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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? UNIX.com is getting crushed in google search these days Post 303034953 by Neo on Friday 10th of May 2019 12:46:24 AM
Old 05-10-2019
Update:

I think I have "fixed" most of the "soft 404" errors in Google Search Console by modifying the code and content. The revalidation is slow going, but so far the "soft 404 errors have dropped from around 7000 to around 2000 and Google says 'Looking Good" as they slowly revalidate.

I also added code in the posts code block to overflow (add scroll bar) where users have posted long lines of code without code tags. There are too many posts without code tags and all these posts caused problems with Google's mobile validator; and then Google drops them from the index for "not mobile friendly" .

I also added the post summary to similar threads so Google now does not flag pages as "soft 404" for "thin content" when there are a number of similar threads listed.

Also, looking at the Google search ranking, for the keyword "unix", I noticed that our site is not the only site which has dropped. A number of older sites, including the Open Group, who used to have two pages in the top ten, have dropped even lower than our site.

Also stackexchange for the same "unix" keyword used to be high on the second page, now it hangs around the bottom of page four.

So, it seems like changes in Google's algorithm has effected many sites, and not only this one. Many have benefited and others have fallen from grace.

Let's see if the changes I made reverse our downward trend, or as I suspect, we are just an "old and long in the tooth forum site" falling out of favor with Google because our content has "aged" over the years and there are lots of new sites with more modern formats coming up on the net who also have a much strong social media presence.
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creepy

CREEPY(1)						      General Commands Manual							 CREEPY(1)

NAME

       CREEPY -  A geolocation information aggregator

DESCRIPTION

       creepy  is  an application that allows you to gather geolocation related information about users from social networking platforms and image
       hosting services. The information is presented in a map inside the application where all the retrieved data is shown accompanied with rele-
       vant information (i.e. what was posted from that specific location) to provide context to the presentation.

FEATURES

       Map providers available :
	      Google Maps - Virtual Maps - Open Street Maps

       Location information retieval from :

       Twitter's tweet location:
	      Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device.

	      Place  (geographical  name)  derived  from  users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates
	      using geonames.com"

	      Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the  bounding  box
	      is selected randomly.

	      Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API

	      EXIF tags from the photos posted.

       Social networking platforms currently supported:
	      Twitter

	      Foursquare (only checkins that are posted to twitter).

       Image hosting services currently supported :
	      flickr - information retrieved from API

	      twitpic.com - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

	      yfrog.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      img.ly - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      plixi.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      twitrpix.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      foleext.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      shozu.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      pickhur.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      moby.to - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags

	      twitsnaps.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

	      twitgoo.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

NOTES

       Automatic caching of retrieved information in order to reduce API calls and the possibility of hitting limit rates.

       GUI with navigable map for better overview of the accumulated information

       4 Maps providers (including Google Maps) to use.

       Open locations in Google Maps in your browser

       Export retrieved locations list as kmz (for Google Earth) or csv files.

       Handling twitter authentication in an easy way using oAuth. User credentials are not shared with the application.

       User/target search for twitter and flickr.

AUTHOR

       creepy was written by Yiannis Kakavas <jkakavas@gmail.com>

       This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       The full documentation which includes the keys descriptions is in /usr/share/doc/creepy/README.

								   MAY 08, 2011 							 CREEPY(1)
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