Blogs Stopped Getting Traffic After AI Rewrote Search

“I have been working on a blog and want to know I’m not wasting my time. I have a ctr of 0.5% and my assumption is I’ll also get a 0.25-0.50% cvr rate from it. Is this accurate? Do you have any tips to grow the blog or sales associated with it. submitted by /u/Jaskamaldip22 [link] [comments]”

“I have been working on a blog and want to know other people’s experience so I know I’m not wasting my time. Please tell me if it’s worth doing a blog with a long term game plan to get sales from it. Currently my ctr is 0.5 and my assumption is I’ll also get a cvr of 0.25-0.50 from your experience is this accurate? Do you have any tips for me to grow my blog or related sales from it submitted by /u/Jaskamaldip22 [link] [comments]”

“I have been working on a blog and I feel like I’m wasting my time. So I want to know do people actually get sales from blog and if so what percent of your sales comes from blogs/ seo. If you have any tips to make a good blog I’d appreciate it. I currently only have a 0.5% cvr and I’m also expecting a 0.5% cvr, is this a fair assumption? submitted by /u/Important-Extent-962 [link] [comments]”

“It always was. But the only differentiator is that it's a hot/viral topic. My point is, even if you are focused on a niche, you get a lot of traffic so long as the topic within your niche is somewhat viral [re: I feel like marketing matters more than the actual video now]”

“Hey everyone! I run a website called ParoBuzz, where I publish viral stories, emotional and family-related stories, trending topics, entertainment content, and helpful articles. I've been working on growing the website, but I'm still struggling to get consistent traffic. I know blogging takes time, but I'm trying to figure out which strategies deserve the most attention at this stage. My main challenge is deciding where to focus. Should I spend more time on SEO and building organic t”

“Hey all, I want to write a blog, for myself, without planning to monetize it or have it be popular or super SEO-friendly. What I do want though, is to be able to find other blogs of a similar nature and just bookmark or follow them, and leave them some comments, with the hope that I might have someone else do the same and get 2-3 comments or "engagement" with my posts each month. I find it difficult to find Blogger blogs, although I do regularly come across active blogs on said platfor”

“If I have to choose between a blog and a newsletter, which should I choose and why? How does each help market my services? submitted by /u/marketer_shagufta [link] [comments]”

“Hiiii! This is coming from someone who do not show my face often and grew my page from my 3k to 18k on Facebook. I have roughly 10 groups in total to reach demographics. My main group is over 500,000 members and active. Some months ago I came to you all about blogging and you all reminded me of my roots. My blog. Now I’m here to help you all. —— I started from little to NO following. If you have even 100 dedicated followers, get them to join you in a community. Especially on Facebook? Restricted”

“I already work online doing websites and seo plus google map ranking. Also by Creating money making blogs that each pull in a small amount each month from 500/1k the key is how it’s done and what niche your in. [re: You have to start a remote business with nothing but a pc and an internet connection . What do you do?]”

“That's interesting, never considered that. Do you utilize YT's analytics to determine that time? [re: Consistency of posting on same day/times?]”

“I spent the first six months of this project writing blog posts. Long ones. 1500-word SaaS tool reviews, comparison articles, best-of lists. The kind of content every SEO guide tells you to write. After six months, I was getting about a dozen visitors a day. Most of them were me checking if the site was still up. Then I noticed something: the one page getting actual traffic wasn't a blog post. It was a simple SaaS revenue calculator I'd thrown together in an afternoon. People were findin”

“Cited isn't the same as chosen though. You can put a number on what your blog brought in, you can't do that with a mention inside a chatbot answer, so 'worse than expected' is just how it feels. [re: Found out where AI search is actually pulling recommendations from. It's worse than I expected.]”

“I've been blogging on and off since 2010 - longer if you count LiveJournal days - and a lot has changed in that time. Alongside SEO considerations, I think the biggest change to how I blog is what's worthy of coverage in the age of search algorithms and AI. So I'd love to know from long time bloggers, what are you doing differently now that you didn't five or ten years ago? submitted by /u/qinxiesays [link] [comments]”

“I dump the link in a discord or two where people actually talk about that niche, beyond that I just let the algorithm do its thing. Sharing on my personal twitter feels like shouting into a pillow [re: How do you share your video?]”

