What Google Search Console actually is, why running a site for traffic without it is flying blind, and what happened to traffic after adding it. Includes an honest account of why this is a milestone rather than a controlled experiment.
Classic search and AI search want opposite things from a visible date. This is the plan for finding out which matters more on a site of evergreen technical writing — and an honest account of why the obvious version of the experiment cannot work yet.
Photo contributions that have quietly accumulated view counts for years. Same pattern as the YouTube clips — no idea which ones do numbers or why.
Testing whether a post that narrates the moment of confusion — without naming the insight above the fold — reliably outperforms. One data point so far, and it has a confound.
Thirty million automated profile views, three hundred thousand people who looked back, three thousand of them onto my site — and a story that by rights should be my best-performing content but isn't.
Months of gameplay clips where the amount of work that went in had no visible relationship to which ones did numbers. The data is sitting there and I've never pulled it.