SEO Book

Read the Texas AG lawsuit citing how Google lied to news publishers to get them to adopt AMP to destroy header bidding.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

To get rich, do work where you get paid in proportion to the number of customers you satisfy instead of the number of hours you work. Not all work of this kind will make you rich, but nearly all work that can make you rich is of this kind.

[dan barker @danbarker]

@carlhendy @seobook I think I still have a copy of the actual book pdf somewhere.

[Adam Whittles 🇪🇬 @AdamWhittles]

@danbarker @carlhendy @seobook That used to be Ayima's training "here, print this out and read it!" 😂

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@elonmusk Not just because of it, but they said that it was one of the reasons: https://t.co/SSb7SxYB0k

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Apple just terminated Epic's developer account, and they admitted that this tweet was one of the reasons.

We don't want to think about Apple being evil. It would be so inconvenient. We don't want to switch to Android. But I see ever more signs that power has corrupted them.

[Lily Ray 😏 @lilyraynyc]

This Linkedin Post from a Senior Software Engineer at Google is illuminating.

(Link: https://t.co/rzZi2lN989 )

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Huawei works with the Chinese state security services to steal technology from Western firms, and the government gives Huawei massive subsidies to underbid Western companies on 5G contracts that Huawei then uses to spy on people around the world for the Chinese government.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Now we can say precisely how much ahead of his time Brian Armstrong was: 3 years.

[Cyrus Maxx @CyrusShepard]

This isn't "personalization" - as public Google comments seem to want us to believe

"If you search right now, you'll benefit from the billions of past user reactions we've recorded"

4/5 🧵

[Cyrus Maxx @CyrusShepard]

What user interactions does Google measure?

• Attention (hover/mouse movement)
• Clicks
• Scrolls
• Enters new query

2/5 🧵

[Cyrus Maxx @CyrusShepard]

It here! The DOJ finally released "Life of a Click" - explaining how Google used clicks for ranking

3 Pillars of Ranking:

• On-page
• Links+Anchors
• User-interaction

1/5 🧵

[Glenn Gabe @glenngabe]

Interesting timing. Google shared this yesterday about new features for ecommerce sites: "Stay tuned for new ways we're helping shoppers find your deals this holiday season..."

Maybe this is it? Or maybe it's part of what's coming. Stay tuned.

[SEO Book @seobook]

@searchmartin many, but only for non-blogs.

[Wissam Dandan @WissamDandan]

@googlesearchc we are sooo back!

[Google Search Central @googlesearchc]

Today we released the November 2023 core update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: https://t.co/hgjEkfpbA2

Related to this, we’ve posted a Q&A on Google Search updates as a refresher about how updates work: https://t.co/N5p3KsJ0ta

[SEO Book @seobook]

@seosmarty @searchliaison some of the blogspot URLs require login to view, but on the warning pages (which are sometimes sitewide warnings & can be based on an error) they still throw up full page interstitial popover ads

[Bill Hartzer @bhartzer]

This carousel looks new. Is it new, @rustybrick ? It appears to be an "about us" type of carousel.

[SEO Book @seobook]

@searchmartin "he who does not work for free for rude stragers has no value in his life" poorverbs 3:15

[SEO Book @seobook]

@lyndoman @Jason #NeverForget #Mahalo #Brand

[SEO Book @seobook]

@RemcoTensen @rustybrick @debramastaler @dannysullivan The founder of Steam & Valve had a quote years ago about how the tech monopoly platform companies try to increase the chunk size of competition to extract more value out of proprietary ecosystems. That was before trash like Google AMP.