I was going to post about this same exact topic! J/K today is Mineral Mondays, but I still think there is room for traditional blogs if we can get rid of Google. They are wielding too much power and control over the net and not in a good way. Demonetizing, shadow banning searches all in the name of Social Justice.

On our traditional blogs, like mine, https://cryptonighttokyo.com I am using a javascript Monero miner. That is the future of monetization. The problem is getting your site recognized by search engines. Maybe we will just have to go back to the organic way of building an audience, like here on Steemit, relationships.

I was starting to get into SEO around 2015 because my wife and I really wanted to start a travel blog since we traveled so much. At one time one of her sites had a very good ranking, but even with that we couldn't make money with adsense or Amazon.

I'm very grateful Steemit came around because now I will have a larger nest egg. I would like to see it become more like a Google or Yahoo though with parts sectioned off for shopping, search, blogs, music/video. That would really be amazing and take away some of that power from Google. What do you think?