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assignment asks me to make a FOR loop that does a specific thing in R for extra credit
try to look up how to make a FOR loop that does the thing
google tells me there's a more efficient way to do it without a FOR loop
reddit tells me there's a more efficient way to do it without a FOR loop
stack overflows tells me there's a more efficient way to do it without a FOR loop
get desperate
log into the openai account i had to make for another class
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chatgpt tells me there's a more efficient way t
#ada weblog tag#//''chatgpt can write code'' no it cant#//i have yet to obtain a working code snippet from it#//last semester (for the aforementioned Other Class) i was told to make me an excel function that just calculated the mean#//and it screwed it up#//stupid loser idiot dumb ai#//morris would do better and he has amnesia
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Tell me about your 3 original fiction stories!!! Are they all horror? The names sound like it but I wanna know more!
so because i answered a little bit prior about Owl Falls i'll give a snippet for this one! (This is unedited)
Dakota’s mind stopped when he saw it.
In the cockpit, nearly hidden by shadows but lit enough by the dim flicker of the flame, was a mask. But not just any old mask… the mask of the most wanted criminal in North America. It was off-white from age and old blood, a streak across the nose and forehead from what looked like a gruesome kill. It was flat, the nose pointed down, made to look like a beak, the eyes wide. The Owl. His heart skipped a beat, maybe two, as he pushed himself away from the body.
Standing back, he could see the oh so very slow rise and fall of the man’s chest. Not just any man. The Owl. How many kills were under his belt? How many times had Dakota heard the code name crackle through the radio? And here he was, laying in a pile of slush; pale, bloody, injured, broken, on the brink of death… breathing.
Dakota wasn’t sure how long he stared at The Owl, watching him breathe. He couldn’t figure out his thoughts. Leave him to die? Dakota could already feel the trauma of letting someone die and rot in the woods, no matter how rotten of a person they were. Bring him back? Heal him up? Let the authorities take him? Would he even confirm his identity? Wouldn’t he try to escape? Well… not with that ankle he wouldn’t.
The turmoil in his head was getting overwhelming.
And despite it all: Dakota refused to leave a man to die. No matter the atrocities he committed.
The Untitled Slasher one, I beeeliiiieeevvveeee !!! you actually saw me draw the main character for it way back when in the server: Shane. But this one is still just a concept. But it's heavily inspired by Freddy 2, actually. In the concept of how much are the murders the main character and how much of them are the Slasher behind the mask. It would follow Shane, who is a cryptid hunter/camp counselor in the 90's as he's helping to clean up camp and reset it up between camp sessions. It's here he comes across a masked man in the woods that he grows a soft relationship with. And during this time, he starts to lose his mind over things people are saying, what theyre doing, and its a slow descent into him thinking he's waking up with blood on his hands when one of his fellow counselors is found dead or goes missing, and the constant control thats leaking into him from the masked man. its a *concept* rn. it defo needs some passes, and defo needs some work.
The Black Box is actually a cyber-punk sci-fi short I wrote that I wanted to develop more into something a bit more. It's defo out of my comfort zone for what I normally write in genre's, but I still enjoyed the characters I created for it (Rook, Stranger, and Tiger Othello). That one focuses on Rook, a hired thief by Tiger Othello to obtain a black box. Once she has it, she starts getting hunted down by Tiger Othello's men, realizing this was a set-up. In her escape, she meets Stranger, an interesting mind inside of a robotic body that she's yet to figure out. But they have secrets and information about Tiger Othello and the two team up to get unframed while uncovering some deeper secrets. I beliieeeve you've also seen the art of that one!
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Unnamed Daryl POV Snippet
They had agreed to work together after the fiasco during Rock’s test of courage on the mountain. Daryl couldn’t help but grumble as he cleared a seat. The farmer had been nothing but presumptuous until now. She challenged him constantly about how any true scientist wouldn’t take stock of ghost stories and fairy tales correlated with strange readings in the valley. How was she always in the middle of spikes? No doubt Pony thought she had been successful in steering him away.
“Foolish farmer,” Daryl muttered. He had known something was off with this farmer for months. Daryl wouldn’t care anything about Pony if it wasn’t for her mystical entrance into a tree in the woods back in Spring. She had enthusiastically had a conversation with something he couldn’t see within the layers of bark. The bits he could catch through the tree’s small cavities confirmed there was more to the myths Pony publicly dismissed. They had a basis in reality. Their population most likely diminished from humans and industry (however limited such advancements were in Forget-Me-Not Valley) but warranted some concern.
“Aww, you erased your little picture of Flora?” the sound of Pony’s voice suddenly in the lab caused Daryl to jolt forward. He whirled around to focus on the woman. He had just changed the codes yet again; how was she getting in? She infuriated him, Daryl decided as his heart pounded when Pony smirked,” It was so cute. You should have left it.”
“Sit here,” Daryl roughly pointed to the empty stool. “You mentioned briefly your predisposition to seeing these creatures is genetic. From the few records I read, your father lived here unbothered for years without any paranormal events. I’m presuming your particular abilities are from your mother’s lineage. Have you always resided in the city?”
“Are you going to draw a cute little doodle of me in there too?” she asked, leaning towards him to glance at the journal he used to take precise notes. Daryl snapped the book closed. Perhaps she came from a family of imps.
“No, we moved around a lot. Just my mom and me, though we’ve met others like us. She kept an address in the city so Dad wouldn’t worry, but we were hardly ever there. The things living in the city tend to congregate and are more of a nightmare than just moving around.”
“Would you mind if I check a few things?”
“You’re going to dissect me, aren’t you?” Pony feigned shock, crossing her arms protectively over her chest.
“If you’re incapable of taking this seriously-”
“No, sorry! I was told experiments followed by dissection would be my life if someone found out. It just helps to joke about it,” Pony mumbled. “What do you want to check?”
“Primarily an eye exam. It would be the least invasive and rule out any physical abnormalities that alter your vision from what others see.”
“Oh, yeah. That’s fine.”
She agreed, so why was Pony not cooperating? Each time Daryl tried to view her eyes with the ophthalmoscope, she turned her head. It didn’t seem intentional on her part, but his patience was beginning to run thin. Daryl leaned back, waiting for Pony to shift to face him. His hand shot forward. Daryl’s thumb and fingers pressed firmly enough into the corners of her jaw to immobilize her from turning again. The shock provided an added benefit of her eyes opening wider from the action. He was dimly aware of Pony swallowing against his hand. Daryl pushed the sensation to the back of his mind to focus instead on his examination.
Nothing. Daryl wasn’t an expert with a medical degree, but there wasn’t anything outside the typical eye’s anatomy. He doubted Dr. Baddoch would obtain different results. Daryl was intrigued by the hint of another color lurking beneath her green eyes. He paused a moment longer intently staring into her eyes. Daryl couldn’t deduce if it was a hint of blue or grey before his hand fell away, and he sat upright. Daryl saw a faint blush spread across Pony. The realization chased his next question from his mind.
“W-well, I’ve got to go. Something just came up at the farm that needs my attention,” Pony recovered first. She hastened to her feet and towards the door. “Just, uh, let me know the results later. Okay, bye!”
Daryl blinked in shock as the door clipped shut behind her. What just happened? He quickly recovered, scoffing at the flustered farmer. She obviously didn’t know how to behave in a professional examination. It was apparent to him from her inability to sit still and the pathetic excuse. Pony would have no method of knowing something was wrong with her farm from his lab. He’d be embarrassed by such behavior too.
He wiped his sweaty palms on his frayed pants, dismissing how warm they suddenly felt. It was excitement from finally beginning work on unraveling the farmer’s mystery. It had nothing whatsoever to do with her flushed face.
#story of seasons#harvest moon#story of seasons a wonderful life#harvest moon a wonderful life#bokujou monogatari#hm awl#sos awl#awl imagines#awl daryl#i kind of want to just drop everything to focus on daryl#it's the only plan my stupid brain will focus on atm#there's too many tropes/themes i can fit here i'm weak for#sharing my current hell with you all :)
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Takeuchi - Murmurs

Murmurs are snippets of character reflection earned by increasing Explore Points during Exploration. They usually include 6-7 monologues about other characters and 3-4 monologues about things important to the specific character.
These lines are taken straight from the English translation of the game, so fair warning of bad grammar.
About Yatsufusa “According to my statistics, older vampires tend to rank above C-Class... Presumably, D-Class and under end up dying.
But it’s a shame with Yatsufusa. Because he is a C-Class that has all the potentials to fight in a battle. Yet, he cannot demonstrate that in a different way than Kurusu can’t.
It seems he occasionally uses the umbrella I gave him... He’ll end up hurting himself if he carelessly swings a sword since he has never trained for it. And he will break it if he uses it with all his strength. I can’t let a civilian hold a sword anyway. So, an umbrella was the best solution.
...Oh! I have an exciting idea that improves his umbrella. Haha, this will help him even if he’s not a good fighter...”
About Kurusu “Kurusu is very intriguing. He is the strongest vampire in Japan! How is he different from other vampires?! Unfortunately, current science does not allow me to analyze blood at a micro-level... In that case, I must invent a machine that can. I’d love to improve Kurusu’s abilities from an A-Class to S-Class and above through my inventions.
If Colonel Maeda who is a human can defeat unranked vampires, then that means dynamic visions can be improved through training. This then leads me to the question- do I use a drug or machinery to improve his speed and muscle strength...
But Kurusu must improve his speed of judgement more than anything. That, I cannot help him no matter how great I am. It probably comes from his kindness. But, oh well. I’ll let Colonel Maeda deal with that.”
About Maeda “Colonel Maeda is certainly an intelligent person. A true rationalist and finds the best course of action in an instant- because how else can someone decide to amputate their right arm after being bitten by a vampire before the poison enters their system? The surgery went well because he was in luck with a series of events. His wound was a clean-cut, he was able to stop the bleeding, and the fact that Code Zero has plenty of blood supplies for us vampires...
I’d say he was still lucky to survive despite having an aftereffect due to hemorrhage of the heart. I must say he is an astounding human being since his combat skills are still the same where he is capable of beating vampires to death with his prosthetic arm.
Ah- that reminds me that he asked me to fix his arm. What next functions should I add next?”
About Yamagami “Yamagami is the best to experiment on. I wonder what will happen... if I can make him strong enough so he can fight with my inventions? Alas, the greatest assassin will be born! We vampires cannot detect ones that rank below us- they appear like an ordinary person to us.
Yamagami on the other hand is capable of detecting every vampire out there since he is unranked. Which makes him the best candidate to become an assassin sneaking up on vampires from behind! I must conduct every experiment on Yamagami then! It will become a revolution for us vampires if the experiment succeeds.
However, there is just one problem... Yamagami’s personality is not ideal to become an assassin...”
About Suwa “We did not have any vampires that specialized in combat at the time when Code Zero was established. That is why we induced Suwa into our team. I knew the moment I heard the rumor about a vampires that hunts other vampires that he will join our unit.
One of the reasons was that I heard he was alive even before the Edo period... He must be clever if he managed to survive hundreds of years since it is not easy for vampires to survive such a long period.
Secondly, we carry the same goal if he enjoys hunting vampires, whatever his reasons may be. Back then, vampires in the Imperial Capital shivered when hearing “Vampire Hunter.” It’s very promising if that “Vampire Hunter” joins Code Zero.
His body was of a child’s, so his arms were too short for Japanese swords. That is why I made him two daggers.”
About Defrott “I wonder if Defrott will allow me to study his blood... We don’t have any blood samples of S-Class vampires nor any data yet. But he’s not the type that goes with “Please” and “Thank you.” After all, I do not want to die either.
...All I want is to conduct my research peacefully. No need to panic or rush. It’ll become available someday. I can get close to the birth of vampires- if I can learn about S-Class vampires. When, why, and how did we derive...? The only thing we know is that the oldest vampires on the recond spoke ancient Greek... Were they the first? Or did vampires exist long before that, but the records got lost...
It is a mystery how humanity began, but it is even a bigger mystery how vampires started. Was it a strain that occurred during the evolution process. Or mutation... Some call it evil or the devil’s doing. However, I do not believe in unscientific things.”
About Tenman-ya “Come to think of it, our relationship with Tenman-ya has been going on for quite a long time. Considering Colonel Maeda’s personality, there is no way he will miss a vampire’s nest like them...
But perhaps they’re untouched because of the amount of information they’ve accumulated about vampires since the Edo period and the fact that they’ve been confining vampires that are in the Imperial Capital.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s a give-and-take relationship since they refer me to wholesales to sell my drugs I invented. The vampires referred through Tenman-ya are all clean and diligent. Some practice Western medicine like me so it helps.
It appears vampires fight all year round when just looking at Code Zero, but the one that avoid battle are the ones that live long. Tenman-ya supports those vampires.”
About the Experiments “There are three ways to kill a vampire. One, have them fight a vampire that outdo them. Very primitive method. Two, make them powerless through science. What we are currently doing. Three, obtain strength that overthrows higher rank vampires through science. This- is our homework.
Creating heavy firearms is easy, but we are dealing with swift subjects... Even unranked vampires may be described as “...at lightning speed” to an ordinary person.
Thus, I am working on a drug that improves our physical ability... I mixed some into Yamagami’s food the other day, and the results were quite surprising. It was as if he got drunk. I thought I developed a drug that makes the world seem slow, but Yamagami said “The world is spinning! You blockhead!”
My work is trial and error. Well, I do have plenty of time.”
About the Past “I never would’ve imagined that I would end up being a serviceman when I was just an ordinary human being working at a pharmaceutical company. It all happened when the military authorities asked me to research a certain blood sample. I accidentally exposed it to sunlight without knowing that it was vampire blood. The flask exploded from the boiling blood...
Luckily, I did not die from the poison and gained a brain that never degenerates. It was pure coincidence, but I was lucky indeed. I can come close to the secrets of this world with an eternally young brain.
I don’t mind not being able to walk under the sun. I was in the lab day and night in the first place. Not feeling time or seasonal changes aren’t important to me. I don’t care much about food either.
Research is my life! I am the happiest vampire on Earth!”
About the Side Job “Code Zero hardly has any budget for R&D... But we aren’t a special unit that simply gathers vampires for combat. Weak, domestic ones can benefit from my drugs and put up a decent fight with the ones ranking above them. I believe- that is the purpose of our unit.
Colonel Maeda couldn’t care less about the name of the unit. So I named it “Zero”- implying “Starting everything from zero.”
Either way, you need money to experiment. That is why I sell my inventions beneficial to humans to department stores and medical institutions made in the process of my vampire studies. The profit I make all goes to my research. Every purchase helps us foster future vampires.”
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2020 March Update
Happy New Year! Well, I guess it's a bit late for that...
Much of what transpired in the past few months will fall under polish and bug-fixing. Will and I have a mutual friend who got married, so I had the occasion to visit Will to attend the wedding as well as have Will playtest the game in its most complete form yet. He logged 24 hours of playtime and just reached the entrance of the final dungeon. Then we had to call in for the night since it was 5 AM, and I had a flight to catch in the morning.
His completion rate where we stopped was 42% of Heart Pieces, 33% of Energy Gems, and 44% of Moonstones. So... I think we have a pretty lengthy game!
