I built a blog on bubble to get traffic to my web app. But it’s not ranking on google (it was formerly on wordpress and ranked for many keywords with the same content). I’m thinking it might be a performance issue? Any ideas on how I can get my blog pages to get higher than a 3 performance score? Or other suggestions for a blog/seo on bubble?
Great article, thank you for taking the time to write this.
Do you have any examples of sites built on Bubble that would demonstrate good SEO. We could search for them to test it out.
The performance is dependent on the device. In desktop the best I’ve seen for this same page from the same app is 65 on performance, but Bubble support has sent me screen shots from their test on same page showing performance of 70 on desktop.
Personally, I have some ideas on how I will be altering most of my apps due to WUs that will also hopefully speed up page load performance as well, but have not yet implemented them to test and verify my assumptions.
Could definitely be performance as google is mobile centric with it’s ranking, so poor mobile performance will likely lead to poorer rankings, but also, if the same content was formerly ranked via a wordpress site and is now on Bubble site, if the domains are different, it may be seen that the Bubble site has ‘duplicated’ content and will be penalized. It could also be that Google in March and April updated their algorithms because of AI, so lots of sites previously ranked well are dead. The update mostly affected sites with content that is ‘how to’ articles or just basic information based, as Google now is offering their AI in search results, the need to serve up loads of websites with this generalized type of content is no longer. Googles business model is not based on driving traffic to sites, it is based on driving traffic to their search results and if the AI can provide quicker answers than serving up links to 10 sites with the same general information based content, then that is in Google best interest.
I can not provide specific guidance as there can be a lot that needs to be done to get any tangible benefits in potential changes. Generally, the less data needed to be retrieved and the less elements on the page, the faster the page will load. I don’t know how your blog is setup, so it is hard to discern what all needs to be altered in order to see improvements.