@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/