Why Most Bloggers Quit in the First 90 Days (And How I Survived It)

Introduction: A Wrong Word and a Laptop Screen

It all started back in 2022. I was just wasting time on YouTube, scrolling through random videos, when I suddenly heard a new term Blogging. To be completely honest, I had absolutely no idea what a blog actually was back then. I used to watch vlogs on YouTube all the time, so my initial thought was that the creator had just mispronounced the word. I literally thought he meant to say ‘vlog’ but it came out as ‘blog’ by mistake.

But then, after seeing a couple more videos specifically talking about ‘blog writing,’ it clicked in my head. I realized I needed to do some research. I opened Google, typed it in, and finally discovered that blogs are websites where people write articles. After spending a bit more time researching, I found out that people actually earn a lot of money from this. Since I had a passion for writing since childhood, I thought this was the perfect field for me. That was the very first step of my journey, and I set up my first free blog on the Blogger platform.

The videos I watched made massive claims about earning hundreds of dollars every month. My interest grew rapidly. I thought to myself, “If other people can earn from this, why can’t I? I should give it a try, maybe my luck will work out too.” But there was one major catch I did not tell a single soul in my house about this. My family background was completely different. No one belonged to the computer field, and nobody had any technical knowledge. They didn’t even know what blogging meant. Luckily, because of my personal interest in computers, I already owned a laptop. So, I quietly opened my screen at night and started working.

Choosing a Niche and the Dream of “Financial Hub”

When it came to naming my very first blog, I spent a lot of time thinking before finalizing the title “Financial Hub.” There was an actual strategy behind this choice. I had learned from those YouTube videos that finance was a niche with the highest RPM. At that time, I didn’t know the exact technical definition of RPM, but hearing that word made me assume it was simply the rate of money you get paid per view. The logic was clear: less traffic, but more money.

My ultimate goal was to build a central website where all small and big information related to finance would be available in one place. Whenever local people searched for financial details, they would find everything on my site. ‘Finance’ was my target niche, and ‘Hub’ meant a central place where everything connects. With this dream in mind, I set up Financial Hub. I didn’t have money to buy a custom domain, so I chose a high-quality, premium Blogger theme that was specifically optimized to be AdSense-friendly. I wanted to get approved without spending a single penny.

The 3-Hour Grind and the Copy-Paste Shortcut

When I published my very first article, I had only one obsession in my head I wanted to move forward, get AdSense approval, and turn this into a permanent source of income. Back then, I was still studying. My daily routine was tightly packed: I had college in the morning, coaching classes right after, and whatever tiny amount of time was left, I would open my laptop. That was the schedule every single day. But the moment my earnings barely started through AdSterra, it gave me a massive shock of motivation. I immediately started dedicating two and a half to three hours daily to blogging.

During the first month, my biggest struggle was simply finding topics. I would spend hours staring at the dashboard wondering what to write. To be totally blunt, I was trying to play smart. I found a massive, international-level finance website (I can’t recall the exact name because it’s an old story now), and I started directly copy-pasting their articles. I literally cloned their menus, replicated their pages, and stole their structure. It didn’t require any real struggle. I was publishing one article every alternate day (every two days). Once I saw a few cents moving in my AdSterra dashboard, I increased my speed. I started pumping out two to three copy-pasted articles a day with just minor adjustments. I genuinely thought I had hacked the system.

Impressions vs. Clicks: My First Big Mistake

Around that time, I opened Google Search Console and noticed that my site was getting a few impressions. I was incredibly happy! I genuinely believed that impressions meant real traffic was landing on my site and reading my words. At that stage, I had zero knowledge about indexing or click-through rates (CTR). I didn’t understand that an impression just means your site showed up on a page, and it doesn’t mean anyone actually clicked on it. But that initial feedback felt great. It made me think, “The site is working, the clicks will follow soon.”

My brain took a massive hit when I started working on my cousin’s website. He had approached me directly and offered me the project to build the entire site because his plan was to flip it and sell it. The moment I shifted to his site, my lazy copy-paste shortcut completely died. On that platform, I had to actually research topics from scratch, collect information from completely different corners of the internet, and write it myself. That was the first time I realized how incredibly difficult real article writing actually is. I used to sit there feeling lost, asking myself, “Why is Google ignoring me? How does indexing even work?” As problems kept popping up, I kept fixing them one by one. When a problem got stuck, I felt miserable; when it got fixed, I felt an instant rush of relief.

