like that, you have a LOT of options.
Options that don’t rely on Google, or Pinterest, or Facebook.
You can send them back to your site, and monetize with ads.
You can send them relevant affiliate offers.
You can send them offers about your own products that they may be interested in.
(Kind of like I’m doing with this sales letter you’re reading right now).
You see, this is, to me, the future of blogging. Many different skill sets. Many different platforms.
Pivot.
And to me, right now is the perfect time to pivot.
And I don’t know about you, but I’m EXCITED.
I haven’t been this excited to run a blog since I made that first dollar on Amazon way back in 2014.
Only this time, we’re saying bye-bye to Google.
For now, anyway.
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