The biggest risk isn't failure, it's succeeding at the wrong thing. Most people are climbing ladders leaned against the wrong wall. They'll reach the top and realize they've wasted their life. Better to fail at the right thing than succeed at the wrong one.

Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content bit.ly/3WnFwUi

Wow, we knew it was bad, but after crunching the numbers, 81% of Mediavine sites lost Google traffic since Oct '23 • For losing sites, the average decline was 55% • Of these, 20.6% saw some "recovery" (>5%) with the Aug Core Update Even worse, more sites lost traffic, ~30% 🤨

Over the course of my grandfather's lifetime, he gifted and "loaned" Donald $413 million. And Donald still declared bankruptcy 6 times. He failed so badly that the banks needed to put him on a $425,000-a-month allowance.

“When you see Trump with Putin, as I have on a few occassions, he’s like the 12-year old boy that goes to high school and meets the captain of the football team. ‘My hero!’ It’s really creepy.” - Malcolm Turnbull, 29th Prime Minister of Australia.

.Mark Cuban: "I've known Trump for 25 years... He is the most unethical, lacks character, dishonest person I've ever done business with... This is one of the few human beings on the planet that gets dumber in front of our faces every single day." Full interview:

As President, Trump Demanded Investigations of Foes. He Often Got Them. nytimes.com/2024/09/21/us/…

Google AIO Is Ranking More Niche Specific Sites bit.ly/4epU6SV

Internal blog post reveals Automattic’s plan to enforce the WordPress trademark using ‘nice and not nice lawyers’ techcrunch.com/2024/10/15/int… via TechCrunch

"Ideas that are hoarded help no one. Success follows generosity." -James Clear

good perspective from Noah Kagan A few thoughts on suffering sendfox.com/noah/c/expwgl/…

BREAKING Former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger endorsed Vice President Harris: “A candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has

SearchGPT vs. Google vs. Bing: Search Results Review. To compare the search results in ChatGPT to Bing and Google, Dan looked at a number of queries to understand the possibility and limitations of SearchGPT searchenginejournal.com/chatgpt-search… via Dan Taylor, SearchEngineJournal®

"I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you." - Kobe Bryant

Judge Rules in Favor of WP Engine Over Automattic & Mullenweg in WordPress Case. Check out the details: bit.ly/3OREQDa #WordPress

Interesting process for measuring AI brand visibility bit.ly/3ZzJJG1

Eliminating Daylight Savings Time is a terrible idea. I ran the numbers, and it would cost the average American 40 minutes of waking daylight per year in the summer.

I have to agree. I run into all kinds of people that I wouldn't think would use AI talking about using ChatGPT and Co-Pilot. What's your take? Searchquake: Consumers Now Consider ChatGPT A Real Google Alternative bit.ly/3DkwhhH

My first SEJ article - Discover the content that AI engines value and how to build a blueprint for optimizing your website for AI citations. searchenginejournal.com/aeo-guide-seo-… via SearchEngineJournal®