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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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NAME
google-pprof - manual page for google-pprof (part of gperftools) SYNOPSIS
google-pprof [options] <program> <profile> DESCRIPTION
Prints specified cpu- or heap-profile OPTIONS
--cum Sort by cumulative data --base=<base> Subtract <base> from <profile> before display Reporting Granularity: --addresses Report at address level --lines Report at source line level --functions Report at function level [default] --files Report at source file level Output type: --text Generate text report [default] --gv Generate Postscript and display --list=<regexp> Generate source listing of matching routines --disasm=<regexp> Generate disassembly of matching routines --dot Generate DOT file to stdout --ps Generate Postcript to stdout --pdf Generate PDF to stdout --gif Generate GIF to stdout Heap-Profile Options: --inuse_space Display in-use (mega)bytes [default] --inuse_objects Display in-use objects --alloc_space Display allocated (mega)bytes --alloc_objects Display allocated objects --show_bytes Display space in bytes --drop_negative Ignore negaive differences Call-graph Options: --nodecount=<n> Show at most so many nodes [default=80] --nodefraction=<f> Hide nodes below <f>*total [default=.005] --edgefraction=<f> Hide edges below <f>*total [default=.001] --focus=<regexp> Focus on nodes matching <regexp> --ignore=<regexp> Ignore nodes matching <regexp> --scale=<n> Set GV scaling [default=0] EXAMPLES
google-pprof /bin/ls ls.prof Outputs one line per procedure google-pprof --gv /bin/ls ls.prof Displays annotated call-graph via 'gv' google-pprof --gv --focus=Mutex /bin/ls ls.prof Restricts to code paths including a .*Mutex.* entry google-pprof --gv --focus=Mutex --ignore=string /bin/ls ls.prof Code paths including Mutex but not string google-pprof --list=getdir /bin/ls ls.prof Dissassembly (with per-line annotations) for getdir() google-pprof --disasm=getdir /bin/ls ls.prof Dissassembly (with per-PC annotations) for getdir() COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005 Google Inc. SEE ALSO
Further documentation for google-pprof is maintained as a web page called cpu_profiler.html and is likely installed at one of the following locations: /usr/share/gperftools/cpu_profiler.html /usr/local/share/gperftools/cpu_profiler.html google-pprof (part of gperftools) February 2005 PPROF(1)
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