r/Blogging

There has been a few search updates during the Google I/O a couple of days ago.

The biggest one for search is now AI Mode is part of the search box and AI mode is slowly slowly becoming a bit of a default. I don't think it will happen yet but they are moving towards this. On mobile I already notice that the moment you scroll you basically default in AI mode.

What are you going to keep your blog relevant, not be so dependant of Google search results and still create a full-time income from it?

Bloggers already diversify with Pinterest, Flipboard and social media but Google always remains the main source of traffic.

So i did a small research. This is a sort of passive marketing for me as aan author of adult stories. I compared wordpress to blogger. Blogger is free yes, currently trying to get the hang of it. Wordpress on the other hand, i have used it over the years and it honestly is a better fit for me but it does restrict adult content, how explicit, i'm not so sure. I wrote like two chapter on my blog then add a link to the book on books2read with a CTA.

My question is, if anyone has come across adult stories on the two blogging sites mentioned, which one seems friendly enough to post adult content. I'm not including the explicit erotic ones.

The blog is mainly about fashion, niche cute and simple. Theres all types of thibgs i post there anything.

Link:

https://lets-go-shopping.mozello.lt

Hey guys,

I'm a software developer and also run a small publication business in my free time. I've been thinking about the AI and blogging epidemic, and how badly bloggers and writers are getting crowded out of their individual fields.

I've been playing with an idea: a community led, community earned publication. Basically, you apply to be part of the platform as a writer, you get approved, you write articles on your topic of choice and they get approved, and going forward you get (almost) all of the ad revenue and affiliate commission generated by any articles you have on the website, permanently. I'd take a small cut for the platform and for my own livelihood, but the vast, vast majority would be going back to individual authors.

Would you guys do this as a side job? I feel it solves some of the visibility issue of being able to launch your blog and/or find freelance work when everything is so rough right now. Would love to hear your input

I’ve always used poetry as a way to understand myself. Whenever life felt heavy, lonely, confusing, or emotionally overwhelming, writing somehow made everything quieter in my head. Even random thoughts used to become lines, and lines became poems without trying too hard.

But lately, I sit down to write and feel completely blank. The emotions are still there, maybe even stronger than before, but I can’t turn them into anything meaningful anymore. And honestly, it feels upsetting losing connection with something that once felt like the only safe place for my mind.

So I genuinely want to ask other writers or poets here — have you ever gone through a writer’s block like this?

What helped you reconnect with writing again?

Interested in advice that used to sound obvious, but now seems outdated, risky, or just less useful.

I run an e-com website and a SaaS app. Content marketing matters for both, but I was drowning in it.

Every week, the same grind. Pick a keyword. Research intent. Write 2000 words. Format the frontmatter. Add comparison tables. Structure the FAQs. Push to GitHub. Repeat. That's 3-4 hours gone before I've done any actual work on my businesses.

So I built a system to fire myself from that job.

Here's what happens now without me touching anything:

Every 2 days, GitHub Actions wakes up on a cron schedule, spins up a runner, and calls the Claude API with a detailed system prompt, tone rules, SEO structure, word count minimums, FAQ format, internal linking instructions. The output isn't robotic filler. The posts read like a knowledgeable human wrote them: opinionated where it counts, structured for skimmability, built around real search intent.

The script commits the file to a new branch and opens a Pull Request automatically. I get a notification on my phone, read through the post, and either merge or close. That's my only involvement. Maybe 2-4 minutes.

The numbers since I fired it up:

16 posts published. Zero written manually.

If I'd done each one myself, keyword research, writing, SEO formatting, internal linking, frontmatter, pushing to GitHub, that's conservatively 3-4 hours per post. 48-64 hours of work I never did. Roughly 6-8 full working days handed back to me.

A few things that made this actually work in production:

• Topics are never random : I feed it a prioritized keyword list. I stay in control of strategy; the AI just executes. Time-sensitive topics get written first, evergreen content fills the rest of the pipeline.
• Deduplication is built in : it checks existing posts and skips any keyword already covered. No duplicates, no wasted runs.
• Nothing goes live without my approval : the PR system keeps me in the loop without pulling me into the workflow.
• No VPS, no server, no always-on machine : it runs entirely on GitHub's free infrastructure.

