Following my curiosity. Let's find where smart creativity, #SEO and pure awesome overlap. Here we go! She/Her
Oslo, Norway
Joined September 2009
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Marketing is rarely life altering. The work I’ve been doing with @JessColumbo is quite possibly saving lives. Ty for the opportunity! 🙌
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Heads up for SEOs: Google's testing tools no longer mimic Googlebot's user-agent. This has a massive impact on diagnosing technical SEO issues.
Major tools:
- Rich Result-test
- URL inspection tool
- Mobile-Friendly Test
use the new UA: Google-InspectionTool.
This! Louder for the people in the back!
Elya Simukka retweeted
Skip college. Quit your 9-5. Stop drinking. Wake up early. Go on long walks. Lift weights. Eat protein. $10k all day. It’s dead-simple. 99% of people won’t do this. Be a 1% hero. Unlock life. Cold showers. Invincibility. Power. Masculinity. Testosterone. Winning.
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SEO-friendly = User-friendly.
When we:
- Match headers/titles to the language users use
- Add links to relevant/popular pages
- Ensure content fully covers a topic
- Remove/improve low-quality pages
We aren't just doing that for search engines. We're helping your users.
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IF YOUR TAKEAWAY FROM THIS RESPONSE WAS TO REVISIT THE SUBDOMAIN SUBFOLDER DEBATE YOU'RE LIKELY MISSING THE MORE IMPORTANT POINT OF DOING THINGS FOR PEOPLE RATHER THAN SEARCH ENGINES USE WHAT YOU THINK MAKES SENSE FOR THEM AND YOU'RE DOING WHAT GOOGLE'S SYSTEMS SEEK TO REWARD.
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I just love how @SimoAhava describes Bounce Rate in his latest newsletter. That guy has a beautiful way with words 😍😂 – at California, USA
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The goal of a great discussion isn't to land on the same page. It’s to explore different views.
Nods and smiles stroke your ego and close your mind. Thoughtful questions stoke your curiosity and stretch your thinking.
Consensus makes you comfortable. Dissent makes you smarter.
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As Google Ads shifts away from keywords, site experience & optimization is increasingly crucial.
It also means that the Venn diagram that is the relationship between SEO & PPC is going to move closer. They have always met at the intersection of UX, that will be more prominent.
Not everyday that affordable and healthcare go together in a sentence. I like this concept by Mark Cuban. costplusdrugs.com/
Elya Simukka retweeted
There are many paths to learning SEO.
You could:
- Start a site from scratch
- Go to conferences
- Read articles
- Work at an agency or in-house team
- Buy and run your own website
- Find a mentor
How did you start learning SEO?
Compelling presentation from @CICERO_Green this evening with #pint22 over a tasty trippel Belgium.
Having a fantastic time listening to science presentations over a delicious pint at #pint22 this evening.
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Reducing your smartphone use is better for your well-being than stopping cold turkey.
Experiment: 4 months after decreasing smartphone use by 1 hr/day, people were happier, less depressed & anxious, and led healthier lifestyles.
Digital moderation beats digital abstinence.
Trying to explain how US health insurance “works” to Norwegians, where I live, is tricky bc it IS NOT this way here. Or, well, many other developed nations. Far from it.
I just realized my non-US friends probably don't know how US insurance works.
So lets say your employer offers insurance. They pay a portion and then you pay a portion. For a family, the employee pays on average about $400 per pay cycle, or $10,400 per year.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The average U.S. worker with family coverage pays $5,969 towards employer-based health insurance, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation 2021 Employer Health Benefits Survey.
kff.org/health-costs/r….
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[CW: cartoon gore]
credit @MrLovenstein
![[content warning: gore] A four-panel comic with 2 characters: blue person, who is sweating and missing an arm and is clutching their left side while bleeding more in each successive panel; and pink person, who is behind a desk with a plaque reading "insurance". panel 1, green background: blue: HEY, YOU KNOW HOW I PAY YOU TO COVER MEDICAL CARE WHEN I NEED IT? pink, clasping hands patiently: yes panel 2, green background: blue: WELL..., I THINK I MAY NEED IT NOW panel 3, green background: pink, raising one hand to elaborate: ok, but have you considered... panel 4, purple background: pink, shrugging with hands open: ...simply passing away? The fourth panel zooms in so the blue person is excluded, and the phrase "passing away" is italicized. Below the panels is the text: THIS COMIC MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO SHAY CANFIELD @MrLovenstein·MRLOVENSTEIN.COM](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQA8X48XwAoY3Dk.png?name=orig)
ALT [content warning: gore] A four-panel comic with 2 characters: blue person, who is sweating and missing an arm and is clutching their left side while bleeding more in each successive panel; and pink person, who is behind a desk with a plaque reading "insurance". panel 1, green background: blue: HEY, YOU KNOW HOW I PAY YOU TO COVER MEDICAL CARE WHEN I NEED IT? pink, clasping hands patiently: yes panel 2, green background: blue: WELL..., I THINK I MAY NEED IT NOW panel 3, green background: pink, raising one hand to elaborate: ok, but have you considered... panel 4, purple background: pink, shrugging with hands open: ...simply passing away? The fourth panel zooms in so the blue person is excluded, and the phrase "passing away" is italicized. Below the panels is the text: THIS COMIC MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO SHAY CANFIELD @MrLovenstein·MRLOVENSTEIN.COM
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August 2024.
Google has rewritten our page titles, meta descriptions, all website text, our high school diplomas, resumes, marriage licenses, bank statements, Fahrenheit 451, the Magna Carta, the last 3 seasons of The Office, and finally, our genetic code itself.
We are Google.