I've pretty much abandoned my TASS blog. I tried a bunch of stuff - wrote nearly 100 articles, did HARO for a couple of years, did 8 or 9 digital PR campaigns... Nothing helped. I was just beginning to make 100-or-so dollars/month when an update near the end of 2022 erased my traffic. I was just starting to get back on my feet when the HCU and March Core Updates drove me down to 0. I don't know if I'll ever return to it. On the bright side, working on the site over the years helped me transition my career to working as an SEO expert, which I absolutely love! So, something good did come out of my time with TASS, despite the complete and utter failure of my site. Thank you for that :)
My niche is so specific, yes I’m still invested in my blog. Traffic is constantly going up, although slowly, it’s still worth it to me. Like someone else said, people drop off which means more opportunity for those of us that stay. Everything has an up and down flow.
I think its just for the meantime before google figures it out. But I don't like the fact that they are instead driving traffic to Tiktok, Google Images, Google Business Profiles and TH-cam. Their first page sucks lately!
Spending more time creating content for TH-cam now mainly because it is fun. I do keep writing blog posts too mostly out of habit. The Roundup idea is very interesting
TH-cam is more fun creatively, but it's harder to take a break from it. The good thing about blogging was you could not post for a month, come back, and very little changed.
I've got a blog and an ecommerce on the same website. The blog is used as a traffic generator and a bait to grow my email list. I love blogging, but in my case currently, it wouldn't be viable on its own.
Yes, blogging if you have a product or service to sell is still viable. Many people say that it actually got easier for ecom in the last year, after all the content only sites got hit.
People are missing the bigger picture here: if you build a tribe of fans, it's irrelevant where or how you post. They will check in regularly to hear from you. There are accounts on X, email newsletters, blogs, etc. that I religiously follow and can't wait for a next update. Doesn't matter where they post - I will find it and read it because I enjoy it. That's the power of personal branding. As far as getting SEO traffic from people who don't know you to make a quick buck, on the other hand - that ship has sailed.
Well, Mark the ideas you shared would be effective for people who have an interesting product or a B2C product. But how would a boring B2B company see success here?
I write blog articles when I have something I think my target audience should know about or get value from. Not part of an SEO strategy. Sounds like that’s the way forward?
nope...not dead...5 years from now blogging will be bigger than ever.... the money chasers will be gone...and the new buzz will be niche. Expert creators who created through the updates.... they want to get rid of the seo community and fair play they arnt needed and the ones who have caused the problems
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I've pretty much abandoned my TASS blog.
I tried a bunch of stuff - wrote nearly 100 articles, did HARO for a couple of years, did 8 or 9 digital PR campaigns...
Nothing helped. I was just beginning to make 100-or-so dollars/month when an update near the end of 2022 erased my traffic.
I was just starting to get back on my feet when the HCU and March Core Updates drove me down to 0. I don't know if I'll ever return to it.
On the bright side, working on the site over the years helped me transition my career to working as an SEO expert, which I absolutely love!
So, something good did come out of my time with TASS, despite the complete and utter failure of my site. Thank you for that :)
My niche is so specific, yes I’m still invested in my blog. Traffic is constantly going up, although slowly, it’s still worth it to me.
Like someone else said, people drop off which means more opportunity for those of us that stay. Everything has an up and down flow.
I think its just for the meantime before google figures it out. But I don't like the fact that they are instead driving traffic to Tiktok, Google Images, Google Business Profiles and TH-cam. Their first page sucks lately!
With longer AI Ovierviews, it's worse in some cases too.
Digital marketing is an unregulated field, so it takes no time to saturate the market. In 2024 its not good idea to jump into the digital marketing.
Yep, I'm not as invested in my blog as I was 2 years ago
I don’t focus much on SEO anymore. I still blog, but primarily as a place to store my most detailed content before repurposing it on other platforms.
Spending more time creating content for TH-cam now mainly because it is fun. I do keep writing blog posts too mostly out of habit. The Roundup idea is very interesting
TH-cam is more fun creatively, but it's harder to take a break from it. The good thing about blogging was you could not post for a month, come back, and very little changed.
Interesting, so the main secret to still be successful is having a podcast :)
I've got a blog and an ecommerce on the same website. The blog is used as a traffic generator and a bait to grow my email list. I love blogging, but in my case currently, it wouldn't be viable on its own.
Yes, blogging if you have a product or service to sell is still viable. Many people say that it actually got easier for ecom in the last year, after all the content only sites got hit.
People are missing the bigger picture here: if you build a tribe of fans, it's irrelevant where or how you post. They will check in regularly to hear from you. There are accounts on X, email newsletters, blogs, etc. that I religiously follow and can't wait for a next update. Doesn't matter where they post - I will find it and read it because I enjoy it. That's the power of personal branding.
As far as getting SEO traffic from people who don't know you to make a quick buck, on the other hand - that ship has sailed.
Well, Mark the ideas you shared would be effective for people who have an interesting product or a B2C product. But how would a boring B2B company see success here?
they can still produce white papers, research, survey reports in their market.
I write blog articles when I have something I think my target audience should know about or get value from. Not part of an SEO strategy. Sounds like that’s the way forward?
So, what I'm hearing is: SEO is dead. Which means I can focus on writing for actual humans rather than writing for an algorithm. Sounds good to me.
Subject matter expert can do blogging
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nope...not dead...5 years from now blogging will be bigger than ever.... the money chasers will be gone...and the new buzz will be niche. Expert creators who created through the updates.... they want to get rid of the seo community and fair play they arnt needed and the ones who have caused the problems
Clickbait... You have no clue bro
Yes