Simone de Vlaming
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Simone de Vlaming
@simonedevlaming
Multi-passionate Entrepreneur and Founder of 3 niche sites | Long-time Blogger navigating a pivot and you're invited to join the journey 🚀
Nederland Beigetreten Ağustos 2016
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Have you got websites that were previously ranking but got hit by Google updates?
We're looking to purchase your dog poo sites OR interested in re-ranking your dog poo (turning them back into diamonds) in exchange for 50% equity.
If that sounds like you hit me up. 👀💯📈
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I’m currently thinking about selling my third site… I love it, as it has always been a passion project so saying goodbye isn’t easy.
However, I don’t have time for it anymore. It deserves more love than I can give. Tough decision! 🤔
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Wow it’s been a while since I logged in here!
How are y’all doing? Have I missed anything?
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Also, when I go full in on FB or Pinterest or whatever platform, I still put my eggs in one basket and that would be dumb after the whole HCU drama.
Yeah I really don’t know what I want to do yet..
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Well, I’m not even one step closer to making a decision 😂
FB seems a good option to try but at the same time, I know you have to post a lot to earn a decent income and I don’t want to post & spam just for the sake of money?
I want to do what I love not “just earning money” 🥲
Simone de Vlaming@simonedevlaming
After this, I decided to take a break for the rest of July. Focused on my (mental) health, read a lot of fantasy books and just relaxed. It’s now time to really decide how I’m going to pivot, if or how I’m continuing with my sites, etc.
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@UKBeautyRoom @UKChange Thanks for sharing! Signed it ❤️
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@simonedevlaming Join Mediavine in Urging the U.S. Copyright Office to Protect Creators from Gen-AI - Sign the Petition! chng.it/7p6rXQw9XB via @UKChange
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As a beauty content creator, I hate to see this.
We’re slowly moving towards a time where influencers are AI/fake, content is fake, reviews are fake.
Even more online jobs down the drain.
Not a personal attack towards Mike btw, just using this as an example.
Mike Futia@mikefutia
I just recreated a Jones Road Beauty ad using Google Veo 3. No actors. No cameras. Just Veo 3. The entire process took 1 hour and cost $3.60 in Veo 3 credits. Here's exactly how I did it → First, I fed the original ad to Google Gemini. It watched the video for me and broke down every single scene Script. Shots. Transitions. Voiceovers. Everything. Then came the magic: → Fed each scene description into Veo3 → Included screenshots of original ad for reference images → Generated videos in one shot (no retakes) → Swapped the audio with ElevenLabs → Stitched it together in Capcut Is it perfect? Definitely not. (I used the cheaper model + only did one generation per clip) Will it replace everything tomorrow? No. But in 6 months, this will be how every DTC brand creates test creative. Want the exact Veo3 prompts + workflow + Loom walkthrough video? Follow + comment "VEO3" and I'll send it right over (must be following so I can DM)
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@rustybrick Yikes the only person who somewhat tried to listen to small publishers/bloggers is now gone too 🥲
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Danny Sullivan is no longer the Google Search Liaison - he is moving on to other role within Google Search - more at seroundtable.com/danny-sullivan…
Google SearchLiaison@searchliaison
This account is no longer active. Please follow @googlesearchc for information for site owners and @Google for the latest updates.
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@betweenengland I have been feeling the same! Started a blog post but now it’s taking me forever to just edit and finish the post 🥲
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I actually started writing a blog post yesterday for the first time since October, but I have zero motivation to post/finish it now with thoughts of it just being stolen by AI 🙈😂
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@mediavine While I appreciate this, isn’t it a little too late?
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@nikpolale Me too 😂 I will definitely share my plans when I decided. Thanks so much!
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@simonedevlaming Curious what are the next steps
Good luck!
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After this, I decided to take a break for the rest of July. Focused on my (mental) health, read a lot of fantasy books and just relaxed.
It’s now time to really decide how I’m going to pivot, if or how I’m continuing with my sites, etc.
Simone de Vlaming@simonedevlaming
Ha, my HCU hit site is spiking (still, it’s less than 200 clicks p/d). Yet my sites created around/after HCU (so they weren’t hit) are completely falling off a cliff right now. I’m so over Google and their updates ✌🏻
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Is reposting IG content (feed posts or carousels) a proper FB strategy - on top of FB specific content?
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Ha, my HCU hit site is spiking (still, it’s less than 200 clicks p/d).
Yet my sites created around/after HCU (so they weren’t hit) are completely falling off a cliff right now.
I’m so over Google and their updates ✌🏻
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@AndySkraga Yeah I really need to get into Facebook now.. it's out of my comfort zone, so I keep postponing it, but it's really time.
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@simonedevlaming I recommend Facebook for traffic. Still a solid source of visitors dispite minor algo tweaks!
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@simonedevlaming Google: increase her traffic for HCU affected sites, now reduce her traffic for non HCU affected sites. This will create a balance.
"Trust Google at your own risk"
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@DrSandipRoy I literally have no idea other than social media… I see lots of people using Substack so that might be interesting to look into but other than that, I don’t know 😔
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@simonedevlaming I keep thinking, what's the way forward for info sites monetized on ads? Substack? Medium?
Any ideas, please?
(Of course, we're all doing our social media.)
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