Sonal - Drifter Planet

@nichepursuits Also: Google's snippets aren't helping because now for most of the searches, people get their answers through snippets and they don't actually visit the website, so lower ad revenue for us bloggers.

Google is slowly killing blogging. Blogging used to be about providing off the cuff updates, sharing unique perspectives, and interacting with blog comments! Now Google has forced bloggers to make everything SEO optimized, long form, and tightly focused around a single keyword. If you don’t bow to Google’s will, you don’t get traffic! Now, with the Helpful Content Update, they’ve gone so far as to say that “unhelpful” articles on your site can penalize your ENTIRE site! This is ludicrous. If you wrote about a personal update or something just “fun”, does this now make your entire site “unhelpful”? So, we have moved “blogging” in the traditional sense away from our site and onto social media. Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or wherever is now where you get the real “blog” updates. You no longer get that on blogs, no more true insights, because heaven forbid Google deems a post as unhelpful and penalizes your entire site. The ironic thing? Google ranks Reddit extremely well BECAUSE people are providing off the cuff comments and doing what bloggers used to do! So, Google is killing the individual bloggers, but sending tons of traffic to a major corporation (Reddit) instead, because Reddit users are doing what bloggers used to do. Thanks for crushing traditional blogging, Google. (PS - what you just read is the type of thing I used to write on my blog, but I can’t do that anymore…).

Dear Google, pl stop showing snippets of my website to answer questions. Instead, take people to my website like the good old times. You are not an answer engine, you are a search engine! 😟 @googlesearchc #CoreAlgorithmUpdate

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@travelingman88 Yes, that's true. But it is good to have a break from the real world from time to time 😁

@DrifterPlanet I’m thinking the same, it’s nice to connect with people, but at the end of the day it’s not the same as having real friends and family to talk with.

On Twitter after years. Not sure if I will stay on.

Mount Rigi in @MySwitzerland_e is such a treat and such gorgeous weather too! I’ve been to Switzerland 4 times and can’t believe I’ve never been here! 😍 And it was a breeze using the Swiss Travel Pass! (Ad) @Media_STS

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@54ndr01 @CryptoBatzNFT @DannyPhantomNFT @OzzyOsbourne I ate it and it was YUMMY

Okay Just baked my @CryptoBatzNFT inspired Pixel Bat Pizza. I hope you enjoy it. Check it out @DannyPhantomNFT @OzzyOsbourne. I would pass a piece if i could <3

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JUST what I was waiting for @thisismaneskin burned the stage at @GlblCtzn #GlobalCitizenLive

I had goosebumps when @eltonofficial performed "Your Song" today at @GlblCtzn #GlobalCitizenLive