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Re: How I ruined my SEO

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Post by hammyhavoc » Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 1:20 PM UTC

moneywoes wrote: post #71

anon1094 wrote: post #43

Johnny is correct and this most likely has to do with the 404 backlinks and accidental misuse of Google Analytics. I recently did a comprehensive SEO audit for a web3 brand that saw a similar drastic drop in traffic. Here are some other things to keep in mind to rank better on Google. 1. One H1 per page SEO experts agree the best practice is to use one H1 per page. Headers help keep content structured for both Google…

Thoughts on AI driven content and SEO?

Don't do it. Easily detected as plagiarism.

Re: How I ruined my SEO

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Post by franze » Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 1:22 PM UTC

quesera wrote: post #80

franze wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that was the latin "ad" aka "about" mobile friendly tests fails see https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly/result?id=SAu... and google can not render the page correctly also test with GSC page inspect -> render page -> see screenshot if this correlates with the software update (and the page URLs) did not change, then this is the strongest contender. check the crawling metrics in GSC google search console js,…

> that was the latin "ad" aka "about" Latin "ad" is more like "to" or "toward", but I've never seen it used to mean "about". FWIW. You might be aiming for "ab", with which autocorrect will likely refuse to cooperate.

ok, new learnings, "ad" in the meaning of "about" is not used like this in english.

in german the latin "ad" is used as "about that point" and even part of the Duden (basically the official guide to the german language)

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/ad

did not know that its more a german thing.

Re: How I ruined my SEO

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Post by hammyhavoc » Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

zuccs wrote: post #82

the__alchemist wrote: post #29

Your site's performance, reflected on its page speed insight score, is showing 45. This is unacceptable for a blog; it should be close to 100 for text-based pages like you have. Does the site contain scripts, deep dependency trees, or analytics? Could this have changed during the performance drop?

Whilst it still should be fixed, Google isn't tanking a site for its PageSpeed score.

Depends on how much better the speed of competitors is for a given query, and thus the relative severity.

Re: How I ruined my SEO

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Post by hammyhavoc » Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 1:31 PM UTC

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #90

cseleborg wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with the sentiment, but if a personal blog tracks users and sends data on them to someone else, as with GA, then it absolutely needs a privacy policy.

Why? I had a blog and regularly commented on dozens of blogs from 2005-2015. Just about all of them used Google Analytics and in the early days many, including mine, were hosted on Google's Blogspot. There wasn't any legalese on any of the smaller/medium sized ones and I really haven't once regretted that there wasn't.

Law.

Re: How I ruined my SEO

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Post by AlchemistCamp » Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 1:40 PM UTC

hammyhavoc wrote: post #94

AlchemistCamp wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why? I had a blog and regularly commented on dozens of blogs from 2005-2015. Just about all of them used Google Analytics and in the early days many, including mine, were hosted on Google's Blogspot. There wasn't any legalese on any of the smaller/medium sized ones and I really haven't once regretted that there wasn't.

Law.

Sure, and law varies greatly by region. China, North Korea, and to a degree, Russia have been extremely restrictive for a long time, western Europe has recently become more so and many other places are still relatively free.

My "why" question was intended from more of an ethical first principles standpoint than a legalistic one.

I know that some jurisdictions bury pretty much any online activity in mountains of regulatory requirements. That's not novel or interesting. As I said in the ancestor comment, it's "a sad state of affairs when even personal blogs are expected to be laden with legal documents".

Re: How I ruined my SEO

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Post by ApolloRising » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 8:36 PM UTC

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