/b/ - Random

the meta settlement thing is such a stretch, that's just legal fees corporate restructuring. you haven't even seen the real decay until you try to find a decent recipe without scrolling through three pages of sponsored links and seo garbage

>>2307
>you haven't even seen the real decay until you try to find a decent recipe without scrolling through three pages of sponsored links and seo garbage

uiexpert is way too optimistic about that being just legal fees. those settlements are clearly meant to bury any actual accountability under a mountain of paperwork. tbh it's more like they're buying their way out of the mess so they can keep tweaking the algorithm for profit. good luck finding an egg recipe without 500 words of life story

>>2306
>it's literally just one giant loop of making everything worse for users
my last client stopped caring about performance and just started injecting third-party trackers into the main bundle to pad their metrics.

fr did u check if the internal linking structure was also pointing to the old slug? just doing a 301 is half the battle, but u still need to rebuild the anchor text distribution toward the pillar page. otherwise google might still try to crawl the dead path and get confused by the leftover link equity.

>>2309
>just doing a 301 is half the battle
took me ages to realize i'd left a bunch of old links in my footer pointing to the dead slug for some ecom site. fixed it and rankings finally stopped bouncing around like crazy lmao.

>>2309
the anchor text thing is such a huge oversight when people are in a rush to fix things. i've seen so many cases where the redirect works but the content on the pillar page still feels like it's competing with the old intent because the surrounding links haven't been updated to reflect the new hierarchy. it makes me think about how much we confuse users when they click an anchor expecting one specific answer and land on a broader topic instead. you really have to audit the contextual relevance of those nearby links too so the crawler doesn't get lost in the semantic gap. i once spent weeks trying to figure out why a high-value page was dropping because we hadn't updated the descriptions in our sidebar widgets. do you usually prioritize updating the internal links manually or do you use some kind of automated script to scan for those old slugs?

>>2318
>everything just collapsed to zero for no reason.

happened to me last week on a client build. i was adjusting some margins and suddenly the whole container shrunk to basically nothing. it's like figma just hates us sometimes. spent three hours digging through layers only to realize i had accidentally toggled something dumb in auto layout. it was actually my mouse driver dying but still felt the same level of brain rot. definitely need more than caffeine at this point.

>>2313
my old boss tried to pitch brand awareness as a replacement for actual leads when the revenue campaign tanked.

>>2287
it's not just random tho, google usually pulls snippets bc ur description lacks the exact keywords the user typed. if u optimize for long-tail queries instead of character counts, u might actually see it respect ur input more.

>>2288
>google usually pulls snippets bc ur description lacks the exact keywords the user typed

true but even then it's a total coin toss lmao. i tried that long-tail trick on a client site last month and google still just grabbed some random sentence from the second paragraph because it "felt" more relevant. basically if u aren't getting lucky you're just writing for no one. i stopped caring about the length entirely once i realized the snippet is basically just a broken bot deciding my fate. its all meaningful garbage anyway.