r/Bloggers

I've been trying to set up my blog website for more than a year and it doesn't seem to get any kind of attention at all.

The site is: hithansha.blogspot.com

It would be of great help if you'all checked the website out and let me know where I am going wrong so that I could fix it.

Thanks in Advance <3

Built a tool (Rendrio) that turns a URL into a branded short video automatically — picks the style, renders in a few minutes. Mostly tested it on product/landing pages so far, genuinely don’t know if it holds up on blog posts.

Drop a link to one of your posts below and I’ll reply with a video, free, for the first 5. Mainly want to know if this is actually useful for repurposing posts into social clips, or just a novelty for this use case.

I see people are struggling with blogs lately. Google has also started focusing on intent-based content and started giving it preferences.

I tried many platforms available online. Are blog side of things really changing?? Many platforms (including Sortted.com) are betting by saying “write content that ranks on google” have anyone tried something out and really worked? I am on (Sortted)

19F, always loved reading and writing, want to start blogging, 1. confused between wordpress and blogger

2. I really want to monetise it

3. I dont want to limit myself to a niche, i have interests in art, psych, politics

4. i want to post it on Instagram, threads and X as well

ANY TIPS, HELP IS WELCOMED

GIVE BLESSINGS TOO

Hey everyone!

I am a complete beginner who has recently finished learning the basics of SEO (watched a couple of YouTube courses) and now I want to move from theory to actual practice.

My plan is to start a WordPress blog, not to make money but purely to practice SEO in a real environment. The idea is that it will also act as my portfolio later when I look for freelance clients or SEO jobs.

A few questions I did love your input on:

1. Is starting a blog the best way to practice SEO as a beginner, or is there a better method?
2. What are the most important things I should focus on when starting? (On-page SEO, technical SEO, backlinks?)
3. Does the niche matter if my only goal is to learn and build a portfolio?
4. Any mistakes you made early on that I should avoid?

Any advice from people who have been through this journey would mean a lot. I really appreciate any help you can provide.

i'm finally ready to launch my blog and i've spent way more time comparing hosting than actually writing. every time i think i've found a decent option, i end up reading complaints about confusing pricing, random add ons, or renewal surprises. i don't mind paying for good hosting, but i just want the price to be the price.

i've also been looking at ai website builders since i'm not married to wordpress if there's something easier to get started with. for people who've been doing this a while, what do you think is the best web hosting for bloggers right now? i'm mostly looking for something that's beginner friendly, has straightforward pricing, and isn't owned by one of those huge hosting companies that seem to own everything.

what have you had a good experience with?

I am starting out a blog. Excited to do so. Just I am not a very techie person and might fall if faced by any technical issues.

Anyone can share the issues they face today it will help me understand what I am getting into.

Thanks!

A blogger reached out to me recently for a website audit. She had published around 80 articles and had been posting consistently every week for more than a year. Despite all that effort, the site had earned less than $40 in total.

Not $40 a month. $40 total.

This isn't rare. I see this pattern constantly when reviewing blogs that are otherwise doing fine in terms of effort... decent writing, decent consistency, even some traffic. And yet the income side of things stays flat, sometimes for years.

It's tempting to assume the problem is "not enough traffic" or "wrong niche." Sometimes that's true. But more often, when I actually sit down and go through the site, the real issue is something quieter: the blog was never built around making money. It was built around publishing. Monetization got added almost as an afterthought, bolted onto a structure that wasn't designed to support it.

Why This Happens

Most people start a blog with a content goal, not a revenue goal. Write helpful posts, build an audience, see what happens. That's a perfectly reasonable way to start. The trouble is, very few bloggers go back and restructure the site once they decide they actually want it to make money.

So the blog keeps growing in the same shape it always had: personal, broad, written for whoever happens to land on it ... while ads, affiliate links, or products get dropped in wherever there's space. The content and the monetization were never designed to work together. They're just sitting on the same page.

