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What they don't tell you about blogging (and wish I knew when I started)

I have 2 monetized blogs, and 2 YouTube channels that go with them, one of them monetized (the other channel is fairly recent and on its way too). Both are very different niches. I've come to learn quite a lot about blogging over the years, including from my mistakes. Here's what I've learned and why blogging is better than making videos on YouTube: If you want views and subscribers on your YouTube channel, start a blog TravelerTechie and ZenGainz have very different content, and there's already tons of competition in both niches. But as I watch them both grow, through Analytics and otherwise, I've come to notice that blogging will get you more traffic faster than a YouTube channel. Maybe because when someone needs a solution to their problem, they first search on google.com than on youtube.com. Google search indexing is also obviously better when there's a full text article of keywords. Most of the times the ratio of views between the blog article and the YouT