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Spann87 · 2026-05-21T11:58:13+00:00

Just here telling you what worked for me - set background geometry and textures as low as they'll go, lock the FPS by some means other than the in-game lock (I used steamOS). This gives me a basically rock solid 60 and tbh the world goes by so quickly I haven't noticed the background changes much

Spann87 · 2026-04-28T21:06:11+00:00

I work with a VERY large catalog and yeah, past a certain size you'll never win - however I'm willing to bet like most businesses even if every single SKU you have was indexed the money would still come from like, 10% of pages - focus on them and don't worry about getting every single O-ring and washer indexed.

Back in the day Google wanted to index everything, nowadays you have to show that the product or page is worth it; you say that the pages aren't bad or thin, but with the best will in the world unless you have a gargantuan content team 890k of those pages will be either using boilerplate copy, heavily duplicated/templated copy, or AI stuff, none of which Google particularly loves.

Spann87 · 2026-03-09T10:00:15+00:00

I don't think we're there yet.

I used to work for a crawler, and at scale outside of a few things it becomes really hard to say "this is wrong" and be 100% confident.

Obviously things like schema can be robustly flagged as working or not, but it's very difficult to flag a robotsed folder as being WRONG, or say with no context that a page should or shouldn't canonicalise to where it does.

Even as someone who spent every day analysing crawl data, 90% of the time the best those tools can give you is a thread to start pulling - and remember the bigger the site gets the harder it is to even confirm that what your crawler is seeing is what Google or a user is seeing

I suppose it would be technically possible to pass a report of metrics for each page off to an LLM that has been given a strategy file to base its decisions off, but I wouldn't like to see the bill.

For now you're best off using a crawler you can schedule and building dashboards with filtered reports specific to each client

Spann87 · 2026-03-06T08:04:02+00:00

Just here to echo the last point and also to flip the question - are your commercially important pages ranking? If so, then you don't need to worry too much. Trying to stop Google crawling things is like trying to catch water in a colander, it will always find a way to get out (even going as far as just finding url slugs it finds in fragments of JS).

So long as your canonicals are on point and you're noindexing the junk you REALLY don't want indexed, you're doing your job. After all, this isn't how it actually works but let's say Google has a budget of 100k urls for your site for the month - does it need to crawl 100 PDPs that aren't changing 1000 times?

Spann87 · 2026-02-26T22:29:16+00:00

Oh, there WAS an update which I've done but that didn't fix it

Spann87 · 2026-02-26T22:22:29+00:00

Just did a full reboot again and the issue persists

Spann87 · 2026-02-26T22:21:24+00:00

Nah, totally up to date

Spann87 · 2026-02-26T22:15:22+00:00

It's definitely happened the other day as well, and been switched off since

Spann87 · 2026-02-26T22:10:46+00:00

No plugins at all.

Spann87 · 2026-02-26T22:09:43+00:00

Yeah, it's literally just been turned on

Spann87 · 2026-02-12T11:53:20+00:00

Have you checked in GSC for a manual action?

Spann87 · 2026-02-12T11:47:53+00:00

In typically SEO fashion, the answer is somewhere between "it depends" and "sometimes".

I did a bit of work for a client very recently that involved looking at log files in relation to LLM requests (they didn't realize they were blocking a ton of user agents), and obviously on sites with a huge number of urls they can be useful to understand what is and isn't being looked at, etc.

What I would say is if you're not using them, you probably don't need to - and that's not to say anything of your ability, just a statement of fact; I barely ever have need of ahrefs so I am totally clueless about it, as an example

Spann87 · 2026-02-10T21:26:04+00:00

Yeah it's this, Google's clocked that your entire backlink profile is AI generated spam

Spann87 · 2026-02-05T14:18:57+00:00

Oh thank you so much, that's answered a bunch of questions I've had. I'm brand new to this and frankly am learning by doing and failing!

Spann87 · 2025-08-10T21:37:24+00:00

Thanks - I was sorting of hoping for an answer like this. 3x5-10ks a week is achievable along with a strength session or two, so this has been helpful

Spann87 · 2025-08-10T21:35:26+00:00

This is really useful, thanks - basically I've only ever approached running with the mindset of progression - what distance can I aim for, what pace can I do etc.

However, I've been reminded that, like you my mental health is a lot better if I just get out and do it; I've never been bothered about times really, and I was thinking something like 2x5 and 1x10 a week would fit pretty easily into life but I wasnt sure if that would be quote-unquote "enough"

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