September Sluggishness

September Buttodown traffic ended because I've migrated all archives to Netlify and the comparison to August for the Fudge Sunday weekly newsletter is slightly skewed to appear higher — but LinkedIn Creator Dashboard metrics dropped again.

I'll learn more about the long tail of my content in the coming weeks and months.

As a reminder of those not subscribed to the Fudge Sunday weekly newsletter...

September Posts Roundup

Designed Sealed Delivered 2023 Sep 24

Clean My Bookmarks 2023 Sep 17

A.I. For You 2023 Sep 10

Out of Sequence Update 2023 Sep 06

Little Green Tags 2023 Sep 03

Google Analytics Top 3 says...

A.I. For You 2023 Sep 10

Designed Sealed Delivered 2023 Sep 24

Out of Sequence Update 2023 Sep 06

LinkedIn Top 3 says...

Once again, my LinkedIn stats fell last month to ~9k impressions. For perspective, July saw ~12k impressions and August saw ~10k impressions. This month, the notion of a vanity metric alignment at around 10k impressions seems to be supported as the top 2 of 3 swapped places compared to Google Analytics and the audience on LinkedIn seems to really enjoy Internet history of bookmarking services. ??

Clean My Bookmarks 2023 Sep 17

Designed Sealed Delivered 2023 Sep 24

A.I. For You 2023 Sep 10

September Most Popular Links

Below are the most clicked links within Fudge Sunday for the month of September according to Buttondown statistics:

LinkedIn Creator Dashboard

I will continue to share the analytics link from the?Feed?to the new?Dashboard.

Note: While not "new" the almost LLM like suggestions on what to write do update

This month my traffic continued to drop

When The Music Ends...

As you might recall, my newsletter takes a musical inspiration and those songs are added to a Spotify playlist. I have decided that once the Spotify playlist hits the 100th song influenced post milestone I will probably go in a different direction for inspiration.

This weekend I reached the 99th song influenced!

Just one (1!) more to go...

Related to that change, my weekly newsletter will see a few formatting changes.

• Work Plug section will be removed entirely (unless there is something I want to share) which should give me back 45 words for the 500-1000 words that readers tolerate ??
• My workflow is now driven by Obsidian and automation
• Embedded rich cards for URLs will shift from mikrolink (thank you!) to an alternative and I've removed the unfurl feature in the archive (for now).
• I’ll wrap up all the changes in time for a Zettelkasten End of Tear for 2023 similar in format to my 2022 edition...

Conclusions

I still feel that LinkedIn Creator metrics transparency is lacking — problematic at best and opaque at worst. This is why POSSE was and still remains advisable.

As always, thanks for reading!

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