I am a new blogger and struggling to get traffic to my website. I write about home improvement/ home decors .
My website is Adsense approved but still I feel somehow math is not working
What can I do to increase the traffic ? I am doing keyword research using Semrush .
Anything else that I should concentrate on that I am missing ?
Hi everyone,
I'm Emre, a developer who's been blogging on and off for years. I kept running into the same problem every writer here probably knows: you spend years building an audience on Medium, Substack or some hosted platform, and then the rules change, the fees go up, or the algorithm decides your posts don't matter anymore. Your followers are stuck inside their system, not yours.
So I built jotstr.com, and it's now in public beta.
The idea in plain terms
Jotstr runs on Nostr, an open protocol. You don't need to know anything about it to use Jotstr, but here's the simple version: think of it like email. Your email address isn't locked to one app; you can switch from Gmail to Outlook and people can still reach you. Nostr works the same way for publishing. Your identity is yours, your posts are stored on multiple independent servers, and your followers follow you, not a company. If Jotstr disappeared tomorrow, your writing and your audience would still be there.
What you get
Why I'm posting
It's a beta, so there are rough edges. I'd really appreciate it if you tried it and told me what's confusing, broken, or missing. A few things I'm especially curious about:
Brutal honesty is welcome. I'd rather hear it now than after launch.
Thanks for reading, and happy writing!
A new blogging client asked me [her question], and the conversation that followed was good enough that I wanted to bring it here, because this group always has something useful to add.
Every one of us who blogs or creates content wants to be found, but being found isn't really the goal for me. I want to be recommended.
When someone mentions a problem and a friend tells her to go follow me because I can help with that, that's the best referral there is. AI works the same way, and I would much rather it recommend me by name than pull my content and hand out the answer without me attached to it.
What got me thinking about this was a training video from a well-known teacher in this space. It ran two hours and fifteen minutes on a single problem.
I scrolled through a good chunk of it looking for the answer and never found it stated in a way I could use. I'm sure she shared it somewhere among all the mumble marketing along the way, but it was buried so far down that hardly anyone would still be watching when it showed up.
What people remember weeks later, and what they forward to a friend, is the moment someone gave them a clear answer they could use right away.
That's what makes them think this person knows what she's talking about, and when the problem turns into a real decision with money attached, that's who they think of first.
That's why I put the answer at the top of my blog posts. Nobody should have to dig through hours of content to find it, and I suspect it's also part of why AI tools are more likely to point to a post when the answer is easy to find.
> How do you handle this in your own posts? Do you lead with the answer, or do you build up to it?
You can submit your blog/substack here (for free): https://bloghub.app
It will give a backlink for SEO + position in our newsletter as a new launch + AI search optimized page
This will help you reach more people at not much effort
Over 200 publications/substacks already part of the system