@jeromechoo
It might all be smoke and mirrors anyway trying to obfuscate what they are about to roll out with SGE because we re not there yet by a long way.
@jeromechoo how would this juvenile with people claiming lately that there’s been a radical shift in the algorithm that’s destroying small online businesses that are now getting bypassed in favor of content farms?
The last column now shows robots.txt status, lines parsed, How many valid directives that robots.txt file has, and any ones that are not understood, for each URL tested. #seo#robotstxt
Doing some last-minute keyword research for Father's Day - hate to break the news to all you dads out there, but there is a big search volume around terms with the word 'cheap' in them! 🤣
(Plus the word 'father' is starting to look really weird now I've been staring at it for so long.)
@simoncox Thanks Simon! I learnt that one the hard way when I first started out in e-commerce. Let's just say international returns can end up being very pricey!
For all the long and rambling articles about HCU and EEAT, some of the best advice I have heard is just 5 words long and from the Lyrics of a 1970's musical.
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So I wrote a rambling article about it...
@MikeBlazer 100? Wow. I haven't seen that many. But to be honest, a lot of the accounts I block do come from mastodon.social where your account is located.
Does anyone have an idea why Bing refuses to index my site, while other search engines like Google or Yandex don't have any issues doing so?
Bing webmaster tools tell me only vague general reasons why it wouldn't work, and none of them are valid.
@n3wjack they boycott me too, it's a common thing. nobody knows why, i've went through the hoops of talking the their staff. they told me it was resolved but then nothing happened. Moral of the story, i now boycott bing.... the only thing that saddens me is that this whole thing made it clear to me that duckduckgo is just bing in trenchcoat
@setto yeah, that's how I found out. I couldn't search my own site on ddg.
It's kinda ironic. They want people to stop using Google, but their webmaster tools suck ass. 🤷♂️
@ilovechoclates_ Went well - the audience only discuss onthe chat only the presenters and the two guests are on audio - so it is safe to join! Should be on youtube but todays isn't up yet - go here: https://www.goodsignals.com/seo-office-hours/
On many sites, I notice that "News" is used as the anchor text for links leading to main blog page. This is misleading. The anchor text for blogs should be "Blog", not "News".
I believe there can be a very grey line between what is news content and blog content.
Some sites use the blog components of a CMS to run an organisations official news output. Is that blog or news?
On a personal site are articles news or blog posts? The definition of news is not limited to content output from media conglomerates, you can have personal news too.
So yes News ≠ Blog and Blog ≠ News but it does depend!
Guess what I've discovered isn't fun... trying to update WordPress with Arabic characters in plugins that only function with the Latin alphabet. #SEO#internationalseo#FrustratingFriday
@optimisey@Fizzle_Up Thought that might be it! Have had small brushes with designing layouts that had to use both LtR and RtL languages pages before and it can be a head spinner!
What kind of #SEO is it if I have to spend half my day getting LLMs to generate various custom Python scripts that are mainly used to process and manipulate data?
SEO folk are going to rave about @screamingfrog Spider v20 having Chat GPT to write image alt tags (I'm interested in that but lets see how good it actually is at providing correct accessible alt text and not SEO alt text) but for me the biggie is the N-grams Analysis!
(and also the carbon footprint appeal's to my eco warrior side).
Es importante medir y analizar el rendimiento de tus publicaciones en redes sociales para identificar qué contenido resuena mejor con tu audiencia y qué estrategias son más efectivas.
@dwsmart
hreflang is already complex but it really is a complex thing when you try and piece together what it is trying to do. Not sure there ever will be a simple answer so any attempt to make it work better is to be welcomed!
@simoncox yep, very much of the mind it's always going to be a bit complicated, so you need to embrace that and make it as simple as possible, whilst flexible enough to work.
Cool - that got sorted quickly! Perhaps an issue at Google because the only thing I did was press the button to say it was fixed for them to validate the issue. I did nothing to the site.
All sorts of nonsense going on with a site over the past week. Have a news story on a page that Google Search console is telling me is invalid AMP - tested it on https://validator.ampproject.org/and the code is valid. There are hundreds of posts on this site and has never happened before and the 4 posts following it are ok.
Then three news posts later Google decides to not index a new post because it disagrees with the canonical and chooses a post from 2018! They are completely different!
@simoncox@pch Unfortunately, I fear the same prospect. It's so annoying that they're not true directives & Google occasionally makes such random choices, as in this case.
