Why I’m Ditching My Blog and Going All in on Medium In 2024
And why you should, too
After the COVID dust had settled, I grabbed a domain and started sharing my ideas with the world.
Inspired by great bloggers such as James Clear, Shane Parrish and Maria Popova, I opted for WordPress and got to work.
At the peak of selfhabits.com, I had a few thousand people visiting my blog each month.
I was pleased with how things looked. I wrote mostly about what I liked, collected a handful of email addresses and had my own piece of internet real estate.
Right?
Wrong.
Although I enjoyed writing on my blog, I didn't know a thing about SEO and hadn't prepared for what was around the corner.
Allow me to present the antagonist: Chat GPT.
2023 saw the rise of AI in the world of online writing, and frankly, I don’t think Google or any of the blogging world knew what was in store.
At the click of a button, you could now mass produce 1000 word articles and upload them to your site. Heck, you could even get GPT to…