r/Blogging

ok so this is a weird one but bear with me

i have a pet blog. i don't own a pet. never have. probably never will as i travel too much. and yet every month amazon sends me enough to cover rent because people on the internet are buying stuff for their dogs and cats through my site.

bought my pet blog a few months ago from a marketplace called NicheBlogZone for $199. came already built, articles already up, amazon links already in there. i spent one afternoon doing interlinking basically just connecting related posts to each other so search engines understand the site structure and then closed my laptop and genuinely forgot about it for weeks.

here's what that's looked like:

• march: $710
• april: $995
• may: $1,461
• june: $1,647
• july: $1,461
• august so far: $1,545 (amazon pays 2 months delayed so this is june's money landing now)

march scared me. went from nearly $1k in february down to $710 and i was convinced something had broken. checked everything, found nothing wrong, did nothing. it just came back the next month on its own.

pet people spend insane amounts on their animals btw. like i knew this intellectually but seeing the commission data is something else. dog food subscriptions, orthopedic beds, grooming kits, vet supplements. and because of the 24 hour cookie i get a cut of everything in their cart not just whatever article they landed on.

i do literally nothing to maintain this. no new posts, no ads, no instagram for pets i don't have. i just own the thing and amazon does its thing.

my landlord has been getting paid every month and has no idea a pet blog is behind it. honestly sometimes i forget too until the deposit shows up.

anyone else running a niche they have zero personal connection to? curious if the detachment makes it easier or harder to care about growing it

I only just recently got into blogging and wanted other people to read it. But I don't know where to advertise myself. where do most people advertise themselves or have seen others advertise

I’m curious about how people handle blog content after publishing it.

If you have a useful blog post or article and want to share the key ideas in a more visual way, what do you currently do?

● Create a graphic manually?
● Use Canva or templates?
● Use an AI tool?
● Ask a designer?
● Share screenshots?
● Just share the original blog link?

What takes the most time or effort?

Also, if you wanted to create a simple visual summary from a blog post, what information would you want the visual to show?

I’m trying to understand how people actually handle this today and what the biggest pain points are.

AI can write almost any blog post now. But my problem is deciding what is actually worth writing.

I still spend a lot of time checking Google Trends, Reddit, search questions and other sources to see what people actually care about.

So I’m thinking of building a small tool that uses my website keywords and audience to find good topic opportunities from these sources.

Would something like this be useful to you? How do you find topics today?

Hi! I am in a pickle and on the opposite side of the fence than the usual blogger.

I am not new to blogging and have always had a blog on and off since a teen. Now that I’m an adult, I have a high engaging community but no blog. And now that I’m building the blog, I’m wondering what is the proper way to launch and monetize.

Monetization is hard for me because how I started all of this was from my own passion, not for money. People felt that, and I have thousands encouraging me to monetize on tiktok and Instagram so I’m willing to give it a go.

I still have a dedicated following who has a passion for reading, but unsure what are the modern ways of monetizing it.

Any help would be much appreciated. Especially if you share your journeys. Thank you!

I have a Blogger site with a custom domain and have suddenly started seeing a huge amount of unusual international traffic.

On August 17, GA4 showed 1,338 active users from Singapore, almost all new users, with 0 seconds average engagement time. The traffic was spread across hundreds of landing pages, including very old posts.

Today, August 18, it has increased to 3,726 active users from Singapore, again with 0 seconds average engagement time. Blogger Stats is also showing unusually high traffic from Vietnam, Brazil, Ukraine, Pakistan, Russia, Bangladesh and other countries.

This is completely outside my normal traffic pattern.

Today I also received an AdSense notice saying:

Ad serving is currently limited while Google assesses the quality of my site traffic.

I don't click my own ads, buy traffic, use paid-to-click services, or encourage ad clicks, and I haven't intentionally done anything to generate this traffic.

Has anyone else with a Blogger site experienced a sudden bot/crawler traffic surge like this followed by an AdSense traffic-quality limitation? If so, did the traffic eventually stop, and how long did it take for AdSense to remove the limit?

I would like to know how you decide whether you are writing a blog about a specific product or service, or for any other purpose which topic to choose in order to improve its ranking. How do you go about this decision? What research methods do you use to find a topic that would be beneficial for improving the ranking of that product or service?

Whenever I have to write a blog post related to my product or service, I often feel confused about what to write and how to conduct the research needed to find the best topic one that would truly benefit my website, product, or service.

Once you have selected a topic, how do you structure or design the content to ensure it makes an impact on the user or reader? How do you ensure they find exactly what they were looking for within that blog post?

So guys, it's been a while since Ithe last time I added a website and joined journey by MEDIAVINE. Nowadays I have a couple of websites with around 3k pageviews a month, they are very very new, like 3 months old. And well, I'm wondering if I could apply to journey by mediavine, when I tried it only showed the main mediavinve dashboard.

I've searched online and couldn't find a thing about it. It seems their requirements are still the same, but when I'm applying they are likely gonna Denny me lol cuz well I don't have 50k visits it's confusing. Hmmm so well haha how do I apply to the lower tier one?

I’ve ran a blog for around 6 years now. It peaked 4 years ago with 100k visits a month.

Sadly the days of that kind of traffic have gone now, but the site still gets visits every day.

It’s in maintenance mode at the moment, I’ve written or commissioned around 500 articles on the niche over the years.

I’m a software engineer by trade (not my website niche topic btw) and have considered creating a tool that writes articles via AI and then publishes them automatically.

