Sean Ogle

I help people make money with their words on the internet. Freelance writing and niche sites. Newsletter:

Oh, and I golf. A lot.

[Sean Ogle @seanogle]

So I lost my passport in #Japan this week...this is what happened. https://t.co/HIPg6r3lGT

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@joelrunyon @ImpossibleHQ @braunhagey This makes me so happy. Congrats dude!

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@Travis_Jamison @morganhousel I love this. Have noticed the same thing. And every time I think about doing something that may benefit me financially, but risk the independence I’ve built, it always gives me pause. And every time I go back to the thing I’ve valued most for over a decade: freedom.

[JMP+EV @JMPlusEV]

We launched the @GolfNApp on the App Store just 5 weeks ago.

In that time:

• 8,000+ downloads
• 2,075 rounds logged
• Rounds Played on every continent
• Now averaging 200-300 downloads per day just in the USA and UK

1/x

[Sean Ogle @seanogle]

@MattGiovanisci Me. I’m people.

[Jon Miksis @JonMiksis]

Our message to Google is simple: remove the site-wide classifier that is being used to punish small, independent websites.

If you feel there are major issues with our sites, at least give us a manual penalty and explain why. But as it stands right now, there are thousands of legitimate websites providing immense value that are essentially being shadow banned for no apparent reason (other than to benefit a handful of major corporations that Google is financially tied to).

We aren’t asking for preferential treatment. We just want to compete on an equal playing field against the big sites, letting the users—rather than Google’s AI algorithm— decide what constitutes helpful content. There are dozens of ranking factors that can assess the user experience like time on page, bounce rate, etc.

If we are going to lose to the big guys, it should be based on our own shortcomings, and not a side-wide classifier. No company should be able to flip a switch overnight that can decimate the livelihoods of thousands, if not millions of people. It’s not just site owners who suffer from these decisions; it’s all the writers, editors, web designers/developers, SEO folks, and virtually everyone else in the online space.

All we ask is that you make this online ecosystem a fun and fair place to compete again. Give us the opportunity to make amazing content and be rewarded for our efforts. Without small, niche sites, the online world is going to become an uncreative, myopic place. Just a handful of large websites will dominate the information on the web, ultimately leading to less helpful content for consumers.

If Google truly values diversity (like it says it does), then it shouldn’t be shutting out the voices of niche sites & small bloggers through a site-wide classifier. Please open your hearts and do the right thing. 🙏

@googlesearchc @JohnMu @Google

[Sean Ogle @seanogle]

@HuuVanTran @NicheSiteLady Fwiw, I setup 4 quizzes 10 months ago and have got about 20k subs from them. Email open rate is still over 50% from that list.

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@DJohanson @darwinruiz_ @parkerworth Long live the fedora!

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Awwww! You’re the best!

[Sean Ogle @seanogle]

If you read one thing today, make it this.

[Glen Allsopp 👾 @ViperChill]

NEW: Detailed Q3, The SEO playbook of Digital Goliaths revealed, in-depth.

Weeks of work resulted in 46 insights, many of which I haven't seen discussed elsewhere.

I put my all into these so I really hope you find it valuable. Would love to do more.

https://t.co/HhLRmAH1t5

[Sean Ogle @seanogle]

I’m not necessarily a @Beyonce fan, or a country music fan. But Cowboy Carter is the best album I’ve heard in a very long time.

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@LFroment Wonderful choice :)

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@LFroment AWWWWWW YEAH.

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@pearsonified Congrats!!

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@MattGiovanisci All day everyday

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Hey @portlandgeneral, our power has been out for 5 days now and we still haven’t gotten any estimated time of it coming back on or any notifications of any fixes. Should we expect this to continue?

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@MattGiovanisci !!!

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@BarrettABrooks NERD

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@Jamie_IF Agreed on all of this…wild to see how objectively unhelpful so many serps have become over the last 6 months…

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@JepsenThomas @Jamie_IF Would be interested in an audit…

[Sean Ogle @seanogle]

@dvdaltizer @max_fosh @HHillierSmith @kurtisconner Been fun to watch your thumbnail journey! Just curious, how much do your charge for thumbnails? Is it by thumbnail, as a package, hourly?