Blogging, While Working A Job, And A Digital Publication
If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that I always blog on Mondays. I don’t know why, but there is something unique about this particular day that makes me always publish coding topics on this day.
Maybe it’s because I read somewhere that people, for the most part, tend to read blogs on a Monday more than other days, especially Thursday and Friday.
The theory goes something like if you keep publishing consistently, you’ll get more followers, subscribers, and whatnot. It goes on to say this is not possible without consistent blogging.
I don’t think I missed writing a Monday post since last year, even, when I was only blogging on DEV.to.
Writing is something that I do as a hobby. I do not enroll in Medium’s paid partner program, because I think the monetary rewards from it are a joke. What I actually do, then, for financial security lies in a very different industry.
I work multiple blockchain jobs, designing things like wallets and casino games (you will not believe how ripe this technology is for the gambling industry), and then there’s CWI — it’s actually written in my bio — I’m a developer there.
So I thought tomorrow was going to be Monday and since I had a load of design work to do yesterday, I was not writing anything then. Yeah, stuff like this happens.
Job Worker vs Snazzy-looking Media Owner
What you probably don’t know, is that I also own a digital media publication, NotATether to be specific. It’s a site I created last year that focuses on cryptocurrencies.
This is not the place to give a lecture about the intrinsics of running a website, but I will tell you that to create something like this and make it prosper big-time, you need a lot of content writers and staff. It really made me familiar with how big outlets layout their publishing process.
Who would’ve known that so many of them, including us, were affected by Trello’s outage yesterday?
Really though, managing all that would make a planet of stress for anyone. I know it has for me, at least in the past few months when I was struggling to get Google results.
I’ve actually read about people quitting Medium and other blogging platforms to solely focus on their job or site because it was just too much for them or perhaps they weren’t getting the results they would like to have.
I wouldn’t do such a thing though — things are starting to get much better for us, as far as the site’s going. We got some content listed on Google Search, our homepage (yes, homepage) finally got listed on searches for our brand name — and it’s at the very top, as it should be. Our domain name is even about to auto-renew come next month — a friend told me that’s good for our Domain Authority (DA).
It seems that breaking my week streak has made me more productive. In addition to the article topics that are assigned to staff, I now feel rejuvenated to look at our Google Search Console for well-performing keywords and blast a few 400-word posts about them.
And that’s another insight from a media owner — 400-word articles rock.
