Compound SEO -> slideshare.net/blindfiveyearo… THIS is the only SEO presentation to read in 2022.

Bicycle Safety: How to Not Get Hit by Cars -> bicyclesafe.com It's super old school, but still the best resource for new road cyclists. I've been referring to it for 14+ years.

MLB rule changes: Robo umps, shift banning, gambling are coming --> si.com/mlb/2022/04/12… Yesss - using analytics to fight the negative effects of analytics. Hopefully it works out

RSS is on fire again, and it's all down to SlackOps -> conoroneill.net/2022/07/18/rss… "I’m that guy, the one who never gave up on blogs and never ever gave up on RSS."

Inside the Mind-Boggling World of the Antiquities Theft Task Force -> annehelen.substack.com/p/inside-the-m…

Today I met with officials in Helsinki, which has had a ~75% drop in road deaths over the last thirty years (including recent years with no ped/cyclist deaths at all). Me: “How much of a role has IT played in reducing crashes?” City official: “Zero. We simply slowed down cars.”

These Google updates are so strange. I think they're back to using pigeons - archive.google.com/pigeonrank/

How fateful? -> chan.co.za/how-fateful Really fun, sweet post on using Google Maps to reverse engineer all the "What If?" moments in life.

Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. -> standardebooks.org Amazing project!

Alaska’s Fat Bear Week proves conservation can be joyful -> economist.com/united-states/… “Maybe things aren’t super great all the time in the world”, says Felicia Jimenez, a current Katmai ranger, “but there’s some really fat bears in Alaska.”

On the curious and enduring appeal of Waffle House -> economist.com/culture/2022/0…

"Over the past 100 years the surest sign of an economic downturn has been a Philly-based baseball team winning the World Series." -> cnbc.com/2022/10/12/no-… Go Atlanta!

The story of every SEO 🥲 #SEO

If an SEO tool, agency, or consultant recommends that you optimize your Google Business Profile description to improve rankings, drop them. The description is NOT used in the ranking algorithm. It has never been a ranking factor and never will be. #seo #localseo

#SEO in 2024.

TFW Hanlon's razor shows up again -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27…

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I’m telling you. My money is on “-reddit.com” becoming a big search modifier in the next year. Many more “normies” (😂) will be teaching each other how to make those results go away. Not everyone wants to hear what some anonymous guy said on Reddit. I’ve been hearing this

Google's Helpful Content era didn't even make it 2 years.

Groan. In 1918, most lumber in North America came from old-growth forests (adiós, California redwoods!). These trees grew slowly over centuries in dense, competitive conditions, resulting in very tight growth rings and naturally dense, strong wood. These forests largely don’t