Saturday, February 18, 2023

Saturday Blogging Thoughts

 Ever since I returned to daily blogging; especially when I changed the blog template and removed DISQUS for comments the traffic to this site has tanked.  On top of that Google Search Console is barfing all over the site's pages and no longer indexing them.  I don't run this site for the page views, the SEO, or to monetize (at most I do Amazon referral links so I can get more crap on Amazon I don't really need).

 That had me looking at what Blogger offers these days... and... that is nothing.  Seems like Google is just letting Blogger coast.  So off to Reddit's blogging subreddit to ask if I am crazy and to see what else is out there.

 That resulted in some suggestions I'll be evaluating

  • Substack
  • Publii (static site)
  • Wordpress
  • Ghost.org
  • and some more in the thread

If you have a thought toss it in the comments. 

Reddit thread embedded below:


2 comments:

  1. I'm never really sure why people keep bagging on Blogger. It works fine for me and Google's benign neglect is one of the best things about it. I'd take that any day over the constant fiddling and change for change's sake you get with every app i active development.

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    1. That is one way to look at it that I had not considered.

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