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.

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We invite Google and whoever to come cache our site, so that's too bad if they don't have the site indexed. There's no way that I know of to tell Google hey come crawl this page.

What we need to do is work on a legit sitemap so that search engines get an idea of our organization/subs and are more encouraged to crawl the whole site.

Yes, search is post tiles only just like on Reddit. People have long complained about this. I'd be willing to put some effort into this, I think comments could be searchable too. Lots of work though.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A site map sounds good.

It may be good for statistical analysis too. Whether it's for all that nonsense I was talking about with subs or maybe for future documentation on the SaitIt article - but more importantly for the internal stats awareness, searches, navigability, and crawl-ability - and likely many other things.

Perhaps, including how to chop it up for decentralization distribution.

You'd think there'd already be a ready to go universal open-source search-crawler to plug into any site.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=open+source+search+engine+software