I admittedly do this for myself

As I was rotting in bed watching House M.D., I realized it had been over three months since I had last been active in my blog. I don’t mean to get passive aggressive, but I’ve been feeling very unmotivated since I stumbled upon a blog with just under 10 posts, published months apart and with questionable content quality, with maybe hundreds of times my visitors and likes. It’s impossible not to compare myself in this situation, given my humble numbers.

I admittedly do this for myself – it’s therapeutic to write out my own issues, problems, dilemma etc. I don’t give a shit about what readers prefer. But lately I’ve been engaging in dirty dancing – reading my own posts, finding some treasure in them, seeing for myself that even if I still write and post for myself, all these paragraphs could come in handy for anyone who comes across them. So why don’t they?

Evidently, I don’t have a strategy for popularizing and sharing my content. But I flat out refuse to believe anybody else who, in 2025 CE, still managing a personal blog, has a plan or a strategy. I’ve invested (not a lot), but these investments haven’t yielded any satisfying results. Where am I going wrong in all this, so much that I’m not reaching anyone at all?

I’ve been looking into ways to attract a larger traffic of visitors towards the blog. Researching SEO and issues with the website, getting on blog forums and radars and promoting publications. And as much as I learned while part of the NGO because I was co-managing their site, it proves harder to apply that knowledge to my own product.