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PodCastle

podcastle.org · a site they built themselves

Read them at podcastle.org → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

PodCastle publishes short stories at podcastle.org, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 33 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

10 dated posts since 202633 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per year

102026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 18

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 18, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured1 section found
Front page
130 KB, 29 scripts, 20 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
present
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 26 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-08-27, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

murali1chaitanya2podchaser1fowlie1valde5iheartradio2dovey2podtrac1podcast546original877libsyn6pandora29troll36redirect23

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches28 writers in the index

28 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

and 16 more.

Their neighbourhood

Aidan DoyleOnce & FutureMy Reading LifeDavid D. LevineSwan TowerMegan ArkenbergCat SparksSAMANTHA MILLS-TH-26 sites outside the indexPodCastle
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Kept on the same blogrolls: GlitterShip (4 of the same writers link to both), John Joseph Adams (3 of the same writers link to both).

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by the literary end

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • Some tracking is present.
  • Carries a full set of search-engine tags. This site is trying to be found, and the almanac scores that against it.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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