So, I got the domain vygintasvarnas.com, and it is set to be my primary address for this blog, it should start working in couple of hours or so, I think.
Although the website is now reachable, but still unreliable.
While buying this domain I noticed you can buy a domain name for 100 years, it costs 2000€ + VAT. Nice.
I personally don’t acknowledge any authorities.
But if you want to start writing a good blog, then write with authority from day one.
Don’t write your blog like nobody is reading, write it like everybody is reading.
You don’t need millions of people reading your blog to make it meaningful, handful of people is okay, because the job is the same either you write for one, or for one million.
Writing with authority will make your blog readable and better.
The only reason bloggers fail is that they stop producing content.
If a blogger commits to writing a blog until he is dead, then he can’t fail.
You really can’t measure blog’s success on external factors like views, money and whatnot.
If you been thinking about quitting blogging, just redefine success. Blogging was never good business model. Sure some bloggers make money, but I doubt they are writing content that they really want.
Who wants to write articles like: ‘top best gadgets of 2026’. It’s soul crushing.
When starting a blog, you really don’t have to write ‘how to’ tips or have a niche.
Your life is your niche.
There’s so much pressure to monetize one’s blog, that if you don’t do it – you’re considered a failed blogger.
Due to scarcity of attention, most bloggers won’t get a cut from their ‘work’ even if they tried hard.
That’s how the blogging world works, blogging results are uneven among blogs, top blogs get all the views while other folks get peanuts.
It’s the reality, not something we can do about.
Today companies not only want you to create content for free, but also pay to get seen, which is basically bullshit.
Your blog will always have one loyal reader, that’s you.
People have turned away from blogs due to different content consumption.
Now everyone is reading the AI answers which are supplied from blogs, nobody is going to search the web for some bullshit blog.
But for you – your blog is the most precious thing online, and sometimes you wonder – why there are no views on your blog…
When I first started blogging, I blogged on blogger.com in Lithuanian, you can read a backup of that blog here. I thought 4 million people should be enough for a blog to get some views but that wasn’t true.
Then I drifted to video, and made 40000 videos.
With this experience that I have now, I should have started this blog years ago (17 years ago to be somewhat exact).
I never should have created videos, but at that time that was fun.
So after having this experience I could say for aspiring bloggers: start a blog while you’re a young, don’t drift to video because that’s just too much exposure, even if you start with either video or blog: don’t reset your progress. This happened so many times to me, I was chasing the dream but now I’m settled with this blog.
Instead of doing things that get more views, do things you actually enjoy. If it’s a blog, then blog, because neither video or blog will pay you. Unless other people are really interested in what you do. But most people will be indifferent.
So I started blogging maybe 17 years ago, I blogged everywhere and sought money, but no platform did pay me for views that I got and whatnot, so now I realized that there is no money in blogging, although I made over 2000€ over that time from donations. That’s shit money.
Money from blogging is just the dream that keeps most bloggers writing. You won’t make any money from blogging, maybe that sounds harsh, sorry. Although there is a small minority of bloggers who make money, but most do not. Ask ChatGPT, if you don’t believe me.
Blogging is more of a creative outlet, than money printing machine.
Blog is a platform to publish, but not make money. Even when you put your writing to sites like KDP, you earn little to no money and it doesn’t matter how much you publish.
I have 100+ titles on Kindle and they get me just 1-2€ per month, totally passive income.
You see, everybody would want a life where you just sit on the computer and do bullshit work and get paid. Blogging is bullshit work.
I created 40000 videos and wrote 1000s of blog posts just to realize that it is a waste of time.
There’s absolutely no reason to blog, unless you really like it.
Many people start blogs with hopes to get rich, famous and whatnot and then they get disappointed. Because none of that happens.
Vygintas Varnas 