r/Blogging

What happened:

17th post on 29 days old Wordpress blog today
Title: Your gait reveals your pull-up strength — from a 63-year-old engineer who does 12
Indexed 1.7 hours after index request.
1st ranked on google with query "gait pull-up strength"

16th post on 27 days old
Title: 63, silver hair, 12 pull-ups, and runway posture
Indexed 2 hours after index request.
2nd and then 1st ranked on google with query "silver hair pull-ups"
Now 10-something after 48 hours.

That's just a Google test on my blog. So called "Honeymoon Period"
No big deal.

It's my first time blogging and no experience in SEO thing.

I've been blogging for a little while now and some days I genuinely know what I want to write about. I have the topic, the angle, even notes jotted down, but when I sit down to actually write the post I just freeze up. It's not a lack of ideas. It's more like the words refuse to connect properly.

I've tried a few things: writing a rough outline first, setting a timer and forcing myself to type without editing, or starting with a section in the middle instead of the intro. Sometimes those help, sometimes they don't.

What I'm curious about is whether other bloggers experience this more when they're in a comfortable niche they know really well versus when writing about something newer to them. For me it seems to happen most when I care the most about getting it right, which feels counterproductive.

Do you have any goto methods that actually work when this happens? Not looking for generic productivity advice, more interested in what bloggers specifically have found useful when the pressure of publishing is real and the blank page is winning. What has worked for people at different stages of their blogging journey?

Blog post (not by me!): https://danielstanica.com/posts/Great-Blogging-Collapse

Interesting discussion over on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758802

My short and simple story. All my life I always bought and sold things to make extra money. Then in 1988 I had a serve stroke that left me wheelchair bound; basically I'm totally disabled. In 2014 I designed one of my ideas and tried to create a business out of it to help me in my new life. Well, for 12 years now, I been trying soo hard to build it up, push-push-push and brain strom new ideas to get this business moving. My big problem is my physical ability and I can't get out and get the help that I need. In words I hate to say, "I'm Failing" and I don't know where to get help. Can anyone help me? Thanks - Ken

Indexed on Google. 2 hours after index requested. And just for a curiosity, I queried three words keywords 5 hours afterward.

I have nearly zero experience in SEO and blogging. To my surprise, my 16th post on 2nd ranked on Google.

What's that? No significant increase in impressions and clicks.

Anyway, what happened? Algorithm error?

Anybody with similar experience?

As a blogger and 'famous in my own mind,' here is a question for you, experienced in the Amazon affiliate program.

If you advertise an Amazon product on your site and, hopefully, generate some income, and then you find out the product is now gone and the link is dead. Without a lot of maintenance and checking each site and link to make sure they are still active, how do you find that worth the effort with the small amount of money you make?

*** When advertising a product, I would think that you want to send customers to a product link that never changes.

What am I missing?

Hi everyone,

I run a small tool-based website that was monetized with AdSense for around 6 months. Just when I was about to receive my first payment, AdSense disabled my account, saying they found a linked account that had been terminated earlier.

I submitted an appeal, but it has now been over 2 months and I still haven’t received any response from them.

My website currently gets around 100 visitors per day. I also receive guest post inquiries from time to time, but none of them have converted yet. I have Amazon affiliate links on the site as well, but they don’t convert much either — right now they make around $20/month.

I also applied to Journey by Mediavine, but got rejected. I suspect the AdSense issue may have played a role, although I’m not completely sure.

For a small website with around 100 daily visitors, what realistic monetization options would you recommend besides AdSense?

I’m open to display ad alternatives, affiliate ideas, sponsored posts, selling placements, or anything else that could work for a tool/content website.

Would appreciate any advice from people who have dealt with similar situations.

This is something I keep struggling with and I feel like nobody really talks about it openly. You can always add more, refine a sentence, update a stat, expand a section. At some point you just have to hit publish, but how do you know when that point is?

I tend to fall into a loop where I think a post is done, then I read it again the next morning and suddenly see ten things I want to change. Then I change those things and find five more. It never ends.

What I'm curious about is whether anyone has a real process or checklist they follow before publishing. Do you set a word count goal and stop there? Do you do a fixed number of revision passes? Do you sleep on it once and then publish no matter what?

As the title says, i have been aiming to start a blog with a sole purpose of learning SEO. At first i decided my niche to be sports and to be precise (cricket)

the main reason i wanted to continue with cricket was that it have my interest and i feel like i can write alot about it since i have been watching it for a long time.

Alot of people said that this niche is very competative and saturated.

i only want to learn therefore earning through adsense/cpm is not what i am focused on.

if anybody was in the same boat, kindly suggest.

Hello fellow bloggers, I recently started deep diving into the world of learning and managing finances. While doing so, I came across an idea of creating a blog that would have personal finance tips and relevant tools around it. And hence, I thought maybe I can create a website around it.

But, I’m not sure if even after putting a lot of effort into this, I would realistically be able to get some traction on this given that I don’t have a finance background so no authority in that way.

Could you folks suggest something based on your experiences? It would really help, thanks.

This is something I keep going back and forth on, and I feel like nobody really talks about it directly.

I'll spend hours writing a post, hit what feels like a natural stopping point, and then secondguess everything. Should I add another section? Is the intro too long? Did I explain that point clearly enough? I end up editing in circles and sometimes the tenth version feels worse than the third.