No human involvement, pretty much set it and forget it.

My question is, have you had any experience using AI articles? Are there pitfalls? Does Google treat them differently? Most importantly is there a quality difference?!

Answers on a postcard 😁

I just finished reading a blog about a girl trying to fortify a feeder so her cat can't get more food out of it! It was so fun, made me remember what reading blogs is like.

Anyway, do you guys read anything like that? I used to enjoy ones were people with kids would anecdote their 'kids say the darndest things' moments, etc. Open to suggestions!

Night shift nursing eats your week in ways that are hard to explain to people who work 95. I run a small business on the side and started a blog to handle my own marketing instead of paying someone else to do it. Problem is, my writing windows are weird. 3am after a shift. Sunday afternoon before I crash. An hour here and there.

I have content ideas. That's not the issue. The issue is sitting down to actually write when your brain has been running on adrenaline and bad coffee for 12 hours.

What I've been trying is drafting voice memos on my commute home and turning those into posts later. It works sometimes. The posts feel more natural that way, less stiff. But the turnaround is slow and I end up with a backlog of halfbaked drafts.

Curious what other people with irregular schedules actually do. Not the generic "batch your content" advice. I mean what actually works when you have two days off and then you're gone for 60 hours. Do you publish on a schedule or just whenever something is ready? And has inconsistent posting actually hurt your traffic in a measurable way, or is that fear overblown?

For those of you who write regularly - particularly essays, newsletters, blog posts, longer-form nonfiction, etc. - I'm curious about something.

What part of the writing process do you find most challenging, or experience the most friction around?

Besides coming up with what to write about, are there particular points in your writing where you tend to get stuck, lose momentum, procrastinate, or find it harder to keep going?

Basically curious which parts of writing present the most friction for you (getting started, drafting, developing an idea, returning to something unfinished, revising, editing, finishing, etc.)

I started new conpany blog some time ago. We have good content, interesting data and focused to bring value. This i guess is great start but how to pro ote blog in 2026. Register to some RSS agregators, spam Facebook groups or how you are doing that? What are the active steps that works for you?

Hey everyone,

I applied for Mediavine Journey using the WordPress Grow plugin around May/June, and I finally got approved on the 10th of this month.

On the 13th, I installed the Mediavine Control Panel plugin, finished the onboarding process, and manually updated my ads.txt file on my server. Despite doing all this, I keep getting the "ads.txt out of date" error.

I'm getting pretty worried because I think this is the reason why no ads are showing up on my site right now.

I tried searching the official forums for a fix, but all the related threads are from months or even a couple of years ago, so the info is outdated and doesn't match the current setup. I'm honestly at a loss on what to do next.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, how did you manage to fix it?

For context: I'm running a WordPress multisite setup. The Mediavine Journey approval is for one of my subdomains, while I'm still running AdSense on my other blogs. Thanks in advance!

Hi just wondering how many people read you guy's blogs. Also how long have you been doing your blog and are these people consistently reading you blog.

-Thanks :)

I have a 30-day content plan where I’m planning to publish one article every day. Is publishing consistently for 30 days actually a good SEO strategy, or should I focus more on publishing fewer, higher-quality articles?

I’m trying to build topical authority rather than just increase the number of pages on my site. For those who have tested a 30-day content schedule, what worked for you?

Did you publish daily, batch the content, or adjust the schedule based on performance? And how long did it take before you noticed any meaningful SEO results?

Since August 6th, I've noticed a massive drop in traffic from Google Search. I was previously averaging 20-30k impressions daily. August 9th dipped below 7k.

An insane amount of ghost spam is also hitting my Google Analytics at the moment, so it's been impossible even to figure out what the issue might be. It's almost all from Singapore. I was advised to block all traffic from there, but because I write about tea, I don't want to risk the real traffic I do get from Asia.

My site is well established in my niche with almost 18 years of high-quality content, and I post new content weekly. It's disheartening to have so many years of work basically go down the drain. I'm at a loss as to how to fix this. Is there anything that anyone here can suggest?

Night shift gives me a lot of quiet time to think, and I keep coming back to this same question. I blog about DIY marketing for small businesses because that's what I do every day. Practitioner experience, real mistakes, stuff I actually tested. But I have no clear evidence that readers care where the knowledge comes from versus just whether the post answers their question fast enough.

The personal credibility angle gets pushed hard in blogging advice circles. Write from experience. Share your story. Build trust. Fine. But when I look at what actually gets clicks versus what sits dead in Search Console, the posts that perform are the ones matching a search query well, not the ones where I explained my background.

So I'm genuinely unsure if the practitioner angle is doing anything or if it's just something I tell myself to feel better about the slow growth.

For people who blog adjacent to their job or business, did the subject matter expertise translate into anything measurable? More return visitors, better time on page, backlinks from people who found the depth useful? Or did it only matter once you had traffic coming in already, and the trust layer kicked in after the fact?

Curious if the sequence matters more than the advantage itself.

Hi, we have a startup website and of course we need content for it. We do have a good source of data which we are using to write the blogs, however as a startup we don't have the capacities to do everything manually. We have the process fairly manual plus we also created some skills and quality gates based on best practices to write articles, EEAT compliant content and how not to come out as AI written slop.

However my question is how can we be sure it's good quality? I mean I like what's written in there, it makes sense, but I'm not a professional blogger. And then a follow up question: How can I be sure Google thinks it's good quality? Do you guys have some experience with that? Any tools?