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Is cocktail blogging dead?

Darcy of artofdrink.com , wrote up a post about the death of cocktail blogging. At least, he meant, the golden times are gone. The reasons are, that google changed its algorithms- hence it is more difficult to get a first page search hit for smaller websites. Well - I don't want to mirror here Darcy's argumentation. Please feel free to get over to his website and read the whole, well written piece. Honestly, for me, I can't complain about less readers. As I decided before, that my idea of a blog is more important than the SEO qualities [however was later forced to change this platform] - I always focussed on readers, who are particularly looking for my blog. And since my blog is now on blogger.com, the numbers exploded - I am still far away of the times of artofdrink.com [Darcy mentioned, that he got 5000 hits per day - I am running on good days around 5% of it] - but I am happy, how things turned out. If it comes to the stagnation of mixology blogs,  I would say, t...

Thank you for following my blog www.opinionated-alchemist.com

Yes - thank you very much for following my blog. While this blog is still very small and humble, I am quite proud to report, that I had over 4,000 individual page hits last month- that is pretty much the same traffic, I had accumulated with my previous blog iteration - over the course of 3 years! Still - the SEO is not optimized and the statistics are showing, that people really looking for my website [not for funny pet videos or similar] - that makes me even more proud. The only thing, which is a bit troubling for me: the comment section; I really see a blog as two way communication, but it seems more like a monologue here. Please don't hesitate to express your opinion - while I am opinionated, I love to discuss any perspective on the trade... This said, once more thank you very much, to spend you time on my blog - let me know, what kind of topics you like to see and I will do my best, to incorporate this enquiries as well. Cheers!