The Harsh Reality: Stop Posting Daily, and Your Page Views Drop Instantly

Over the past few days, my fatigue finally hit its limit, so I took a break from updating my blog.

It’s been three months since I started this blog.
On good days, my page views reach double digits.
On bad days, they drop to zero.

Still, little by little, the numbers had been steadily increasing.

I kept seeing advice online saying things like,
“Once you’ve written 100 articles, your traffic will stay stable even if you stop posting for a few days.”

So I believed it—and kept writing nonstop.

But Google isn’t that generous to a three-month-old personal blog.

After just three or four days of not posting, I had several days in a row with zero page views.
Even after I resumed posting, the traffic didn’t come back easily.

In the beginning, daily posting really does matter.

It’s pretty brutal.

That said, I’m human.
There are times when I’m exhausted or simply have no motivation—and that’s unavoidable.

Sometimes, the thread just snaps.

But instead of stopping altogether, all I can do is start stacking things up again from scratch.

As a side note, this is actually how I managed to quit smoking.
I endured it for a while, gave in to temptation occasionally, then endured it again.
Repeating that cycle eventually made the urge disappear.

I don’t know if quitting smoking and blogging are really comparable,
but even if I slack off for a few days, as long as I start again, results should come eventually.

That’s what I believe—
so today, once again, I keep writing.