Ya I'm with you, it's getting more and more complex to get your website listed high enough on Google to draw any significant traffic because all the huge blogs have SEO experts that ensure they are listed high. Plus once you get listed high enough you have to maintain that traffic to make any money from ads, I just don't have the drive to put in all that work on something that might just not work out. Steemit is far from perfect but it gives people a chance to get seen and make some profit along the way, there are some fantastic writers and creators on this site when you really take a few minutes to look around.