X
Its original name was Twitter.
I don’t have the habit of posting short text-image updates, and I rarely check X or post on X.
However, AI told me that if I want blog posts to get traffic, I should consider sharing them on social media like X or forums like Reddit.
Only platform traffic will bring traffic and high-quality backlinks to blog websites.
Especially Bing, which values traffic coming from X.
So I plan to generate cover images with links for my blog posts and publish them to the blog.
X API
I added X’s API publishing feature to my app.
However, it prompted me that I had no quota. I looked into it, and it turns out I need to pay to use the API.
So I gave up and will just use the browser’s built-in X sharing function.
I’ve already tested sharing an article, and the image is viewable.
But for some reason, there’s a delay of a few minutes.
It made me think that sharing the cover image with a link had failed, but thankfully there were no major issues.
Other
My current thoughts:
Relying solely on Google and Bing search engines, after 3 months, I’ve only gotten a few search engine clicks.
Among these, Google went from indexing a dozen links to indexing zero. I don’t know what’s wrong with it.
It may simply be a coincidence, but it is still worth recording as a platform reliability concern.
Don’t give me any crap about self-checking. Google just loves spam sites, content farms, and gray-hat sites. It’s been decades, and it hasn’t changed.
Honest nerds would have been ruined long ago.