u/TheChiuaua

I have a relatively small website with around 600 indexed pages, and I want to remove roughly 300 of them from Google.

I've already applied noindex/removed the relevant pages, but the process has been pretty slow. After about a month, only around 50 URLs have disappeared.

I'm looking at different ways to speed things up.

One idea I had was to temporarily create a separate sitemap containing the 300 URLs I want deindexed, hoping that Googlebot would recrawl them faster and detect the noindex or 404/410 response.

Once they were deindexed, I would remove that sitemap.

Has anyone tried something similar?

Do you think a temporary sitemap containing URLs you want removed could help speed up recrawling, or would you simply remove them from the regular sitemap and wait?

I'm also considering using GSC Removals to speed up their disappearance from the SERPs, although I understand that's only temporary and I'd still need to keep the noindex/404/410 in place.

I'm especially interested in real-world experiences with hundreds of URLs rather than millions. What strategy worked best for you?

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to determine whether this is a Google Search Console reporting issue or an actual ranking problem.

My site had been growing steadily throughout July, reaching around 40–45 clicks/day, and then suddenly the graph drops almost to zero.

I've already checked everything I can think of:

• No crawl errors.
• Googlebot is crawling the site normally.
• Pages are still indexed.
• No manual actions or security issues.
• No technical SEO problems that I can identify.
• The site is accessible and everything appears to be working normally.

Because of that, I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing something similar in GSC over the last couple of days, or if this looks like an isolated issue.

https://preview.redd.it/28b268dwb6gh1.png?width=1159&format=png&auto=webp&s=5941bba31c827164b073e420bba20cee3bf6070a

Has anyone experienced the same thing recently?

EDIT:

I've been reviewing the Analytics and GSC data with Claude. It suggests that the issue is related to the average engagement time being only about one minute, since the posts are quite short. According to Claude, the site may have received a temporary ranking boost, but because it doesn't have enough authority yet, Google has pulled that back, which it says is normal. I'm not entirely convinced, though.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to determine whether this is a Google Search Console reporting issue or an actual ranking problem.

My site had been growing steadily throughout July, reaching around 40–45 clicks/day, and then suddenly the graph drops almost to zero.

I've already checked everything I can think of:

• No crawl errors.
• Googlebot is crawling the site normally.
• Pages are still indexed.
• No manual actions or security issues.
• No technical SEO problems that I can identify.
• The site is accessible and everything appears to be working normally.

Because of that, I'm wondering if anyone else is seeing something similar in GSC over the last couple of days, or if this looks like an isolated issue.

https://preview.redd.it/e360owjtyyfh1.png?width=190&format=png&auto=webp&s=ea04528b0fd74147687f5df26d53ec1ac78e788f

Has anyone experienced the same thing recently?

Hi everyone.

I’ve been using Copilot and Codex for a while, and recently I started trying OpenCode again because I like the idea of having everything in one place.

I keep reading and hearing very positive things about models like Qwen, Gemma 4, or GPT-OSS, but my experience so far hasn’t been that great. I don’t know if I’m configuring something wrong, but when I use them through Ollama so OpenCode can detect them, the results feel quite limited.

In general, I notice that they struggle to use skills properly even when I explain them, they don’t analyze the environment very well, they don’t plan tasks consistently, and they tend to get lost fairly easily in slightly larger projects.

I understand that many of these models are free or can be run locally, so maybe I shouldn’t compare them directly with commercial tools like Copilot or Codex. Still, I wanted to ask:

Are open models actually useful for programming beyond autocomplete, simple refactors, or lightweight assistance?

Is there any specific configuration that makes a real difference? For example: model, quantization, prompt, context, hardware, Ollama, OpenCode, or another tool.

I’m interested in knowing whether I’m missing something, or whether these models simply still work better on more limited tasks.

What has your experience been?

Edit: Just to clarify, I’m specifically talking about running models locally on consumer hardware, with GPUs around 15GB of VRAM at most. I’m not referring to cloud-hosted open models or larger setups, which may perform much better.

Hi everyone. This is going to be a short and more reflective post. I don’t have any real data or evidence to make a strong claim, so I’m only speaking from personal experience. I know this could be influenced by some kind of bias, like when something affects you personally and you suddenly start noticing it everywhere.

Still, lately I have the feeling that more and more dogs have epilepsy or seizures. When I was younger, I never really heard about dogs having epilepsy. Now it feels like there is always someone who knows someone with a dog that has seizures, or you run into someone at the emergency vet who is there for something similar.

I feel the same way about allergies. None of the dogs I had as a child, or the dogs in my family, were on medications like Apoquel. Now it seems much more common to see dogs with allergies, itching, or treatments like that.

I don’t think this is a conspiracy or anything like that. I just find it curious. Maybe it’s not that there are actually more cases, but that we are more aware of them now. Maybe dogs live longer, people go to the vet more often, more dogs get diagnosed, or we simply talk about these things more online. It could also be related to certain breeds becoming more common, or maybe these problems existed before but were not recognized in the same way.

