long time observer here hoping for the best with Saidit, just wanna post a few SEO suggestions
you guys are 15 years behind the competition re: domain authority, but the good news is Google algo has shifted to give newer sites more ranking opportunity so it's not a big problem as it was b4
1- your speed is good and you aware of that importance already
2- noindex user profiles (at least, newer users with less than 100 posts etc), they are ranking instead of their own posts currently
3- noindex threads with less than 10 comments or whatever, this is a big one to improve crawling and indexing
4- enable HSTS in your Cloudflare account and require TLS version 1.2 at the minimum
5- maybe add other security headers too using Cloudflare https://securityheaders.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsaidit.net%2Fs%2FSaidIt&followRedirects=on
6- dont rely on robots.txt disallow, the noindex metatag is better practice for most cases https://saidit.net/robots.txt
7- delete all your sitemap stuff it not helping https://saidit.net/sitemap.xml
8- add more dedicated policy pages like Reddit like Privacy Policy, Content Policy, etc.. maybe Do Not Sell My Info and CCPA Policy (can beat other socials in this area who are selling user data)
most of these did not require much serious coding work, you can DM me and I can provide my contact info to help you free if you want but I just want to help Saidit start ranking better, I think you can do it (unless Google shadow bans you, but they didn't yet)
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