simoncox, to random
@simoncox@seocommunity.social avatar

Duda are doing an interesting webinar on the Chrome's upcoming changes in 2024 for cross-site cookie handling next week:

https://www.duda.co/webinars/navigating-chromes-2024

#seo #cms #google #chrome

Aegewsh, to random Polish
@Aegewsh@101010.pl avatar

Jak nie używać AI do automatycznego generowania treści website.
https://serwiscbradio.pl/
Chyba wszystko co tam jest, zostało wygenerowane maszynowo.

brie,

@emill1984 @Aegewsh A, znalazłem. To było ciało zachwycająco czarnoskóre w tytule, a w treści „ciało oszałamiająco czarne”, „… porywająco ciemne”, „truchło świetnie ponure” (!)… Nie, to jest za piękne. „Porównanie moralna Rayleigha-Jeansa, rozłamu Wiena i prawidła Plancka na rzecz mięsa o temperaturze 8 mK”! „Ścierwo wspaniale ponure”! „Trunek bozonowy dla fotonów”!

#synonimy #fizyka #seo

simoncox, to SEO
@simoncox@seocommunity.social avatar

For those getting fed up with all the Google SERP results coming from Reddit can I please remind you of the Google operators. Just add -reddit.com after your query and it will not return anything from Reddit.

simoncox, to SEO
@simoncox@seocommunity.social avatar

One page test site of mine. Got dropped by Google and rightly so as the content is AI generated and a bit shit. I built this as a canary in the coal mine and it died on the 16th March.

#seo

jon, to SEO
@jon@henshaw.social avatar

Solar eclipse watchers from Vermont and Arkansas topped the list of people searching Google about their eyes hurting after watching the April 8, 2024 eclipse. Most searches came from states directly in the path of the total eclipse.

https://www.coywolf.news/seo/people-searching-eyes-hurt-after-eclipse-spike-after-solar-eclipse/

#Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #SEO

bornach, to ai
@bornach@masto.ai avatar

#AI generated lawfirm sends #fake legal threats to scare people into adding backlinks to their website in Search Engineering Optimization #scam
https://youtu.be/-cn7tOHnp68

See thread
https://writing.exchange/@ernie/112180217732787648

#SEO #generativeAI

MikeBlazer, to SEO
@MikeBlazer@mastodon.social avatar

This is one of the best travel sites I used: visitingvienna.com

I read it over and over again before and during my New Year's trip to Vienna, Austria last winter. And this site made my family vacation brilliant.

You can call it a niche site.

But it's not made to rank, it doesn't use the same tricks of over-optimizing to death. No fluff, no lame intros.

Check it out, folks.
What do you think of it? #seo

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simoncox, to javascript
@simoncox@seocommunity.social avatar

If you are interested in #javascript and #SEO would you please fill in this quick survey from Sitebulb. Ta! https://sitebulb.typeform.com/to/FwYc78Lt

iammannyj, to retrogaming
@iammannyj@fosstodon.org avatar

Interesting post. I'm still reading through a lot of the article but I have seen a change in the search algorithm. It's forced me to be a bit more strategic in search and SEO.

Google Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/ #retrogaming #seo

simoncox, to SEO
@simoncox@seocommunity.social avatar

Why am I getting emails trying to get me to register for an online #seo conf next week that I already registered for with the unique email that they are sending them too?
#lazymarketing

Ah, but Neil Prattel is on it so that will be why.

michael_martinez, to SEO
@michael_martinez@c.im avatar

There's nothing quite like being deep in thought on a project when the old email alert comes on to tell me that yet another genius #SEO expert has updated Wikipedia's PageRank article with a long section of text announcing to the world that they're the greatest thing since sliced bread, and here's a link to their Website.

No matter how quickly I click on the link, by the time I get to the article it's already been reverted by someone else.

I'm seriously tempted, though, to request semi-protected status for that page. It's not like there's a lot of breaking news about PageRank any more.

chad, to random
@chad@beige.party avatar

OK so I know that “English muffin compared to ciabatta” is a pretty stupid search, let’s start with that.

But the results (from DDG) are entirely AI-generated. There are articles “written” on this subject on multiple websites, but they’re all the same garbage, apparently produced by the same person or group. (I can only add 4 images, but I have more screenshots of near-identical rubbish.)

I guess it’s not an important problem yet because there’s so much human-generated garbage out there for basically every thought that 2+ people have had. But what’s it going to be like when people are asking a new, important question and all the answers are this trash?

Fun times ahead!

