#How to get rank on google first page

[probablyasocialecologist]

This week, a 2,500-page leak, first reported by Search Engine Optimization (SEO) veteran Rand Fishkin, gave the world an insight into the 26-year-old mystery of Google Search. “I think the biggest takeaway is that what Google’s public representatives say and what Google search engine does are two different things,” Fishkin said in an emailed statement to Gizmodo.

[...]

King notes that one ranking feature “homepagePagerankNs” suggests the notoriety of a website’s homepage could prop up everything it publishes. Fishkin writes the leak references a system called NavBoost—first referenced by Google’s VP of Search, Pandu Nayak, in his Department of Justice testimony—which purportedly measures clicks to boost rankings on Google Search. Many in the SEO industry are taking these documents as confirmation of what the industry has long suspected: A website deemed popular by Google may receive a higher Search ranking for a query even though a lesser-known site may have better information.

[...]

In a video from 2016, a Google Search representative declared, “We don’t have a website authority score.” In an interview from 2015, another Googler said, “Using clicks directly in ranking would be a mistake.” It’s hard to make sense of these comments now in light of the leaked documents and Google’s response. “This response is a perfect example of why people don’t like or trust Google,” Fishkin said. “It’s a non-statement that doesn’t address the leak, provides no value, and might well have been written by an AI trained on the past decade’s most soulless corporate messaging.” In the era of AI answers, Ruby notes that the way Google ranks web pages is more important than ever. Instead of a series of links to various perspectives, you might just get one straight answer thanks to Google’s new AI Overviews. However, we’ve seen 10-year-old Reddit posts get strange amounts of authority, telling some users to put glue in their pizza. How Google chooses authority is increasingly important, since the top result may be the only one with a voice now.

30 May 2024

[somethingpersonarelated]

Akechi's taste in Literature

I've taken an interest in the books Akechi reads. Obviously from the first time you talk with him, you can already tell what he tends to: psychology, philosophy, and mythos. Also, I read at least a little bit from every text. One of my professors out there is proud of me. I hope. So: let's talk about it!

Ok, but why care? Quick Introduction

No particular reason. I simply want to tinker with his brain. I think it could give us insight on the character! And there's an easy way to dismiss this conversation: Akechi uses books as a way to appear intelligent. I don't think that's wrong per se, but he does express an interest in psychology and philosophy in his third semester Jazz Jin discussions. His thieves den conversations also point to interests in mythos. Use this as a "Annoying Person Bookshelf" if you'd like, I certainly will.

Aristole's De Anima (Mementos Mission - Chapter 3)

De Anima, or "On the Soul" [Leob Classical Library], is an examination of the soul and how it functions within the body. It's pretty dense but easily accessible. On page 15,

"There are times when men show all the symptoms of fear without any cause of fear being present. If this is the case, then clearly the affections of the soul are formulae expressed in matter."

Now, I'm not going to read every book, that would be a huge investment. And unfortunately I am still a university student, so I'll stick to the introduction/first chapters or so. But anyways, to the point of the quote, De Anima tends to get metaphysical. Theory time: Akechi has morbid fascinations with the soul. Not only because he well, kills people, but also messes with the restraints on their heart. I choose this quote because it's a good summary of the kind of body horror someone messing with you in the metaverse is like. It's fear and anger unchained, but it manifests in reality through subway accidents... for example.

Hegel's Dialectics (did Akechi misquote Hegel?) - Rank 1

Look, almost all of these texts are slogs to get through, so I wouldn't blame Akechi for not catching this. Or not reading the 2017 in-universe equivalent of cliffnotes. Note: Dialectics refers to the structure/strategy that Hegel uses, not a text itself. Looking at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy we see that Hegel never makes mention of the thesis, antithesis, and synthesis idea. Rather, thesis-antithesis-synthesis is a pattern in his arguments. These are also projected by people reading his text, so we can't fully be sure he's using this to formulate most of his arguments. So not only has Akechi forgotten synthesis, the "unification", but also the fact that Hegel doesn't talk about this. Did he read Hegel? Probably. Did he retain the information? Questionable. Do I blame the writers for making the mistake? mmmm. Maybe. If you're asking me to guess which book he read, I would estimate it was The Phenomenology of Spirit [Google Books]. And yes, I'm going to say it was just because of this quote on page 9 that just, screams Black Mask:

"The force of the mind is only as great as expression; its depth only as, as deep as its power to expand and lose itself when spending and giving out its substance."

Maurice Leblanc's Arsène Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes (Herlock Sholmes) (P5A)

This book I read because my curiosity definitely got the better of me. Since I've gotten into Persona 5 again, I've been DYING to read this one, but never got around to it. I think this one is also interesting to look at based on how it was represented in the anime, a crow escaping a bird cage. I can say that this doesn't happen in the book, but this is why I think Akechi is self inserting on Holmes/Sholmes here. Holmes is much freer as a person in this text than Akechi, but also in a deep rivalry with Lupin. Their banter is also pretty reminiscent of what they [Joker and Akechi] have, but... with older language. Longer quote, so here's an image in its place:

Edit/Correction: Edogawa Ranpo's Kogoro Akechi Series!

As pointed out by a couple people, we can't leave out this series. (credits to @heavy-metal-papillon) I don't know why my mind blanked and left this out. Because when I was doing research for this post someone had mentioned it. Just by name, it should be obvious why this is here! Here is a part of the preface that explains Kogoro Akechi, Arsene Lupin, and their presence in Edogawa's novels (written by Ho-Ling Wong):

Literature he makes references but doesn't mention (note: headcanon/my opinion)

John Stuart Mill's On Utilitarianism

Because Akechi knows how to flirt, he recommends philosophy to Joker. [Early Modern Texts] In my eyes he definitely doesn't agree with this philosophy (in fact some quotes are definitely more aligned with Maruki's philosophy). Page 8:

"That’s because the utilitarian standard is not •the agent’s own greatest happiness but •the greatest amount of happiness altogether; and even if it can be doubted whether a noble character is always happier because of its nobleness, such a character certainly makes other people happier, and the world in general gains immensely from its existence."

Yes, Akechi reads Freud. Freud's essays: Beyond the Pleasure Principle & The Ego Principle

In an offhanded comment about Personas in the Thieves Den to Ryuji, Akechi says:

I love you Akechi. I will not read Freud for you. My love has limits.

Carl Jung's Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

Okay I'm NOT reading this (a lie, i did. [Internet Archive]) but this was the foundational text on the Jungian Archetype of the Persona as well as addressing concepts such as "the will to power." Going to leave this quote from page 78 for you to munch on:

"Logically, the opposite of love is hate, and of Eros, Phobos (fear); but psychologically it is the will to power. Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other..."

There's a couple things here that point to Akechi reading this, but ultimately I just headcanon that he wants to reason through why Personas exist.

Generally reads about the casts Personas!

Similarly to how Joker can read about the other PTs Personas, Akechi does as well. Well, if his morbid discussion about Captain Kidd in the Thieves Den is an indicator. Does this mean Akechi is familiar with the Carmen stage opera? I think so. Besides, it's also the smartest move. Akechi (head)canonically reads lovecraft.

Conclusion

Akechi really enjoys psychology and philosophy, and while some of it seems like he's doing it for attention/to appear smarter, he DOES continue to show interest in third-semester/thieves den. I still can't forgive him for reading Freud.

The List (of ones directly mentioned here)

De Anima, Aristotle

The Phenomenology of Spirit, Hegel

Arsène Lupin vs Sherlock Holmes, Leblanc

On Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill

Beyond the Pleasure Principle & The Ego Principle, Freud

Two Essays, Carl Jung

The Fiend with Twenty Faces, Edogawa Ranpo

Other notes and headcanons I can't justify giving sections to:

he probably read that fuckass billiards book

definitely stuff on justice. i was just lazy. Some of these texts do cover these ideas, but definitely not all of them

he likes detective novels. he's probably read a fair share of sherlock holmes.

he probably reads adjacent literature to some of the philosophers mentioned (for example: Nietzsche to Jung, Plato to Aristotle)

[paradoxcase]

How to use search engines effectively in the year of our lord 2025

So, we all know Google sucks now. There are some other alternative search engines, but honestly, switching search engines isn't going to fix a lot of the fundamental issues we're seeing with search engines nowadays. But yesterday, while responding to someone on reddit who was making the argument of "Google sucks now, so really, how much worse is it to just ask ChatGPT" I realized that there is actually a formula for using search engines that I have that continues to work perfectly for most things despite the fact that Google sucks now, so I thought I would share.

