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<p class="card-text line-clamp-3">A 4-year study of 100 successful blogs reveals how Google&#x27;s updates and AI transformed blogging. See which sites survived and which disappeared.</p>
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<p dir="auto"><strong>tl;dr</strong></p>
<p dir="auto">&gt; <strong>The niches that survived are the ones where the content is the doing.</strong><br />
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&gt; The survivors cluster in firsthand, experiential, community-bound content: a recipe you actually cooked, a crochet pattern you tested stitch by stitch, a mother documenting her own pregnancy week by week with her own photos and printables.</p>
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