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by JPLeRouzic 1276 days ago
* I have a (very) low traffic blog [0]

It is indexed by most search engines and alas by SEO companies. They sometimes index my site several times a day, yet there are only 200 to 500 real users per day (verified with Google, Apache's logs and Cloudflare). I use Google [2] and Bing console webmaster tools (which results sometimes in a lot of work because Google has weird requests). It is probably a waste of time for a low traffic blog but as I use my own code, I don't want to make mistakes. I have 500 to 900 clicks per month on Google.

The best thing I find for traffic is to insert my blog URL in my signature when I post on very specific websites. (see @dazc comment).

* One on my daughters has a small shop selling weighted blankets for France and possibly western Europe. She has also ~400 visitors per day, does not care of any form of SEO (even low hanging fruits), but once per week she makes a Twitter post [3] about her cat which is also her site's mascot.

[0] https://padiracinnovation.org/News/

[1] https://sistercatblankets.com

[2] https://search.google.com/search-console

[3] https://twitter.com/SCBlankets/status/1598316934528991233