Feeds, sharing, and blog analytics

How readers find your posts

Your published posts live on your project's public portal at /blog. The public blog gives readers a search box, category browsing, and a Subscribe to updates menu.

Feeds and sitemap

The Subscribe to updates menu on the public blog offers three machine-readable views of your posts:

• RSS feed — the classic feed format, readable by any feed reader.
• Atom feed — the same content in the Atom format, which some readers and automation tools prefer.
• Sitemap — a list of your blog URLs for search engines.

All three are generated automatically from your published posts. There's nothing to turn on, and nothing to regenerate after you publish — a new post shows up in the feeds as soon as it goes live.

Drafts and scheduled posts are never included. A scheduled post enters the feeds at its publish time, not before.

What appears when a post is shared

Two fields in the post editor control how a post looks when someone pastes the link into a chat app, a social network, or a search result:

• Meta description — the summary text. If you leave it empty, there's nothing for search engines to show under your title.
• Thumbnail — the preview image. It's used both as the post card image in your blog listing and as the social preview image.

The Excerpt is a separate field and serves a different purpose — it's the summary shown in post lists and carried into the feeds. It's worth filling in both.

Cross-posting from another site

If a post also exists elsewhere and you want search engines to credit the original, a post can carry a canonical URL. This field isn't exposed in the post editor — set it through the AppGram API or the MCP server when creating or updating the post.

Seeing what gets read

Blog performance lives on the Analytics page, in a Blog section at the bottom titled Post performance and readership. It has its own time-range control — last 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, or last year — and shows:

• Views over time — a chart of blog views across the selected range.
• Top posts by views — your most-read posts, ranked.

View data only starts accumulating once a post is published, so a brand-new blog will look empty for a day or two.

Tips

• Link your RSS feed from your website footer or docs. Readers who subscribe don't need to be re-marketed to.
• Fill in the meta description on every post you expect to attract search traffic.
• Check Top posts by views monthly. The posts people actually read are usually a good guide to what to write next.