First of all, to remove all of the AI bullshit from Google, you can use udm14.com instead, or install the udm=14 browser extension. The method I outline here may or may not work with search engines other than Google, I haven't looked into them deeply enough. udm14.com should be essentially just Google, but without AI.

Then, we have to go back to the beginning and understand what a search engine actually is, and what it isn't. I spent three years of my career working in the guts of a search engine (not Google, or any other web-based search engine), so I should hope I would know what they are:

A search engine is a tool to locate documents.

Google in particular has done a lot to obscure what a search engine actually is by adding a lot of "cool" "features" to their search engine which are not actually within the scope of search engine capabilities. When you search for a question and Google displays a bolded answer that it found on a web page? Not search engine provenance. When it displays its "AI Summary"? Not search engine provenance. When it advertises things to you? Not search engine provenance. When it comes up with questions that "other people asked"? Not search engine provenance. The core competency of a search engine is to find documents (in this case, web pages) from a large collection of documents (the internet) based on their relevance to a query you have typed. Just like people are misusing ChatGPT to do stuff it was not designed for and that it is not good at, using a search engine as if it is a question answering service that can deliver the answer to a question you asked is using the search engine to do something it was not designed for and is not good at.

The search engine is not an all-in-one tool any more than ChatGPT is an all-in-one tool. Research is a multi-step process that involves a search engine, but the search engine cannot do everything for you. Here is the process:

Learn how to identify reliable sources of information. Learn what sites tend to have reliable information about the topic you're looking up. Wikipedia is a good fallback that may give you links to other reliable sources. You can also ask people who know more about your topic for recommendations of good sites. There are also sites that rank the reliability and bias of other popular sites. The search engine's ability to find relevant documents is not super useful when the internet is full of untrustworthy bullshit and is becoming more so as time goes on due to AI-generated content. Just because a search engine returns a link does not mean it is reliable.

Use a search engine to specifically search just the websites you know are reliable for your topic. Google has some documentation about how to do this on their search engine here. There should be a way to do this on any other half-decent search engine, as well, but I don't have the details of how to do it. Now you have limited your scope from "anything and everything produced by everyone who has ever created a Wordpress account plus whoever paid Google to have their site appear in every single search" to a collection of documents that you can trust.

Read the sources that you get back from the search engine. No, seriously. Read them. Don't read Google's "AI Summary". Read the actual sources. Don't read the bolded answer Google put at the top of the results list. Read the sources. Don't ask another AI to summarize the sources for you. Read the sources. Don't just read the headline or title and assume you now know everything that is in the body of the article. READ THE SOURCES. There is no shortcut for this, you have to read.

There was a time when you could get away with being lax about this and just do general searches, but that was because there was an actual limit on the amount of wrong information that mere humans could generate per unit time, and also because Google did legitimately use to be more concerned with promoting reliable sources than with promoting whoever paid them the most money to do so. But that time is over.

Basically, if you wouldn't just type your question into ChatGPT and hope for the best, don't just type your question into Google and hope for the best, either.

[dedalvs]

Is there something up with the High Valyrian wiki?

https://wiki.languageinvention.com/index.php?title=High_Valyrian_language

I've had this link bookmarked since ages. I can't seem to load the page. I've tried all sorts of browsers and it is still not working. i wanted to get back into actively learning HV again and duolingo is kinda annoying so. Is there a different page/resource the wiki has moved on to? I also seem to recall an old forum for HV with a bunch of really good resources for it. is it possible for you to provide a link? Thanks so much anyway!!

Good question! This wiki, which you can find here..

...is a labor of love—not just from me, but from a team of dedicated individuals who want to get information about my languages up somewhere more or less permanent, editable by many, and all in one place.

For years I have had a hosting plan from DreamHost. For a fixed fee, DreamHost allows you, essentially, infinite storage. I've got a dozen or so websites hosted by the same DreamHost account. I have to pay for the urls (a yearly fee; everyone pays these), but the hosting itself is covered, no matter if I had one website or a hundred.

Creating a wiki that would function like Wiktionary was my idea. I love Wiktionary, and love the idea behind it. For example, let's say you wanted to look up mate. This is an English word. It's also a subjunctive form of matar "to kill" in Spanish. It's also the word for "saliva" in Swahili. It's also "dead" in Tahitian. It's also a word in several other languages. It's kind of cool to take an abstract form—going just by spelling—and seeing that it's a word in a bunch of different languages, all with different etymologies (some related, of course. For example, mate has something to do with death in a lot of Oceanic languages. In Hawaiian it's make, which looks like an entirely different English word!).

In Dothraki, the word tor is the number four. It comes from Proto-Plains *tur (and so would be tur in Lhazareen). It's also the word for "tower" in Hen Linge (this is one of the words coined by Andrzej Sapkowski, not created by me). In Noalath, from The Shannara Chronicles, it's the word for "wolf", and in Shiväisith, the language I created for the Dark Elves from Thor: The Dark World, it's the word for "sword". While it's true I didn't create the Hen Linge word, I created the others, so you can see it's a form I'm fond of, where the shape is possible.

Anyway, that's kind of cool! And that was the point of the site.

As it happens, the High Valyrian section of the site is…massive. To give you an idea, at the moment, the wiki has over 220,000 pages. Most of those are High Valyrian pages. This is because there's a dedicated team for High Valyrian that has added pages for every single noun, adjective, and verb inflection for every existing word on the wiki. To give you an idea, every verb of High Valyrian has around 200 forms (ipradagon "to eat", ipradan "I eat", ipradā "you eat", ipradas "s/he/it eats", etc.). Every single form for every single verb has its own page. This was accomplished primarily with a program that populated the inflectional pages, but however they got there, they're there.

Certain things on the wiki are templates that need to go through and "check" every single page. Additionally, a webcrawler goes through and checks every single page on the wiki. This requires a lot of RAM. As a result, periodically, the entire website just...shuts down.

Obviously this is not cool. I asked DreamHost about it, and though we have infinite space, we don't have infinite RAM. The first step was to disable all web crawlers. You know about SEO, and how you can do things to increase the page rank of your site? Well, we needed to do the opposite. We needed to make the site disappear from the net, effectively. And we did. This is why even if you type "David J. Peterson wiki language invention" into Google you get nothing. It's like we don't exist. We're there, but you have to know we're there and go to the site specifically. That helped, but our own programs still shut things down.

The second step was to get a private server (technically a virtual private server) for the site. This cost me an extra $25 a month ($300 a year) from what I was already paying. This definitely helped, but sometimes things get to be a bit too much, and so the site still shuts down. This is what you experienced.

You know how Wikipedia begs you for money every year? It's because of this. It's one thing to create an awesome resource; it's another thing for people to actually use it.

Hosting already costs me about $250 every two years, and every year I renew the urls for about 15 websites, which is another $300 a year. If I upgrade the VPS to the next level, it's even more money every year. And that's just me paying it.

Right now, we're in an okay spot. The site shuts down every so often, but most of the time it's more or less stable. Unless I start making a lot more money regulary, that's the way it's going to stay.

So if you go to the site and it's down, I'm very sorry, but it will be back. May take a few days, but it'll come back (as long as I'm alive, anyway).

[ameliasoulturner]

Kickstart Your Earnings with Content Writing: A Beginner’s Friendly Roadmap

If you’ve ever wondered how ordinary people turn their words into cash, content writing might be your sweet spot. You don’t need a fancy degree or decades of experience to get started. With some guidance, dedication, and a dash of creativity, you can start earning from content writing sooner than you think. This guide walks you through each step in a friendly, down‑to‑earth way so you’ll feel confident launching your freelance writing journey.

Why Content Writing Is a Great Starting Point Content writing covers everything from blog posts and web pages to social media captions and product descriptions. Businesses of all sizes need fresh, engaging words to connect with their audience, rank higher in search engines, and boost sales. As companies continue to invest in digital marketing, demand for quality content writers stays strong. Plus, you can work from anywhere, set your own hours, and choose projects that spark your interest.

Understanding the Basics of Earning from Content Writing At its core, earning from content writing means providing value through written words. Clients pay for:

Research that saves them time

SEO‑friendly copy that boosts visibility

Clear, engaging storytelling that connects with readers

Consistent output that maintains an active online presence

Your job is to become the go‑to person who delivers those benefits reliably.

