Your blog will always have one loyal reader, that’s you.
People have turned away from blogs due to different content consumption.
Now everyone is reading the AI answers which are supplied from blogs, nobody is going to search the web for some bullshit blog.
But for you – your blog is the most precious thing online, and sometimes you wonder – why there are no views on your blog…
The reality is that there is more content online than attention in the world.
Your blog competes with video, with audio, with images and with other content creators, so expecting a lot of views on your blog is kinda tricky because it can lead to disappointment due to not meeting the expectations.
When I first started blogging, I blogged on blogger.com in Lithuanian, you can read a backup of that blog here. I thought 4 million people should be enough for a blog to get some views but that wasn’t true.
Then I drifted to video, and made 40000 videos.
With this experience that I have now, I should have started this blog years ago (17 years ago to be somewhat exact).
I never should have created videos, but at that time that was fun.
So after having this experience I could say for aspiring bloggers: start a blog while you’re a young, don’t drift to video because that’s just too much exposure, even if you start with either video or blog: don’t reset your progress. This happened so many times to me, I was chasing the dream but now I’m settled with this blog.
Instead of doing things that get more views, do things you actually enjoy. If it’s a blog, then blog, because neither video or blog will pay you. Unless other people are really interested in what you do. But most people will be indifferent.
If you started a blog recently, should know that if you keep pilling up blog posts – nothing will happen or change.
Many bloggers just pile up content without distribution, nobody is going to find a leaf in autumn amongst other leaves.
You can pile as much of content as you want – you won’t game or get traffic from Google.
Today Google search is very demanding and they are rising their demands constantly.
It’s not the amount of content that’s important, but distribution. Blogs don’t have this flywheel where your followers instantly see your content.
Blogs without marketing won’t grow, period.
Vygintas Varnas 