[Altaer]

I certainly agree with the article. Something I have struggled with that has prevented me from writing more, is that I get near 0 eyes on the articles I spend a lot of time writing and thinking through. I'm not sure how to ever get eyes on my blogs, which has me discouraged from continuing writing more. I use Medium and post the articles to HN/twitter, but it hasn't seemed to help any.

[beanerboi22]

This was a huge factor in my hosting a blog on my github.io page. There afaik is no available analytics on such sites available, and I didn't add any into the site. I have no clue how popular my blogposts are or if they have ever even been seen. They remain in a kind of superposition where I have no idea if anyone is reading some more than others or not. This causes me to put the same amount of effort and thought toward writing all of them regardless of topic. Furthermore, it means that I don't get uhh 'online stage fright'. I can assume that literally nobody is reading my blog or knows about it, which gives me a sense of ease I can trick myself into that allows me to write however I want.

Don't focus so much on this need to be seen.

[tverbeure]

I have a very easy solution to this: I don't have a trackers on my blog, so I remain blissfully unaware.

[jeremiecoullon]

Your website is http://www.oliverpeat.com/, right? I couldn't find your medium profile from there (though I may have missed it). Could you maybe have your posts also on your website?

[Altaer]

Yeah, great idea. I will add them there as well, thanks!

[jdxcode]

Try finding more specific communities on Reddit. HN is a crapshoot and on Twitter you already need to have a bunch of followers. If you don't get up within the first 10 minutes almost nobody will see it just due to the volume of new articles.

[Altaer]

Yeah, Reddit is a good idea, thanks. Something I haven't utilized yet

[joshdance]

Do you name your blog posts in a way that people searching for what you wrote about can find it?

I get 5k views on my articles each week just from search traffic.

[Mediterraneo10]

I used to name my blog posts meticulously and provide detailed metadata with attention to (good, honest) SEO. The problem is that, while many of us here might use DDG, for the vast majority of people search = Google. And Google has changed its search results to outright hide a lot of standalone personal blogs, even if you search for the exact terms that are used in the blog entries. And there is a lot of content from the first decade of the new millennium that remains just as relevant today, because no one has posted anything more recent at such a length and detail, but Google has simply chosen to deprioritize older content.

[luismmolina]

How much are your writing?