Step 1: Identify Your Niche and Strengths While generalists can find work, specializing helps you stand out. Consider topics you enjoy or know well—travel, personal finance, health and wellness, tech, lifestyle, parenting, gaming, or education. Having a niche makes it easier to showcase your expertise and justify higher rates. If you’re a fitness buff who loves writing, focus on blogs and articles in that sphere. If you have a background in software, aim for tech how‑to guides.

Step 2: Build a Portfolio That Shows Your Skills Clients want proof you can write well. Even if you haven’t been paid yet, you can create sample pieces:

Start a personal blog or Medium page and publish 3 to 5 high‑quality articles in your niche.

Guest post on small blogs that accept submissions.

Rewrite or summarize existing news stories in your voice (clearly marked as samples).

Draft mock project pieces for imaginary clients—product descriptions, newsletters, or landing pages.

Organize these in a simple online portfolio. You can use free tools like Google Sites, Wix, or WordPress. Make sure each sample highlights your SEO skills by including relevant keywords naturally in titles and subheadings.

Step 3: Optimize Your Online Profiles for Visibility Next, set up profiles on freelance platforms and job boards. Popular destinations include Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer, ProBlogger, Contena, and LinkedIn. When crafting your profile:

Write an engaging headline that includes “content writer” or “freelance writer.”

Summarize your background, niche focus, and any standout achievements.

List your portfolio samples or link directly to your site.

Add relevant skills: SEO, WordPress, SEMrush, Mailchimp, social media management, etc.

Request testimonials from friends or colleagues who can vouch for your work ethic or writing ability.

A well‑optimized profile boosts your chances of appearing in client searches and winning invitations.

Step 4: Find Your First Paid Gigs Landing that first paid project often takes persistence. Strategies that work:

Pitch directly to small businesses or local startups. Send personalized emails offering a free trial article or website audit.

Apply to relevant listings daily on freelance boards. Tailor each proposal to the client’s needs—mention specifics from their job post.

Explore niche‑specific boards like BloggingPro or JournalismJobs for targeted opportunities.

Network on LinkedIn by sharing helpful writing tips, engaging with posts in your niche, and connecting with marketing professionals.

Early on, you might accept lower‑priced gigs to build credibility, but avoid underpricing yourself. Aim for a rate you can increase once you’ve racked up 5 to 10 positive reviews.

Step 5: Master SEO and Content Strategy SEO savvy writers command better fees. Search Engine Optimization involves understanding how keywords, user intent, and readability affect rankings. To shine:

Use free keyword research tools like Google Keyword Planner or Ubersuggest to identify target phrases.

Incorporate primary keywords in titles, opening paragraphs, subheadings, and naturally throughout the text.

Keep sentences concise, break up text with subheadings, and add bullet lists or numbered steps for scannability.

Learn basic on‑page SEO: meta descriptions, internal linking, image alt text, and proper URL structure.

Businesses pay for measurable results. If your copy ranks higher and drives traffic, you become more valuable.

Step 6: Set Competitive Rates and Payment Terms Knowing how much to charge can feel tricky. Common approaches include:

Per‑word rate: New freelance writers often start at five to ten cents per word, moving up to twenty cents or more with experience.

Per‑hour rate: Beginners might charge twenty to thirty dollars per hour, progressing to fifty and beyond as skills sharpen.

Per‑project fee: Flat rates for complete blog posts or web pages, factoring in research, revisions, and strategy.

Always agree on payment milestones. A 50/50 split works—half up front, half on completion. Use contracts to outline deliverables, deadlines, and revision policies. This keeps both sides on the same page.

Step 7: Deliver Quality and Build Long‑Term Relationships Repeat clients are freelancing gold. To keep clients coming back:

Meet deadlines without reminders.

Communicate clearly—let them know if you hit a roadblock and propose solutions.

Offer a revision round to refine the piece to their liking.

Suggest topic ideas for future posts based on emerging trends in their industry.

When clients see you consistently add value, they’ll hire you again and refer you to others.

Step 8: Leverage Tools and Continuous Learning Stay competitive by embracing helpful platforms:

Grammarly or ProWritingAid to polish grammar and tone.

Yoast or Rank Math (for WordPress) to fine‑tune on‑page SEO.

Trello or Asana for managing multiple projects smoothly.

Google Analytics basics to understand content performance.

Invest time in online courses or webinars on SEO, storytelling, and copywriting. The more you learn, the more you can charge.

Step 9: Scale Your Earnings Over Time Once you’ve established a steady stream of projects, scaling becomes the name of the game. Options include:

Raising your rates for new clients while maintaining current engagements.

Packaging content services—offer blog writing plus email newsletters or social media management as a bundle.

Outsourcing parts of the work, like research or editing, to junior writers, allowing you to focus on strategy and client relations.

Creating digital products, such as eBooks or courses on content writing, to earn passive income.

Diversifying revenue streams helps insulate your income from slow periods.

Putting It All Together Earning from content writing is an achievable goal, even if you’re starting from scratch. By identifying your niche, building an impressive portfolio, mastering SEO, and delivering top‑notch work, you’ll attract clients eager to pay for your expertise. Remember that patience and persistence pay off. Treat every project as a chance to improve your craft and delight a client. Before you know it, you’ll have a thriving freelance writing business that fits your lifestyle and fuels your creative passions.

[aomine-in-gensokyo]

I thought I'd put together a little guide on the Gintama X Kuroko no Basket collaboration in the mobile game, Kuroko no Basuke Street Rivals!

I will note that I do rely on Google Translate to translate some of the images on here, so please excuse some inaccuracies

1. Login Bonus

This is your standard log in bonus section. Logging in for 10 days will get you free rewards! The first time you log in will net you a free Gintoki! Other notable rewards include Gintama related icons and banners! If my memory serves me correctly, you don't need to log in and claim rewards for 10 consecutive days. Just logging in ONCE during the event will be enough. Even if you don't log into the game, after a day passes, you'll still be eligible to claim the next reward. So just be sure to log in 10 days after your initial log in to claim the rewards.

2. Exchange Shop

This collaboration also features its own limited time event currency. By completing missions, you'll be able to obtain this currency to exchange for items in the shop! Some notable items include training cards and awakening cards for Gintama characters

As for the missions, there are 14 different missions, 12 which grant you coins, and 2 which grant you a unique Gintama-themed basketball court!

The missions below are as follows:

1. Acquire Gintoki and Kagura. Reward: Daytime Gintama basketball court 2. Have Gintoki and Kagura achieve 50% skill progress. Reward: Nighttime Gintama basketball court 3. Complete all 8 Gintama training missions. Reward: 100 event currency 4. Complete 1 Yorozuya request. Reward: 5 event currency 5. Complete 5 Yorozuya requests. Reward: 25 event currency 6. Complete 10 Yorozuya requests. Reward: 50 event currency 7. Complete 20 Yorozuya requests. Reward: 80 event currency 8. Roll the dice 30 times in Gintama Adventure. Reward: 15 event currency 9. Roll the dice 50 times in Gintama Adventure. Reward: 25 event currency 10. Roll the dice 100 times in Gintama Adventure. Reward: 50 event currency 11. Unlock Gintoki. Reward: 5 event currency 12. Unlock Kagura. Reward: 50 event currency 13. Unlock Hijikata. Reward: 50 event currency 14. Unlock Okita. Reward: 50 event currency

3. Yorozuya Request

This is a random daily quest that grants you 10 event currency, 2 dice (more on that later) and 50 lemon juice (EXP material).

(ignore the "Event has ended," i was able to do this quest just fine today)

4. Gintama Adventure

This is a board-game section where you roll a dice to advance your Justaway around the board! You get 2 free dice everyday. There are 3 different special spaces you can land on:

the ? spaces grants you a random reward (usually level up materials) the ones with the numbers will advance you forward that many steps, the golden spaces grants you the event currency.

Passing the start will net you additional rewards, which change how many times you have passed start before.

5. Gintama Training

When you unlock a certain character, you'll receive some trial missions you can complete with them. Complete those to unlock the rewards on this page!

6. Unlocking Kagura

If you don't have Kagura, this button sends you to the gacha to try and unlock her. If you DO have her, you'll be shown her special missions to unlock some level up materials for her!