This is the part most people miss: a blog post can be well-written, rank reasonably well, get a steady trickle of visitors, and still generate close to nothing. Traffic and income are related, but they're not the same problem, and treating them as one is where a lot of frustration comes from.

What I Notice When Reviewing Blogs

A few patterns come up over and over when I look at blogs that aren't monetizing well despite a real content library behind them.

The content attracts the wrong kind of visitor. A post like "10 Things I Learned From My First Marathon" might get decent traffic, but the person reading it isn't in a buying mindset. Compare that to "Best Running Shoes for Flat Feet Under $100"; same general topic, completely different reader intent. One is a story. The other is a decision someone is actively trying to make, usually with money attached to it. Most blogs lean heavily toward the first type without realizing it.

Affiliate links are placed without context. I'll see a single link buried at the bottom of a 2,000-word post, with no real explanation of why that product, no comparison to alternatives, nothing that helps a reader make a decision. The link exists, technically, but it's not actually doing any persuasive work. It's just present.

There's no clear monetization strategy behind the content calendar. Posts get chosen based on ideas or trends, not based on which topics have actual commercial intent behind them. So a site might have 80 posts and only 6 or 7 of them are even capable of generating revenue, structurally speaking. The other 73 were never going to make money no matter how well they were optimized.

Ad placement is either too aggressive or barely present. I see both extremes constantly. Some sites are so cluttered with ads that the content becomes unreadable, which kills return visits and trust. Others have a single banner at the very top that nobody scrolls back up to see. Very few blogs find a middle ground that respects both the reader and the revenue.

There's no email list, no retention mechanism, nothing bringing visitors back. A reader lands on a post from a search engine, gets their answer, and leaves.. often for good. Without some way to keep that relationship going, every single visit has to be monetized in that one moment, which is a much harder way to build income than a blog with even a small returning audience.

I frequently see this issue on smaller websites where the owner has spent all their energy on writing and almost none on the structure around the writing: how content connects to offers, how trust gets built before a recommendation appears, how the reader's journey through the site actually flows.

Common Mistakes Behind the Numbers

Pulling these observations together, the recurring mistakes tend to fall into a short list:

* Writing content based on personal interest rather than buyer or search intent

* Adding affiliate links as an afterthought instead of building content around a genuine recommendation

* Publishing across too many unrelated topics, which weakens both SEO and monetization potential

* Skipping the trust-building step like reviews, comparisons, personal use cases before asking someone to buy something

* Never tracking which specific posts generate clicks or income, so the same mistakes get repeated post after post

*Treating monetization as something to "figure out later" rather than something to plan into the content strategy from the start

That last point is probably the biggest one. Blog monetization isn't a switch you flip once you have enough traffic. It's a structural decision that should shape what you write, not just where you place a link afterward.

What Actually Helps

This doesn't mean throwing out 80 articles and starting fresh. It usually means reorganizing and being more deliberate going forward.

1. Separate your content into intent categories. Go through your existing posts and sort them roughly into "informational" (answers a question, low buying intent) and "commercial" (helps someone choose or buy something). Most blogs find their commercial bucket is much smaller than they assumed. That bucket is where monetization effort should actually go.
2. Pick a small number of products or services you genuinely understand, and build around them. Rather than spreading affiliate links across every post, concentrate on a handful of products you can speak about with real detail; comparisons, pros, cons, who it's actually good for. That kind of specificity is what convinces a reader, not the presence of a link itself.
3. Update your highest-traffic posts first. Before writing anything new, look at your existing analytics. Find the posts already getting visitors and ask whether they have any monetization potential at all. If they do, that's where your next hour of work should go not into post number 81.
4. Build one simple way to keep visitors connected. An email list is still the most reliable version of this. It doesn't need to be sophisticated. Even a basic "get notified when I post a new comparison" signup gives you a way to bring people back instead of relying entirely on search traffic for every single visit.
5. Track performance at the post level, not just the site level. Knowing your blog made $200 last month doesn't tell you much. Knowing that one specific comparison post made $150 of that tells you exactly what to do more of.

