Gary Lewis Posted September 20 Author Share Posted September 20 I've read the SEO Starter Guide as well as several other sites and the books I've purchased. But I don't have the time nor inclination to tweak the forum nor the Weebly website to make it meet the recommendations. But we are getting recognition. The snippet below is from Google Analytics, and in the 28 days from Aug 22nd to Sep 18th we had 47,482 visitors to the website/forum combined. Of those roughly half (25,198) were to the forum. And 972 looked at the VIN decoder, which is ~35/day. And yet I'm getting email from Google, SEMRUSH, and others saying we have problems. And people tell me they aren't finding the info. So I'm just looking for someone that will use the tools we have, and maybe implement some more, and get it where we are helping more people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted September 20 Author Share Posted September 20 And now to get to some of the issues holding us back. (Boy, do I like InVision! Highlight two snippets in one go and they upload. Cool!) As you can see below, we are only getting a very small percentage of the pages on the sites indexed. In other words, the search engines don't know what we have. And below that are the reasons the pages aren't getting indexed. We need to fix those, but I don't know how to do it nor do I have the time. I'd really like to find someone on here that knows his/her way around SEO to take this on and get the sites, plural, indexed completely and regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBrother-84 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 Ok Gary, I apologize. I thought you were searching SEO for the forum visibility. I now understand that you're talking about the library one, that makes sense. Can't believe we don't have at least one member with the required skills. If not, I know a woman (friend of my wife) who has this knowledge, but I can't ask her to work free... Let's see if a member shows up, if not I will contact her and see what's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted September 20 Author Share Posted September 20 No need for apologies, Jeff. It is all very complex and interwoven. But I would imagine that the forum pages aren't getting indexed either. Anyway, let's hope someone on here can help us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 I'm right there with Jeff, not grasping the difference between the forum and the archived data/documentation. Yeah it would be a lot better if people could find their own answers. Heck, half the time I don't know where to find something that I've seen a dozen times before! So either I have amazing recall or dementia (maybe both) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdude747 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 SEO is a double edged sword when it comes to the documentation side. Heaven forbid a service manual reseller discovers the site and raises a legal objection. I do know at least some of the documentations is searchable since looking for schematics is what got me here in the first place all that time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted September 20 Author Share Posted September 20 I hired an intellectual property lawyer to review the site and he said we are good. We don't have anything that Ford has given anyone a license to publish in one spot to download. The EVTMs are the closest but they are spread across 30+ web pages and there's no download button. As for the service manuals, we don't have anywhere near all of any one service manual, and what we do have is spread all over creation. So while you could download bits and pieces of a service manual you won't get nearly all and you'll have to do a lot of searching for those pieces. So I'm not at all worried about "being found". We are in good shape legally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted September 20 Author Share Posted September 20 I get frequent email from Google Search Console telling me that we have this problem or that problem. Today I got two of the same ones - Missing field "url" (in "author"), as shown below. I'll bet this is due to the cutover to InVision as it shows to have started yesterday, but if we had someone watching for the Search Console messages s/he could then figure out how or if we should address it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viven44 Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 4 hours ago, ratdude747 said: SEO is a double edged sword when it comes to the documentation side. Heaven forbid a service manual reseller discovers the site and raises a legal objection. I do know at least some of the documentations is searchable since looking for schematics is what got me here in the first place all that time ago. A non-profit scenario here ... heck Gary even refuses to turn on Ads despite the significant ad revenue potential. As mentioned, at the truck show, Ford has bigger fish to fry (like their recent excessive warranty expenditure). This website is keeping more of Ford trucks on the road, so probably the biggest publicity help on how well the Ford trucks are built that so many are "on the job" still 😁 As expected of Gary, even the legal i's are dotted and t's crossed. Just how much is going on behind the scenes? 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted September 20 Author Share Posted September 20 We are apparently quite visible. If you cannot read it there are 196 users online right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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