u/unusedconflict

been tinkering with my etfs for a year and just realized voo and vti are 82% the same thing lol

been tinkering with my etfs for a year and just realized voo and vti are 82% the same thing lol

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ok so i keep doing this thing where i read something or watch a video and go damn ok i need to add small cap or cut international or go more dividends, then 2 to 3 weeks later i change it back

figured i was being smart holding 4 different etfs. voo, vti, vxus, schd. felt diversified.

then today i actually looked at the underlying holdings and apparently voo and vti share 500 of the same companies. 82% overlap. like im literally just buying the same thing twice

im not trying to beat the market or anything, i just want something i dont have to think about all the time. but now im sitting here wondering if im actually diversified or just collecting tickers that feel different

how do you guys actually know if youre diversified vs just owning a bunch of etfs that secretly all do the same thing? and at what point do you just say this is good enough and stop touching it

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u/unusedconflict — 18 hours ago

I thought traffic was my problem, turns out it wasn’t

For the longest time I was convinced my biggest problem was traffic. I kept thinking if I could just get more people to my site, everything else would fix itself.

So I tried the usual things. Content, SEO tweaks, a bit of social. Traffic did go up slightly, but nothing really changed in terms of actual results. That was the frustrating part.

What started shifting things for me was looking less at volume and more at how people were finding me in the first place. Not just keywords, but context. Where they are, what they are actually trying to solve in that moment.

I played around with that idea a bit, even tested some stuff using visigeo just to see how location based context might affect things. It was subtle, but it made me rethink a lot.

Now I am starting to feel like traffic alone was never the real issue.

Curious if anyone else has gone through something similar.

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u/unusedconflict — 2 days ago