I don’t know. I just wanted to ask if anyone else has had the same feeling, or if anyone knows of any real data about whether epilepsy, seizures, or allergies in dogs are becoming more common.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences.

Hi, lately whenever I ask where I should promote a project, whether it’s GPT or online communities, I usually get the same answers: Reddit, Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, niche subreddits, SaaS communities, etc.

But the more I look into it, the more I feel like these channels are often repeated by inertia, not necessarily because they work for everyone.

For example, in niche subreddits it’s usually hard to post anything because many of them don’t allow self-promotion. And in more general communities, like SaaS, startups, or similar ones, I get the impression that almost everyone is trying to show their own project, but not many people are actually looking to discover other people’s projects.

So my question is: has this actually worked for you as an acquisition channel?

I don’t mean just getting a few random visits, but something more concrete: real users, useful feedback, conversions, leads, sales, or any metric that actually had an impact.

Maybe it does work, but only if you already have a community, a strong story, a well-prepared launch, or something very aligned with the audience. Or maybe these platforms are better for learning, validating ideas, and having conversations, but not so much for direct promotion.

Right now, my impression is that Reddit can be useful for sharing experiences or getting feedback, but I’m not sure how useful it really is as a serious growth channel, except maybe through very targeted ads after doing proper market research.

What has your experience been? Have platforms like Reddit, Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, or similar communities given you real results?

Edit: This came to mind because I just saw a post listing “20 free sites to list your startup," and it felt like more of the same: a list of places to post, but without any KPIs, examples, or clear evidence of whether those channels actually work.

Before I start, I’d like to clarify a couple of things.

>First, I asked the mods for permission before posting this. Second, the app is free. I won’t pretend that, in the future, I wouldn’t like to generate some income from it to make the project sustainable, but right now, within my possibilities, I’m trying to keep it free for users and shelters, because the main goal has always been to help.

That said, I’d like to tell you why we built this app.

We built it because of Chaplin, my little dog. He’s not a senior dog yet, but I really hope he gets there one day. I hope he grows old.

A couple of years ago, Chaplin was playing with his sister. Suddenly, he started shaking very intensely and we had no idea what was happening. I panicked, picked him up, and ran to the vet in my pajamas while he was still convulsing.

Later, I learned that this was probably not the best thing to do. In those situations, it’s usually better to reduce stimulation, turn off lights or the TV, stay calm, and wait for the seizure to pass. But in that moment, we were terrified.

The vet told us it was too early to know if it was idiopathic epilepsy, but that it was a possibility. He said he wouldn’t start medication unless it happened again.

For a while, we felt relieved.

A couple of months later, we went to visit my parents in my hometown, almost 1,000 km away from where we live, and Chaplin had another seizure. Again, we rushed to the car, this time heading to a vet in the next town.

They recommended heart, kidney, and blood tests to try to find the cause. In the end, the only thing they found was that one of his ventricles was a bit enlarged. As I like to say, a good dog has a big heart, even if sometimes that can cause problems.

When we got back home, our usual vet prescribed medication: Soliphen, or rather the generic version, split into two doses.

We were worried because we had read that it could affect the kidneys, so we asked the vet if it was a problem if we missed a dose one day. He said it was okay, and we interpreted that far too casually. Maybe he meant “if there’s absolutely no other option,” but we didn’t understand it that way.

Also, the medication had to be ordered and sometimes took a couple of days to arrive. Because of our own carelessness, there were days when we didn’t give it to him. Sometimes even two days in a row. We thought, “Well, the vet said it was okay.”

Until the day I will never forget.

The dogs were resting in the living room. I was working in my room because I had an important deadline. My partner came home early because she wasn’t feeling well, and a few minutes later she called me:

“Quick, Chaplin is having a seizure.”

She gave him the rescue medication we had been told to use. The seizure stopped, but Chaplin still seemed strange.

Then he had another one.

And then another.

And then he didn’t stop.

We called an emergency vet hospital in the next town, and they told us we had to bring him in immediately, that we shouldn’t wait at home.

We called a taxi. Once again, I went out in my pajamas, though honestly that was the last thing I cared about. It was the longest half hour of my life. There was traffic, Chaplin kept vomiting and convulsing, and we didn’t know what to do.

When we arrived at the hospital, we ran into another huge problem.

The vet started asking us:

How much does he weigh?

We didn’t know.

What were the results of his tests?

We didn’t know.

What medication is he taking exactly?

We weren’t completely sure.

What dose?

We weren’t sure enough.

We started desperately searching through our phones: emails, WhatsApp messages, photos, documents, anything. We were shaking, feeling like Chaplin was dying and that part of it was our fault because we hadn’t kept proper track of everything.

He stayed hospitalized that night.

We didn’t sleep until around 3 AM, when the vet called to tell us that Chaplin was awake, energetic, and stable.

That was when we could finally breathe again.

After that, we set alarms for 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM to make sure we gave him his medication at the same time every day. At the hospital, they explained that we couldn’t just skip it like that, because missing this type of medication could trigger worse episodes.

