26 stories tagged seo, newest first.
9 points by textlanes33 | 0 comments
Landing page for Bloffy, a lightweight blogging platform with a Markdown/HTML editor, custom CSS, custom domains, cookieless analytics and high PageSpeed scores.
315 points by robtherobber | 204 comments
Peec AI blog post by a GEO researcher describing how publishing statistics led to the author's data being widely cited across the web and by LLMs.
104 points by croes | 114 comments
Blog post about Chrome and Edge removing XSLT support and what it breaks; the page returned a 403 Forbidden error.
503 points by pizzaiolo | 207 comments
Weird Gloop blog post explaining why its new Overwatch and Fortnite wikis launched on weirdgloop.org subdomains due to a 2024 Google change penalizing brand-new domains.
391 points by azeemkafridi | 86 comments
A curated directory of sites where you can submit a website, startup, or product, such as launch platforms, startup directories, and backlink sources.
526 points by k1m | 210 comments
Website Spec is a platform-agnostic specification and checklist of 128 technical features a good website should have, covering SEO, accessibility, security, and agent readiness.
392 points by zeitg3ist | 204 comments
X post from Pokémon Central saying its Italian Pokémon wiki has been almost entirely deindexed by Google, showing 541K pages not indexed versus 11 indexed.
319 points by tigerlily | 199 comments
BBC Future article by Thomas Germain on how people manipulate Google's AI search results and how Google is quietly countering it.
866 points by zdw | 489 comments
Google Search Central blog post announcing a new spam policy targeting sites that hijack the browser back button, with guidance for site owners.
448 points by devinitely | 226 comments
An X article by Gavriel Cohen arguing Google Search is broken as a fake NanoClaw site outranks the real site for his open source AI agent project.
470 points by ingve | 222 comments
A blog post by web developer Jeff Starr on Perishable Press reflecting on losing trust in Google as a helpful presence on the web.
381 points by nafnlj | 163 comments
A personal blog post by James Zhan describing how Google de-indexed his entire Bear Blog a month after he started it, with no apparent reason.
1079 points by recroad | 614 comments
A Substack post criticizing Google Search, showing that searching for Midjourney surfaces paid competitor ads above the actual product, which appears fifth.
690 points by jonbaer | 771 comments
Ars Technica article on a Pew Research Center analysis finding Google's AI Overviews sharply reduce clicks to websites from search results.
463 points by amanchanda | 285 comments
Ask HN thread where a founder of a $50/month B2C AI SaaS asks how others acquired their first 100 and next 500 users.
332 points by jlundberg | 162 comments
A personal blog post by Carl Öst Wilkens describing requirements and setup for a minimal statically built blog on his own domain.
380 points by chuckwnelson | 413 comments
Blog post by Chuck W. Nelson arguing Google's search results are degraded and that OpenAI's ChatGPT search is following Google's early-2000s playbook.
852 points by bryanbraun | 168 comments
Bryan Braun's blog post advising buyers to check a domain name's past history (spam, bad reputation) before purchasing it.
331 points by r721 | 170 comments
Search Engine Roundtable article from Sep 24, 2024 by Barry Schwartz reporting that Google's cached page feature has been fully removed.
539 points by greg_V | 266 comments
Blog post by Lars Lofgren arguing that Forbes Marketplace operates as a parasite SEO business leveraging Forbes' domain authority for affiliate content.
609 points by beavershaw | 293 comments
HouseFresh blog post arguing Google search favors big media publishers' low-quality affiliate product recommendations over independent review sites.
382 points by croes | 130 comments
Search Engine Roundtable article reporting that Google Search removed the cached page link from search results, with tips on how to still view the cache.
431 points by zdw | 122 comments
Herman's blog post describing his ongoing fight against human spam farms abusing the free Bear blogging platform for SEO backlinks.
715 points by mikece | 509 comments
The Verge reports that CNET has been deleting thousands of old articles, a practice it calls 'pruning', to try to improve its Google Search rankings.
532 points by c5karl | 447 comments
Blog post by Nate Hoffelder complaining that Google no longer automatically indexes websites, requiring manual submission.
686 points by cheeseblubber | 193 comments
Linen blog post explaining how they reduced their open-source Slack/Discord alternative's client bundle to about 500KB gzipped using webpack bundle analysis.