Building Audience for Blog

Hi, my name is Corey and I have been playing chess for a few years now. I have recently decided to start blogging and streaming and was wondering if anyone could give me advice on how to get people to read my blog on chess.com. I am unsure how to promote my blog as I don't have many friends on chess.com. Any advice is welcome and thank you ahead of time. Your fellow fan and chess player Corey.

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I looked at your two posts. There wasn't a chess position in them.  Have you got something to say about chess?  You talk about the fun of combinations. Show some that you think were fun.  Set them up as puzzles so that your readers get a chance to try them. You have played more than 13,000 games here.  It would take a long time to go through them but you can start saving decent combinations after you play them. 

Blogs are not a waste of time. They offer you a chance to organize your thoughts for the benefit of you and your readers. You may even learn more than your readers.

People appreciate thoughtful posts, whether they are made in blogs or in the forum.

I agree, I appreciate a good blog, and there are a few people I read regularly and come back to, but by the same token I don’t want to just read waffle/fluff, especially when basic words are spelled wrongly indicating it’s very rushed. A well put together opening survey, amazing tactics, classic games revisited, something on chess history (hard to do better than Batgirls stuff for this but it could still be interesting). Anything that I couldn’t put together myself without a fair bit of research would be of interest.