I started my sports centric blog, BuffsBlog.com, in early January. Thus far, I've had 2,300 views and 1,600 visitors. I have maybe 15 or so posts in the month of January. Almost all of my traffic has come from cross-posting on sports related Facebook pages and reddit pages.

Some questions:
* I get essentially zero traffic from google or bing or any other search engines. The only SEO work I really do is I use "All In One" SEO on my Wordpress site (I use Elementor as well). Is this enough? What do I need to learn about SEO and what's the best source to learn?

* I'm a tech newbie so let me know if there's something wrong with my site or the way I've set it up. I set it up after watching a YouTube video with no previous website creation experience.

* Any other thoughts/ideas on how to make the site better and grow the site?

TIA! BuffsBlog.com

Hi, I am trying to niche down my old blog on Wordpress. I had 3 sections on it. Beauty, Fashion and Personal Growth. Now, I want to niche it down to Personal Growth only. But I have 20 fashion blogs and 17 beauty blogs on it. I don't want to delete them. Is there a way to archive them? Or remove them from the website?

Or if I have to delete them completely? Is there a possibility that someone would buy them? Please let me know. Your advice would be much appreciated.

Hi everyone, On January 1, 2025, I launched my first blog using WordPress.org, writing in Italian for an Italian audience. At launch, I had already published 7 posts, and by the end of January, I had increased that number to 15. In a typical month, considering my other commitments, I expect to publish 6 to 8 posts. The blog's niche is travel, and I have been learning SEO while using a free keyword research tool.

First-Month Strategy In January, my main goal was to publish as much content as possible to build up the site. I also have a YouTube channel and an Instagram page, both still small (35 subscribers on YouTube, 344 followers on Instagram), which I plan to use for both direct and indirect promotion—something I haven’t done much of yet. Also I:

• Submitted my URLs to Bing for indexing (so far, only 3 have been indexed).
• Applied for Google AdSense (still under review).
• Applied to become an affiliate for a travel insurance company.

Second-Month Strategy In February, I plan to:

• Publish at least 8 posts.
• Start using Pinterest (as a complete beginner).
• Increase promotion on Instagram and YouTube.
• Apply for CJ and Booking affiliate programs.

First-Month Results Out of the 15 posts published, 3 performed well and generated almost all the traffic:

• Two are seasonal (snowy mountain hikes), so I expect traffic to drop soon.
• One is a guide for a very popular hike, apparently, no one had written about it before.
• The other posts (e.g., those about Japan) face high competition, so I expected low traffic.

Google Search Console Data (01/01 - 31/01):

• Total Clicks: 176
• Impressions: 2,580
• CTR: 6.8%
• Average Position: 40.1

Google Analytics Data (01/01 - 31/01):

• Active Users: 151
• Pageviews: 640
• Sessions: 446

What do you think? Am I doing something wrong? Should I change my strategy or keep going? Are these good results?

Hi everyone! Here is my blogging progress report for January! Seeing steady growth 🙂

September 2024

• Organic Search Traffic: 245
• Total Keywords: 176
• Domain Rating: 10

October 2024

• Organic Search Traffic: 1,152
• Total Keywords: 149
• Domain Rating: 10

November 2024

• Organic Search Traffic: 1,180
• Total Keywords: 219
• Domain Rating: 11

December 2024

• Organic Search Traffic: 1,712
• Total Keywords: 345
• Domain Rating: 11

January 2025

• Organic Search Traffic: 2,073
• Total Keywords: 384
• Domain Rating: 11

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Hey All!

I was hoping to get feedback on my website and my first blog post. It took me awhile to get the hang of Wordpress, but it was very rewarding once everything actually worked.

I hope my intent and goal for the blog is clear, but I would like some criticism on how it could be better to engage my audience.

Hey guys, I just started this blog in January, and I wanted to share my stats and have your thoughts about it; my main traffic source is Pinterest (broad niche ), and I have about 19 blog posts on it.

https://imgur.com/a/IVHmhuz

Why is my blog sparkling magpie http://sparklingmagpie.blogspot.com/ showing as the first hit on bing but doesn’t even exist on Google? It’s not that it’s further down the list it just doesn’t exist even when I put in blog post titles, thanks

Looking for recommendations for themes suitable for showcasing my photos, writing blogs of my travels and to give people the option to purchase my prints.

I have found these ones:

Themeisle Creative themes Startersites Oceanwp

Are there any others that I should consider?

Edit - I was recommended these also:

themenectar hub.liquid-themes foxthemes.me

I just want to ensure that I have considered everything before purchasing a theme.

I have been blogging for a few years. I get about 8K visitors a month. I have old posts that get zero clicks. I never did any SEO with them. Is it better to improve them and do SEO optimization, or delete them and re-purpose content for new posts? I'm not sure if Google would like the old posts to show many years of writing or if it would not like the improved old posts because they are old. My niche does not become inaccurate with time. It is not time-sensitve.

