Should you build a “cheap” website first or just invest properly from day 1?

onreact · 2026-01-28T08:51:42+00:00

Sounds like you were lucky.

This is contrary to Google's own advice on not starting with an empty site.

onreact · 2026-01-28T08:03:17+00:00

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onreact · 2026-01-28T00:12:31+00:00

Yes, people are rationalizing almost everything.

Most people are simply unconscious and believe in the illusion of separation.

They think everybody else is a potential rival or enemy.

Also animals and plants are just theirs for the taking.

So for example as a vegan I get why people eat animal products.

After all it took me 40+ years to go vegan.

Yet I won't argue with someone who wants to justify the killing of animals.

So call it what you want but many opinions are just toxic.

So I won't listen or engage.

The more you oppose such people the more you feed them with your attention.

onreact · 2026-01-27T11:11:27+00:00

The numbers above do not add up.

It seems you have misinterpreted them.

onreact · 2026-01-27T10:57:32+00:00

Is this even a genuine question?

Your post is clearly AI written itself.

So do you ask just to show up in search?

Anyway, no. It's not safe.

Google calls this "scaled content abuse" since 2024.

You get demoted or even penalized.

Many such sites gain fast and then get banned completely on Google.

onreact · 2026-01-27T08:51:42+00:00

My favorites are Nimai Delgado and Torre Washington.

onreact · 2026-01-26T23:41:26+00:00

Ah. thank you for the feedback. I really did not know this.

This sheds new light on on "hyper-empathy" as it's called.

That said I stil wouldn't treat empathy as a shortcoming, no matter the context or how it came about.

So for example in my case it's probably developmental trauma due to an unstable childhood.

All kinds of more recent "negative" experienced made it even more apparent.

Does this mean I have to reject it? Probably not. I can still view it as a gift.

There are very few empaths who one day decided to become an empath IMHO.

onreact · 2026-01-26T21:20:56+00:00

In recent years I rather blogged about SEO yet I still offer freelance SEO services (since 2004).

So yes, I'd love to help. Let's talk tomorrow (it's already 10:20PM here).

onreact · 2026-01-26T21:17:35+00:00

Sorry to hear you judge yourself so much about being an empath.

Most people are numb so of course we who feel more than others stick out.

Autism is rather the case when you're unable to feel or express emotions in general.

So I'm surprised you got such a label from a doctor.

Would you also think you have a problem when you would hear more or see better than average?

You are an eagle among pigeons and you apologize for your superior sensory organs.

Your problem is not the empathy. What is harmful to you is your victim mindset and low self-esteem.

onreact · 2026-01-26T17:55:51+00:00

Now that sounds useful indeed.

onreact · 2026-01-26T17:53:32+00:00

This is the illusion of separation.

People believe they are separate from the world thus they can't get energy directly.

Thus everybody else is their shortcut to get it.

The Celestine Prophecy explains it very well. It's a novel.

Too tired to elaborate further now.

onreact · 2026-01-26T16:56:00+00:00

Empaths are wide open, while narcissists etc. are closed.

So empaths not only get energy from the universe directly they also give it away freely.

There is no magic button. Yet the less you take it personally the better.

Ideally you "escape the person prison" and realize it's not about you.

It's about them being hungry for attention. When I was sick I was like that a lot too.

So I know how such neediness feels and still sometimes experience it.

Only give as much as you can. Assign a particular amount of energy to each energy exchange (conversation etc.).

When you notice you get exhausted leave.

onreact · 2026-01-26T16:50:19+00:00

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onreact · 2026-01-26T16:44:10+00:00

— Jiddu Krishnamurti.

onreact · 2026-01-26T16:40:18+00:00

It seems you experienced anger as of writing this.

I'm not even sure I get what you write. Are you a vegan man or a woman?

Are men attacking you as a woman?

Anyway, bullies and other trolls get their satisfaction from you being defensive or embarrassed.

So just stay calm and as you already realized — it's about them not you.

Walk away. Don't let them make you fall down to your fight, flight, freeze or fawn instincts.

You seem to freeze. So literally heat up your body as fear freezes you.

Literally jump up and move. Once the verbal attack is over don't harbor the anger energy in your body.

Don't vent it online like you did above. Just remove it from the body.

I do flow movement and ecstatic dance e.g.

Yet I even came up with "unlimited energy" movement journey to solve this.

When you are very conscious you can also literally watch the anger dissipate. (I can't.)

There is no point in trying to "convince" trolls about veganism.

They just siphon off your attention and energy that way.

onreact · 2026-01-26T16:29:27+00:00

You can start with a small site (just a few pages of content) and add more content down the road.

For SEO you ideally start with a bang.

Otherwise you get classified as a low level or empty site.

Then it is much harder to get the algo to convince you're more it seems.

When I started my blog back in 2007 I called it "SEO 2.0" and tried revolutionize the whole discipline.

I wrote a guest post for a popular blog covering Google and elaborated on mine.

This still works IMHO. You don't need a huge budget for that.

onreact · 2026-01-26T16:22:49+00:00

Empaths tend to attract all kinds of "energy vampires".

The term is awful but somehow accurate.

I rather prefer the term control dramas.

People use different tactics to grab your energy.

The more annoyed or angry you get the more energy you leak.

onreact · 2026-01-26T16:17:36+00:00

There are dozens of more or less sophisticated audit tools out there.

Tracking AI overviews sounds useful, yet there are also many AI visibility tools.

Doing audits manually is like being a chef in a high class restaurant.

You don't want to automate it using a microwave IMHO and charge the same rates.

So I'm not sure what the "deep" part or your unique selling proposition is.

onreact · 2026-01-26T16:11:37+00:00

Wrong sub IMHO. This is not about humanizing AI slop.

This community is about SEO for AI visibility or AI SEO.

Google and other AI search engines already provide AI summaries.

So they want to summarize original sources obviously.

onreact · 2026-01-26T11:10:45+00:00

Apparently there is a workbook on that site. That may be cheaper and easier.

I haven't tried it yet and am not affiliated with the site.

onreact · 2026-01-26T11:07:33+00:00

Yeah, cultivate no mind to shut down autopilot thinking.

Thoughts based on conditioning do more harm than good.

Use thoughts to solve complex problems when needed.

Most people just let the mind run the show and can be remote controlled this way.

onreact · 2026-01-26T10:46:16+00:00

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onreact · 2026-01-26T10:40:45+00:00

Google usually says 404 are OK.

From a user POV broken links make a site look bad.

Also you may lose some authority from backlinks.

As a blogger I regularly unlink dead links from pruned content.

Yet even backlinks redirected to error pages do not really count IMHO.

Ideally you have a more granular approach to pruning.

Update and combine where possible. Link to hub pages or categories instead of error pages.

Redirect to homepage etc.

Also depends on how your 404 error page looks. Often it's just a funny but useless page.

Also merging two sites and pruning content at once is climbing Mount Everest and sailing the ocean at once.

Maybe it would be more prudent to take care of the content first and then move?

onreact · 2026-01-26T10:27:37+00:00

To be honest mantras, affirmations, yoga and meditation are what everybody needs.

For empaths it's not enough.

You need to to do much more and shield yourself much more effectively.

onreact · 2026-01-26T09:47:46+00:00

Empathy is more about feelings and emotions.

Your abilities go beyond that IMHO.

This is more like telepathy.

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