Is Blogging Dead Or Is It Still Relevant?

Is Blogging Dead?

No. It’s not. You are reading it, so it’s not.

Take a look at the following image, it is the stats of how many people visiting this website from 1 Aug 2025 to 21 Feb 2026. It has been a gradual increase in visitors throughout.

Is it a lot of traffic? I don’t think so. But the visitors has proportionally increases as I publish more and more articles.

So, in terms of “Does anyone read blogs anymore?”, the answer is a simple yes. However, comparing to pre-AI era, is it significantly less? That’s a yes also.

Is Blogging Still Profitable?

It depends. It’s not as easy as before for sure.

There are ways to make money from blogging. Mostly via affiliate links, sponsoring, and being a paid writers for some.

You will have to learn about SEO, long tailed keywords, and writing a niched blog, etc.

So, yes. It is still profitable like it is still profitable to make and sell glass sculpture. There are always ways to make money from anything. You just have to be persistence and find your own ways.

It’s not easy, of course.

Why Do I Still Blog?

I like it. It’s that simple.

Blogging For Myself

I like jotting down what I’ve learned and share it with others. I like improving my writings. I like it when I composed a beautiful or well-articulated sentence. I like it when people read it and they found it useful. I like using new vocabularies I learned from reading books. I also like to tidy my thoughts with writing.

What AI Can Never Do

Trading off convenience of just asking and getting an “interpreted”, opinionated, short form answer from AI for intentional searching of long form articles takes more cognitive thinking. I believe that a person can learn and understand more by reading one’s deep opinion on one particular subject over AI compilation of words. AI can never deliver words with sensation supported by actual experiences.

It’s just a putting-words-together machine at best.

Blogging might mean less to the AI modern age, but it means the same, if not more to the writers, and the readers. It is more of a preference to read an article, or a book than ever before. The writer gets more appreciation from the readers too, I truly believe.

As A Resume For Being Me

I wrote about anything to everything in all sorts of topics on this website. Which is against the mainstream advice online saying you should focus on one niche. And I really don’t regret it, because I’m throughly enjoyed it. I don’t get limited by certain topic. I can explore as I go.

People twit about stuff, posting on social platforms. For me, writing on my website, is my way of “posting on social platform”. It’s just that it is a long form and more organized article. And I prefers it this way.

Promoting My Other Projects

I am also an app developer. Instead of putting Google ads or embedding Amazon Affiliate links to try to sell you products, I put my projects on this website to drive traffic to my other projects. So basically I’m putting my own ads on my own website. I figured it is more ethical and honest as it aligns to who I am and what I do. So I’m not a salesman, I’m just who I am and this is what I do. Have it or just enjoy the article. I really don’t mind.

Is Blogging Still Worth it? Should You Start?

Yes. Especially if you are writing it for yourself, as well as for others.

I’m a strong believer of keep things simple.

If doing something makes you happy, do it.
Things will find it’s way, naturally.

Thanks for reading, stranger.

Reference

• My brain and my philosophy.
• Researching and Googling, and browsing Reddit.