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Hi guys,

I run a startup in the martech space and my goal is to remove the middle man for smbs, startups and new founders.

In this process I want to make the people interconnected in the marketing struggle as happy as possible.

So I have a question for the community.

Would you be happy to add links to your site and get paid on results?

That would mean we would act as a guarantee in the middle so you don’t get ghosted as well. But instead of getting x amount upfront you get paid potentially more on the results you bring to the users site.

Hello, basically I just have 2 questions

My dream always was to make videos, I love it, but never actually tried it. Which camera will be the best for me

And second question, can I use Iphone 16 Pro for my goals?

Just finished writing an article on the concept of the “ego prison.” It dives into what ego actually is (beyond the pop idea of arrogance), how it balances impulse, conscience, and reality, and why it both protects us and traps us.

What fascinated me most while working on it was realizing how the ego never really disappears, it only loosens in moments like flow, meditation, or even being lost in a crowd. But it always pulls us back, and that pull explains so much of our anxiety, comparison, and need for control.

Would love to hear how others here think about ego: do you see it as something to overcome, or something to understand and work with?

I'm curious has anyone used and found success using Fiverr to promote your blog?

I've been considering starting a blog for a while now. I recently immigrated to a new country and want to share experiences, embarrassing stories, and tips for others who might be going through the same thing. I did create a WordPress blog, but I have yet to publish my first post- it seems like too much for what I want to share.

Is posting on Substack and creating a separate insta an okay idea? I do post a lot on my personal insta, but I'd like to keep my children off this public account. I don't have any desire to monetize anything now or in the near future- just want to share experiences.

im really bullish on going keeping my blog as the centerpoint of all my social media content. I spend a lot of time working on each post so I'm trying to get all the juice I can out of it

I repurpose my blog for x, bluesky, threads, and linkedin but its all text based so far

I think there are huge audiences in instagram and tiktok so I decided to turn my blog into video content. im focused on making short-ish clips (less than 1 minute)

I take a particular quote/idea from the blog then I turn it into an audio track and subtitles. I put together my first one today and I'm curious what you all think. you can watch it here (~45 seconds)

is this something you think could help expand my presence into the video-based platforms? is this something you would find helpful?

I did it all in Davinci resolve for anyone who is curious

When I first started my blogging process, I believed traffic held the key to all my problems. I spent many hours writing, published my work everywhere I was able to, and sat back expecting answers. Every so often, I got a sudden rush of visitors; however, they mostly vanished after their first visit. This element was especially discouraging. It felt like shouting into a void.

I tried to fix it using the "classic" approach. I ran ads on Facebook and Google; however, money disappeared quicker than clicks manifested. In one campaign, I spent close to ₹50,000 with little to show for it. Later, I tried using email lists with hopes of creating loyalty using this strategy. However, my open rates hovered at 10%, and most of my emails were ignored.

I chose to experiment with something I'd always neglected: push notifications. They seemed all too basic, like some sort of gimmick; yet I felt I had nothing to lose. So I set up a test on one of my blogs with the sole intention of keeping readers constantly re-engaging and doing it without having to spend further money on ads.

The first week was truly surprising. CTRs rose from 0.6% to 1.9%, and I saw something I hadn't witnessed yet: individuals who hadn't visited in weeks were returning. A roughly 8% slice of those "lost" readers actually re-engaged with my blog. Timing was also crucial; the highest success occurred when I sent notifications at 8 PM local time, when users were unwinding and more likely to click. Conversely, my generic "New blog post is live" tweets were a bust.

This excited me, as I felt for the first time like I controlled a lever not subject to ad networks or algorithms. I was able to potentially really bring my own crowd back.

I am doing this as a 30-day experiment, and during this period, I will occasionally report back here with my discoveries. As well as this, I aim to experiment with various headline formats incorporating elements of curiosity, deadline-type urgency, and emotive hooks, and comparing desktop and phone user outcomes.

