My Blog Has Zero Views: The Mysteries of Ghost Town Writing for Complete Beginners
What to do when you realize your blog sucks and you start to lose faith?
Many writers look to monetize their skills by writing a successful blog. A well-read blog generates revenue in many different ways. The two most important streams of income when monetizing a blog are running ads and affiliate marketing.
Monetizing your blog
The idea behind a blog is easy. Write interesting content and start earning money. However, when is the content interesting enough? And how do you measure the number of interested readers? Often, this is where Google Analytics comes into play.
By tracking every move of the reader, the level of interestingness is measured. Every writer starts the journey with an expectation of thousands of views in the first weeks. But often, this doesn’t happen at all. Even after publishing 20 SEO-proof articles, nothing happens.
This is when you realize, you have been writing for a ghost town.
A ghost town!?
Writing for a ghost town can be a daunting task for someone who is setting up a new blog. It means creating content for a blog that has gone inactive or has few readers…