7. Gintoki's Trial Missions

Same thing as before. If you don't have Gintoki, it will send you to where you can unlock him. If you DO have him, you'll be shown his trial missions. Alot of these missions can be completed by leveling him up and playing with him in Ranked matches.

I translated some up there, and as you can see, you have to clear all the trial missions on one page to unlock the next page. However, you CAN complete missions you HAVEN'T unlocked yet, you just can't claim the rewards until you unlock them.

8. Cumulative Charge

This menu is just giving you extra rewards based on how much Yen you spend while the event is active.

But yeah! That's more or less the gist of the event! In case anyone was already playing and just needed a quick reference, or if anyone just started and needed some help, I hope this guide was useful!

[bobwess]

AMA (Down to Agincourt addition) I am once again bored, so here are some more (aka many) questions. As that anon from last year who asked for the elevator pitch, I am so glad I did and gave DtA another shot!!! When did you first start reading it?

When did you first realize how hooked you where with DtA? Was it from moment one? Was there a spesific scene?

Fav of the original side characters?

Fav the original main characters?

Coolest concept that DtA introduced into the SPN world?

If there could be a in-depth prequel written for any of the characters, who's past would you be the most interested in exploring?

If you had to, what would you ranking be of the books?

How many times have you read it all the way through?

What bit of foreshadowing (if any) did you miss the first time around that really jumped out at you on a reread?

Did reading DtA help inspire your own The End fic?

What of the many burning questions currently unanswered do you want answered first?

What's the most interesting non-SPN related fact that DtA taught you?

If normal SPN team free will read/watch/found out about the DtA what do you think their reactions would be?

What's a scene/interaction that still scratches the brain itch?

Have you read The Forever King spin-off series? If so, what are your thoughts?

Yes!! Muahahahaha. Changing the order a bit.

Coolest concept that DtA introduced into the SPN world?

The Winchester House, everything about it, and its entire relationship to Nate. 

The complex rules and magical constraints/potential of metaphysical contamination.

Honorable mention: Lucifer’s plans with the Gods.

But also actually: The Winchester House.

What bit of foreshadowing (if any) did you miss the first time around that really jumped out at you on a reread?

(spoilers) 

The set up for the church paradox. 

Cas, post fall, fever dream, almost dying locked in that cabin bedroom, the unnamed goddess calling him in spirit yet somehow physically into that Church.

Dean, post infection, fever dream, almost dying locked in that cabin bedroom, Cas accidentally calling him in spirit yet somehow physically into that Church. 

All of time and space converging. Dean is the impossible, he was never supposed to be in this universe, Cas accidentally binding them together with those sigils, allowing Cas to connect with Dean in the first place, and also making Dean invisible to Lucifer while he’s physically in that cabin, which he technically is, thus allowing him to shield Lia and thus her able to get him into that church where he and Cas manage to do something and erase the kids' (and both of their) minds. 

There is so much meat there, and every time you re-read there is more. There is so much cool foreshadowing with ALL the players involved, and I literally put together another thread in that during EVERY read-through. 

Someone once asked me my thoughts on what we know happened in the church and it got to 19 pages in google before I had to cut it off pending another re-read of book 4. 

Fav of the original side characters?

I can not separate Nate and the Winchester House, so--

Fav the original main characters?

Vera by a slim margin over Joe.

When did you first start reading it?

It’s hard to remember just because the last three years are a fuzzy mess, but I’m pretty sure I started reading it late 2021/early 2022. I am a fast reader so I demolished it VERY fast. 

When did you first realize how hooked you where with DtA? Was it from moment one? Was there a specific scene? 

After Cas and Dean started properly working together in book 1 I was pretty on board, but once they told Chuck and started their trips into Kansas City, that was when it really settled in and I knew I was about to read the entire thing.

If there could be a in-depth prequel written for any of the characters, who's past would you be the most interested in exploring?

Joe or Teresa. Honestly though I’d really like to see the case Dean worked down by the border. 

If you had to, what would you ranking be of the books?

This is a slim AF margin too, because they’re all so good. But I think it’d be 3,1,4,2 So “A Thousand Lights in Space” “Map of the World” “Game of God” “It’s the Stars That Lie” But it's real neck and neck for the last three.

How many times have you read it all the way through?

Books one and two I have read cover to cover 6 or 7 times, three I probably read a couple more. Book four I’ve actually only read completely cover to cover once, but I have read a lot of it out of order a couple more times. I’m trying to get my fics to a bit more of a stable point so I can re-read it again in case I go off the rails hyper-fixation on it again. I’ll probably read it twice in a row when I read it this next time.

Did reading DtA help inspire your own The End fic?

No, it hindered it greatly. The world building in DtA is very contrary to the plot I have for my endverse fic, and it took a while for my brain to reset and be like “Nope, this is what I’m doing, put that out of your mind.” If I hadn’t read DtA, you’d already have my Endverse fic, because I started writing it before reading that, and had to stop work for straight up like a year. 

What of the many burning questions currently unanswered do you want answered first?

WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED INSIDE THE DAMN CHURCH!?!?!?

What's the most interesting non-SPN related fact that DtA taught you?

Graphene and everything about it.

If normal SPN team free will read/watch/found out about the DtA what do you think their reactions would be?

I think none of them would have any idea what to do with it. Cas would therefore not have much outward expression, Sam would be incredibly awkward and only a little insulted he isn’t in it, and Dean would be 10/10 defensive AF. 

What's a scene/interaction that still scratches the brain itch?

The Winchester Hou- Cas accidentally calling Dean when he’s using Allison as a conduit for the kids in Ichabod, and subsequently their interactions after Cas figures out what happened. 

Close seconds are Cas and Dean’s interaction after Dean gets bit in the courtyard, Cas searching Kansas City with his mind after Dean touched The Ick™. 

And yes actually the retelling of Nate’s interactions with The Winchester House.

Have you read The Forever King spin-off series? If so, what are your thoughts?

I have not read it yet, I must at some point. I know I’ll like it.

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Also I'm glad my pitch worked and you ended up giving it another go!!

[cloverjgardener]

Is it AI Copy or a Tired Writer Trying Their Best? A Look Backstage in Copywriting

(For those unaware, copy in this context is used to describe the informational writing on a website)

So for a while now I've seen people online point at certain web copy and claim that it's clearly generated by AI. In many cases I disagree. People against generative AI will claim the tells are easy. People for generative AI will often say the same thing, right before selling guides on editing the obvious tells out of your generative text to slip under the radar.

I don't have the most authority on the topic, but I've been in technical writing for about six years. I've worked as a by-the-assignment ghostwriter and a salaried copywriter. So I think I have enough backing to say that I don't think it's possible to catch AI writing. I think it's possible to perceive sloppy writing, manipulative writing, almost incoherent writing. But a lot of that has existed before the sudden surge in large language models, thanks to the way many companies in the industry direct their writers to work.

Want a behind-the-curtain look at what goes into a lot of the copy you read online? Follow me!

See this? This is a keyword ranking off SEOSpyGlass for a popular house cleaner service in Portland. I am not the best person to talk about Search Engine Optimization. In my defense, I believe that's because SEO changes constantly - first based on the whims of what Google would value most, which has now gotten even more convoluted as other search engines creep into more prominent use.

This ranking above shows the most common search terms that resulted in someone clicking on a certain link (In this case, MollyMaid - or the specific page that "ranks" high enough in search results).

Pretty much every copy-writing company I've ever worked for would give me a list of "relevant search terms" for an assignment, and part of my job was to fit them into the copy I created. Looking at some of these terms, you might see that a lot of them aren't easily fit into writing in a way that feels normal to read on a website. The "[SOMETHING] near me" is probably one of the most popular search terms in pretty much every industry. In my opinion it's also the clumsiest to work with as a writer.

It's actually very funny to see this. You see that phrasing at the start? Hey did you search this specific phrase? Cool! Use us for that. That is essentially the exact format I would use whenever I had to fit in any variant of that keyphrase. It doesn't feel great. If Google ever loses interest in longer, conversational keyphrases, a lot of copy will be outdated and pointlessly clunky.

The emphasis on keywords and word count in general is the true culprit behind a majority of web copy that reads as if the website you're on is having an nervous breakdown. I've been in many situations where I've had to pad out assignments for no reason, because even though I expressed all the information that needed to be expressed, I was short of the word count given ahead of time. I imagine based on the latest change to Google's algorithm, this might slowly become less of a sticking point. They seem to claim that value is now in writing like a human being, and that's harder to do if you have to circle the same points again and again just to kill time.

