If a self-host blog post falls in the woods and no one is there to read it...is transitioning from Commune Y or Z a sound worth whining about? :)
It's only sharecropping if you allow it to be.Furthermore, SEO take more. There's a reason it's its own industry. So early on, are you better off learning SEO and working at it? Or becoming a better communicator, publishing content, finding fit, and getting traction?
SEO is marketing. It is a tool. Not every business and business model is the right fit for that tool. Full stop.
p.s. VC invest in a lot of things. Most fail. A few deliver marginal returns. A sliver deliver. I'm not so sure it's a lens that applies here.
That said, if Medium, etc. are so bad, why doesn't the market reflect that? If content is king, and you're the content producer, then that makes you the land owner.
Yes, SEO is valuable. But to base your entire decision on it and only it, and apply it in a OSFA way is foolish.
If there's a platform to avoid it's FB. That content is walled in and locked down.
It's only sharecropping if you allow it to be.Furthermore, SEO take more. There's a reason it's its own industry. So early on, are you better off learning SEO and working at it? Or becoming a better communicator, publishing content, finding fit, and getting traction?
SEO is marketing. It is a tool. Not every business and business model is the right fit for that tool. Full stop.
p.s. VC invest in a lot of things. Most fail. A few deliver marginal returns. A sliver deliver. I'm not so sure it's a lens that applies here.
That said, if Medium, etc. are so bad, why doesn't the market reflect that? If content is king, and you're the content producer, then that makes you the land owner.
Yes, SEO is valuable. But to base your entire decision on it and only it, and apply it in a OSFA way is foolish.
If there's a platform to avoid it's FB. That content is walled in and locked down.