Is Blogging Dead in 2024?

Time to dust off the blog! Nearly a whole year since I published a blog.  Let's just say, a lot has happened in the last year.  Which I'm hoping to get round to writing about, especially in terms of my neurodivergent journey.  But, as a late identified, self diagnosed adult with ADHD, I think you know what the outcome will be! Cue hilarious giggles...

I wanted to start off with the question 'is blogging dead?'.  In the time between my last published blog, back when I was still working at my local Museums in Southend (alas, that job is no more), and this blog now, I have seriously contemplated whether to just get rid of this thing! I do have a Google Adsense account, but it literally pays £0.01p, maybe every few months! I recently checked my Domain Authority and it's so low, 7! Ideally I'd want it to be at least in the 20s if I had any hope of getting picked for blogging campaigns! So in terms of financial, it doesn't make me any money and where I've neglected it, it doesn't have a decent internet presence in terms of being 'seen'.  (I don't think having a website host particularly helps either but I absolutely do not have the time to start learning code and build my own website!).

So 'why am I still bothering with it?', I hear you ask! Well, the blog has always remained as a creative outlet for me.  To share my deep thoughts and latest connections.  I don't want to lose that.  In this last year, trying to find a way back to myself with all the upheaval of the ADHD acceptance, I feel like coming back to my writing is another way of rediscovering myself.  I feel like I lost a lot of things in just trying to survive as a neurodivergent in a neurotypical world.  That I lost a lot of my creative endeavours.

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