I haven't encountered this. I've got a blog ( jacobmartins.com ), mainly writing about Go and sometimes distributed systems. I usually put my posts on various

I haven't encountered this. I've got a blog ( jacobmartins.com ), mainly writing about Go and sometimes distributed systems. I usually put my posts on various social media, but the only ones that really have an influence are Reddit, sometimes hacker news and Twitter. I usually get around 5k pageviews a month. Around 2 visits per visitor (+ ~30% getting cached by CloudFlare). I have a stable rising tendency of visitors, even when I don't post new articles for a long time (month-two). In my opinion it's really important to optimize for search engines. A huuuge part of my page visits come from google searches.