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So in this video I figured I would go on to the reddit on reddit and go to blogging
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spend a lot of time over here 71,000 members I'm just going to go ahead and find some of
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the top or the yeah the hot uh questions and just answer them first question is by uh reptar09
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do you need social media to gain attention to your blog so currently blog for hobby wants to know
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your thoughts on social media um he's transitioning trying to remove all social media accounts i
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receive a lot of my blog subscribers from instagram i don't see a point of paying for a blog for a
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hobby besides my domain name and platform I do not bring any revenue do you need social media to
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help gain attraction to your blog I would prefer not to put all the work into a blog that no one
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sees so if you're blogging for a hobby and you're just blogging like about your personal life and
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stuff like that then you do actually need social media because google isn't going to rank your
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content if you're not answering someone's question so if your blog so if you answer a simple question
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like how to do something then you have a better chance of showing up on google than if you made an
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article article about what i did today because nobody's searching what you did today but if you
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had an instagram or facebook with a lot of followers then people might be that shows that
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people might be interested in you and then they want to read your blog for this guy I would say
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you probably do need social media in order to have people read your blog but if you're blogging for
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seo search engine optimization then uh social media isn needed I get about 15 views per month to my website and I have no social media except for I do have a YouTube channel for it but that doesn hardly bring in any traffic most of my traffic comes from
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Google so finding competitors with similar topics I would like to find bloggers with similar content
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like me I've been googling if there is a way to find out but most websites with a competitor
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ysis ask you to put the competitors URL in and they will yze it I would like to work
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do other way around maybe something where i can put in my blog post and there researches for blogs
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with a similar topic tried it with keywords but you will always end up with new sites and not blogs
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i think it has to do with my niche which is showbiz i write about the production side of it but all
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keywords leave into the newest gossip so the way i find competitors is just while i'm doing keyword
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research for my websites I just create a note created a notepad like what this down here and
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then as I'm researching keywords I always find other bloggers in my niche so then I'll just go to
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backlinkchecker.com which is with ahrefs and then I will figure out what their domain rating is
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and then I'll write that down in a notepad and keep that keep track of it so then by the time I
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get like 100 keywords then I'll have like 20 or 30 competitors and that's the way I do it I don't
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use any kind of tool I just see what comes up and usually there's a lot of smaller youtubers or
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bloggers within my needs not too complicated site indexing problems on google um site not getting
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indexed on google submitted site map and all but there is a problem with google search console only
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six results got indexed on google um so this is a problem that's happening to a lot of people
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that their articles aren't being indexed and right now you can't even manually index your articles so
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that's just something with google right now it's a bug and i'm sure it will be fixed in the future
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But for now I would just keep posting and then just wait for it to get resolved because there's not really
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anything you can do if you already submitted your site map and everything and It still being de then that just on google see this guy says right here there bugs it just it just google being
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google so this guy says do i have a wordpress.com or a wordpress.org site i have a my.bluehost.com
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slash hosting place where i log in as well you are all name of my website slash wordpress admin
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where I log in and edit stuff. Do I suck at this beyond belief? Anyway, is this wordpress.com or wordpress.org
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I want to blog, but I'm literally too... Jesus, guy's hard on himself
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So if you have a hosting with Bluehost, then you have a wordpress.org site
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Wordpress.org is a free tool you can use when you're hosting yourself
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So if you have Bluehost, that means you're hosting yourself. wordpress.com uses the same software as wordpress.org but it's also a hosting
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uh hosting site as well and it costs more but they have more tools and stuff for like beginners
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so it's more beginner friendly but and then this is free other than your host sounds like this
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person is using wordpress.org i recently started a new blog we're gonna get four to five posts up
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before I start promoting it, guessing game whether it will succeed and be profitable
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love any feedback, niches broad, business, blogging, creativity, lifestyle, so all very competitive niches here
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I'll go ahead and get started with ads, are there any other better paying ad
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So I wouldn't start with ads until you have at least a thousand page views a month
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Even then you're only going to get a couple dollars. So I would probably actually wait till you get to 10,000 and then you can get Ezoic
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I know when you're first starting blogging you're going to just want to have that money coming in as motivation
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So I would at least wait till you're getting a thousand views per month
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So you can at least be getting something decent. But after 10 posts that takes you like a couple weeks or a month
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You not going to have any traffic So there really no need to have ads As far as these categories these are way too competitive especially if you going to be broad so I would definitely pick one of these and niche
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down because otherwise you're just going to waste your time and I hardly doubt unless you're paying
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a lot of money for backlinks this site is never going to rank that's my thoughts on that and this
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one will be my last one for this video so google ytics and google search console are not the
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same why does my google search console say yesterday i had two clicks but my google ytics
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said yesterday i had 32 users so google search console is only traffic on google google ytics
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counts all traffic from all sources so that could be direct traffic it could be traffic from other
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search engines and so on and so forth plus google search console is more accurate than google
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ytics so this is going to be your accurate information about traffic coming from google
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and this will be less accurate but still pretty accurate and this will be results from everywhere
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So Google search puzzle said you had two clicks, but Google ytics said you had 32, right? So you had two clicks from Google and then you probably had 32 clicks on Google ytics from either clicking your own site
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Or if you posted your link somewhere, you might have had a bunch of direct traffic or it could have come from a different social media platform or anywhere
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These users could have came from anywhere other than Google search. So that's the answer to that question
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So that's going to wrap it up for this video. Let me know what you think about any of the answers to the questions and if you have any input to any of these questions
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and let me know if you want more videos like this in the future
