Tag Archives: views

It adds up

Targeting long tail keywords by writing articles can add up over time and get your blog decent views.

You know – people read everything, if they can stumble on it, but the hardest part is getting your blog posts in front of them.

There’s so much noise competing for attention.

Every blog post screams ‘read me’.

People read everything, but they don’t have enough attention to spare to read through everything.

Besides people don’t have to read your blog, the fact that you made it doesn’t translate into automatic views. View is when somebody visits your blog, but it doesn’t mean the person visiting the blog is actually reading it.

Why bloggers fail

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.

It can get 100 daily views

100 views is a lot.

When starting a blog, there most likely will not be much views, but after you’ve wrote it for some years, you definitely can get 100 daily views.

But the problem with 100 daily views is that it’s too little to make some money from your blog.

100 daily views isn’t a dead blog, but it’s also not profitable.

If you can spare 5€ per month for your creative outlet then blogging makes sense.

600 millions blogs, YouTube and all those platforms are competing for the same eyeballs. Which makes blogging harder, if you want any financial results.

If you can blog without financial gains, then it’s definitely worth it.

Not ‘how to’

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.

YouTube sucks

Back in the day when there was no promote button, you could actually get views on YouTube, but now when the promote button was introduced, you really can’t get any views on YouTube.

For free there are no views, for money they find you views.

Videos on YouTube are artificially supressed.

A blog always has one reader

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…

Mistakes I made during my blogging journey

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.