Your website isn't quick to find by Duckduckgo or Qwant either. Yahoo doesn't seem to show much either. Startpage.com does find it, though.
I do consistently get your VS Code addon in the first page of search results, though.
When I open up your website I don't really see much. A brand name and some download links are all I can find. I'm not sure if there's much for search engines to find, really.
Your homepage also massively lags my browser for some reason, that can't help in terms of search rankings. It's also continuously downloading megabytes of data for some reason. You should try out your website on a cheap Android phone, your target audience may generally not use those but search engines definitely optimize for them.
> Now, is it really because we compete with Github? Honestly, probably not, but controversy drums up interest and we need interest so that someone out there on the Internet can tell us what we're doing wrong.
Mission succeeded, I suppose. You've got another popular link to your website through HN and you're getting free SEO advice on top. Sadly, you won't be able to get Bing support through here, HN tech support posts mostly attract Google and Stripe employees.
Looks like it did although I really wish we didn't reward these type of brazen stunts to get attention. Outrage-baiting is still very effective I guess.
Yeah someone else brought up webpage performance, which we will totally look into - definitely haven't fully tested on cheaper hardware. And wrt text, we have lots of blog posts, FAQ, etc to make sure that the term "codeium" amongst others appears a lot.
The one that they themselves admitted at the end of their post:
Now, is it really because we compete with Github? Honestly, probably not, but controversy drums up interest and we need interest ...
Another way to get the SEO feedback that they claim that they were seeking is to start an "Ask HN" thread. Surely they would have received useful feedback without as much fanfare and the emotional manipulation.
I do consistently get your VS Code addon in the first page of search results, though.
When I open up your website I don't really see much. A brand name and some download links are all I can find. I'm not sure if there's much for search engines to find, really.
Your homepage also massively lags my browser for some reason, that can't help in terms of search rankings. It's also continuously downloading megabytes of data for some reason. You should try out your website on a cheap Android phone, your target audience may generally not use those but search engines definitely optimize for them.
> Now, is it really because we compete with Github? Honestly, probably not, but controversy drums up interest and we need interest so that someone out there on the Internet can tell us what we're doing wrong.
Mission succeeded, I suppose. You've got another popular link to your website through HN and you're getting free SEO advice on top. Sadly, you won't be able to get Bing support through here, HN tech support posts mostly attract Google and Stripe employees.