I also posted about it in r/EpilepsyDogs at the time because I didn’t know where else to ask and needed guidance:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EpilepsyDogs/comments/1iserga/questions_and_fears_after_a_severe_seizure/

After all of that, we thought:

“We both work in tech. What if we built an app that could help with exactly this?”

Something that would have helped us that night.

That’s how Dogtorcito.com was born — “your little big dogtor”.

The app has Luna, Chaplin’s sister, as the virtual assistant, and Chaplin as the CEO, because in the end, he was the one who inspired the whole thing.

The app is still not finished. My partner and I are still working on it. We have a lot of ideas behind it, but right now we’re focused on the most basic and important things:

https://preview.redd.it/lisb49qdzqyg1.png?width=1616&format=png&auto=webp&s=27c353ed03b39c3594dd01f757018c08643a2cd5

• Registering health conditions.
• Adding medications.
• Logging events or episodes to track progress.

https://preview.redd.it/j1sz9wna0ryg1.png?width=1237&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee6c09ab442152c39743c50de36356ddc78594bb

• Uploading veterinary documents.
• Uploading photos to follow the evolution of a problem.

https://preview.redd.it/nh6cxgif0ryg1.png?width=1551&format=png&auto=webp&s=49189b0a3041cd728db3b6e025b1ae1c85a5a788

• Having a chat with context about your dog.
• Keeping everything centralized so you can show it to the vet, especially in an emergency.

https://preview.redd.it/rm8kqcao0ryg1.png?width=1604&format=png&auto=webp&s=046ff7ea40c60b5e6bcf413ded092fde3ae0f5fb

We also want it to help with practical things, like remembering your dog’s weight from time to time. In an emergency, knowing the weight can be vital for certain medications.

We’re also starting to work on mobile-style notification reminders. Right now, the AI itself does not send reminders, but if you enter the dog’s profile, you can see alerts or pending information there. The idea is that soon owners will be able to set alarms for things like giving medication and receive a reminder when it’s time.

Important: the app does not diagnose and does not replace a veterinarian. It is a tool to organize information, prepare questions, keep context, and avoid arriving at an emergency without knowing what to say or what to show.

Basically, we tried to turn everything we learned from a horrible experience, thankfully with a happy ending, into something that might help other dog owners.

If anyone has a senior dog, a dog on several medications, chronic conditions, epilepsy, weight issues, or simply wants to keep their veterinary information better organized, we’d love for you to try the app and give us feedback.

We know it’s not perfect yet, but we’re building it with a lot of care and with the real intention of helping.

Thank you for reading.

Some time ago my dog started having epilepsy.

My partner and I were traveling quite a bit, and during one of his episodes we were completely unprepared. He ended up hospitalized after a cluster seizure — I actually wrote about that experience here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EpilepsyDogs/comments/1iserga/questions_and_fears_after_a_severe_seizure/

When we got to the vet, they started asking basic questions and we just froze.

We couldn’t clearly say the name of the medication.
We didn’t remember the exact dosage.
We didn’t have the test PDFs with us.
We didn’t even know where everything was.

Everything was scattered across WhatsApp, photos, notes, and random documents.

Honestly, we left feeling pretty useless. Luckily he made it through, but it was very clear to me that if this ever happened again, I didn’t want to be searching for information in the middle of an emergency.

So I started building an app to keep all of my dog’s health history in one place.

Right now it lets you:

• create conditions or diseases
• upload tests/documents
• track medications and treatments
• keep track of weight
• store basic info like age, breed, etc.
• use a small AI with the context of the health history

The AI obviously doesn’t replace a vet, but the idea is to be able to ask questions with all the information already organized and contextualized.

It’s still early and has a few bugs, but it’s already usable.

I’d really like to know if you find something like this useful, what you would add, or what would make you not trust it.

The app is:
https://dogtorcito.com/

It’s also on Android and iOS, but I didn’t want to spam links here — they’re linked from the website.

Any ideas, issues, or suggestions are more than welcome.

I’ve been working on something called Dogtorcito for a while, but the idea came from something pretty simple:

every time I needed something about my pet’s health… it was in a different place. Or just missing.

Vaccines in WhatsApp chats
Weights in phone notes
Medical reports as random PDFs
Things the vet told me out loud that I never wrote down
Medications I used and then forgot about
Treatments buried in old messages
And important dates… I’d often miss them

At some point it just became impossible to have a clear view of everything.

So I started building a kind of “health timeline” for pets, all in one place.

Right now the MVP lets you:

• create profiles for dogs and cats
• track vaccines, deworming, weight, treatments and conditions
• upload medical reports or photos
• keep a structured timeline over time
• add reminders for important things
• ask an AI (Luna) questions using your pet’s history as context

The AI part is not meant to replace any professional, more like helping you understand and organize the information you already have.

It’s still very early, and I’m trying to figure out what actually brings the most value:

• the structured history?
• reminders?
• storing documents?
• the AI part?
• or something I’m not even seeing yet?

If anyone has dealt with something similar (with pets or even personal organization apps), I’d really appreciate your perspective:

what would you validate first before investing more time into this?

In case anyone’s curious, this is what I have so far:
dogtorcito.com

(And yeah, there are still a few bugs 😅)