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Ghost Blogging Unleashed: Embrace the Spooky Fun!

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Ghost Blogging Unleashed: Embrace the Spooky Fun!
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I have decided to return back to blogging and sharing my content online here in a website primarily first.

I may share to social media but I am not sure if that would have time to do that.

One thing I like about blogging is the ease of updating an article and publishing it.

Some of the Ghost Stats are quite impressive for a non profit, they have managed to earn quite a substantial revenue to keep them afloat.

Indie Hackers on how Ghost grew to $750,000 a year

https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-john-onolan-grew-ghost-to-750-000-year-14e5bac2fa

How John O’Nolan Grew Ghost to $750,000/year - Indie Hackers
Hello! 👋🏻  My name is John O’Nolan, and I run a not-for-profit technology foundation which makes technology for journalists. Our main product is…
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Looking at Ghost CMS, I think the software and service will be around for a very long time. they seem to have reach about 4.2 Million in Anual Recurring Revenue in 2022, but its higher this year and I feel they will be able to sustain themselves for the future.

Ghost - Open Startups Profile
Open source technology for fiercely independent publishers. Use Ghost to run a modern publication where you own the platform & control your content
Ghost - The Professional Publishing Platform

I was considering substack but when there was a free version to try Ghost I jumped in quickly to give it a spin.

Some of the pros of writing with Ghost

  • Focused Software just meant for Blogging
  • Built in newsletter software you can send emails here with new posts
  • multiple newsletters
  • No Plugins to worry about
  • Stripe Payments
  • Free hosting if you use Digital Press
  • Paid options using Ghosts Pro
  • forces you to focus just on creating content.

Cons

  • Need to use integrations which can get expensive if you use a lot
  • Can't verify that SEO works well
  • Ghost is blogging focused you can't make other functions unlike wordpress
  • no plugins you can install, have to develope your own tools
  • multimedia support seems more limited than Wordpress you have to use HTML embeds for other media
  • Sometimes youtube embeds don't work well
  • More developer focused from the markdown writing to its code like publishing
  • mobile publishing not really there yet like medium or wordpress app there is third party apps like Ghost Writer

Conclusion

I think for now Ghost has been an intering piece of software forcing me to keep publising my writing. I have less worries about maintaining a website and just focus on creating my posts.

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