Is 30 Days Blog Challenge Worth A Try?

I only learned about the 30-day blog challenge very recently. This website is just over 5 months old - originally started as a different site and migrated here in January. Still less than 8 months old including the old posts from the original site. I've been advised to take up a 30-day blogging challenge to push up the site's trust level.

The idea of the challenge itself is simple; write one blog every day continuously for 30 days. If you've missed one for the day, you have to think about it. Think hard about it. Get up the next morning and question yourself - why did I miss my blog yesterday? Is it because I was ill? Because I was out with friends in the evening, I had too many other things to do, too many other stuff to worry about. Is it a motivational factor?

What a load of crap.

But okay, if that's what it is to boost your website trust, I'd give it a try, I thought.

So I started to read other people's blogs, and couldn't quite find anything that I liked... I could see many new site owners trying to fill in a page with any subject, one after another, back to back. Frankly, I found so much rubbish content during their 30-day challenge (sorry). But that's ok because no one's looking.

Your site is so young that Google won't pick it up anyway. Just keep posting one blog a day... And in a few months' time, or whenever you have a solid number of visitors, you won't have to do a new post more than 1-3 times a week and you'll have spare time. Then it's time for you to go back to those old sad rubbish posts, delete them, or edit the content to make it more meaningful. That's the plan...

That's the plan? No wonder there are over 1 billion websites worldwide...

Quality Contents During The 30 Days Blog Challenge

I think the 30 Days Blog Challenge and the idea of writing quality content are mutually exclusive. If you were a genius like Neil Patel, able to write super-high quality content every single day for 30 days, you'd surely be able to continue that forever.

So here's my dilemma; I'm an accountant, not a writer. English is not my mother language either. I write slowly. Should I write a blog every day for the next 30 days starting today? Even if I end up writing a total trash, close my eyes and press "Publish"? (That'd be fun actually...)

Knowing that I already have valued subscribers and readers from my other sites (thank you so much for your support, I mean it!) I couldn't do that just for the sake of boosting my Alexa ranking.

Harder For Introverts

I think it's harder for introverts than extroverts ("Does Introvert/Extrovert Mean To You (Huh???") to carry out this spontaneous "just do it" task. I think well before I speak (write), and even after I've spoken I think about it again. Everyone else has moved on by then.

As far as the 30-Day Blog Challenge is concerned, it's certainly more advantageous for those who are extroverts. They just write spontaneously. They can just...write about your dog eating your cat's poo out of the litter - in their "Make Money Online" blog... And if they regret, "Oops! Not quite relevant to my website!" is the answer, and it's done. Move on. No one's looking.

Do you think the 30-Day Blog Challenge is worth a try?

No It's Not. Get AI To Do The Job

Now, AI writing tools have taken over a big chunk of content creation, right? It's pretty wild how these programs can whip up an article, a blog post, or even a poem in no time flat. All it takes now is a prompt, and you've got yourself a piece of writing that sounds robotic, but quite convincing.

• Quick and Easy: One of the biggest draws is how fast you can get content. Need a blog post? Give the AI a nudge, and you're set.
• Almost Human: The quality is surprisingly good, making it hard sometimes to tell if a human or an AI wrote it.

With AI stepping in to do the heavy lifting, putting in the effort for something like a 30-day blog challenge might not be worth the hassle. After all, why spend all that time when an AI can churn out content much faster?

Needs Tweaking

So AI-generated text is pretty decent. But it repeats the same expressions over and over again like a broken robotic parrot, tweaking a few words here and there is a common practice. You'd better make a difference in how the final piece reads.

• Personalization: Changing phrases to match your style.
• Originality: Tweaking ensures the content feels new and not just copied from somewhere else.

If AI can draft up something solid, and you can spend a good amount of time making adjustments, then the need to grind out content the old-fashioned way seems, well, outdated, you see?

Time and Effort

Here's the scoop on effort and time: writing traditionally takes both, hugely. Crafting articles, doing research, and then editing? That's a lot of hours. For many, the appeal of a 30-day blog challenge is testing themselves, pushing creativity and discipline. But with AI, the game changes.

• Efficiency Gains: AI cuts down the time you need to produce a blog post drastically.
• Less Stress: Not having to write from scratch every day reduces stress and pressure.

This shift has led some to question the value of pouring so much effort into something that technology can do in a fraction of the time. It's a valid point, right? Why spend days on something when an AI can give you a decent starting point in minutes?

30-day blog challenge? No longer worth the effort.

The reality is, the landscape of content creation has shifted, hugely. AI writing has become a necessity. Creativity or personal insight is losing its place if not it's already lost its place. The way we produce content is evolving.

• Accessibility: AI writing tools are accessible to pretty much anyone, which levels the playing field in content creation.
• Adaptation: Adapting to this new way of creating content is something many are considering, if not already doing.

Leave blogging to stinky old people like me who have nothing better to do, who cannot do anything new to do. You get on top of the latest trends in how to get yourself out there.