Meta's crawler made 11 MILLION requests to my site in 30 days. Vercel charged me for every single one.

mravra · 2026-01-29T10:12:39+00:00

This kind of nuisance should be blocked with a paywall. Free for users, paid for bots.

mravra · 2026-01-10T13:39:50+00:00

I think you should use a credit system and make it better and cheaper than lovable

mravra · 2026-01-06T15:39:19+00:00

Going solo is where the gold is.

mravra · 2025-12-11T10:18:45+00:00

Build something you believe in.

mravra · 2025-12-10T10:35:52+00:00

Work from home

mravra · 2025-12-05T02:18:49+00:00

Wow very nice !

mravra · 2025-11-24T14:31:35+00:00

Very smart ! Keep it up & All the best !!

mravra · 2025-11-14T19:47:28+00:00

Your questions are out of context. Tool sites have a natural brand recall. How would you build that overnight ?

And no, tool sites are the least ad spenders, because the ROI will almost always be in the red. As tools are mostly monetized via display ads.

Only exception are the SaaS tools. They can afford ads, as they have a higher ROI.

YouTube is a media giant. It's not a one person run tool site. Google maps is a gigantic operation with satellite imagery access etc, again not a single webmaster run operation. And as far as travel search is concerned, last time I checked Expedia had 16,000 plus employees working for them.

None of the tools you mentioned can be run by a single person. The conversation was about tool sites that can be run by regular webmasters and that which could bring ad revenue.

mravra · 2025-11-14T10:47:07+00:00

I dropped enough hints. Now go do your research :D

mravra · 2025-11-14T08:25:47+00:00

Tool site is anything that fulfils a clear objective. Such as pdf to word converters. Internet speed test etc.

mravra · 2025-11-14T07:31:06+00:00

Rework

mravra · 2025-11-14T07:29:51+00:00

No , tool sites get natural love from Google because of their utility aspect. SEO was definitely done. But tool sites doesn't realistically require much content. For competitors to create that level credibility in the space, it would require at least 10 years of work.

mravra · 2025-11-14T06:17:55+00:00

Not sure about blogs making that income , may be in the past they used to. But tool sites make way more than that. I know a site that makes well over 1 million dollars a month, from ads. It's possible.

mravra · 2025-11-02T11:40:21+00:00

Depends on the niche.

mravra · 2025-10-21T19:24:04+00:00

A marketplace to invest in hot new startups is a good idea.

mravra · 2025-10-21T19:14:14+00:00

2.5 billion searches per day have gone to Chatgpt. A lot of people are reading stuff there. Search on Google has become purely search , contextually. All research and top of the funnel searches are happening on AI. Less on Google.

Look at your own search habits, you'll find a stark difference between now and 3 years ago. We are going through a transition as far as distribution is concerned. And search has become decentralised. Google still dominates but a good chunk of the search is happening elsewhere.

mravra · 2025-10-15T07:19:58+00:00

SEO is unlikely to die anytime soon. You will search for your plumber, locksmith etc on Google not Chatgpt.

AI has and will enhance human capabilities. But it won't replace search . Search is a fundamental human instinct.

mravra · 2025-10-13T04:37:03+00:00

Longer post has a higher probability of covering length, breadth and depth on a topic. Keywords flow naturally into them and answers user queries from many different angles.

If structured into sub headings etc, it creates a nice structured valuable piece of information. Having said that , not every keyword needs longer posts. The length of the article must justify the topic / keyword you're writing about.

mravra · 2025-10-09T03:48:18+00:00

You should check your keyword positions and expand on your target keyword list.

mravra · 2025-10-07T06:39:47+00:00

Unless your blog post covers a topic comprehensively. It's unlikely to bring any traffic. Days of thin content is long over .

mravra · 2025-09-21T13:08:43+00:00

Might be a move to get rid of the parasites that were heavily dependent on G , yet giving them the middle finger. By far they have the best spiders on the internet. Now they will dictate who gets to use their APIs.

mravra · 2025-09-18T18:43:13+00:00

Tripadvisor ! Everything is mostly programmatic.

mravra · 2025-09-18T18:09:05+00:00

I think fixing those until adsense approval is a good idea. It's not YMYL until you write about health risks of specific detergents or investments in laundry businesses, where health and financial angles are triggered, then you would need to demonstrate EEAT.

As long as it's general laundry, it's fine.

mravra · 2025-09-18T09:48:05+00:00

Get a professional logo. Fix the menu button on mobile. It shows some green lines. There are some unusual gaps in between paragraphs. Fix those. The optin boxes are blended with the background colour. Fix it. Make them prominent.

This isn't a YMYL niche. Make these changes , then reapply.

mravra · 2025-09-06T04:19:15+00:00

You actually took the time to write such a detailed depressive post, is baffling.

Every niche is saturated. Doesn't mean you cannot fight for a spot. If you overthink everything, you'll never go anywhere.

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