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Joe Youngblood

3 days

Ultimasaurus v1.1.1 was just accepted by the Chrome Web Store. This version introduces a new feature that removes logos from big tech websites. Get it here: ➡️ Websites like Facebook and Google among others have turned their logos into animations, used

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Joe Youngblood

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30 days

@flyosity Amazon's AI that allowed cashier-less checkouts turned out to just be people in India watching you shop and filling out a virtual cart then charging you when you left.

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Joe Youngblood

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4 years

@elonmusk A Google reverse image search shows this photo came from an Instagram account and in 2017 and was tweet by Buca di Beppo's official Twitter account.

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Let's celebrate a week well done. Reposted from IG: @theepisodiceater

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If only Dave knew this A.I. trick 😂😂

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@newheightshow @JasonKelce @tkelce Social media person needs a raise, a new house, and a new car for this.

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2 years

I don't care that Google is forcing us into GA4. I care that they are: 1. Deleting all prior Analytics data. 2. Not providing a historical view in GA4 that merges the old data in. This should be entirely unacceptable by business owners and marketers.

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2 months

@getwired They hired the guy who led Yahoo! Search into the ground as Head of Search so I would guess the answer is yes.

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1 month

Here's another disturbing health claim that seems to come from a comedy/satire website (edit: or is that from a real website??).

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Joe Youngblood

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5 years

This might come as a shock to no-one, but I'm not a perfect SEO and in early 2015 as I was starting my own agency one of my first 3 clients fired me when their traffic tanked suddenly and I couldn't fix it. THREAD

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3 years

SEOs looking at their new titles in Google this week

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4 years

@Google_Comms Looking forward to you removing the YouTube comments then.

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5 months

@newheightshow Big shoutout to Travis' 87 & Running Foundation for the $100k donation.

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@unusual_whales Property taxes are unconstitutional theft

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3 years

@craigclemens I refuse to discuss politics on Twitter because this place is bot-filled trash hole, but this was one hell of an articulate breakdown of the situation & appears to be completely without bias or propaganda. Kudos for achieving an extremely rare feat & good luck with everything.

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5 months

@MecoleHardman4 You deserve it!

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2 years

@deloreanmotorco I had better be able to just shove some garbage in it and travel through time.

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3 years

Gets me every time. 😂😂

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4 years

She said Yes!

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Joe Youngblood

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1 month

Google's AI Overviews appear to be presenting comedic / sarcastic / satire content as fact

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Joe Youngblood

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1 year

@PatrickMahomes I used a little AI and cleaned up that photo in case y'all want to give her a higher quality one.

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1 year

@mtaibbi Yeah, it's a really bad move by Elon and Co. They shouldn't ban links to anything, especially things that help independent journalists.

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8 years

@ButeraDemetria Didn't Bill Clinton deport her parents?

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Joe Youngblood

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1 year

Google allowed scammers to change the phone numbers of major airlines like Delta, Southwest, American, Qantas, ITA, and Air France on Google Maps. No telling how many were scammed by this. #LocalSEO via @Shmuli , h/t my friend @johnpetersontx

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3 months

@Chiefs Worst deal ever.

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8 months

@newheightshow @JasonKelce @tkelce I hate that you two have me paying attention to the Swift family... but now I gotta know what team he's rooting for this weekend.

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Joe Youngblood

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1 year

Client: Why is my traffic down, why are my sales down? Me: It's July Client: And??? Me: Where are you right now? Client: I'm in Cabo with my family, why? Me: And your target audience is? Client: Upper Middle-Class families, why are you asking you know this? Me: Your

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Joe Youngblood

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11 months

SEO 🚩🚩🚩 - Too Many Pages: This client has only 25 services, but their WordPress Pages count is 15,996 and GSC index count is 1,530 with no blog post content. When they onboarded and gave me access it was the first thing I noticed and asked about. Minus the homepage,

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Joe Youngblood

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3 months

Quick story about why you should NEVER, EVER, EVER use the All In One SEO Plugin for WordPress. The chart below is from a new client's Google Search Console. Since August they've lost between 98 and 100% of all Google traffic and it's at least partially All in One SEO's fault.

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Joe Youngblood

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5 years

@susanthesquark @oliviasolon To be completely fair, I dont think the NYT knows what journalism is either.

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Joe Youngblood

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7 months

@ClayWendler Shit, I keep becoming more and more of a Swiftie. This is unsettling.