It's kind of interesting isn't it? I'm gradually edging into freelance copy-writing work - which is cool, because it hopefully means I can choose how deep into SEO I decide to work in. Despite my complaints, I really enjoy the technical writing aspect, especially for a client I want to help.

I just had to get all this out there, because before I found SEOSpyglass I tried to use Semrush and was immediately like haha holy shit I remember this.

[jumpscaregoose]

leans casually on the wall. hi. if possibly could i know about the theories you have rn for the rtl groups trap reactions….👁️👁️

I can give you like.... 75% of one??? I guess???

I've been staring at kenta's character page for the past 40+ minutes trying to figure out what his deal is and I thinkkkkkkk I might be on to something? I've got nothing for anyone else this little shit is my area of expertise

mostly I've been staring at these bad boys

the meanings of the first and last ones is pretty easy to figure out, "a dangerous mind" is probably referring to his programming skills/being a little bitch and "what kind of a joke is trust" obviously means his cynical attitude towards interpersonal relationships

such as this line from the opening show look at me point proof explanationing

"hands that pulled away" is interesting though

I'll include that the google-translated version of the official website lists these for the tags in english

and while the dog pun in "unleashed hands" does not escape me, I feel like "hands that pulled away" is probably more accurate (and is more interesting)

to me, the easiest way to interpret these tags together is as a chain of causality, with "a dangerous brain" causing "hands that pulled away" causing "what kind of a joke is trust"

translating that out of nonsense talk, I'm imagining that kenta's trust and interpersonal issues were caused by someone, either a caregiver or circle of peers, "pulling away" from him in response to his "dangerous brain"

we can actually verify this, or a similar event, through the timeline:

specifically, this entry:

it's clear that this event was what led him to take up programming, and that his opinions on other people were mostly solidified by age 8 (although the exact nature of the virus he created is vague, it's easy to assume it wasn't one you'd make while worrying about other people. we've all recently seen what massive international tech issues can do)

this is the most concrete theory I can think of based on the information available but while I have your captive attention I'd like to pose a similar question-

-when the HELL did he get his phantometal?

this was where my train of thought went after staring at that webpage for so long

certainly, there's no way he received it before entering the prison system. it does make sense that phantometal would be circling within prisons, especially considering how... weird the one we see is.

again this is where MORE DETAILS would be appreciated, GCREST/AVEX

mostly, I propose a chicken-and-egg problem: do you obtain phantometal from succeeding in prison rap, or do you succeed in prison rap because you have phantometal?

also, the exact timeline of prison rap rankings is. nonexistent. HOWEVER, we can again use the timeline to make inferences. it's mentioned that he begins posting tracks online at age 13. given how the prison operates (and the tidbits I know about real life) it's highly unlikely he would have access to a computer for long enough periods to produce and upload music without the preferential treatment given to those at the top of prison rap. therefore, I posit that this prison rap success occurred around age 13.

we also know that possessing phantometal was a qualifying requirement for participation in rtl, so this narrows down our timeline ever so slightly

in my mind, the most likely circumstances for kenta to acquire his phantometal are the chicken-and-egg solutions from above, which places the final date near the one we established for prison rap, around age 13

I have a few ideas as to how he got it, but I'm gonna keep those under wraps for future evil purposes

but that's just a theory

a-

no I'm not doing it it's too easy

and cut

[aizawashuichi]

🧐🎃🎯 for the ask game please!!

hii!! I'll put the first question last, cuz I add an excerpt from dfd to show the research lmao.

[ask game]

🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?

Fics specifically for holidays? Rarely. I only have always one foot in, always one foot out (Christmas-ish fic). Usually, my story timeline just happens to overlap some holidays, so I end up writing about them (e.g. Mazzaroth - Halloween chapter) or the next two three chapters in DFD that are during New Year's, but I never make a conscious effort to write something specific for them, lol.

🎯 Have any of your readers accurately guessed major plot points? Care to share which?

Generally, nope. In my previous era of writing, on Wattpad, people really didn't believe I would be that bold. In this era, I don't have anything to guess about yet. I sure hope nobody does, though, when the time comes.

🧐 Do you spend much time researching for your stories?

Too much time, actually lmao.

For Mazzaroth, I had to do a lot of reaserch on kids' development milestones. I sometimes felt like a weirdo for looking up stuff for some specific situation, because I would just scroll hundreds of pages of parents sharing anecdotes about their kids and I was just there taking notes lmao. I do a lot of research regarding wounds of any type for accuracy purpose and I also study pictures. I even had to look up infected wounds, so that was another whole experience.

For DFD, I am spending a lot of time looking up Medieval Castles (structure, people working there, positions, ranks) and fishes (types, behaviour - as in personality lmao).

Generally, I also spend a lot of time also on Google Maps to accurately describe my characters movements, so much so that GM is asking me reviews of some places, LMFAO, but yeah, I can exactly tell you where Corky and Jessica & Ludovic live - street name and building - as well as where Wammy's is located in my fic and why. I just love grounding my work.

For DFD, I also have to be very accurate with anything regarding investigative/FBI work, so I research laws (found out the truck driver in chapter 2 is going to prison for negligent driving causing death ☠️) and e.g. in chapter 4, I determined what drug Kiichiro Osoreda was using and analysed his bus hijack based on that.

Pasting that part (a bit long, but it's just to show how my researches play a role in my stories):

I get to the end of the page and the news of a recent bus incident catches my attention, although it has nothing to do with Kira, since the headline does not mention them, not even with a question mark.

Hijacking of a bus in the capital at the hands of Osoreda Kiichiro. He dies hit by a car soon after.

BY THE EDITORIAL TEAM | 2003/12/20

It is from about ten days ago, but it continues to be recommended; therefore, it seems to be a popular story. It is not difficult to understand why: Kiichiro Osoreda tried to rob a bank the day before, shooting in the direction of the teller and two customers as he fled. The teller died and one of the customers sustained quite serious injuries.

The article mentions that he had a drug addiction, without clarifying what this was. The only photo present is the mug shot, and he doesn't present the typical traits of methamphetamine and cocaine abuse: he has no sores, no unnatural loss of hair or eyebrows, no blackening of teeth. He looks quite thin for his build and struggling to breathe as he keeps his mouth open, which is usual among opioids, because they depress breathing. His teeth are surprisingly healthier than I expected, but they show signs of deterioration from grinding, while his eyes are typical of heroin addicts: pinpoint pupils, red sclera, and heavy eyelids.

If I were to make a guess, I'd say he seems to fall within this last category, especially considering his crime.

Those who are addicted to heroin tend to commit criminal acts in order to support their use, and I recently read a report that was able to determine a correlation between heroin use and armed robbery. They could not interview them in a qualitative way, so they looked at the percentage of heroin overdoses and robberies in a given area over a given period of time. They noticed that for every ten percent increase in heroin overdoses, robberies also increased by five percent. The latter can be of different types and, at the time of the research, only fifteen percent of the cases were aimed at banks. In addition, they noted a rather cyclical trend, with peaks and troughs in the number of robberies per year.

However, he does not seem to have planned anything, if he could not even get a way out without having to operate a firearm, although this may not be impossibility of doing otherwise, but rather absence of scruples. This is slightly unusual for those who continue to use heroin on a regular basis; hence, I'm inclined to think that he was beginning to experience withdrawal effects, which could be linked to hallucinations on the bus.

This is not very common, but it is a known effect that heroin withdrawal can generate psychotic symptoms. We should always keep this in mind when questioning suspects or taking witness statements, because there is always a risk that the defence may doubt their legitimacy. Usually, those who suffer from it already have underlying health problems, but I cannot access his health history. 

However, reading the driver's testimony, there is something not quite right.

“Yes, exactly. The man came in and started yelling saying that the bus was controlled by him. He ordered me to call my company to demand a ransom. He also put a gun to my temple,” the bus driver states. “Then, a boy sitting in the last seats dropped a paper. He went to pick it up. He got angry and started ranting and shooting. The police say in a delusion. He ordered me to stop and got off the bus. And he got run over.”

Put like that, Kiichiro Osoreda seemed to have gotten angry about the boy's sheet and that is why he started shooting, but I cannot latch onto that aspect, because the driver may have difficulty telling what exactly happened during such a traumatic episode. Moreover, he had no way of seeing exactly what was happening, only hearing it.

