Dean Cruddace

As next year will be the year of voice search.... I'm joking, don't shoot.

Is anyone still creating Alexa Skills for clients?

You're missing the modular eye pecking from vultures who have already cleaned your bones of its flesh.

Has Gmail gone to shit in the past week in not receiving forward emails? Or even custom domain emails? Or have I just got another one blacklisted?

So far, we've got meetups arranged in:
Asheville, NC
Cincinnati, OH
New York, NY
Portland, ME
Toronto, ON

If you're going to a bar to watch the game, let us know and we can advertise it to our members! Keep an eye on our FB events!

Ha'waaaaaaaaay!!

#SAFC #SUNWHU

Great quotes from industry people in this article calling out that lying sack of Google corporate vomit, Liz Reid.

Exactly my thoughts, a CDN exists for a single purpose.

When the CDN has ultimate control (you gave them it via nameservers), you're entire online existence is at the whim of a simple change in configuration.

Like anything, if you give administrative control of any kind, have a contingency.

Ooh, yes please Mr CDN, please do completely control my crawling and indexing, even though your primary purpose is to serve my content faster around the world.

What's that? That'll be extra?

Not for our (search marketing) eyes, it's a spin piece, likely masking the decaying souls of the deatheaters consuming the once driven Google employee enthusiasm.

Keeping a searcher on the farm until they submit to a paid search result is "people are searching more than ever".

God I'm ranty

So tempted to build a pure link juice upvote thing purely for SEO. But I'll let @aleyda.bsky.social worry about all that, as she has the best & latest SEO resources right now.

New to SEO?

Learn the difference between clippety-clop & slippety-slop.

Bonus advice: 97 "local" pages switching out only the location is going to lead to a world of hurt if you do not have a physical location.

Also 200+ link juice points for citing the late, great, Bill Slawski.

This post is not for the search industries consumption. It's shareholder PR gubbins.

yes.

Scorchio

Still building me travel thing, am i being childish? #TheFastShow

Just watched Ad Astra, I know it has been out years.

What i learned is that if Liv Tyler is in it there is a common thread.

Someone's dad is gonna get dead, there'll be a nuclear bomb and she'll get her man back on earth.

Building a travel site to be the minimal offering i'd expect, is hard. I've built a few.

The MVP is price. We all want AI, first class + perks for £10 each.

No aggregation across the board for flights or bed banks, it's OnTheBeach.com with bars on your windows or you're paying premium.

He went AWOL about a year ago. Immensely helpful then radio silence. Such a shame, he was our side of the fence, now fully assimilated.

@johnmu.com is not for turning though, he'll help where he can.

Otherwise reach out to us all, including me, I'll dig around.

SEOs are by nature rebellious

Building another travel site, because as an SEO you would be nuts to get into the travel game this late in the age of the web.

I'm still convinced G propped up Reddit to mitigate the forums they could never figure out. Putting everything on the toes of the Reddit mods.

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Devolutions got delisted from Bing.
🚫 Completely invisible—for multiple long days.
🧪 A flood of scam posts poisoned our search presence.
⚔️ Here’s how we fought to get it back:
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Always the same pattern when adding to GSC when hosting via Netlify. Like clockwork.

I have so many insights to share.

But not yet. Still 7 builds to go.

Whoever generated this, thank you. This makes perfect sense.

"Life's an absurd circus, just remember you're the clown cleaning up elephant dung." - collectivedespair.com/quote/lifes-...

I appreciate all the DMs for build ideas, I will get back to you all.

(Yes, I am using a VPN, I ain't giving no 3rd party my ID, silly UK legislators).

Sincerely, me, 12 years old, size 4 shoe, no banana for scale.

Also still waiting for my Unsplash app verification, that way every quote will have a more relevant background image.

Also I'll be adding unlimited quote generation for a lifetime subscription for £1. (Your lifetime, not mine).

Well that's a bug. FFS.

"Deadlines: life's fun way of reminding us our best is still inadequate." - collectivedespair.com/quote/deadli... collectivedespair.com/quote/deadli...

probably the most miserable site on the web after Stackoverflow

The site is full of easter eggs for SEO nerds and others just to amuse me

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am going to have to train it on SEO bullshit acronyms then? FFS.

Go for it.

I still need to create a function that overlays the quote across an image so when the URL is shared to whatever platform, it inherits it via the markup. But that's for another day.

Ok, here we go.

collectivedespair.com

This is the anti-motivational site you knew you never needed.

Purely inspired by @seocopy.bsky.social

Generate a quote for whatever is pissing you off and share it.