Should We Be Blogging In 2026 Or Do Something Else?

It’s a fair question and the top Google results from other bloggers are not giving you honest answers.

They have courses to sell you, affiliate links to get you to click, and “mastermind” groups for you to join. They do not care if you should or should not be blogging. They do not care if they know you should not be blogging. They only want your money to add to their income reports.

Should You Be Blogging In 2026?

Again, should YOU be blogging in 2026?

To blog well is a big commitment in time and mental energy, and it irritates me to no end when other bloggers knowingly send the wrong people down the blogging rabbithole in order to make money, especially when there are better, more viable options for those people to reach their goals.

First, let’s be honest around here. What we are really talking about is should you be blogging in 2026 to make money.

If a person has no monetary blogging goals, sure, give blogging a shot, why not? But if a person is looking for a way to make online money and is exploring blogging as one of those options, there are important considerations.

For me to recommend to you that you should pursue blogging in order to make online money, one of the below questions must be answered in the affirmative.

1. Do you love to write?
2. Do you like to write and are obsessed with a particular niche you can write about?

If you can’t say “yes” to at least one of those questions and you want to make online money, don’t do blogging and go into ecommerce or make videos instead.

But Isn’t Blogging Dead In 2026?

We’ve been hearing about the death of blogging since 2010.

Social Media killed blogging! Oh maybe not…but Google for sure killed it now with the Helpful Content Update! Oh, many bloggers are getting more traffic now? Well, AI chatbots are for sure gonna kill it!

Saying blogging is dead is like saying books are dead.

Blogging will be around as long as books are around. As long as people know how to read, blogs will be around.

Then Who Are All These Crybabies Saying Blogging Is Dead?

The crybabies are three groups of people and there is a lot of overlap between them.

Crybaby Group 1: The Scammer Bloggers

15 years ago blogging was easy money for the hordes of scammers.

Back then, your average reader had no idea about affiliate links. People thought scammers were sincerely testing products and providing real recommendations. Now we know no products were ever tested and the recommendations were simply the affiliate links with the highest payouts.

And now these scammer bloggers are crying about the readership being wise to their cons and also because Google nuked their sites. “Blogging is dead!” they cry.

Crybaby Group 2: The SEO Garbage Bloggers

These losers often used to be decent bloggers but then decided to write for machines, not people. They sold their souls to the SEO gods instead of focusing on the blogging mission of delivering sound written content for human readers.

That’s why so many blogs became almost unreadable about 10 years ago. Travel bloggers, for example, who used to write blogs with interesting narratives started churning out slop like: 5 Budget Friendly Hotels Bangkok Thailand Travel Cheap.

They decided to serve themselves and SEO and the reader was a distant third, almost an afterthought. They betrayed the reader. Then they cried like babies when Google nuked their sites. “Blogging is dead!” they cried.

Crybaby Group 3: The Low-Effort Bloggers

This group of “bloggers” only wrote because they saw blogging as a low-effort way to make money. Make recommendations, affiliate links, make money, repeat.

But as competition ramped up in the blogging world they got pushed out because they can’t complete with those of us who are obsessed with writing. They don’t want to work hard, they want it to be easy.

So, they cry. “It’s not fair other people are willing to work harder than me! Blogging is dead!”

Is There Still A Lot Of Money To Be Made Blogging In 2026?

Absolutely.

But it’s only there for people who love to write or like to write and know a lot about a niche.

While the “easy money” of 10 – 20 years ago is gone, I believe that more money can be made now than ever before. But you gotta dial in and work for it.

Pick a niche and go.

The main difference, in my opinion, is that it’s harder to make a full-time living from just one blog. I believe in non-local blogging which essentially is my view that your blog needs to transcend multiple websites, between websites you own and third party platforms.

The power of these multiple platforms, combined, will cobble together a significant amount of income, and I believe all this can be done without a team of writers. This can all be done solo, yes, even now in 2026.

Now get to work!

But What Should I Do If I Want To Make Online Money But It’s Clear Blogging Isn’t For Me?

There are plenty of other opportunities.

If blogging isn’t for you, set up a Shopify store and sell something or make videos on YouTube or be a third party seller for Amazon and Walmart. Pick something and go.

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This blog post was inspired by my answer to a question over at Quora: Should we be blogging in 2026? Check it out!