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Posts by 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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I've read that for usability and SEO, the the <title> tags on your pages should contain both the article title and your brand name. I'm wondering which order is better for them? Which of th...
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...
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 ...
XML sitemaps are not necessary for SEO. They don't affect Google's decisions about which URLs get indexed, nor do they help the pages in them rank better. The two SEO benefits of XML sitemaps are...
In US income tax system, your home is an asset referred to as "capital". When you sell your house, you might pay income tax based on your profit from the house. The tax terminology for that is "cap...
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...
You should consider a whole house standby generator rather than whole house batteries. From a cost perspective you can get a 20KW generator installed for around $10,000 (USD). A 20KW battery and ...
A canonical URL should be the primary URL to represent ALL the content on the page. The URL that highlights a particular comment creates a variation of that page. The comment URL should never be t...
When I use content from other sites on my own website, I don't know if I should call that "content aggregation" or "content syndication." What are the definitions of "content aggregation" and "con...
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 ...
I want to exclusively use webp images on my website. I haven't used a browser that doesn't support them in years. However caniuse.com reports that over 3% of users globally can't load them. If...
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 ...
I've heard that I should create an XML sitemap containing all the URLs from my site for SEO. My site needs to improve: The number of URLs that get crawled by search engine bots The number of U...