*Not sure if this is the right subreddit, but I need some advice.

I bought a .co domain thinking I could transfer it to WordPress.com for free, but I misread, and it turns out I need a paid plan. Since I still wanted to use my .co domain, I tried iframing my WordPress.com site, but that’s causing issues:

• The .co site works, but there are no proper URL paths (.co doesn’t show /about, /blog, etc.).
• I think this is also causing SEO issues—I verified my site in Google Search Console, but I don’t really know if it’s being indexed properly.

I really want to use my .co domain, so now I’m considering switching to WordPress.org (self-hosted) or Blogger to avoid paying for WordPress.com’s custom domain plan.

My main concerns:

1. Is WordPress.org too hard to use for beginners? I heard it’s more technical, and I’m new to this.
2. How easy is it to move my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org? Will my posts and format transfer smoothly?
3. Would Blogger be a good alternative? I’m worried I won’t be able to make it look like my WordPress.com site.

If it helps, this is just a personal blog for fun, so I don’t want to spend too much time setting things up or dealing with complex stuff.

Would love to hear what’s the best option for using my .co domain for free!

Hi all,

I’m interested in starting a blog I think could be successful. I know that most people say to give your blog a year before you begin to get much traction and monetization. I was just wondering and curious for anybody willing to share on here, how much you roughly make yearly or monthly from your blog. I just see all these advertisements claiming they make 150k yearly from their blog and how anybody can, but I also want to go into this being realistic lol. Of course I know not everyone is comfortable sharing such info but I figured I could try! Thanks everybody!

Hello,

Genuinely don't know where to ask this, so I appreciate more niche subreddit recommendations than this.

Long story short:
I am writing semi academic blog posts and I prefer using a numerical reference style (IEEE). My current workflow is I write the article (I use html with a templating engine, so no real post processing is done afterwards) with placeholder citations, open a markdown file and write the placeholder citations in order and then use pandoc to generate the numerically correct citations and references, and after that I just copy and paste.

Not the most elegant solution. Does anyone know any software (gui/cli/tui/does not matter. as long as it runs on linux) that can basically read a plaintext file, detect placeholders, and swap them out for the correct citations and generate bibliography (using a BibTeX bibliography file and CSL)? If you have used Zotero before, the thing I'm asking for is pretty much the "RTF Scan" feature but for plaintext.

Thank you for your time and advice. If you have a suggestion for me to go somewhere else, I would greatly appreciate if you let me know.

I'm managing a website with Google AdSense, but we're seeing low-quality ads from unknown publishers mixed in with Google ads. We want to ensure we're only serving Google-sourced advertisements.

Questions:

• Is there a way to configure AdSense settings to block third-party/mixed ads?
• What settings or steps so that ads are only served by google and no other publisher or agent?
• Any recommended approaches to clean up our ad serving?

Appreciate any insights from experienced publishers/AdSense users.

Title: Struggling with Organic Affiliate Marketing - Need Tips!

Hey everyone,

I recently built a WordPress website for a client (my first time, and I'm pretty proud of how it turned out!).
https://suppsdoor.com . and I'm struggling with organic affiliate marketing. Writing blogs, but no clicks! What are your top tips for getting traffic and sales? Specifically: keyword research, on-page SEO, link building, and content promotion. How long did it take you to see results? Any advice is appreciated!

If someone can check my blog and give me honest feedback?

My website has gone down like a LARGE number of times now. Usually I just need to restart the server OR it will resolve itself. I have no idea why it keeps going down so much.

Is anyone else familiar with digital ocean and can advise on how I can stop it from going down continually? Im on the 8$ per month plan, also my website gets like 100 visitors a month lol so it can't be too much traffic.

I thought about switching to bluehost but I don't like how much it costs after the first year... for that price digital ocean seems more worth it?? but idk if it keeps going down all the time!!

Any help appreciated!

Hey guys, I am looking for guest bloggers to generate content on my website. Any suggestions to find them?

A little background: I’ve had an idea for a blog of my own for a while. And I’ve started the gears to make it a reality. I don’t expect to make money or have many people reading it, I just like to write and think it will be fun to do as a hobby. If it turns more than a hobby I wouldn’t be mad but have no expectations of that happening. Some main questions I have:

1.) What is the best program/host to use for a beginner for building the site? I always see Wordpress, Wix, Bluehost.. but I’d like to know what the community uses. If I’m gonna put money into it I wanna make sure it’s good.

2.) For people that do blog do y’all advertise? Or just use key words to try and drive traffic with search results? I won’t care pumping some funds into advertising, but not sure what the general community would think.

3.) What’s the most successful schedule for y’all? I know everyone is different but once a day, 3 times a week, multiple times a day? I just like to hear what everyone does and what has and hasn’t worked.

Thanks to everyone that read this far down! I hope to hear from you all soon, happy blogging!