The Weight of $0.12 and the 45-Day Wall

In my first 30 days of blogging, I had calculated everything perfectly in my head. When my earnings initially hit 0.12 dollars, I assumed that making $1 a day would be an easy target from there on. If I could reach $30 a month in my current position, it felt highly achievable. But my expectations were completely crushed. Instead of making quick money, I received a tiny fraction of a dollar after putting in an agonizing amount of time. It took me around 10 to 15 days just to move from $0.06 to $0.52! Watching that slow graph crawl up day by day breaks your spirit from the inside.

Still, going into the second month, I forced myself to stay in the game. I told myself, “Ammar, you are already in this field now, you have to do something.” My motivation was definitely lower than day one, but there was a stubborn stubbornness inside me that wanted success, even if it meant giving it extra hours. For the first 45 days, I was completely consistent. I followed my alternate-day schedule perfectly down to the minute. But right after day 45, something inside my head broke.

When you don’t see any real money coming in, discouragement creeps in. I became completely inconsistent. Sometimes I wouldn’t post for two days, sometimes three days would pass, and then out of guilt, I would rush an article out in twenty-four hours. The routine was completely fractured. This broken cycle dragged on until the end of the second month (60 days), and the gaps between my posts grew wider and wider until I started pulling away entirely.

A Casual Gathering and a Friend’s Advice

During that phase when I was feeling deeply demotivated, I was sitting with my friends one evening. It wasn’t a special meeting or a business planning session; we were just having a casual conversation about daily life. Out of nowhere, one of my friends mentioned AdSterra. He told me that while waiting for AdSense approval, I could easily use this ad network to start making some money.

That was the exact moment my excitement shot back up. He opened his laptop right there and showed me his AdSterra dashboard showing exactly 0.12 dollars. That was all the proof I needed. I instantly thought, “If this guy can make 12 cents, I can write two good articles and make way more than him!” The moment I got home, I integrated AdSterra into my site. When the first few cents showed up on my screen, my happiness was unexplainable. I would sit down with a notepad and calculate: if one article makes this many cents, how many dollars will 3 daily articles make in a month? Seeing those first 12 cents was a moment of pure joy.

The Red Warning: How Google Broke My Heart

But that happiness was incredibly short-lived. I was working day and night, flooding the site with two to three copy-pasted articles a day, thinking my site was finally growing. Then came a dark morning. I opened my Blogger dashboard, and a bright Red Warning Message was staring right back at me: Your account has been suspended.

My entire body went numb. I sat there staring at the screen in pure shock for a long time. I couldn’t comprehend why this happened. I had sacrificed my sleep, worked through late nights, and in a single second, everything was permanently deleted. My hard work, my articles, my data all reduced to zero. That was the most painful and difficult moment of my blogging journey. Out of pure anger, I told myself that Google is a fraud, Google is useless, it cheats everyone, and making money online is completely fake. I slammed my laptop shut and processed that grief entirely alone. I didn’t tell my parents, and I didn’t tell my friends. I dealt with that failure in absolute silence.

Moving to WordPress and the Cousin’s Site Shock

After the Blogger disaster, I gathered my courage and built a brand new site on WordPress. The site was completely ready, but because of the fear and anger inside me, I didn’t use a single bit of practical SEO for the next 4 to 6 months. The site just sat there like a ghost on the internet. Then one day, I looked at it and thought, “Since the site is already built and everything is ready, why not give it one more shot? It is possible things might work out this time.” I shifted my focus back to the blog section, created a proper strategy, and started fixing everything that violated Google AdSense policies.

During this period, my cousin offered me his site to build and complete because he wanted to sell it. The niche of this site was Maritime Equipment. It was a topic I knew absolutely nothing about and had zero interest in. I applied for AdSense on his site. When the notification came, the screen said: “Update your application”. I immediately assumed my website was rejected. My heart sank because back then, nobody was helping online, and no one gave accurate advice. But I didn’t give up. I wrote two to three more articles, cleaned up the design, made it better, put 110% of my personal effort into it, and applied for the second time.

