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Search engine optimization? I thought this goes without saying, but apparently we aren't doing too well there for some reason. The other day I was having a discussion with someone at SO regarding...

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#3: Post edited by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2023-09-15T11:28:32Z (8 months ago)
  • Search engine optimization?
  • ---
  • I thought this goes without saying, but apparently we aren't doing too well there for some reason.
  • The other day I was having a discussion with someone at SO regarding how hard it was to find specific information about anything. As an example I used a topic which I knew there was no good "canonical" for at SO, which had once resulted in me writing one on Codidact instead.
  • The topic was _endianness_, a common programming term and the question was simply "What is endianness?" or more specifically "What is CPU endianness?" I have written a Codidact post here with the title [What is CPU endianness?](https://software.codidact.com/posts/280640) and with a tag "endianness".
  • Using either that very title in Google, or just typing "what is endianess" results in just a few decent hits, with Wikipedia rightly being the #1 hit. Then follows a flood of misc tutorial sites of diverse or unknown reputation, as well as technical articles and the like. Lots of them probably didn't make any particular effort to end up in Google ranks. And yet Codidact is nowhere to be found.
  • The term "endianness" should be a good example to use for a search term, because it is completely unambiguous and only appears in a software engineering context.
  • I have to Google `"What is CPU endianness?"` with the exact title within citation marks to get Codidact appear at all, then as the #1 hit (the other hits being SO posts by me where I link to the Codidact post, as well as some SO scraper site).
  • This can't be right.
  • Search engine optimization?
  • ---
  • I thought this goes without saying, but apparently we aren't doing too well there for some reason.
  • The other day I was having a discussion with someone at SO regarding how hard it was to find specific information about anything on SO, even when using Google for the search. As an example I used a topic which I knew there was no good "canonical" for at SO, which had once resulted in me writing one on Codidact instead.
  • The topic was _endianness_, a common programming term and the question was simply "What is endianness?" or more specifically "What is CPU endianness?" I have written a Codidact post here with the title [What is CPU endianness?](https://software.codidact.com/posts/280640) and with a tag "endianness".
  • Using either that very title in Google, or just typing "what is endianess" results in just a few decent hits, with Wikipedia rightly being the #1 hit. Then follows a flood of misc tutorial sites of diverse or unknown reputation, as well as technical articles and the like. Lots of them probably didn't make any particular effort to end up in Google ranks. And yet Codidact is nowhere to be found.
  • The term "endianness" should be a good example to use for a search term, because it is completely unambiguous and only appears in a software engineering context.
  • I have to Google `"What is CPU endianness?"` with the exact title within citation marks to get Codidact appear at all, then as the #1 hit (the other hits being SO posts by me where I link to the Codidact post, as well as some SO scraper site).
  • This can't be right.
#2: Post edited by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2023-09-15T11:27:54Z (8 months ago)
  • Search engine optimization? I thought this goes without saying, but apparently we aren't doing too well there for some reason.
  • The other day I was having a discussion with someone at SO regarding how hard it was to find specific information about anything. As an example I used a topic which I knew there was no good "canonical" for at SO, which had once resulted in me writing one on Codidact instead.
  • The topic was _endianness_, a common programming term and the question was simply "What is endianness?" or more specifically "What is CPU endianness?" I have written a Codidact post here with the title [What is CPU endianness?](https://software.codidact.com/posts/280640) and with a tag "endianness".
  • Using either that very title in Google, or just typing "what is endianess" results in just a few decent hits, with Wikipedia rightly being the #1 hit. Then follows a flood of misc tutorial sites of diverse or unknown reputation, as well as technical articles and the like. Lots of them probably didn't make any particular effort to end up in Google ranks. And yet Codidact is nowhere to be found.
  • The term "endianness" should be a good example to use for a search term, because it is completely unambiguous and only appears in a software engineering context.
  • I have to Google `"What is CPU endianness?"` with the exact title within citation marks to get Codidact appear at all, then as the #1 hit (the other hits being SO posts by me where I link to the Codidact post, as well as some SO scraper site).
  • This can't be right.
  • Search engine optimization?
  • ---
  • I thought this goes without saying, but apparently we aren't doing too well there for some reason.
  • The other day I was having a discussion with someone at SO regarding how hard it was to find specific information about anything. As an example I used a topic which I knew there was no good "canonical" for at SO, which had once resulted in me writing one on Codidact instead.
  • The topic was _endianness_, a common programming term and the question was simply "What is endianness?" or more specifically "What is CPU endianness?" I have written a Codidact post here with the title [What is CPU endianness?](https://software.codidact.com/posts/280640) and with a tag "endianness".
  • Using either that very title in Google, or just typing "what is endianess" results in just a few decent hits, with Wikipedia rightly being the #1 hit. Then follows a flood of misc tutorial sites of diverse or unknown reputation, as well as technical articles and the like. Lots of them probably didn't make any particular effort to end up in Google ranks. And yet Codidact is nowhere to be found.
  • The term "endianness" should be a good example to use for a search term, because it is completely unambiguous and only appears in a software engineering context.
  • I have to Google `"What is CPU endianness?"` with the exact title within citation marks to get Codidact appear at all, then as the #1 hit (the other hits being SO posts by me where I link to the Codidact post, as well as some SO scraper site).
  • This can't be right.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2023-09-15T11:26:30Z (8 months ago) 
Search engine optimization? I thought this goes without saying, but apparently we aren't doing too well there for some reason.

The other day I was having a discussion with someone at SO regarding how hard it was to find specific information about anything. As an example I used a topic which I knew there was no good "canonical" for at SO, which had once resulted in me writing one on Codidact instead.

The topic was _endianness_, a common programming term and the question was simply "What is endianness?" or more specifically "What is CPU endianness?" I have written a Codidact post here with the title [What is CPU endianness?](https://software.codidact.com/posts/280640) and with a tag "endianness". 

Using either that very title in Google, or just typing "what is endianess" results in just a few decent hits, with Wikipedia rightly being the #1 hit. Then follows a flood of misc tutorial sites of diverse or unknown reputation, as well as technical articles and the like. Lots of them probably didn't make any particular effort to end up in Google ranks. And yet Codidact is nowhere to be found.

The term "endianness" should be a good example to use for a search term, because it is completely unambiguous and only appears in a software engineering context.

I have to Google `"What is CPU endianness?"` with the exact title within citation marks to get Codidact appear at all, then as the #1 hit (the other hits being SO posts by me where I link to the Codidact post, as well as some SO scraper site).

This can't be right.