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The History of Blogging & How it's Changed - The Art of Doing Stuff

Last updated Friday, September 2, 2022 00:00 ET , Source: NewsService

Today I'm going to tell you the tale of how someone makes a living as a blogger in the year 2022. Which is very different than how one made a living from blogging in the golden era of 2010 which is when I started my blog and "Dooced" was an answer on Jeopardy.

If you were around here then, in the golden days of blogging (10 years ago) you recognize this as the original header for my website. Each frame was a different category. You could click on Kitchen for kitchen tips or recipes, Outdoor for any outdoor projects, and so on.

Everything Else was apparently where you were going to get the idea that people like to point it out when a jaguar is about to collide with a Volkswagon Beetle.

I had to get rid of the header a couple of website redesigns ago. And that, my blog reading friends, was the first change that I didn't want to make but had to make - because of Google.

More on that asshead later.

But first, to understand how a blog makes money I think it's a good idea for you to just see how we got to where we are today. Which is a place where content creators are trying to find a symbiotic relationship between making long time readers happy as well as Google.

Why? Because those are the 2 main places any website makes money from: regular readers and Google.

The Quick History of Blogging

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