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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

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Post by senko »

> This isn't an SEO problem. This is a Google problem.

Sorry, but this is a SEO problem. The fake site has probably been linked to by a number of high-SEO outlets. What you should do is contact them and tell them to fix the links (to point to your site), which they should be happy to do.

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

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Post by AznHisoka »

I’m looking at this from a 3rd party of view (definitely not claiming the .net “deserves” to rank higher)

1) the .net version has a couple of very high authority links, namely from theregister and thenewstack (both of which have had lots of engagement).

I highly doubt it would have ranked without those links.

2) its only been a week. Give Google time to understand which pages should rank higher.

3) Google is biased towards sites that cover a topic earlier than others.

I’ve seen pages that are still top 3 for a particular competitive query years later, simply because they were one of the first to write about it.

Suggestions: give it time. Meanwhile I would recommend linking to your website rather than your github everywhere you mention it, to give it a boost

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

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Post by stavros »

azangru wrote: post #5

> So I built a real website. That was two weeks ago. Is Google supposed to have drastic updates to its index over 2 weeks?

The whole project is a month old, and two weeks were more than enough for Google to rank the fake site first, so yes?

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

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Post by thepasch »

senko wrote: post #2

> This isn't an SEO problem. This is a Google problem. Sorry, but this is a SEO problem. The fake site has probably been linked to by a number of high-SEO outlets. What you should do is contact them and tell them to fix the links (to point to your site), which they should be happy to do.

> Sorry, but this is a SEO problem.

Google linking to a fake website directly underneath the real project's repository that has a real link to the real website isn't a SEO problem, lol.

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