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Joe Youngblood

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5 years

Maybe yours will be faster (we've seen as quick as 60 days) but it may not be. Yours might take longer and you need to be prepared for that reality. Keep fighting.

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Joe Youngblood

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2 years

Brutal 😂😂😂

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Joe Youngblood

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1 month

@bestestname Corn starch plastics last for 5 years, are compostable, are renewable, and don't taste weird. Their just pricier right now because now mega corps are buying large enough bulk.

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8 years

@ashleyrose117 @ButeraDemetria as someone who supports deporting illegal immigrants I agree that situation sucks. But why no anger at B.C.?

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

1 year

Potential Client: I was hit by the December Spam Update, and I deserved it for buying links from The Hoth for years. Me: Wow, ok well thanks for at least admitting it. PC: It worked, we were #1 for a long time. I am looking for an SEO agency that can get us back to the top.

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Joe Youngblood

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2 months

Dear publishers crushed by Google. Here's my honest SEO advice. This is probably going to be controversial, so buckle up. Preface: You are in an unenviable yet advantageous position and yet most of you probably do not realize it. Google has shattered the shackles they've had on

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

5 years

I'm telling you this because if you've been impacted by a Google update, penalty, or demotion the best thing you can do is to diversify your inbound traffic sources in the short-term and focus on fixing things for SEO and strap in for a long fight back up to the top.

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Joe Youngblood

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11 months

Here's a slick Facebook marketing trick: If you make your profile/page name your domain, then write engaging comments, when people reply to you Facebook will format your name into a URL preview which you can control with OpenGraph tags. Done correctly and at large enough

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Joe Youngblood

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9 months

@burton_3000 @cheetah Maybe if he didn't hold they also wouldn't throw the flag, but he can't hang otherwise.

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

2 years

I heard a story from an in-house SEO at a big company. Said that when they started they were sent an SEO Audit recently done by a big name & was told it cost $40,000. The audit turned out to just be a @screamingfrog export. Tip of the hat to whoever pullled that off.

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

1 year

Amazon will start paying affiliates 0% commissions on products categorized as Beauty, Health & Personal Care, Personal Care appliances, and Luxury Beauty later this month.

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

5 years

Fun Fact: My team and I spend about 25% or more of our time on reporting each month. Tomorrow we're moving away from hand-written monthly reports to automated reporting via Google Data Studio for all SEO Clients.

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

8 years

@mcuban @NYDailyNews Breaking: real Estate company sells real estate.

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

4 years

Amazon has asked affiliates to stop sending them traffic effective immediately.

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

5 months

@JackStr42679640 I was in KC, it was not staged. A woman and mother lost her life to senseless gun violence between 2 teenagers. Show some respect please.

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8 months

@gas_biz You have 2 choices as an adult. Get fit or feel like shit. What's sad is so many healthy 20-somethings never see this coming, they quit focusing on healthy things and start eating/drinking like they can't die. Then it just slams them one day and everything starts feeling

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

3 years

Oscar Mayer with the 🔥🔥🚀🚀

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

8 months

Never thought I'd praise the @WSJ but here we are. Their Reddit strategy is pure genius. They use a branded handle, track to see when their articles are shared in a subreddit, then jump into the comments and leave a snippet of the article along with a URL to bypass the subscriber

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@YoungbloodJoe

1 year

This might be old news to some of y'all, but I just found how to see Organic Traffic only in GA4... Acquisition > Traffic Acquisition > Add Filter > Session Medium > Organic What a messy hard-to-use system for no reason.

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Joe Youngblood

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10 months

@ArrowheadPride WR room looks awful.

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

4 years

Just had a restaurant client pay me in advance for the next 3 months and closed the call with "pretty sure we'll be bankrupt in 14 days, but didnt want you to be." If you want to know how to make me cry that's pretty much it. Now to quadruple my efforts for them.

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Joe Youngblood

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1 year

@DataChaz Oh yeah Sundar is toast. Just a matter of when. My experience in the past year: - Suddenly forced off of free Workspace after 14 years now paying $5k/year. - Killing Analytics with no viable replacement or way for users to have continuity. - Realizing OpenAI probably uses

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1 month

@sfchronicle So you're anti-immigrant business then?

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2 months

This is what a task completion engine looks like. It's also what mass content theft looks like.

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@Google

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This is Search in the Gemini era. #GoogleIO

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5 years

Wow. Stunning allegations that are honestly not hard to believe.

