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Notes and observations related to optimizing content for search engines

  • Here’s a really lovely resource: Mister Rogers on How to Talk to Kids About Distressing News Events – via kottke
  • Of two drivers heading towards each other down a one-way street, surely it is the one driving the wrong way who is most sorely in need of feedback. But it is unfortunately unusual to get a focused note of timely, specific, and usable criticism before things go too badly wrong.
  • Scientists are using AI to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano.
  • The Torment NexusAI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it is a great article from MIT Technology Review about the history of Google and search engines and the wonders of the (inevitable) artificial intelligence future, but I fear we’re looking at yet another Torment Nexus. – via Jodi Ettenberg
  • “He’s the Veruca Salt of presidents.”
  • The current administration is staging a coup, trying to illegally eliminate agencies, seize control of the U.S. government’s payment systems, and gain access to sensitive data on all Americans without any oversight. It’s time to fight back like our democracy depends on it. – via Laura Olin
  • “DOGE” has already thrown entire swaths of the federal government and its programs into disarray – programs that serve millions of Americans. ProPublica is is attempting to document who is involved and what they are doing.
  • Billionaire’s blitzkrieg on D.C. has brought into focus his vision for a dramatically smaller and weaker government, as he and a coterie of aides move to control, automate – and substantially diminish – thousands of public functions.
  • ICE is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations.
  • The team at Court Watch is maintaining an ongoing list of Lawsuits Related to Trump Admin Executive Orders.

#artificial intelligence #children #dailydavid #district of columbia #google #government #immigration #internet #jodi ettenberg #laura olin #legal #news #parenthood #potus #psychology #search #search engine optimization #search engines #tim harford #us immigration and customs enforcement

WordPress Wednesday: Submit to Facebook

How to add a ‘Post to Facebook’ link to your Wordpress blog

#facebook #php #search engine optimization #social networks #wordpress #wordpresswednesday

A Look Back to the Future

This is sure to be wildly popular: Google 2001. “In honor of our 10th birthday, we’ve brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.” How cool is that? It’s pretty funny to do some searches to see what they’d indexed. I’m strangely proud to note, of course, that

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#archives #google #history #search #search engine optimization

Plaxo Is Stealing Comments

In which a tech startup gets sneaky

#blogging #email #google #outlook #rants #search engine optimization #software

Improve Your AdSense

An excellent tutorial from G: AdSense Optimization Demo

#advertising #blogging #google #search engine optimization

A Rant about Keywords and URLs

A day or two ago I was pinged by a co-worker from my previous job. He wanted to know why, during its recent redesign, I didn’t include keywords in the URLs of the pages on a site I originally built a long, long time ago. I told him that there was no concrete evidence anywhere

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#google #marketing #rants #scams #search engine optimization #urls #web design

WordPress Gunning-Fog Analysis PlugIn

WordPress Gunning-Fog Analysis PlugIn

In which I build a quick plugin

#code #language #plugins #programming #search engine optimization #wordpress

Alexa Is Skewed

In which I complain about SEO

#search engine optimization #statistics #traffic

Mirror or Redirect?

SEO thoughts

#domain names #dreamhost #search engine optimization

Top 50 Davids

Awesome! I am the 46th most important “David” in the world. That’s according to Google, at least. Today I read a post over at Tempus Fugit about being a top ten Mark and figured I’d take a look and see where I rank among the Davids of the world. Forty-six! I honestly didn’t think I’d

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#ego surfing #names #search engine optimization

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