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That's one of the reason I have not added Analytics to my website. I don't want to create my content based on how shareable it is. I want to create something that I consider to be of high quality. Surely at some point it will be shared for this reason.

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... how will you know? Without measuring "success" (however you define it) you will never know.

It may have already happened and you missed it.

I share my site on reddit on a regular basis and I get direct feedback from redditors.

My definition of success is when people share my site because they see it as something very valuable (hopefuly one day...). I can't really miss it since the same questions come back over and over in the subreddit in which I'm active (taht's probably the case for the whole of reddit as well).

The money you would receive from ads.

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