The Double Rejection and the 99% Defeat Factor

The second response was exactly the same—another rejection. My mind was completely blown away with frustration. I had put so much effort into a site about maritime equipment, a topic that bored me to death, and Google still threw it back in my face. At that point, it became fixed in my mind that I would never get AdSense approval. I talked to a couple of other people in the market, and their sites were getting rejected repeatedly too. They discouraged me even more, saying, “Ammar, getting AdSense approval is impossible now. Google has stopped approving new websites entirely.” I thought if Google isn’t approving top-tier sites, why would it care about mine? I lost all hope and stopped working completely.

This exact mindset is why 99.9% of new bloggers quit within their first 90 days. People enter this field thinking blogging is an overnight lottery. They expect to do superficial work, copy a few things, and see a rain of dollars the next morning without any real sacrifice. The moment they realize it takes months of hard work just to earn a few cents, their motivation plummets, and they quit forever. The dream of overnight success becomes the exact reason for their overnight downfall.

The Paraphrasing Trap: What I Didn’t Know

Let me tell you the absolute, unfiltered truth about why my cousin’s site got smashed with rejections. During that time, I was under intense pressure. I was dealing with hard studies, running back and forth between college and my coaching center. I barely had any time to sit down and breathe, let alone write a high-quality manual article on complex maritime machinery.

So, what did I do? I fell into the paraphrasing trap. Because I didn’t know how to create original content from scratch, I would open other established websites, take their information, and spin or paraphrase it into my own sentences. I wasn’t creating anything new; I was just repackaging existing digital noise.

I had absolutely no idea what EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) meant. I didn’t know that Google’s algorithm is smart enough to detect when a site has zero real expertise and is just shuffling words around. My entire focus was blindly fixed on just hitting the “Publish” button and increasing the post count. I thought numbers mattered more than quality. That ignorance cost me months of hard work and led to nothing but continuous rejections.

The Ammar Manzar Mirror Test: Why I Am Still Standing

I never wasted my energy comparing myself to other successful bloggers. My fight was always against the person in the mirror. Every single evening, I would look at myself and ask:

“How was the Ammar of yesterday, and how is the Ammar of today? What is the actual difference, and how much have I improved?”

I focused entirely on whether my personal changes were positive or negative. Instead of holding jealousy toward others, your entire focus should be on self-improvement, not on pulling someone else down.

If I could travel six years back in time and meet the Ammar from 2020, I would look him in the eye and say, “The steps you took were absolutely perfect.” Because if I hadn’t made those mistakes back then, if I hadn’t faced that failure with Financial Hub, and if my Blogger account hadn’t been suspended, I wouldn’t be standing here running ammarmanzar.com today. The most painful moment in a blogging journey is when you put your entire soul into a goal and it fails. This happens in every single career path.

My 90-Day AdSense Approval Blueprint

If a new blogger comes to me today on day 60, crying that “Ammar bhai, nothing is happening, I want to quit,” I will ask them one brutal question: “Why did you start this in the first place?”

If Your Core Intention Is:	Then Your Only Real Strategy Should Be:
Pure Passion (Shauk)	Have patience (sabr), clean up the rough text, and keep typing without checking analytics.
Quick Money (Overnight)	Stop entirely or work for 3 months without expecting a single dime while fixing technical errors.

The only people who succeed in blogging are those who refuse to back down after facing multiple failures. The biggest lesson I learned in my 90-day struggle is this: Be completely consistent, work with absolute honesty, avoid shortcuts or double policies, and completely forget about the results. If you constantly stress over whether you will pass or fail, you will never be able to work with a free mind. When your work becomes genuinely high quality, Google will deliver the results automatically.

My Mission for ammarmanzar.com

I have returned to blogging on ammarmanzar.com because I have a genuine passion (shauk) for writing. I find real joy in putting my raw experiences and experiments out there for people to read. But more importantly, I have a deep desire to help people who are currently stuck in the exact same dark, confusing spots where I used to lose my sanity. YouTube videos only give half-cooked information, and nobody explains the full reality of things like EEAT and copyright, which leads to innocent beginners getting banned. I want to make sure that the losses I faced and the grief I dealt with alone are never repeated by another new creator.

The exact day I secure AdSense approval on this site, the very first thing I will do is complete all my pending projects. Right after that, I will use my platform and resources to help new bloggers technically and financially as much as possible.

The golden rule of blogging is simple: Be consistent and loyal with your work. Always focus on providing real value to your readers. If you commit to becoming 1% better every single day by learning from your own failures and dropping the shortcuts, no force on the internet can stop you from gaining AdSense approval and conquering this field.