Screen shot of tastioo.com’s article about Ciabatta vs English Muffin. It uses the same template as the others.
Screen shot of vsinsider.com’s article about Ciabatta vs English Muffin. It uses the same template as the others.
A search for lostman2502, which is the gmail address listed on all these websites’ Contact Us page. The results show even more sites from them.

doboprobodyne,
@doboprobodyne@mathstodon.xyz avatar
vinki, to SEO

@EDGEWebRadio and @erinsparks did a really great podcast episode with @simoncox! Comes wholeheartedly recommended - a really good dive into the history of the web, accessibility, and much more!

Made me feel old when they mentioned an FTP upload of a

michellemanafy, to Dragonlance
@michellemanafy@journa.host avatar

For the past 20 years, one man has been releasing album after album of songs with the object of producing a result to match nearly anything anybody could think to search for. “You have to understand,” he said, apologetically. “I’ve written over 24,000 songs. I wrote 50 songs yesterday.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/magazine/spotify-matt-farley.html
#audio #search #SEO

simoncox, to SEO
@simoncox@seocommunity.social avatar
heysannidhi, to SEO
@heysannidhi@c.im avatar

"My recommendation would be not to focus so much on the absolute count of links. ... over-focusing on links will often result in you wasting your time doing things that don't make your website better overall."

John The Mueller

https://old.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1brhrvo/why_are_my_backlinks_not_showing_up/kx932wb/

michael_martinez,
@michael_martinez@c.im avatar

People keep quoting John's words out of context, giving the wrong impression about the intention of his advice. And, naturally, many people in the SEO community are slamming him over this out-of-context quote.

He was responding to a question about why someone's Ahrefs backlink report didn't show the same links as the Google Search Console report. And John's point was the guy was spending too much time fussing over links.

In fact, he was subtly implying that people shouldn't be using these 3rd-party SEO tools for their own backlink profile analysis. While it's true GSC won't show you everything, no SEO tool can show you what Google knows about or counts.

So focus on the things you can actually do something about.

----------#QuoteToot----------
@heysannidhi

"My recommendation would be not to focus so much on the absolute count of links. ... over-focusing on links will often result in you wasting your time doing things that don't make your website better overall."

John The Mueller

https://old.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1brhrvo/why_are_my_backlinks_not_showing_up/kx932wb/

#SEO

ai6yr, to music
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org avatar

New York Times article about a musician who has posted thousands and thousands of (ridiculous) random songs in an SEO bid to Spotify etc... which actually works that he makes a leaving from random streams of those random songs. (Gift Article) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/magazine/spotify-matt-farley.html?ugrp=u&unlocked_article_code=1.hE0.ejmt.J_ag76Di5g4s&smid=url-share

ai6yr,
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org avatar

"Farley is 45 and lives with his wife, two sons and a cockapoo named Pippi in Danvers, Mass., on the North Shore. For the past 20 years, he has been releasing album after album of songs with the object of producing a result to match nearly anything anybody could think to search for. These include hundreds of songs name-checking celebrities from the very famous to the much less so" #music #seo #composer

mjgardner, to ai
@mjgardner@social.sdf.org avatar

I just realized that #AI “prompt engineering” is just SEO (“#SearchEngine optimization”) in reverse.

#SEO spams unique language into specific content in hopes of raising the latter’s rank when querying a corpus indexed by an opaque non-deterministic algorithm.

#PromptEngineering spams unique language into a query against a corpus indexed by an opaque non-deterministic algorithm in hopes of returning specific content.

heysannidhi, to SEO
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maxleibman, to SEO
@maxleibman@mastodon.social avatar

"But SEO is just giving people what they want!"

False.

Patient zero: if I search the web for a phone number, what I want is to know whose phone number it is.

The top results should be pages that contain that phone number and information about what person or business it belongs to (including, if it's a business, their own web site).

What I don't want—what NOBODY wants—are spammy, scammy, for-pay reverse phone lookup companies.

#SearchIsDead #enshittification #SEO

maxleibman,
@maxleibman@mastodon.social avatar
  1. Find information that already exists for free (or that is extremely cheap to get)*.

  2. Either put it behind a paywall or wrap it in ads until it is virtually unusable (or both).

  3. Find a way to increase the search ranking of your version.

This is not a business model, this is ruining the web for money.

  • ~ Also, some aren't even doing this (e.g., like a reverse phone lookup service that PRETENDS to have data it doesn't).

#SearchIsDead #enshittification #SEO

maxleibman,
@maxleibman@mastodon.social avatar

Me in 2000: Google is the new Alta Vista! [in that it has become my go-to search engine]

Me in 2024: Google is the new Alta Vista! [in that everything is much harder to find than it should be and the relevance of results is plummeting]

#SearchIsDead #enshittification #SEO

pch, to SEO
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The Google Spam Update Is Done And It Was A Bloodbath For Some https://gmwd.us/Bz

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