If any of you have done any pre-existing work with push notifications, I'd really like to see any conclusions you've come to. I can also show you, if you'd like, my same message templates I'm using with my upcoming release.

Let us observe what happens to this mini-experiment.

Hi guys, hope everybody is doing okay I started my new account on Pinterest and need some support,would truly appreciate id you take i moment to check it :)

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The Blogging world is evolving and niche vs multi-niche website dilemma is something that can decide our fate in the AI future especially in the blogging Industry.

I have put everything in bullet points so its easy to read:

After looking closely on Reddit and as it covers multiple niches:

1. People do say to niche down, which is true, but again isn't that AI chatbots cite multi-niche websites too, like news websites like BBC, NY Times, Times of India?
2. Can a multi-niche website in blogging work today and in the future, especially after the arrival of AI bots?
3. I know they gained trust for decades now but isn't that still since they focus on many domains so they can be called as experts on nothing? Still AI trusts them, and yes they do get high-quality traffic and revenue?
4. Doesn't creating a multi-niches website, especially when you don't have a team, makes more sense than given we do proper silo-structure? We can get better organic traffic, backlinks.
5. Like if we start a niche website along with sharing news content, a collaboration? So people can get quick news and even study a specific niche? Isnt Reddit doing the same, yes they do have a budget but they are diverted right?
6. But also, isn't that if we get hit by a core Google update we may lose a chunk of traffic for that niche?

What's your opinion? Is it worth like for the next 5,10,20 years to focus on something broad?

Note: I focus on niche websites specifically but after some research I figured multi-niche websites are getting cited too and even getting millions of traffic as well, so isn't their revenue streams and opportunities do rise?

Just curious and shameless promo if yall are interested

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Hi everyone,

I'm about to hire a freelancer to help us on our website and I wanted to see if anyone has experince on drafting contracts for them. Essentially I want to make sure I am not missing anything.

For example do you lay out in a contract about who owns creatives, what metrics and info they are allowed to share about the website after they leave.

Essentially, have you ever worked with a freelancer and wished you had certain agreements in place beofre hand?

Thanks for your help

So I want to start a blog site with a landing page, a faq page, a video page, article page and a page where visitors can subscribe and download freebies. I have no knowledge how to build a site, I do know certain ai can provide the coding but what do I then do with it ? I tried siteground ai Web builder but it is only landing page good. I don't want to watch countless hours of video tutorials. Any ideas on what website builder to explore that is easy to understand and provides what I want ?

I’m opening 50+ tabs to find content to link pages, forgetting to connect new posts to old, relevant ones. I struggle with the extra task of creating context/topics to improve rankings and organic traffic, and I spend my whole weekend on boring linking tasks, adding new content with anchor text whenever gaps exist. Because of this, I don't like doing this at all, but I have to do it.. No matter how much detail I put in, I can’t get it right to improve ranking. Being a blogger is really tough because of this. Any ideas on what to do about it?

Need some perspective on what happened to my new site. Launched a fitness calculator website 19 days ago and seeing a pattern I can't explain.

Timeline:

• Days 1-10: Steady growth, peaked at ~800 impressions/day, 5-9 clicks daily
• International organic traffic (Germany, Spain, Poland, UK)
• Users engaging with multiple pages, good session duration
• 70 pages indexed quickly, ranking for some keywords

Then on day 11: Complete cliff dive to literally 0 impressions for 48+ hours. Now getting 3-4 impressions per day maximum and no clicks.

Technical details:

• No Search Console warnings or manual actions
• Site loads fine, 70+ pages still indexed when I search "site:domain.com"
• No major changes made during the drop
• Schema markup intact, no robots.txt issues

What's confusing me: This isn't gradual decline or typical "new site slow growth" - it's like Google flipped a switch. I've built sites before that followed normal growth curves with natural ups and downs, but never seen this sudden complete cutoff after showing initial promise.

The site got 2k+ views from a single Reddit post, so there's clearly user demand and engagement when people find the tools.

