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Offtopic: wow, I can't see anything on the linked website without enabling JavaScript. What a wonderful days to live.

toni 11y ago
Enabling JavaScript alone will not help either. You also need to enable cookies! Without cookies: http://i.imgur.com/OCuMnWL.png http://i.imgur.com/OCuMnWL.png With cookies: http://i.imgur.com/UU4okkR.png http://i.imgur.com/UU4okkR.png
Isofarro 11y ago
I've been watching the Google SERPS view of his website tank since he switched to his JavaScript stack a few months ago. It's a eye-watering example of what happens switching from a static website to a client-side generated one. There's basically nothing on the first page of a site:scripting.com search anymore. Even the Google Sitelinks view lists the RSS feed as the most important page after the homepage.
- davewiner 11y ago
  Maybe your google is broken, but on mine, I get plenty of hits. If you do a view source on the page you'll see why it works, there's a static copy of the full text just for google to index. Try this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+river5&oq=site%3Ascripting.com+river5 https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+river5&... I get all the hits in the first page. This is something that was just posted recently so you can see they're still indexing the site regularly. Now the page rank might be hurt by the fact that Scripting News is http and they say that they're downgrading http sites. That's fine with me. The web is not owned by them, as far as I'm concerned. YMMV.
  - Isofarro 11y ago
    Try it with just site:scripting.com Is mirror.scripting.com really the most important page on scripting.com (and it's currently unavailable). That's what's turning up as the top result, more important than the scripting.com homepage.
davewiner 11y ago
Sorry for the trouble, the site is in active development, and I must have broken that recently. Will fix soon as I can.
davewiner 11y ago
Also here's a link to the repo.. https://github.com/scripting/river5 https://github.com/scripting/river5 Dave

toni 11y ago

Enabling JavaScript alone will not help either. You also need to enable cookies! Without cookies: http://i.imgur.com/OCuMnWL.png http://i.imgur.com/OCuMnWL.png With cookies: http://i.imgur.com/UU4okkR.png http://i.imgur.com/UU4okkR.png

Isofarro 11y ago

I've been watching the Google SERPS view of his website tank since he switched to his JavaScript stack a few months ago. It's a eye-watering example of what happens switching from a static website to a client-side generated one. There's basically nothing on the first page of a site:scripting.com search anymore. Even the Google Sitelinks view lists the RSS feed as the most important page after the homepage.

davewiner 11y ago
Maybe your google is broken, but on mine, I get plenty of hits. If you do a view source on the page you'll see why it works, there's a static copy of the full text just for google to index. Try this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+river5&oq=site%3Ascripting.com+river5 https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ascripting.com+river5&... I get all the hits in the first page. This is something that was just posted recently so you can see they're still indexing the site regularly. Now the page rank might be hurt by the fact that Scripting News is http and they say that they're downgrading http sites. That's fine with me. The web is not owned by them, as far as I'm concerned. YMMV.
- Isofarro 11y ago
  Try it with just site:scripting.com Is mirror.scripting.com really the most important page on scripting.com (and it's currently unavailable). That's what's turning up as the top result, more important than the scripting.com homepage.

davewiner 11y ago

Sorry for the trouble, the site is in active development, and I must have broken that recently. Will fix soon as I can.

davewiner 11y ago

Also here's a link to the repo.. https://github.com/scripting/river5 https://github.com/scripting/river5 Dave