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This. Also, make sure you have an RSS feed on your site. RSS helps people get back to your site for new content later on.

• pmlnr 7y ago
  Even Firefox dropped it's built-in RSS support by now, so for the current September generation, this is meaningless, unfortunately. Still, as infrastructure, it's very important, because it's simple to transform RSS into other formats: JSON feed, h-feed[^1], etc. As for how to "follow" (I'd prefer to use subscribe instead) a personal site these days, it's a hard problem, reasonably well documented here: https://indieweb.org/follow https://indieweb.org/follow There is a current effort, called microsub[^2] to tackle the problem, but it's new, and is not user friendly enough at all. Alternatively you can make your site compatible with services like https://fed.brid.gy/ https://fed.brid.gy/ and people on fediverse[^3] instances will be able to follow it. Trouble with these: all of them require some (ranging from install wordpress plugins to write your own service) technical knowledge, and therefore contributions to solving them and making them more accessible, are more, than welcome. [^1]: http://www.unmung.com/ http://www.unmung.com/ [^2]: https://indieweb.org/Microsub https://indieweb.org/Microsub [^3]: https://fediverse.network/ https://fediverse.network/
  • ahje 7y ago
    If we'd be talking about any category other than "the old Internet", I'd say you were absolutely right. In this case, though, we are specifically talking old-school web sites and I therefore maintain that RSS should be included. :)