This will take a while to playtest & polish... Will's daytime profession is QA Engineer so he's pretty great at catching bugs. From his playtest, we jotted down 200+ items to fix/adjust. Some as small as a simple misspelling, and some more significant (like Gail being unable to jump when standing at the edge of a steep slope). I'm about half-way through fixing that list...

(Will’s living room where much playtesting was done)
Here are some other things we've accomplished in the past few months. A lot of it falls under polish and bug-fixing, which won't sound outwardly impressive, so I'll dive in a bit under the hood.
-------------------------- Item Balancing --------------------------
There are over 200 items in the game. Of which, 90+ are healing items. While much of their flavor text was already written, their stats weren't yet finally decided. So a large effort was spent to balance them as well as possible. Initially, I balanced items by observation (ex: "The player is relying on this item a lot, so I will nerf it...") Now, I've moved to a more systematic way of doing things. I made an equation that takes in all of an item's parameters, and spits out a score. The higher an item heals, the higher the score. The longer an item takes to consume, the lower the score. And so forth.
As usual, I used google spreadsheets, since they support equations. I could tweak the values of a healing item, and immediately see how its final score was affected. I also made use of automatic color formatting, so a field becomes highlighted red, if it's particularly bad, or green, if it's particularly good. Of course, the sheet is just a guideline. The aim wasn't to make all items have the same final score, but that they made sense for what they were and when you could get them. Late-game items tend to have higher overall scores versus early-game items. Some items, like doggy biscuits, have notoriously low scores across the board - as a joke!
-------------------------- Cooking Systems --------------------------
Another thing that had to be done with the healing items was finally determine their cooking sequences. 38 healing items could be cooked and will transform into something else. The way I specified that an item could be cooked was to add a a little snippet to an item's "meta data". An example would look something like, "COOK,57,62,ABXY,10,1.5,1".
In order, this specified the item_ID that would result on success (57), the item_ID that would result on failure (62), the button sequence (ABXY), the time you had to complete the sequence (10 seconds), how quickly the cursor should move (1.5x speed), and if the item multiplied on success (1). The system appears simple enough - but it was actually extremely inefficient!
For one, this system didn't allow random button sequences - all "berry fruits", when cooked would have the same button prompts and in the same order every time (ABXY). Initially, I thought having set button sequences would be a feature, but in practice, it was less fun.
Two, this system wasn't human-readable at all. I'd see a sequence of numbers, forget what they were, and have to look them up over and over.
But the biggest problem was that you couldn't evaluate an item's cooking difficulty from these numbers without manual testing. At 1.5 cursor speed, how many times does the cursor pass the center panel in 10 seconds? Maybe that's 15 times... for a 4 button sequence, the player has 11 opportunities to miss - that's too wide a berth for failure. The system also had variable penalties - if you misspressed a button prompt you loss time on the cooking meter. If you didn't press anything, you missed the opportunity, but not the time - but the clock was still ticking, so you did lose time, just not as much. In the end, the difficulty of cooking each item was all over the place. It was also possible to create "unwinnable" scenarios if I made the button sequence too long, the time too short, or the cursor speed too slow. Testing each item manually to ensure doability was too tedious and unreliable - it was a mess!
Which is why, the underlying cooking system was revamped. The new meta data looks like : "COOK,57,62,seq_length,5,spd,1.5,ease_add,2". This is a lot more readable. Beyond the first 3 entries, the arguments could be specified in any order. And their meanings were easy to understand.
"seq_length,5" means a random button sequence of 5 will be generated (no need for me to personally generate it)
"spd,1.5" means the cursor moves at 1.5x speed. I could also leave this field out to get a default value of 1x cursor speed.
"ease_add,2" - the biggest improvement to the system is how we now approach difficulty. We streamlined a miss-press and a missed opportunity as the same level of "mistake", and difficulty is framed as, "how many mistakes is the player allowed to make and still have a successful result?" By default, the player is afforded the ability to make 2 mistakes, and "ease_add,2" bumps the number of allowable mistakes to 4. We then automatically calculate how much "time" the player should have to cook something based on its cursor speed, how long the button sequence is, and how many mistakes the player is allowed to make. This was a more sensible and efficient system that let me knock out all 38 healing item cook sequences in one sitting!
-------------------------- Badges Nearly Done --------------------------
As you may recall from the last update, I was working on implementing the badges.
Thinking up the badge and having its graphic drawn is just the first half. Underneath, the code also needs to be made to track all the relevant player stats - how many times the player fished, ate, got money, used a certain move, etc. Some badges require extra guards, because they can be spoofed. For instance, the "Treasure Hunter" badge is obtained when the player has collected XXXX RIN through the course of your journey. However, there is something like a "gold exchange" in the game, where you could circularly trade gold and RIN to boost this number artificially. It's important to guard against cases like those.
So far, 30 of 33 badges are implemented. The last three have to do with late-game things that have inter-dependencies that we're still figuring out. The Speed running badge for instance is still dependent on two things. One, I need to speed run the game a few times to see how fast it's possible to beat the game and decide finally what's a reasonable time-limit. Two, there's actually a time-keeping bug which can inflate the game time if the system is left in sleep mode. I don't expect either things will be too hard to figure out - just gotta find the time for it.
-------------------------- Script Extra Polished --------------------------
We continued to polish the script, which I thought was basically done before. We added some extra NPCs here and there, and fleshed out the world with lore text where it seemed appropriate. In the end, the game's script ballooned to over 100,000 words! Hah... It's definitely DONE now however!
Some interesting things I noted as I was polishing old text - there were quite a few instances where Gail talks. I began the game's development with the idea that Gail should definitely talk since I wanted her to be a more active participant in what she chose to do. But I discovered later that if Gail talks, but only talked a little, she comes off as a very reticent person. There's no middle lane here - you're either all in or all out.
If Gail was a silent protagonist, she still talked symbolically. She is understood to be talking based on how people react to her - kinda like Link. So that's the direction I went with in the end (again). When Gail has occasion to talk, it comes in the form of a player dialogue choice. She also has an inner voice when she needs to remind the player to do something.
Another reason I went with this direction, is for brevity. Take this exchange for instance: QUEST GIVER : Can you help me find this super rare ingredient? GAIL : Maybe. I can't make any promises...
If Gail is silent, I can reduce those 2 lines to 1. QUEST GIVER : Can you help me find this super rare ingredient? GAIL : ...
-------------------------- Business Taxes --------------------------
Not too exciting, but new year means I gotta do taxes for the business. They're a lot more complicated than personal taxes, and more expensive! Since the game hasn't sold anything, you would think there'd be nothing to file. Hah! If only... The business is there so we can act as a legal entity and record expenses for when we do start selling. I really want to focus on making games, but there’s a small percentage of it that is sometimes boring and dreadful (-_-) ... still it needs to be done.
------------- Why no Public Beta Testing? -------------
As you may have noticed, I haven't put out any public calls for testing help despite being at that stage. Some have offered to help, which I appreciate! But sadly, I cannot accept. Here's the story for that.
Two and a half years ago, I got my hands on a console dev kit - that's very exciting, so I hurriedly took the steps to convert my dev station to be console-capable. After about two weeks, I had the console version working and integrated into my workflow, so all appeared good...
4 Months later, an artist needed an updated PC build to test some new art assets, so I went to build a new PC version. We use Unity, so generally you just need to click your desired build target, and hit "build". However, I now discovered that by attaching the console "hooks" into my work environment, I could no longer build to PC... It was possible, from my end, to test the game from the dev station in dev mode, which was why it went undiscovered for so long.
I did try to excise the hooks, but proved unsuccessful after a day of work. I decided to take this as an opportunity to focus exclusively on the console version first, which afforded me some niceties. Knowing that there's a standardized control scheme meant I could make full use of the control stick for the fishing mini-game. I also didn't need to create a rebindable keys menu - which is a MUST for PC versions... Most importantly, it lets me focus on making the one version as good as possible before moving onto the next. I have NO idea how those other guys release on all platforms at once...
Chalk it up to inexperience. In my defense, this will be my first commercial release, so bear with me. Don't worry, I still plan to make the PC version! It's a bit unconventional, but we're just going to go in the reverse direction of the usual. Console first, then PC, then other consoles. Wherever it makes financial sense, there we will be. (Sorry Ouya!)
Back to the original question - that's why I haven't sent out any public calls for playtesting. Current playable builds of the game are locked to my console dev kit. So actual playtesting unfolds in a very closed setting. Like what I did with Will, I literally sit behind the playtester, breathe down their neck, and watch them play, taking notes all the while.
But since I'm observing the player directly, even just one playthrough nets me a TON of bugs and adjustment tasks. So it evens out I think.
-------------------------- Trailers, Release Dates, etc. --------------------------
Alright, get your frowns ready...
We finished two trailers, and they're raring to go. BUT! We can't show them yet... We're sort of at an awkward spot where we're waiting on some conversational threads to conclude. Say we win a slot in a show - that'd be a HUGE plus for us - but that may also be contingent on us having NOT shown anything substantial yet. The game in its unrevealed state is a negotiating chip. So we're trying to leverage that... and you can only do the reveal once...
We also want to have some "actionable" items in the trailer - a launch date you could mark on your calendar, a wishlist, a website you can visit, etc. So since those things aren't entirely lined up yet, we can't let the trailers rip just yet...
Right now, I can only say we're *aiming* for a late Q2/early Q3 launch. But I can't commit to anything concrete yet. As soon as we know, we'll happily sing it from the rooftops. I hope I can update this blog sooner with good news, but if things move slowly again, I'll send out the next "we're alive" update 2 months from now (end of April).
I know it's frustrating to have nothing major after so long still, so I captured some gameplay footage... May it sate your hungers!
-------------------------- Footage 1 : Fishing --------------------------
You've seen pictures of the fishing, but never video of it in action. Well, here it is!
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(And right after I uploaded the video, I noticed there actually was a video of fishing before. D’oh)
The idea is simple. First, get the lure in front of a fish, and assuming the fish isn't scared, it will soon bite. Then begins a fight sequence, where your energy meter is pitted against the fish's energy meter. Whoever's energy outlasts the other's wins.
The fish's resistance is represented by a red moving circular subsection. You fight the fish by pushing the control stick and keeping it on the subsection, which will dart around and try to escape you. Bigger and tougher variants of fish will do a "shake" which will reverse the wheel. When the wheel is reversed, so too are the controls, so it gets extra tricky!
While fishing, your energy meter doesn't recover, so one of the ways you level up your fishing ability is by finding energy gems to increase your max energy. There's another way - but we'll keep that a secret.
-------------- Footage 2 : Kobold Boss Fight --------------
You can actually skip the next section if you'd prefer to be surprised and you find your hunger for info sated. That's how I prefer to consume the games that I know I'm going to get. If you're still hungering for info, and you don't mind the slight spoilers, then feel free to proceed!
The next video shows the new Kobold Boss fight. Let's take a moment to reflect on the old game's visuals and how far it's come...
(we've come a long way since the time of the flash game)
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You'll notice the Kobold boss has a name now - Katash! He's a significant enough character that he's earned it. The second thing you'll notice is that he looks better!
Some people have humorously pointed out that the old boss looks like Wolf O'Donnel from Star Fox. There's a funny story behind that. Basically I asked an artist to draw me a space wolf. And the artist, whom I'm assuming wasn't familiar with Wolf O'Donnel, drew that - all of it - all the animations and everything. The first time I laid eyes on it, it was already done, so it was too late to ask for edits. So I just ran with it.
That was seven years ago. Nowadays, I know to involve myself more in the process. I ask for just the design first, and we don't move forward with animations until we're happy with the design. Life lessons!
By the way, if you like Katash’s personal boss theme, give it a lesson on Will's Sound cloud (LINK)
-------------------------- Fan Arts -------------------------- Lots of fan art came in over the past 3 months!
This one is a pixel animation made by Pimez, and shows Gail singing a Christmas carol in various parts of the game. So cute! Years ago, I too was making little animated gifs for my favorite games, so it really brings me back!

This one was made by cARTographer (twitter link) after a request by Deli_mage, so thank you both. Gail rocking stylish boots with a pose that shows confidence in her batting skills. Very anime - Love it!
Another submission of laptekosz of the Last Song of Earth area. Whereas the last picture depicted the night sky, now the orange trees are lit by a rising sun. Artfully done! Kinda makes me want to eat eggs. I hope you'll like the new Last Song of Earth area just as much :D


A new artist to the scene, Not_Quin, submitted two pictures, one of Gail and one of the Sand Drake re-imagined as a centipede. I'm always a fan of these re-imaginings! I like how it's spiky all over and appears to be wearing a skull mask. The Sand Drake is often pointed out to be too similar to Zelda's Dodongos, so maybe a long slithery body would have indeed served better. Fun fact, long ago, when we were working on Phoenotopia 2 in earnest, we actually had a giant man-eating worm planned - WIP animation depicted below. One day... one day...
Negativus Core made two cool new arts! I'm really impressed by their use of unique perspective! Having characters run towards the screen or reaching close to the screen from afar is tricky since the proportions get all distorted - but not an issue for Negativus Core! Love the blur on Gail to show speed, with 66 in focus - really skillfully done! And the cube. Amazing!
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The Jamstack way of thinking and building websites is becoming more and more popular. Have you already tried Gatsby, Nuxt, or Gridsome (to cite only a few)? Chances are that your first contact was a “Wow!” moment — so many things are automatically set up and ready to use. There are some challenges, though, one of which is search functionality. If you’re working on any sort of content-driven site, you’ll likely run into search and how to handle it. Can it be done without any external server-side technology? Search is not one of those things that come out of the box with Jamstack. Some extra decisions and implementation are required. Fortunately, we have a bunch of options that might be more or less adapted to a project. We could use Algolia’s powerful search-as-service API. It comes with a free plan that is restricted to non-commercial projects with a limited capacity. If we were to use WordPress with WPGraphQL as a data source, we could take advantage of WordPress native search functionality and Apollo Client. Raymond Camden recently explored a few Jamstack search options, including pointing a search form directly at Google. In this article, we will build a search index and add search functionality to a Gatsby website with Lunr, a lightweight JavaScript library providing an extensible and customizable search without the need for external, server-side services. We used it recently to add “Search by Tartan Name” to our Gatsby project tartanify.com. We absolutely wanted persistent search as-you-type functionality, which brought some extra challenges. But that’s what makes it interesting, right? I’ll discuss some of the difficulties we faced and how we dealt with them in the second half of this article.
Getting started
For the sake of simplicity, let’s use the official Gatsby blog starter. Using a generic starter lets us abstract many aspects of building a static website. If you’re following along, make sure to install and run it:
gatsby new gatsby-starter-blog https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog cd gatsby-starter-blog gatsby develop
It’s a tiny blog with three posts we can view by opening up http://localhost:8000/___graphql in the browser.
Inverting index with Lunr.js 🙃
Lunr uses a record-level inverted index as its data structure. The inverted index stores the mapping for each word found within a website to its location (basically a set of page paths). It’s on us to decide which fields (e.g. title, content, description, etc.) provide the keys (words) for the index. For our blog example, I decided to include all titles and the content of each article. Dealing with titles is straightforward since they are composed uniquely of words. Indexing content is a little more complex. My first try was to use the rawMarkdownBody field. Unfortunately, rawMarkdownBody introduces some unwanted keys resulting from the markdown syntax.