“Hey guys I have been running a blog website for 2 months but most of my traffics are just bots which decrease average engagement time. submitted by /u/Ok_Hunter_1141 [link] [comments]”

“I’m very broken and on the verge of quitting because of this major hurdle. I know there are some niche that depend on search traffic, especially the how-to niche. I have some ideas on how to do keyword research for those ones, like utilising google trends, auto complete, all that stuff. But some niches depend on being recommended, either through suggestions or browse features. How do you do research for those ones? My niche is documentary style videos. You know, like “the rise and fall of..” or”

“One thing I've been thinking about while working on SEO workflows is how easy it is to assume that low traffic means you need to publish more content. Sometimes that's true. But sometimes, the content already exists and the problem is somewhere else. Maybe the page doesn't match what people are searching for. Maybe the topic is too broad, the site lacks supporting content, or the page simply isn't giving people a reason to choose it over the results already ranking. We're wor”

“I'm not sure if this exists but I'm looking for a place to post my writing without the typical social media trappings. I don't want to obsess over comments, views, followers, or get "a like for a like". Maybe I'm just old school, but I just want to share my writing submitted by /u/ktymicks [link] [comments]”

“Hey everyone, I’ve been thinking about a collaboration model for blogging and wanted to hear from people who have tried something similar. One person already has an established blog and focuses on the content, while the other focuses mainly on SEO, traffic acquisition, content opportunities, and growth. I have experience with SEO and generating real traffic from external platforms, so I’m particularly interested in the traffic/growth side. Has anyone here worked with this kind of arrangement? Ho”

“And it’s very understandable. It’s pretty new, the site is not finished yet and I haven’t found ways for marketing. I can’t seem to find any similar blogs or communities. I created Tiktok and Instagram account for the blog, made some posts there about my site, blogposts but nothing is gaining views. Does anyone read personal blogs anymore? If anyone has ideas how to improve this situation i am blessed. //eng is not my first language sorry!! submitted by /u/anonymauss444 [link]”

“yeah that flex slot thing has been clutch for me. mostly faceless shorts and some longer explainer stuff, still testing niches tbh. what about you, what do you post? [re: For those of you growing a small YouTube channel, what's been the hardest part to figure out?]”

“Meta's default will often result in a lot of low quality not traffic (especially lately for some reason). You need to add some secondary events to train the algorithm to improve the quality. Check the Meta stats against other tools like GA4 and (ideally) server stats to paint a more complete picture If you're not careful, you will end up optimizing for bots or low intent traffic [re: I spent $23.64 on Meta ads, got 127 landing page views and 0 signups. The ad wasn't the problem.]”

“Came here to say this. The first tell was the writing style. Then I checked their profile. Yeah, just a couple of days ago saying they make six figures and complaining about lifestyle creep. [re: I stopped trying to "hustle" my way out of starvation and completely changed how I buy groceries. It saved my sanity.]”

“I run a company in a very unpopular niche so it’s been working amazingly for me for the past year, but it can be very unstable because of the political situation in the world It has its ups downs, but whenever one product is dead a new product can be published and sold the same day I’ve been using Meta ads ever since I started the business last October and everything was perfect. It’s a high margin product my cost per lead has always been under £2 my conversion rate on high margin products was o”

“As Blogger - somewhere along the way, something happens. People begin to recognize you. Not because you've become famous or reached some imaginary finish line. Because they've been watching you do the work. They've learned how you think, what you believe, and what you're willing to change your mind about. You become familiar. submitted by /u/Head-Student-5852 [link] [comments]”

“I got 250 visitors on my blog. Its nothing, I know, but I still remembering getting 10 clicks per month. And because I have a full time job and am a mum to a 14 month old, it feels like a huge win. [re: Success Saturday: What's Going Right | October 10, 2026]”

Really useful, thank you. You're right that posts fade the day I stop posting. The steadiest source so far is Google search (people looking up saju or Korean astrology), so I'm putting…

“I am focusing on SEO, hence using Hashnode, Blogger and WordPress. [re: Do you all still use blogs?]”

“Thinking about starting a blog about my field. Not for money, just to share what I know and build some credibility. But between AI summaries and everyone posting on LinkedIn, I’m not sure a blog still makes sense. Anyone here blogging professionally right now? Worth the effort, or am I late to the party? submitted by /u/Idazrish [link] [comments]”

“Big tech engineering blogs have great posts, but they are spread across many sites and hard to judge by the title. So I collected 300+ posts from 20+ companies, like Uber, Meta, Netflix, Cloudflare and Figma. You can filter by company, topic and date, and bookmark posts. No sign-up. There is also a page with study roadmaps for 22 CS subjects. submitted by /u/Rulerchen [link] [comments]”

