{"id":32493,"date":"2024-02-19T11:01:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T11:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/?p=32493"},"modified":"2024-03-09T20:07:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T20:07:37","slug":"why-i-paused-this-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/why-i-paused-this-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Paused This Blog…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oops, I haven’t posted anything here for… *checks calendar*, 8 months<\/em> now, but I’ve noticed people are still reading my older posts (e.g. I’m getting DMs about my stay22 review<\/a>). So, I thought I should at least put an “out for lunch” sign up here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About a year ago I figured my blogging business needed a kick in the butt. I decided to do several things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Focus Indie Traveller<\/a> on a core destination for a while, mining one topic as much as I could. I wanted to see if I could essentially build a niche site wrapped inside my broad topic site, creating a new topic pillar for Indie Traveller. This has proven to be a very fruitful strategy. And Indie Traveller luckily weathered the Helpful Content Update without too many issues. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Launch a YouTube channel for Indie Traveller<\/a>. This has been creatively invigorating and is adding some diversification to my income streams. While it’s a lot harder to make money on YouTube than with a blog, you can do things in video you simply can’t in written form, so I love having a new outlet for a different style of content.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Launch a micro niche blog on a small travel destination. This blog really performed beyond expectations, ranking incredibly well after only 5 months. This DA4 blog proves to me again that DA is a terrible metric: I’ve done barely any link-building for it and this small blog alone is on course to represent 20% of my overall income. You don’t always need high DA!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    With several plates spinning, “blogging about blogging” kind of fell by the wayside. I’m currently working on expanding my niche blog, will build it a sister site on an adjacent topic, and I’m using whatever time I have left to edit videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I’m thinking of maybe doing some YouTube videos on blogging \/ content creator and using this domain to link to different resources, but we’ll see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Oops, I haven’t posted anything here for… *checks calendar*, 8 months now, but I’ve noticed people are still reading my older posts (e.g. I’m getting DMs about my stay22 review). So, I thought I should at least put an “out for lunch” sign up here. About a year ago I figured my blogging business needed … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Marek","author_link":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/author\/marek\/"},"uagb_comment_info":18,"uagb_excerpt":"Oops, I haven’t posted anything here for… *checks calendar*, 8 months now, but I’ve noticed people are still reading my older posts (e.g. I’m getting DMs about my stay22 review). So, I thought I should at least put an “out for lunch” sign up here. About a year ago I figured my blogging business needed…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32493"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32540,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32493\/revisions\/32540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boostyourblog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}