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Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Out of all the side projects I’ve tried, the one that’s been the most lucrative consistently is buying boring index funds. I kinda wish I just doubled down on the boring route sooner .

Which funds?

VFINX all day every day

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tried running my site through Checkbot, it's lightweight and helpful. "Indexable" pages has been a pain, can't seem to find clarity there on why our stuff is discoverable yet not indexed.

You mean Checkbot is confirming your pages should be indexable as you expect but the pages aren't turning up in Google? Some general suggestions: add a site map, submit your sitemap and pages via Google Search console, see if changing the internal linking of pages helps (e.g. pages that have links in the header/footer will seem important to crawl/index, maybe hubs for or "related pages" links for related pages would…

Yes that's correct. Regarding your suggestions - thank you! I've done three of the four but still missing back links. We do have 1000s of pages that have a very similar structure, so I would understand why Google would mark them as duplicates, but the content on each differs, so I'm hoping that's not the case.
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