I Thought I Had It Figured Out, Finally….

I finally have it figured out!
So I thought—when I entered the blogging space 4 years ago.

It was amazingly simple.
I just need to write blog posts on my website and Google will bring traffic to my page.
All I need to do is sit and wait for people to rank my articles.

A lot of people in the blogging space were making $4,000–$10,000 a month with 100 blog posts on their website.
A lot of the income was coming from display ads they placed on their website.

90% of their traffic came from Google.

When I finally figured this out, it was September 2022.
I rushed to get my website optimized for blog posts.
I was feeling good about my business.

I thought… it was all going so well.
So I thought…

Then, November 2022 rolled around and a new app launched:

ChatGPT.

That’s when the blogging world changed overnight.

All of a sudden, it was easy to write blog posts.
You could write an article in seconds.

From that moment forward, blogging changed forever.

Most of you probably know and use ChatGPT,
so I don’t need to go in detail.
Google has changed too.

The lesson I learned was mostly this:

Don’t believe that once you figured it out, that it will stay forever.
There is no such thing as passive income, because
business is constantly changing.

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