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I start to think these days one has to write like this and fill the page with 2k words of fluff before getting to the point if one hopes the website to show up
by Roark66 4y ago
I start to think these days one has to write like this and fill the page with 2k words of fluff before getting to the point if one hopes the website to show up in Google.
I recently struggled a lot with a technical problem. I searched and searched and I couldn't find a solution. Then I discovered a solution myself and I created a short blog-style tutorial how to resolve it.
As far as I know the only one on the Web, but does it show in Google search results when one searches for exact phrase or quite rare keywords used? No way, I've added it to Google, Google scanned it, and that's it.
Searching for the problem you find my forum posts where I ask (unsuccessfully) for help about it and maybe few more people doing the same,nothing more.
Perhaps instead of writing my blog entry for humans (state the problem, describe a solution). I should've written it for Google bot in a format of:
- State a problem
- why do we have this problem
- what is the history of stuff we have the problem with
- a personal story how I saved my dog while working on the solution
- at the very end one sentence that hints at a solution (don't just give it away! Make 5 pages talking about it instead!)
That's why we can't have nice things.
- maven29 4y agoTry github gist or creating a stackoverflow question and answering it, I find that even short snippets are indexed well on whitelisted platforms like these.