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This is largely because micro-blogging means less content, and less content means you could write five 300-word blog posts instead of one 1,500-word post. I've

This is largely because micro-blogging means less content, and less content means you could write five 300-word blog posts instead of one 1,500-word post. I've done blogging for the last 10+ years, and many of those I spent as a freelancer working with startups/brands/editorials. Everyone is after "word count" and I absolutely hate it. Whenever I work on articles for my own blog, I just don't consider word-count at all. I think if your content is great and informative, then readership will be natural.

vntok 5y ago
This is a very interesting approach. Do you have traffic data collection on your blog?
- skilled 5y ago
  I collect post views, but not using Google Analytics or anything like that. I built a pretty substantial developer blog (tips, resources, etc,.) back in 2014. I think it peaked at around 350,000 monthly visitors after 12 months. Later on, I sold it because I needed the money. Not so much that I didn't want to keep working on it. Unfortunately, the new owners didn't have any idea how to maintain a "healthy" content blog, and it has plummeted down to around 30,000 monthly visitors. All the content they're publishing now is some thin headline-clickbait bullshit. I even gave them free advice on how to fix it, but I think that for a lot of people, they just don't care and will mindlessly pump out as many pieces of content as possible. And such blogs can be identified from a mile away. And therein lies the problem with Google SEO at the moment. Even myself, someone who has done SEO work for more than a decade, I can see that results are getting worse. In some niches, the same crappy articles that dominated 6-7 years ago are still dominant today. I guess we're stuck in time, or so Google thinks.
  - behnamoh 5y ago
    Could it also be due to reduction of public interest in blogs over the past few years? Most stuff are now published in the form of vlogs instead of blogs. I do miss the good old blogs era, tho, and I wish there were still high quality blogs around.

vntok 5y ago

This is a very interesting approach. Do you have traffic data collection on your blog?

skilled 5y ago
I collect post views, but not using Google Analytics or anything like that. I built a pretty substantial developer blog (tips, resources, etc,.) back in 2014. I think it peaked at around 350,000 monthly visitors after 12 months. Later on, I sold it because I needed the money. Not so much that I didn't want to keep working on it. Unfortunately, the new owners didn't have any idea how to maintain a "healthy" content blog, and it has plummeted down to around 30,000 monthly visitors. All the content they're publishing now is some thin headline-clickbait bullshit. I even gave them free advice on how to fix it, but I think that for a lot of people, they just don't care and will mindlessly pump out as many pieces of content as possible. And such blogs can be identified from a mile away. And therein lies the problem with Google SEO at the moment. Even myself, someone who has done SEO work for more than a decade, I can see that results are getting worse. In some niches, the same crappy articles that dominated 6-7 years ago are still dominant today. I guess we're stuck in time, or so Google thinks.
- behnamoh 5y ago
  Could it also be due to reduction of public interest in blogs over the past few years? Most stuff are now published in the form of vlogs instead of blogs. I do miss the good old blogs era, tho, and I wish there were still high quality blogs around.