The part most people get wrong about AI content:

They let the AI decide what to write about. I don't. Topic selection, keyword priority, content structure, that's all mine. Claude is a writing engine, not a strategist. The moment you hand over strategy, you lose the thing that makes your content actually useful to your audience.

The result is posts that don't feel generated. They feel considered. Because the thinking behind them is human - the labor just isn't.

The whole thing cost me a few hours to build once. Now it just runs.

Happy to answer questions if anyone wants to build something similar for their niche site or SaaS.

I lost my blogging job a few weeks ago on the grounds that it was no longer a fruitful activity for my employer, thanks to AI and all the video stuff. I wanted to make videos for them but somehow things couldn’t work out.

I have a few options:
1- Start a new blog in the same niche my job was about - WordPress tools, reviews and guides. Plus make videos for the same. Use based candid reviews on a select WP and AI tools that I can use and talk about. But I’m not sure if AI has left any room for such recommendations or not.
2- Revive a dormant blog which I quit almost 6 years ago. It has some ranking and domain authority. It’s about mobile phones (reviews, camera tests and battery test) but I lost interest in this niche so I quit it and moved on. I recently checked that it captures around 150 users (organic) a day on a variety of posts. It also has an associated YT channel with 48K subs that I used to run at that time. But, I no longer find myself good enough to create the content for it which the mobile audience would love. I used to get phones from brands for review but that’s not a great model if you want to be true to your audience. Brands influence a lot especially if you’re a smaller platform.

I think experienced bloggers can help me get a start. Advice needed!

One thing ive started noticing after blogging consistently for awhile is how hard it becomes to judge your own writing once youve been inside the same draft for too many hours

sometimes ill reread a post five or six times and everything feels completely fine

then i publish it or send it to someone else and suddenly they point out sections that feel awkward, repetitive, or way less clear than i thought they were

the weird part is that grammar usually isnt the problem

its more that the flow slowly gets harder to follow without me realizing it because my brain already knows what every paragraph is supposed to say

lately ive been trying a more structured editing process instead of endlessly rereading manually

one thing that unexpectedly helped was running drafts through writing analysis tools just to spot patterns i normally miss during editing fatigue

stuff like repetitive sentence structure, unnatural phrasing, or sections that became harder to read after too many revisions

it made me realize that alot of writing problems come from being too familiar with your own draft for too long

curious if other bloggers deal with this too or if youve found better ways to reset your perspective while editing

So I just bought a domain and setup my next js blog website as I am a Web Developer by profession but now I am learning SEO and blogging these days as I was writing some technical content on Medium but now I transition into my personal blogging website. So my initial question is how can I craft the best content like I just write the basics understanding of the topic but blogging is more than that. So how can I really wrote the content and make it visible to the audience. Thanks in advance.

I have a 2.5 year old gaming blog that has been growing like crazy and just recently monetized.

I closed April at 110k purely working on blog content and doing 0 marketing, but not sure where/how to market to keep momentum up as functionally all my traffic is from Google and the rest (sub 5%) is direct.

Any advice on what platforms to prioritize and/or general guidelines to keep in mind for would be extremely appreciated!

I've been trying to start a blog for months but I keep getting stuck on the design before I even write a single post.

There are so many template galleries out there and half of them look either super outdated or way too busy with sliders and pop-ups everywhere.

I really just want something with a clean layout, good typography, and readability that actually makes people want to stick around and read. Where are you all finding the best blog website templates these days?

I've been browsing Wix and Flatpress mostly (anyone compared the two for blogging specifically?) but open to hearing where else people have had a good experience.

Okay so I know I can't be the only one who has a chaotic system for this…

Between tracking which brands I've reached out to, following up, remembering what rate I quoted, keeping contracts somewhere I can actually find them... it's a lot. And the more deals I pitch/take on, the messier it gets.

