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.

#seo

michael_martinez,
@michael_martinez@c.im avatar

Or install a browser extension like Ultimasaurus or uBlacklist.
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@simoncox

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.

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/

#SEO

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.

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@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/

SirTapTap, to SEO
@SirTapTap@mastodon.social avatar

Google's still delisted my 100% hand wrtitten site for "pure spam".

I'm looking at my "toxic links" in SEMRUSH and I was told not to bother to disavow these (unless I actually paid for links, which I have not) but there are a lot more than there were.

Almost all of them are either scrapes of my content and/or hotlinking my images though (which cloudflare blocks?).

I hate SEO, so disavow yes/no? Shouldn't matter, but I shouldn't be marked as spam. IDK.

michael_martinez,
@michael_martinez@c.im avatar

3rd party SEO tools are useless for this kind of analysis. And their ideas of "toxic links" are nonsense.

You should look at what Google Search Console is telling you.

Also, Google's March 2024 update can take up to a month to roll out. It's going to do all sorts of crazy things in that time. Many of them will be reversed without people having to do anything.

Don't disavow links. That will just end up hurting you even more.

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@SirTapTap

Google's still delisted my 100% hand wrtitten site for "pure spam".

I'm looking at my "toxic links" in SEMRUSH and I was told not to bother to disavow these (unless I actually paid for links, which I have not) but there are a lot more than there were.

Almost all of them are either scrapes of my content and/or hotlinking my images though (which cloudflare blocks?).

I hate SEO, so disavow yes/no? Shouldn't matter, but I shouldn't be marked as spam. IDK.

Feditext, to random
@Feditext@mastodon.social avatar

Feditext users: please follow https://github.com/feditext/feditext/issues/148 and https://github.com/feditext/feditext/issues/149 for complete native quote post support.

short version: we have a small set of bugs to fix and chores to do before an App Store release, and quote post UI will come after that, in version 1.8.

Edent, to random
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

Just a point on the stuff.

ActivityPub servers which present proper tags already show as QT.

It's right there in the page's source code but only (partially) exposed in the UI.

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

holy batfuck this makes the case for "your first job should be in retail, as a rite of passage"

https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/111710305172962403

larsmb, to random
@larsmb@mastodon.online avatar
yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

There's this thread on Y2k and it reminds me of the time I went to the corporate security website of my employer

and the date on the website was "September 23, 19105"

Sure, it's a simple display error, perhaps the smallest of the classes of bug that Y2k remediation could address, but that it was happening in 2006 was a damning thought.

I wonder how the 2038 bug is going to go down.

https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/111670219441506220

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

As late as the early 1990s, LANCE was still being used in new products. I have an IPX and a 2511 router with one (they use AUI to attach to the LAN)

https://oldbytes.space/@kenshirriff/111676418134034353

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

It might be why fedi admins are judging the Threads cuisine before what they suspect would be in it is served.

https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman/111672845233512926

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

It turns out the joke was on me the entire time and I was already screwed

The NYT article was written before I even entered primary school.

https://fosstodon.org/@hexmode/111670741960532948

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

We should have listened to some of these.

I'll rewrite one in particular, though:

"It won't be long before young couples are going to have to consider not having children so they can both work."

$0.25/pack of cigarettes, and they're complaining?

https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/111665786446933423

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

Is this not why we have computers? Is this not the solution to the problem statement of "show me the diffs between these two spreadsheets"? Is Microsoft Excel that stupidly terrible?

Do all accountants have bad RAM right where their spreadsheets load?

https://hwang.me.uk/@dennis/111658948464075523

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

I've been looking for a workable solution to Apple II video on "modern" displays forever

For over 30 years I've had to settle with compromised video. Maybe this will be an affordable solution!

https://mstdn.jp/@KayKoba/111642520428137345

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

as the product of Boomer parents, I know this well

One thing that got missed: since history is written by the "winners", Boomers will write lies about themselves like history books' lies about racism, slavery, Native Americans, the Civil War, etc. were written.

https://vmst.io/@vmstan/111540107831327477

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

Allow me to add:

If your "entry level" job posting requires anything more than basic high school, it is NOT "entry level". You just want to pay a recent college grad $7.85/hr for a shitty job that has shitty management, and use "college" as an application filter. They can work at Walmart and at least get $11/hr.

https://mastodon.social/@maxleibman/111501910709312943

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

DRM strikes again. Or you could just rip the DVD, or pirate a copy (why not; you BOUGHT this one!)

https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/111500300001371058

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

When I read things like this, I no longer wonder how compassion is drained from people.

Really, there are people saying "I hope he gets cancer" after reading that their shitty-ass SEO heist is making things worse for EVERYONE.

https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/111482420414024520

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

Situations like these are why IRC stubbornly sticks around.

https://vmst.io/@jq/111453188125808716

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

I've got an even worse attitude toward AI now that it's Sam Altman's money grubbing machine and it's obviously a bunch of techbro grift

Satya Nadella and MS were never "the good guys". They've always been opportunistic.

The whole thing leaves me sad and disgusted.

yakkoj,
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

And that's before I get to the output of this thing.

No, I don't trust humans, even in the "non-existent" Australia, to verify the output. This was the end-game of blind, rote obedience.

https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/111455407450469108

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar
yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

This is practically every food service, retail, and Dollar Store worker's eternal plight.

(and YES, there's a reason I'm separating "Dollar Store" from "Retail". Go into a dollar store sometime (or just watch the videos that escape from them!), and then, if you have one, go into a Daiso (Dollar Store Japanese ver.). Like night and day.)

https://wandering.shop/@meredithw/111439559377708225

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

It needs to be made into a bumper sticker!

https://collapsible.systems/@Nancy/111394456981901693

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

I live there and I must not be going to any of the proper venues to experience this stuff.

Totally an observation. ;o)

https://mastodon.social/@thillsman/111439618435607937

yakkoj, to random
@yakkoj@fosstodon.org avatar

You know, for my entire childhood, I had to open the garage door manually. If the act of pressing a fucking button starts getting too involved, I can certainly go back there.

DO NOT tempt me.

https://mastodon.macstories.net/@johnvoorhees/111376662463424133

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