Are personal blogs back? My personal blog ten years ago (even twenty years ago) received a lot of direct traffic on all sorts of things from the primary search engines and so on. Nowadays, the only search engine that delivers any traffic to my site is Kagi! Looking back, I haven't changed my style of writing very much, so I suspect the reality is that I've just fallen behind in a comparative sense. There are much better things nowadays to access.

It's probably similar to the street-side musician. In old times, he may have been the only musician around you might hear. Nowadays, he's got to compete with a perfect recording of Hotel California by the Eagles.

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chairmansteve 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You may not reach the masses, but there will be an audience.

I have an RSS feed of personal blogs which I really enjoy.

I also refuse to go to LiveNation type concerts. I only go to local musicians charging $10 at the door.

I don't even do it on principle. Corporate entertainment (including blogs) often feels formulaic to me. I find that Medium sucks the life out of good writers for some reason.

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sowbug an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I assume that search engines these days don't care as much about showing results that won't make them money. Either you bought search ads, your site is showing ads from their network, or you're SOL.

	▲	andai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Hmm, that's pretty rough. It kind of sounds like a search engine should be considered public infrastructure. (Perhaps also the browser, email, etc? ;)

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davidcollantes 7 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Your blog seems to be broken.