“Hello, how is your blog in Google AI overview era? Mine is decreased, but right now it is recovering a bit. Survival tips of blogging in this AI era and where click from Google decline: Make non-commodity content: content that contain first hand experience. Example: I made blog post of experience how to manage time during my master degree: working while also doing my master degree Sell something: Selling content placement, service, product, affiliate, you name it. Monetization will make the blog”

“I started my blog mostly as a place to put short essays and rough drafts. Lately I've been trying to apply things I learn on the marketing side at my day job to get more eyes on my writing. The problem is the moment I start thinking about distribution and audience growth, the writing gets stiff. I catch myself tailoring posts to what I think will perform better instead of just writing what I actually want to say. Last weekend I was hiking near Tahoe and had a bunch of ideas I was excited abo”

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“The kind of software they are using to produce the site itself will make all the difference. I'm assuming many of the sites you're looking at are WordPress blogs, so those will have automatically generated dates for publication and modifications. But there's nothing you can do if someone wants to write whatever date on the site if they have access to the code itself. Going by URL alone won't help because the slug for an article can change, or permalinks can be created after the i”

“I’ve seen pretty big differences even within programming blogs. Indian traffic quite a bit lower than US/UK traffic. I’d track RPM separately by country and topic”

“My word, my whole blog is antipatterns (probably because I write it for me :D). Like, look at these doozies (all have lengthy preambles). There are more, but these cover all the antipatterns mtlynch mentioned. I am not at all sad, rather I am chuckling because when one doesn't care who reads the post, one can get away with such ghastly antimatter :DAnd, allow me to add antipattern no. N, in full display in the posts below: A 1:1 ratio of main body to footnotes, because we want some place to put”

“i have a blog post from 2019 that still brings in roughly 40% of my organic traffic which would be great if the post wasn't starting to age badly the topic has changed enough that some of the advice is still useful, but some of it is definitely stuck in 2019. i added a note at the top recently pointing people toward a newer version, and traffic dropped a little afterward not a disaster. just enough to make me stare at analytics and wonder if i broke something that's the part i'm stru”

“Happy tuesday everybody! I hope everyone is doing great. I have trying to rank up in my SEO field. It's a very competitive field. Right now Im on the process with the Help of claude to rewritte the landing pages of my services. We stopped doing the blog post until I finish the rewritte. What would be your suggestion at the hour to use claude, in ordero to write the content? submitted by /u/Many-Squash-5390 [link] [comments]”

“I'm 20, working a 9–7 SEO job, freelancing on the side, and I've been working in SEO for around a year now. When I started, I honestly thought SEO was mostly about finding the right keywords, getting backlinks and trying to move those keywords up. After working on actual websites, I've started looking at it very differently. I've worked on different types of websites, including healthcare, but one project I've been working on recently is a school website. And I'll be hone”

“Hey everyone! I have 70+ blog posts and over the last 3 months, my site got around 20K impressions but only about 100 clicks from Google. I don't really want to keep publishing new posts right now. I'd rather focus on optimizing my existing posts and improving their CTR/rankings. For those of you who have experience with SEO, what would you recommend I focus on first? Things like titles, meta descriptions, keywords, internal linking, content updates, images, etc. Any tips or a practical”

“hey guys, i'm just started creating a blog for my app, to helps with the site SEO. But i'm still beginner to this. Here's my result for a month, i got no clicks yet with 119 impressions. The app is about productivity, so its in a crowded space. I don't really post much, but around once a week in the blog and share it in my medium as well. Should I post more often? Any tips on improving my SEO, impressions and clicks? submitted by /u/luckypanda95 [link] [comments”

“Hey folks, I recently started learning new technologies from websites, articles, etc rather than YouTube videos which I used to do. These are usually articles medium or post from reddit. But I am really into the concept of simple and minimal. The issue i found on medium is, it's kind of distracting sometimes, with all those ads, random images, etc Being a solo developer, I thought why not build a simple minimal distraction free platform for these. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks for”

“Hey everyone, I have a question. Are there any of you who blog full-time for a living? If so, are you solely focusing on writing posts for your blog, or do you do other things alongside it, like running a YouTube channel? The reason I ask is that my goal is to become a full-time blogger, but I've realized it's incredibly difficult to generate high revenue purely from ads here in Korea. AdSense is the most common ad network here, but the structure makes it hard to make a living off it alo”

“I just turned 65, work in an area related to digital marketing (I've been in the digital content/media world since the early 90s - almost as long as it's been "a thing"). Things have been very significantly changing in what I do and it's rumored that there's another very significant change that is going to happen in the very near future, changing significantly. In all honesty, I'm tired and just really don't want to do this anymore. It's taken a while for th”