In any case... Did the hallucinatory episode start suddenly? Were there no visible signs beforehand? How long were they on the bus? I was going to speculate that the dropping of the paper might have been exacerbated by an auditory-type hallucination, but he waited to pick it up to get upset.

Perhaps he got angry because the boy was trying to communicate to others what to do to stop him? I can't be sure, but I don't think so, otherwise he would have shot him. He showed that he was capable, without any remorse. He could have made an example of him and demanded more compensation.

Strange that he did not, just as it is odd that he was able to shoot in confusion and hit no one. It is a miracle, because he must have had a static hallucination – the best kind in this case.

Why didn't Kira kill him, though? He was already a criminal and wanted. Even in the case where Kira only killed convicted people, which they proved they don't do, he would surely have been locked up in prison. I doubt that he did not learn of his name, since the robbery was news in this region, in which they are located.

He was a danger, so why didn't they do anything? Or... Did they really do nothing?

I let out a laugh at the absurdity of that assumption. Kira only kills by heart attack, and they would have had to be on the bus in order to be aware of what was going on and who was responsible. I don't even think they would have waited that long to take him out, since they risked putting everyone in danger. They would have killed him immediately, as soon as he announced his intentions of hijacking the bus.

But… Again, how does Kira kill? With their mind? It's incomprehensible. With what we have at the scene, the paper is the only thing that came in contact with Kiichiro Osoreda's body, and after that, he hallucinated... It is not possible that this is the trigger for the episode.

I wonder what he saw that was so frightening... A Shinigami?

I laugh again.

I searched for images of them, and I must say that if something like that appeared before me, I too would have a heart attack, but no matter how much it would adhere to the absurdity of the case, I doubt that it is what he saw. It cannot be the reason why he ran away.

However, I cannot get his moments of lucidity during this event out of my mind. He manages to give precise orders to the driver on what to do, without showing symptoms of any kind, otherwise the driver would have mentioned it, and he manages to feel a paper fall and pick it up, but after that... He suddenly hallucinates? He shoots and runs away in a fairly rational way, clearly communicating to the driver to stop. He did not try to escape through the windows or by throwing himself against the door. Panic and paranoia, especially in a time of psychotic episode, play tricks on people's rationality, and his behaviour is very consistent and orderly. 

It really looks like that guy did something with that paper for a moment.

[vividlyghostlyentity]

From UPSC Aspirant to Digital Marketer: My Unexpected but Empowering Journey

Like many graduates in India, I dreamed of serving the nation by becoming a civil servant. Right after graduation, I began preparing for the UPSC exam with full dedication. I spent years with books, current affairs, and mock tests—sacrificing time, energy, and even social life. But despite my hard work, I didn’t get the result I hoped for.

That phase of life was tough. I felt lost, unsure of my next move. But deep inside, I knew I wanted to do something meaningful, something where I could use my communication skills, creativity, and interest in public engagement. That’s when I discovered the world of digital marketing.

At first, I had no idea what digital marketing was. It sounded technical and full of English terms I didn’t understand. But I came across a beginner-friendly program titled Digital Marketing for Beginners from adda247, and that changed everything.

A New Beginning: Entering the World of Digital Marketing

The course started with a simple question: "What is digital marketing?" The answer surprised me. It’s all about promoting products, services, or ideas through the internet—on Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and more. Suddenly, I saw a new kind of career path—one that matched my interests in communication, content, and people.

The Digital Marketing Course at adda247 was designed to be easy and practical. It started from the basics and gradually built up to advanced tools and strategies. I didn’t need any technical background, just a willingness to learn and practice.

In just a few weeks, I learned how to:

Create and manage social media pages professionally

Write engaging content that attracts attention

Do basic SEO to rank websites on Google

Run simple paid ad campaigns

Track performance using tools like Google Analytics

From Confusion to Confidence

What I loved most about the program was that it was created specifically as a Digital Marketing Course for Beginners. Every module was in simple language, with real-life examples and assignments. The instructors at adda247 were supportive and made even the complex topics feel manageable.

Soon, I was applying my knowledge practically—managing social media for a local business, creating designs on Canva, writing blog posts, and even building a small website. Each task gave me a sense of achievement, something I hadn’t felt in a long time.

Why I Recommend This Course

Today, I feel empowered. I may not have cleared UPSC, but I’ve found a career that excites me, challenges me, and gives me creative freedom. If you're in a place of confusion after your studies, or you're just curious about the online world, I highly recommend checking out the Digital Marketing Course at adda247.

Whether you want to work in an agency, start freelancing, or build your own online brand, this course gives you everything you need to begin. For anyone new, their Digital Marketing for Beginners section is the perfect starting point.

From civil services to social media campaigns—my journey may have taken a turn I didn’t expect, but I’m proud of where it’s led me. And yours can start today.

[oralsurgeonseoguide]

Oral Surgeon SEO Guide: How to Boost Your Practice Online

In today’s digital world, having a strong online presence is essential for any healthcare professional — and oral surgeons are no exception. Patients often turn to the internet when searching for specialized medical services, making SEO (Search Engine Optimization) a powerful tool to attract new clients. If you’re an oral surgeon looking to grow your practice, mastering SEO can set you apart from your competitors and help you reach more patients effectively.

This Oral surgeon SEO guide will walk you through the key strategies and tips to optimize your online visibility, generate quality leads, and establish your practice as a trusted authority in oral surgery.

Why Oral Surgeon SEO is Critical

Most patients begin their search for oral surgeons online. According to recent studies, over 80% of people use search engines like Google to find local healthcare providers. If your practice doesn’t appear on the first page of search results, you could be missing out on valuable patient inquiries.

SEO helps your website rank higher in organic (non-paid) search results for relevant keywords. This means when someone types “oral surgeon near me” or “best oral surgeon for wisdom teeth removal,” your practice is more likely to show up prominently, driving more traffic to your site.

Step 1: Keyword Research for Oral Surgeons

Keywords are the foundation of SEO. They represent the words and phrases potential patients use when searching for oral surgery services.

Start with Core Keywords: Use phrases like “oral surgeon,” “oral surgery,” “wisdom teeth removal,” “dental implants,” and “jaw surgery.”

Include Local Keywords: Patients often look for services “near me” or by city. Add location-based keywords like “oral surgeon in [City]” or “[City] oral surgery clinic.”

Use Long-Tail Keywords: These are longer, more specific phrases like “best oral surgeon for dental implants in [City].” They tend to have less competition and attract highly targeted traffic.

Tools like Google Keyword Planner, Ahrefs, or SEMrush can help identify popular and relevant keywords for your practice.

Step 2: Optimize Your Website for SEO

Your website is your digital storefront — it needs to be easy to find and navigate.

On-Page SEO

Title Tags & Meta Descriptions: Ensure every page has a unique title tag incorporating your main keywords. Meta descriptions should be compelling and concise to improve click-through rates.

Headings: Use H1, H2, and H3 tags strategically, placing your target keywords naturally within them.

Content: Provide detailed, informative content about your services, procedures, and patient care. Aim for clear explanations of common oral surgery treatments to educate visitors.

Images: Use high-quality images and optimize them with descriptive alt text that includes keywords.

Mobile-Friendly Design: Since many patients search on their phones, a responsive website design is critical for SEO and user experience.

Technical SEO

Site Speed: Slow-loading websites hurt rankings. Compress images and streamline your code.

Secure Website (HTTPS): A secure site builds trust and is favored by search engines.

XML Sitemap: Submit a sitemap to Google Search Console to help search engines index your site efficiently.

Schema Markup: Implement schema for healthcare providers to enhance search listings with rich snippets like reviews, contact info, and services.

Step 3: Local SEO for Oral Surgeons

Local SEO is vital because most oral surgery patients look for providers nearby.

Google Business Profile: Claim and optimize your Google Business Profile. Ensure your address, phone number, hours, and website link are accurate.

Local Listings: Get listed on local directories such as Healthgrades, Yelp, and Zocdoc. Consistent NAP (Name, Address, Phone) info across all platforms improves local ranking.

Local Keywords: Use geo-targeted keywords in your website content and blog posts.

Gather Reviews: Encourage satisfied patients to leave positive Google reviews. Reviews boost trust and local SEO rankings.

Local Backlinks: Partner with local healthcare providers or organizations to earn backlinks from their websites.

