a static site, is just reading the html from a file and returning that, a dynimic site has the pages going through some type of scripting langauge to return a dyanmic page, but as far as bots/google is concerened they look the same. So there should be no difference between them.
I think you your content is excellent. I see many are upset about your assertion in the video. A cool experiment would be to compare a static and dynamic website on the same topic. It could be possible that people are having more plumbing problems vs a desire for an Italian wedding. Love the content -keep up the good work!
I would agree more if dynamically would mean it fetches different data each time - meaning the crawler has fresh info each time. But when you use a solid cache the info as always the same and there is no API call to third parties which means it is not different from a “static page” (which are not really static) - or am I missing something?
How about hybrid websites w both static and dynamic Pages ? Really interesting to hear your toughts . Currently building one using some of your concepts with STATIC PAGES and SSR Pages. great content man thanks
I would also be curious doing 2 similar sites using the same framework one configured for ssr and one fully prerendered if we would see the same differnce in indexing 🤔
Your sites are as dynamic as wordpress. The static page is something even your "system" generates to save resources. It's called cache. All those "evidences" are not existing. It's just a gut feeling. Let's go back to prompting and content generation. Thanks.
As a WordPress website owner I think that WordPress takes longer to get indexed because of all the junk files WordPress makes. Where a programmatic built with a coded website is a straight forward thing for the bots to crawl and understand. I don't think it has to do with dynamic or static.
I don't have any way to prove it so you are very right to call it a theory but if you have ever had to delve into the workings or WordPress it is a very messy system. I would wager it is a larger contributor than you would think. I personally would love to see any data you could actually come up with to prove my theory. Because I guarantee that coding the sites from scratch if far easier for the bots to crawl and understand.
I appreciate your videos bro! It is great to watch someone walk through and learn and adapt to these new tools and processes. I am way less experienced and way less smart than you lol doing some of this stuff only on my own would be hell watching you go through some things gives me hope I can :-)
"Hammish, can you create a video explaining how to set up additional websites for tradie businesses to rank in multiple locations? Specifically, I already have a primary website linked to my current Google My Business (GMB) location. I want to build additional websites for the same business, using the same physical address as my GMB location. Can you guide me on: How to ensure these websites rank well for different locations? How to handle the SEO and content strategy for multiple websites linked to the same GMB address without violating Google’s policies? Any best practices or potential pitfalls I should be aware of when using this approach?"
Confused… what do you define as static and dynamic? For example , Wordpress sites render from a DB when visited, or from cache if no changes recently done in a page, so I’m wondering what dynamic means in your case. And what static means here. I consider a hardcoded HTML site as static for example.
This is super interesting to me. I'm curious on the static pages if publishing and adding them to the sitemap over time like say 100-1000 pages a day. I also wonder/think if with SSR /dynamic content it's less resource intensive for Google crawlers and thus it indexes quicker 🤔 keep it up man! We really need to collaborate. I'm going to reach out
Dynamic is for sure more intensive on resources because crawlers have to do more work to get all the pages since they have to go to urls and get all dynamic instances. On the opposite side if all of your 500 urls are already there and ready to be visited they just have to go and report the content on it. I doubt dynamic indexes better than static programmatically it just makes zero sense. there must be another stupid little detail we are missing. Seo is always like that.
Love your content - but your theory is absolutely incorrect - I spent 10 mins to disprove it - I bothered because it sounds crazy - and lo and behold - is crazy.
If he read framework documentation he would've known better. It makes no sense that dynamic content would rank better since the crawlers can't see all the non-canonical urls they have to visit the urls and generate them as a user. Which is much more work then jist visiting 500 statically generated urls. I might be slightly wrong, but still it makes no sense by web conventions that dynamic content ranks better or SPAs would destroy everybody by this logic no?
Also I posted 150 static pages in a week and got 1.8k impressions for it and an invitation to an affiliate network by email... static definitely works just as well if not better.
I don't comment often here, but I am following this channel for quite some time and it also bothered me what it says. I agree with you. Also the data in video disprove his theory. Having 1million impressions and 3 clicks is not as impressive as having 900 static pages with 40 clicks. Just because you bombard google with pages and you get in the 10th page of google, is like not ranking. I have the same issue now with my website. I have a lot of impressions, but not clicks. if the pages are in the 100th position no one cares. I prefer to have fewer pages that rank in top 3 than million of pages that rank in page 2 and below.
