#seo

To add some context: say you're changing your site's URL structure during a redesign. Hundreds of pages, some ranking well. Some of the pages have links from other sites and bring in steady search traffic, sooo losing…

Bit of a crisis here. switching to a new CMS went live, and since then organic traffic fell by half. Search Console started showing lots of 404s and some pages marked as excluded by noindex. We did set up redirects, at least for the main pages. Could the…

long time lurker first post lol small site owner, getting a bit desperate. we launched a batch of category pages and most of them never made it into Google: thats 40 category pages marked crawled but not indexed... theyre similar in structure because they…

well. say you have a search console, a JavaScript analytics tool and raw server logs, and they all disagree about traffic.. :/ not slightly: meaningfully. the gap is big enough that a client asking about it would expect an explanation, and "tools disagree"…

Got a proposal from an SEO consultant for a SaaS docs site, and a big part of it revolves around keyword density. It sounded convincing in the meeting, but afterwards I found forum posts calling it outdated. I'm not trying to bash anyone, I just wanna know…

Ah, i went through something similar. Im running a site with a few hundred product and category pages. In teh search console, a big chunk of them are listed as crawled but currently not indexed lol No errors, no noindex tags, they return 200. ive tried…

ugh. search Consoles Pages report has a big grey bar that keeps growing: crawled currently not indexed for most of my 1,200 product pages. google clearly found them and visited them, then decided not to show them 🤷 ive clicked Request Indexing on a few,…

ok weird one we launched switching to a new CMS last week and organic traffic fell overnight to a trickle. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait... but this doesnt look like a wobble... ive got access to Search Console,…

ok so owner of a small content site. i handled switching to a new CMS myself, followed a guide, felt confident. then the analytics graph fell overnight to a trickle. Im second guessing everything now: redirects, sitemaps, robots.txt, the tracking code. Is…

i don't get it. my sitemap is submitted, pages return 200, no noindex anywhere. yet: most of my 1,200 blog posts sit in Crawled currently not indexed :) some older pages from teh same section are indexed and even rank. im trying to figure out if this is a…

ok so i dont get it. my sitemap is submitted, pages return 200, no noindex anywhere. yet: nearly all 90 category pages sit in Crawled currently not indexed. some older pages from teh same section are indexed and even rank. im trying to figure out if this is…

guys pls help i run a hobby recipe blog and every SEO guide i read contradicts the last one... the current debate in my head is about keyword density... some people treat it as essential, others call it a relic. i dont want to waste hours on something that…

search Consoles Pages report has a big grey bar that keeps growing: 'Crawled currently not indexed' for over 300 category pages. Google clearly found them and visited them, then decided not to show them. i've clicked Request Indexing on a few, nothing…

hmmmm ok we launched mreging two domains last week and organic traffic fell by half. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait. but this doesnt look like a wboble. ive got access to Search Console, analytics and the server.…

so annoyed rn i don't get it. My sitemap is submitted, pages return 200, no noindex anywhere. Yet: about half of my blog posts sit in Crawled currently not indexed. some older pages from teh same section are indexed and even rank. im trying to figure out if…

ok weird one we launched a site redeisgn last week and ogranic traffic fell by half. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait. but this doesn't look like a wobble 🤷 i've got access to Search Console, analytics and teh…

got a proposal from an SEO consulatnt for a SaaS docs site, and a big part of it revolves around word count targets. it sounded convincing in the meeting, but afterwards I found forum posts calling it outdated. im not trying to bash anyone, I just want to…

ok so i run an affiliate blog and every SEO guide I read contradicts the last one. the current debate in my head is about exact match domains. some ppl treat it as essential, others call it a relic lmao I don't want to waste hours on something that doesn't…

ok weird one we launched a site redesign last week and organic traffic fell 60%. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait, but this doesn't look like a wobble... i've got access to Search Console, analytics and teh…

so annoyed rn i run a local plumber site and every SEO guide i read contradicts the last one. The current debate in my head is about word count targets. Some people treat it as essential, others call it a relic... i dont want to waste hours on something that…

I dont get it. my sitemap is submitted, pages rteurn 200, no noindex anywhere. yet: about half of my category pages sit in Crawled curerntly not indexed. Some older pages from the same section are indexed and even rank. Im trying to figure out if this is a…

Got a proposal from an SEO consultant for an affiliate blog, and a big part of it revolves around word count targets. It sounded convincing in teh meeting, but afterwards i found forum posts calling it outdated. Im not trying to bash anyone, i just wanna…

im literally losing my mind here we launched moving to HTTPS last week and organic traffic fell to almost zero. the agency says rankings always wobble after big changes and we should wait. but this doesnt look like a wobble, ive got access to Search Console,…