Editor of Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that’s been rocking since 2015. I complain on the internet a lot.
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Last Notes npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith Well this is a great example of how broken SEO is. https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/ npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub1ll0…t7nf start with that then grab an amp npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub1mdk…aptk they disagree on protocols, not culture npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub1mdk…aptk nah, mild take. Bluesky is clearly closer to the spirit of the fediverse than Threads npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub180z…dxct I absolutely think it was intentional npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith It’s wild to think about how Cloudflare has evolved into the workaround of choice for literally everyone. npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub1gv8…uu0q Nailed it. npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub1a0u…h3us Thanks for flagging! npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub18c7…er9d For this specific piece, yes. Bing has traditionally been a traffic driver on this URL but it’s bigger than usual. npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub18c7…er9d I wonder if it’s Copilot driving legitimate traffic and Bing just adds a lot of weird terms around it. npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub18c7…er9d More than 80% of the traffic on this page is from Edge, which traditionally delivers less than 5% of my traffic. So take from that what you will. npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith These terms don’t bring up anything on Google whatsoever. This is all Bing. Is Copilot just inventing a bunch of random junk and sending users to bizarre search results? npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith Based on Bing autocomplete the results don’t feel human. npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith Seeing some weird search traffic patterns from Bing, which traditionally only offers traffic my way occasionally. Anyone know what a “simulated selfhost” is? npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub1a0u…h3us A little early, I need to tweak other sections, but I think I just might npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith Slight tweak. Screw it. Let’s just make it the header. npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub1grx…uxfe I think a big part of the issue is that a lot of Medium writers that would have been interested in joining a Mastodon server likely already had one npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith So I think when people load the site for the first time, I’m just going to have a gigantic signup box hit them in the face with a bit of casual arrogance. I think it’d be funny. npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub1vqw…7afe Looked like this circa 2020. It was designed to look more like a newspaper. npub1mzg4ejppsvuc6j0kcgxsja2r3qna736xf5q53cx8h7p5nk8f24yq9jgcre Ernie Smith @npub1grx…uxfe 1.9k, but close enough