@@arisioannou5646 that is a fact. I believe there will be this WAVE of people just releasing botched applications left and right in 2025 because of how easy it is now to deploy applications without the slightest idea of what is going on under the hood. All these gurus will convince people to do it and it will retuen no results for most and just add more garbage on the web. Which is very good for you if you know what you are doing, and if you know whats going on in general as well. It will be a new gcontent website seo gold rush
@ I’d love to explain how to make changes - tell me what video to make and I’ll do it. It’s easier than Wordpress weirdly enough. Also not sure about you but we’ve had issues with Wordpress and malware and hacks etc - but I’m not a Wordpress expert - I’ve just tried growing Wordpress websites and have had indexing issues constantly
I like you but you're getting carried away now and spouting rubbish. I don't think Google gives a monkeys about what framework your website is built on as long as it's decent.
@@johnpribesh388You’re giving off the vibe of someone who believes everything he says. And you’re even paying for the privilege. I rest my case. Good night. 😂
@Jake-vd8os nope I like his approach, and I knew that well before he said it. I've been seeing it for years. I'm a FullStack web developer with 15+ yrs experience. Ive worked at every angle of website, web/mobile apps, hosting, server admin, etc. but ham didn't say anything was a fact anyway he just explaining what he's seeing from his testing... And damn right I support a creator I have been watching for years!!!
@john don't bother mate people write comments without knowing the first thing about you. Someone just said "how do you know - make a wordpress website and then comment" like we haven't made 50 wordpress websites in 2024.
a static site, is just reading the html from a file and returning that, a dynimic site has the pages going through some type of scripting langauge to return a dyanmic page, but as far as bots/google is concerened they look the same. So there should be no difference between them.
I think you your content is excellent. I see many are upset about your assertion in the video. A cool experiment would be to compare a static and dynamic website on the same topic. It could be possible that people are having more plumbing problems vs a desire for an Italian wedding.
Love the content -keep up the good work!
This is grwat but surely statically built sites would benefit google as they'd be quicker and good for seo also?
I would agree more if dynamically would mean it fetches different data each time - meaning the crawler has fresh info each time. But when you use a solid cache the info as always the same and there is no API call to third parties which means it is not different from a “static page” (which are not really static) - or am I missing something?
How about hybrid websites w both static and dynamic Pages ? Really interesting to hear your toughts . Currently building one using some of your concepts with STATIC PAGES and SSR Pages. great content man thanks
i was thinking the same and you could even create a dynamic page connecting to your own db in the background.
You're the man, Hamish! Thank you for sharing all of this incredible knowledge!
Google can't see that your server is calling a 3rd party API. Even if it could, why would it care? 🤔
This is what one of the last few real RUclipsrs has become.
You are right. He needs to take more time in testing and consult people that have actual engineering skills. That would help so much.
I would also be curious doing 2 similar sites using the same framework one configured for ssr and one fully prerendered if we would see the same differnce in indexing 🤔
Interesting... More experiments in this fashion would be great.
Your sites are as dynamic as wordpress. The static page is something even your "system" generates to save resources. It's called cache.
All those "evidences" are not existing. It's just a gut feeling. Let's go back to prompting and content generation. Thanks.
You’re wrong btw I just can’t be bothered to explain why
As a WordPress website owner I think that WordPress takes longer to get indexed because of all the junk files WordPress makes. Where a programmatic built with a coded website is a straight forward thing for the bots to crawl and understand. I don't think it has to do with dynamic or static.
Good theory I also think this is a contributing factor as it would affect what they call your quality content score which is an algorithm
I don't have any way to prove it so you are very right to call it a theory but if you have ever had to delve into the workings or WordPress it is a very messy system. I would wager it is a larger contributor than you would think. I personally would love to see any data you could actually come up with to prove my theory. Because I guarantee that coding the sites from scratch if far easier for the bots to crawl and understand.
I appreciate your videos bro! It is great to watch someone walk through and learn and adapt to these new tools and processes. I am way less experienced and way less smart than you lol doing some of this stuff only on my own would be hell watching you go through some things gives me hope I can :-)
"Hammish, can you create a video explaining how to set up additional websites for tradie businesses to rank in multiple locations? Specifically, I already have a primary website linked to my current Google My Business (GMB) location. I want to build additional websites for the same business, using the same physical address as my GMB location.
Can you guide me on:
How to ensure these websites rank well for different locations?
How to handle the SEO and content strategy for multiple websites linked to the same GMB address without violating Google’s policies?
Any best practices or potential pitfalls I should be aware of when using this approach?"