I obtained a “clean” index using the html field in conjunction with the striptags package (which, as the name suggests, strips out the HTML tags). Before we get into the details, let’s look into the Lunr documentation. Here’s how we create and populate the Lunr index. We will use this snippet in a moment, specifically in our gatsby-node.js file.
const index = lunr(function () { this.ref('slug') this.field('title') this.field('content') for (const doc of documents) { this.add(doc) } })
documents is an array of objects, each with a slug, title and content property:
{ slug: '/post-slug/', title: 'Post Title', content: 'Post content with all HTML tags stripped out.' }
We will define a unique document key (the slug) and two fields (the title and content, or the key providers). Finally, we will add all of the documents, one by one. Let’s get started.
Creating an index in gatsby-node.js
Let’s start by installing the libraries that we are going to use.
yarn add lunr graphql-type-json striptags
Next, we need to edit the gatsby-node.js file. The code from this file runs once in the process of building a site, and our aim is to add index creation to the tasks that Gatsby executes on build. CreateResolvers is one of the Gatsby APIs controlling the GraphQL data layer. In this particular case, we will use it to create a new root field; Let’s call it LunrIndex. Gatsby’s internal data store and query capabilities are exposed to GraphQL field resolvers on context.nodeModel. With getAllNodes, we can get all nodes of a specified type:
/* gatsby-node.js */ const { GraphQLJSONObject } = require(`graphql-type-json`) const striptags = require(`striptags`) const lunr = require(`lunr`) exports.createResolvers = ({ cache, createResolvers }) => { createResolvers({ Query: { LunrIndex: { type: GraphQLJSONObject, resolve: (source, args, context, info) => { const blogNodes = context.nodeModel.getAllNodes({ type: `MarkdownRemark`, }) const type = info.schema.getType(`MarkdownRemark`) return createIndex(blogNodes, type, cache) }, }, }, }) }
Now let’s focus on the createIndex function. That’s where we will use the Lunr snippet we mentioned in the last section.
/* gatsby-node.js */ const createIndex = async (blogNodes, type, cache) => { const documents = [] // Iterate over all posts for (const node of blogNodes) { const html = await type.getFields().html.resolve(node) // Once html is resolved, add a slug-title-content object to the documents array documents.push({ slug: node.fields.slug, title: node.frontmatter.title, content: striptags(html), }) } const index = lunr(function() { this.ref(`slug`) this.field(`title`) this.field(`content`) for (const doc of documents) { this.add(doc) } }) return index.toJSON() }
Have you noticed that instead of accessing the HTML element directly with const html = node.html, we’re using an await expression? That’s because node.html isn’t available yet. The gatsby-transformer-remark plugin (used by our starter to parse Markdown files) does not generate HTML from markdown immediately when creating the MarkdownRemark nodes. Instead, html is generated lazily when the html field resolver is called in a query. The same actually applies to the excerpt that we will need in just a bit. Let’s look ahead and think about how we are going to display search results. Users expect to obtain a link to the matching post, with its title as the anchor text. Very likely, they wouldn’t mind a short excerpt as well. Lunr’s search returns an array of objects representing matching documents by the ref property (which is the unique document key slug in our example). This array does not contain the document title nor the content. Therefore, we need to store somewhere the post title and excerpt corresponding to each slug. We can do that within our LunrIndex as below:
/* gatsby-node.js */ const createIndex = async (blogNodes, type, cache) => { const documents = [] const store = {} for (const node of blogNodes) { const {slug} = node.fields const title = node.frontmatter.title const [html, excerpt] = await Promise.all([ type.getFields().html.resolve(node), type.getFields().excerpt.resolve(node, { pruneLength: 40 }), ]) documents.push({ // unchanged }) store[slug] = { title, excerpt, } } const index = lunr(function() { // unchanged }) return { index: index.toJSON(), store } }
Our search index changes only if one of the posts is modified or a new post is added. We don’t need to rebuild the index each time we run gatsby develop. To avoid unnecessary builds, let’s take advantage of the cache API:
/* gatsby-node.js */ const createIndex = async (blogNodes, type, cache) => { const cacheKey = `IndexLunr` const cached = await cache.get(cacheKey) if (cached) { return cached } // unchanged const json = { index: index.toJSON(), store } await cache.set(cacheKey, json) return json }
Enhancing pages with the search form component
We can now move on to the front end of our implementation. Let’s start by building a search form component.
touch src/components/search-form.js
I opt for a straightforward solution: an input of type="search", coupled with a label and accompanied by a submit button, all wrapped within a form tag with the search landmark role. We will add two event handlers, handleSubmit on form submit and handleChange on changes to the search input.
/* src/components/search-form.js */ import React, { useState, useRef } from "react" import { navigate } from "@reach/router" const SearchForm = ({ initialQuery = "" }) => { // Create a piece of state, and initialize it to initialQuery // query will hold the current value of the state, // and setQuery will let us change it const [query, setQuery] = useState(initialQuery) // We need to get reference to the search input element const inputEl = useRef(null) // On input change use the current value of the input field (e.target.value) // to update the state's query value const handleChange = e => { setQuery(e.target.value) } // When the form is submitted navigate to /search // with a query q paramenter equal to the value within the input search const handleSubmit = e => { e.preventDefault() // `inputEl.current` points to the mounted search input element const q = inputEl.current.value navigate(`/search?q=${q}`) } return ( <form role="search" onSubmit={handleSubmit}> <label htmlFor="search-input" style=> Search for: </label> <input ref={inputEl} id="search-input" type="search" value={query} placeholder="e.g. duck" onChange={handleChange} /> <button type="submit">Go</button> </form> ) } export default SearchForm
Have you noticed that we’re importing navigate from the @reach/router package? That is necessary since neither Gatsby’s <Link/> nor navigate provide in-route navigation with a query parameter. Instead, we can import @reach/router — there’s no need to install it since Gatsby already includes it — and use its navigate function. Now that we’ve built our component, let’s add it to our home page (as below) and 404 page.
/* src/pages/index.js */ // unchanged import SearchForm from "../components/search-form" const BlogIndex = ({ data, location }) => { // unchanged return ( <Layout location={location} title={siteTitle}> <SEO title="All posts" /> <Bio /> <SearchForm /> // unchanged
Search results page
Our SearchForm component navigates to the /search route when the form is submitted, but for the moment, there is nothing behing this URL. That means we need to add a new page:
touch src/pages/search.js
I proceeded by copying and adapting the content of the the index.js page. One of the essential modifications concerns the page query (see the very bottom of the file). We will replace allMarkdownRemark with the LunrIndex field.
/* src/pages/search.js */ import React from "react" import { Link, graphql } from "gatsby" import { Index } from "lunr" import Layout from "../components/layout" import SEO from "../components/seo" import SearchForm from "../components/search-form"
// We can access the results of the page GraphQL query via the data props const SearchPage = ({ data, location }) => { const siteTitle = data.site.siteMetadata.title // We can read what follows the ?q= here // URLSearchParams provides a native way to get URL params // location.search.slice(1) gets rid of the "?" const params = new URLSearchParams(location.search.slice(1)) const q = params.get("q") || ""
// LunrIndex is available via page query const { store } = data.LunrIndex // Lunr in action here const index = Index.load(data.LunrIndex.index) let results = [] try { // Search is a lunr method results = index.search(q).map(({ ref }) => { // Map search results to an array of {slug, title, excerpt} objects return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) } catch (error) { console.log(error) } return ( // We will take care of this part in a moment ) } export default SearchPage export const pageQuery = graphql` query { site { siteMetadata { title } } LunrIndex } `
Now that we know how to retrieve the query value and the matching posts, let’s display the content of the page. Notice that on the search page we pass the query value to the <SearchForm /> component via the initialQuery props. When the user arrives to the search results page, their search query should remain in the input field.
return ( <Layout location={location} title={siteTitle}> <SEO title="Search results" /> {q ? <h1>Search results</h1> : <h1>What are you looking for?</h1>} <SearchForm initialQuery={q} /> {results.length ? ( results.map(result => { return ( <article key={result.slug}> <h2> <Link to={result.slug}> {result.title || result.slug} </Link> </h2> <p>{result.excerpt}</p> </article> ) }) ) : ( <p>Nothing found.</p> )} </Layout> )
You can find the complete code in this gatsby-starter-blog fork and the live demo deployed on Netlify.
Instant search widget
Finding the most “logical” and user-friendly way of implementing search may be a challenge in and of itself. Let’s now switch to the real-life example of tartanify.com — a Gatsby-powered website gathering 5,000+ tartan patterns. Since tartans are often associated with clans or organizations, the possibility to search a tartan by name seems to make sense. We built tartanify.com as a side project where we feel absolutely free to experiment with things. We didn’t want a classic search results page but an instant search “widget.” Often, a given search keyword corresponds with a number of results — for example, “Ramsay” comes in six variations. We imagined the search widget would be persistent, meaning it should stay in place when a user navigates from one matching tartan to another.
Let me show you how we made it work with Lunr. The first step of building the index is very similar to the gatsby-starter-blog example, only simpler:
/* gatsby-node.js */ exports.createResolvers = ({ cache, createResolvers }) => { createResolvers({ Query: { LunrIndex: { type: GraphQLJSONObject, resolve(source, args, context) { const siteNodes = context.nodeModel.getAllNodes({ type: `TartansCsv`, }) return createIndex(siteNodes, cache) }, }, }, }) } const createIndex = async (nodes, cache) => { const cacheKey = `LunrIndex` const cached = await cache.get(cacheKey) if (cached) { return cached } const store = {} const index = lunr(function() { this.ref(`slug`) this.field(`title`) for (node of nodes) { const { slug } = node.fields const doc = { slug, title: node.fields.Unique_Name, } store[slug] = { title: doc.title, } this.add(doc) } }) const json = { index: index.toJSON(), store } cache.set(cacheKey, json) return json }
We opted for instant search, which means that search is triggered by any change in the search input instead of a form submission.
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ import React, { useState } from "react" import lunr, { Index } from "lunr" import { graphql, useStaticQuery } from "gatsby" import SearchResults from "./searchresults"
const SearchWidget = () => { const [value, setValue] = useState("") // results is now a state variable const [results, setResults] = useState([])
// Since it's not a page component, useStaticQuery for quering data // https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/use-static-query/ const { LunrIndex } = useStaticQuery(graphql` query { LunrIndex } `) const index = Index.load(LunrIndex.index) const { store } = LunrIndex const handleChange = e => { const query = e.target.value setValue(query) try { const search = index.search(query).map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) setResults(search) } catch (error) { console.log(error) } } return ( <div className="search-wrapper"> // You can use a form tag as well, as long as we prevent the default submit behavior <div role="search"> <label htmlFor="search-input" className="visually-hidden"> Search Tartans by Name </label> <input id="search-input" type="search" value={value} onChange={handleChange} placeholder="Search Tartans by Name" /> </div> <SearchResults results={results} /> </div> ) } export default SearchWidget
The SearchResults are structured like this:
/* src/components/searchresults.js */ import React from "react" import { Link } from "gatsby" const SearchResults = ({ results }) => ( <div> {results.length ? ( <> <h2>{results.length} tartan(s) matched your query</h2> <ul> {results.map(result => ( <li key={result.slug}> <Link to={`/tartan/${result.slug}`}>{result.title}</Link> </li> ))} </ul> </> ) : ( <p>Sorry, no matches found.</p> )} </div> ) export default SearchResults
Making it persistent
Where should we use this component? We could add it to the Layout component. The problem is that our search form will get unmounted on page changes that way. If a user wants to browser all tartans associated with the “Ramsay” clan, they will have to retype their query several times. That’s not ideal. Thomas Weibenfalk has written a great article on keeping state between pages with local state in Gatsby.js. We will use the same technique, where the wrapPageElement browser API sets persistent UI elements around pages. Let’s add the following code to the gatsby-browser.js. You might need to add this file to the root of your project.
/* gatsby-browser.js */ import React from "react" import SearchWrapper from "./src/components/searchwrapper" export const wrapPageElement = ({ element, props }) => ( <SearchWrapper {...props}>{element}</SearchWrapper> )
Now let’s add a new component file:
touch src/components/searchwrapper.js
Instead of adding SearchWidget component to the Layout, we will add it to the SearchWrapper and the magic happens. ✨
/* src/components/searchwrapper.js */ import React from "react" import SearchWidget from "./searchwidget"
const SearchWrapper = ({ children }) => ( <> {children} <SearchWidget /> </> ) export default SearchWrapper
Creating a custom search query
At this point, I started to try different keywords but very quickly realized that Lunr’s default search query might not be the best solution when used for instant search. Why? Imagine that we are looking for tartans associated with the name MacCallum. While typing “MacCallum” letter-by-letter, this is the evolution of the results:
m – 2 matches (Lyon, Jeffrey M, Lyon, Jeffrey M (Hunting))
ma – no matches
mac – 1 match (Brighton Mac Dermotte)
macc – no matches
macca – no matches
maccal – 1 match (MacCall)
maccall – 1 match (MacCall)
maccallu – no matches
maccallum – 3 matches (MacCallum, MacCallum #2, MacCallum of Berwick)
Users will probably type the full name and hit the button if we make a button available. But with instant search, a user is likely to abandon early because they may expect that the results can only narrow down letters are added to the keyword query. That’s not the only problem. Here’s what we get with “Callum”:
c – 3 unrelated matches
ca – no matches
cal – no matches
call – no matches
callu – no matches
callum – one match
You can see the trouble if someone gives up halfway into typing the full query. Fortunately, Lunr supports more complex queries, including fuzzy matches, wildcards and boolean logic (e.g. AND, OR, NOT) for multiple terms. All of these are available either via a special query syntax, for example:
index.search("+*callum mac*")
We could also reach for the index query method to handle it programatically. The first solution is not satisfying since it requires more effort from the user. I used the index.query method instead:
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ const search = index .query(function(q) { // full term matching q.term(el) // OR (default) // trailing or leading wildcard q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, }) }) .map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } })
Why use full term matching with wildcard matching? That’s necessary for all keywords that “benefit” from the stemming process. For example, the stem of “different” is “differ.” As a consequence, queries with wildcards — such as differe*, differen* or different* — all result in no matches, while the full term queries differe, differen and different return matches. Fuzzy matches can be used as well. In our case, they are allowed uniquely for terms of five or more characters:
q.term(el, { editDistance: el.length > 5 ? 1 : 0 }) q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, })
The handleChange function also “cleans up” user inputs and ignores single-character terms:
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ const handleChange = e => { const query = e.target.value || "" setValue(query) if (!query.length) { setResults([]) } const keywords = query .trim() // remove trailing and leading spaces .replace(/\*/g, "") // remove user's wildcards .toLowerCase() .split(/\s+/) // split by whitespaces // do nothing if the last typed keyword is shorter than 2 if (keywords[keywords.length - 1].length < 2) { return } try { const search = index .query(function(q) { keywords // filter out keywords shorter than 2 .filter(el => el.length > 1) // loop over keywords .forEach(el => { q.term(el, { editDistance: el.length > 5 ? 1 : 0 }) q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, }) }) }) .map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) setResults(search) } catch (error) { console.log(error) } }
Let’s check it in action:
m – pending
ma – 861 matches
mac – 600 matches
macc – 35 matches
macca – 12 matches
maccal – 9 matches
maccall – 9 matches
maccallu – 3 matches
maccallum – 3 matches
Searching for “Callum” works as well, resulting in four matches: Callum, MacCallum, MacCallum #2, and MacCallum of Berwick. There is one more problem, though: multi-terms queries. Say, you’re looking for “Loch Ness.” There are two tartans associated with that term, but with the default OR logic, you get a grand total of 96 results. (There are plenty of other lakes in Scotland.) I wound up deciding that an AND search would work better for this project. Unfortunately, Lunr does not support nested queries, and what we actually need is (keyword1 OR *keyword*) AND (keyword2 OR *keyword2*). To overcome this, I ended up moving the terms loop outside the query method and intersecting the results per term. (By intersecting, I mean finding all slugs that appear in all of the per-single-keyword results.)
