Hey everyone,
I’m working on myhomies.ch, a flatshare platform, and we’re struggling to get decent organic traffic from Google. I’d love to get some advice from people who’ve dealt with similar issues on Bubble.
Here’s our current setup:
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We have a blog with regular content
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We have dedicated pages per city (Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, etc.)
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We’re trying to rank for flatshare/colocation-related keywords in Switzerland
The problem is our traffic is really low and we’re not ranking well on Google despite having this content structure in place.
We know Bubble has some SEO limitations (slow page load, SSR constraints, dynamic content indexing issues, etc.) and we’re wondering if there’s anything we can realistically do within Bubble to improve things — or if anyone has found workarounds, plugins, or external tools that helped.
Specifically, we’d love tips on:
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Improving crawlability and indexing of our city pages
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Making our blog content rank better
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Any technical SEO wins you’ve managed to get with Bubble
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Whether it’s worth considering a hybrid approach (e.g. offloading the blog to Webflow or Framer)
Thanks a lot in advance — any experience or advice is hugely appreciated!
Have you set up the correct H1/H2/H3/H4/H5 tags? Also are you using the SEO fields on the page level?
Get buildprint.ai to give your site an SEO audit.
SEO really morphed into GEO now.
SEO isn’t like it used to be 2 or 3 years ago.
Most searches open with an AI answer. You want to work towards getting mentioned in that answer.
One thing that hurts a lot of businesses now is all the AI-written blog posts, etc. Google will punish you for totally AI-written blog posts (also for stock photos). Google wants to promote those who have been there and done that. I.E. we know what we’re talking about.
You can do Google ads, although I would caution you to watch them closesly. We sometimes will run $10K worth of ads a month… Google is good at having bots click those ads. So just beware and go by clicks vs results and not just clicks.
Also, something I’ve mentioned before, referral programs are one of the fastest ways to grow a business.
Having worked with Uber for a couple of years in the past, I can tell you that was one of their biggest secrets for growth… along with a ton of other business examples.
Uber started by giving like $25 to a friend you referred. It was bringing in about 50% of their business. Friends trust friends before they’ll trust an ad. It’s a proven thing.
Now, they’ve grown so big and become a household name, they’ve pivoted to mainly offering hundreds to homeowners who refer other homeowners, etc.
You can build a referral program on Bubble. I built one for my app. I mentioned it somewhere on here
Good morning,
Experienced SEO consultant here. I have my own Bubble website and SEO is (really) challenging. One thing that really help is to set up Cloudflare and split between HTML pages (or Wordpress website)for SEO and Bubble pages.
Please feel free to DM for more information.
Thanks!
It is possible with position tax due to performance, other things achievable even on SPA. However, performance needs to improve, SSR is needed but downplayed by Bubble.
Especially from the mobile web users. This should be no 1 priority but it is not
Hi Take a look at this video. It’s a good detailed explainer on what actually drives SEO search rankings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOY159TlYXM
Technical SEO like H tags, page load speeds are necessary but not sufficient. Getting traffic to the site (even if it is initially through paid ads) and increasing authority by having links to your site on other reputable/relevant sites are the most important factors.
When I first started I was getting around 5-6 visits through search per month, now it’s 900+. This is on a bubble app, so it is possible.
Yes it is, bubble’s initial setup is far from any seo setup
You need to implement it, and it usually gets skipped because we’re not used to adding code snippets to our app
You can use this as a checklist, this is what I follow everytime:
- Split pages for SEO, donot build a single page app if you want to implement SEO
- Make sure styles are setup, and your page heading text has H1 selected
- You will need a schema HTML (json+ld) on pages
- Robots txt
- Follow and no follow tags
- footer tags
- FAQs on specific pages
- enable sitemap from the settings
- Update all page SEO settings
- OG images, descriptions and titles
Submit the sitemap url to google and then you need traffic. Could be paid, but I recommend starting of with content and then get into paid ads
Shoot me a dm if you have any questions
Just wanting to build on this point of search in the AI age. Cloudflare has some good tools for getting picked up by AI engines. From bot rules at a domain level to auto markdown conversion of site content.
In the case of Bubble apps though… it will be painful to setup workarounds to avoid reverse proxy issues. It’s actually easier to setup a duplication workflow. Duplicate versions of content stored on Cloudflare leveraging their AI search tools. Fortunately AI flavored content is mostly text (markdown etc), it’ll be cheap to setup and manage.
On page settings are a small part of SEO and even smaller for AEO….AIs are not scanning the internet like Google because, Google never did either, they had a registry, a website owner registered with Google, Google crawled, indexed and knew what was out there, then did regular checks, and allowed app owners to shoulder type them when something new was added. With AI there is none of that.
AI looks in a few aggregate places, Reddit for example. Reddit is one of biggest sources for AI, so they consume it often. LinkedIn, YouTube, forums, those are places AI goes to check for stuff.
If you’re just relying on the on page SEO or AEO settings as the make or break of your online visibility, consider it broken from jump. In 2026, you need a new playbook. Google just last week made incredible changes to their algorithm, so much so that SEO experts view SEO as dead.
And like all strategies for AI era, SEO that works is not content to educate, or broad, it’s niche and focused on conversion, plus unique to your own voice. AI generated content is bland and an average of everything it read, you need to come with a unique perspective in your content to stand out as trustworthy for the few humans that may stumble upon it, and be seen enough by AI to be thought an authority on some topic to potentially be referenced by AI in the LLM answers.
Having city pages and a blog is a good start, but ranking usually comes down to content quality, backlinks, and search intent more than the platform itself.
One thing I’d check is whether your city pages are actually unique. If Geneva, Lausanne, and Zurich pages are mostly the same template with only the city name changed, Google may not see much value in them. Try adding local insights, neighborhood guides, pricing data, or cityspecific content.
I’d also make sure all pages are being indexed properly through Search Console. Sometimes the issue isn’t ranking it’s that Google isn’t crawling enough pages.
For the blog, focus on topics people are actually searching for, like flatshare costs, best areas to live, student housing guides, moving tips, etc., rather than purely promotional content.
Bubble isn’t perfect for SEO, but in many cases low traffic is more of a content and authority problem than a Bubble problem. I’d only consider moving the blog to Webflow/Framer after confirming indexing, page quality, and backlink strategy are solid.
Thank you so much for the checklist, super helpful! I have dm you
Thank you so much for your feedback, will check this today
Thank you so much for sharing the video, will look at it with close attention!
Thank you so much for your advices and insights, super helpful!
