Why You Shouldn't Be a Blogger
These days, blogging platforms like WordPress and Google Blogger promote their simplicity and use. They claim that it takes 3 steps and 5 minutes to establish a blog. Anyone can become a blogger if the process is so quick and easy, right? Okay, no. Words like this are highly deceptive. The fact that maintaining a blog is far more difficult and time-consuming than creating one definitely doesn't occur to many individuals. I'm aware that I didn't think about it.
Before you hop on the blogging train, you should understand the serious commitment that blogging entails. Because of this, I'm going to provide three reasons in this essay why you shouldn't start a blog.
1. You're not determined
The key to success is tenacity. If you're a determined person, you'll undoubtedly put in a lot of work and spend as much time as necessary to obtain what you desire. More than merely coming up with new thoughts and converting them into prose are involved in blogging. It's about sharing your material, building relationships, and participating in the community.
The promotion of your blog to grow traffic, subscribers, and comments will be a continuous undertaking that will consume a significant amount of your blogging time. A blog often won't gain popularity on its own. Additionally, you need to be willing to take chances and have something to give that no one else on earth can. You will never reach the top if you aren't willing to put in the necessary time, effort, and brainstorming.
2. You are unable to consistently post
Even if you have a hectic schedule, you shouldn't have a blog if you can't make time for it. Multiple times a week updates are required for blogs, and you must allocate time for article ideas, writing, and site marketing. Insufficient publishing frequency will negatively impact your traffic.
3. You cannot provide useful stuff.
Every blog needs worthwhile and distinctive material to keep readers engaged and, ideally, to entice them to return for more. No material has been duplicated, thus. Additionally, it implies that you must possess the ability to create unique blog entries that readers won't discover elsewhere. This is challenging in a market with fierce competition, but if you don't differentiate your material, your site will simply be lost among the millions of others.
Blogging doesn't provide fast or simple money
Many people start blogging because they believe it would be a successful side business.
This makes sense. Right now, there are probably hundreds of pins on Pinterest that depict bloggers earning thousands or tens of thousands of dollars per year through their blogs.
They make it seem simple, but the majority of new blogs require up to 6 months or even a year of consistent effort to become profitable.
Additionally, some bloggers never generate income from their sites.
Do not start a blog to make money. Unless you don't mind waiting a year or longer for the findings. It only goes to show that it doesn't always work out because I wrote for more than 4 years and never made any money.
When you blog, it's like writing in a vacuum
Increasing traffic to a fresh blog is really challenging. Driving significant traffic is considerably harder.
By that, I mean readers who truly give a damn about what you have to say and are willing to comment and critique your writing.
Articles on unrelated websites just don't get as many comments as they do on social media and other platforms. This is a huge issue, especially if you're a beginning writer.
Without receiving feedback on your writing, it's really simple to develop poor writing habits.
It's also quite simple to get into the habit of working on your blog and never reading anything else. To develop your own voice, you must listen to others. Your writing voice won't develop if you just only read your own work.
The blogging community is less vibrant than it previously was
People like debating whether blogging is still relevant each year. Blogging won't go away, in my opinion, as long as search engines continue to exist. But things have changed significantly since the early days of blogging.
In 2017, when I launched my first blog, the neighborhood was really lively. On social media, there were a ton of active blogger groups. Everyone gave each other a boost. In fact, readers and commenters were eager to read your pieces. Pinterest was a veritable traffic gold mine.
Many things have changed.
The blogging industry is no longer what I once knew it to be. There is far less interaction, and comments are much more difficult to find. Since Pinterest's algorithm changed, getting traffic is now ten times more difficult.
Nowadays, SEO is the key to a successful blog. And if you want to write for yourself rather than to appease search engine robots, that's not very tempting.
In conclusion, you shouldn't launch a blog in 2022 since:
- Blogging isn’t quick or easy money
- Only a minor portion of it is writing
- Blogging is like writing in a vacuum
- The blogging world is on life support
However, is blogging still worthwhile in 2022? I think not. There are so many more productive ways to use your time as a content developer.
Try spending some time experimenting with writing on other platforms, such as Medium, NewsBreak, and Vocal, rather than opening a blog. Alternately, consider experimenting with different content-generating mediums like podcasting or video.
To be clear, I still believe that blogs are valuable online properties. I'm only sharing my experience to perhaps offer you a realistic perspective on what blogging may actually do.
If you're truly determined on launching a self-hosted site, focus on a single area and give your posts the best possible SEO.
Avoid making the same errors I did.
Conclusion
Many individuals who already identify as bloggers are unaware of the amount of work required to succeed. Of course, every blogger has their own definition of success, but the majority establish objectives for high traffic and increased content feedback. You'll be a fantastic blogger who is guaranteed to succeed if you are determined that your blog can be successful, willing to put in the required effort to produce engaging content, and maybe most significantly if you like it as much as you would any other pastime.
