The SEO battle continues....

So I've been plugging away at updating the old main blog and I've seen a modest increase in traffic, and ad revenue, which is pleasing..

Nothing ground breaking, nothing life-changing in terms of the increase in income, maybe just enough to make me think I can scrape through 2026 with only 2 days of regular paid work, maybe.

It's sort of difficult to know with so many unknowns in the SEO world: especially in the age of AI and LLMs, or are they the same thing, I don't even know!

The general work flow...

Or lack of, I mean I have a work flow that's pretty simple, involving creating new content, updating old, doing all the technical stuff, there's no reason to employ anyone else to do this ATM, I quite enjoy it....

Except that I am a tiny bit slack, I start a bit too late, have a 2 hour run, shop and lunch break, and end a bit too early, it's hardly 5.00 a.m. club stuff here.....

Using AI...

It helps... I know what advice to ignore, I know what to use it for - it's great for making summary grids and FAQs also metadata and it does have a good grasp of long tail key words too.

For actual writing though I am much more cautious, it has a tendency to summarise too much if I ask for a rewrite - better for summaries to ADD to a post.

Videos cometh: human and non!

Part of that work flow involves creating videos - I want Tik Toks summarising tiny bits, 10 a week ideally, these can be just slides, but then I want longer tuitions style vids these feed into.... hopefully going live from January twice a week, I'm thinking 40 minutes a pop is like the sweet spot. Maybe 30 mins.

I mean that would help keep me sane and even teenagers can concentrate for 30 mins.

40 mins might be pushing things!

And fun!

At the end of the day I want to carry on enjoying the blog, I think I need to gamify it more, keep the video structure loose, two-way, and focus on visuals and pop sociology.

And I really MUST get around to making a dancing Durkheim.