I know the perfectionism trap is real, but I also don't want to publish something halfbaked just to hit a schedule. There has to be a middle ground.

What actually helps me sometimes is reading it out loud once, then stepping away for a day before the final check. But even then I'm not fully confident.

Curious how other bloggers handle this, especially those of you producing content consistently at scale. Do you have a checklist you run through? A word count threshold? Do you just set a timer and publish when it goes off?

I have spent part of this week reviewing blogs for audit clients, and I noticed something many websites have in common, and I think it's worth mentioning here.

Many people seem to be building blogs and general websites instead of building a brand. They write about every topic they can find, target any keyword with low competition, sign up for every affiliate program, and hope something eventually takes off....It actually worked years ago. I don't think it does anymore.

The problem is that the website ends up feeling all over the place. When I land on it, I can't answer one simple question:

"What is this site actually about?"

The blogs I remember are different. They have a clear purpose. Their articles fit together. Even when they cover different topics, they all support the same main idea.

After reading a few posts, you know exactly what the site stands for. People don't just come back for another article. They come back because they trust the brand or person behind it.

I think that's even more important now in this new blogging era.

With the massive outbreak of AI, publishing content has become much easier, so having hundreds of articles doesn't automatically make a blog stand out anymore. A clear brand, a clear message, and content that all points in the same direction seem much harder to copy.

The main point of this post is that if you're starting a blog today...or if you already have one, spend less time trying to publish everything and more time building a brand people can recognize, trust, and come back to.

Content brings visitors. A clear brand gives them a reason to stay.

This is something I keep going back and forth on and feel like no one really talks about directly.

I'll write a post, edit it a few times, feel good about it, then come back the next day and suddenly see five things I want to change. Then I publish it and a week later I want to rewrite the whole intro. Endless loop.

I've heard "done is better than perfect" but that feels too simple when you're trying to build authority in a niche. At the same time, sitting on drafts forever means no traffic, no growth, nothing.

Some things I've been experimenting with: setting a hard deadline before I even start writing, capping myself at two rounds of edits, and treating the published version as something I can update later rather than a final product.

That last one actually helped me mentally. Knowing I can go back and revise took some of the pressure off hitting publish.

But I'm curious how others handle this. Do you run through a checklist before publishing? Set a word count or time limit? Or just go with gut feel after a certain point?

Would love to know what works for people at different stages, whether you're just starting out or already pulling in solid traffic.

I keep opening my blog stats like 50 times a day and it makes me feel bad when numbers dont move. How do I just chill and write instead.

My blog is the ONLY thing that has stuck through The Break Away Experience with me! The original BAE then the return, dealing with jail, drugs, alcohol, madness, homelessness, small moments of hope then ultimately realizing I was completely wrong the entire time and the way I planned to originally "conquer my fears, learn my limits, discover myselF, and find my God or Gods" was STUPID! ​​

Now I'm out of jail and legally clear! Now I once again left a house and quit a job! Just to move to this fucking homeless shelter in the city and chase a dream. My blog has helped me realize being a leader is ego. Being a friend, a TRUE friend to others is key.

My blog made me realize I don't need to start a nomadic, transient, cult​.

I may be in a shelter or sometimes staying with women, but I'm starting school, working, making friends, looking at houses with some buddies and have purpose. After years of depression in AA I'm free of them. My blog saved me. Or helped me save myself. Or maybe it made me crazy. Or maybe I already was crazy.....

But this blog helped me reach a place where I'm happy and ready to thrive.

Never give up your blogs people. Ever!

I have a blog with over 200 articles, and it's a 6-year blog. The problem I have right now is that only 60 articles are indexed. The rest fall into different categories like crawled not indexed, discovered not indexed, and blocked by TXT.

In the past, I used to deal with it by editing the articles and requesting indexing manually, but I think it has not worked well. How do you deal with your indexing issues, because it feels like adding more articles when most of them remain indexed doesn't help much.

I have been feeling depressed cz I have to write blogs for my company, and now with AI i literally depend on it and have eventually lost the skill to research manually. I just ask claude to make a blog structure and then its so bad and repetitive and my manager is not happy with the output. So how can i research (AI in product design is the domain) to actually enrich my blog with insights?

Was catching up with a few friends recently, and the conversation naturally drifted to AI.
One of them asked, "Is there even a point to writing blogs anymore? Anyone can generate a 1,500-word article in five seconds now."
It’s a valid question, and a lot of creators are panicking about it right now. But I had to disagree. I told them:

"AI isn’t going to replace good writers. It’s just going to replace lazy research."

Think about it. If a blog post is just someone Googling a topic, skimming the top three results, and rewriting them using different synonyms... yeah, a machine can do that faster. That era of content is officially over.
But here’s what AI can’t do:

It can’t fall down a rabbit hole to find a fascinating, obscure data point.

It can’t connect two totally unrelated ideas to make a brilliant observation.

It can't write with actual personality, humor, or a human point of view.

We are already hitting "AI fatigue." People are getting exhausted by perfectly structured, grammatically flawless fluff that actually says absolutely nothing.
Audiences don't want more "content." They want substance, deep research, and a genuine human voice.

#Writing #ArtificialIntelligence #ContentCreation #Blogging #FutureOfWork

I've seen so many ads for vlogging camcorders, and blogging platforms all offer options to publish podcasts. I don't really like taking videos of myself and I communicate most clearly in writing, but is that limiting my likely audience?