📡 RSS, SEO, and the Questionable Grok Experience

Added an RSS feed today. Scraped the old content so I could clean it up instead of letting it rot in place. Did the sitemap and the usual SEO bits so the thing isn’t completely invisible.

Then I tried using Grok to speed some of it up.

The experience was questionable at best. Useful in short bursts, then it would confidently rewrite something that already worked, drop a line I specifically asked to keep, or suggest a change that broke the part I’d spent hours on the night before. Classic. Argue with the data, not the caption — except sometimes the caption was the only thing that survived.

Still cheaper than the usual stack. Still no paid posts. Still slightly cursed.

You’re welcome. Or sorry. Depends on whether the feed is the thing you wanted or the part that got rewritten.