With AI providing instant answers and generating content, what do you think the future holds for blogging? Will it evolve, decline, or take on a new role? Do you think human-written blogs will still have a place, or will AI dominate the space?

Good morning. I am a therapist in private practice looking for some passive income. I would like to start a blog but I have questions and concerns.

1. Should I use my private practice website or should I start a new website?
2. Has anyone launched a blog on Facebook to gain initial traction?
3. Since I am in private practice as a therapist, I want to be able to provide support and insight regarding mental health, but I also want to write about other things like family and my kids. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

I feel like more questions will come up as I process this whole idea. I started with this question in a therapist reddit but did not get a response

I'm thinking about starting a website that's mainly just a curated selection of other people's articles and videos within my niche. I would provide external links and explicitly credit the original creators.

My contribution would be finding high-quality pieces of content, organizing the links onto different webpages, listing the key takeaways from each one, and providing visual aids for complex concepts. I would write some of my own original articles here and there as well.

Does this seem like a viable idea?

The value proposition is helping the audience quickly find the info they need. There's plenty of great content out there, but the niche is heavily watered down with low-quality stuff too. From a competitor standpoint, other websites tend to focus on super specific subtopics or are just poorly structured, leading to disorganized information.

I shared this a little while ago, but I'm really looking to get more feedback and hear about what's been working for others. Hoping to spark some discussion and learn from your experiences! I'm looking for new ways to monetize my content this year. What platforms and strategies have been most successful for you?

On my end, I've been exploring a few different options and created a PDF summarizing my top picks for 2025. It covers things like:

• Best platforms for different content types (video, writing, audio)
• Pros and cons of each platform
• Key features to look for

Let me know if you'd like me to share the PDF!

I'm contemplating beginning a blog for myself and I keep seeing a lot of people recommend wordpress. Is wordpress really that good?

The only experience I have with it is through my work where it was set up terribly and we all hate using it so it's put me off wordpress.

Is it really the best option? Or are there others?

My blog has a good collection of articles about Europe travel, which is my expertise and after all the updates from google from the past 12 months, it’s not doing anything.

No matter what I write, I never rank although I pick keywords that I should rank for. It was recovering in September 2024, but that updated killed it again.

Anyone has any thoughts, ideas, knowledge to share? What is working for you? I have authority and is an old domain.

I am so disappointed that I don’t tend to publish that often anymore. Old blogs are updated, loads ok, non AI. Lots of information and personal experience. Help!

Hello everyone! Ive been learning how to create website and do blogging mixing this with pintetest for a few months now, and I was wondering: I feel like I could help small business who wants to create blogs and pins for pinterest to bring more organic trafic but dont have the time. I would do such things maybe even for free or a small amount of money so that I can gain more concrete experience. My question is this: Is this something possible? If so, where could I try to reach for clients, is there a platform or an app or something made for this where I could "showcase" and help people who are ready to pay for such services?

Thank you.

I'll try to keep this short, and I'd like to start by recognizing a lot of people are already on Substack and moving a portion of your writing, business, or whatever you've built is not always easy.

Ok, meat and potatoes: Substack is a dangerous place. Over the last couple years it's become clear they are happy to host and promote outright Nazi content. The Verge has interviewed them about it and "Substack says it will not remove or demonize Nazi content."

When a popular tech writer, Casey Newton, moved his newsletter off Substack, it was because his team found at least seven publications "that conveyed explicit support for 1930s German Nazis and called for violence against Jews, among other groups." They went back and forth with Substack, who has stated elsewhere (I believe in an interview with The Verge) it prefers these ideas to be "defeated in the marketplace of ideas." Mmhmm.

Fortunately, if you can consider using or moving to a different newsletter service, there is no shortage of great alternatives. Plus, it is quite easy to move existing subscriber lists to a different service. Wired has a good list. Spoilers: Ghost, Buttondown, and Beehiiv, but there are plenty more.

A unique aspect about Ghost, especially for people who want a website and a newsletter, is that it has a model similar to WordPress but with paid newsletter features built in (I’m not a Ghost user yet, but I’m exploring it). You can download Ghost for free, run it on your own web host, and publish to the web + a free or paid newsletter. Or you can get a paid, managed plan at Ghost.org where people handle the backend stuff for you and you can contact them for help.

Whatever route you take, I hope you can land at a good solution that fits your needs. And fuck Nazis.

A business blog is a great way to:

1.Supercharge your website's SEO.

2.Establish yourself as a leader in your niche.

Plus you can repurpose content for sharing on socials.

And adding a subscriber form to your blog is a great way of growing your email marketing list.

Hello!

I’d like to start my own blog this year and have made the first steps towards doing so by looking into word press and blue host.

My question for you all is what tips and suggestions would you give a beginner to start their own blog?

What should I write about/what is in demand right now?

What have you invested in that has helped grow your blog?

Is it worth it to buy a theme for my website or just use the premade themed Wordpress offers?

Absolutely any advice you may have is appreciated and I am taking everything into account while I embark on this project.