I have never thought that my SEO job can interfere with blogging. Before I knew about SEO, blogging was just a fun way to express myself without any limitations. I did not seek a wide range of readers, it was more for myself and family to know what I am doing. Kind of like my personal but the same time public diary, until the day I started learning about SEO and all its glory.
Keywords
After I learnt what a proper keyword research is, I have never seen blogging as fun, no time and effort requiring hobby. Before all I needed was:
Adventures to write about
Inspiration
Couple hours to actually to write the post, select the images, and done!
Reality Now:
30 min to do keyword research
Stock competitors
Wrote the post
Review if all the keywords, links are in place
Create Title tag & Meta description
All of that takes two days!
Images
Before:
Select up to 20 images
Upload
DONE!
Now:
Select 10-15 images
Edit the images
Resize them & compress the for better load times and user experience.
Upload
Write captions, title, alt-tags
These are just two little things that are part of an image of having a healthy SEO friendly blog. I have a dilemma with myself I really want to go back into blogging, should I just push away all the SEO knowledge I have and just start writing as I used to do before or actually plan my time for less post but SEO friendly posts?
I am very interested if anyone else ever had similar struggles. Please share your experience.
P.S Struggle is real every single day, for example when your shoelaces keep untying every couple minutes
I hear you. I feel you. When blogging is not fun anymore it clutters the path. Putting the fun back with some kind of app that does the "work" for you would seem very promising for a startup of some kind. Keep the fun. Automate the work!