I used to name my blog posts meticulously and provide detailed metadata with attention to (good, honest) SEO. The problem is that, while many of us here might use DDG, for the vast majority of people search = Google. And Google has changed its search results to outright hide a lot of standalone personal blogs, even if you search for the exact terms that are used in the blog entries. And there is a lot of content from the first decade of the new millennium that remains just as relevant today, because no one has posted anything more recent at such a length and detail, but Google has simply chosen to deprioritize older content.
I get 5k views on my articles each week just from search traffic.