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

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Post by Vegenoid »

duskdozer wrote: post #270
Vegenoid wrote: post #223

I 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.

Isn't Kagi basically just using a blocklist? In which case it's whack a mole as new sites spring up or bubble up to the top of other results. I keep my own blocklist and intermittently search key phrases to blanket block new sites, and there's often new sites popping up.

This sounds very interesting, could you elaborate on your methods and tools?

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

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Post by duskdozer »

Vegenoid wrote: post #271
duskdozer wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't Kagi basically just using a blocklist? In which case it's whack a mole as new sites spring up or bubble up to the top of other results. I keep my own blocklist and intermittently search key phrases to blanket block new sites, and there's often new sites popping up.

This sounds very interesting, could you elaborate on your methods and tools?

https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist

Basically,

- whenever a spam site is in my results, click to block - click through some and check out pages like "About" "Terms" "Disclaimer" "Privacy". often common boilerplate phrases abound. affiliate marketing spam, and similar, for example - exact string search those phrases - (get often many pages of results) - using a userscript, block all domains in each result page

my results have gotten so much better for common types of queries. even then, new sites pop up almost daily it seems. add to the list.

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

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Post by mlrtime »

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…

For someone that kinda gets SEO this was a bit enlightening, thank you. I have nothing for myself to use this information but helps me understand.

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

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Post by prohobo »

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…

"Open social profiles for the project" haha if only it were that easy...

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

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Post by mannanj »

r0p3 wrote: post #122
mannanj wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I was just suggesting an outlet for the clearly emotionally distressed person to vent their emotions.

Don't insult and look down upon me with your projections of superiority and over valuing the material logical left brain over the right necessary emotional & intuitive brain/embodied arts.

Sorry you suck. I'm not down for that though.

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

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Post by mannanj »

r0p3 wrote: post #157
cucumber3732842 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now, I'm not gonna endorse the original position, but on some level it's also a non-troll. Enough time spent at a soup kitchen will turn just about anybody into Ron Paul. If you want someone to have realistic opinions on social welfare programs based on their actual impact in reality and not emotion and indoctrination then putting them into an organization that's actually trying to maximize good done for their budget…

In my experience the more time I spent volunteering the less of a libertarian I became. Structural problems require structural solutions, and the market can only solve some of them. In any case, his reply didn't even address the main point and was very condescending. I respect the troll o7

The person I responded to was condescending himself and clearly was emotionally dumping on someone else. I don't condone non-consensual aggression, abuse, and emotional labor that inexperienced left-brained engineers seem to think is a healthy norm. no troll intent here, seriously just hoping to share some empathy and suggest "Go do some emotional processing and stop dumping that on internet strangers and expecting them to do your emotional work for you"

I don't have intent to troll and engage in any aggression, it's not my interest. You can check my post history to see I have a long history in this community of non-troll engagement.

You can say what you want though, and I will still say I don't consent to doing your emotional labor for you.

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

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Post by mannanj »

r0p3 wrote: post #157
cucumber3732842 wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now, I'm not gonna endorse the original position, but on some level it's also a non-troll. Enough time spent at a soup kitchen will turn just about anybody into Ron Paul. If you want someone to have realistic opinions on social welfare programs based on their actual impact in reality and not emotion and indoctrination then putting them into an organization that's actually trying to maximize good done for their budget…

In my experience the more time I spent volunteering the less of a libertarian I became. Structural problems require structural solutions, and the market can only solve some of them. In any case, his reply didn't even address the main point and was very condescending. I respect the troll o7

Looking through your post history it seems you have a history of criticism and from my glance not much living experience of the things you proclaim to speak of.

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

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Post by r0p3 »

mannanj wrote: post #277
r0p3 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience the more time I spent volunteering the less of a libertarian I became. Structural problems require structural solutions, and the market can only solve some of them. In any case, his reply didn't even address the main point and was very condescending. I respect the troll o7

The person I responded to was condescending himself and clearly was emotionally dumping on someone else. I don't condone non-consensual aggression, abuse, and emotional labor that inexperienced left-brained engineers seem to think is a healthy norm. no troll intent here, seriously just hoping to share some empathy and suggest "Go do some emotional processing and stop dumping that on internet strangers and expecting t…

Lol called it

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

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Post by r0p3 »

mannanj wrote: post #278
r0p3 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience the more time I spent volunteering the less of a libertarian I became. Structural problems require structural solutions, and the market can only solve some of them. In any case, his reply didn't even address the main point and was very condescending. I respect the troll o7

Looking through your post history it seems you have a history of criticism and from my glance not much living experience of the things you proclaim to speak of.

I barely ever post here, I think it would be hard to know much about me from my comments. Sorry my teasing upset you
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