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@Abude_al_asaad @ramit Why don't you just present data showing how investors using Basic Capital would outperform unlevered investing in the SP500 after fees? Seems very easy to shut people up if you actually think Basic Capital is superior for individual investors.

@ramit Ramit, I hear you. We feel differently. Let's talk.

Usually predatory financial schemes are reserved for the very poor (payday loans) and the very wealthy (3rd-tier PE firms). Now, they're coming for the middle class -- YOUR money I would avoid this at all costs. The fees alone are staggering

@KatieKeithBarn2 @andrewhoyer If you download it as html it will give you a folder with every image in the doc, though I’m not sure what type of compression it puts on images, if any.

Yep, this wastes time for me very regularly because people send me blog articles in Google Docs and I have to ask them for the original images. You can click to save an image to Google Keep and then download it from there, but it’s a hassle and doesn’t always preserve the quality.

Huge missing feature in Google Docs: Download image. I should be able to download any image embedded in a document. Why wouldn't this be built right in? I have one or two workarounds, but why isn't it just part of the document editor?

@Jake_Boly Literally the exact same for me. Up 30% in November and then December smacks me right back to where I was before November. I'd rather just stay in the dumpster than get this false hope yo-yo.

So That Fit Friend recovers 30% of what it was over the span of August to November, then the December update drops... In 2 days, the site goes back to HCU traffic levels, and the sh*t spam sites that originally scraped me are all back ranking over the site. Round 2, I guess.

@CharlestonCraft Got like a 30% bump in the November update and now it seems like Google is clawing most/all of that back. Was nice while it lasted I guess.

Bloop looks like our Google traffic’s down 72% from 2 days ago, usually up on saturdays. If true, this update took all the November gains and then some. Like lots beyond that.

To add to this, I can’t find any technical issues and the site still ranks well in Google. I do see my site ranking for some spammy queries in Bing web tools, but I don’t see any evidence of it being hacked to trigger those queries. I’m wondering if it get misflagged as spam

hi @facan is there any reason a user-friendly site that previously ranked well in Bing would get completely removed from the index in Oct 2024? I'm hoping it's some type of bug - someone on Reddit said you might be able to help. Thank you!

@Jamie_IF If one ever lands on you, you should just blow it off. They only release the venom if they’re crushed, so blowing them off is the safest way to deal with it. Also don’t open your windows at night with lights on inside.

if you're in Phuket be careful of these colourful little beetles called tomcats (rove beetle) didnt even notice anything until i got into the shower later and my skin was all falling off lol they have crazy venom on their skin which basically gives you a chemical burn and torches your skin and scars you up

@natejhake Just don't look up that "100 years of history" for Axel Springer.

I can't decide which version of SEOs I disdain more: 1) the spammers who gloat at small publishers for not spamming -OR- 2) the agency SEOs who work for the likes of Axel Springer and absolutely drip with contempt at the idea that anyone could start a site with just WordPress and without being "backed" by hundreds of millions of dollars

@Jake_Boly Yup. I got a 30% bump in the recent update (still nowhere near pre-March/September) but now that bump seems to be going away and rankings are dropping back a bit.

Something is definitely going on with the SERPs atm. Traffic is dropping back down. Articles that were ranking are vanishing…yet again. Searching for particular articles with the site name isn’t returning the right results. More spam than usual in SERPs atm. Noticing this?

@MorganOMedia @clairecircuit @terryvanhorne Or in many situations, the city decides to open its own coffee shop that sells the same coffee you used to sell so that it can keep all the profits for itself.

@clairecircuit @terryvanhorne But hey- the city doesn’t owe you anything. Get off their block. They need to install a 10th Starbucks.

@JustinFerriman I switched to DuckDuckGo because they won't let me actually search for what I want (they think they know my intent more than I do) and their recent actions toward small publishers. I don't really notice any difference for non-local queries.

@Okayy_Dan It's wild that some of the biggest people on the "every site that got hit deserved it" train in September are now the same ones who are "standing up for small publishers" since March. It's the exact same sites that got hit.

Remember when Google released the September HCU and the entire SEO industry tried convincing web publishers that their sites were decimated because their content was not helpful? That was a wild time. Like one big Google psyop played out by industry professionals.

@Jake_Boly I saw you did a big spam link disavowal in Grindstone’s newsletter. Did you see any positive effects from that?

I wish G would give some inkling about what to do if you have the HCU/Algo action on your site. Nothing has moved the needle. The lack of direction is frustrating. "Be more helpful." What does that mean, though? Have you seen the SERPs and AI overviews? Where do we go?

@lilyraynyc My favorite is when Google shows both the original and the syndicated version back to back (eg. Yahoo #2 and the original 3). Why would searchers want to see the same article twice? And why would yahoo outrank the original?

So, Yahoo is growing since the May 5 update. The vast majority of this is with syndicated content from other sites, where Google selects Yahoo as canonical. (Yahoo either self-canonicalizes or adds a canonical to the publisher depending on the contract - different conversation/rant for another time) I'm including some example keywords where Yahoo ranks on page 1 for extremely high-volume terms. These are syndicated articles written by other publishers where Yahoo's version is chosen as canonical. In almost every case, the publisher with the original article has lost SEO visibility for its own site in recent years (see second Tweet in this thread). But because the article is on Yahoo, it does great. Usually in Discover too. I just find this whole thing... a bit ironic, in light of site reputation abuse.

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@Jake_Boly For some weird reason, all the guys in this video seem to have skipped the weightlifting shoes. Maybe they need to spend more time reading Google's AI overviews so that they can improve their lifts? youtube.com/watch?v=QtkdVk…

PSA — Do NOT deadlift in weightlifting shoes (the shoe being recommended here)… 3 Reasons It’s Sub-Optimal 1. Elevated heel changes setup mechanics 2. Adds range of motion to your pull 3. Limits ground feel Read more here: thatfitfriend.com/deadlift-weigh… Another one. SGE ftw!

@kearonis @searchliaison There’s no way @searchliaison actually answers this but he really should.

@searchliaison Honest question: How is AI Overviews different from what Google's own policy calls spam?

AI Overviews will begin rolling out to everyone today in the US, with more countries coming soon. They provide both a quick overview of a topic and links to learn more. We’ve found that with AI Overviews, people use Search more, and are more satisfied with their results. blog.google/products/searc… #GoogleIO

@mikefutia Where are all the “Google doesn’t owe your site anything” people? If Google is going to steal my content, the least they could do is send me a few visits.

Props to WaPo for publishing this. Google is flat-out STEALING content, traffic, and income from web publishers. "Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers"

@natejhake If they didn't want someone to steal it they should have opted out by blocking crawlers. Other people don't owe OpenAI anything.

I mean, the logo is "publicly available" - what are they complaining about?

@JustinFerriman I have to for my ad network, and I imagine it’s similar for most other content sites. Otherwise I wouldn’t. Prefer Clicky for basic content site analytics, though. Easy to use and I don’t feel like paying $60+ per month for Plausible/Fathom.