RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google – Terence Eden’s Blog

5 months ago by AngelikaMerkel to c/technology

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 fairly semantic layout, all my reviews have metadata, and stuff like that - but I'm not…

MonkderVierte 54 points 5 months ago

If an email is opened and the tracker image is loaded, I get a hit

Yeah, you should disable this feature in your client. Spammers use that data too, to determine if the address is active, can be spammed more.

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ZoteTheMighty 2 points 5 months ago

If you use a duck duck go email, they'll filter that for you.

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WhyJiffie 2 points 5 months ago

protonmail too

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spring_cedar_dust 18 points 5 months ago

One is repeat users and the other is new potential users. This is two different type of users. It is probably expected that repeat users outnumber new users

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Yerbouti 17 points 5 months ago

RSS was always all we needed.

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phonics 6 points 5 months ago

He's tracking fedi too. Guess that's a +1 from me on that stat.

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mike_wooskey 2 points 5 months ago

Holy shit how can you read that? For a minute I thought the text was encoded until maybe I clicked a button, then I thought it might be Arabic, now I see that's it's English but I can't even make out all the letters. No thanks.

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trem 20 points 5 months ago

Did you maybe accidentally turn on the "drunk" mode at the top?

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mike_wooskey 18 points 5 months ago

It does seem like what I'm seeing would be someone's idea/joke of a drunk mode, but it's how the page loads for me - I didn't click anything. And I can't read the buttons to see if one days "turn off drunk mode".

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Venator 7 points 5 months ago

Press one of these two buttons (🌒Dark) (☀️Light): 1295

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Akagigahara 4 points 5 months ago

You can switch the themes right below the socials and the profile picture. I have no idea what happened, because when I load the site, it's loading in dark mode. It's definitely the drunk mode, though that button is off-screen

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Fisch 4 points 5 months ago

Weird, it didn't activate it by default for me. But it's just one of the themes at the top. Just click "Dark" or something and it'll switch to that.

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edent 3 points 5 months ago

Hey! I run that website - sorry the Drunk Mode was confusing. It shouldn't activate by default. Have you previously visited and turned it on?

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mike_wooskey 1 point 5 months ago

I don't remember your name or the URL, and I'm not finding it in my browsing history, but it's possible I visited before. But I can't imagine why I would have ever turned on drunk mode, let alone left it on.

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dantheclamman 2 points 5 months ago

Lmao beer goggles for the web, activating at random

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MonkderVierte 1 point 5 months ago

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