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ try { // andSearch stores the intersection of all per-term results let andSearch = [] keywords .filter(el => el.length > 1) // loop over keywords .forEach((el, i) => { // per-single-keyword results const keywordSearch = index .query(function(q) { q.term(el, { editDistance: el.length > 5 ? 1 : 0 }) q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, }) }) .map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) // intersect current keywordSearch with andSearch andSearch = i > 0 ? andSearch.filter(x => keywordSearch.some(el => el.slug === x.slug)) : keywordSearch }) setResults(andSearch) } catch (error) { console.log(error) }
The source code for tartanify.com is published on GitHub. You can see the complete implementation of the Lunr search there.
Final thoughts
Search is often a non-negotiable feature for finding content on a site. How important the search functionality actually is may vary from one project to another. Nevertheless, there is no reason to abandon it under the pretext that it does not tally with the static character of Jamstack websites. There are many possibilities. We’ve just discussed one of them. And, paradoxically in this specific example, the result was a better all-around user experience, thanks to the fact that implementing search was not an obvious task but instead required a lot of deliberation. We may not have been able to say the same with an over-the-counter solution.
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How to Add Lunr Search to your Gatsby Website
The Jamstack way of thinking and building websites is becoming more and more popular.
Have you already tried Gatsby, Nuxt, or Gridsome (to cite only a few)? Chances are that your first contact was a “Wow!” moment — so many things are automatically set up and ready to use.
There are some challenges, though, one of which is search functionality. If you’re working on any sort of content-driven site, you’ll likely run into search and how to handle it. Can it be done without any external server-side technology?
Search is not one of those things that come out of the box with Jamstack. Some extra decisions and implementation are required.
Fortunately, we have a bunch of options that might be more or less adapted to a project. We could use Algolia’s powerful search-as-service API. It comes with a free plan that is restricted to non-commercial projects with a limited capacity. If we were to use WordPress with WPGraphQL as a data source, we could take advantage of WordPress native search functionality and Apollo Client. Raymond Camden recently explored a few Jamstack search options, including pointing a search form directly at Google.
In this article, we will build a search index and add search functionality to a Gatsby website with Lunr, a lightweight JavaScript library providing an extensible and customizable search without the need for external, server-side services. We used it recently to add “Search by Tartan Name” to our Gatsby project tartanify.com. We absolutely wanted persistent search as-you-type functionality, which brought some extra challenges. But that’s what makes it interesting, right? I’ll discuss some of the difficulties we faced and how we dealt with them in the second half of this article.
Getting started
For the sake of simplicity, let’s use the official Gatsby blog starter. Using a generic starter lets us abstract many aspects of building a static website. If you’re following along, make sure to install and run it:
gatsby new gatsby-starter-blog https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog cd gatsby-starter-blog gatsby develop
It’s a tiny blog with three posts we can view by opening up http://localhost:8000/___graphql in the browser.
Inverting index with Lunr.js 🙃
Lunr uses a record-level inverted index as its data structure. The inverted index stores the mapping for each word found within a website to its location (basically a set of page paths). It’s on us to decide which fields (e.g. title, content, description, etc.) provide the keys (words) for the index.
For our blog example, I decided to include all titles and the content of each article. Dealing with titles is straightforward since they are composed uniquely of words. Indexing content is a little more complex. My first try was to use the rawMarkdownBody field. Unfortunately, rawMarkdownBody introduces some unwanted keys resulting from the markdown syntax.
I obtained a “clean” index using the html field in conjunction with the striptags package (which, as the name suggests, strips out the HTML tags). Before we get into the details, let’s look into the Lunr documentation.
Here’s how we create and populate the Lunr index. We will use this snippet in a moment, specifically in our gatsby-node.js file.
const index = lunr(function () { this.ref('slug') this.field('title') this.field('content') for (const doc of documents) { this.add(doc) } })
documents is an array of objects, each with a slug, title and content property:
{ slug: '/post-slug/', title: 'Post Title', content: 'Post content with all HTML tags stripped out.' }
We will define a unique document key (the slug) and two fields (the title and content, or the key providers). Finally, we will add all of the documents, one by one.
Let’s get started.
Creating an index in gatsby-node.js
Let’s start by installing the libraries that we are going to use.
yarn add lunr graphql-type-json striptags
Next, we need to edit the gatsby-node.js file. The code from this file runs once in the process of building a site, and our aim is to add index creation to the tasks that Gatsby executes on build.
CreateResolvers is one of the Gatsby APIs controlling the GraphQL data layer. In this particular case, we will use it to create a new root field; Let’s call it LunrIndex.
Gatsby’s internal data store and query capabilities are exposed to GraphQL field resolvers on context.nodeModel. With getAllNodes, we can get all nodes of a specified type:
/* gatsby-node.js */ const { GraphQLJSONObject } = require(`graphql-type-json`) const striptags = require(`striptags`) const lunr = require(`lunr`) exports.createResolvers = ({ cache, createResolvers }) => { createResolvers({ Query: { LunrIndex: { type: GraphQLJSONObject, resolve: (source, args, context, info) => { const blogNodes = context.nodeModel.getAllNodes({ type: `MarkdownRemark`, }) const type = info.schema.getType(`MarkdownRemark`) return createIndex(blogNodes, type, cache) }, }, }, }) }
Now let’s focus on the createIndex function. That’s where we will use the Lunr snippet we mentioned in the last section.
/* gatsby-node.js */ const createIndex = async (blogNodes, type, cache) => { const documents = [] // Iterate over all posts for (const node of blogNodes) { const html = await type.getFields().html.resolve(node) // Once html is resolved, add a slug-title-content object to the documents array documents.push({ slug: node.fields.slug, title: node.frontmatter.title, content: striptags(html), }) } const index = lunr(function() { this.ref(`slug`) this.field(`title`) this.field(`content`) for (const doc of documents) { this.add(doc) } }) return index.toJSON() }
Have you noticed that instead of accessing the HTML element directly with const html = node.html, we’re using an await expression? That’s because node.html isn’t available yet. The gatsby-transformer-remark plugin (used by our starter to parse Markdown files) does not generate HTML from markdown immediately when creating the MarkdownRemark nodes. Instead, html is generated lazily when the html field resolver is called in a query. The same actually applies to the excerpt that we will need in just a bit.
Let’s look ahead and think about how we are going to display search results. Users expect to obtain a link to the matching post, with its title as the anchor text. Very likely, they wouldn’t mind a short excerpt as well.
Lunr’s search returns an array of objects representing matching documents by the ref property (which is the unique document key slug in our example). This array does not contain the document title nor the content. Therefore, we need to store somewhere the post title and excerpt corresponding to each slug. We can do that within our LunrIndex as below:
/* gatsby-node.js */ const createIndex = async (blogNodes, type, cache) => { const documents = [] const store = {} for (const node of blogNodes) { const {slug} = node.fields const title = node.frontmatter.title const [html, excerpt] = await Promise.all([ type.getFields().html.resolve(node), type.getFields().excerpt.resolve(node, { pruneLength: 40 }), ]) documents.push({ // unchanged }) store[slug] = { title, excerpt, } } const index = lunr(function() { // unchanged }) return { index: index.toJSON(), store } }
Our search index changes only if one of the posts is modified or a new post is added. We don’t need to rebuild the index each time we run gatsby develop. To avoid unnecessary builds, let’s take advantage of the cache API:
/* gatsby-node.js */ const createIndex = async (blogNodes, type, cache) => { const cacheKey = `IndexLunr` const cached = await cache.get(cacheKey) if (cached) { return cached } // unchanged const json = { index: index.toJSON(), store } await cache.set(cacheKey, json) return json }
Enhancing pages with the search form component
We can now move on to the front end of our implementation. Let’s start by building a search form component.
touch src/components/search-form.js
I opt for a straightforward solution: an input of type="search", coupled with a label and accompanied by a submit button, all wrapped within a form tag with the search landmark role.
We will add two event handlers, handleSubmit on form submit and handleChange on changes to the search input.
/* src/components/search-form.js */ import React, { useState, useRef } from "react" import { navigate } from "@reach/router" const SearchForm = ({ initialQuery = "" }) => { // Create a piece of state, and initialize it to initialQuery // query will hold the current value of the state, // and setQuery will let us change it const [query, setQuery] = useState(initialQuery) // We need to get reference to the search input element const inputEl = useRef(null) // On input change use the current value of the input field (e.target.value) // to update the state's query value const handleChange = e => { setQuery(e.target.value) } // When the form is submitted navigate to /search // with a query q paramenter equal to the value within the input search const handleSubmit = e => { e.preventDefault() // `inputEl.current` points to the mounted search input element const q = inputEl.current.value navigate(`/search?q=${q}`) } return ( <form role="search" onSubmit={handleSubmit}> <label htmlFor="search-input" style=> Search for: </label> <input ref={inputEl} id="search-input" type="search" value={query} placeholder="e.g. duck" onChange={handleChange} /> <button type="submit">Go</button> </form> ) } export default SearchForm
Have you noticed that we’re importing navigate from the @reach/router package? That is necessary since neither Gatsby’s <Link/> nor navigate provide in-route navigation with a query parameter. Instead, we can import @reach/router — there’s no need to install it since Gatsby already includes it — and use its navigate function.
Now that we’ve built our component, let’s add it to our home page (as below) and 404 page.
/* src/pages/index.js */ // unchanged import SearchForm from "../components/search-form" const BlogIndex = ({ data, location }) => { // unchanged return ( <Layout location={location} title={siteTitle}> <SEO title="All posts" /> <Bio /> <SearchForm /> // unchanged
Search results page
Our SearchForm component navigates to the /search route when the form is submitted, but for the moment, there is nothing behing this URL. That means we need to add a new page:
touch src/pages/search.js
I proceeded by copying and adapting the content of the the index.js page. One of the essential modifications concerns the page query (see the very bottom of the file). We will replace allMarkdownRemark with the LunrIndex field.
/* src/pages/search.js */ import React from "react" import { Link, graphql } from "gatsby" import { Index } from "lunr" import Layout from "../components/layout" import SEO from "../components/seo" import SearchForm from "../components/search-form"
// We can access the results of the page GraphQL query via the data props const SearchPage = ({ data, location }) => { const siteTitle = data.site.siteMetadata.title // We can read what follows the ?q= here // URLSearchParams provides a native way to get URL params // location.search.slice(1) gets rid of the "?" const params = new URLSearchParams(location.search.slice(1)) const q = params.get("q") || ""
// LunrIndex is available via page query const { store } = data.LunrIndex // Lunr in action here const index = Index.load(data.LunrIndex.index) let results = [] try { // Search is a lunr method results = index.search(q).map(({ ref }) => { // Map search results to an array of {slug, title, excerpt} objects return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) } catch (error) { console.log(error) } return ( // We will take care of this part in a moment ) } export default SearchPage export const pageQuery = graphql` query { site { siteMetadata { title } } LunrIndex } `
Now that we know how to retrieve the query value and the matching posts, let’s display the content of the page. Notice that on the search page we pass the query value to the <SearchForm /> component via the initialQuery props. When the user arrives to the search results page, their search query should remain in the input field.
return ( <Layout location={location} title={siteTitle}> <SEO title="Search results" /> {q ? <h1>Search results</h1> : <h1>What are you looking for?</h1>} <SearchForm initialQuery={q} /> {results.length ? ( results.map(result => { return ( <article key={result.slug}> <h2> <Link to={result.slug}> {result.title || result.slug} </Link> </h2> <p>{result.excerpt}</p> </article> ) }) ) : ( <p>Nothing found.</p> )} </Layout> )
You can find the complete code in this gatsby-starter-blog fork and the live demo deployed on Netlify.
Instant search widget
Finding the most “logical” and user-friendly way of implementing search may be a challenge in and of itself. Let’s now switch to the real-life example of tartanify.com — a Gatsby-powered website gathering 5,000+ tartan patterns. Since tartans are often associated with clans or organizations, the possibility to search a tartan by name seems to make sense.
We built tartanify.com as a side project where we feel absolutely free to experiment with things. We didn’t want a classic search results page but an instant search “widget.” Often, a given search keyword corresponds with a number of results — for example, “Ramsay” comes in six variations. We imagined the search widget would be persistent, meaning it should stay in place when a user navigates from one matching tartan to another.
Let me show you how we made it work with Lunr. The first step of building the index is very similar to the gatsby-starter-blog example, only simpler:
/* gatsby-node.js */ exports.createResolvers = ({ cache, createResolvers }) => { createResolvers({ Query: { LunrIndex: { type: GraphQLJSONObject, resolve(source, args, context) { const siteNodes = context.nodeModel.getAllNodes({ type: `TartansCsv`, }) return createIndex(siteNodes, cache) }, }, }, }) } const createIndex = async (nodes, cache) => { const cacheKey = `LunrIndex` const cached = await cache.get(cacheKey) if (cached) { return cached } const store = {} const index = lunr(function() { this.ref(`slug`) this.field(`title`) for (node of nodes) { const { slug } = node.fields const doc = { slug, title: node.fields.Unique_Name, } store[slug] = { title: doc.title, } this.add(doc) } }) const json = { index: index.toJSON(), store } cache.set(cacheKey, json) return json }
We opted for instant search, which means that search is triggered by any change in the search input instead of a form submission.
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ import React, { useState } from "react" import lunr, { Index } from "lunr" import { graphql, useStaticQuery } from "gatsby" import SearchResults from "./searchresults"
const SearchWidget = () => { const [value, setValue] = useState("") // results is now a state variable const [results, setResults] = useState([])
// Since it's not a page component, useStaticQuery for quering data // https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/use-static-query/ const { LunrIndex } = useStaticQuery(graphql` query { LunrIndex } `) const index = Index.load(LunrIndex.index) const { store } = LunrIndex const handleChange = e => { const query = e.target.value setValue(query) try { const search = index.search(query).map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) setResults(search) } catch (error) { console.log(error) } } return ( <div className="search-wrapper"> // You can use a form tag as well, as long as we prevent the default submit behavior <div role="search"> <label htmlFor="search-input" className="visually-hidden"> Search Tartans by Name </label> <input id="search-input" type="search" value={value} onChange={handleChange} placeholder="Search Tartans by Name" /> </div> <SearchResults results={results} /> </div> ) } export default SearchWidget
The SearchResults are structured like this:
/* src/components/searchresults.js */ import React from "react" import { Link } from "gatsby" const SearchResults = ({ results }) => ( <div> {results.length ? ( <> <h2>{results.length} tartan(s) matched your query</h2> <ul> {results.map(result => ( <li key={result.slug}> <Link to={`/tartan/${result.slug}`}>{result.title}</Link> </li> ))} </ul> </> ) : ( <p>Sorry, no matches found.</p> )} </div> ) export default SearchResults
Making it persistent
Where should we use this component? We could add it to the Layout component. The problem is that our search form will get unmounted on page changes that way. If a user wants to browser all tartans associated with the “Ramsay” clan, they will have to retype their query several times. That’s not ideal.
