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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.
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