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.
Or install a browser extension like Ultimasaurus or uBlacklist.
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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.
"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."
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.
"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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are clearly taking hard drive shock resistance for granted, first of all. Next, looks like a bit of "Telephone" being done regarding IBM's handling of clone makers.
Good that IBM couldn't stop them; the Phoenix BIOS decision was landmark. How would you like your IBM computer to cost $6k today with little for functionality?
On one hand, it's hilarious when automation goes awry. On the other frustrating INFURITATING hand, this states all there needs to be stated about how utterly inflexible and incompetent corporate machinery can be.
This is why IT departments are universally despised. Some middle manager decided to enforce inflexibility at all costs.
Working from home is an act of reclamation. I shed not one single tear for the end of the abuse that going to an office enables (paying for each day's travel, constant interruptions, terrible work environments designed by executives who don't feel the pain of these environments, etc.)
Rezone that office space as residential and do something about housing affordability.
pasting links in without shortener is also a good idea because tracking tends to be put on the end of the expanded URL, and you get to see this right away without the shortener (and then hopefully people will stop whacking Urchin tracking onto the end of the URL!)
Sinon petite note en passant, mon opinion est faite, les "quote toots" sont indispensables pour l'avenir du #fédivers de #mastodon en particulier. #qt#quotetoot
I feel like it's worth mentioning, re; quote-boosts/QTs, that we can't "just add the feature to Mastodon" in a federation - it's a lot more complicated than a lot of people seem to realise?
The argument about whether or not we should add QTs is an important one, but once we get past that there's the issue of federation.
Mastodon is one software of many using the ActivityPub "skeleton" code. If ActivityPub doesn't have QTs in its code and Mastodon adds a QT feature, any non-Mastodon software (or even server) has to work out how to interpret Mastodon's QTs. If it isn't Mastodon-compatible, QTs will just break. They might even break in a way that harms the person being QTed. And what if someone on another server boosts/reblogs that broken QT?
Also, since we on Mastodon can follow people who are using federated software that isn't Mastodon (e.g. instances/softwares that look and behave like Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc), how does that work? Would people on Mastodon be able to QT people on not-Mastodon? How are the OPs going to feel about that? Would they even get notifications about it, since QTs aren't in the ActivityPub "skeleton" of federation?
And since we're a federation of separate servers even "within" Mastodon, there's also the question of how older/outdated Mastodon servers will handle incoming QTs. If you're on an older version of Mastodon and you follow someone on a newer instance and they QT someone, what would that look like? Maybe someone has intentionally chosen a fork of Mastodon with QTs turned off. Can people on other softwares QT them, and how would they feel about that?