u/bkjrisk

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Adult price comparison site crawled but almost not indexed... WTF is wrong?

TLDR

We launched finderotik.dk, a Danish sex toy price comparison site. Think PriceRunner for a niche, with product pages, categories and comparison content.

Google crawls the site, but almost nothing gets indexed. Even when a manuel request...

Same pSEO setup works well on another site in a normal niche, with around 1M impressions, 1,000 clicks and 28,000 indexed pSEO pages. in the same first 3 months...

GSC for finderotik.dk shows:

3 clicks (probably my own) 

837 impressions

Only 1 indexed page

Around 2.34K not indexed pages

Around 1,905 pages crawled, currently not indexed

Sitemap submitted successfully with around 1,868 discovered pages

We have checked that indexable pages have unique content. It is not copied or spun content, and compared with many Danish competitors, the content is fairly detailed.

The main differences are:

Adult niche

Affiliate and price comparison intent

New domain

Weak backlink profile

Competitors have older domains and stronger authority

Question:

When Google crawls this many pages but does not index them, would you mainly see it as an authority and trust issue in an adult affiliate niche, or should we still suspect a technical issue? Sandbox time?

What is this? any experts? 

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u/bkjrisk — 6 days ago

Adult price comparison site crawled but almost not indexed... WTF is wrong?

TLDR

We launched finderotik.dk, a Danish sex toy price comparison site. Think PriceRunner for a niche, with product pages, categories and comparison content.

Google crawls the site, but almost nothing gets indexed. Even when a manuel request...

Same pSEO setup works well on another site in a normal niche, with around 1M impressions, 1,000 clicks and 28,000 indexed pSEO pages. in the same first 3 months...

GSC for finderotik.dk shows:

3 clicks (probably my own) 

837 impressions

Only 1 indexed page

Around 2.34K not indexed pages

Around 1,905 pages crawled, currently not indexed

Sitemap submitted successfully with around 1,868 discovered pages

We have checked that indexable pages have unique content. It is not copied or spun content, and compared with many Danish competitors, the content is fairly detailed.

The main differences are:

Adult niche

Affiliate and price comparison intent

New domain

Weak backlink profile

Competitors have older domains and stronger authority

Question:

When Google crawls this many pages but does not index them, would you mainly see it as an authority and trust issue in an adult affiliate niche, or should we still suspect a technical issue? Sandbox time?

What is this? any experts? 

finderotik.dk
u/bkjrisk — 6 days ago

Jeg har bygget en beslutningsportal, der skal gøre det nemmere at finde danske specialister

Hej løver.

Jeg har de sidste måneder bygget www.findformig.dk helt fra bunden, og ville virkelig elske noget ærlig feedback fra folk herinde.

Idéen opstod egentlig, fordi jeg selv brugte absurd lang tid på at finde den rette vinduespudser og senere en gulvsliber til min lejlighed. Jeg syntes alt føltes rodet. 15 tabs åbne, gamle hjemmesider der gik i 404, manglende synlighed om deres kompetencer, virksomheder der aldrig svarer tilbage osv.

Så jeg begyndte at bygge en portal, der prøver at minimere friktionen mellem kunder og specialister.

Tanken er at samle:

• hvad virksomhederne faktisk er gode til

• hvilke områder de dækker

• ratings fra Trustpilot og Google

• aktivt CVR nummer

• kontaktmuligheder

• specialer og services

• mulighed for selv at vælge hvem man vil kontakte

Jeg har også lavet en tilbudsforespørgsel, som guider brugeren til at skrive de oplysninger virksomheder typisk gerne vil have for at kunne give et godt tilbud.

Derudover tracker systemet også virksomheder, som ikke svarer kunderne, og sender automatiske reminders op til 2 til 3 gange.

Jeg har ærligt talt ikke nogen venner eller familie, der arbejder med startups, UX, SaaS eller marketplaces, så meget af min feedback indtil videre er kommet fra læse Reddit-forums (bl.a det her) og fra at nørde med LLM modeller. Men er bange for de bare snakker mig efter munden 😅

Så hvis nogen gider kigge på det, ville jeg virkelig sætte pris på AL slags feedback:

• førstehåndsindtryk

• design/UX

• trust signaler

• idéen generelt

• hvad der virker sketchy

• hvad der mangler

• hvad I ville gøre anderledes

• om konceptet overhovedet giver mening

Jeg prøver ikke at lave “endnu en ligegyldig directory side”, men noget der faktisk gør det hurtigere og tryggere at finde den rette specialist.

Alle tanker er velkomne 🙏

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u/bkjrisk — 11 days ago