I didn't know Chatgpt could post comments on RUclips. 😂
Then, what are the alternatives?
Confused… what do you define as static and dynamic? For example , Wordpress sites render from a DB when visited, or from cache if no changes recently done in a page, so I’m wondering what dynamic means in your case. And what static means here. I consider a hardcoded HTML site as static for example.
Im talking nextjs - Wordpress works in a different way someone explained it in the comments but - it seems Google treats nextjs websites differently
Great content! Show how to use a cache, pls
This is super interesting to me. I'm curious on the static pages if publishing and adding them to the sitemap over time like say 100-1000 pages a day. I also wonder/think if with SSR /dynamic content it's less resource intensive for Google crawlers and thus it indexes quicker 🤔 keep it up man! We really need to collaborate. I'm going to reach out
Dynamic is for sure more intensive on resources because crawlers have to do more work to get all the pages since they have to go to urls and get all dynamic instances. On the opposite side if all of your 500 urls are already there and ready to be visited they just have to go and report the content on it. I doubt dynamic indexes better than static programmatically it just makes zero sense. there must be another stupid little detail we are missing. Seo is always like that.
Always insightful advice but still over-my-head talk for a newbie like me. Hoping to pick up some wisdom along the way.
Killing it dude 👌👌👌👌
Love your content - but your theory is absolutely incorrect - I spent 10 mins to disprove it - I bothered because it sounds crazy - and lo and behold - is crazy.
If he read framework documentation he would've known better. It makes no sense that dynamic content would rank better since the crawlers can't see all the non-canonical urls they have to visit the urls and generate them as a user. Which is much more work then jist visiting 500 statically generated urls. I might be slightly wrong, but still it makes no sense by web conventions that dynamic content ranks better or SPAs would destroy everybody by this logic no?
Also I posted 150 static pages in a week and got 1.8k impressions for it and an invitation to an affiliate network by email... static definitely works just as well if not better.
I don't comment often here, but I am following this channel for quite some time and it also bothered me what it says. I agree with you. Also the data in video disprove his theory. Having 1million impressions and 3 clicks is not as impressive as having 900 static pages with 40 clicks. Just because you bombard google with pages and you get in the 10th page of google, is like not ranking.
I have the same issue now with my website. I have a lot of impressions, but not clicks. if the pages are in the 100th position no one cares. I prefer to have fewer pages that rank in top 3 than million of pages that rank in page 2 and below.
@@arisioannou5646 that is a fact. I believe there will be this WAVE of people just releasing botched applications left and right in 2025 because of how easy it is now to deploy applications without the slightest idea of what is going on under the hood. All these gurus will convince people to do it and it will retuen no results for most and just add more garbage on the web. Which is very good for you if you know what you are doing, and if you know whats going on in general as well. It will be a new gcontent website seo gold rush
Behave. The real pros are probably cringing at this. I wouldn't be surprised if someone did a reaction video.
How about you actually build a WordPress website and do a proper test.
you act like we haven't made 50 wordpress websites this year. Have you ever thought maybe I know more than you think I know?
@Incomestreamsurfers ijs do you know if these ai sites are secure and actually understand the backend if I need to make changes.
@ I’d love to explain how to make changes - tell me what video to make and I’ll do it. It’s easier than Wordpress weirdly enough.
Also not sure about you but we’ve had issues with Wordpress and malware and hacks etc - but I’m not a Wordpress expert - I’ve just tried growing Wordpress websites and have had indexing issues constantly
Build a calculator
I like you but you're getting carried away now and spouting rubbish. I don't think Google gives a monkeys about what framework your website is built on as long as it's decent.
You are wrong here sir. Google may not say it directly but they say it in many other ways.
@@johnpribesh388You’re giving off the vibe of someone who believes everything he says. And you’re even paying for the privilege. I rest my case. Good night. 😂
@Jake-vd8os nope I like his approach, and I knew that well before he said it. I've been seeing it for years. I'm a FullStack web developer with 15+ yrs experience. Ive worked at every angle of website, web/mobile apps, hosting, server admin, etc. but ham didn't say anything was a fact anyway he just explaining what he's seeing from his testing...
And damn right I support a creator I have been watching for years!!!
@john don't bother mate people write comments without knowing the first thing about you. Someone just said "how do you know - make a wordpress website and then comment" like we haven't made 50 wordpress websites in 2024.
I would disagree. A website with a cdn ranks higher. Tech plays a decent part