Mastodawn

@neil
We run different sorts of blogs but...
As at today, most of my traffic comes from SEs and most of that from Google.
Masto is the SM platform that I'm most active on but the traffic I get from here is now virtually nothing. I get more traffic from Bluesky where I have less than a 3rd of the followers I have here. Engagement with my toots here which promote my writing is dwindling. Elsewhere, there's been a great response to my piece that was published last week. Here, its felt like 'meh'.

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Ben Hardill May 20

@Jaimieserotica @neil Mastodon doesn't send any referrer headers by default (it can be enabled after a recent release to enable it, but it is suggested only do it on bigger instances to help anonymise visitors)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/mastodon-now-sends-referer-headers-hurrah/

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Sundial

@ben oh interesting, I didn't know about that. I suppose I'm not terribly bothered about where the traffic comes from on my website, since I hadn't even thought about this :)

Thank you for the heads-up. Might take a proper look at how it works later.