Generic Pinterest advice almost tanked my food blog's traffic strategy The tips that work for lifestyle or finance content actively don't apply to food took a few dead months and a complete strategy reset to figure out what food blogs specifically need from this platform

The keywords that drive food blog traffic on Pinterest are extremely specific and seasonal Easy chicken dinners for the week outperforms chicken recipes by a wide margin because the specificity matches real search behavior Pinterest users in food niches search with a decision half-made, they know roughly what they want and the pin that most specifically answers that gets the click

Seasonal timing is a bigger lever in food than in almost any other category pinning Thanksgiving content starting in late September rather than in November gives the content time to get indexed and ranked before the peak search window. Same logic applies to summer grilling content holiday baking, back-to-school meal prep Early pinning of seasonal content consistently beats same-window pinning

The pin format that works in food: process shots or that beautiful final dish photo with a clear text overlay naming the recipe and one key detail 30-minute under $10 no oven required Graphic-heavy infographic pins have mostly stopped performing They look dated and people scroll past them

Consistency across the year matters more than seasonal spikes Accounts that pin steadily in the off-months build the ranking power that makes the seasonal peaks much larger

I am back with my 9 AND 10 month progress report for my local wedding blog. I've shared my progress over the last 10 months to help give other bloggers insight and maybe a little motivation as well!

I kept my June momentum into July with: 526 Active users, 520 New users, 2.77K Event count, and 44.2% Bounce Rate.

July's new user traffic breakdown: 354 Organic Search, 91 Direct 70 Organic Social, 5 Referral

In the month of July I published 2 blogs posts. And was moderately active on social.

I lost a bit of momentum come August: 458 Active users, 450 New users, 2.3K Event count, and 42.5% Bounce Rate.

August new user traffic breakdown: 331 Organic Search, 70 Direct 42 Organic Social, 6 AI Assistant, 1 Referral

I did not publish any articles in August other than an a blog post I just published minutes ago. And was not at all active on social.

Good Search Console shows that my impressions for the month of July were 32.6k, CTR .9% and Avg Position 10.8. August things dropped a bit with 31.8k impressions, CTR .8% and Avg Position 11.8.

Organic Search data over the last 10 months:
October: 3
November: 19
December: 34
January: 78
February: 68
March: 131
April: 139
May: 194
June: 425
July: 404
July: 375

I can't quite pinpoint why my organic search data decreased. Looking back at my google console for June I had less impressions than July and August but more clicks. Any insights on what could possibly cause this? Or is this just part of the journey?

Going forward, my real goal is still 1-2 blog posts a week with an Instagram post to accompany that blog post, 5 pins to support the blog post and one fb post. I am working on finding a way to manage this goal on top of my full time job, toddler and well just life.

With all that being said. I'm still enjoy this. I like the challenge. I like figuring out what to write about that will help with the growth of the blog. It's still something I like doing - so I'm going to keep on moving!!

Hi, I am a new blogger.

When I create content, I always think this may be replaceable by AI.
I always do keyword research first to check if people actually search for it.

Example.
People search: "apps for learning X" And the content I make would be: "I tried 10 apps for learning X" Blah blah blah...

But can't AI simply answer this comparison?
I don't think my genuine review will reach to people. 🤔

So I think this post is not good, despite the fact that this keyword is what people are actually googling.

So... how do you guys dealing with it ?

I write in Obsidian and one of the headaches I've always encountered was conversion to Blogger. I had tried pandoc in Obsidian but it did not produce the desired outcomes.

I vibe coded a little python program to do that. I designed it to allow conversion customisation. I have been using it for the past few months and it works. The workflow is to use the tool and give it the md file as input and the html file as output. You then open the html file (in Notepad ++ or VS Code or any text editor), select everything and paste it into blogger's html view of the page.

I then switch to Compose view and swap the image placeholders with the actual image.

I would include my blogger site, but don't want to have to deal with potential spam takedowns. There you can see the source.

Hope this helps.

https://github.com/chribonn/Md2Blogger

My blog sits at this odd intersection of parenting and career stuff (think: what happens to your professional identity when you voluntarily leave the workforce to raise kids, which is a topic approximately eleven people care about, and I include myself in that count). Traffic is basically decorative at this point. A few dozen sessions a month, mostly me checking if Google has noticed me yet (it has not)

The thing I keep wondering is whether a hyperspecific niche is a liability or secretly an advantage for organic search. Every piece of advice I read goes back and forth on this. On one hand, the audience is small so the ceiling is low. On the other hand, competition for those exact search terms is basically nonexistent, which means even a mediocre post might eventually rank for something real. I genuinely cannot tell which dynamic is going to win in my situation

The 100k organic traffic posts I see here always seem to be in topics with a builtin audience: food, finance, travel, the usuals. Nobody posts a milestone from a niche that required them to explain what it even is in the sidebar

So is the play to stay narrow and trust that the right readers find you, or does the math just not work below a certain audience size?