Mastodawn

I do zero analytics on any of my web traffic, so this is just a guess, but I should be surprised if many people come to my sites via Google.

I am just a bloke with a Raspberry Pi running a website and two blogs.

I suspect that, of whatever traffic I get, most comes from links I (and others) post here, and from RSS subscribers.

Similarly, I don't think that I found any of the blogs or sites that I read regularly via a search engine.

Word of mouth (webrings, people posting about stuff they've enjoyed / their own work etc.) ftw.

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Jaimie's Erotica 5d ago

@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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Neil Brown 5d ago

@Jaimieserotica

> Masto is the SM platform that I'm most active on but the traffic I get from here is now virtually nothing.

Ooh, interesting.

I'm sorry to hear that, because you are a lot of fun here.

And I think that, early/earlier on, you were getting a fair amount of fedi-originated traffic? So I wonder what (if anything) has changed.

But your writing is wonderful and deserves more attention!

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Richard @RBPhotographic 5d ago

@neil @Jaimieserotica it’s how I discovered @Jaimieserotica and her wonderful writing. I hate the fact I have to maintain a Instagram account to keep in contact with models as more have moved away from photography and modelling forums.

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Jaimie's Erotica

@rbphotographic @neil
Instagram... *shudders*
I don't think I've seen so many unsolicited dick-pics in my life as when I had an Insta account (both times)
It's one of the reasons I came to Mastodon in the first place. Folks are generally much more respectful here.