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…
I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
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Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
#222[flagged]
I was actually excited reading this comment because I thought it might have some information useful to my site's SEO and then I realized it was written by an LLM. Can anyone confirm what it's saying?
If I were you, I would start with some documentation:
https://schema.org/docs/gs.html
https://schema.org/SoftwareApplication
https://schema.org/Organization
The first link will get you started - it will explain what the commenter was talking about in detail. The second and third links will give you more information on those specific types.
Good luck with your site!
Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
#223Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
#224I did some experimenting using different search engines and AIs. Here's the results: Google and Brave linked to the official GitHub repo followed by the fake domain. DuckDuckGo and Bing linked to the fake domain first, followed by the official GitHub. Mojeek gave higher ranking to two third party articles, but linked to both the official GitHub and website without fakes. Qwant was the worst, as the official website w…
Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
#225I pay for Kagi to get better search results. Lately, I’ve felt that Kagi’s search has been just as full of low-information and AI generated results as Google. I’ve been wondering why I’m still paying for it. This seemed like a good litmus test. Unfortunately, Kagi displays pretty much the same results as Google for nanoclaw.
Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
#226UDRP disputes become straightforward when you can show the other party registered a domain using your mark in bad faith. It won't fix the Google ranking overnight, but it gives you real legal teeth beyond just SEO whack-a-mole.
Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
#227I pay for Kagi to get better search results. Lately, I’ve felt that Kagi’s search has been just as full of low-information and AI generated results as Google. I’ve been wondering why I’m still paying for it. This seemed like a good litmus test. Unfortunately, Kagi displays pretty much the same results as Google for nanoclaw.
I still appreciate being able to customize rankings, bangs, and redirects. But with how utterly shit the web is overall, any web search is basically only good if you know the site(s) the answer(s) will be on. When you're searching for something novel-to-you, even Kagi is just going to show you a full page of unregulated slop on the dumbest, just-registered-this-year domains. Real information is increasingly limited to small islands of trust.
Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
#228I pay for Kagi to get better search results. Lately, I’ve felt that Kagi’s search has been just as full of low-information and AI generated results as Google. I’ve been wondering why I’m still paying for it. This seemed like a good litmus test. Unfortunately, Kagi displays pretty much the same results as Google for nanoclaw.
I don’t like any search engines now :(
Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t like any search engines now :(
It's because the search engine is being eaten by the LLM. I'm not suggesting that it's a perfect substitute. It's just what I feel is happening.
Re: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project
#230I pay for Kagi to get better search results. Lately, I’ve felt that Kagi’s search has been just as full of low-information and AI generated results as Google. I’ve been wondering why I’m still paying for it. This seemed like a good litmus test. Unfortunately, Kagi displays pretty much the same results as Google for nanoclaw.
1. nanoclaw[dot]net (!)
2. github.com/qwibitai/nanoclaw which looks like a ripoff?
3. Three videos, at least one of which looks like slop with crypto ads
4. github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw which I presume is the real repo judging from the name?
5. Three "interesting finds" the top one of which is nanoclaw.dev, but with the title "Don't trust AI agents" because it's a blog post from that site
6. A fork of the qwibitai/nanoclaw repo