Step 4: Content Marketing & Blogging

Creating high-quality content regularly is a great way to attract and engage visitors.

Educational Blog Posts: Write about common oral surgery topics such as “What to Expect After Wisdom Teeth Removal” or “Benefits of Dental Implants.”

Patient FAQs: Address frequently asked questions in blog posts or dedicated pages.

Video Content: Consider videos explaining procedures or patient testimonials to build trust.

Share Content on Social Media: Promote your blog posts on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn to increase reach.

Content helps target long-tail keywords and builds your authority in the oral surgery field, improving overall SEO.

Step 5: Build Quality Backlinks

Backlinks are links from other websites pointing to your site. They act like “votes of confidence” in Google’s eyes.

Professional Associations: Get listed on dental or surgical professional directories.

Guest Blogging: Write articles for reputable health blogs or local business sites.

Community Involvement: Sponsor or participate in local events and get coverage on local news websites.

Patient Testimonials & Case Studies: Publish success stories that others want to share.

Aim for backlinks from authoritative, relevant sites to boost your domain authority and rankings.

Step 6: Monitor and Improve Your SEO

SEO is not a one-time task but an ongoing process.

Track Performance: Use tools like Google Analytics and Google Search Console to monitor your website traffic, keyword rankings, and user behavior.

Adjust Strategy: Based on data, refine keywords, update content, and fix technical issues.

Stay Updated: SEO best practices evolve constantly, so keep learning about algorithm changes and new trends.

Common SEO Mistakes to Avoid for Oral Surgeons

Ignoring Mobile Users: A non-responsive site will lose patients and rankings.

Keyword Stuffing: Overusing keywords can harm readability and SEO.

Neglecting Local SEO: Without local optimization, you miss the majority of patient searches.

Poor Website Navigation: Complicated menus frustrate visitors and increase bounce rates.

Not Encouraging Reviews: Reviews are essential for trust and local ranking.

Final Thoughts: Why Oral Surgeon SEO Matters

For oral surgeons, the competition is growing, and patients have more choices than ever. Investing in a robust SEO strategy means your practice will be visible, credible, and accessible when potential patients are searching online.

This Oral Surgeon SEO Guide is your blueprint to building a strong digital presence — from keyword research and website optimization to local SEO and content marketing. By implementing these strategies, you can attract more patients, improve your reputation, and grow your practice sustainably.

Ready to take your oral surgery practice to the next level? Start optimizing your website today and watch your patient base expand!

[theofficersacademy]

At long last, the morning light comes and the last drops of rainwater remain pooled on the ground rather than pouring from the heavens. Some students prepare for the trip back to the monastery, others remain fast asleep where they are, and rescue efforts are made for those who had found themselves stranded from the main party. The Viscount offers everyone to take their time today to recover and gather themselves if need be, and as the decorations are cleaned, reality finally sets in. The ball is over, the storm has passed, and new memories, good or bad, have been born as the calendar changes over to a new date…

We hoped you enjoyed the Ethereal Ball! Now, please read the following carefully:

How To Claim Your Prizes

Your muse may keep the bracelet as a memento of the event. Viscount Menja's staff reveals to your muse that the bracelet can be unwound to be transformed into a wind chime. Bonus!

As per the event rules, you must have a separate post, page on your blog, or Google Doc with all of your collected bracelet charms. Mention of the bracelet or the corresponding charm in the interaction is all that is needed for it to count towards your total. Each bracelet must have a link to the corresponding interaction. Please double-check all of your links!

Send an ask to this blog. This should include a link to your bracelet tracker/doc and the prize you’re claiming for your muse. If you have at least one of each bracelet charm, you can choose one prize. You can find the list of Ethereal Ball prizes here (Spring tab, includes Fleeting Snow!).

Additionally, if your muse qualifies for the above, they will also be granted access to the Dancer class. This class will be treated like a modified Intermediate class, and will require 5 threads that are 400+ words as well as a drabble reflecting your muse’s journey to becoming a dancer in order to master this class. This class will grant the abilities Refresh and Dazzle upon mastery.

Lastly, Ethereal Ball interactions may continue past the end of the event, but only exchanges that were made during the month of May will be counted for prizes.

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Wrapping Up the Masquerade

We hope you enjoyed our rerun of the mini event within the Ethereal Ball! Now that the event is over, the mystical underwater ballroom has been closed. The mods will no longer be posting submissions to the masquerade blog, but you can reveal your muses and/or continue threads on your own blogs.

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RECENT SEO & MARKETING NEWS FOR ECOMMERCE, March 2024

Welcome to my roundup of SEO and marketing news and useful resources for ecommerce businesses, March edition. There is a lot going on with Google, and some really strong marketing pieces this time around, so let's get right to it.

SEO: GOOGLE & OTHER SEARCH ENGINES 

Google launched both a core algorithm update and spam updates on March 5, with the spam update ending on the 20th. Core updates now include the Helpful Content algorithm. In early observations, Etsy and Reddit both picked up visibility in the UK. 

The Helpful Content algorithm updates late last year destroyed a lot of sites’ Google traffic. Avoid the things they had in common.  You can read the full study here. 

Ecommerce sites were some of the biggest losers in Google visibility in 2023, with Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Etsy, Target and Best Buy in the top 10 of sites whose Google appearances slipped. 

New to Google SEO? They’ve revamped their SEO starter guide for people like you. And if you are more advanced and want to learn how to optimize your website product pages, this is a good overview. 

This lengthy article on backlinks for ecommerce websites covers pretty much all the angles, including the really difficult ones. 

Reminder that if you want to rank on Google for a search term, you need to look at what is already ranking, and make decisions based on that content. [video and transcript] This works for most search engines, not just Google. 

Yes, Google crawls “high quality” content more often. I used to refer to this as Google thinking the page is “interesting”, so I guess I will need to change my wording...

While Google sends the most traffic to websites, people spend a lot more of their online time elsewhere. Market where people are, not just where your stats say they came from. 

Sadly, Google has stopped providing caches of website pages in its search results. While you can still see the caches of some pages by using the Google search Cache:[page link] as in cache:https://cindylouwho-2.tumblr.com that will eventually stop working as well. Bing still provides caches, but unfortunately both it and the Wayback Machine do not crawl often enough to give really recent results most of the time. 

Missed Google news in February? Here’s your update. And just in case you are really behind, here is January. 

Not Google

Unsure if your website has enough good backlinks? Bing Webmaster Tools will now tell you if you don’t. 

Yandex - the top search engine in Russia - was sold by its Dutch ownership group to a consortium in Russia. 

SOCIAL MEDIA - All Aspects, By Site

General

A US study of social media use found that the most popular site was YouTube, with 83% of adults using it. Two-thirds of American adults use Facebook, while TikTok is up to ⅓ of the US population. 

Because they do change periodically, here are the latest image and video sizes recommended for the top social media platforms. [infographic]

Bluesky is now open to everyone - it was previously invite-only. 

Facebook (includes relevant general news from Meta)

Meta has introduced several changes to its Ad options, applying to Facebook and Instagram. 

Meta had a great 4th quarter in 2023, with revenue, users, and earnings per share up. “Fast-growing upstarts Temu and Shein, which originated in China, have been pouring money into ads on Facebook and Instagram. Li said on Thursday that revenue from China-based advertisers accounted for 10% of sales for the year and 5 percentage points of growth.”

Instagram

An updated post on Instagram's algorithm and how it works. 

Instagram is still beta testing longer Reels for some users. 

If your account is a brand account, you can now run ads on Instagram with coupon codes right in them. (Some Facebook users can already do this.)

LinkedIn

Among other recent changes on LinkedIn, the algorithm is now looking to boost important content longer than just the first day or two after publication. 

Pinterest

Pinterest has its own stats package, called Pinterest Analytics, but only for “Business” accounts. They show how many people clicked on the outgoing links, how many people saw your pin on their screen, and much more. Here’s everything you need to know. 

Reddit

Reddit successfully launched on the stock market this past week, but questions remain about how this will change the site. 

Google is paying Reddit to scrape its content through the API instead of from the web. 

Snapchat

Snap was a little later than most tech companies doing layoffs recently, waiting until February 5 to let 10% off staff go. 

Threads

Threads is so new that the algorithm is bound to change a lot in the next year, but for right now, here is how it works. 

