Oddly, my Facebook traffic is up. It was never super high to begin with, so it didn’t really have anywhere to go but up, but my number of Facebook shares went from essentially zero to double digits, and that resulted in more traffic.

I’ve also had increased traffic to some items of local interest. I can’t attribute that to Facebook but I can’t attribute it to anything else specific either. Posting that kind of stuff to a page visible to the public does seem like a good way to drum up traffic. When someone punches in the name of a defunct St. Louis institution, they’ll at least get my blog post about it.

I still have mixed feelings about the change and if I had my druthers, I’d post both to my personal feed and to the page. But the change did at least make me think about ways to promote my blog that I hadn’t thought of before.