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Neat idea for a website! My tiny search indexer is going through now, and not finding any problems with indexing your site so far. If you see a Go program in y
by SyneRyder 8d ago
Neat idea for a website!
My tiny search indexer is going through now, and not finding any problems with indexing your site so far. If you see a Go program in your logs accessing with a 10 second delay between each page... hi! :D
Looking at your sitemap, I notice that only the front page (the one indexed page) has a priority of 1.0. Maybe experiment with making some other pages have a 1.0 priority as well, and see if that helps with indexing.
It's clear to me that much of the site was created & designed with an LLM, and that might be getting penalized. I imagine search engines are able to detect AI text and use that as a quality signal. For example, it's a big block of text under the Context & Sources section here, I think a human would break that up into paragraphs and use different phrasing.
https://murder-stones.org/stones/charlotte-dymond-memorial https://murder-stones.org/stones/charlotte-dymond-memorial
Oh, and your Meta Descriptions are getting clipped, and clearly just the first words of the page. eg:
"Charlotte Dymond, an 18-year-old servant at Penhale Farm, was killed on Bodmin Moor by fellow servant Matthew Weekes after an argument; he confessed and was han"
Humanizing those descriptions could help too. Personally I hand-write the descriptions for every page on my sites, and try to make them look good for search engine display & helpful to humans.
It's also possible I have no clue what I'm talking about :) But I hope that helps!
- jimnotgym 8d agoThanks. The problem was Google had not even crawled the other pages, so I don't think there was an LLM penalty! I'll look into the priority, thanks. The idea is for human research to slowly replace the LLM descriptions, hence all the boxes for submissions. I was going people might write up their local ones. I am hoping to get out and visit some myself, get proper photos, and write them up properly. My first move was finding some to visit! I put all my early efforts into dicovery. The map itself was the important bit. I asked Claude code to extend the meta descriptions since bing said they were too short, now I see it found a shortcut! Thanks for taking a look.