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Webdevelopment here and there:

"Under construction" is old: beautiful-legacy-old.

This SEO-thing became big and all the people, they followed the SEO-beast and did whatever he demanded, ór sadly just gave up their hobby (building websites) that gave them so much pleasure: ==> put yourself out there on the web and show the world what you can do, using (D)HTML and music on the background, flickering dividers and pulsing hearts. Arrows that turned and turned and a big blinking  Welcome!  in shiny colors going up and down and left and right. It was a circus sometimes. But it was just pure fun and play.

Enter BigTech: dollars, corporate-bankaccounts, your personal information as merchandise, pressure-tools like SEO, penalties and manual actions, spreading fear of losing your ranking in the search engines etc. That's when the people lost the web.

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I have a philosophy: everybody is welcome as long as you respect my rules. It's as simple as that: I have 3 sitemaps for searchbots' convenience: sitemap.txt, sitemap.xml and sitemap.php. They are free to choose which one they want to use.
But there are three very bad bots who do not respect my rules.

For a while now I follow all the searchbots that visit my website with my cookiefree self written analytics-tool and I have grown to love these dynamics behind the World Wide Web. There's só much going on: it's a fascinating world, it really is.

Most website-developers see it as a nuisance: something that you don't want, that you have to deal with. But not me: I just love to see Ahrefsbot calmly crawling my pages while everybody is yelling: Ahrefs is a bad bot! It's not, it's actually one of the politest bots there are. But Ahrefs is not the only one, there are much more very polite bots like Yandex or Seznambot etc. They all identify themselves and they respect my websites' rules.

But there are bad bots too: bots that do not respect the rules, bots that almost suck the life out of the webservers, bots who don't care that people want to have a fast-loading website, bots that only care about themselves. And yes: who do these bots come from: Big Tech-companies, Google Bing/MSN and Facebook. They don't give a damn about anyone else, they're greedy and disobedient. Those are the real bad bots, not the tiny companies that I mentioned before.

Applebot, Chrome-lighthouse, Google-inspectiontool, HSTS-preloadbot, Validator, Awariobot, Validbot, Opensiteexplorer, Yandex, Internet-management, Ahrefsbot, Livelapbot, Flipboard, BlueSkybot, Trendictionbot, Friendica, BlueSky Cardyb, GTmetrix, Webpagetest, Seznambot, DataforSEObot, Babbar, Checkmarknetwork, Guzzle, Some Searchbot, Alex Cohn Preloadlist Checker, Headless Scraping, Archive, Dataprovider, MJ12 Bot, RedditBot, Amazonbot, URLCheckerBot, DeepSeekBot, HuaweiCrawler, Friendica, Quora-Bot, HubSpotBot, OpenAIBot, OpenIntel, Mojeekbot, Scrapy, Owler, Elisabot, Censys inspect and Palo Alto Networks.

You might probably think "what about DuckDuckBot?". Well: DuckDuckGo buys their main portion of results from Bing and the two times that a "seemingly DuckDuckBot" visited my site, they were both spoofed user-agents with a high confidence-score on AbusedIPdb, which makes them an actual risk.

You know, my fellow-webdesigners? You can spend all your money and all your time on SEO thinking that you will be rewarded with high search-engine rankings, but you might find out that you won't. Effectively SEO is only a small part of the eco-system, because good SEO is no guarantee for higher ROI. What did all your efforts bring you? 300 bouncers a day who are gone in 0.4 seconds and make your analytics unreadable? Just look at the quality of the websites on top of the rankings: are they really that nice?
Higher ROI can can also be achieved by exploring other sources of visitors like niche forums, blogs and social media. These channels could bring you a higher conversion-rate per visitor and you might find that you will see ROI quicker than when you fully concentrate on SEO to get a higher volume of visitors.
There is just no "one size fits all": look at your product and ask yourself: "do I see chances in niche corners of the web to get other types of visitors who are more engaged in looking at what I have to offer"?

Beste Nederlandse bezoeker:

I see webdevelopment in two possible forms:

1: Building websites professionally, like for companies and institutions
2: Building websites for the fun of it and the possibility to express yourself.

I would like to encourage everyone to publish a website, it's fun and it's free to not very expensive, from 0 (infinityfree, see below) to 60-70 euros/dollars a year and you have your own webspace, mostly with your own domain-name too and you can start conquering the world by showing the fish that you caught, the recipes you cooked, the games that you played, the lawn you have mowed, rant about your grievings under the freedom of speach, place reviews of hotels that you've been in, shops that you went to, stuff that you bought, whatever ❗