Reddit blogging review outline.

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+title: "Review of Reddit's Advice on Blogging"
+author: "James Pace"
+date: "2024/01/01"
+---
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+What: Summary of current advice on blogging from r/blogging and r/just start.
+
+Summary of each subreddit and general conclusions.
+Both sites focus on generating income from blogging by winning search traffic.
+
+Specific advice
+1. Pick a microniche to focus on.
+2. Build out from the niche with clear purpose.
+3. Decide on articles by looking for keywords from searhc traffic.
+4. AI is important going forward.
+   - Mixed amounts of applications.
+   - A lot of concern about replacing search.
+5. Google "Helpful Content Update" significantly reduced search traffic.
+   - Relying on google is fickle.
+6. Profiting from ads requires a lot of views.
+   Better to sale own content.
+
+My takeaways:
+1. If Google is so fickle, better to try to find traffic from somewhere
+   other than Google.
+   - Why would someone want to come my site in once I got it in their face?
+2. Not worth it to rely on Ads.
+   Need to use the blog traffic to build trust.
+   Building trust conflicts with doing bad affiliate advertising.
+-->