Yes, you should Write a text-only blog in 2024. It is still worth it. People still love to read to consume new information. If you look at the numbers of various text-only websites, it shows that people still read text-based content.

New York Times, a newspaper publication has a monthly readership of 600 Million.

Quora, a question-answer platform where people share answers based on their life experiences and opinions gets over 800M monthly views.

Medium.com, a text-focused blog platform has an average visit duration of 2 minutes.

But today, readers have more options to choose from.

Instead of reading a long blog post, she can easily pick up a short reel to get a gist of the topic.

If I follow my own habit of reading blogs, I scan blogs for information.

Every time I am looking for something, I will Google it.

Often times I get my answer within the search meta descriptions.

So I don’t even click through the websites most of the time.

And even if I do click through, I will quickly jump to the desired section of that blog, and then grab the info I am looking for and press the “back button”.

Even when reading a tutorial piece for development, I will look for either a step-by-step process or prefer video instruction over text content.

The following blog post from Kent C. Dodds has a quick tutorial. I watched that short video to skip over the technical text,

I only read through the entire blog post when it was very insightful, and thought-provoking, such as this one from Dan Koe.

Then again, my attention span is low. So I am going to enjoy the post when it’s divided into meaningful sections. These sections should have bite-sized chunks I can easily digest.

You will likely read an opinion-type post such as this one. And if you really care about my opinion, you will read the entire thing through the end.

But when it comes to creating SEO gain posts, most of these blog posts will sit there as commodities.

• You will get search rankings
• you will get traffic
• you will get ad revenue

but in my opinion, those posts are easily replaceable by other people’s blog posts.

So what do people value? and how to be truly remarkable?

You should blog about your own unique experience that people cannot replicate.

Today, people will read and continue reading that blog because of the unique perspective the author brings to the world.

If you can, also use a visual medium to enhance your text posts.

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