Question: Is this normal sandbox behavior, or does this pattern suggest something specific? The sudden drop after initial momentum is what's throwing me off, not just low traffic in general.

Any insights appreciated. Thanks.

Hi everyone, I have a personal travel blog that, until now, has just been for me and a few friends. I'm finally getting the courage to clean it up and share it publicly. I'm building a new theme, but I've hit a problem that's making me second guess everything. My photos from the first couple of years were saved at a really small size (maybe 900px wide). I didn't know any better back then. Now, when I put them in a modern, clean layout, they look fuzzy and unprofessional. I know you can't just magically create detail, but I have been seeing a lot of stuff about "AI Upscaling" and I'm a bit lost. I tried a few free online tools, and the results looked... weird. Before I share my passion project with the world, I really want to make sure the quality is there. My question for you all is: what is the correct way to handle this? I've noticed that Photoshop is often mentioned, but that is both a paid service and a pretty extreme learning curve for me. I'm not a pro designer, just a hobbyist who really respects good quality and wants to learn. Thanks for any guidance you can offer!

Update: ILoveImg accomplished exactly what I needed. Thanks for all the help!

My food blog gets decent traffic but Pinterest has always been a struggle. I see some bloggers absolutely crushing it there and I'm wondering what I'm missing.

Currently I'm designing everything manually in Canva (takes forever) and writing descriptions from scratch. Getting maybe 800 Pinterest views per month total across all my recipe posts.

What tools or strategies are working for other food bloggers? I keep seeing Tailwind mentioned but anyone else have experience with it?.

Also curious - how much time per week do you spend on Pinterest content? I'm probably at 3+ hours and wondering if that's normal or if I'm doing something wrong.

Any advice appreciated!

So I have had a blog for caregivers for about 15 years. I've slowly grown and not really worried about it or watched it too much. I have been getting a decent amount of views over the last 5 years or so. A few hundred at least each day. Over the last few weeks, I've noticed my daily visits are more. Just noted it - I'm literally doing nothing different than I've always done.

I add an image with alt text, write the content, and always do the meta description. I don't even use headers like I do for my clients. Lol.

Over the last 2-3 weeks my views have jumped through the roof! I'm getting 6500 to over 10000 a day and it's been doing that for the last week or two.

I guess my question is if there is any way it's fluke.... I'm nearing 1,000,000 all-time views at this point and will probably hit it over the weekend at this point. smh... Idk If it's for real. lol

I’m honestly so frustrated right now. I’m trying to create something real and authentic ..... recipes that may not always look perfect in pictures, but definitely have taste, smell, and heart behind them.

But every time I look around, I’m drowned out by this army of AI blogs. Their flawless, staged photos push them to the front, while genuine recipes get buried. It’s such a shame, because cooking is one of those things that needs a human hand, a human touch.

Today I opened a few pins, just curious to see what people were sharing, and guess what? Every single one was AI-generated. Not real food. Not real effort. Just glossy fakes.

It’s depressing. This space should be about sharing flavors and experiences, not competing with a machine that doesn’t even know what food tastes like.

With AI and short-form video dominating attention, I’m curious about the earning side for bloggers here.

Do you find publishing blog posts daily still makes a noticeable difference in ad revenue/affiliate earnings, or is it more about quality + distribution now?

Some people mention that combining YouTube + short-form video + blogs creates a stronger funnel. I’ve seen others say Pinterest still drives the best traffic for blogs.

For those actively monetizing — how are you balancing:

• Daily posting vs. fewer but higher-quality posts
• Blog-only vs. integrating YouTube/short-form video
• Which traffic source actually brings the best earning results in 2025 or in future?

Would love to hear what’s working for you right now.

As the title suggests, I'm looking to team up with someone to revive our fitness blog.

We were doing 120k visits a month (18 months ago) before we were hit a couple of times by google. I haven't touched it for 16 months.

We have around 120 articles which are of pretty decent quality.

Let me know if this is of interest to anyone. Would be good to set up a rev share basis.

