Search Console said 978 indexed and 912 not. I assumed the 912 were a crawling problem. They were a page I had written, twice, about eleven hundred times. Sort tabs. The listing pages render real links for hot, new, top…
Before writing anything that fetches pages, I read the robots.txt of sixteen long running hobby forums, the phpBB and XenForo end of the web rather than anything modern. Nine block AI crawlers explicitly by name , with…
Two hundred articles built up over four years. Almost none of them link to any of the others. Each one was written, published and left alone. I keep reading that internal linking matters and I cannot tell whether that…
A product launched this week whose entire purpose is making a shop's product feed visible to AI shopping agents. That is a new category to me and it implies something is changing about how people find products. I run a…
B2B SaaS blog, about 40k sessions a month in GA4. Organic search dropped 38 percent month over month while direct rose almost the same amount, and Search Console clicks are flat within noise. No redirects, no tag…
I publish images on my site and I would like to prevent visitors from saving them: right clicking to save, or finding the file through the browser's developer tools. I have seen suggestions involving disabling the…
I want to look at a standard acquisition report as a line chart aggregated by month rather than by day. Over a long period the daily view is unreadable noise and the shape I care about is the trend. This seems like it…
30 person B2B company, roughly 60 pages, and the brief was the same for all three: fix a crawling and indexing mess, then produce content. The quotes were about 1.5k, 4k and 9k a month on twelve month terms. My ceiling…
A guide that has ranked in the top three for its main term since 2023 fell to positions 8 12 over about nine days in June and traffic went from roughly 1,400 to 550 sessions a week. No changes to the page, no changes to…
Small furniture shop, about 400 products, migrated to a new platform in April. Search Console shows 92 indexed and 300 sitting in Crawled currently not indexed, and manual inspection says the live URL is indexable with…
Small ecommerce, 6k a month in Google Ads running at a bit over 3x return, so it pays for itself but nothing compounds and the moment I stop, revenue stops. The plan was to move half the budget into content and links…
Inherited a B2B site with 40 service pages of 250 400 words each, all written from the same template, most getting under 20 sessions a month. I have five hours a week and no writer budget. Option A is rewriting them one…
I have a 2021 post called something like beginner guide to X and a 2024 post called X mistakes to avoid. For the head term they trade places every three to five weeks, and neither one gets above position 6. Combined…
Started a small site in March, publishing one article a week, 12 posts up. Everything is indexed within a couple of days but impressions stay in single digits for weeks and clicks are basically zero. I keep reading that…