What's one thing you've done to ride out all the Google algo waves over the years?

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[–]Mnemonic 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Last I did something with it, load time might be even a bigger deal in the game for 'ranked the same at meta level', comprising the pages (and therefor decreasing the load time) improved 'my' (what i worked for) web-shop above competitors. [Though it was the Dutch market and pretty niche (no, not sexual) products].

'we' opted out of the ad-words and google-search campaigns and 'our' improving of meta game and (presumably) loadtime gave us more traffick than the ads without enhancements. (A lot of people know to ignore the search-engine ads when searching)

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

ping /u/magnora7 /u/d3rr

I don't know if this is related or not to SEO.

I have found the default search on SaitIt only searches post titles. Google and DDG are no help either for searching the comments.

I know from almost 20 years ago you can set up your site to allow or deny their spiderbots, but is it also possible to flip it so they don't come to you?

What if after every post and comment SaidIt pinged Google and DDG to come look? Obviously that might be overkill so perhaps a script that kicks in after X days of inactivity on a post then sends an invite to be crawled by their spiders.

I don't know if that's a thing but IMHO it should be.

There is another issue, and I don't know if it really exacerbates things but I doubt it's helpful beyond the very practical search capability. And that is about SaidIt's content. If anyone were to analyse all the posts they'd certainly gain an understanding about what SaidIt is all about. But most posts are impersonal headline titles. If anyone were to analyse the content of the comments I doubt their understanding of what SaidIt is all about would be much different. But it may be. They'd know we're even more red-pilled than just some news aggregation. They'd know about us individually as participating characters with personalities. There's nothing to stop Google or the NSA from already doing this, but it's something to consider.

Especially when YouTube videos get pulled for one person in the comments mentioning "Jews" or something. Or so I've been told.

[–]Mnemonic 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I know from almost 20 years ago you can set up your site to allow or deny their spiderbots

No, you can't. robot.txt only stop 'lawful' ones. Blocking spiders the hard way is... hard (if you click 20 posts in new tabs to read, you can be a spider to an arbitrary spider-blocker, if not I {unlawful spiderbot} will just search up to 20 articles posted every [insert certain amount of time]).

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Right. That's what I meant.

I wouldn't know how to deal with spiders I didn't want.

Looking back I wonder if that robot.txt was a trick. "Don't look at my private folder. No. Don't do it. It's right there where I'm indicating, but don't look."

But I was not talking about blocking them. I was trying to invite them to scan SaidIt 1) so we could search them and 2) so the more content we feature the broader their set gets and the vaster SaidIt seems/is (compared to a site with 3 pages) and 3) so the diversity of content may also meet more searchers.

Maybe this is naive meat-think and the Al Gore Rhythms are nothing like my fanciful wists.