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Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by sonofhans »

tracker1 wrote: post #118
bubblewand wrote: post #11

Yeah, Google stopped even trying to usefully index most of the web around ‘08 or ‘09 or so. Was super obvious when it happened and it’s been that way ever since. Your GitHub is up there because it’s a blessed website, your personal site isn’t and will struggle mightily to rank even when you search exact, unusual phrases on it, if it’s like most of the rest of the Web on Google these days. Get more traffic (make sure…

I would suggest just using Github Pages for the "official" site, for similar reasons... unless you really need interactive parts that require client-server... in which case you can maybe split between pages and your own domain. Just a thought.

This is how they get you, literally. “Too bad we’ve poisoned the public water source. How about if you buy water from us?”

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by r0p3 »

mannanj wrote: post #115
lkey wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Food stamps?? This is a ghoulish position, morally, financially, and as a matter of policy. We live in the richest country on planet earth and we eliminated child hunger here during COVID only to roll it back . It's not even 1.5% of the budget currently. Compare this to our military adventurism budget. Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity , right now. Children need food to grow up and be 'pr…

Seems you have good intention at heart and clearly care about people, and from my observation have some emotional processing and clearing to do to avoid sounding like you are lashing out at whoever internet stranger could fit your mold of comfort to emotionally dump on. Have you considered channeling that energy into advocacy or volunteerism? I feel you'd like that.

Incredible troll lol. "Have you considered volunteering?" In response to frustration at a massive federal initiative being shut down is hilarious.

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by jccooper »

I don't see that Google cares much about backlinks any more. Seems like it's all about "content" keywords and maybe a little time-on-site. The domain is a huge signal, which is probably where the problem comes from here.

Sadly, Google's generally better against all the new AI-generated content farms than other players, so maybe they're still running PageRank somewhere.

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by MerrimanInd »

adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #71
Growtika wrote: post #53

A couple years back John Reilly posted on HN "How I ruined my SEO" and I helped him fix it for free. He wrote about the whole thing here: https://johnnyreilly.com/how-we-fixed-my-seo Happy to do the same for you if you want. The quickest win in your case: map all the backlinks the .net site got (happy to pull this for you), then email every publication that linked to it. "Hey, you covered NanoClaw but linked to a fak…

This is very generous of you! If I was the author, however, I'd still feel like I've been put in a predicament where I need to spend personal agency to fix something that Google has broken. While that may just be a fact of life, my internal injustice-o-meter would be raging. Like, Google is going to take hours of my life because they, with all their billions of capital, can't figure out the canonically-true website w…

I had the exact same thought while reading the above comment, as helpful and generous as it is. Google's entire business model is to help people find things on the internet. They're an insanely well resourced company with all kinds of smart programmers. They have a moral and financial incentive to direct people to canonical sources of information. And STILL it's on this open-source dev to do all the steps outlined just to get the situation corrected?

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by tt24 »

lkey wrote: post #60
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #35

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Food stamps?? This is a ghoulish position, morally, financially, and as a matter of policy. We live in the richest country on planet earth and we eliminated child hunger here during COVID only to roll it back . It's not even 1.5% of the budget currently. Compare this to our military adventurism budget. Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity , right now. Children need food to grow up and be 'pr…

Not even remotely related to what the parent comment said.

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by antonvs »

lkey wrote: post #60
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #35

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Food stamps?? This is a ghoulish position, morally, financially, and as a matter of policy. We live in the richest country on planet earth and we eliminated child hunger here during COVID only to roll it back . It's not even 1.5% of the budget currently. Compare this to our military adventurism budget. Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity , right now. Children need food to grow up and be 'pr…

> I doubt you are an actual member of the bourgeoisie

I wouldn't be so sure of that on HN. (Also noting you're using the Marxist definition rather than the default dictionary definition, which is "middle class".)

A well-paid tech employee with a non-trivial amount of company stock is, strictly speaking, an "owner of the means of production". Even if you want to quibble with that, their interests are certainly well-aligned with that group - to the point that you generally won't hear a peep out of them as things get more and more dystopian, because of what Upton Sinclair observed, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

> I must conclude you just enjoy a starving and undereducated mass of parents and children you look down upon for their poor moral character?

It's much simpler than that. It's pure, unadulterated "I got mine and you ain't touchin' it". There's no real thinking that goes beyond that purely selfish position. The consequences aren't seriously considered, they're just taken as part of the natural order. Any causal connection is denied, rationalized by accusations of laziness, inferiority, etc.

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by georgemcbay »

charcircuit wrote: post #95
lkey wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Food stamps?? This is a ghoulish position, morally, financially, and as a matter of policy. We live in the richest country on planet earth and we eliminated child hunger here during COVID only to roll it back . It's not even 1.5% of the budget currently. Compare this to our military adventurism budget. Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity , right now. Children need food to grow up and be 'pr…

You are arguing against a different argument than your parent. He implied that people using food stamps do not respect the effort it took to provide the food. You seem to be arguing whether food stamps are profitable. Your implication that people when not given free food will starve and that your parent commenter wants people to starve is clear manipulation.

> He implied that people using food stamps do not respect the effort it took to provide the food.

People using food stamps in the US often work full-time jobs making insufficient living wages from highly profitable companies like Walmart

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...

I imagine they probably have a better inherent understanding of real-world food production style work effort than the majority of those of us who post to sites like HN.

Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

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Post by antonvs »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #35

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> Humans are psychologically incapable of assigning respect to things that are free

Citation needed. You're describing a particular tendency, not some absolute property of human psychology. It's also a behavior that's greatly affected by social construction. In the US, the attitude you're describing is much more prevalent than in some other countries, because of cultural biases.

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