Thomas Weibenfalk has written a great article on keeping state between pages with local state in Gatsby.js. We will use the same technique, where the wrapPageElement browser API sets persistent UI elements around pages.
Let’s add the following code to the gatsby-browser.js. You might need to add this file to the root of your project.
/* gatsby-browser.js */ import React from "react" import SearchWrapper from "./src/components/searchwrapper" export const wrapPageElement = ({ element, props }) => ( <SearchWrapper {...props}>{element}</SearchWrapper> )
Now let’s add a new component file:
touch src/components/searchwrapper.js
Instead of adding SearchWidget component to the Layout, we will add it to the SearchWrapper and the magic happens. ✨
/* src/components/searchwrapper.js */ import React from "react" import SearchWidget from "./searchwidget"
const SearchWrapper = ({ children }) => ( <> {children} <SearchWidget /> </> ) export default SearchWrapper
Creating a custom search query
At this point, I started to try different keywords but very quickly realized that Lunr’s default search query might not be the best solution when used for instant search.
Why? Imagine that we are looking for tartans associated with the name MacCallum. While typing “MacCallum” letter-by-letter, this is the evolution of the results:
m – 2 matches (Lyon, Jeffrey M, Lyon, Jeffrey M (Hunting))
ma – no matches
mac – 1 match (Brighton Mac Dermotte)
macc – no matches
macca – no matches
maccal – 1 match (MacCall)
maccall – 1 match (MacCall)
maccallu – no matches
maccallum – 3 matches (MacCallum, MacCallum #2, MacCallum of Berwick)
Users will probably type the full name and hit the button if we make a button available. But with instant search, a user is likely to abandon early because they may expect that the results can only narrow down letters are added to the keyword query.
That’s not the only problem. Here’s what we get with “Callum”:
c – 3 unrelated matches
ca – no matches
cal – no matches
call – no matches
callu – no matches
callum – one match
You can see the trouble if someone gives up halfway into typing the full query.
Fortunately, Lunr supports more complex queries, including fuzzy matches, wildcards and boolean logic (e.g. AND, OR, NOT) for multiple terms. All of these are available either via a special query syntax, for example:
index.search("+*callum mac*")
We could also reach for the index query method to handle it programatically.
The first solution is not satisfying since it requires more effort from the user. I used the index.query method instead:
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ const search = index .query(function(q) { // full term matching q.term(el) // OR (default) // trailing or leading wildcard q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, }) }) .map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } })
Why use full term matching with wildcard matching? That’s necessary for all keywords that “benefit” from the stemming process. For example, the stem of “different” is “differ.” As a consequence, queries with wildcards — such as differe*, differen* or different* — all result in no matches, while the full term queries differe, differen and different return matches.
Fuzzy matches can be used as well. In our case, they are allowed uniquely for terms of five or more characters:
q.term(el, { editDistance: el.length > 5 ? 1 : 0 }) q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, })
The handleChange function also “cleans up” user inputs and ignores single-character terms:
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ const handleChange = e => { const query = e.target.value || "" setValue(query) if (!query.length) { setResults([]) } const keywords = query .trim() // remove trailing and leading spaces .replace(/\*/g, "") // remove user's wildcards .toLowerCase() .split(/\s+/) // split by whitespaces // do nothing if the last typed keyword is shorter than 2 if (keywords[keywords.length - 1].length < 2) { return } try { const search = index .query(function(q) { keywords // filter out keywords shorter than 2 .filter(el => el.length > 1) // loop over keywords .forEach(el => { q.term(el, { editDistance: el.length > 5 ? 1 : 0 }) q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, }) }) }) .map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) setResults(search) } catch (error) { console.log(error) } }
Let’s check it in action:
m – pending
ma – 861 matches
mac – 600 matches
macc – 35 matches
macca – 12 matches
maccal – 9 matches
maccall – 9 matches
maccallu – 3 matches
maccallum – 3 matches
Searching for “Callum” works as well, resulting in four matches: Callum, MacCallum, MacCallum #2, and MacCallum of Berwick.
There is one more problem, though: multi-terms queries. Say, you’re looking for “Loch Ness.” There are two tartans associated with that term, but with the default OR logic, you get a grand total of 96 results. (There are plenty of other lakes in Scotland.)
I wound up deciding that an AND search would work better for this project. Unfortunately, Lunr does not support nested queries, and what we actually need is (keyword1 OR *keyword*) AND (keyword2 OR *keyword2*).
To overcome this, I ended up moving the terms loop outside the query method and intersecting the results per term. (By intersecting, I mean finding all slugs that appear in all of the per-single-keyword results.)
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ try { // andSearch stores the intersection of all per-term results let andSearch = [] keywords .filter(el => el.length > 1) // loop over keywords .forEach((el, i) => { // per-single-keyword results const keywordSearch = index .query(function(q) { q.term(el, { editDistance: el.length > 5 ? 1 : 0 }) q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, }) }) .map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) // intersect current keywordSearch with andSearch andSearch = i > 0 ? andSearch.filter(x => keywordSearch.some(el => el.slug === x.slug)) : keywordSearch }) setResults(andSearch) } catch (error) { console.log(error) }
The source code for tartanify.com is published on GitHub. You can see the complete implementation of the Lunr search there.
Final thoughts
Search is often a non-negotiable feature for finding content on a site. How important the search functionality actually is may vary from one project to another. Nevertheless, there is no reason to abandon it under the pretext that it does not tally with the static character of Jamstack websites. There are many possibilities. We’ve just discussed one of them.
And, paradoxically in this specific example, the result was a better all-around user experience, thanks to the fact that implementing search was not an obvious task but instead required a lot of deliberation. We may not have been able to say the same with an over-the-counter solution.
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How to Add Lunr Search to your Gatsby Website
The Jamstack way of thinking and building websites is becoming more and more popular.
Have you already tried Gatsby, Nuxt, or Gridsome (to cite only a few)? Chances are that your first contact was a “Wow!” moment — so many things are automatically set up and ready to use.
There are some challenges, though, one of which is search functionality. If you’re working on any sort of content-driven site, you’ll likely run into search and how to handle it. Can it be done without any external server-side technology?
Search is not one of those things that come out of the box with Jamstack. Some extra decisions and implementation are required.
Fortunately, we have a bunch of options that might be more or less adapted to a project. We could use Algolia’s powerful search-as-service API. It comes with a free plan that is restricted to non-commercial projects with a limited capacity. If we were to use WordPress with WPGraphQL as a data source, we could take advantage of WordPress native search functionality and Apollo Client. Raymond Camden recently explored a few Jamstack search options, including pointing a search form directly at Google.
In this article, we will build a search index and add search functionality to a Gatsby website with Lunr, a lightweight JavaScript library providing an extensible and customizable search without the need for external, server-side services. We used it recently to add “Search by Tartan Name” to our Gatsby project tartanify.com. We absolutely wanted persistent search as-you-type functionality, which brought some extra challenges. But that’s what makes it interesting, right? I’ll discuss some of the difficulties we faced and how we dealt with them in the second half of this article.
Getting started
For the sake of simplicity, let’s use the official Gatsby blog starter. Using a generic starter lets us abstract many aspects of building a static website. If you’re following along, make sure to install and run it:
gatsby new gatsby-starter-blog https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby-starter-blog cd gatsby-starter-blog gatsby develop
It’s a tiny blog with three posts we can view by opening up http://localhost:8000/___graphql in the browser.
Inverting index with Lunr.js
Lunr uses a record-level inverted index as its data structure. The inverted index stores the mapping for each word found within a website to its location (basically a set of page paths). It’s on us to decide which fields (e.g. title, content, description, etc.) provide the keys (words) for the index.
For our blog example, I decided to include all titles and the content of each article. Dealing with titles is straightforward since they are composed uniquely of words. Indexing content is a little more complex. My first try was to use the rawMarkdownBody field. Unfortunately, rawMarkdownBody introduces some unwanted keys resulting from the markdown syntax.
I obtained a “clean” index using the html field in conjunction with the striptags package (which, as the name suggests, strips out the HTML tags). Before we get into the details, let’s look into the Lunr documentation.
Here’s how we create and populate the Lunr index. We will use this snippet in a moment, specifically in our gatsby-node.js file.
const index = lunr(function () { this.ref('slug') this.field('title') this.field('content') for (const doc of documents) { this.add(doc) } })
documents is an array of objects, each with a slug, title and content property:
{ slug: '/post-slug/', title: 'Post Title', content: 'Post content with all HTML tags stripped out.' }
We will define a unique document key (the slug) and two fields (the title and content, or the key providers). Finally, we will add all of the documents, one by one.
Let’s get started.
Creating an index in gatsby-node.js
Let’s start by installing the libraries that we are going to use.
yarn add lunr graphql-type-json striptags
Next, we need to edit the gatsby-node.js file. The code from this file runs once in the process of building a site, and our aim is to add index creation to the tasks that Gatsby executes on build.
CreateResolvers is one of the Gatsby APIs controlling the GraphQL data layer. In this particular case, we will use it to create a new root field; Let’s call it LunrIndex.
Gatsby’s internal data store and query capabilities are exposed to GraphQL field resolvers on context.nodeModel. With getAllNodes, we can get all nodes of a specified type:
/* gatsby-node.js */ const { GraphQLJSONObject } = require(`graphql-type-json`) const striptags = require(`striptags`) const lunr = require(`lunr`) exports.createResolvers = ({ cache, createResolvers }) => { createResolvers({ Query: { LunrIndex: { type: GraphQLJSONObject, resolve: (source, args, context, info) => { const blogNodes = context.nodeModel.getAllNodes({ type: `MarkdownRemark`, }) const type = info.schema.getType(`MarkdownRemark`) return createIndex(blogNodes, type, cache) }, }, }, }) }
Now let’s focus on the createIndex function. That’s where we will use the Lunr snippet we mentioned in the last section.
/* gatsby-node.js */ const createIndex = async (blogNodes, type, cache) => { const documents = [] // Iterate over all posts for (const node of blogNodes) { const html = await type.getFields().html.resolve(node) // Once html is resolved, add a slug-title-content object to the documents array documents.push({ slug: node.fields.slug, title: node.frontmatter.title, content: striptags(html), }) } const index = lunr(function() { this.ref(`slug`) this.field(`title`) this.field(`content`) for (const doc of documents) { this.add(doc) } }) return index.toJSON() }
Have you noticed that instead of accessing the HTML element directly with const html = node.html, we’re using an await expression? That’s because node.html isn’t available yet. The gatsby-transformer-remark plugin (used by our starter to parse Markdown files) does not generate HTML from markdown immediately when creating the MarkdownRemark nodes. Instead, html is generated lazily when the html field resolver is called in a query. The same actually applies to the excerpt that we will need in just a bit.
Let’s look ahead and think about how we are going to display search results. Users expect to obtain a link to the matching post, with its title as the anchor text. Very likely, they wouldn’t mind a short excerpt as well.
Lunr’s search returns an array of objects representing matching documents by the ref property (which is the unique document key slug in our example). This array does not contain the document title nor the content. Therefore, we need to store somewhere the post title and excerpt corresponding to each slug. We can do that within our LunrIndex as below:
/* gatsby-node.js */ const createIndex = async (blogNodes, type, cache) => { const documents = [] const store = {} for (const node of blogNodes) { const {slug} = node.fields const title = node.frontmatter.title const [html, excerpt] = await Promise.all([ type.getFields().html.resolve(node), type.getFields().excerpt.resolve(node, { pruneLength: 40 }), ]) documents.push({ // unchanged }) store[slug] = { title, excerpt, } } const index = lunr(function() { // unchanged }) return { index: index.toJSON(), store } }
Our search index changes only if one of the posts is modified or a new post is added. We don’t need to rebuild the index each time we run gatsby develop. To avoid unnecessary builds, let’s take advantage of the cache API:
/* gatsby-node.js */ const createIndex = async (blogNodes, type, cache) => { const cacheKey = `IndexLunr` const cached = await cache.get(cacheKey) if (cached) { return cached } // unchanged const json = { index: index.toJSON(), store } await cache.set(cacheKey, json) return json }
Enhancing pages with the search form component
We can now move on to the front end of our implementation. Let’s start by building a search form component.
touch src/components/search-form.js
I opt for a straightforward solution: an input of type="search", coupled with a label and accompanied by a submit button, all wrapped within a form tag with the search landmark role.
We will add two event handlers, handleSubmit on form submit and handleChange on changes to the search input.
/* src/components/search-form.js */ import React, { useState, useRef } from "react" import { navigate } from "@reach/router" const SearchForm = ({ initialQuery = "" }) => { // Create a piece of state, and initialize it to initialQuery // query will hold the current value of the state, // and setQuery will let us change it const [query, setQuery] = useState(initialQuery) // We need to get reference to the search input element const inputEl = useRef(null) // On input change use the current value of the input field (e.target.value) // to update the state's query value const handleChange = e => { setQuery(e.target.value) } // When the form is submitted navigate to /search // with a query q paramenter equal to the value within the input search const handleSubmit = e => { e.preventDefault() // `inputEl.current` points to the mounted search input element const q = inputEl.current.value navigate(`/search?q=${q}`) } return ( <form role="search" onSubmit={handleSubmit}> <label htmlFor="search-input" style=> Search for: </label> <input ref={inputEl} id="search-input" type="search" value={query} placeholder="e.g. duck" onChange={handleChange} /> <button type="submit">Go</button> </form> ) } export default SearchForm
Have you noticed that we’re importing navigate from the @reach/router package? That is necessary since neither Gatsby’s <Link/> nor navigate provide in-route navigation with a query parameter. Instead, we can import @reach/router — there’s no need to install it since Gatsby already includes it — and use its navigate function.
Now that we’ve built our component, let’s add it to our home page (as below) and 404 page.
/* src/pages/index.js */ // unchanged import SearchForm from "../components/search-form" const BlogIndex = ({ data, location }) => { // unchanged return ( <Layout location={location} title={siteTitle}> <SEO title="All posts" /> <Bio /> <SearchForm /> // unchanged
Search results page
Our SearchForm component navigates to the /search route when the form is submitted, but for the moment, there is nothing behing this URL. That means we need to add a new page:
touch src/pages/search.js
I proceeded by copying and adapting the content of the the index.js page. One of the essential modifications concerns the page query (see the very bottom of the file). We will replace allMarkdownRemark with the LunrIndex field.
