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Yeah, I'm in it. I've not used any of the ads. Matched Content, In-Article, and the other nonsense. They seem to be made simply to encroach on the territory of other ad networks, instead of really being "user first." I'm in but haven't used any of it. People have talked about the...

@shaunm, I doubt affiliate links would be wrapped up in this "less ads" fiasco, if it's real. They don't impact user experience or affect load time. When ideas like this come out into the field, I try to think about what Google would benefit from making the change. Would they benefit from...

That's better than I've ever done. I one time and one time only did water only for 24 hours. Towards the end all I could think about was food, but I could think about it really clearly. My mind was so clear. Seems like a good way to drop a pound of body fat. I'm not interested in doing it...

I've noticed it and read some discussion that was nothing but people crying about it. It blows and shows the cronyism and backdoor deals old money will get when it comes to new money dominance. I agree with your interpretation. Our cookies will likely be overwritten and Wirecutter will be...

I've heard about nightmares about Shopify when it comes to indexation and the robots.txt, from more than one person over the past few months. It's made me hesitant to use the platform for any project that hinges on organic traffic. For regular marketing and paid traffic I'm sure it's more than...

I have an IRL friend who is scared to even put one word on paper or digital document because someone might not like it. I reminded him that there are people who are guaranteed to not like it. It might be the best thing on the planet and they won't like it just to be contrary, and they'll be...

I ended up listening to a ton of his stuff over the course of a week a while back. He's a good reality-check for people who've not had a good, intelligent, masculine father figure or for those of us who did but haven't had the lessons reiterated in a while. This specific video reminds me of...

Found this quote: "This is VoodooMagic from IranJava. For those who are wondering whats happening to IranJava and many other "scene-sites", there are some stupid and ill f*ckers tryin to get us all down, or whatever. For me it looks like that with a huge dose of DDoS to our servers. Take a look...

Stuff like this and the Google Home and Amazon Alexa aren't being done because the populous wants it or because it's in demand and popular. It's training us to accept certain ideas that break down the walls to surveillance.

Is this still popping fairly well now that Penguin has destroyed most everyone? I'm guessing a lot of PPC guys are still in the game. But I imagine most of their core audiences from forums like Wickedfire are out of the game, especially since the forum itself is toast. Makes me think the...

I've never had an Android but even on my old flip phones in the early 2000's you could set different ring tones per caller. Surely that's a feature on Android? It is: https://www.howtogeek.com/252852/how-to-set-custom-ringtones-for-specific-contacts-in-android/ But that may not be what...

I've been plowing through the Harry Potter movies on HBO Now. I never saw them, was born way too early for it to be appealing. It's been interesting. I'm on #4, and each one is better than the previous and more mature, since I guess the crowd she was writing for was growing up through the...

Can't you get the same thing done faster by eating a ton of Taco Bell? That tends to clear everything out real good.

I use three screens and the text is fine, but I'm making sure to use the native resolutions of the screens and the default text sizes of the operating system. It sounds to me like you have a situation of bigger monitors with lower resolution, which appear pixelated up close. A 60" 1080p TV is...

People seem to fear reciprocal linking, as if they'll get in direct trouble or reduce the power of the links they've already gotten. There's a big difference between linking like this: Page on Site 1 <------> Page on Site 2 And linking like this: Page 1 on Site 1 ------> Page on Site 2...

I can't see this being ROI positive unless you're doing viral content, and probably paginated content at this point. Your point about establishing metrics is a good one though. I'd like to see a test on busting out of the sandbox like that, but it'd be a costly one. If you have access to big...

Yeah, it sucks that #1 gets an estimated 30% of the clicks while #2 get's 15%. I lost a lot of #1's in the past 6 months. Kept my traffic levels nearly the same thanks to publishing and getting more long tails, but there's a big difference in the quality of traffic even in position #1 vs #2...

First, I wouldn't make the assumption that there's anything you did or anything you can do to fix it. That's because it could be a boatload of competitors magically doing better all of the sudden (unlikely) or what's most likely is Google rolled out some RankBrain change to your niche and you...

I really doubt that Google dooms entire C blocks of IPs. Maybe in the past it was used to detect bad neighborhoods and PBNs, but now they have the means to do it properly by analyzing linking patterns. Hostgator is horrible these days compared to what it was. I'm not surprised you're having...

Let's not forget this Word AI is the guy who wrote a tutorial about 5 years ago on how to use his software to scam content buyers on forums and on Fiverr and all that. Edit - This guy actually just updated that post recently and pushed it to the top of the blog...