47 Blog Posts, Zero Traffic: What I Learned About SEO the Hard Way

I wrote 47 blog posts for my startup. Google Search Console says I get about 45 impressions per month, not clicks, impressions. One impression per post per month, which is basically the same as not existing. I was doing a monthly review, spreadsheet open, ready to log wins. The impressions column said 38 for the whole month, for 47 posts. I closed the laptop and went for a walk. I did everything the guides said I'm building IFS Space, an AI companion for Internal Family Systems self-therapy. Solo founder, bootstrapped. When I launched, I followed the playbook: blog, long-tail keywords, publish consistently. So I did, 47 times. I had the spreadsheet, the content calendar, the conviction that volume wins. One post was targeting "IFS therapy exercises." I'd done the keyword research, decent volume, low competition. Still ranks nowhere. Ahrefs found that 96.55% of all pages get zero traffic from Google. I knew that stat when I started. Didn't really understand it until I became it. The iro