I “started” this project as a way for a creative outlet or to just document my own adventures for my own sake and if it proved useful for others in their adventures as well all the better. However, I have never been able to commit. I will make a post or two and then go silent. I just don’t have the motivation.
Everytime I have inspiration to pick up my laptop and type something up I put it back down again because it requires ridiculous effort. It is not the writing, or the organizing or the story, but the ridiculous, imposing, always present, obnoxious and in your face SEO redlight greenlight. There is ridiculous SEO optimization everywhere and I feel like it is turning me into a robot. It “encourages” me with all of the flashing in your face firetruck siren redlights that scream “hey, your optimization is not great and you need to repeat this single word 10 times throughout your post to make it searchable”.
Who wants to read that? Or write that? I do not want to read something that repeats the same “key word” over and over again like I am an infant trying to pick up new vocabulary in my beginner reader books.
Trying to optimize SEO is like plucking the stars out of the sky until you are left with just the shining moon and its effervescence which was the focal point of the once brilliant night sky but now without the stars has lost its brilliance, depth, and wonder. Now it is just a white blob on a black canvas.
I am over SEO. Rant over.