Ryyyan

I am sure it has. I can't say I have been actively looking or tracking such things but I would have to imagine AI is replacing most low-skill work online. I think it is already getting to a point where it is replacing people who work in person in offices. I think things like data entry and file management will be the first things to go entirely.

There are still new podcasts popping up all the time. I think in terms of what topics or niche you fall under will impact how well it does. I have seen lawyers, doctors, financial experts, etc. all start podcasts and do very well.

Exactly. A lot of people equate success to just getting rich. I have met people that are wealthy and HATE their jobs. They have money and resources but they are so unhappy with work it bleeds into their home life. It is sad.

Aside from being niche, try to upload on a regular basis. I don't know what you intend on doing but at least one video a week is good unless it is super long form content (30+ minutes) then you can do every 2 weeks to once a month. Anything under 10 minutes though you should aim for 2 videos a week.

This is exactly what I was talking about. It makes it easier to remember, you still get a keyword, and your business is right there in the domain. Wins all around. Don't waste too much time trying to make it perfect. These days domains aren't as important as they used to be.

I guess I would say setting goals and reaching them. I don't think everyone's end goal is to make money, sometimes it is more so about having more free time to be with family or being able to just be your own boss and the income is a secondary benefit.

I am trying to figure that out myself. I have been trying for years. I don't want to give up on my sites and just let the domains go but I feel like, at this point, I probably would have been better off starting over fresh or something. I am still considering that.

I have made a few channels. I was never aiming to earn or anything. One was for my Minecraft server. Another was for gaming. And I also had one fore one of my websites. The one that did the best overall was the Minecraft one and from what I could make of it, is that it was very niche. Minecraft is ONE GAME. Whereas my gaming channel focused on many different games. And the one for my website covered a lot of topics. Try to be as niche as possible!

You can ask AI to alter it for you and use different tones. I have done this before for social media posting purposes and it seems to help. I never tried on my websites though as I want everything on there to be done by me, not by AI. Just in the off chance it ends up hurting my website's credibility in the long run.

I want to boost mt dead blogs. They were doing great for about 5 years and then nosedived. I am wondering if it is worth paying for traffic to help boost them. Is it a waste of money? Will it help or hurt anything? I read mixed things online so I am not sure what to make of it.

This was one of the first hosts I used and while they were great in the beginning, I quickly found out why they were cheaper than a lot of other options. I had issues with my sites crashing and it was on the host end. It took them nearly 10 DAYS to fix the issue. I moved away from them after that. I bounced around 3 years and ended up doing self-hosting.

Maybe use the abbreviation and then add a word before or after it that falls under your niche? So something like "PRTSoftware.com" (I hope that doesn't make a link, I don't know if is and active website or not lol)

If you can manage it, as in know what you are doing and know how to fix issues should they arise, then yes. I used to pay for mine and while it wasn't terribly expensive, I ended up bringing my monthly costs to under $30 a month for 3 websites and a minecraft server.

I have two blogs that used to do amazingly and now they don't do anything in terms of traffic or earnings. I am wondering if something happened in the last 5 or 6 years that could have caused this. Everything was looking up and increasing on my sites and then out of nowhere, they tanked!

I have 3 websites. One of them is a forum and the other two are blogs. I have had all 3 for 10+ years at this point. The forum isn't very active but it has a few people that are on posting daily. Many people left over the last few years. I think they just moved on. Maybe they decided to stick with social media, idk. The two other ones that are blogs, they used to have great traffic. Between the three I was able to bring in a decent amount of money via Amazon Associates and and ad company that ran ads on all three sites. in 2019 I was making around $1,200 a month just from the ads, not including the money I got through Amazon (I mostly just put that into my account to buy stuff, never got a check). Since then everything fell apart. Traffic dropped way off a cliff. I am lucky to get $10 a month and I get maybe $3 a month from Amazon. I have been trying to figure this out for years at this point. The sharpest decline happened in 2019 to 2020 and then another one in 2023. The first one I lost half my traffic and the second decline I lost most of what was left. The two websites run on WordPress, I am not sure if that matters. And my forum is on Xenforo's software. Again, not sure if that matters. I am hoping to get this sorted. I don't want to give up but I feel like I am only holding onto these domains out of spite and I should probably just cut my losses! .... Anyways, My name is Ryan. lol Sorry about that long introduction. I had to rant about my issues first.