Stand out by being human.

Ultimately we're going to be ok unless something unprecedented happens [something unprecedented happens] Well, fuck 🔁 me, everyday 🔁

Google Trends x Snowmageddon

Stop overpaying for SEO and start asking what you are actually getting.

The detail here about archive dot is and its other domains altering webpages because of a grudge is worth knowing. Not to mention running a DDoS attack, obviously. Yikes. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

TIL there is no logo for "HTML" and you - yes, you - could make one (too).

Unpopular AI opinion: Doing data analysis yourself is an important learning exercise. Using AI to do it in your race to be more 'efficient' that means cheat yourself out of important thought and discovery processes that drive creativity, innovation, and utimately things that make you win.

A new type of website just dropped #SEO #NEO #AEO

Traffic obsessed marketers twitch. Zero traffic pages can still be business critical.

Genius tech bro move: Inventing the paragraph, Calling it a chunk. #showerthoughts

Guten Morge'n

The #GoogleIO puzzle is officially live. 🧩 You can play, remix, and help the community crack the code in real-time. Are you ready to help us reach the goal? 🤝 Start here → goo.gle/iopuzzle26-6

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Here is a very rough version of the For You Stats dashboard: linklonk.com/foryou It shows you 3 things: - how much you've been using For You - how many views and likes your posts got in For You - how your likes/reposts helped surface posts to other people in For You Feedback welcome

Absolutely insane band. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

We’ve been testing how machine-readable our design system documentation is. Turns out, AI agents and humans benefit from exactly the same qualities: gerireid.com/blog/ai-is-a...

The addition of social performance data in GSC reflects how discovery, trust, and visibility now span search engines and social platforms.

web dev: “the site is seo friendly” seo: define “friendly”

AI agent writes a PR, gets rejected, crashes out and writes a call-out blog post Absolute cinema crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-we...

And if you can't get enough of birds + dataviz, then this seems very interesting!

Warbler

I'm collecting 365 links, one for each day. Any suggestions?

Heard this amazing pun on the Soft Skills Engineering podcast. So, let me present: "Old man yells at Claude"

In the age of vibe-coding, even a one-eyed web-framework is king.

Forget Valentines Day. For all you true romantics, this Saturday is EAST ANGLIA POTATO DAY 🥔

A hidden homepage causing site-name & favicon problems in Search. This was a weird one. The site used HTTPS, however there was a server-default HTTP homepage remaining.

Love can slow down your website. Be careful. allenpike.com/2026/a-broke...

If you're curious about the 2MB Googlebot HTML fetch limit, here's a way to check. Thanks, @tamethebots.com !

Chunked search across the developer documentation (including Search Central) - including an MCP server. Now in public preview.

February 2026 Discover update - Released the February 2026 Discover core update for English language users in the US (will look to expand it to all countries and languages in the future). This update is designed to improve the quality of Discover overall. Our guidance about gener (source) #SEO

If you're curious about the funky key combination to get a screenshot on a Mac, here's the background. Also, TIL funky-1 was to replace hair-pins. Also also, Marcin is an excellent story-teller, go and subscribe.

So it seems the max HTML size for the initial HTML is 2 MB, not 15 MB, which sounds like a huge reduction, but in the real world 2 MB of raw HTML is a BIG, like REALLY big file. 1/2

Domain names are the sketch books of the web.

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

vibe coding is the geocities of apps

My buddy and I are running a UX book club, and the next thing we want to read is a book not written by a white guy. I’m looking for recommendations – thank you! Already on our list: - Brenda Laurel, Computers As Theatre - Erika Hall, Just Enough Research - Lucy Suchman, Plans and Situated Actions

What not-Google analytics is everyone using these days?

maybe a new domain will fix me

Traditional proverb: A watched DNS record never propagates

TIL King Solomon was a consultant.

This guy used AI to craft an isometric map of NYC & it's dang cool! cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/ I especially enjoyed his behind-the-scenes commentary: cannoneyed.com/projects/iso... I think @bmcclendon.bsky.social and @kenjilambert.bsky.social may enjoy this, and other mapheads, too :)

If you're curious about what's up in SEO, Lily did a nice write-up.

If you were born after December 1975 then you've spent more time in the 21st century than the 20th.

Man Allows All Cookies So Website Won’t Be Mad At Him https://theonion.com/man-allows-all-cookies-so-website-wont-be-mad-at-him/

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

From @sengineland 👇 Why AI search advice spreads without proof, how to evaluate GEO claims, and which recommendations actually stand up to scrutiny.