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Always the same issue for hobby sites. Was hoping to recoup the cost of two domain names (one real, one typo catcher) and cheap hosting by putting ads on a search engine for lyrics. Site could not be verified because it "has no content". Says Google. They did no searches but just complained it's a clean page, as though a clean search engine homepage is foreign to them. I was surprised by the stupidity and mildly annoyed by the hypocrisy but didn't care enough to pursue it further


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tracker110/04/2024

Yeah, for something like that, you really need some form of navigable index or sitemap. Used to work for an auto classifieds site, and the sitemap and updating with the latest items daily was key to the google fu. Along with navigable entry points to search results.

Kind of counter intuitive for effectively a search though.