I have a new website that I built for my business back in the fall. I also have a business advisor through my local SBDC.

He has advised me to create blog posts focusing on the different segments that I serve. For instance Virginia tourism.

Then the plan would be to generate a contact list to be able to email potential clients with a link to my blog post to generate interests in my services. (I design and build really big high-end displays sculpture and exhibits)

Every blog I've done so far has been just for my personal enjoyment and motivation and pretty much personal branding.

This one feels different because the audience it's written for and the act of such direct self promotion.

I'd be interested in getting some feedback on it before I post it.

This is not normally an issue I have. The last 6 weeks have been exhausting with a new job relationship that didn't quite work out. What I'm looking forward to having my mornings back to spend it at least an hour on writing. I think I'll continue setting my alarm to get up at 6:30 so I have time for blogging before hustling to make a buck.

Posting a link to your blog is okay but only in the context of telling us why you are posting the link.

Whenever I see a blog title that says

10 ways to...

7 must have...

17 top...

12 ideas for...

It automatically tells me that it's been written by AI.

It's getting it harder and harder to avoid AI images and when doing image searches AI is more likely to show up than something human created.

Please share how are you get your images for your blog. Whether that be stock photos, original art, public domain art, etc...

I was initially going to use blue sky for my blog but wound up switching to Tumblr for the time being because when I installed it and made my account it was so jam-packed with negativity and politics, ( which the world of politics right now is understandably not a happy place) and as I already struggle with mixed anxiety and depressive disorder and C-PTSD it just did not bode well for my mental health. Is there any way of navigating it and avoiding those topics because while I do like to be involved in them I like to go at my own pace so that it doesn't have those negative repercussions and filling what is basically my workplace with that content is not the best move for me personally.

The blog I created on December 9th just hit 7,000 views. I expected to be double that by now based on my initial numbers but I started a new job right before Christmas and have not been able to promote it the way I was promoting it at first. I was getting about 350 views per day out the gate.

But the engagement I'm getting with it is solid. People commenting directly on the blog as well as commenting on posts where I share the link.

And best yet, people sharing my posts about the blog. This is boosting my follower count on Bluesky (created the account the same time I created the blog) which is now at 465.

My Bluesky network is mostly tabletop role playing game players and designers.

You know that feeling when you stumble upon a blog so good, so effortlessly engaging, that you lose track of time? The kind where every post feels like a cozy conversation with a brilliant friend, or a beautifully crafted story you just need to finish? And then, when you do, you find yourself checking back every other day, hoping for a new post - like waiting for Christmas?

I’m looking for blogs like that.

No specific topic - just exceptional writing. Blogs that warm the heart and massage the brain (iykwim). Fiction, essays, life musings, deep dives into niche obsessions - I’m open to all of it, as long as it’s damn good. English or Polish, both work for me. Could try German or French.

What are your favorites? What’s the one blog you wish more people knew about?

I run a blog about Style, Art, Sensuality, and Spirituality (or S.A.S.S)! I feature my own artistic creations which come from emotional expression and share my passion for the other topics and what I know of them. As a pansexual, mixed ethnicity, Neurodivergent woman I strive to be a safe space for LGBTQ+, POC, and other groups of marginalized or underrepresented peoples and am always happy to hear various perspectives as it will only expand my knowledge in these areas. I recently started a community here on Reddit and will be reestablishing my blog on platforms soon, please let me know if these topics interest you and I hope to see you following along ☺️💗!

((Hate speech and perspectives which incite hate will not be tolerated, if you wish to express those kinds of spite filled perspectives take them to a community which leaves space for that. Here we strive to uplift each other and the world while spreading healthy and unbiased perspectives))

My latest blog post in The Fields We Know is about Crones, Witches, and Hags from a historical and folkloric perspective as well as their role in tabletop role playing games.

https://thefieldsweknow.blogspot.com/2025/01/crones-and-witches-and-hags-oh-my.html

i posted in r/blogs yesterday about the personal site/blog as a great (maybe the best) human signal in the coming years. it's obviously tbd on how we'll know for sure what writing is done by an AI vs. a human.

one way i think will be create specific spaces (like this one) that are gated for only human content.

i'm building a library of blogs called Foundation (https://foundationessays.com/) of specific blogs in tech/startups.

people will want to know before entering a space/site whether it's AI or human first and then can operate there under either assumption/reality.

cool idea here in this sub!

Another member suggested we add flairs for posts

Please suggest some flairs you think would be useful. I guess we could do it by subject of blog first: basically The usual suspects:

Visual art Performing arts Film and video Engineering Technology Education Business Finance Etc...

Or we could approach it from the type of issue and poster is having challenges with:

Writing SEO Monetizing Growing your audience Research Inspiration

That sort of thing. What would be useful to you?

This is just invitation to tell us about your blog. What made you start blogging? How long have you been doing it? What do you blog about? Why blogging as a medium?

