Starting a new blog vs trying to move the needle on older one
So I'm caught between a rock and a hard place, as the saying goes.
I realize I started a thread like this a few years ago so I won't bore you reiterating stuff I already mentioned. Some updates:
Last spring -narrowed my niche a little. No longer a blog about "doing art" or crafts. I was started to feel burned out by it all. Nobody looks at my artwork hardly, whether it's on IG, my Yt channel, Flickr, you name it. Abysmal views however you slice it. I guess it was never my destiny. So I decided I would pivot. My other two biggest hobbies are gardening and keeping aquarium fish. Been doing it for years.
So I started blogging about all my backyard planting adventures. I did, yes, eventually drop the axe on some of my painting posts. Most of them weren't getting any traction, anyway. Yes, I did make sure to assign a 410 to them. A few I was able to redirect. So I probably have about 50-70 garden-related posts on my site, but I also have around 50 that are craft-related, however they are tailored to outdoorsy-crafting ideas - things like birdhouses, yard art etc.
This past summer my traffic was definitely increasing. I got a few emails from GSC saying I'd reached "a new click milestone" which was the first in 3 years - no joke - so that made my day. I figured I was finally getting out of blogging purgatory once and for all.
I mentioned in another thread that I changed my theme but my traffic bombed after that (yes that was on me) It still hasn't rebounded.
My most current DA is 33, the end of 2022 it was only 19 which makes me wonder what it was all those years prior. Don't know if that accounts for much, but it sounds good so I'll take it.
I still wonder if a seven year old blog still has any potential to get big, or if it's all tapped out by now. I hear from veterans in the indusrry (Darren Rowse of ProBlogger comes to mind) says a blog takes around 2-3 years to "reach its zenith". But could it be all downhill after that if it doesn't get off the ground?
The most traffic its had was 10K p.v's as of December 2020. That was my benchmark - the best I'd done to date.
I don't know if I have the mental or emotional energy to start fresh with a brand new blog, as I could be "sandboxed" for the forseen future...Seniority is a big deal, right? I'd be willing to, as I fear I'm running into "sunk cost fallacy".
Thank you to those of you reading this long ramble. And the kind feedback I got from my 2022 thread.
I realize I started a thread like this a few years ago so I won't bore you reiterating stuff I already mentioned. Some updates:
Last spring -narrowed my niche a little. No longer a blog about "doing art" or crafts. I was started to feel burned out by it all. Nobody looks at my artwork hardly, whether it's on IG, my Yt channel, Flickr, you name it. Abysmal views however you slice it. I guess it was never my destiny. So I decided I would pivot. My other two biggest hobbies are gardening and keeping aquarium fish. Been doing it for years.
So I started blogging about all my backyard planting adventures. I did, yes, eventually drop the axe on some of my painting posts. Most of them weren't getting any traction, anyway. Yes, I did make sure to assign a 410 to them. A few I was able to redirect. So I probably have about 50-70 garden-related posts on my site, but I also have around 50 that are craft-related, however they are tailored to outdoorsy-crafting ideas - things like birdhouses, yard art etc.
This past summer my traffic was definitely increasing. I got a few emails from GSC saying I'd reached "a new click milestone" which was the first in 3 years - no joke - so that made my day. I figured I was finally getting out of blogging purgatory once and for all.
I mentioned in another thread that I changed my theme but my traffic bombed after that (yes that was on me) It still hasn't rebounded.
My most current DA is 33, the end of 2022 it was only 19 which makes me wonder what it was all those years prior. Don't know if that accounts for much, but it sounds good so I'll take it.
I still wonder if a seven year old blog still has any potential to get big, or if it's all tapped out by now. I hear from veterans in the indusrry (Darren Rowse of ProBlogger comes to mind) says a blog takes around 2-3 years to "reach its zenith". But could it be all downhill after that if it doesn't get off the ground?
The most traffic its had was 10K p.v's as of December 2020. That was my benchmark - the best I'd done to date.
I don't know if I have the mental or emotional energy to start fresh with a brand new blog, as I could be "sandboxed" for the forseen future...Seniority is a big deal, right? I'd be willing to, as I fear I'm running into "sunk cost fallacy".
Thank you to those of you reading this long ramble. And the kind feedback I got from my 2022 thread.
designing $100 landing pages.