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Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Do search engines detect and penalize AI generated content?

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · last activity 10mo ago by Michael‭

Question Webmasters ai-content seo

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Incubator Q&A When importing Creative Commons licensed content from another site, how to ensure that search engines won't penalize my site?

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · edited 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Question Webmasters seo content-syndication

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Meta Introducing a new proposals process

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Is it possible to set up a website that will last for 100 years, paid in advance?

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question Webmasters domains hosting

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Incubator Q&A Do search engines use content user ratings for ranking purposes?

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · edited 1y ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

Question Webmasters search-engine-ranking content user-generated-content

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Meta Reduce the number of characters needed in description titles from fifteen

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · edited 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

Question status-completed title descriptions

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Meta Will incubator Q/A questions get moved to the site once it is launched?

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Is the TITLE tag or the H1 tag more important for SEO?

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · edited 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Question seo html

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Incubator Q&A When importing Creative Commons licensed content from another site, how to ensure that search engines won't penalize my site?

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · edited 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Meta Tagged "Webmasters" vs "webmasters" — tag sometimes hidden

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · edited 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Question bug Webmasters administration tags capitalization

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Incubator Q&A How viable is generic SEO in 2023?

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · edited 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Is digest authentication more secure than basic authentication over HTTPS?

Apache has modules for both digest authentication and basic authentication. I've seen recommendations to use digest authentication because it doesn't send the password in clear text. However, if ...

1 answer · posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question Webmasters https apache authentication

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Incubator Q&A How do I draw a perfect circle on a square of plywood?

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 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question Arts-&-Crafts string-art

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Incubator Q&A Is there an abundant source for hearty food ingredients in TotK?

When cooked in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom or in Breath of the Wild, hearty ingredients produce food that completely fill up your hearts and give you extra temporary hearts. They are some of the mo...

0 answers · posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭ · edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

Question video-games zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom cooking

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Incubator Q&A Is Google Analytics 4 able to integrate with domain properties from Google Search Console?

In the old Universal Analytics, I was unable to show stats from a "domain" property that I had created in Google Search Console. I was only able to integrate a "prefix" property. I haven't tried ...

0 answers · posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Question Webmasters google-search-console google-analytics

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