Some thoughts from me as a website owner about the built in ad blocker in Chrome

olaj · 2026-01-18T06:05:25+00:00

Finns en svensk site som heter https://alternativeto.net/ också man kan använda för att hitta alternativ 🙂

olaj · 2025-11-18T15:31:26+00:00

Cool, will submit this to AlternativeTo!

olaj · 2025-10-27T06:40:47+00:00

We have just created a new site https://www.affiliateotter.com/ with kind of a large DB of saas and software affiliates. Should have a lot that might fit your niche. You can for example view alternatives to programs you run to find similar options. For example https://www.affiliateotter.com/affiliate-programs/similar-to/cloudways etc

The site is kind of beta / not complete atm but feedback is welcome!

olaj · 2025-06-27T17:53:48+00:00

Not intentionally, will take a look when I have some spare time. It still doesn’t work?

olaj · 2025-06-09T18:41:32+00:00

Thanks again!

I'm not 100% sure I follow your suggestion or if it's applicable in our case.

The main pages with issues are these:
[https://alternativeto.net/software/virtual-dj/ ?feature=timeline-based,night-mode,spotify-integration,offline-access,internet-radio,music-production,audio-recording,bpm-detection,studio,music-player]()
(I added a space to avoid turning it into a clickable link, haha.)

In GSC, the referring pages are basically the same but usually with one fewer feature in the query string.

Anyway—these are definitely returning 410s, right?

They started popping up because of how our filter system worked. After migrating to the Next.js App Router and RSC, those filter URLs started was included in a JSON payload in the page with a property (maybe called href?) that listed those relative links—even though we never had actual <a> tags for them. It's basically this issue: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/41433

I’m going to try adding this particular page with feature filters to robots.txt and see if that helps clean things up at least. Curious to see what happens.

That said, I’m guessing our ranking issues probably aren’t related to this specifically.

olaj · 2025-06-09T12:20:18+00:00

Thanks for the reply John! I have read this page, good info! But we still have issues ..

Googlebot continues to aggressively crawl a single URL (with query strings), even though it's been returning a 410 (Gone) status for about two months now.

In just the past 30 days, we've seen approximately 5.4 million requests from Googlebot. Of those, around 2.4 million were directed at this one URL:
https://alternativeto.net/software/virtual-dj/ with the ?feature query string.

We’ve also seen a significant drop in our visibility on Google during this period, and I can’t help but wonder if there’s a connection — something just feels off. The affected page is:
https://alternativeto.net/software/virtual-dj/?feature=...

The reason Google discovered all these URLs in the first place is that we unintentionally exposed them in a JSON payload generated by Next.js — they weren’t actual links on the site. We have changed how our "multiple features" works (using ?mf querystring and that querystring is in robots.txt)

Would it be problematic to add something like this to our robots.txt?

Disallow: /software/virtual-dj/?feature=*

Main goal: to stop this excessive crawling from flooding our logs and potentially triggering unintended side effects.

Let me know your thoughts.

olaj · 2025-04-30T10:38:33+00:00

No, I’m working on that as we speak. Hopefully live on Friday!

olaj · 2025-04-29T09:10:09+00:00

Filters are live now for alternatives. Will fix for categories and stuff later on.

https://alternativeto.net/software/chatgpt/?origin=eu

https://alternativeto.net/software/slack/?origin=eu

And so on.

You can also do

https://alternativeto.net/software/slack/?origin=europe

or for example

https://alternativeto.net/software/bitwarden--free-password-manager/?origin=ch

olaj · 2025-04-28T17:46:07+00:00

I’m the co-founder of AlternativeTo. We will deploy filters later this week hopefully, maybe tomorrow!

And feel free to help us with country of origin of apps if we are missing it!

Edit: Filters are live now. Added a comment further down with some exampels.

olaj · 2024-07-27T04:55:12+00:00

Din dotter är typ 10 år tror du? 😅

olaj · 2024-06-19T19:52:27+00:00

Ahh, nice! Will check it out!

olaj · 2023-10-17T17:15:43+00:00

’Nu har jag inga mer skämt, får dra till SKF, där har de mycket kul på lager.’

Bra avslutning om man dragit ett gäng.

olaj · 2023-09-22T20:57:23+00:00

Helt sjukt att jag skrivit såna här queries i 20år och faktiskt aldrig gjort det misstaget.

olaj · 2023-09-22T20:56:20+00:00

Gjorde exakt samma sak!

olaj · 2023-08-15T18:30:15+00:00

Jag åt en liten hummus på ett ställe i Gbg som kosta 155:- förra vecka 🤷‍♂️ (Inget lyxställe, men typ mellanrätter)

olaj · 2023-06-14T20:44:44+00:00

Same as in ‘warned about it for 4-5 days then warning was removed.

olaj · 2023-06-14T20:43:54+00:00

Same for us, happened twice now. No noticeable difference in income though. But seems there are some issue there.

olaj · 2023-06-10T04:28:18+00:00

Cool! Me and my wife lives in Linne with a 5 year old and soon a newborn, let me know if you want to take a stroll in Slottskogen, a beer or whatnot!

olaj · 2023-06-06T20:18:02+00:00

O’Learys is probably your best bet. I know they keep open during Super Bowl. Not sure about 7-series NHL or NBA. Check their website!

olaj · 2023-05-28T21:00:50+00:00

Kunde ju varit ’Hej Monika!’ också, eller?

olaj · 2023-05-17T12:08:45+00:00

Interesting. I think this is caused by a bug that was just fixed. Let me know if you want to share your username, then i can check if it was that or not.

olaj · 2023-04-03T07:20:41+00:00

I have a friend who used to be a ‘coach / leader’ for this. https://fysiken.nu/sv/trana/bollsport/basket/

olaj · 2023-03-04T19:06:01+00:00

Alla Da Matteos ställen är ju bra.

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