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Whoop whoop! Almanac is out! Really enjoyed being an analyst this year for the page weight chapter, & am hugely impressed by what @not-a-robot.com & @barkseo.bsky.social wove with that data. 👏 to @montsecano.bsky.social for editorial chops & of @tunetheweb.com, who is a whole new plane of helpful!

Apparantly people paste their whole article in a Reddit thread and it ranks better than their actual article. Wow.

I can has a vote for this photo of mine please? 😇 poty.lcegroup.co.uk/contest/poty...

ChatGPT Translate is in town. I compared it with Google Translate with the same text and translated it to Hindi, and here are some things I noticed: - ChatGPT shows more em dashes (well, obviously, I guess)

I was looking at this contractor job posting, and they required the EF SET test. I never heard of it, so I decided to give it a shot and see how good/bad I am. Long story short, after 90 minutes of giving tests, my score was 74 out of 100, which is apparently C2 Proficient.

I’m making my paid course free. A few years ago, I created a niche course on building custom reports in GA4. I made it because the default GA4 reports aren’t that useful when you’re trying to get the exact data you need. So I learned the process and turned it into a course.

SEO: Skibidi Ohio rizz version youtube.com/shorts/col2I...

From what I understand about writing (content or anything), is that chasing perfection and trying to be polished could be seen as boring, soulless, corporate-y, and dull Whereas, when you write naturally with all your flaws and imperfections, you're suddenly seen as relatable and human Interesting

One day, I was going somewhere with my dad on a motorcycle, and we got stuck in a traffic jam. I looked at the houses on the road and thought to myself how all of the things about these houses tell a story. I wrote about it here: preetigupta.me/blog/everyth...

Friday rant: It's a bad user experience when you include links in a book, but once you click on them, the link is nowhere to be found (404) For context, I purchased the Kindle version of this book, which includes a link to free resources. But once I opened it, it was a 404 :(

Girl math: I was looking at hand gloves on Amazon, and they were like 350 Rupees. Then I thought of buying them from my local store, and bought them for 50 Rupees. So, according to girl math, I just saved 300 Rupees 💅🏼

Whenever I ask Google for any symptom related to a disease: Google be like: you have cancer and kidney failure

Thursday rant: God I hate it when websites redirect me to the country specific version of the site, when I want to see another version. And from what I remember, Google says not to redirect users based on their location. Sigh.

I use the color schemes in WordPress, but the thing is that there are so few options. I would love it if we could get more options. And the ability to create a custom color scheme would be cherry on the cake. Is that too much to ask?

Just saw a "top SEOs of 2025" post, and it felt like it was written by AI or something. A lot of people it included are not even that active in the community, and it got their details wrong (like current roles and stuff)

I was poking around this SEO tool to see if I could do their onboarding teardown for the blog, and saw a lot of interesting things: - Their website is a little too dependent on JS - ?ref= URLs in internal linking - The login screen leads to the dashboard that shows way too many options

From what I am reading, talking with your users is the single best thing you can do to improve your product. From optimizing onboarding flows, to identifying aha moments, to finding out what makes them stick and come back every time. But I wonder how often SaaS companies talk with their users?

I was talking with a professional today, and something they said stuck with me (I am rephrasing it): "We all want to be professionals and want to be paid well for what we do, but we don't want to hire professionals ourselves.

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Oh my god I had so much fun shooting this with my siblings :) youtube.com/shorts/FPJBA...

I wrote an article for The SEO Community about pricing for SEO professionals. I go through different models of pricing, how to calculate your hourly rate, things to watch out for, and more. I also got @raquelseo.bsky.social and @nickleroy.com to share their expert points of view.

It's that time of the year again: here's the Mueller Report of SEO memes for 2025. #SEO

@ilovechoclates.bsky.social jokes that robots.txt doesn't get the respect that it deserves anymore. (IMO machine-readable files like this continue to matter for a healthy web.) https://bsky.app/profile/ilovechoclates.bsky.social/post/3lkbkuuplds2p #SEO

To round out the first half of the year, @ilovechoclates.bsky.social has looked under the hood of SEO and discovered … https://bsky.app/profile/ilovechoclates.bsky.social/post/3lrmtdsbkpk2m #SEO

Since I have been learning touch typing for a while now, I thought to compare how writing a small paragraph looks with just two index fingers, vs touch typing. The paragraph written by two index fingers took me 1.5 seconds, and with touch typing, it took me 40 seconds. That's 50 seconds saved!

