It can feel like you are a ghost when your articles get zero likes and low engagement. This is something that many writers have to deal with unfort...
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you forgot point 11: you didn't write a catchy clickbait title
I wrote a similar article some time ago: 5 Tips for successful blogging + 1 to build a solid personal brand. ;-)
I agree a lot with writing quality content and especially about Storytelling and liked the tips about scheduling , but personally I really disliked and disagree with point 3 The topic is boring and not well known
The web is full of posts about Imposter Syndrome, Array Reduce, or How to build React Clones of something - new posts about those every single day, and somehow they make lots of views. But do they really make a difference?
Maybe a very technical niche post with just 10 views made the day of desperate devs struggling to find documentation or solutions to a similar problem, or your technical tutorials about AWS CDK will get you the next job - could you say the same for the next acclaimed post " Use console.log like a pro" ?
I think the main point is understanding WHY we are blogging:
when we know why are blogging we can also decide to care or not about views and likes.
I disagree with point no. 3 because covering a niche topic gives you a higher chance to be the king of that niche (with room to grow in the future). If you cover a popular topic, you‘re just another drop in the ocean. It‘ll be hard to find you between all the noise (= the other articles in that space).
Depends on the niche. I have seen people write about topics that mostly only excite them but they fail to convey what exactly the product is or how to use it. Then they wonder why thier article has low views and no comments.
It takes time though. Possibly years in some cases. Blogs on topics like Kernel development or Assembly Programming would attract very few viewers just for the fact that most of the developers dont know anything about them and most importantly, dont "want to know" anything about them.
I think it‘s important to pick a niche with potential to grow.
These are not prerequisites they are tips. Anyone can write figuring out how to write better articles and reach a bigger audience is something that you learn along the way.
I didn't have a lot of these when I first started and I used to have a low following and still posted.
Loved this!
Thank you glad you found it useful.
Thanks!
love the article Andrew!
I aim to please I hope it helps you a lot.
Thanks!
No problem there is more to come.
Oh, #10 is facts.
Hey I'm 10 all the way. But then I have no articles no-one is reading because well 10 ... ;-). My head is busy though.
got a whole lot of #10 for sure.. nice write up
Why am I seeing this article on DEV? I expect to see something about SEO.