Daniel Barbour

podcast and audiobook aficionado; #SEO & #SMM; Proud Newfoundlander!

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@noahiglerSEO Afaik keywords in the review response are not shown to boost rankings. Perhaps it improves engagement or leaves a more positive impression for new leads who are reading the reviews.

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@noahiglerSEO @PromptSlinger For LSA it seems like we have to let Google off the leash to get any visibility. The money is made on the other end: a business that doesn’t have their sales/upsells dialled in is going to lose money. Is that pretty accurate?

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@ericdmiller3 @PromptSlinger @noahiglerSEO I think they just need to be “first” in the market with something big. OpenAI and now Anthropic have been dominating the news. Google seems like a better longterm play given the data they have access to.

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@PromptSlinger @noahiglerSEO $50 is like half of what I’ve seen lol. Are you running LSA and getting leads at $50 a pop? Is it possible to control costs on there?

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@rogers_soro @AllOrNothingTTV @SonOfBharat_88 @allenanalysis Why did all the countries surrounding Iran allow the US to set up military bases there? 🤔

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@markinldn @jayjayz_hair @DittiePE @elonmusk Asking about wild parties does not indicate he knew about the nature of the parties. In 2012 Elon didn’t know as much about Epstein as you know today. It’s not as if he were sending those emails today, knowing everything we know. We have to wait for incriminating evidence.

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@martianwyrdlord I think Carney only needs to signal to the US that we do have options. They’re not as convenient/advantageous as a close connection with the US, but if the US becomes an unreliable/unpredictable partner, the world will establish ties elsewhere, further decreasing US influence.

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@recap_david Assistant

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I had a friend who complained his calendar was a graveyard of constant team members asking him, "Got a minute?" and nobody could ever make a decision.

I looked at his schedule.

Back-to-back meetings...
All day...
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

I asked him:

"What was the last meeting where something actually changed?"

He stared at me and couldn't answer.

So I gave him 4 rules and told him to kill any meeting that didn't pass all four.

Rule 1: No Agenda = No Meeting

If they can't say what we're discussing and why we're there, it ain't happening.

This one rule alone killed half his calendar.

Rule 2: No Outcome = No Meeting

What decision needs to be made?
What's the current status quo that needs to change?

Meetings are for DECISIONS, not discussions.

Rule 3: No Expert = No Meeting

If the person with the authority to decide isn't there, cancel it.
If the person with expertise to deliver context can't attend, cancel it.

Without them, you're just having hypothetical conversations that go nowhere.

Rule 4: No Scorecard = No Meeting

Everyone must agree on the current state using actual data before discussing solutions.

If you can't agree on the problem, you can't align on the solution.

He implemented all four rules. His calendar went from 30 meetings a week to 8.

And for the first time in years, stuff actually got done.

I reconnected with this friend a few months later to find out how things were going.

He said, "I forgot what it felt like to think."

Don’t confuse attending meetings with making decisions.

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@GoogleMyBiz 4 businesses (subsidiaries of a parent company) are being consolidated into a new brand. What's the best way to merge them? Should we update them all to matching NAPW & merge them one at a time, or request a merge as-is once 301s are configured for the domains?

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@casinokrisa @ArgMilei In this case it was the opposite, poverty skyrocketing following sharp economic shifts which masked underlying tendencies that have become evident when looking at the longterm.

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@RobertoHernan_ @tlalkale @resisres Remittances have grown for over a decade, almost tripling from 2013 to 2024. Remittances are a crucial source of foreign income for Mexico, exceeding FDI, tourism, and oil revenue.

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@EmperorPenguln @DIEGO_RL @resisres Remittances are a crucial source of foreign income for Mexico, exceeding FDI, tourism, and oil revenue. Remittances have grown for over a decade, almost tripling from 2013 to 2024.

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@carlosvictorva6 @Mylovanov @ConspiracyCaw They did buy it, and it was expropriated. That’s what he’s saying, isn’t it?

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@Jonas_7457 @grok @Quangisdongis @AngelaLeyvaCD9 @KevinNaughtonJr Grok has been programmed to drive engagement, and apparently it does it well enough for someone to want to reply.

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@cquinlan123 @prbishop3 @mark_slapinski The constant repetition of disparaging names is too similar to Trump’s style for the Canadian palate. Carbon Tax Carney, Justinflation, Sleepy Joe, Lil Marco, Crooked Hillary… That style doesn’t resonate in Canada, it turns people off of his personality.

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@DrDillwood @ericadyork And…? Does anyone’s indignation about punitive tariffs ultimately affect the outcome? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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@mario4thenorth The only people lobbying against self-filing is Intuit and H&R Block. Their business model depends on people not being able to take care of their taxes themselves. It really should be as simple as filling out a form on the CRA website.

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@franco_nomics I would rather be able to file taxes on the CRA website myself than filing them through a 3rd party tool such as Intuit’s, which has been hacked and has had Canadian taxpayer info compromised. Time for the CRA to modernize snd provide these tools.

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@TonyKatsabanis @cbcwatcher The issue is the term “violence” has been hijacked to include “microaggressions”