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Joe Youngblood

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7 months

There's a fake SEO agency ranking at the top of Google here in Dallas. They pulled out all of the stops to score this ranking and it's nearly impossible to report this to Google's support team. - Keyword heavy brand name - Fake testimonials w/ AI generated headshots - Fake

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Joe Youngblood

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1 year

Hey @adsliaison why did my client just get an email from a Google Ads "Digital Strategy Lead" asking them to join your "Accelerated Growth Team" aka leave our agency? And why did that email not come to us?

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Joe Youngblood

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2 months

Great job Google!

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

3 months

This is what a 404 page attack looks like. The attacker generates a massive volume of 404 pages and uses various tricks to convince Google to index them up to and including injecting them into your sitemap.xml files. They even abuse your webhosts "suspended account" page.

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Joe Youngblood

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1 year

@PatrickMahomes @elonmusk Only $8 a month MVP

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1 year

Google is about to have a PR trainwreck when SMBs lose 15 years of data and are forced to use an unintuitive system they can't do simple things with in replacement.

🌴AdsLiaison is OOO: back 7/8

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The GA4 deadline is fast approaching. UA properties will stop processing new data on *July 1*. That means new data will stop flowing from UA properties into Google Ads which could significantly impact campaign performance.

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Joe Youngblood

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3 months

Peter Shankman, the creator and founder of Help a Reporter Out eulogizes the service as Cision pulls the plug.

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1 month

Is this accurate in-house folks?

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1 year

@DrewHLive One thing they 'forget' to mention is that most of this probably comes with 0 ownership. Meaning everyone in the "The Line" will pay rent for the privilege of living in this high-tech glass jail. I predict they never complete this. It probably stops at 1 or 2 pods.

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Joe Youngblood

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5 years

New client told me their old agency was telling them they were getting conversions, but they didn't see the sales coming in. Well, I just gained access to Google Analytics and......

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

4 years

SEO is getting spicy in the UK. A High Court judge has given Google a firm option either A: Let a working SEO expert examine their algorithm submitted as evidence or B: Withdraw the evidence which they claim proves their innocence.

UK judge gives Google a choice: Either let SEO expert read your ranking algos or withdraw High...

Tough choice for adtech monolith in Foundem case

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Joe Youngblood

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3 months

About a decade ago I started talking about websites becoming nothing more than data inputs for what I coined as a "Task Completion Engine". This new SGE feature for travel is really close to that and hints that this future is right around the corner - if consumers adopt it. The

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Joe Youngblood

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9 years

@POTUS no, they deserve low cost health care and not being unconstitutionally forced to buy something to be alive

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Joe Youngblood

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2 years

@btabke Have you read about @costplusdrugs yet? Savings over retail up to 99.5% and savings on lowest price by vouchers up to 75% That's all live, already.

Mark Cuban's New Online Pharmacy Will Make Dallas, TX Home to a Pharmaceutical Revolution - Texas...

A healthcare revolution is starting right here in Texas thanks to Mark Cuban and Dr. Alex Oshmyansky “Everyone should have safe, affordable medicines with transparent prices.” – Mark Cuban Mark...

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5 years

SEO Spencer Pearson posted this screenshot of the Google result for "Tampa Bay Bucs" showing how long it takes to get to organic web results. This is the future for all organic.

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Joe Youngblood

@YoungbloodJoe

6 years

@dannysullivan 1. 4 ads on top + a local pack ad is insanity (especially on desktop), give organic some visibility back. 2. Voice Search should somehow lead to a page if it makes sense, maybe ask "should I open this document for you?" after reading the response.

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Joe Youngblood

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2 years

@mcuban Already on it:

Mark Cuban's New Online Pharmacy Will Make Dallas, TX Home to a Pharmaceutical Revolution - Texas...

A healthcare revolution is starting right here in Texas thanks to Mark Cuban and Dr. Alex Oshmyansky “Everyone should have safe, affordable medicines with transparent prices.” – Mark Cuban Mark...

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Joe Youngblood

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3 years

@Wealthsimple Burned Robinhood user here. Thanks for being rational and not attacking your users. Consider a switch now.

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Joe Youngblood

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1 year

Anyone else remember when Google introduced groundbreaking AI for booking local appoints at Google I/O called Duplex... and then like 2 years later shut it down completely?

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9 years

@POTUS How about a pilot program to cut interest rates on those of us that didn't go to prison & got our education?

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Joe Youngblood

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3 years

Basically the App Store is a cash cow monopoly that Apple only uses to attack competition, make boatloads of cash for doing nothing, and doesn't really protect users.

