Honest lessons from a dad who published 100 posts and started over.
I’m Not a Tech Reviewer. I’m Just a Dad Who Blogs. I don’t have 4 hours a day to sit at a desk and write. I’ve got kids, a full-time job, and maybe 45 minutes after bedtime to work on this blog. So when I started lazydadlife.com, I knew I had to find a smarter…
When I started this blog, I assumed Google traffic would come within a few weeks. Three months later, my Google Search Console shows zero clicks. Not a few. Zero. If you’re in the same situation — publishing consistently, doing everything right, and still seeing nothing from Google — this post is for you. Here’s the…
Thirty days ago, my Pinterest account had zero views. Today it has over 1,500 monthly impressions, 83 outbound clicks to my blog, and a consistent daily traffic flow that didn’t exist a month ago. I’m not a Pinterest expert. I’m a regular dad with a full-time job who figured this out while building a blog…
Last month, Pinterest told me I had 79 outbound clicks. People were clicking my pins and visiting my blog. Google Analytics told a very different story. The numbers didn’t match. Pinterest was showing real activity. Google was showing almost nothing. And for a blogger trying to grow traffic and eventually qualify for AdSense, that gap…
One of the most common questions I had before starting this blog was: how much does it actually cost? The answers I found online were all over the place. Some said you could start for free. Some listed setups that cost hundreds of dollars a month. Neither felt like the honest answer for someone in…
I want to show you something that most bloggers won’t show you. The real numbers. The early numbers. The numbers from before anything is working. A month into the new version of this blog, I opened Google Search Console and took a screenshot of everything. Not because the numbers are impressive — they’re not —…