I was curious to see how Stacker.News domain and website contents scored from a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) perspective. Here what Semrush nows about SN. But first have alook at the Page Performance Score on Google (Detailled report available here). Performance and Accessibility looks have really low score!

Desktop	Mobile

Now let's see what Semrush knows.

Analytics

General view on your metrics and performance trend compared to last 30 days.

See estimations of stacker.news's desktop and mobile traffic based on Semrush’s proprietary AI and machine learning algorithms, petabytes of clickstream data, and Big Data technologies.

Distribution of SN's organic traffic and keywords by country. The Organic Traffic graph shows changes in the amount of estimated organic and paid traffic driven to the SN analyzed domain over time.

Organic Search	Backlinks Analytics

Position Changes Trend	Top Page Changes

This trend allows you to monitor organic traffic changes, as well as improved and declined positions.	Top pages with the biggest traffic changes over the last 28 days.

Competitors

The Competitive Positioning Map shows the strengths and weaknesses of SN competitive domains' presence in organic search results. Data visualizations are based on the domain's organic traffic and the number of keywords that they are ranking for in Google's top 20 organic search results. The larger the circle, the more visibility a domain has. Below, a list of domains an analyzed domain is competing against in Google's top 20 organic search results.

Referring Domains

Daily Stats

Organic Traffic	Organic Keywords	Backlinks
976	15.9K	126K
`-41.87%`	`-16.4%`	`-1.62%`

📝 Traffic Drop

Traffic downturn detected! It appears SN domain experienced a traffic drop of 633 in the last 28 days. Take a closer look at these pages with significant traffic decline and explore areas for potential improvement. Here are the pages taking the biggest hits:

#723989 ⬇️ -15
#919813 ⬇️ -12
#783355 ⬇️ -5

📉 Decreased Authority Score

Uh-oh! Your Authority score has dropped from 26 to 25. Don't worry, we're here to assist you. Check out the new/lost backlinks in the Backlink Analytics tool to uncover insights on how to boost your authority.

🌟 New Keywords

Opportunity Alert! Targeting these keywords could help you increase organic traffic quickly and efficiently. We've found some low-hanging fruits for you! Take a look at these keywords:

nitter.moomoo.me — Volume 70
0xchat — Volume 30
amethyst nostr — Volume 30

🛠️ Broken Pages

This could hurt the user experience and lead to a loss in organic traffic. Time to take action: amend those pages or set up redirects. Here below, few pages on SN domain that are either broken or not crawlable:

https://stacker.news/404 — 38 backlinks
https://stacker.news/api/capture/items/91154 — 24 backlinks
https://stacker.news/api/capture/items/91289 — 24 backlinks

Dees this post give you some insights? Hope so, comment below if you have any SEO suggestion? Mine is to improve or keep an eye on Accessibility!

One of the major issues I found is that SN does not have a robots.txt, a key simple text file that allow crawlers to read or not-read the website for indexing purposes. @k00b and @ek is that voluntary?

Here are other basic info to improve the SEO score and for those of us that want to learn more:

Intro to Accessibility: https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-intro/
Design for Accessibility: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tips/designing/
Web Accessibility Best Practices: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/web-accessibility-best-practices/

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Mar

This is interesting.

Are there things stackers can do, in terms of how we make our posts, that would help?

223 sats \ 4 replies \ @Design_r OP 26 Mar

There's a lot we can do to increase SEO ranking for SN. Here few ideas:

Create SEO-friendly content, meaning: use words and construct your posts with coherence making sure the content stay relevant for the long-term. SEO scores multiply by generating quality content and engagement. Even small actions—like internal linking or sharing posts on facebook on a regular basis—sum up over time to boost domain authority.
Build authority through collaboration: ~AMA is a great example, doing great. ~Music could also take a similar approach, inviting singers and artists for #MusicAMAs... for example. Anyway, the point is to invite external people to talk about the topic they master, they will bring all their followers and fans to SN if and when they advertise the event in their channels.
Encourage Constructive Conversations asking open-ended questions (anyone noticed ~AskSN success lately?), reply to comments, and upvote quality posts to keep pages active (not to get more sats). Try to use, add links to, and reference older SN posts or discussions, to support your post contents.
Improve External Visibility sharing SN content virally! Yes, stop shitposting here. Instead, share links to your Stacker.news threads on other social media, blogs, forums, or newsletters to drive traffic and rise backlinks ranking. When possible, collaborate and partner with other users to create in-depth series to maintain user engagement, and cross-promote on nostr or somewhere else.
Optimize your contents keeping an eye on formatting and adding relevant images, references, and footnotes. We have the tools for it, read How to improve your Markdown writing on SN

This is what I can think of, there are probably other ways.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Mar

Great ideas

I've shared some ideas with k00b that might help keep older posts active for longer.

Internal linking is something I need to do more often. I tend to get lazy and not want to look for the post(s) I'm thinking about.

38 sats \ 2 replies \ @Design_r OP 26 Mar

A good option for that is use the recently renewed search and find contents that maybe relevant to what you want to post about.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 26 Mar

Yeah, it's even worse in my case, because I usually have a particular post in mind and just don't feel like looking for it.

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Design_r OP 26 Mar

An opportunity to build new SN habits 🤣

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