Building a blog is a lot like training for an endurance sport. Very early mornings, commitment and consistency, training when you don’t feel like it, training alone, sacrificing time, enduring a lot of pain.
Seeing this everywhere from bloggers, “Google nuked my traffic to my crappy, no-effort articles that didn’t benefit the reader in any way and didn’t have the intent to benefit the reader in any way, WAAAAAAAAH!”
When starting a new blog one of the most common questions is “How often should I publish?” It’s a reasonable question and I will give you the answer.
Y’know how people sometimes make lists and such to amuse themselves? That’s what this is. I’m a big Stephen King fan and this is my list. It’s a list of his books and which ones were turned into movies and which ones I read. I aim to read them all.
In reflecting on 2025, one big trend I noticed was almost nothing in my life was intentional–it was one long slog of Wake Up, Commute, Work, Commute, Task A, Phone Zombification, Task B, Bed and then I’m left scratching my head trying to figure out where the heck my day went.
Having no visitors on your new blog is a rite of passage, and it sucks. Luckily, there is a tried and true method to getting readers to your blog, ready?
Blogging hopelessness is when a blogger doubts their ability, sees no growth in audience or money, and questions if success is even possible. I’ve personally been there many time in the blogging valley of despair and this is where most bloggers quit. Is there a realistic path to success, even when it feels like all odds are against us?
Forbes/Bloomberg say 80% of blogs fail within the first 18 months, which is a stat they pulled out of their ass. However, it is true that many, many blogs fail to gain traction and fail to make money and then fade away into the ether. This is an article about your blog not failing.
When I was exploring getting back into the blogging game I googled about five hundred times along the lines of: “Is it still possible to make a full-time income blogging in [the current year]?”
At least you won’t be left wondering if you should have started a blog or not. You’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you gave it an honest shot and it didn’t work. Then you can cross it off of things to try for online money and move on to the next item.