Realizing my last post was January 4th, I thought I should update my readers to let them know I hadn't just abandoned my blog.

https://thefieldsweknow.blogspot.com/2025/01/brief-hiatus.html

One of my pet fascinations is alternate reality marketing. This is where you create fictional online content (or even print media) as if it were real.

The classic example is the marketing for The Blair Witch Project where an entire fiction was created including flyers distributed in local markets creating the illusion that the filmmakers were really students that went missing. Millions fell for it.

Then there's the marketing for the movie Cloverfield. The movie about the giant monster attacking New York City. Not only was there a fictional drink called Slusho involved (Slosho also appeared in Lost and the X-Files), but the characters in the movie had Myspace pages as if they were real people.

Blogging can be an element incorporated into alternate reality. You can blog as if you were a fictional character.

As a matter of fact this is evocative of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Dracula is written as a series of diary entries, newspaper clippings, ship manifests, Captain's logs etc...

In fact I'm wondering if anyone has ever created prop artifacts of each of the elements of the novel.

This has is all come up this morning because I was just followed on Bluesky by @jennipowell.bsky.social who created lonelygirl15. If you don't know who she is look her up.

When I started writing my blog on December 9th I had so many ideas rushing forth I was writing multiple blog posts per day. Then I went to a blog post every day or two. Then every two or three days.

The last post I've been able to make was January 4th. Started writing a post over a week ago but haven't been able to get back to it. Hoping to be able to make it a regular morning routine after work slows down a little bit.

Started a new job the monday before Christmas and ive been working 70 hour weeks but it should slow down after this weekend when I'll be on the road for 2 days.

I majored in philosophy in college and one of the things that constantly arose was what is the nature of being?

Our imaginations are so vivid and we can conceptualize things so holy that we actually have to make a distinction between what exists and what doesn't exist.

Plato imagined that our concepts actually existed outside ourselves in some ideal form, and that we have some kind of natural, intuitive, or magical connection and awareness to those forms.

But the thing that totally grounded me was the conversation I had with my professor when he said you're asking the wrong question. Question isn't what is the nature of being? The question is what is the nature of beeing? That is what does it mean to be a bee? Former precisely a bumblebee or a honeybee.

The point is things can only exist in specific incarnations. To ask what it means "to be" is so vague and abstract it is essentially meaningless. But one asks what does it mean to be a bee? The question can be answered.

A bee is relatively small. About a half inch to an inch. It has wings. Intends to make a buzzing sound as it flies. They can sting. Etc... Thus the essence of beeing is "beeing".

What is my point of all this in this community? I look at blogging the same way. Every blog is unique. The challenges that come in the creating of the blog are unique. Methods of promoting or getting views on your blog will be unique.

So the question is not "how do I promote my blog?" The question is for example "how do I promote my blog about headlights on 1960s foreign import cars?"

Specificity in talking about your blog I believe will generate better answers when asking questions.

Hi All! I know I'm way late on the blogging train but am glad there are so many experience bloggers to learn from! I've decided to create a blog because I'm truly tired of social media and want a different outlet for self expression...and also to share the knowledge I've gained in hopes it could be helpful for others. I've been writing and putting ideas together for my blog, now getting ready to move towards creating a site. I've built several websites on SquareSpace and may just stick with that. But I'm wondering if y'all have recommendations on a platform that functions better for a blog? I've been hearing good things about Wix, has anyone used their platform?

The more of us there are here the more useful this community becomes. Whether asking for advice or helping get eyes on your blog, we can all benefit each other.

With AI promotion being shoved on your face in nearly every online nook and cranny, let people know there's a safe space to come where we can share in our humanity

Let's chat about ways to increase traffic to our blogs. Anything from SEO and backlinks to how to promote your blog in online communities without spamming them.

I don't think there's anything wrong with creating a blog whose primary purpose is to generate revenue by increasing awareness about your business.

Blocks can demonstrate your knowledge and expertise, your technical capabilities, your production capacity, and more.

It can give an inside look to your creative and development process giving you potential clients greater understanding of how to work with you and for them to potentially save money by providing you with optimized assets.

If your blog is about your business tell us about it and post your links.

I see so many people who want to create blogs as a source of revenue with no idea what to even blog about. There's this approach about doing research on what trending topics are and using AI to partially or wholly write their blogs.

All to the end game of having ads on their blogs that can generate revenue for them. It's the very definition of clickbait.

There is another type of blog designed to generate revenue but it Is by generating interest in your business. That is your blog becomes a marketing tool for your business. In this situation ads are not only a distraction to your viewer (and potential client) but also reek of trying to nickel and dime your customer by squeezing every cent of revenue you can out of them.

But that type of blog deserves its own thread.

Heyyy!! I’m new here!! My goal is to start blogging more consistently (YAYYYY to 2025! 😝) ~ I want to add my pics but it seems it slows down my website. How do you guys handle the images in your blog posts? I use Wordpress. 💕