/* src/pages/search.js */ import React from "react" import { Link, graphql } from "gatsby" import { Index } from "lunr" import Layout from "../components/layout" import SEO from "../components/seo" import SearchForm from "../components/search-form"
// We can access the results of the page GraphQL query via the data props const SearchPage = ({ data, location }) => { const siteTitle = data.site.siteMetadata.title // We can read what follows the ?q= here // URLSearchParams provides a native way to get URL params // location.search.slice(1) gets rid of the "?" const params = new URLSearchParams(location.search.slice(1)) const q = params.get("q") || ""
// LunrIndex is available via page query const { store } = data.LunrIndex // Lunr in action here const index = Index.load(data.LunrIndex.index) let results = [] try { // Search is a lunr method results = index.search(q).map(({ ref }) => { // Map search results to an array of {slug, title, excerpt} objects return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) } catch (error) { console.log(error) } return ( // We will take care of this part in a moment ) } export default SearchPage export const pageQuery = graphql` query { site { siteMetadata { title } } LunrIndex } `
Now that we know how to retrieve the query value and the matching posts, let’s display the content of the page. Notice that on the search page we pass the query value to the <SearchForm /> component via the initialQuery props. When the user arrives to the search results page, their search query should remain in the input field.
return ( <Layout location={location} title={siteTitle}> <SEO title="Search results" /> {q ? <h1>Search results</h1> : <h1>What are you looking for?</h1>} <SearchForm initialQuery={q} /> {results.length ? ( results.map(result => { return ( <article key={result.slug}> <h2> <Link to={result.slug}> {result.title || result.slug} </Link> </h2> <p>{result.excerpt}</p> </article> ) }) ) : ( <p>Nothing found.</p> )} </Layout> )
You can find the complete code in this gatsby-starter-blog fork and the live demo deployed on Netlify.
Instant search widget
Finding the most “logical” and user-friendly way of implementing search may be a challenge in and of itself. Let’s now switch to the real-life example of tartanify.com — a Gatsby-powered website gathering 5,000+ tartan patterns. Since tartans are often associated with clans or organizations, the possibility to search a tartan by name seems to make sense.
We built tartanify.com as a side project where we feel absolutely free to experiment with things. We didn’t want a classic search results page but an instant search “widget.” Often, a given search keyword corresponds with a number of results — for example, “Ramsay” comes in six variations. We imagined the search widget would be persistent, meaning it should stay in place when a user navigates from one matching tartan to another.
Let me show you how we made it work with Lunr. The first step of building the index is very similar to the gatsby-starter-blog example, only simpler:
/* gatsby-node.js */ exports.createResolvers = ({ cache, createResolvers }) => { createResolvers({ Query: { LunrIndex: { type: GraphQLJSONObject, resolve(source, args, context) { const siteNodes = context.nodeModel.getAllNodes({ type: `TartansCsv`, }) return createIndex(siteNodes, cache) }, }, }, }) } const createIndex = async (nodes, cache) => { const cacheKey = `LunrIndex` const cached = await cache.get(cacheKey) if (cached) { return cached } const store = {} const index = lunr(function() { this.ref(`slug`) this.field(`title`) for (node of nodes) { const { slug } = node.fields const doc = { slug, title: node.fields.Unique_Name, } store[slug] = { title: doc.title, } this.add(doc) } }) const json = { index: index.toJSON(), store } cache.set(cacheKey, json) return json }
We opted for instant search, which means that search is triggered by any change in the search input instead of a form submission.
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ import React, { useState } from "react" import lunr, { Index } from "lunr" import { graphql, useStaticQuery } from "gatsby" import SearchResults from "./searchresults"
const SearchWidget = () => { const [value, setValue] = useState("") // results is now a state variable const [results, setResults] = useState([])
// Since it's not a page component, useStaticQuery for quering data // https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/use-static-query/ const { LunrIndex } = useStaticQuery(graphql` query { LunrIndex } `) const index = Index.load(LunrIndex.index) const { store } = LunrIndex const handleChange = e => { const query = e.target.value setValue(query) try { const search = index.search(query).map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) setResults(search) } catch (error) { console.log(error) } } return ( <div className="search-wrapper"> // You can use a form tag as well, as long as we prevent the default submit behavior <div role="search"> <label htmlFor="search-input" className="visually-hidden"> Search Tartans by Name </label> <input id="search-input" type="search" value={value} onChange={handleChange} placeholder="Search Tartans by Name" /> </div> <SearchResults results={results} /> </div> ) } export default SearchWidget
The SearchResults are structured like this:
/* src/components/searchresults.js */ import React from "react" import { Link } from "gatsby" const SearchResults = ({ results }) => ( <div> {results.length ? ( <> <h2>{results.length} tartan(s) matched your query</h2> <ul> {results.map(result => ( <li key={result.slug}> <Link to={`/tartan/${result.slug}`}>{result.title}</Link> </li> ))} </ul> </> ) : ( <p>Sorry, no matches found.</p> )} </div> ) export default SearchResults
Making it persistent
Where should we use this component? We could add it to the Layout component. The problem is that our search form will get unmounted on page changes that way. If a user wants to browser all tartans associated with the “Ramsay” clan, they will have to retype their query several times. That’s not ideal.
Thomas Weibenfalk has written a great article on keeping state between pages with local state in Gatsby.js. We will use the same technique, where the wrapPageElement browser API sets persistent UI elements around pages.
Let’s add the following code to the gatsby-browser.js. You might need to add this file to the root of your project.
/* gatsby-browser.js */ import React from "react" import SearchWrapper from "./src/components/searchwrapper" export const wrapPageElement = ({ element, props }) => ( <SearchWrapper {...props}>{element}</SearchWrapper> )
Now let’s add a new component file:
touch src/components/searchwrapper.js
Instead of adding SearchWidget component to the Layout, we will add it to the SearchWrapper and the magic happens.
/* src/components/searchwrapper.js */ import React from "react" import SearchWidget from "./searchwidget"
const SearchWrapper = ({ children }) => ( <> {children} <SearchWidget /> </> ) export default SearchWrapper
Creating a custom search query
At this point, I started to try different keywords but very quickly realized that Lunr’s default search query might not be the best solution when used for instant search.
Why? Imagine that we are looking for tartans associated with the name MacCallum. While typing “MacCallum” letter-by-letter, this is the evolution of the results:
m – 2 matches (Lyon, Jeffrey M, Lyon, Jeffrey M (Hunting))
ma – no matches
mac – 1 match (Brighton Mac Dermotte)
macc – no matches
macca – no matches
maccal – 1 match (MacCall)
maccall – 1 match (MacCall)
maccallu – no matches
maccallum – 3 matches (MacCallum, MacCallum #2, MacCallum of Berwick)
Users will probably type the full name and hit the button if we make a button available. But with instant search, a user is likely to abandon early because they may expect that the results can only narrow down letters are added to the keyword query.
That’s not the only problem. Here’s what we get with “Callum”:
c – 3 unrelated matches
ca – no matches
cal – no matches
call – no matches
callu – no matches
callum – one match
You can see the trouble if someone gives up halfway into typing the full query.
Fortunately, Lunr supports more complex queries, including fuzzy matches, wildcards and boolean logic (e.g. AND, OR, NOT) for multiple terms. All of these are available either via a special query syntax, for example:
index.search("+*callum mac*")
We could also reach for the index query method to handle it programatically.
The first solution is not satisfying since it requires more effort from the user. I used the index.query method instead:
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ const search = index .query(function(q) { // full term matching q.term(el) // OR (default) // trailing or leading wildcard q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, }) }) .map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } })
Why use full term matching with wildcard matching? That’s necessary for all keywords that “benefit” from the stemming process. For example, the stem of “different” is “differ.” As a consequence, queries with wildcards — such as differe*, differen* or different* — all result in no matches, while the full term queries differe, differen and different return matches.
Fuzzy matches can be used as well. In our case, they are allowed uniquely for terms of five or more characters:
q.term(el, { editDistance: el.length > 5 ? 1 : 0 }) q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, })
The handleChange function also “cleans up” user inputs and ignores single-character terms:
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ const handleChange = e => { const query = e.target.value || "" setValue(query) if (!query.length) { setResults([]) } const keywords = query .trim() // remove trailing and leading spaces .replace(/\*/g, "") // remove user's wildcards .toLowerCase() .split(/\s+/) // split by whitespaces // do nothing if the last typed keyword is shorter than 2 if (keywords[keywords.length - 1].length < 2) { return } try { const search = index .query(function(q) { keywords // filter out keywords shorter than 2 .filter(el => el.length > 1) // loop over keywords .forEach(el => { q.term(el, { editDistance: el.length > 5 ? 1 : 0 }) q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, }) }) }) .map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) setResults(search) } catch (error) { console.log(error) } }
Let’s check it in action:
m – pending
ma – 861 matches
mac – 600 matches
macc – 35 matches
macca – 12 matches
maccal – 9 matches
maccall – 9 matches
maccallu – 3 matches
maccallum – 3 matches
Searching for “Callum” works as well, resulting in four matches: Callum, MacCallum, MacCallum #2, and MacCallum of Berwick.
There is one more problem, though: multi-terms queries. Say, you’re looking for “Loch Ness.” There are two tartans associated with that term, but with the default OR logic, you get a grand total of 96 results. (There are plenty of other lakes in Scotland.)
I wound up deciding that an AND search would work better for this project. Unfortunately, Lunr does not support nested queries, and what we actually need is (keyword1 OR *keyword*) AND (keyword2 OR *keyword2*).
To overcome this, I ended up moving the terms loop outside the query method and intersecting the results per term. (By intersecting, I mean finding all slugs that appear in all of the per-single-keyword results.)
/* src/components/searchwidget.js */ try { // andSearch stores the intersection of all per-term results let andSearch = [] keywords .filter(el => el.length > 1) // loop over keywords .forEach((el, i) => { // per-single-keyword results const keywordSearch = index .query(function(q) { q.term(el, { editDistance: el.length > 5 ? 1 : 0 }) q.term(el, { wildcard: lunr.Query.wildcard.LEADING | lunr.Query.wildcard.TRAILING, }) }) .map(({ ref }) => { return { slug: ref, ...store[ref], } }) // intersect current keywordSearch with andSearch andSearch = i > 0 ? andSearch.filter(x => keywordSearch.some(el => el.slug === x.slug)) : keywordSearch }) setResults(andSearch) } catch (error) { console.log(error) }
The source code for tartanify.com is published on GitHub. You can see the complete implementation of the Lunr search there.
Final thoughts
Search is often a non-negotiable feature for finding content on a site. How important the search functionality actually is may vary from one project to another. Nevertheless, there is no reason to abandon it under the pretext that it does not tally with the static character of Jamstack websites. There are many possibilities. We’ve just discussed one of them.
And, paradoxically in this specific example, the result was a better all-around user experience, thanks to the fact that implementing search was not an obvious task but instead required a lot of deliberation. We may not have been able to say the same with an over-the-counter solution.
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SEO vs. Over Optimization – Does Unoptimized SEO Win the Battle?
Every couple of months, someone proclaims that SEO is dead or sets off a number of anti-SEO threads, based on the continuous changing scenery in the search industry. It goes without saying that the landscape is different from what it used to be a couple of years before but from “different” to “inexistent” there is a wide range of tones.
One might say: “Nothing has really changed. It’s simple: focus on your visitors and pretend Google doesn’t exist!” That is indeed a very good piece of advice but Google does exist and, at the end of the day, it is its yard we are playing in.
It goes without saying that SEO has a range of colors and sizes that everybody is trying to guess. Lots of websites use all sorts of SEO techniques and lately, we’ve seen a new approach – the “unoptimized” SEO technique. What it is and how it affects the web you’ll get from today’s article.
Google’s Opinion on Website Optimization
Search Engine Optimization vs. Over Optimization
How to Approach Unoptimized SEO
Strategic Growth Strategies for Unoptimized Web Pages
Verify the Indexability of Your Pages
Check Website for Duplicate Content
Implement Social Protocol Meta Tags
Correct Any Mistakes Associated to the Linking Structure
Fix any Broken Links and Resources
Improve Your Mobile and Desktop Performance
Try Link Earning for Unoptimized SEO
1. Google’s Opinion on Website Optimization
Undoubtedly, the search industry has changed a lot lately and SEO was forced to constantly adapt to these never-ending changes.
Techniques that used to be SEO’s no.1 weapons now seem rudimentary and wasteful.
If, back in 2009, Matt Cutts said that “there is no such thing as Google over-optimization penalty“, in 2012 the same Matt Cutts was telling us that all those who had been doing over-optimization or overly doing their SEO compared to the webmasters could be the subject of a penalty. Google always worked on making their bot smarter, and their relevance criteria more adaptive.
In short, Google’s message is pretty clear: Optimize too much and you will get penalized. Yet this statement has raised so many questions all these years. Lots of SEOs have been using this terminology for a long time for websites that don’t do well in the Google search results because they do too much SEO. Some call it the over optimization penalty. Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that over optimization exists and can hurt your rankings.
That is totally a thing, but I can’t think of a better name for it. It is literally optimizing so much that eventually it starts hurting.
— Gary “鯨理” Illyes (@methode) May 24, 2017
2. Search Engine Optimization vs. Over Optimization
Once again Matt Cutts tries to answer this question (or rather raises even more questions). In Google’s opinion, keyword stuffing, too many links exchanges or too many SEO improvements begin to ruin the website’s ability to rank and thereby, penalize it.
Although nowadays optimization requires an integrated approach, SEO was traditionally divided into two main areas:
on-page optimization – covering the actions that can be done on the pages of the website itself, factors that are controlled by you or by coding on your page. Examples of on-page optimization include actual HTML codes, meta tags, keyword placement or keyword density.
off-page optimization – covering the activity that is off-site and is not controlled by you. Examples of off-page optimization include things such as link building, link popularity or link authority.
When it comes to optimization, Google says NO to off-page optimization and YES to on-page optimization. By this, Google is telling us that one should not try to alter the rankings by manipulating the external metrics of the site. If you’re using on-page, you are free to do anything you can in order to grow your ranking organically; anything as long as it doesn’t imply excessive keyword repetition, duplicate content or any other black hat SEO technique.
On the other hand, over-optimization comes often times as an off-page technique, through link building and all sorts of linking schemes. That’s why it is not something Google agrees with.
That happens because the big search engine doesn’t like it when people are trying to alter its results. These manipulation attempts are “rewarded” with big penalties most of the time. Lots of sites, big and small, were penalized publicly to set an example. From famous banks to flower shops, from travel agencies to online clothing, they were all given a harsh lesson about the rules of the game.
The aim of all these measures is not to make the SEO industry disappear, but to redefine the SEO industry’s behavior.
In this new “unoptimized optimization” process it might be better for content marketers to focus more on strategic growth strategies and not on technical off-page SEO.
3. How to Approach Unoptimized SEO
Although it may sound like a paradox, “unoptimized optimization” is a reality we must cope with. In a recent AMA on Reddit, Gary Illyes recommends webmasters to go with the basics and focus on the on-site technicalities.
I really wish SEOs went back to the basics (i.e. MAKE THAT DAMN SITE CRAWLABLE) instead of focusing on silly updates and made up terms by the rank trackers, and that they talked more with the developers of the website once done with the first part of this sentence. Gary Illyes Google Webmaster Trends Analyst
I am not here to tell you that you shouldn’t optimize your website. But I am saying that it is better to adapt to the actual SEO context rather than fight with the windmills. Optimization, in whatever form, shouldn’t distract you from the most important asset: visitors, customers, readers, etc. In the long run, they are the ones that matters the most. If you focus your actions on your audience, everything else falls in line behind that.
