Leicester City owe their fans an explanation as to why it took so long to announce a decision on parting company with Ruud van Nistelrooy. Right decision but why the wait? It was clear a change was needed at the end of the season. Maybe it’s to do with the financial calendar or pursuit of a successor but Ruud didn’t deserve being left in limbo like this. The fans didn’t deserve the uncertainty. Recruitment and outgoings would have been complicated/delayed. Leicester have to get their next appointment right. Much is right about the Club - stadium, training ground, fanbase, some of the players, academy, community operation - but the mismanagement at board level is deeply frustrating. #LCFC 🦊
New helpful content update for September 2023.
They have improved the classifier.
Here's what I've noticed has changed in Google's helpful content documentation:
https://t.co/wJ1F5AjxwE
They've changed the opening paragraph to say, "content written by people for people" to "content created for people".
They've added this:
"If you host third-party content on your main site or in your subdomains, understand that such content may be included in site-wide signals we generate, such as the helpfulness of content. For this reason, if that content is largely independent of the main site's purpose or produced without close supervision or the involvement of the primary site, we recommend that it should be blocked from being indexed by Google."
and,
"What does this system and updates to it mean for my site?
If you're producing helpful content, then you don't need to do anything; in fact this system may be good for your site, as it is designed to reward helpful content. If you've noticed a change in traffic you suspect may be related to this system (such as after a publicly-posted ranking update to the system), then you should self-assess your content and fix or remove any that seems unhelpful. Our help page on how to create helpful, reliable people-first content has questions that you can use to self-assess your content to be successful with the helpful content system."
There are also some minor changes to the helpful content documentation.
"Is this content written by an expert" has changed to
"Is this content written or reviewed by an expert."
Also added:
"Are you changing the date of pages to make them seem fresh when the content has not substantially changed?
Are you adding a lot of new content or removing a lot of older content primarily because you believe it will help your search rankings overall by somehow making your site seem "fresh?" (No, it won't)"
https://t.co/I5ZaA11xX3
@secondtierpod Haha I thought you might post about this! Was surprised you didn't touch on him winning the Golden Ball and Golden Boot with 7 goals at the U20 World Cup this summer.
@MattTutt1 Bookmarking this and will keep an eye on everything discussed. At @RocketMill it's one of our goals this year to introduce "green" elements to each of our major service line audits to bring this conversation to the fore a bit more e.g. removing x pages reduces footprint by x.
Confettigate: A Statement From Just Stop Oil
The lady who threw confetti in Bruton yesterday was upholding a tradition that is common across many cultures. We absolutely defend the right for people to throw confetti (of whatever colour) at weddings and other celebrations.
If it was a form of protest — which is yet to be established — we applaud it and thank the person concerned. It was peaceful and not especially disruptive, but got massive media attention for Just Stop Oil’s demand.
It has also helped people to recall that George Osborne, one of the main architects of economic austerity, is directly responsible for over 300,000 excess deaths, and that — as a newspaper editor — he was responsible for some of the most egregious climate-denying nonsense ever to darken the pages of mainstream mass media.
However, as much as we applaud the use of orange confetti at this wedding, we were not responsible.
Perhaps the press could focus on something more important now? Like the current government’s plans to licence over 100 new oil and gas projects, which will result in excess deaths the likes of which we have never seen. Or the fact that the UN Secretary General has said that ‘climate change is out of control’ as we’ve just seen the hottest average temperatures since records began. Or the fact that Canadian wildfires have now burned down an area the size of Portugal.
We are in catastrophically dangerous territory and the press have a moral responsibility to inform and educate people as to the causes of the crisis so that we can take action to defend ourselves. In 2023, it is simply criminal not to check your facts.