Reviewed Whas is DVC? for now ☝️

BTW, you should have access to push branches to this repo @jeremydesroches so no need to use a fork going forward 🙂. Using branches directly on origin will trigger a review app that we can all see online, so it's preferred. Thanks

BTW, you should have access to push branches to this repo @jeremydesroches so no need to use a fork going forward 🙂. Using branches directly on origin will trigger a review app that we can all see online, so it's preferred. Thanks

Awesome. I will do that! Thanks @jorgeorpinel

@shcheklein would you like to review this first SEO PR too?

@jeremydesroches @jorgeorpinel a lot of great improvements, guys! thanks!

BTW, you should have access to push branches to this repo @jeremydesroches so no need to use a fork going forward 🙂. Using branches directly on origin will trigger a review app that we can all see online, so it's preferred. Thanks

Hey @jorgeorpinel, I tried this earlier and got a permission error. Can you check if I have access? Thanks

Sure, we'll check.

These four pages were submitted for reindexing and added to a list of docs to track for ongoing SEO performance.

OK, checking back on this, let's see if we can find anything on the Search Console now (over 10 days after merge).

Starting with https://dvc.org/doc/user-guide/what-is-dvc,

• firstly I discovered that there's still some old URLs that used to be under that one which are returning 404s... Should we setup a redirect even when it's pretty late?
• Looking at the specific page only, there's no obvious change in the general terms (also very hard to tell with the weekly periodicity — any way to smooth it out on a 7-day window here or on some other tool @jeremydesroches ? GA has that option for ex.)
• Looking at the "machine learning" terms (for that page) there's not much impact either, but at least now it comes up in searches now and then 😋
  

@jeremydesroches could you please look at the other 3 pages and report whether there is any impact so far/ share links to check back later on? Any other comments/tips on this evaluation process are appreciated. Thanks!

firstly I discovered that there's still some old URLs that used to be under that one which are returning 404s... Should we setup a redirect even when it's pretty late?

Hi @jorgeorpinel. No, a redirect won't do anything at this point because the old URLs aren't in the index anymore. You can check this for any given URL by clicking the magnifying glass (or searching for it in the bar at top on SC).

could you please look at the other 3 pages and report whether there is any impact so far/ share links to check back later on? Any other comments/tips on this evaluation process are appreciated.

My assessment for each of the four pages is included below. The process I use is as follows:

1. set reasonable comparison period (in this case time since merge vs. previous period of same length)
2. review comparison curves/amounts for differences in clicks, impressions, CTR, average position
3. where there is a difference, switch to queries table and sort by most clicks or impressions
4. in descending order, look for notable click/impression/CTR/position gains or losses by term
5. when looking at a single metric, sort by difference in descending order to see terms with largest change
6. note patterns of change for target terms and new patterns/terms that appear (if any)
7. look at the 6 month or longer curve to see if any change in long-term trends

Sorry, no way to smooth things out to weekly in SC. For a comparison period this short it helps (me, anyway) to see the peaks/valleys. The curves are nice but in the end the aggregate and term-level gain/loss are the key metrics for any given period.

What is DVC? – Merge - Nov 2 vs. previous period
Incrementally more clicks and impressions. Improved and more consistent average position. Additional clicks/impressions and improved position on "mlflow"-related terms. Looking at a longer period position is slightly higher and more consistent after the update. As you pointed out, the page started appear for new terms as well (even more now if you check your link again). Overall, a good example of how even small updates can spur changes to the index and across many pages add up to significant results.

Use Cases Index – Merge - Nov 2 vs. previous period
Big jump in impressions (3.5x). Good example of page being "auditioned" by Google to see where it should fall in index. The bump is likely to be temporary if there aren't more clicks or further changes. Most of the new impressions were around "use cases", notably "data science use cases" (the target term for the changes) and "ml use cases". The increased impressions show there is interest and it's likely we could expand further to potentially improve clicks and position.

Versioning Data and Model Files Index – Merge - Nov 2 vs. previous period
Not a lot of overall movement here, but an improvement in average position is always good. There were 9 added clicks (10% increase) from the "model versioning" target term, so that worked. Expect we will have a lot more to talk about here when your latest changes are merged. Updates and improvements are good for search results!

Versioning Data and Model Files Tutorial – Merge - Nov 2 vs. previous period
Slight growth in clicks and impressions. A few additional clicks from target terms "model versioning" and "dataset versioning", but nothing groundbreaking (yet!). Growth in impressions for target terms "data versioning" and "dataset versioning" too. Most significant here is an upward trend in average position over the period but also against the long term trend. This is already a fairly popular page that produces a decent number of clicks, so only slight movement is expected from minor changes. Further updates could continue the uptrend — recommend a combination of content updates and term expansion.

OK I'll take a look at your specific reports ASAP. for now I just wanted to follow up on my own mini report as actually now there is more of an impact both in what-is-dvc which seems to have an improved avg position consistently:

But especially in the "machine leaning" term, which is starting to come alive:

So good work with those even if the change is small so far. At least we know there is a measurable impact!

Hi. Doing a final check on this, the first PR. Here are the results I can see:

My 2 previous mini-reports continued the same: improvements in the secondary? metrics (impressions and position).

For the other docs I just checked the weeks from the time they were merged vs. the same number of weeks (6) before that:

What is DVC? - link - more impressions and better position, yet no more clicks. Maybe people just aren't that interested on this topic.

Use Cases Index - link - This one actually has ~10% more impressions AND ~15% more clicks, so the CTR improved 👍 . It suggests to me that this is one of the sections with the most potential for growth.

Edit: Fixed link and added image for exact URL (and not *URLs including individual use cases). Strangely there's no click-level data on terms, but looks like an increase impressions for some that we targeted (added screenshot). -JD

Versioning Data and Model Files use case - link - similar as the previous one (even better clicks and CTR improvement)
👍 but the position actually went down a little 🤷 — hopefully it will improve even more once the new versioning use case is released (almost...)

Edit: Fixed link to show exact use case URL (and not *URLs including tutorial). Position actually improved too. 🙂 -JD

Versioning Tutorial - link - also good improvements (around 25% in clicks, for example)

So in general these are good results cc @shcheklein

@jeremydesroches please start posting similar reports in your other PRs next week. Thanks

@jeremydesroches please start posting similar reports in your other PRs next week.

Thanks for checking on this @jorgeorpinel. Yes, I’ll do the same for other PRs this week along with the other GSoD reports.

OK @jorgeorpinel, I've updated the other GSoD PRs with images now too. Please check my notes above as I added some images and updates to your original findings for this PR.