In the traditional SEO, success was measured according to the number of backlinks obtained or the authority of the pages that linked to a website. Unoptimized SEO changes the rules of the game, and therefore, the metrics for measuring success.
Search is the biggest game in town so the ace up in your sleeve should be on-site SEO. There are lots of things you could do in your yard before telling everybody that you have a party there. That means getting your website prepared before promoting it to get off-site benefits.
On site SEO is the “last mile” to strong search rankings.
Site Audit is the on-site tool that can help you keep track of your website’s performance and technical errors, at the highest level of detail. Practically, the tool flags ALL possible on-page SEO issues a site might have and provides recommendations on how to fix them. You can review information about:
pages that are indexed by search engines or for some reason they are not indexed;
duplicate content & meta tags;
malware and unsecure content;
social media issues;
internal and external errors;
broken links & resources;
HTTPS implementation;
canonical tags issues;
sitemaps;
AMP setups;
page speed and website performance;
& more.
Using the Site Audit tool will definitely improve your website’s on-page SEO performance, and there are a lot of strategies you could follow.
4. Strategic Growth Strategies for Unoptimized Web Pages
4.1 Verify the Indexability of Your Pages
A webpage that is not indexed means it is not eligible to receive search engine traffic. The Site Audit gives information for such pages, classified in 8 categories:
pages with the “Disallow” tag, which informs the search engines not to crawl this page;
broken pages;
pages that have duplicate content are placed in the Near Duplicates category;
pages from the No-Index in Meta category that tells robots not to index the content of this page, and/or not to scan it for links to follow;
redirected pages;
pages that don’t have the canonical tag placed;
pagination, applied mostly to e-commerce websites that divide the content into discrete pages, either electronic or printed pages;
For a good website organization, you should allow the search engine to index only the important URLs so that these pages can rank high. In case you have any issues associated with your indexed pages, you need to fix those and decrease the issues that can harm your website.
4.2 Check Website for Duplicate Content
Another technique to improve your website is verifying duplicate content and meta tags (which includes titles, headings, descriptions). Duplicate content may negatively impact your search engine rankings, and create a poor user experience on the website because users will see almost the same content. Google encourages webmasters to create unique and relevant content for the visitors; that’s why you need to resolve the issue and rephrase the content that is repeated on your site.
You have to establish your awesome content as the go-to resource by creating in-depth blog posts to attract the interest of the user. Evergreen content and case studies can be great examples of resources. For each blog post and page you have on your website, you’ll have to write different titles and unique meta descriptions. In case you have any issues regarding duplicates, use the Site Audit to easily discover the pages.
4.3 Implement Social Protocol Meta Tags
Social protocol meta tags help your content look proper when it’s shared on social media platforms. You know that every time a piece of content is shared, you can see a featured snippet like the screenshot below:
Site Audit can show you information about Facebook and Twitter protocols implementation because only these two platforms are still showing information about shares, likes, and other social metrics. For Social Media, the protocol is named Facebook Open Graph and for Twitter it’s Twitter cards. For example, if somebody shares your website content, Facebook will automatically extract a title, description, image and URL that it considers to be relevant for the shared page.
Having social protocols implemented on your website will make it easier for users to share it and see it properly in the social feed. The nice part of these protocols is the opportunity to customize and create actionable descriptions for every piece of article.
4.4 Correct Any Mistakes Associated to the Linking Structure
External and internal links can strength the authority of your site. It is important to have a well-structured architecture so that the user understands your website. Do you have pages with lots of internal links or too many external links? Then you need to find out what pages have those type of issues.
It is good to have pages with up to 100 internal links. On the same note, the number of external links must be kept under the same level, 100 links. At the opposite pole, pages with a small number of internal links should be checked, and if possible linked from a higher number of pages on your site, relevant pages.
Pages that don’t have any internal links pointing to them are placed in the orphan pages category, which means they don’t receive any traffic and search engines aren’t aware of their existence and don’t index them. If you want to be present in SERP, you’ll have to link the content to other pages from your site.
Google relies on internal links to discover new content, this works because whenever you add a new page/post to your website it’ll almost always be linked-to from somewhere on your website. Matthew Woodward Award winning blogger matthewwoodward.co.uk
4.5 Fix any Broken Links and Resources
Broken links can negatively affect SEO as well as the user experience. Links that are broken will stop search engines from completely indexing your website. Imagine this: the user comes on your website from an external page and looks for some information. If the page is broken, it will show no valid information and give no directions to the user, then they’ll have a bad experience on the site.
Situations like this can be very bad for your business. It can negatively influence your revenue, and SEO metrics in a way that increases the bounce rate and fails to push the user down the funnel.
Fixing broken links should be a must, not a maybe. The good advantage is that it can be resolved easily. There are a few options in this situation. You can either delete the broken links, redirect the link to a page that has content and works or remake the nonexistent page that the link is currently pointing at.
Finding broken links can be very easy if you use Site Audit. You have separate charts for internal links and external links. You can view all the pages from a specific category and even get a few directions.
4.6 Improve Your Mobile and Desktop Performance
Your website performance is an important trigger for unoptimized SEO strategies. Website loading speed time is an important matter. That’s why Google has always recommended websmasters to create faster loading websites for all the devices. Site Audit allows to see all pages that have issues categoried as following:
very slow
slow
fair loading
fast
Mobile traffic has increased in time and Google saw the evolution of it. That’s why developers thought it important to have fast loading speed websites on mobile. In July 2018, Google said that page speed is a ranking factor for mobile searches.
More than that, Google developed the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project for any publisher to have pages load faster on mobile devices. The goal is to have better user experience, faster websites and a higher mobile performance. To achieve all of these, you need to setup the AMP. For a good implementation and clean setup, you can analyze the Site Audit section for Mobile issues.
4.7 Try Link Earning
It might be the time to forget about link building and start earning links. The concept of link earning puts together all the qualitative efforts that a webmaster makes in order to gain organic links. These efforts don’t resume to outdated link building methods, such as link exchange, commenting on blog posts or submitting your site to low-quality web site directories. Link earning is about sharing your knowledge, generating original information and being active on social media. Creating engaging, helpful content that users want and need can be more useful than a pile of backlinks.
One shouldn’t create content just for the sake of an editorial calendar but one should offer something that its audience can benefit from, something that people would genuinely want to click on.
Conclusion
What we wanted to underline is that unoptimized SEO shouldn’t mean a lack of interest in optimization in general. Just a focus switch from off page to onpage and a more “back to the basics” approach.
Is Google militating for an unoptimized SEO concept? We cannot know that for sure but we do know that Google keeps on reminding us every time it has the opportunity that content is the one we should focus on. Good content has always been a necessity. And 2018 was the year of content, and lots of SEO experts and brand focused more on this on-site technique. The unoptimized SEO might be a new direction in your digital marketing strategy.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change, so if the new SEO implies unoptimization, webmasters will have no other choice but to up their game and go along with the new rules.
SEO should be full of meaning but shapeless, just like water!
When you pour water into a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. The water properties itself are unchanged but the shapes it takes in order to fit several recipients are always different.
So, what do you think? Is unoptimized SEO the way to go from now on?
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SEO vs. Over Optimization – Does Unoptimized SEO Win the Battle?
Every couple of months, someone proclaims that SEO is dead or sets off a number of anti-SEO threads, based on the continuous changing scenery in the search industry. It goes without saying that the landscape is different from what it used to be a couple of years before but from “different” to “inexistent” there is a wide range of tones.
One might say: “Nothing has really changed. It’s simple: focus on your visitors and pretend Google doesn’t exist!” That is indeed a very good piece of advice but Google does exist and, at the end of the day, it is its yard we are playing in.
It goes without saying that SEO has a range of colors and sizes that everybody is trying to guess. Lots of websites use all sorts of SEO techniques and lately, we’ve seen a new approach – the “unoptimized” SEO technique. What it is and how it affects the web you’ll get from today’s article.
Google’s Opinion on Website Optimization
Search Engine Optimization vs. Over Optimization
How to Approach Unoptimized SEO
Strategic Growth Strategies for Unoptimized Web Pages
Verify the Indexability of Your Pages
Check Website for Duplicate Content
Implement Social Protocol Meta Tags
Correct Any Mistakes Associated to the Linking Structure
Fix any Broken Links and Resources
Improve Your Mobile and Desktop Performance
Try Link Earning for Unoptimized SEO
1. Google’s Opinion on Website Optimization
Undoubtedly, the search industry has changed a lot lately and SEO was forced to constantly adapt to these never-ending changes.
Techniques that used to be SEO’s no.1 weapons now seem rudimentary and wasteful.
If, back in 2009, Matt Cutts said that “there is no such thing as Google over-optimization penalty“, in 2012 the same Matt Cutts was telling us that all those who had been doing over-optimization or overly doing their SEO compared to the webmasters could be the subject of a penalty. Google always worked on making their bot smarter, and their relevance criteria more adaptive.
In short, Google’s message is pretty clear: Optimize too much and you will get penalized. Yet this statement has raised so many questions all these years. Lots of SEOs have been using this terminology for a long time for websites that don’t do well in the Google search results because they do too much SEO. Some call it the over optimization penalty. Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that over optimization exists and can hurt your rankings.
That is totally a thing, but I can’t think of a better name for it. It is literally optimizing so much that eventually it starts hurting.
— Gary “鯨理” Illyes (@methode) May 24, 2017
2. Search Engine Optimization vs. Over Optimization
Once again Matt Cutts tries to answer this question (or rather raises even more questions). In Google’s opinion, keyword stuffing, too many links exchanges or too many SEO improvements begin to ruin the website’s ability to rank and thereby, penalize it.
Although nowadays optimization requires an integrated approach, SEO was traditionally divided into two main areas:
on-page optimization – covering the actions that can be done on the pages of the website itself, factors that are controlled by you or by coding on your page. Examples of on-page optimization include actual HTML codes, meta tags, keyword placement or keyword density.
off-page optimization – covering the activity that is off-site and is not controlled by you. Examples of off-page optimization include things such as link building, link popularity or link authority.
When it comes to optimization, Google says NO to off-page optimization and YES to on-page optimization. By this, Google is telling us that one should not try to alter the rankings by manipulating the external metrics of the site. If you’re using on-page, you are free to do anything you can in order to grow your ranking organically; anything as long as it doesn’t imply excessive keyword repetition, duplicate content or any other black hat SEO technique.
On the other hand, over-optimization comes often times as an off-page technique, through link building and all sorts of linking schemes. That’s why it is not something Google agrees with.
That happens because the big search engine doesn’t like it when people are trying to alter its results. These manipulation attempts are “rewarded” with big penalties most of the time. Lots of sites, big and small, were penalized publicly to set an example. From famous banks to flower shops, from travel agencies to online clothing, they were all given a harsh lesson about the rules of the game.
The aim of all these measures is not to make the SEO industry disappear, but to redefine the SEO industry’s behavior.
In this new “unoptimized optimization” process it might be better for content marketers to focus more on strategic growth strategies and not on technical off-page SEO.
3. How to Approach Unoptimized SEO
Although it may sound like a paradox, “unoptimized optimization” is a reality we must cope with. In a recent AMA on Reddit, Gary Illyes recommends webmasters to go with the basics and focus on the on-site technicalities.
I really wish SEOs went back to the basics (i.e. MAKE THAT DAMN SITE CRAWLABLE) instead of focusing on silly updates and made up terms by the rank trackers, and that they talked more with the developers of the website once done with the first part of this sentence. Gary Illyes Google Webmaster Trends Analyst
I am not here to tell you that you shouldn’t optimize your website. But I am saying that it is better to adapt to the actual SEO context rather than fight with the windmills. Optimization, in whatever form, shouldn’t distract you from the most important asset: visitors, customers, readers, etc. In the long run, they are the ones that matters the most. If you focus your actions on your audience, everything else falls in line behind that.
In the traditional SEO, success was measured according to the number of backlinks obtained or the authority of the pages that linked to a website. Unoptimized SEO changes the rules of the game, and therefore, the metrics for measuring success.
Search is the biggest game in town so the ace up in your sleeve should be on-site SEO. There are lots of things you could do in your yard before telling everybody that you have a party there. That means getting your website prepared before promoting it to get off-site benefits.
On site SEO is the “last mile” to strong search rankings.
Site Audit is the on-site tool that can help you keep track of your website’s performance and technical errors, at the highest level of detail. Practically, the tool flags ALL possible on-page SEO issues a site might have and provides recommendations on how to fix them. You can review information about:
pages that are indexed by search engines or for some reason they are not indexed;
duplicate content & meta tags;
malware and unsecure content;
social media issues;
internal and external errors;
broken links & resources;
HTTPS implementation;
canonical tags issues;
sitemaps;
AMP setups;
page speed and website performance;
& more.
Using the Site Audit tool will definitely improve your website’s on-page SEO performance, and there are a lot of strategies you could follow.
4. Strategic Growth Strategies for Unoptimized Web Pages
4.1 Verify the Indexability of Your Pages
A webpage that is not indexed means it is not eligible to receive search engine traffic. The Site Audit gives information for such pages, classified in 8 categories:
pages with the “Disallow” tag, which informs the search engines not to crawl this page;
broken pages;
pages that have duplicate content are placed in the Near Duplicates category;
pages from the No-Index in Meta category that tells robots not to index the content of this page, and/or not to scan it for links to follow;
redirected pages;
pages that don’t have the canonical tag placed;
pagination, applied mostly to e-commerce websites that divide the content into discrete pages, either electronic or printed pages;
For a good website organization, you should allow the search engine to index only the important URLs so that these pages can rank high. In case you have any issues associated with your indexed pages, you need to fix those and decrease the issues that can harm your website.
4.2 Check Website for Duplicate Content
Another technique to improve your website is verifying duplicate content and meta tags (which includes titles, headings, descriptions). Duplicate content may negatively impact your search engine rankings, and create a poor user experience on the website because users will see almost the same content. Google encourages webmasters to create unique and relevant content for the visitors; that’s why you need to resolve the issue and rephrase the content that is repeated on your site.
You have to establish your awesome content as the go-to resource by creating in-depth blog posts to attract the interest of the user. Evergreen content and case studies can be great examples of resources. For each blog post and page you have on your website, you’ll have to write different titles and unique meta descriptions. In case you have any issues regarding duplicates, use the Site Audit to easily discover the pages.
4.3 Implement Social Protocol Meta Tags
Social protocol meta tags help your content look proper when it’s shared on social media platforms. You know that every time a piece of content is shared, you can see a featured snippet like the screenshot below:
Site Audit can show you information about Facebook and Twitter protocols implementation because only these two platforms are still showing information about shares, likes, and other social metrics. For Social Media, the protocol is named Facebook Open Graph and for Twitter it’s Twitter cards. For example, if somebody shares your website content, Facebook will automatically extract a title, description, image and URL that it considers to be relevant for the shared page.
Having social protocols implemented on your website will make it easier for users to share it and see it properly in the social feed. The nice part of these protocols is the opportunity to customize and create actionable descriptions for every piece of article.