This is something I often notice when reviewing blogs for monetization specifically — once the content gets sorted by intent and the analytics get looked at honestly, it usually becomes obvious which 10–15% of posts are carrying all the income potential, and which ones never had a chance to.

Where to Focus Next

If you've published consistently and the income still isn't reflecting the effort, I'd treat this as a blog audit moment rather than a "write more" moment. Go through your content with these questions:

* Which posts have actual buying intent behind them, and which don't?

* Are your affiliate or ad placements doing persuasive work, or just sitting on the page?

* Do you have any way to bring a visitor back after their first visit?

* Are you tracking income at the individual post level?

* Does your content strategy account for monetization, or was monetization added after the fact?

None of this requires new tools or a redesign. It requires looking at the site honestly, the way someone outside your own head would see it.

To Conclude

Most blogs that struggle to make money aren't short on content. They're short on alignment... between what gets written, who actually reads it, and what that reader is ready to do next.

Sometimes the biggest obstacle isn't the amount of work we're putting in, but understanding where that work should go next.

So I published my first blog a few hours ago. I am trying to use my blog as a journal of sorts so that I stay consistent. I have tried journalling in the normal sense too but I just don't seem to be able to stick to it. So I decided that if I am blogging then I will be able to hold myself accountable.

My question is what can I do to make my blogs better and be able to reach a wider audience. Should I be posting at a specific time or be adding something to the title to make it more attractive?

And in terms of revenue and money I don't really care about it for now but I do hope that in the future I will be able to make some money from it. So how long do you think it will take me to start making decent amounts of money.

I have no clue regarding what is SEO and how to optimize that. I am clueless so I would need your help in terms of that as well. And what are some general tips and advices you would give to me so that I can improve as a writer and a blogger as well.

By the way I am using the blogger website by google.

Which app or site...preferbly site is best for bloggers and to make new friends while blogging?

I don't think blogging is easy even if you are copy pasting AI content. It may seem like you start for fun or as hobby but when data like traffic, engagement and session appears on dashboard, its really impact you.

I am saying that, because I watched my website going dead after initial boom. Also, a major mistake I made was i tried to post GK article like how engine evolution start, theories on start of AI, type which were easy to replicate with lot of article already flooded on internet, naive enough to think of them as 'Evergreen content '.

I like reading opinion on reddit, but most suggestion didn't work for me.

For a year i tried various things, without getting any results. Almost quit, but don't know why still return to give it another try.

Neither i could find my niche, nor could I managed to bring consistency in posting.

Just endless scrolling looking at suggestion, planning and eventually quitting.

Hope i don't repeat same mistake again while keeping myself awake, with points in mind like:

Be consistent.

Monetization should neither be priority nor easy.

Loyal community is more important than big traffic

SEO is alive it just channel for traffic has changed.

Post should be structure well enough, especially it should be clear in intent.

Keep your website simple and easy to navigate.

Am i forgetting anything or ignored something?

Im investigating an idea i had about JSX for webcomponents after some experience with Lit. I am sharing this here because it might be interesting/educational for someone, if it isnt, let me know and i'll remove the post.

Lit is a nice lightweight UI framework, but i didnt like that it was using class-based components.

Vue has a nice approach but i prefer working with the syntax that React uses. I find it more intuitive for debugging and deterministic rendering. I wondered if with webcomponents, i could create a UI framework that didnt need to be transpiled.

• How its built
• Checkout the code
• Storybook demo

(My intentions with this framework is to get to a reasonable level of stability, to then replace React on some of my existing projects.)

IMPORTANT: Im not trying to promote "yet another ui framework", this is an investigation to see what is possible. You should not use this framework in your own code. It is not production-ready. It is not on NPM. Im not looking for another framework to replace React (im trying to create it). This framework is intended for myself on my own projects. This project is far from finished. Feel free to reach out for clarity if you have any questions.