
Marshall Simmonds
@mdsimmonds
Founder of Define Media Group. Builder of About.com and former Head of Search for the NYTimes Co. Avid Phisherman, runner and skier of large hills.
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http://www.DefineMG.com 28-03-2008 22:52:48
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All well and good, but when do we get some Ari Shapiro too? bendconcerts.com/event/pink-marโฆ

NEW research: sparktoro.com/blog/we-analyzโฆ We worked w/ Datos, A Semrush Company to analyze millions of ChatGPT visits; some fascinating takeaways: - Traffic's down (not just b/c school's out) ๐ซ - Programming assistance is ~30% of use โจ๏ธ - #DnD and #rpg use-cases are surprisingly popular ๐

Following a tip-off from Fabio Andreotti and Lorenzo Lemmi I discovered that Google appears to have fixed a googlebot bug with how it handled robots.txt files containing sitemap links. They fixed the issue in late 2021, but I haven't been able to find any coverage or discussion




Friday with Neal Francis Comes Alive <chef's kiss>



SEO Pioneer - Marshall Simmonds live now In the early '00s, Marshall Simmonds was the head of SEO at About Dot Com, which at the time was the third largest site in the world. After About was acquired, Marshall went on to be the head of SEO at the NYT Link below ๐







Yes, I can write code. No, I'm not good at it. I build a blockchain app for a client - Pi Network. This is the story of my fumbles, pleasant surprises, and utter javascript incompetence: minepi.com/blog/build-bloโฆ

