Blog Building

Got the email from Google AdSense again. “Policy violation found.” Same reason as last time — “low value content.” My second rejection in a row. I stared at the screen for a good five minutes. 54 published posts. An About page, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, Contact page — all there. What exactly is “low value” about […]

One month ago, on May 28, 2026, I published my first blog post. It was called “How I Built a WordPress Blog in 30 Minutes Using AI,” and I had no idea if anyone would ever read it. Today, roughly 26 days later, I’m sitting on 50+ published posts, a fully automated Telegram-based publishing system,

The 90/10 Split: How a Solo Developer Automated Almost Everything When I started reapbountifully.com, I figured I’d spend hours every day writing, editing, optimizing, and publishing. That’s what blogging is, right? Sit down, stare at a blank screen, wrestle with words, fiddle with SEO settings, hunt for images, and finally hit publish. Turns out, most

I’ve been blogging for about a month now. In that time, I’ve made almost every SEO mistake a beginner can make — and I discovered most of them by seeing red dots in my Yoast SEO panel or wondering why Google wasn’t noticing my content. This post is a real accounting of what went wrong,

Let me be completely transparent with you: every single post on this blog was written by AI. All 44 of them. Claude, specifically — Anthropic’s AI assistant. And I’m not hiding it. I’m not pretending to type out these 1,500-word posts while sipping coffee at a Seoul cafe. I’m a Korean developer who uses AI

I run this blog on a $6/month VPS from Vultr. No managed hosting. No security team. Just me, a terminal, and a healthy dose of paranoia. When I first set up this WordPress site, I realized something uncomfortable: I’m responsible for everything. If someone hacks my server, that’s on me. If my blog gets turned

I stared at my WordPress dashboard, then at my Google AdSense page, then back at my dashboard. Something was wrong. “Where the hell is my AdSense verification code?” I had just updated the Astra theme from version 4.13.3 to 4.13.4. A minor update. A point release. The kind you click “Update” on without thinking twice.

This is Part 4 of my “Running a Blog from Telegram” series. Quick recap: Part 1 built the bot and published the first post. Part 2 added draft review, feedback loops, and scheduling buttons after a feedback disaster nearly broke everything. Part 3 introduced the /trending command — Google Trends analysis that suggests blog topics

In about 11 days, I’m planning to submit my blog — reapbountifully.com — to Google AdSense. It’ll be roughly 12 days since launch, with 30+ published posts. Will it get approved? Honestly, I have no idea. But instead of just hitting “apply” and hoping for the best, I’m going through every requirement and recommendation I

In Part 1, I reactivated my dormant Google AdSense account and added reapbountifully.com as a new site. That was the easy part — just clicking through Google’s UI. Part 2 is where the code comes in. And honestly? It was even easier. Scene 5: The Verification Code After clicking “시작하기” (Get Started) on the site