> Google created incentives for littering the web with garbage. Then they took away incentives for anyone else to even bother. exactly this. I have very exten

> Google created incentives for littering the web with garbage. Then they took away incentives for anyone else to even bother. exactly this. I have very extensive knowledge in a certain niche that is profitable (for other people). I really enjoy building sites, so I tried to build a site that explains all the important topics for both short attention span 'TLDR' people, but also have more in-depth articles for people wanting to learn more. I built additional tools, a custom crawler with GPT regularly analysing new incoming data etc... and had a lot of fun building it. the "organic" users I get (about 30-40) a day, have an average visit time of 3-4 minutes, which is pretty long for text-only sites I think. but i absolutely loathe "off-page" seo, e.g. buying links. so now the site will keep rotting away, after all the fun of building it is gone. and I have no incentive to work on it much more apart from the occasional maintenance, as it's not my primary business. And I don't want to sink thousands into buying links. The only way to get "organic" traffic nowadays in even remotely profitable verticals, is by investing a shitton into backlinks. the amount of shit low quality articles that have just been written for placing a link to game the google rankings is absolutely insane.