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🆕 blog! “RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google”

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1.

I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site.

I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a …

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Ivo Limmen

@ivolimmen@toot.community · 3 hours ago

@Edent This also confirms that you audience it tech savvy.

Dr. Gilad Yadin

@yadin@techpolicy.social · 2 days ago

@Edent That sounds like a very healthy statistic. I find that it's easier to assess RSS traffic and other passive sources by analyzing raw server access logs. If you can get them, just upload them to your favorite AI (I use Claude) and prompt it to do the analysis.

Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

@yadin I know how to use a spreadsheet - I don't need an AI to add up a column of numbers.

Dr. Gilad Yadin

@yadin@techpolicy.social · 2 days ago

@Edent That's a pretty big spreadsheet.

Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

@yadin I don't know how else to tell you that deterministic computers are pretty good at *reliably* adding up numbers these days.

Basic maths doesn't need an AI.

zrzz

@zrzz@macaw.social · 2 days ago

@Edent The search engine numbers are interesting too. Wouldn't have expected DDG to be within 20% of Google.

Terence Eden

@Edent@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

@zrzz I suspect that the technical nature of my blog isn't reflective of DDG's actual size.
Mind you, I still get hits from Yahoo!

Justin Mason

@jmason@mastodon.ie · 2 days ago

@Edent I should take a look. A few years back, Google decided my blog was a scam site for some reason? (I used to write a lot about anti-spam and phishing, so there may have been scam signatures in old posts). They delisted it almost entirely from the search index. Even after escalating and supposedly getting the issue resolved, nowadays I get zero traffic from them