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*Thread* Overnight both @Apple and @EpicGames released hundreds of pages of new documents, containing lots of colour based on discovery and recent depositions. I stayed up reading so you don't have to. Here's what I learnt (couple *bombshells* in here)

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3 months

This example of how awful Google has gotten was sent to me by a local colleague who asked to not be named. For the query "holistic cancer treatment dallas" Google ranks at p #1 a web document that makes a passing mention of a cancer treatment service along with a list of other

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Joe Youngblood

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1 year

@RichardSocher @satyanadella Weirdly, this is probably the best implementation in terms of citing sources vs OpenAI, Google, or Bing.

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Joe Youngblood

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2 years

@iPullRank @shendison @neilpatel Absolutely hilarious. They just stole the first image on Google Images for "Neil Patel" instead of expanding to "Neil Patel for Senate"

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Joe Youngblood

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5 months

. @JohnMu Now that HARO is charging $1 for pitch, does Google consider any links gained in this fashion as a paid link?

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Joe Youngblood

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6 months

@charless_94 I'll buy some too if you want to give away more. Want nothing in exchange, just want the whole Kingdom to be able to watch the game.

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Joe Youngblood

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4 months

@paultoo Regular people don't care about GenAI that much any more. It is too mistake prone and limited for the average person. Youth MIGHT adopt it longer-term, but this is quickly going the way of "voice search" becoming a niche utility not a replacement for search.

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Joe Youngblood

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5 years

The net result after 16 months of grueling work is the client just had their highest organic traffic during the month of February ever and their second highest grossing month on record, next only to January of the year they were hit with a (most likely penguin) demotion.

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Joe Youngblood

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Apparently someone at Google Search "accidentally" leaked an engineering document that reveals a ton of secrets about how the search engine works, including that they have a "Golden Document" flag which puts more weight on a document that is "Human labeled" which could mean some

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Joe Youngblood

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1 year

@camilleeian What does it show for the woman?

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Joe Youngblood

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4 months

Working on an SEO / Domain theft case right now. It's a doozy. -> Guy buys successful SMB that was built by an SEO and ranks #1 everywhere. -> Business is so good they become a dispatch for the local industry instead of doing most of the work, revenues skyrocket. -> Guy

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Joe Youngblood

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5 years

Every time you don''t pay your SEO, Google secretly penalizes your website.

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Joe Youngblood

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9 months

@JustinqReid This, Mahomes post-game, and Jones interview comments make me love this team even more. Competition not hate (unless its the Raiders)

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7 months

@ArrowheadPride WRs and/or Nagy are still the problem.

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Joe Youngblood

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2 years

I need a freelance artist for a potentially HUGE NFT project. We're going over details on Monday. Tag or share with anyone you think would be a good fit. Need to get quotes on $ share, art design, etc..

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1 year

I can't believe I am crying over analytics software... 😰😰

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Joe Youngblood

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6 years

A lot of buzz today in closed SEO groups about Rip Off Report tanking in Google rankings. This @semrush chart seems to support what everyone is seeing.

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Joe Youngblood

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5 years

1. Invite em both to @Pubcon Florida 2. Put em on a panel together 3. ????? 4. Have a good time

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6 years

@dannysullivan 8. Quit 'forcing' news publishers to use AMP to get traffic from Google News. 9. Bring back the 7 pack map to help SMB's and give users wider variety of options. 10. Use the right-hand side of the screen on desktop / laptop, it's barren over there.

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Joe Youngblood

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4 years

@KenTremendous @OrvilleIV The answer is much worse in part 2, b. If everyone stayed indoors for 14 days when this first hit, we'd be a week away from stamping it out nearly completely and going back to normal.

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1 year

@VancityReynolds @Mintmobile @OpenAI I asked it to write the same thing and got this script.

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3 years

It's probably just the wind... 😂😂😂

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@NoMansSky What I want from NMS - Better NPC conversations and actions. Like why do they never go to the pub when they land? They always stand by their ship. - More settlement control and functionality, and more than 1 settlement. Tower defense to fight off sentinels, randomly stronger or

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9 months

Oh look a GA4 update!

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Joe Youngblood

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4 months

Beyond DISGUSTED with @GoogleMyBiz for deciding to leave a clearly fake review on our business profile that: - Is from a person who claims to be a competitor. - Is from a person in India, a nation we do not do business in. - From a person who we provided evidence claimed on

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