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[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

New tiny AppErgo tool: Loves me, loves me not.

Pick a virtual daisy 🌼, remove the petals, and let the final one decide.

Not every web tool has to be serious. 😄

#BuildInPublic

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

I’m still struggling to get Googlebot to really crawl the English pages of my bilingual website.

✅hreflang/x-default
✅metadata/SEO
✅XML sitemaps
✅excellent Lighthouse scores
✅direct homepage links
✅Cloudflare

Next: an HTML sitemap in the footer.

After that ?😅

#SEO

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

I finally enabled Cloudflare on AppErgo. With caching, the difference is impressive.

Distant locations like Tokyo or Sydney went from around 2–2.5s to under 1s.

With a warm cache, it can even drop to 0.2–0.4s. ⚡

#WebPerf #WebDev

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New AppErgo tool: Letter Positions 🔤

https://t.co/icSOb6RaWY

Instantly find where each letter appears in a text.

A simple but useful tool for puzzles, hidden messages and text analysis.

#Puzzles #Cryptography #WebTools

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Conclusion:

Bingbot read the sitemap like a normal bot.

Googlebot needed the homepage billboard.

#SEO #WebDev

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Another #SEO lesson learned:

Most of these tools were only 2 clicks away from the homepage.

Not 3 or 4. Just 2!

But for my young website, that still seemed too deep for Googlebot. 😅

Important pages need very direct internal links.

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Clean architecture, good sitemap, proper SEO basics…

Still not always enough.

For a young website, Googlebot apparently needs the obvious path with big arrows on the homepage. 🤷‍♂️

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Another #SEO lesson learned:

Most of these tools were only 2 clicks away from the homepage.

Not 3 or 4. Just 2!

But for my young website, that still seemed too deep for Googlebot. 😅

Important pages need very direct internal links.

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Update: same pattern again today.

I added 32 Codes tools to the homepage block. 1 hour later, Googlebot crawled them “all” (French version only… again).

Shortly after, they were already indexed. 😲

Homepage links really seem to matter more than I expected.

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Update: same pattern again today.

I added 32 Codes tools to the homepage block. 1 hour later, Googlebot crawled them “all” (French version only… again).

Shortly after, they were already indexed. 😲

Homepage links really seem to matter more than I expected.

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Small SEO lesson from my website:

I added direct links to some of my web tools on the homepage. Shortly after, Googlebot crawled all of them! 😲

So... homepage links > clean architecture + sitemap + excellent Lighthouse scores + all the usual good practices. 😅

#SEO

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Funny detail: so far, Googlebot only crawled the French version of the website.

It ignored the English pages, even though both versions share the same structure.

Server in France? No CDN? Another Google mystery. 🤔

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

AppErgo v0.8.7 is online: https://t.co/d71tj4UJvI

36 Codes tools have been updated. 🦉

The homepage now also links directly to the 167 most polished web tools.

Still improving the catalog step by step.

#BuildInPublic

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Small SEO observation from my website: Google vs Bing.

Google knows many of the pages, but mostly keeps fetching the homepage and robots.txt again and again.

Bing has already indexed 346 URLs.

#SEO

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Bing has been surprisingly responsive with my website lately. It picked up my updated sitemap and quickly crawled many of the new pages.

Google fetched my sitemap, robots.txt (for the 100th time) and only 2 general category pages.

SEO patience test continues. 😅

#SEO #WebDev

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

Just checked my server logs. Bingbot picked up the EN sitemap, then crawled all 20 new web tools in one pass, plus one French version.

I wish Googlebot moved as fast as Bingbot right now. Even Baidu and SeznamBot seem more active on my website. 😅

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

@notskillo @IndieCurator The bandwagon effect is real, but if it doesn’t work, maybe the game was too niche or the final product just wasn’t good enough.

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

@IndieCurator I actually see this as partly positive : big thumbs up, “GREAT GAME” in caps, and the player clearly enjoyed it.

Of course, the refund hurts, but this kind of review can still make other players want to try the game. Some may refund too, but some won’t.

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AppErgo v0.8.6 is online. Time and Date tools got a solid update:

⏱️ Time category: 8 updated tools + 3 new ones
📅 Date category: 11 updated tools + 4 new ones

Still free, fast and lightweight, no signup, no intrusive ads, and they all run directly in your browser.

[AppErgo @AppErgoHQ]

New Audio tool: Sound effect editor:

https://t.co/3RRB6o4kmT

Fine-tune your sounds track by track: waveforms, frequencies, durations, attacks, releases and volume.

It can also open sounds created with the automatic sound effect generator.

#GameDevTools #SFX #BrowserTools

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AppErgo v0.8.5 is online.

- 20 new tools in the Audio and Text categories.
- 29 Random tools received improvements.

#BuildInPublic #WebDev

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New Audio tool: Automatic sound effect generator:

https://t.co/aA5WakFiEL

Generate random SFX in batches, listen to the results, export WAV/source files, or open the best sounds directly in the editor.

#IndieDev #GameDev #SFX