Colin Newcomer

You can hire me to write for your WordPress blog or business. Just say hi.😉

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

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

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

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!

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

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

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

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

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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?

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@RafalTomal Build your website with WordPress using a local install (LocalWP). Export to static HTML using the Simply Static plugin. Host on Cloudflare Pages for free.

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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?

https://t.co/MBU7imBp8q

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

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

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.

[Colin Newcomer @ColinNewcomer]

@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.