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simoncox, 1 month ago to random

Wow! Affinity are obviously listening to their market! I just got an email stating a 4 point pledge. Part 1 is the most important and includes this:

"If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it. "

Hurrah!!!

Well done Affinity!

simoncox, 1 year ago to random

If you have 'The Great Suspender Original' Chrome extension installed - delete it. It is no longer available on the Chrome store because it hijacks the Google Results pages inserting an iframe from yellow-pages.com with your search term and inserts several, I'm assuming, paid adverts that look like organic results. Thought my SERP results were odd the last few days.

'The Great Suspender' extension (note lack of 'Original' in name) I think is ok - it is still in the Chrome store.
#seo #chrome

simoncox, 11 months ago to random

Quick reminder how much SERP rankings change on a daily basis. This case is a B2B site so drops at weekends make sense as the intent for certain keywords changes and spikes as unexpected events, global and local, cause keywords and topics to become popular for short amounts of time as Google tests out what it needs to promote up the rankings (*my assumption). Nothing sits still for long in #seo

simoncox, 11 months ago to random

so - if you have the headset on what do the other people on the facetime see of you?

#WWDC23

simoncox, 10 months ago to random

Trimming back a marjoram bush this weekend and we found this white moth.

I have identified it as a Pterophorinae - a Common Plume!

simoncox, 9 months ago to SEO

Result! New Sitebulb version now available including something I talked to them about quite a while back.

"New Feature: HTML Templates

While crawling, Sitebulb will identify the different HTML templates used across the website, grouping like pages together."

From: https://sitebulb.com/release-notes/?utm_source=app&utm_medium=dashboard

IMHO this will help #TechnicalSEO understand a sites technical structure a lot quicker and flush out the awkward odd pages. Brilliant update!

#seo

simoncox, 9 months ago to random

Current favourite AI prompt:

"rewrite with arrogance:"

simoncox, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to 11ty

Google have now stoped Sitemap ping endpoint from working as they did advise they would be doing some time ago - https://seroundtable.com/google-sitemaps-ping-endpoints-no-longer-work-36692.html

Knowing this was coming I added an update field in my #11ty front matter that my sitemap picks up as a data point when building the site so that Google and other search engines get a true lastmod date - and they like that.
#seo

simoncox, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Happy #BlueBeanieDay to those that celebrate!

Especially @zeldman who popularised it!

simoncox, 5 months ago to random

I really really dislike leaf blowers.

We have a lot of trees. Oaks, beech and others. So the lawn is blanketed in leaves at this time of year.

So I got a gadget.

A hand pushed Gardenia leaf and grass collector.

It’s brilliant!

#eco

simoncox, 5 months ago to random

Getting some wintery vibes now.

simoncox, 1 year ago to random

One thing I have noticed since moving my social presence mostly over to Mastodon is that the alt text I write for the images on my websites has become a lot better.

#unexpectedconsequence

simoncox, 3 months ago to random

It's an alt ATTRIBUTE not an alt TAG!

simoncox, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Boom! Boom!

https://conf.11ty.dev/tickets/a25c40751f4f43aa930cedd6b4b29804

i redid my ticket because if you use right email address you get a customised ticket!

simoncox, 1 month ago to random

I'm back on The Edge Of The Web Radio podcast again for part two. This time I talk a bit about my time at art college, how that changes my personal perspective on SEO work and other rubbish such as AI.

Enjoy.

https://edgeofthewebradio.com/seo-podcast/drawing-line-ai-content-simon-cox/

simoncox, 6 months ago to 11ty

Following on from articles from @robinhoover and @lene I have tidied up my #11ty config file!

https://www.simoncox.com/shorts/2023-10-29-cleaning-up-the-11ty-config/

simoncox, 4 days ago to boardgames

Currently playing Great Western Trail 2nd edition online on Board Game Arena with my oldest chum and I think i am loosing badly! (he does design board games) , ...and he nearly doubled my score.

#boardgames

simoncox, 11 months ago to random

About to play Carcassone - I will get beaten as usual.

malarkey, 16 hours ago to random

👉 New on S&N: Disallowing Disallow

“Turns out, the Robots.txt file was preventing search engines from crawling the archives folder, which then meant that Google couldn’t then read the robots meta tags and know to noindex the pages. Damn.”

https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/blog/disallowing-disallow

MikeBlazer, 13 hours ago to Health

Someone said they would never hire fat people, explaining that overweight people could not be trusted because if they lost the most precious thing in life - their body, their health - how could you trust them not to ruin the business they were hired to do?

While I don't endorse this opinion, I have to admit that it has been on my mind for about a year now.

I mean, I've been thinking about my body and my health.

1/2

#body #health #seo

mrchrisadams, 1 year ago to random

Ok, starting what should be the first of an annual tradition of posting the #lemonpig as the new year rolls around.

This was introduced to me via @simon, and I’m pleased to see many other healthy examples on Mastodon so far, but you’re v welcome to ad your own, under the same hashtag 👍

ernie, 3 months ago to random

The next time I visit Munich, I expect to get my own bespoke custom stadium, just like Adele.

I will settle for nothing less.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/jan/31/adele-pop-up-stadium-munich-concerts

zoomar, 3 months ago to random

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simoncox, 13 hours ago to random

First port of call: https://www.positive.news