Stephen Ostermiller‭

If I want to use chat GPT or other large language model AI to generate content for my website, will that be a good strategy for SEO? Can search engines detect and penalize content that was written...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Michael‭

Codidact has tried importing questions from other Q/A sites like Stack Exchange. However search engines have not liked that. Those questions and answers don't usually get indexed on Codidact, and...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Thanks, this looks like an improvement from my perspective of somebody who is proposing a site. This lets me get on with demonstrating questions and answers without needing to get the site set up ...

posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

I've seen a lot of domain names expire or hosting go dark when a website owner stops maintaining the site. Is there a way to prevent that for my own site? I'd like it to remain up, well after I'm ...

2 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

I have a Q&A site where users can upvote and downvote the questions and answers. Does Google use these votes as a ranking signal? Will pages that my users vote up rank better than pages that ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by Andreas from the dark caverns‭

Could number of characters required in the title of descriptions be lowered from 15 to 4? I would have liked to name my proposal just "Webmasters," but that is too short. It seems like the propose...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by ArtOfCode‭

Once a proposal is out of the incubator and it has its own site, is the plan to move the incubator Q/A questions to it?

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

I've heard that for good SEO you need both a <title> tag and an <h1> tag on each page. I have pages that are very visual, think full screen map or full screen images. I'm not sure that...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Search engines don't want to index multiple copies of content. They prefer to index content at its original and official URL only. Search engines use shingling algorithms to detect duplicate and ne...

posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Some of the posts in Incubator Q&A are tagged [Webmasters] (with a capital W) and some are tagged [webmasters] (with a lower case w). The posts with capital letter in the tag have that tag sh...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

The name of the game should go in every question title. The tag isn't always shown with the question, so it isn't enough context. When I look at the video-games tag I see the following where the ...

posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

The fundamentals of SEO haven't changed in two decades: Create great content. Use the words and phrases for which you want to be found in search engines. Ensure that search engines can crawl y...

posted 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

I'm working on a string-art project on a 3-ft square of plywood. It will have brass nails in a circle with different colors of string connecting the nails in a pattern. I'm trying to figure how I ...

2 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

The blue eggs are packaged separately to prevent the blue paint from marking up the other eggs. The blue paint is the most likely color to transfer to the other eggs. There is no game play differe...

posted 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

That looks like it is a relative of the Legrand Wiremold 2300D Surface Nonmetallic Raceway System. Because you have 120 volt A/C power and low voltage communication wires in the same raceway, i...

posted 10mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