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

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Post by geocar »

MarkSweep wrote: post #79

The link on GitHub to the real site is marked with rel="nofollow". I wonder if it would make sense for GitHub to remove nofollow in some circumstances. Perhaps based on some sort of reputation system or if the site links back to the repo with a in the header? Presumably that would help the real site rank higher when the repo ranks highly.

I don't see any reason that GitHub should use rel="nofollow"

Github only has authority because people put their shit there; if people want to point that back at the "right" website, Github should be helping facilitate that, instead of trying to help Google make their dogshit search index any better.

I mean, seriously, doesn't Bing own Github anyway?

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

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Post by michaelcampbell »

renegat0x0 wrote: post #57

- I think I was upset when Google allowed fake ad for VLC to appear high in ranking - I hate that Google returns content farms instead of product web pages - I hate that Google provides a page of 10 useful links, later links are just pure garbage. I think that something in Google engine is profoundly broken - I maintain my own search index, but it requires a lot of effort, and attention. I do insert links if I find t…

> I think that something in Google engine is profoundly broken

Optimizing for ad revenue is a good start.

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

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Post by sam1r »

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 can’t be the only one blasting killing in the name of in my noise canceling headphones the moment I read your comment..

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

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Post by newswasboring »

I fell for this yesterday, but for zeroclaw not nanoclaw. I found this website[1] through brave search I think. I was not paying too much attention as I was under the influence, it points to the wrong repo[2] and instructions install from that. I didn't like zeroclaw anyways so I tried to uninstall it and only then realized i'm on a forked repo.

[1] https://zeroclaw.net/ [2] https://github.com/openagen/zeroclaw

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

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Post by vegasbrianc »

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…

great feedback!

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

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Post by rapnie »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #35

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The parent comment is downvoted into oblivion, but I read it as not necessarily saying "this is the way to do it" but rather "this is the harsh reality of rampant capitalist society" that we built around ourselves (we all carry responsibility here), where only money speaks and people "respect" full wallets coughing up the dough. I spent most my time in FOSS realms the past decade, and many people who are even participants in free software development themself often do not notice where and how value is extracted, and how they indirectly or directly play a role in that.

As for value extraction, have a look at this article and weep: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Harvard-study-Open-source-has-a...

OTOH this also shows the huge potential FOSS has, if it manages to only slightly shift that balance in their favor.

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