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Horrible SEO on a website with a lot of products

I started recently at a new place and i have to do a lot, they use drupal and have maybe around 2K product listings. The huge issue was that GSC had more than 300K not indexed pages, i have blocked certain characters in robots.txt and vibe coded an extention that puts no-follow on those faceted URLs, second issue was that some products are on request and have no prices, google flags that as issue. Indexed pages are around 3K. I have allowed claude and chatgpt, generated llms.txt, updated the sitemap, put short articles about the services and FAQ about certain peoduct then interlinked that to the same product from sitemap URLs. On PageSpeed insights i made everything at 100% expect the performance of the website which ~50%, they have some .js, .css files from modules, drupal uses a TON of extentions, it gets too technical and i do NOT like this platform. But our competitor ranks in top 10 and has way worse PageSpeed insights! The store is not in top 10 searches for the certain prod...
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Google Analytics alternatives in 2026: what are you actually using?

I stopped using Google Analytics ages ago. GA4 feels like opening a cockpit when all I want to know is "which traffic made money?" The 2023 thread on this sub is pretty outdated now, so I figured I'd start a fresh one. The space has changed a lot, we have revenue analytics, AI session replays, and a bunch of new players. Here's my current shortlist for 2026: Revenue / Founder analytics DataFast - connects Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, etc with traffic so you see revenue per source, not just visitors. This is the one I open first now. PostHog - product analytics, funnels, replay, feature flags. Overkill for a blog, perfect for SaaS. Privacy-first / simple Plausible - cookieless, clean, readable before coffee Simple Analytics - intentionally limited (the limitation is the feature) Fathom - agency-friendly, multi-site Rybbit - newer, "Plausible plus funnels and replay" Self-hosted / open source Matomo - the grown-up GA replacement, ente...
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Does a separate “entity site” actually help another unrelated site rank or appear in AI answers?

I’m trying to sanity-check a claim I’ve seen about SEO, entity authority, and AI search. The basic idea is this: Someone has two separate websites: A main business website focused on a specific local service A separate personal/entity website focused on the person behind the business, including blog posts, speaking/teaching credentials, unrelated work to the primary business (but still in the same niche), personal background, and links to social profiles. The claim is that the second site helps establish the person as a named, verifiable entity in Google’s Knowledge Graph or broader web ecosystem. The sites are connected through cross-linking, consistent name/location/social references, and schema markup like sameAs . The argument is that this separate “entity site” helps the main business site rank better and increases the chances that AI answer engines like Google AI Overviews, Gemini, ChatGPT, or Perplexity will recommend that person or business for relevant local/service qu...
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From Reddit to Revenue: Building Real Community That Drives Sales and AI Visibility via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell

Elevate your brand's multi-channel AI visibility using Reddit. Discover strategies that drive trust and revenue for your business. The post From Reddit to Revenue: Building Real Community That Drives Sales and AI Visibility appeared first on Search Engine Journal . from Search Engine Journal https://ift.tt/NsjW6UJ
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Indexing issues, Please Help!

I’m facing a weird indexing issue with 2 pages on a client website and wanted some opinions from experienced SEOs here. When I got this project, the website was in a very poor SEO state. There were almost no internal links, barely any backlinks, no proper technical optimization, no schema, weak content structure, etc. The previous agency had apparently already been trying to get these pages indexed, but they never succeeded. After I took over the project, I completely reworked both pages: - Rewrote and restructured the content - Added FAQs - Implemented schema markup - Improved on-page SEO - Added internal linking - Worked on technical SEO improvements - Optimized metadata and page structure Basically, I did almost everything that would normally help with crawling and indexing. But even after all this, those 2 pages are still not getting indexed in Google. What’s confusing is that other pages on the website are indexing normally. It’s only these two pages that seem stuck. ...
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Searching for the light..

Once in a while, I peruse this subreddit and wonder, did some of you lads lose your nerve, and as for you lassies, did your brains suddenly scramble? I know it's quite a bold opening statement, but a good ice-cold opening to grab your ATTENTION may perhaps make y'all listen. Well, well, what did I find? Not much, really, just the nuisance of this sub failing to motivate each other toward SEO growth. Check this out, pal, on one corner you got Billy the Kid shouting out AIO/GEO is the new thing, then you got good ole' Calamity Jane holding her .32-caliber Hopkins pointed right on to your head, ready to blow your brains out. And you wonder how will the noobs learn about SEO if the sub has this constantly unfolding, hostile approach? You know what, somebody is gonna have to search for the light, in the midst of chaos, swimming alongside a big pile of turds like in Shankshaw Redemption, but who is the light? What makes you the light, what do you know, and what do I know? So...
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