Things I find interesting: having parameters (like ?ref=) in internal URLs, like in CTAs, navigation, and others. They create a lot of URLs for bots to crawl. But how much do they help in measuring traffic well and stuff?

A key part of onboarding a user to your product means making things easier for them. Not just for when they sign up for the first time, but every time they visit. And I love how Lovable has this "last used" thing on their login page that reminds users of how they signed up to the site.

I finally got around to make a list where I have been featured around the web on the website lol packted.com/featured/

I saw like a million articles saying how AEO means ranking in generative AI like ChatGPT, Gemini, AIO, and others. But then I came across this article that says AEO means optimizing for "direct answers" like featured snippets, people also ask, and knowledge panels. Like wtf?

I made a chocolate cake after a long time, and a chocolate ganache to go on top. Then I felt like it was missing something, and I put a lot of rainbow sprinkles. It's not the prettiest cake, but it was a tasty one.

I finally remembered the password to my personal website and posted about touch typing. Not the typical post you would expect on a Christmas lol

If an article lists three authors and the whole article is in first person, then whose point of view is it?

How can I get an email from a newsletter that I just unsubscribed from? My brain isn't braining right now

I am editing an article, and I realized how useful Hemingway Editor is. Combine that with ChatGPT, and I have a great duo for editing. And yes, also my 2 braincells lol

I saw ChatGPT had an option for turning people into plushies, and omg it made me into the cutest plushie! I can't stop looking at it 🥹

So I got a free month of Kindle Unlimited and started reading a book about product-led sales. Let's see how I like the trial

Appreciation post for @goodsignals.com @seojoblogs.bsky.social and Michael Chidzey ✨ Ever since I discovered the SEO Office Hours, I made an effort to attend every week. It has become such a tradition to tune in every Friday. P.S. Why is Mike not on Bluesky? Or am I forgetting something?

Search Engine Land updated its homepage and also moved all its new posts to a separate page. This is new

Recording videos with dad is so fun. I feel so proud to be his director, editor, channel manager, and whatnot lol

In today's experiment diary, I made a healthy oats "cake," and boy oh boy, it was so terrible. I tried saving it, but it was too bad to be saved. So I threw it out. Lessons learned lol. But does it stop me from doing weird experiments? Absolutely not lol I live on experiments

I find it interesting how much YouTube is experimenting with the playback speed on the videos (in the free version). Like, how many apps do you want me to pay for each month?

I have something up for discussion: A couple of years ago, I published a mini course that was about how to make custom reports in GA4. Long story short, it didn't do well, and I took it down. I have also written about it here: packted.com/lessons-from...

One of the things that I learned when I was working on Framer is that it doesn't handle the table of contents well. For example, theoretically, you can show all the headlines in the article, but when you have a little too many headlines, and you click on the last ones, they don't work

I watched my very first IMAX 3D movie this year, and I realized how uncomfortable 3D glasses can be Like I already have my "normal" glasses on, and then I somehow have to put the 3D ones on top. And those glasses were chunkyyyyy If only there were a way that this experience could be better. Sigh

Dear news websites, Please don't tell me to sign up to read your news article, even though it is free, and I used to read it without signing up before. It is annoying, and I would like it if we went back to the old ways. An internet user

I find it interesting how it's not just me who has a love-hate relationship with posting content on LinkedIn lol I learned that everyone feels pressure to post post post. And I try doing that, but at some point, I feel like I run out of ideas, and I feel like I don't have anything else to post.

Fellow freelancers and SEO agency owners, I have a question: Do you feel there is a difference in how both charges for a project? Because, while people might say freelancers charge less, they often charge similar rates to, or even higher rates than, agencies. What is true and what is a lie? Halp

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