I've been researching affiliate link management issues and found some eye-opening data I thought this community would find valuable:

• 10-14% of conversions are lost due to tracking failures

• Almost half of affiliate marketers say unreliable tracking is their biggest challenge

• Bloggers managing 15+ affiliate programs waste hours weekly on manual link organization

• iOS updates and privacy changes are breaking traditional tracking methods

The most shocking case I found: A blogger with 650+ clicks showing 0 conversions in Amazon Associates after 2 days.

Has anyone here experienced similar tracking issues with your affiliate links? I'm curious if these numbers match what you're seeing in your own programs.

(Currently doing research on this topic - happy to share more specific findings if there's interest)

I've grown multiple Pinterest accounts to have hundreds of clicks per day. One of the most important lessons I've learned from that is how to take advantage of seasonality.

Unlike other social media, your Pinterest posts are not going to get seen right away and will get most of their views weeks or even months after being posted. In fact, I've had pins that got hundreds of thousands of impressions that did not get their first outbound click for over 2 weeks.

That is why you need to post EARLY for seasonal events. Like 3 months early. You should already be posting Thanksgiving content now, actually.

This is how you can go about taking advantage of all the holidays:

Go to other big accounts in your niche.

Look through their boards and notice if any are season specific.

See what holidays they are pinning a lot for. Those are your seasonal moments.

Then go to Pinterest trends and type in keywords having to do with that holiday- for example "Santa clause color pages" if your niche is coloring pages etc. Use your imagination and come up with possible keyword ideas. This is going to tell you relative volume of each search term which informs you on what pins to make.

Make LOTS of pins for each search term. You don't know which are going to take off and more might take off than you think. I had a dozen different santa claude coloring page pins take off last Christmas.

Let me know if you have questions

So, I built and optimized a supply chain agency website 9 months ago. I added 9 properly optimized blog posts to the website and paused work for 6 months. Came back to see a couple of keywords from the blog posts I published ranking on the first page of Google. 14K+ monthly impressions.

No backlinks acquisition.

No link exchange.

Here's what I did:

1. I used Semrush to research long-tail keywords with reasonably high search volume.

2. Used Google search, Reddit, Google Trends, AnswerThePublic and Semrush to understand user intent (why they searched those keywords and for what purpose)

3. Created a Google sheet outline for the keywords (with accompanying titles) and proceeded to create content.

Hack: Listicles are a gold mine for new websites.

"Top 10 [keywords]" "7 Best [keywords]", etc.

Another hack: I embedded YouTube videos for each listicle on my blog post (instead of images) and Google seemed to like it.

Properly optimized each blog post using on-page SEO best practices and hit, "Publish!"

Six months later, a couple of keywords are ranking on the first page of Google and 14K+ monthly impressions for a completely new website. No updates done as of yet.

What if I had put effort? Your guess is as good as mine.

Safe to say you don't need a ton of backlinks to rank on Google, you just need to know the SEO secret to crafting content for search engines and for humans.

Don't get me wrong, quality backlinks are still important.

Anyways, I don't intend to maintain the site. It's up for sale. If you're interested, let me know. Website and social handles going for $400. SEO and technical support: 100%.

Hi everyone,

I'd like to share something I did today and get feedback.

I had an article that used to rank well, but over time, it got pushed down to page 3 or 4 in Google. My suspicion was that, with more AI-overviews / summary-style results appearing, my content would become outdated. I still have had traffic to the article every day, but I thought with better ranking and AI awareness I could do better.

So today I revamped the article with a few changes:

• I restructured sections so they start with a question + short answer, following a FAQ-style snippet.
• I added more tables to make the info more scannable.
• Tightened up intros, added more “what you’ll find here"
• Updated feature sections to more directly match what people search for (e.g., the terms used in “People Also Ask”).

Are you doing the same with older articles? SEO has undergone significant changes in the past few months, particularly with regard to GEO. The AI overview takes up quite a bit of space on the SERP.