So early last year I got chased by the police and ended up flipping my car 5 or 6 times and went to jail. Long story short... I started The Break Away Experience while in jail that time. My blog has been around now since February 9th 2025 and I only have 3 followers.

Not only am I terrible at marketing, but I also feel weird when I do occasionally promote my blog.

I never expect, nor do I want money, from my blog. It's just that I want to be heard. I recently reignited The Break Away Experience, but it's 2.0 now. The original is scrapped. It's a wrap.

Now that I'm not smoking crack, not trying to start a cult, starting school, and so close to getting out of the homeless shelter I think my blog might get better and I'd like to share the journey with others. I know there's others like me, probably a lot, and I'd like to hear from them.

I recently figured out how to reply to comments and now my desire to communicate is peaking.

I would like some advice on how to get views and followers and comments. Hearing personal experience from you guys would be HIGHLY appreciated as well. What has worked for you?

I'm done talking to only myself.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Even if it's just to say I'm insane. I'm very new to this. Reddit is the only social media I have so I don't know what platforms to even use for blogs. Open to anything other than TikTok.

Thanks.

Hey-hey, could you please share if you had any issues with bot fight mode / super bot fight mode on your display ads website. I currently have it off, cause in the past it blocked some of google's bots, and now I am considering it again

I've been taking a deep dive under the hood of my blog recently, looking at things like structured data, plugins, and indexing speed—stuff I haven't really touched in years.

We're in a massive AI megatrend right now, and it reminds me a lot of the skepticism around social media back in 2008 and 2009, it's not going anywhere and is only going to grow.

With search evolving so much and AI engines becoming more prominent, I'm realizing how important it is to make sure these elements are set up correctly so machines can actually read and use our content.

I'd love to hear from other bloggers.

Have any of you audited your site's backend recently to keep up with AI search?

What technical adjustments have you found actually make a difference in getting found?

I'd love to hear your thoughts on what to focus on!

Angela Brooks.

I have been a blogger for years, mostly as a way to communicate with others. Not interested in monetization or collecting followers. My attitude is that those who can benefit will find it.

One of my biggest pet peeves about blogging online has been the pressure to add images and videos. I think they are distracting and disable readers imaginations and ability to form their own mental images.

I moved my blog to a new platform, changed my approach, and posted. Sent the link to a friend who wrote back and said there is nothing there, just a bunch of words.

Next???

I'm really sad to share this but it is what it is. My Pinterest account of over 5 years recently faced a massive traffic drop. Nearly 3 months ago from today, the drop started to happen but after a few days, the traffic would climb back up. Then go down again after 10-12 days, then come back after a few days. This process continued on repeat for over 2 months.

But last week, a massive drop happened. My traffic dropped from 20K impressions a day before to 500 impressions the next day. Literally the very next day. Now, from the last 5-6 days, I've been getting around 500 impressions per day and it doesn't seem to go back up like it did in the previous drops.

Before the traffic drop, I was making around $200/month just from ads alone, but now it has gone to basically zero. I was posting consistently and all pins were made manually by me, myself. No AI at all.

So the thing I want to ask is:
I've around 150 completely human written articles on my blog. The fact that this drop doesn't seem to come back up, should I start a new blog and transfer all my current blog posts to it? Because there seems to be no way out. I believe my domain has been flagged as "spam" or "non-trustworthy" in Pinterest's system (but they haven't banned my links as spam. I can still post my links as usual). So, there seems to be no point to keep posting on it.

I also sent an email to Pinterest support regarding this matter and they say "there's nothing flagged from our end"....that same generic bot reply. So, what should I do? I need some genuine suggestions.

If I start a new blog & if I have to transfer all my articles to a new blog, how do I do it? Should I first de-index all those blogs from Search engines? Or how do I go about it?

Btw, I don't get any traffic from SEO at all because I never focused on it. I wrote all these articles because I genuinely loved writing.

There is this weird phase early on where you write something, hit publish, and immediately wonder if it was too short, too long, the wrong topic, the wrong angle. Then you check traffic and it confirms nothing because there is barely any. So you just sit with the doubt.

I kept rewriting old posts instead of writing new ones. Spent three weeks tweaking one article that maybe twelve people had ever read. Looking back that was probably just anxiety dressed up as productivity.

At some point something shifted and I stopped caring as much about whether each individual post was perfect before moving on. The blogs that actually seem to grow are the ones where the writer just kept going, not the ones where every post gets polished to death.

Curious whether that clicked for other people at a specific moment or if it was more gradual. Did hitting some traffic milestone help, or did it happen before that? Because right now my traffic is still pretty low and I am trying to figure out if the confidence comes first or if the numbers have to move before the doubt quiets down.

I created this Amazon affiliate website in 2020 during covid and it made $800-$1000 per month till 2021. But later due to algorithm change and commission cut, overall income from the site reduced. It has around 40 articles and still makes $30-$40 per month. I haven't maintained it in years. I believe, if in good hand, it can return to its previous glory. Will sell it for x30. Let me know if you are interested.[ I am not able to attach screenshot, no options]