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It used to be that you'd get your traffic from Google. That one good tutorial you wrote would bring a steady stream of visitors for years. But for a few years n
by lrem 4y ago
It used to be that you'd get your traffic from Google. That one good tutorial you wrote would bring a steady stream of visitors for years. But for a few years now Google has a strong preference for fresh. Fresh links matter more than long-standing ones, fresh content will place higher than a more refined, but older take on the same subject... And there's a whole industry of people who spend their days, um, "paraphrasing" what you wrote. Can't win as a hobbyist :(
- barrysteve 4y agoFinding the quality writing on blogs and forums is getting harder via Google. I love those old tutorials, but Google wants to recommend the same topics/websites again and again. The copy&paste spam blogs are hiding more knowledge behind paywalls and ebooks. We need a new, more unpopular discovery engine for tech people and geeks?
- memorable 4y agoThere are pretty good search engines for discovering obscure corners of the Internet. I use Teclis[0] mainly for finding inspiration. [0]: https://teclis.com https://teclis.com
- iamacyborg 4y agoThis doesn’t match the data I see coming out of Google Search Console