Just curious how other creators are handling this:
- What does your setup actually look like? Spreadsheets, Notion, just vibing and hoping for the best?
- What part of the whole process stresses you out the most?
- For anybody working with a manager, how do you keep each other in the loop?
- Have you found anything that actually works, or is everyone just figuring it out as they go?

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Hi everyone,

I have a pet-relevant website available for guest post opportunities.

Website: petageinhumanyearscalculator.com

Some quick stats:

The website is fully focused on the pet niche, including dogs, cats, pet care, pet age, and animal-related topics.

It has received 1.2M+ impressions from Google Search in the last 3 months.

Good fit for pet-related guest posts, pet brands, bloggers, SEO agencies, and anyone looking for a relevant placement in the pet niche.

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Hello everyone,
After two years of trial,error,ups and downs, I finally have around 1000 stable, real sessions a month.
I was over that number a year ago but google updates hit hard, and never recovered. Also, a big portion of that was bot traffic.

Pinterest is giving me a chance now with traffic and its been stable and growing for about 6 months.
I always wanted to apply to Journey but I fear it’s too soon. Traffic stats are improving but right now im sitting at 1m average session duration and 1.5 page views per session.

60% US traffic
70%+ of total traffic is tier 1

Do you think this is enough to apply? Or should I wait a bit since numbers are going up?

I appreciate any tips or your own experiences when applying to the platform. Thanks

Real numbers:

→ 144 total views

→ 7 articles live

→ 1 clear winner: 29 views, 41 reads (more reads than views, someone is sharing it directly)

→ 2 articles with 25 views and 0 reads, title works, intro doesn't hold

→ Newest article (8 views, 0 reads), too early to judge, published 3 days ago

Biggest lesson from the data so far:

Titles with a specific result + time frame consistently outperform vague ones.

"How to Launch Your First Gumroad Product in 7 Days", best performer by far.

"Creating a Digital Product Is Not the Hard Part", 9 views, almost no reads.

The pattern is clear: promise a concrete outcome in the title, or nobody clicks. And if they do click, your first 3 sentences determine whether they stay.

Fixed two underperforming intros this week based on that. Will share the before/after if anyone's interested.

Anyone else deep in the Medium data rabbit hole? What's your read ratio looking like?

Sharing my experience.

Lately I have been observing so much cloud around AI slop. AI assisted articles. Ban it. Threaten the creator who wrote it with AI in their own voice.

Who has the power to use AI?

Big companies can use the same automation and AI to ban small creators like me.

I was banned twice on Medium in same week. First time uplifted. Then banned again. I kept asking one thing.

What did I do wrong?

No reason. No warning. No answers.

Here's my Cry

As an individual am I falling behind?

Why company can use AI to ban and creator cannot write with AI assisted?

I am not defending AI spam. I am asking where is line.

Because if small creators don't know rules, how do we even improve?

Lately I’ve been thinking that a lot of people probably quit too early online. Not because they’re doing the wrong things, but because slow progress feels the same as no progress when you’re in the middle of it.

Especially with content, startups, or personal brands, there’s usually a long period where it feels like your effort isn’t leading anywhere. But then eventually something clicks: one post performs well, people discover older work, momentum starts compounding, and suddenly the growth becomes visible.

From the outside it looks fast. From the inside it usually took months.

I’ve been reminding myself lately that consistency often looks boring before it starts looking impressive.

Curious if others building online have gone through this too.

Just wanted to share a quick update.

Last month, my AdSense RPM averaged around $23, which honestly surprised me a bit.

This month so far, the site is already at about $2,000 in AdSense revenue.

Traffic mix is roughly:

70% Pinterest

30% Facebook

The interesting part is that most of this is running on automation now.

Pinterest brings the steady traffic.

Facebook gives the extra pushes when a post catches.

Still testing a lot, but it feels like Pinterest + Facebook can still work really well for recipe/content sites when the system is consistent.

Not a crazy overnight story.

Just slow testing, better templates, better posting flow, and staying consistent.