Blog page performance/SEO

melanie.mckelvey · 2024-11-05T04:41:18.393Z

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?

example blog page: Horse Layover Facilities: Essential Guide for Safe and Comfortable Horse Travel

sad pagespeed insights:

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annettberry · 2024-11-05T04:45:23.118Z

Make your accessbility and seo score 100 by checking the errors.

cmarchan · 2024-11-05T04:50:47.404Z

Bubble is not known for its SEO

There are good approaches but not perfect. Hopefully this read may help

How to boost your SEO Tips

Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well! To kick off the year on a positive note, here’s a short article with some tips to boost the SEO of your Bubble application. I hope it can help some of you: link to the article. Happy No-Coding

long.frodo · 2024-11-05T11:44:41.663Z

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.

cmarchan · 2024-11-05T16:00:40.187Z

Perhaps @boston85719 may have come across a few.

melanie.mckelvey · 2024-11-05T19:38:27.041Z

thanks! appreciate you sharing the article

boston85719 · 2024-11-06T06:36:22.022Z

Thanks @cmarchan

I can provide a sample from apps of mine that use my SEO Juice Boost Blog Builder Template

Below is mobile: the low best practices is due to low resolution image, and performance of 28 is still low

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Below is scores for desktop

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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.

melanie.mckelvey:

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?

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.

melanie.mckelvey:

Any ideas on how I can get my blog pages to get higher than a 3 performance score?

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.

cmarchan · 2024-11-06T11:11:26.893Z

@boston85719

Thanks for your thoroughness as always!

melanie.mckelvey · 2024-11-08T03:09:02.651Z

boston85719:

an 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.

Thanks for your thoughtful reply! Appreciate it.