4.4 Correct Any Mistakes Associated to the Linking Structure
External and internal links can strength the authority of your site. It is important to have a well-structured architecture so that the user understands your website. Do you have pages with lots of internal links or too many external links? Then you need to find out what pages have those type of issues.
It is good to have pages with up to 100 internal links. On the same note, the number of external links must be kept under the same level, 100 links. At the opposite pole, pages with a small number of internal links should be checked, and if possible linked from a higher number of pages on your site, relevant pages.
Pages that don’t have any internal links pointing to them are placed in the orphan pages category, which means they don’t receive any traffic and search engines aren’t aware of their existence and don’t index them. If you want to be present in SERP, you’ll have to link the content to other pages from your site.
Google relies on internal links to discover new content, this works because whenever you add a new page/post to your website it’ll almost always be linked-to from somewhere on your website. Matthew Woodward Award winning blogger matthewwoodward.co.uk
4.5 Fix any Broken Links and Resources
Broken links can negatively affect SEO as well as the user experience. Links that are broken will stop search engines from completely indexing your website. Imagine this: the user comes on your website from an external page and looks for some information. If the page is broken, it will show no valid information and give no directions to the user, then they’ll have a bad experience on the site.
Situations like this can be very bad for your business. It can negatively influence your revenue, and SEO metrics in a way that increases the bounce rate and fails to push the user down the funnel.
Fixing broken links should be a must, not a maybe. The good advantage is that it can be resolved easily. There are a few options in this situation. You can either delete the broken links, redirect the link to a page that has content and works or remake the nonexistent page that the link is currently pointing at.
Finding broken links can be very easy if you use Site Audit. You have separate charts for internal links and external links. You can view all the pages from a specific category and even get a few directions.
4.6 Improve Your Mobile and Desktop Performance
Your website performance is an important trigger for unoptimized SEO strategies. Website loading speed time is an important matter. That’s why Google has always recommended websmasters to create faster loading websites for all the devices. Site Audit allows to see all pages that have issues categoried as following:
very slow
slow
fair loading
fast
Mobile traffic has increased in time and Google saw the evolution of it. That’s why developers thought it important to have fast loading speed websites on mobile. In July 2018, Google said that page speed is a ranking factor for mobile searches.
More than that, Google developed the AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project for any publisher to have pages load faster on mobile devices. The goal is to have better user experience, faster websites and a higher mobile performance. To achieve all of these, you need to setup the AMP. For a good implementation and clean setup, you can analyze the Site Audit section for Mobile issues.
4.7 Try Link Earning
It might be the time to forget about link building and start earning links. The concept of link earning puts together all the qualitative efforts that a webmaster makes in order to gain organic links. These efforts don’t resume to outdated link building methods, such as link exchange, commenting on blog posts or submitting your site to low-quality web site directories. Link earning is about sharing your knowledge, generating original information and being active on social media. Creating engaging, helpful content that users want and need can be more useful than a pile of backlinks.
One shouldn’t create content just for the sake of an editorial calendar but one should offer something that its audience can benefit from, something that people would genuinely want to click on.
Conclusion
What we wanted to underline is that unoptimized SEO shouldn’t mean a lack of interest in optimization in general. Just a focus switch from off page to onpage and a more “back to the basics” approach.
Is Google militating for an unoptimized SEO concept? We cannot know that for sure but we do know that Google keeps on reminding us every time it has the opportunity that content is the one we should focus on. Good content has always been a necessity. And 2018 was the year of content, and lots of SEO experts and brand focused more on this on-site technique. The unoptimized SEO might be a new direction in your digital marketing strategy.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change, so if the new SEO implies unoptimization, webmasters will have no other choice but to up their game and go along with the new rules.
SEO should be full of meaning but shapeless, just like water!
When you pour water into a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. The water properties itself are unchanged but the shapes it takes in order to fit several recipients are always different.
So, what do you think? Is unoptimized SEO the way to go from now on?
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How to improve seo of a website
Professionals Share the Most Reliable SEO Tips to Drive Traffic to Your Web site [Expert Summary]
If you have a site, the suggestion is for people to see it. An internet site s traffic mirrors how well a company is doing online. It is likewise a sign of client habits, as well as will aid you formulate an advertising technique that will obtain you a much better position in the online search engine outcomes. The keynote of SEO optimization is getting much more website traffic to the internet site. However with 1.24 billion sites worldwide, exactly how do you make sure that your web site obtains good website traffic? Here are my top seven SEO ideas that will help drive website traffic to your site:
7 Search Engine Optimization Tips to Drive Web Traffic
Key phrases: In most searches, a minimum of 50% of people use four words or more. This suggests that simply key words are trivial. You require long-tail keyword phrases that specify to the search. When it involves broad key words, there is tough competitors out there which implies that you need to offer something more to stick out amongst the group. A long-tail keyword is very important to make sure that people obtain particular outcomes of what they are searching for. High Quality Web Content: In this competitive globe, there are lots of people that compose on the exact same topic. What should you do various to obtain provided at the top of the search listings? The answer is composing good, well-researched content. The content on your web site must additionally be diverse to prevent any kind of interior competition among website for online search engine listings. You need to arrange your site in manner in which when individuals search for something details, all relevant info is conveniently available. Likewise ensure that your material is frequently updated as internet search engine regularly check for updates to supply the best outcome to its customers. Composing good material can improve up your web traffic and also eventually impacts your SEO. Meta Summary as well as Title Tags: Title tags resemble a book title. This is the clickable link that shows up on internet search engine result web pages. If we take Google s example, a suitable title tag ought to be much less than 60 personalities. A meta summary is what shows up below the title in internet search engine results. This is what creates the impression on an individual, as well as believe me, first impressions matter. If you have an excellent as well as succinct meta summary, there s a better chance of individuals visiting your web page as well as additionally helpful for SEO. Enhance Photos: Pictures are what include shade to a websites as well as make it less uninteresting. I can t also consider a websites with pictures. For a much better internet search engine listing, ensure that you enhance the pictures by including summaries, alt tags, as well as titles. Its helpful for your web site SEO efforts. An internet search engine can t identify a picture s material. It is the text with a picture that helps them price exactly how pertinent a web page is. For this, utilize original, efficiently sized, high quality images. Back links: For an online search engine, back links are an endorsement of a web site. A visitor blog on an additional website that links back to your own will certainly drive traffic to your site. Obtaining a listing in on the internet directory sites will likewise drive traffic to your web site. The description of your service in a e-directory will have a web link to your site. Make certain you continually update your details in these directories to produce web traffic and boost your Search Engine Optimization ranking. SSL Certificates: For an internet search engine, an SSL certification is very important. What an SSL certification generally does is it alters your site s http:// to https:// that makes it much more credible as well as secured. If you want an online search engine to trust you, a SSL certification is a must. Mobile Kindness: According to Google, there are a lot more mobile searches than on desktop computers in 10 countries including Japan as well as the US. In order to profit from this expanding trend, your web site needs to be mobile friendly. Of course, aside from these basic Search Engine Optimization ideas, there are lots of various other ways that Search Engine Optimization can aid drive web traffic to your internet site. Listed below, 91 Search Engine Optimization professionals share their finest SEO suggestions for website traffic generation.
Larry Kim - MobileMonkey, Inc
There s another aspect you can?? and should be?? concentrating on. It s something that can increase your web traffic. Yet a lot of people are forgeting it. Your natural click-through rate. Does your site have cancer? Do you have the signs? Are people bouncing off your pages like rubber rounds? Is your click-through price extremely low? If so, it s dragging down your general domain-level involvement metrics. Adhere to these ridiculous hacks to elevate your CTR (and also raise your natural search rankings).
Radomir Basta - 4 Dots
There are several points you can do out there to achieve this, however I ll select a couple of fundamental steps or seo tips to take, to start driving even more serious traffic from online search engine queries. First off, make your site as technically polished as feasible. People often just enhance their internet site on the surface, however stop working to dig deeper as well as minify code, optimize the web server, relocate javascript to the footer, eliminate unneeded monitoring scripts no one is utilizing and so forth. These tweaks, when collected, will certainly create a significantly better individual experience in terms of page tons rate, as well as this is a straight signal for enhanced online search engine rankings. Besides, your last goal as a website proprietor is to make customers feel comfortable when browsing through your pages, and so is Google s. In addition to this, I still can t envision a full Search Engine Optimization project without releasing a proper web link structure method integrated with PR/branding initiatives. Release remarkable as well as relevant resources on your websites, advertise them both via social networks campaigns and also hand-operated outreach initiatives, as well as it will function marvels for both the page you are seeking to enhance as well as the site authority generally. Guest uploading is still the most effective seo service for enhanced brand awareness as well as well-targeted back links. Just focus on web sites with an appropriate target market as well as you ll be fine. Ultimately, producing touchdown web pages for all pertinent subjects with traffic capacity must enhance the web site s keyword reach, and place it for new as well as possibly far better converting keyword variations that vary across markets, places, language as well as cultural obstacles, expert occupancies or topical savviness.
Phil Rozek - Regional Exposure System, LLC
The create terrific material and make great links recommendations has been covered enough in the meantime, consisting of by me. So my finest piece of less-obvious SEO recommendations is: either specialize in a narrow specific niche, or start using a truly unknown solution (or product or widget). The weirder and also even more specific niche, the far better. If you re the only company, or neighborhood one, or the initial one, you can get some very easy positions, website traffic that includes individuals with a certain as well as instant need, and sometimes even a couple of very easy web links. Additionally, some people will come for the odd little service as well as remain for the more-mainstream service( s) you provide?? for which your positions as well as exposure possibly aren t so good. Go a little off the beaten track.
AJ Ghergich - Ghergich & Co
My favored suggestions would certainly be reoptimize your old content to gain Google Included Fragments. Earning Included Fragments permits you to inhabit setting 0 as well as get high CTRs versus your competitors. These modifications will certainly also set you up perfectly for Voice Browse Optimization. 80% of Google House quizs return answers from Included Snippets. 1. Try to find web content that has top 10 20 rankings however has actually not made featured snippets. 2. Reformat your material to include purchased and also unordered listings. 3. Use lots of detailed below headers to break up you content. 4. Keep you content succinct with paragraphs no more than 40 50 words. 5. Submit your updated content to Google by means of Browse Console.
Eric Enge - Rock Holy Place Consulting
The poor about this concern is that people will certainly dislike the straightforward reaction, which is to add wonderful material to your site. Individuals hate this solution due to the fact that everybody states it nowadays, however the truth is that it s real. Nevertheless, allow s dig a little deeper. This has to do with where Google (as well as also others like Facebook) are going. They re done in a war to win the hearts as well as minds of individuals. Their hang on market share is wholly based on their ability to give a quality individual experience. In today s globe, also if your Google or Facebook, if you fall off a little bit in the value off your usage experience, overall market share will certainly endure. For Google, customer experience implies providing the ideal web pages in their search results page that offer the very best, most straight, most full answer to the individuals needs. My idea is that this is mostly what Google s machine learning programs are targeted at assessing. For you, as the publisher of a site, the useful effect is that improving your website content top quality, and also depth, provides the complying with benefits:. 1. Boosted conversions from individuals on your website. 2. Boost search web traffic as Google starts to see your website as providing even more worth. Allow me state the pointers plainly: enhancing the high quality of your material on your website will likely enhance your Search Engine Optimization web traffic. To be effective at this, you require to understand exactly how Google specifies far better web content. Usually that suggests deeper, a lot more detailed, content. ( PS: doing this well will certainly raise your capability to get included bits as well). This ideas of improving your site content top quality (as well as the individual experience) on your site requires to be a religious beliefs, as well as a continual search. It s the crucial to your short-term, as well as long term, success.
Brent Csutoras - PeakActivity
If you want to drive web traffic through Search Engine Optimization initiatives, you need to develop something worth checking out, connecting to, and ultimately sharing. For many years, marketing experts, consultants, as well as even online search engine like Google, have actually stated they care less regarding the quantity of material you produce, however require the best quality web content you can create. Focus your initiatives on recognizing subjects in your market that people are making a collective effort to locate. Check out assistance online forums, evaluation keyword tools as well as inspect the suggested keywords in Google, to determine topics individuals are actively choosing and afterwards produce truly remarkable material on those topics. Connect to professionals to obtain additions or quotes for your topic, permitting you to make the material absolutely distinct, employ assistance for your content, as well as to raise its authority amongst visitors. Testimonial various other similar short articles to make sure your content is truly the most effective and also covers the topic comprehensive. Last SEO idea, look at Reddit for obtaining your outstanding material more noticeable think about the put on Reddit you might possible compose your material to thrill.
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18 Secrets You Didn't Know About SEO
With the method things move so fast upon the web, many people discover web design and search motor optimization (SEO) to be such as a moving target. These types of SEO crawler programs are comparable to Google's own crawlers plus will give you a summary associated with how your page will execute in SEO rankings. Off-page Numerous taking action to build trust, authority, social signals and inbound links. To get your own web presence to appear within first pages of a SERP (search engine results page) within your choosing search category, a person should consider working on enhancing your site continuously using on-page SEO and off-page SEO strategies. Plus, fantastic part of SEO will be that in order to supply people with the best knowledge, search engines are refining the particular strategies at regular intervals. Black hat SEO techniques can get a website to position well initially, but the web site will eventually be banned possibly temporary or permanently once lookup engines discover what they are usually doing. Site velocity is of the essence looking engines and SEO, whether it can within desktop or mobile. The creation of Google's RankBrain is the starting of humanizing SEO. Now you should to finish off this off-page SEO techniques guide. In the success story associated with a website, both design plus search engine optimization (SEO) have fun with an important role as their own work is vital for the successful online presence. Since the onset associated with Google's Knowledge Graph SEO's close to the globe are typically in a madness marking up their websites along with semantic markup. As it is definitely still the beginning of 2018, it will be exciting in order to find out these and some other SEO trends emerge as the particular year progresses. This is just going to be SEO 2019 PDF popular therefore an SEO prediction for 2018 is that websites that normally are not reachable by voice searches may lose some of their search positions. What SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION does in a nutshell will be convert all your web or even forum pages into a great deal more user friendly links, which usually in turn can then end up being indexed by search engines significantly easier and faster. The end result is that without proper keyword research, you simply cannot nail local on-page SEO - or any type of SEO as an example. The end from the particular year 2018 is expected in order to witness a major shift within SEO marketing. With this transformation happening at regular intervals, the particular search engine optimization (SEO) tendencies are also shifting. In the months of January and February, you would view a drop in web site traffic, but it does maybe not always mean that your Local SEO campaign is failing. Not just that, Google wants businesses in order to consider advantage of HTTPS, plus they are rewarding websites along with a small but significant increase in SEO for their initiatives. On the subject matter of speed, at the starting of 2017 there is still very much resistance to AMP within the particular SEO community overall, but once we head toward 2018 that seems to be dissipating now considerably having a reluctant acceptance that AMPLIFYING DEVICE looks as though it's not really going away any time quickly. For a long time, back links have been one of the particular primary parts of SEO. While it may sound uncommon, it really is simple: whenever Google sees that the business takes care of customers day-in-and-day-out, it will probably be much easier to obtain local SEO traction. Even Google already announced a good SEO update in 2015 that will has a tendency to enhance search ranking for mobile reactive websites. 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