Article: I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

[t2van]

It's 2026 and Google Search Is Totally Broken

I'm losing the SEO battle for my own open source project

https://twitter.com/x/status/2028821432759717930

Good read.


To help him out: nanoclaw

 

[1974Mustang]

It’s a shame. Google used to be a lot better at telling what the original site was.

They overcomplicated their own algorithm and this is the result.

 

[t2van]

It’s a shame. Google used to be a lot better at telling what the original site was.

They overcomplicated their own algorithm and this is the result.

Think as well it's not 1990

Having a website seems obvious a little than relying on github

 

[GoldenGlovez]

Github has always been a great way to rank for certain search phrases. I use to put the front-end build code on Github with a link from the main website and then a disclaimer in the README of the homepage URL (and sales pitch), and Github would frequently outrank the main page and often at the #1 spot for actionable search phrases.

This guy had no website until 2 weeks ago, did a bit of SEO and is wondering why it's not up there yet. He can also report the impersonation site to the Google Web Safety team, there are forms to fill out, and with the reach of his application I'm sure it'll get expedited (it seems he may have already, but it takes some time). He is a dumb ass for not putting up a simple static landing page on the root domain to begin with.

 

[SirTop]

It's even at #1 now... Wild West

 

[Dopious]

It's even at #1 now... Wild West

It does not even come up when I search for " nanoclaw " here, only the Github page.

 

[SilverClouds]

Soooo he's basically complaining he's not at spot 1 on Google? Wouldn't we all like to be there? Lol

For me mostly sponsored results show, so there's that.

 

[t2van]

It's even at #1 now... Wild West

no

thats the fake one

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Soooo he's basically complaining he's not at spot 1 on Google? Wouldn't we all like to be there? Lol

For me mostly sponsored results show, so there's that.

Sort of, it's more that he cant outrank a domain that's claiming to be his project

 

[SirTop]

no

thats the fake one

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Yeah, I mean the fake one is even showing at #1, compared to what he said in his story where the fake site was showing at #2

The real site isn’t even on the first page at all for that search term and it’s just nuts