“I run a small counseling practice with about 20 employees. I’ve historically done our webpage and maintained a blog where I wrote about topics I thought parents might want to learn about. I recently paid for an SEO/Marketing Assessment and was underwhelmed with the recommendations. Basically, we were told we rank well for the key words we are relevant. We were taught probably three keywords we should try to rank for that we currently don’t. The biggest suggestion was to add video and original ph”

“I have a small site with free SaaS calculators. Traffic is fine but not growing. Read somewhere about citation hubs — basically pages that exist so other bloggers can link to them when they need a quick stat. Decided to try it. Built a 2026 SaaS benchmarks page, 54 stats, all from original reports. The tedious part was going into each PDF and confirming the number actually existed — turns out a lot of blog posts cite numbers that aren't in the source. Two weeks later: indexed by Google, zero”

“You need a cms like Wordpress or ghost to have multiple users contribute to it”

“I like the design. I do not like having an AI write your entire SEO blog, though.”

“If you’re on Substack - they now show your about page when people tap your publication link on your profile on mobile only. Take a look at your about page and how it reads on mobile: submitted by /u/ContentIsMyJam [link] [comments]”

“a post can be completely invisible for six months and then suddenly start getting traffic. another can get hundreds of views in a week and then basically disappear. some articles slowly collect readers for years without ever having a big spike. and sometimes you have no idea which one you're looking at until much later that's very different from most social platforms where the lifespan of a post can feel extremely short with a blog, something you wrote on a random Tuesday can still be us”

“i spent months believing the gurus who said just provide value to get organic traffic. i'd write these massive how-to posts about stuff nobody asked for. my absolute low point was a 1000 word guide on "optimizing react state for micro saas" that got exactly 14 views and a 0% click rate on my tool. i was just sneaking my link at the bottom and didn't realize it was basically just spam. look at any builder feed right now. we see a useful tips post and we know exactly what's w”

“I’ve been trying to make a personal blog for what feels like forever. I started with a one-page HTML site on Codeberg, then tried Hugo, then Textpattern. Hugo never really clicked with me. I kept spending more time thinking about the workflow and theme than actually writing. Eventually I just wanted something simple where I could write stuff and not turn every post into a software project. So, I made Delta’s personal blog. I’ll write about Linux, FOSS, cybersecurity, internet culture, random tho”

“I am struggling to find trending topic in my niche and write on any topic in my niche. So can you guys guide me as many of you are very knowledgeable in this field and I am just a boomer. submitted by /u/DrawingOpening7313 [link] [comments]”

“Similarly I was told 20 years ago that Word Press was going to replace my job. Dude. I still get calls for Word Press jobs: Someone please update my website! I can’t figure it out!”

“Writing a blog a couple of times a week to post on the company website has been a fun and pretty easy way for me to marketing. You can post about any topic, not just your SaaS, if it's related. So you can use writing the blog as a chance to learn about other competitors and related services, or think about problems customers might have. (So if you do use AI, still edit the draft and add more specifics/sources). You can include an FAQ on the homepage and posts with example questions to help f”

“About 40% of my blog traffic comes from one post. It's not a ton of traffic, but it got me thinking. Can one blog post be a breakthrough to drive serious traffic? Have you ever seen a single post (note: not the first or only post on a blog) make a blog absolutely explode? Any numbers behind that? I'm talking like a blog going from 20 clicks a day to 200 or 2,000. Something truly exponential from a growth perspective. Can lightning strike? submitted by /u/Tascherist [link] &#3”

“This is probably one of the biggest misconceptions about blogging. A post can keep earning after you publish it...that's great. But maintaining a blog means updating old posts, fixing broken links, adding new content, checking traffic, improving monetization and keeping up with changes. That's not passive. It's an asset that can become relatively low-maintenance once it's established. There's a difference. submitted by /u/Michaelvinnie [link] [comments]”

“I’ve started doing some travel blogging (mostly just for my own creative outlet and memory-keeping) and it is my very first dip into blogging, ever. I’m just curious what kind of view counts you more experienced folks consider to be a successful blog? My situation is a bit different because I’m posting mine in a site I built for others to also post some blogs in. I am also, like I said, mostly just writing for myself. But I can’t help but wonder about what the standards are for a “successful” te”

“I have been running a small blogging platform, for about three years. This week I opened the database and counted things. I wanted to know who actually writes, and what their writing looks like. Most blogs never get a post 1,869 blogs have been created. 504 exist today. Rest were spam, which I delete by hand after manual moderation. I still kept the test blogs and empty stray blogs Of the 504 real ones: 331 have never published anything 108 have one or two posts 45 have three to nine 15 have ten”