And that’s okay. My blog is new and I need to prove myself. Am I going to let a little adversity make quit? Obviously not.
I used Grok to look at my blog and it told me the vacillation I’m seeing of indexed, de-indexed, indexed, de-indexed seems to be the norm for new blogs and is not due to any technical issue. It’s frustrating, but Google makes the rules and decides what they view and quality versus not quality.
Hint: The cycle described above suggests Google thinks my blog is not good quality. Again, that’s okay. It’s the blogging equivalent to getting booed off stage and that just means I get more opportunities to improve my writing and get better before people start arriving here via Google.
the only option is to get better
I am dedicated to making blogging work and I’m not going to quit. Authors get rejected hundreds of times before being published, musicians play to hundreds of empty rooms before breaking through, athletes fail repeatedly before becoming the champ.
However, I do understand my current predicament. I wrote a ton of motivational articles about blogging and the reason for that was because the audience for my blog was an audience of one–me.
There were no other readers. So I wrote articles for the audience–me. It was part of the learning process. I researched a lot about how to be a successful blogger and all signs point to this being the worst time to try to go and be a professional blogger with all the changing landscapes on how people consume the written word and other challenges, yet I also believe this is the best time to launch a blog because very few people believe blogging nowadays will work, which means there is no competition.
So, the time has come for me to shift away from blogging about blogging. I’ve said everything I want to say about that for now. It is time to take this blog to the next phase, which means new subject matter. I have a lot I want to say and I’ll say it an article at a time.