Thinking about starting a blog about my field. Not for money, just to share what I know and build some credibility.
But between AI summaries and everyone posting on LinkedIn, I’m not sure a blog still makes sense.
Anyone here blogging professionally right now? Worth the effort, or am I late to the party?
One year on Journey by Mediavine, RPM stuck at $2 to $5 (it was $15 on Ezoic) and support never answers.
I want to share my experience with Journey by Mediavine and ask for advice, because I'm honestly fed up.
I run a science blog in the wildlife biology and ecology niche. My content is not all informational posts, there are bunch of career posts (jobs, applications, internships). Majority traffic from USA.
Before Journey I was on Ezoic, where my RPM was in range of $15 to $20. I switched because everyone kept saying Journey is a strong network with some of the best RPMs out there. On Journey my RPM has always been around $2 to $5, rarely touching $10.
I understand small sites aren't Mediavine's priority. But if they accept small sites, there should be at least some working support. Emails go unanswered. The community they point you to doesn't answer either. I've spent a year waiting and waiting, hoping things would improve, and they haven't. I implemented all the best practices from their blog.
I'm now seriously planning to move. My traffic fluctuates between 15,000 and 18,000 pageviews a month.
Questions for anyone who has been in a similar spot:
Has anyone moved from Journey to Monumetric? How did RPM and support compare?
I was wondering if anyone here is still using Travelpayouts and how it's been performing for you lately.
I used Travelpayouts on my blog a few years ago and received payouts in 2024, so I know it worked well enough for me back then. However, I eventually shifted the direction of my blog and stopped actively using it.
I recently logged into my account for the first time in ages and was pleasantly surprised to discover that I had accumulated some earnings without doing anything! I also noticed that my old affiliate links are still getting clicks almost daily, despite not having promoted them in quite some time.
It's made me consider giving Travelpayouts another go, especially since those older links seem to have some staying power.
Is anyone here still actively using it? Have you noticed any changes in conversions, commissions, or payouts over the past couple of years? I'd be curious to hear whether it's still worth investing time in, particularly for smaller or niche blogs.
Your blog is the journey you are on, not the report you file at the end
I was in the middle of writing a post for my blog today when this came out of me, and I had to stop and read it back because it’s the thing I wish somebody had handed me years earlier than they did.
>A blog isn’t a place where finished people go to publish their conclusions. It’s the record of somebody building something, written while they’re still building it.
You’re taking your reader along with you: what you tried and how it went, what worked, including the part where you weren’t sure it would, and what flopped completely and cost you a month you’d really like back. It’s what you believed in January that you’ve totally changed your mind about by September, and what changed it.
Nobody needs you to have arrived. They need you to be moving, out loud, somewhere they can watch it happen.
That one shift changes what you’re allowed to write about, and it changes it a lot. If you’ve ever felt like you had nothing to say, it’s probably because you were measuring yourself against some finished expert. Measure yourself against the person two steps behind you instead, and you’ve got something worth writing every single week, because every week you learn something they haven’t learned yet.
My own message has changed more than once over the years. Not because I was wrong to start, but because you can’t think your way to the right version from a standing start. You write, you watch what lands, you adjust, and the blog carries the whole record of that. The people who’ve read me the longest didn’t stay because I had it right at the beginning. They stayed because they could watch me work it out.
Anyone else feel this way? What’s something you’ve completely changed your mind about since you started blogging?
Hello fellow bloggers. Sometimes, I received guest posting request from agency or backlink platform.
I usually open to all niche for guest posting, except porn and gambling.
How about you? Do you accept all niche or decline some niche because your moral/standing? Or do you only accept guest posting that is still within your blog niche.
Curios. What is your consideration of accepting content placement/guest posting. Hope you wouldn't mind to share :)
Hello, how is your blog in Google AI overview era? Mine is decreased, but right now it is recovering a bit.
Survival tips of blogging in this AI era and where click from Google decline:
Do you have any other tips to survive as blogger in this AI era?
Hi y’all…
I haven’t built anything that is ready for release yet.
However, I am wondering how many people would be interested in using a social media platform that is blogging-style. Nostalgic of the Tumblr days for sure.
But with new ideas and simplicity of real social media and interactions.
If this post isn’t allowed my bad.
Just trying to gauge interest before I keep putting in energy. :)
Hey everyone! I have 70+ blog posts and over the last 3 months, my site got around 20K impressions but only about 100 clicks from Google.
I don't really want to keep publishing new posts right now. I'd rather focus on optimizing my existing posts and improving their CTR/rankings.
For those of you who have experience with SEO, what would you recommend I focus on first? Things like titles, meta descriptions, keywords, internal linking, content updates, images, etc.
Any tips or a practical process for going through 70+ old posts would be really appreciated!
i have a blog post from 2019 that still brings in roughly 40% of my organic traffic
which would be great if the post wasn't starting to age badly
the topic has changed enough that some of the advice is still useful, but some of it is definitely stuck in 2019. i added a note at the top recently pointing people toward a newer version, and traffic dropped a little afterward
not a disaster. just enough to make me stare at analytics and wonder if i broke something
that's the part i'm struggling with. if this were client work, i'd update the thing, check the numbers, and move on. but when one old post is doing that much of the work for your entire site, suddenly every edit feels like a gamble
i'm debating between completely rewriting it, slowly updating the old version, or leaving it alone and letting the newer content compete for the traffic
has anyone here had a single old post carrying a ridiculous percentage of their traffic? what did you eventually do with it?
Hi everyone,
I just received a notification that my site has been suspended from Journey by Mediavine with a 50-day reapplication countdown.
The reason given is: "evidence that your site has been receiving traffic from invalid sources."
To give some context, I recently suffered massive bot traffic spikes coming from Singapore that completely messed up my analytics and stats. As soon as I realized what was happening, I immediately implemented Cloudflare to block them and protect the site. Unfortunately, it looks like Mediavine's automated systems caught the residual impact of those bots before or during the cleanup.
I'm quite stressed about this and not sure how strict they are during the appeal or reapplication process. Also, I've been hearing rumors lately in the community that ad networks are tightening things up aggressively.
If you've been through a similar situation where bot traffic triggered an invalid traffic (IVT) suspension, Did you manage to get reinstated before the 50 days by contacting support with Cloudflare/Analytics proof? What kind of evidence did you provide to show you fixed the issue?
Any advice or insights would be hugely appreciated!
The standard Pinterest keyword advice is type your topic into the search bar and see what comes up, that works for finding broad terms but it does not tell volume, competition, or whether the keyword trends are rising or falling.
The question is whether a dedicated keyword tool for Pinterest adds enough signal to justify the cost compared to the free search bar approach, for someone running a content site and choosing bw 20 potential pin topics each week, knowing relative search volume changes which topics get prioritized
I am struggling to find trending topic in my niche and write on any topic in my niche. So can you guys guide me as many of you are very knowledgeable in this field and I am just a boomer.
a post can be completely invisible for six months and then suddenly start getting traffic. another can get hundreds of views in a week and then basically disappear. some articles slowly collect readers for years without ever having a big spike. and sometimes you have no idea which one you're looking at until much later
that's very different from most social platforms where the lifespan of a post can feel extremely short
with a blog, something you wrote on a random Tuesday can still be useful to someone years later.
i think that's one of the few things about blogging that still feels genuinely different from social media.
you aren't necessarily publishing for today
sometimes you're leaving something behind that might not find its audience until much later.
do you write differently when you think of a post as something that might still be read five years from now?
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