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Spent an hour on my Contra Discovery Score today. 59 to 74. Top 35% to top 25%.
Almost all of it came from one thing I'd been ignoring: five of my case studies had no description. Title and an image, nothing else. Contra was flagging every one of them under "Case studies quality", a HIGH IMPACT factor, and I'd simply never scrolled far enough down the page to read it.
Wrote five descriptions. Profile quality went 76% to 100%. Score moved 15 points.
The part worth stealing: that page tells you exactly what it wants, including the next threshold for every single factor. Mine says likes boost at 10 (I'm on 7), expert badges boost at 1 (I have 0), verified projects boost at 1. None of those need a client. They're just sitting there.
I'd assumed the score was a black box and left it alone for months. It's a checklist with the answers printed on it.
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