Even in this day and age, blogs are still looked down on, seen as an online diary or for attention seeking. But there is so much more to it.
I started writing back in 2016, I loved talking about my travels and found it easier to write it down than speak of it aloud. When we went to Rarotonga, Cook Islands, I knew nothing about the place. I found very minimal information about it online, (I didn’t even know it existed till the Kiwis told me about it) and anyone that knows me knows I like to research before I go. Once we were there I learnt so much that I wish I had known before, and I figured there must be others out there who could benefit from knowing what I learnt. So I wrote a blog post.
I posted that blog post onto Pinterest, and to this date, it has had 3929 views. Three thousand nine hundred and twenty nine views. 3.9k. Literally. I also added my airbnb link to it and have since earnt over £200 in airbnb credit. (yep free accommodation 👌)
I stopped writing for a while thinking that the whole idea was silly, just like many others. But as I saw the stats raise high and higher I realised I was being the stupid one by not continuing it, and letting others (unheard!) opinions affect me.
Blog post writing is not just for millennials or individuals anymore either. Big businesses have realised how much it can help their SEO rankings (how high up it is in google search results). Google likes to show you sites that are updated regularly rather than a site that hasn’t been touched for 10 years, so by adding blog posts it makes a great difference to site traffic (visitors to the site).
If you’re curious what the blog post was about Rarotonga, here’s the link: Rarotonga blog post
& In case you don’t believe me, here are the stats for 2017 & 2018:
I guess what I’m trying to say, is we worry too much about what people think, even when nobody is really saying it. Those thoughts are literally in our heads, and we can either let them eat us up or blow them aside and do what we want to do.
So if you’re stalling on a project or a niche you want to work on, don’t. Just do it and don’t look back.
Cheers for reading,
Harriet 🙂
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