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simoncox

@simoncox@seocommunity.social

Technical SEO and general webmastery stuff in the UK since 1995. Also at: https://mastodon.social/@simoncox
and:
https://www.simoncox.com
https://coxand.co.uk

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#Webmaster
#Boardgames
#Breadmaking
#NarrowGaugeModelling

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optimisey, to random
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Another example of sneaking into headline news.

In summary: firm in shady sector does shady SEO (buying links) to game rankings:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/14/gambling-firm-allegedly-paid-blogs-to-link-new-mothers-to-its-online-games

Preempting the defence: "Everyone else does it!/They started it!!/We have to to keep up! It's Google or someone else's fault!" + "Oh yeah, and we're sorry. Honest." ๐Ÿ™„

simoncox,
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@optimisey โ€œlinks to the Coral website had been posted between 2014 and 2016, before it bought Ladbrokes Coral in 2018.

On Tuesday, the company said it would try to get them taken down as soon as possibleโ€

hmmmm. 9 years of benefits and Iโ€™m sure Entain would have done a backlink check before buying Coral as part of its due diligence!

jon, to random
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I really like the subtle and simple submark/favicon approach that @mozilla took for their MDN logo. The new version relates to their main logo, and it's a clever use of slashes (and pipes).

simoncox,
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@jon @mozilla nice!

Thayer, to random
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Voted:

1st Norway twice because they're just ๐Ÿ‘
2nd Serbia
3rd joint Ukraine and Germany

simoncox,
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@Thayer good call!

simoncox, to random
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Digging Croatiaโ€™s macerana song!

Lovely and nuts.

simoncox, to random
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โ€œBlood and glitter - two things that are also difficult to get out of carpet.โ€ - BBCs Graham Nortonโ€™s commentary is legendary!

simoncox, to random
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Ukraine entry is very cyberpunk!

simoncox, to random
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Really like the Australian entry - good to see a group. Might do well.

simoncox, to random
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Absolute winner from Finland!

simoncox,
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Nearly called it! Cha cha cha!

simoncox, to random
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Brilliantl Albanian entry! On so many levels.

simoncox, to random
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strong song from France!

simoncox, to random
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yep Serbia right on it - this is what we are here for!

simoncox, to random
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Great start to ! ๐ŸŽ‰

chrismessina, to random
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End of an era.

simoncox,
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@chrismessina oooh. Part of me says good - didn't like the tracking but also part of me says that we are not out of the woods just yet!

simoncox,
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@chrismessina Just made me feel uncomfortable. :) Kind of like going to the dentist - don't like it but has to be done.

danielle_r, to random

1-hour for my presentation which gives another 45 minutes for us to work through examples together. I recorded it but already know I need to work on saying "right" all the time... I guess as some sort of validation or to get engagement (maybe will go away naturally as I have people to actually look at me). Always thought my issue was with "uhh" "umm" or "like."

simoncox,
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@dwsmart @danielle_r 100% Dave! I much prefer someone stumbling over a p[resentation they are uneasy doing but it's about their own unique experiences than someone who is a slick professional speaker who sounds like they are selling something that their assistant will hand to me off the van in a black plastic bin liner but I'm not allowed to look at it till I get home.

simoncox,
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@dwsmart @danielle_r ๐Ÿคฃ Yes that!

joe, to random

It sometimes feels like with all the advancements in AI, I have extreme FOMO and also am over whelmed with information. Desperately searching for more signal and less noise.

simoncox,
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@joe We are all in the same boat though! Let the tide take us where it will.

mariyadelano, to books
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This is the best story of the month if not the year.

A random anime fan account on Twitter enthusiastically and sincerely recommended a they liked, โ€œThis is How You Lose the Time Warโ€ and now the bookโ€™s gone viral, itโ€™s #3 on the Amazon book chart (general chart of ALL books) and the sales are going through the roof

Word of mouth and fan-based marketing on a silver platter wrapped in a silly viral package ๐Ÿ˜‚

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/11/bigolas-dickolas-time-war-booktok/

simoncox,
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@mariyadelano advocacy - cannot better it.

angieherrera, to random
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On Wednesday I was 1000% convinced it was Friday. I was ready to take it easy in the evening and got excited for the weekend. ๐Ÿ˜†

So you can imagine my disappointment when I realized it wasnโ€™t Friday.

But today is!! !!!

simoncox,
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@angieherrera what? No itโ€™s Monday today!

mmasnick, to random
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Okay folks: this morning we're launching something we think is pretty useful. Lots of people have strong opinions on how content moderation should work, but they've never done it. So we built a content moderation mobile game (browser-based): https://moderatormayhem.engine.is/

Details about it are here: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/11/moderator-mayhem-a-mobile-game-to-see-how-well-you-can-handle-content-moderation/

simoncox,
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@bloonface @profcarroll @mmasnick well done - did you find the easter eggs?

simoncox, to random
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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.

simoncox,
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@fili yes that was the first one and it was shut down I didnโ€™t use it back then. I only installed this new version in Dec. So my guess is that I loaded a new version that was again compromised or that it was intentionally launched to be altered later. ๐Ÿ™‚

simoncox, to random
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And another Wix rollout - this one is a bit bigger.

Headless Wix.

Wow.

https://www.wix.com/developers/headless

simoncox,
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@JacquesBouchard Disclaimer - I was on the first SEO board for 18 months - (was meant to be 6). Great platform for certain types of business. Has improved dramatically since 2019 and yes some of that may have been to do with me trying to help improve it so am slightly biased! Great team. Here were my first forays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWwJLzze0co&feature=youtu.be&t=1020

simoncox,
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@JacquesBouchard well we took on our first Wix client in late 2029 and I really thought hard about it because at tgat point thier rep was very bad! Not surprised your table circle ostracised you but I am sure they were not aware of or considered the clients actual needs!

simoncox,
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@JacquesBouchard if there was an easy turnkey solution for every need Iโ€™m sure we would have seen it by now!

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