TikTok

There is an overwhelming amount of info out there on the US attempt to either ban TikTok or force its sale, and much of it is incomplete, so I will let you Google to your heart’s content if you want to learn more. If you are relying on TikTok to drive sales, this would be a good time to make sure you diversify your promotional strategy. 

You can now track trending terms on TikTok through the Creator Search Insights section. “Creator Search Insights will highlight frequently searched topics, which creators can organize by category (for example, tourism, sports, science) or tailor to their content type with the “For You” option. Additionally, creators can filter for “content gap” topics, which are highly searched but have relatively few videos on TikTok covering them.“

TikTok may be testing a photo app, which would obviously compete with Instagram. 

Twitter

What? Twitter may have lied about its Super Bowl ad performance? I’m so not shocked. 

Tumblr

Tumblr will be selling data access to AI companies. 

YouTube

This is a pretty decent article on YouTube SEO. 

(CONTENT) MARKETING (includes blogging, emails, and strategies) 

Small and micro-businesses need an email list. An email list is:  

portable (unlike most social media followers or marketplace buyers) 

is available to almost everyone, as we all need at least one email address if we are online

less susceptible to the whims of algorithms (unlike SEO, marketplaces, social etc.)  

I keep seeing people argue that no one opens emails, but the chart in the article above is proof that is still wrong. (My blog email list averages close to a 70% open rate, depending on the topic and the time I send it. My jewellery email list - which I hardly ever send to - still has an over 30% open rate. My click rates are well above the industry averages, usually 30 to 40% of all recipients for the blog list. These are much better numbers than social, and astronomically better than my clickthrough rate on Google and other search engines.)

Gmail and Yahoo both changed how they handle bulk emails such as newsletters in February. Here’s what you need to know on the basics, including authenticating yourself so your email gets through. 

Find out how to get people to read all the way to the end of your content. 

Get ready for April marketing with 5 topical ideas. National Handmade Day is April 6. 

We should all think twice before deciding to use AI to create content. “Circa 2024, generative AI does not produce new ideas or even develop its own conclusions. Rather, it regurgitates information that it has indexed.” Not convinced? Here’s another article. “AI-generated content represents the literal “average of everything online.”

ONLINE ADVERTISING (EXCEPT INDIVIDUAL SOCIAL MEDIA AND ECOMMERCE SITES) 

Google Ads can now be tracked in Google Analytics 4. 

Both Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising were up in the 4th quarter of 2023. 

STATS, DATA, TRACKING 

Google Analytics 4 tracks organic traffic differently than the previous version. Here’s how to figure it out. 

BUSINESS & CONSUMER TRENDS, STATS & REPORTS; SOCIOLOGY & PSYCHOLOGY, CUSTOMER SERVICE 

I’ve probably posted this specific article before, but it is worth another read: how to communicate with customers.  For example, “Mirroring your customer’s tone lets them know you’re on their side. If a customer is formal, for example, hold back on the LOLs. If they’re more casual, relax your tone.”

According to a US study, Generation Z is skewing the traditional marketing funnel. “Per Archrival’s data, 77 per cent of Gen Zs and 79 per cent of millennials in the US are actively seeking style inspiration at least monthly, with almost half of those looking for style inspiration on social media. When asked where they learn about new brands, products and experiences, video reigns supreme: YouTube is the most popular platform with Gen Zs, followed by TikTok, then Instagram.”

Trend alert: bag charms are back. 

IMAGES, VIDEO, GRAPHIC DESIGN, & FREE ONLINE TOOLS

Almost all of these 12 video tools are free, and some can be used on your phone. 

MISCELLANEOUS

This is an older piece, but it checks out: IKEA Hacks for Craft Show Displays. A few of these could be done with non-IKEA items. 

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Why Irish Businesses Should Always Maintain Their Websites

Since so much is pulled up online, your website may be the first interaction a customer has with you. Having a good-looking website can separate businesses in Limerick, Galway and even Dublin from rivals, allowing them to attract new customers.

We have assisted many Irish businesses and what we notice most is that keeping your website up to date helps maintain your online reputation and promotes growth in the future.

In the following sections, we will focus on why maintaining your website is important for your business.

1. First Impressions Matter

You would make sure the area near your store was tidy, fresh and not damaged. What is the point of doing it again in the cyber world?

Most of the time, a potential customer’s first contact with you happens when they visit your site. If the site takes a long time to open, links do not work, the information is old or the appearance is outdated, it gives a feeling that nobody cares. This scares off visitors and weakens your reputation.

If you regularly look after your website, it will continue to be fresh and serve its purpose, making people trust it and enjoy it.

2. Security Should Always Be Considered from the Beginning

More organizations are under cyber attacks and even small businesses are being targeted. Almost all the time, WordPress, Joomla, Magento and other content management systems make security updates to guard against new risks.

If you do not maintaining of your site:

Your customer details could be taken by fraudsters.

A search engine may blacklist your website.

Our maintenance services at Flo Web Design include regular security audits, updates for plugins and malware scans to give you a worry-free website and protect your visitors.

3. SEO depends on regular website maintenance

Google and other search engines prefer websites that get updated and maintained frequently. If a site is slow, features old information or isn’t accessible on mobile, it will be given a lower ranking by search engines.

Keeping your website updated makes it better:

How fast web pages are loading

Mobile responsiveness

Metadata and organized data

Dealing with broken links

Content freshness

As a result, your website becomes more visible to search engines, it gains higher positions and gets more traffic.

4. Improve the way users interact with the application

Website users today want sites that are easy to use and quick to respond. Anything that makes the site slow such as images that don’t load or ancient navigation, will lead them to leave.

Maintaining the website often helps keep:

All the links and pages are accessible.

Pictures and videos are displayed without any errors.

Checkout, buttons and forms work efficiently.

Updates are made to give the program a new look.

A seamless experience for users will make them more likely to stay and possibly become paying customers.

5. Making Sure Your Content is Up-to-Date

Information about companies can vary—such as their prices, services, working hours, contact details, special deals, employees and similar elements. If the changes aren’t reflected on your website, it confuses your customers and decreases trust.

If your site is updated, you demonstrate that your business is lively and interested in its customers.

Our team at Flo Web Design ensures that Irish companies update their content, update their blogs and remove any old materials from their website.

6. This involves backing up and recovering your data

Website crashes can happen for reasons such as plugin conflicts, issues with the server, hacking or making a mistake while deleting something important. If you don’t back up your files often, you could lose everything you have worked on for a long time.

With our maintenance package, your site is backed up automatically, making it easy and quick to restore it and continue your business.

7. The standards of both Compliance and Performance

All Irish businesses should follow the rules set out by GDPR. Failing to keep your contact forms and cookie policies current could result in serious fines and legal issues.

Maintenance done regularly will help your website:

Follows the necessary regulations for data protection.

The website is fast to load on every type of device.

Still works properly after OS and browser updates.

It’s more important to establish trust and eliminate risks than just fulfilling the requirements.

8. Making Your Website Resistant to Future Changes

Technology keeps advancing all the time. Plugins become old, browsers are updated and people’s needs change.

When you maintain your website regularly, it grows with your business. If you add new features, boost e-commerce or update the design, frequent upgrades help you not have to begin again.

How a Retailer in Ireland Benefited from Website Maintenance

A shop in Cork contacted us for help because their site was down for two days. Since the developers failed to update the site’s plugins or security measures for more than a year, the site was breached.

We recovered the site from our backup, removed the malware, updated the plugins and applied the best security measures. By opting for a monthly service package, they haven’t experienced any downtime and now get 35% more online inquiries due to faster performance.

Take action before a problem arises. Keeping your computer well-maintained is like having insurance.

So, What Services Are Part of Website Maintenance with Flo Web Design?

Our services include packages that are customized for businesses in Ireland.

Keeping an eye on security

Ensuring a fast website

Links on your website are checked for breaks

Backup & recovery

Updates on GDPR compliance

Updates to the content (upon request)

We’ll take care of your website’s back end, helping it run as efficiently as you run your business.

Conclusion

Just as you maintain a car regularly, you should keep your website up to date. This rule also applies to the internet. A secure, effective and successful website depends on regular upkeep.

Your website’s updates, security and page issues are all taken care of by Flo Web Design. We handle all the necessary jobs, allowing you to focus on your business.

Want to Maintain Your Site in the Best Way Possible?

We will make sure your website is kept safe, fast and performing at its peak each and every month.