Michael Gale<p>So, SEO is kinda dead to me. I don't care about quantity of views, I care about quality of views. </p><p>If a single family member enjoys photos from a trip, the personal website will have served its purpose. </p><p>If I can hand out a webpage I've written up that explains what gear I'm using to a friend, without having to repeat myself whenever that situation arises - the website will have served its purpose.</p><p>Letting my content get slurped up by some faceless LLM trainer, or traditional webcrawler doesn't guarantee a single additional click through. I know that from looking at my metrics in the old times, and with my anonymised Umami metrics.</p><p>Optimising for robots, I believe is now pointless. </p><p>Optimise for humans. Tell a friend about your site. Tell a colleague. Link to it whenever it comes up in an online conversation. Offer your content up with an RSS feed. Get onto a webring. Publish a blog roll. </p><p>Help people find things organically. I really think it will pay dividends in the future.</p><p>I have set my robots.txt to deny everything for a good 6 months or so, and I don't see a reason to switch it back? </p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Search</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SEO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SEO</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SelfHosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfHosted</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Content" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Content</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LLMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLMS</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bing</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSS</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a></p>