#linkspam

[cleolinda]

Happy Indictmas to all who celebrate

Wikipedia Disambiguation: Prosecution of Donald Trump may refer to:

Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York, a criminal case following indictment on March 30, 2023

Federal prosecution of Donald Trump, a criminal case filed on June 8, 2023

CourtListener: Direct link to full PDF of unsealed indictment, United States of America v. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta (r/politics discussion thereof: "I feel like I'm committing a crime just reading the document designations")

VIDEO: CSPAN: Special Counsel Jack Smith Delivers Statement on Indictment of President Trump

r/politics: Megathread: Trump Indicted by Federal Prosecutors on Charges Related to Handling of Classified Documents [dozens of linked sources]

BBC News: Trump charged under Espionage Act in secret files case. Here's what is in the indictment:

The indictment reads: "The classified documents Trump stored in his boxes included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and to plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack." Mr Trump's Mar-a-Lago club "was not an authorised location" for the "storage, possession, review, display or discussion" of classified documents, the indictment says. Nevertheless, it continues, Mr Trump's boxes of documents were stored in places at the club including "a ballroom, a bathroom and shower, an office space, his bedroom, and a storage room". On two occasions in 2021, the former president showed classified documents to others who did not have security clearance, including a writer and two members of staff. At his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, he showed and described a "plan of attack" that he said had been prepared for him by the Defence Department.

r/law: Trump Indictment thread—this time it's Federal

CBS News: Aileen Cannon, Trump-appointed judge, assigned initially to oversee documents case

Business Insider: Trump was 'personally involved' in packing boxes and moving them to Mar-a-Lago, prosecutors say

"As president, I could have declassified, but now I can't."

-- Newsweek: Donald Trump Tape Reveals He Uttered 10 Words That Might Have Doomed Him

[bibliotech-but-with-more-ope]

Is Cereal Soup? Let’s Look at the Evidence · The Takeout

[consistentsquash]

5 Meta Recs for March!!

March is for Meta!

But in addition to my normal linkspam I got some ideas for you to participate in meta march :D Because the theme of my Meta March is Fandom is a Community Garden <3

Commentary on Fanfic Maverick podcast.

@broomsticks​ really went the extra mile on Fandom Anthropology Mode for doing their commentary on this podcast. With timestamps and really good review/observations. Highly recommend <3 I mean the combo of fanfic maverick podcast + broomsticks commentary is perfection. Also it's got a part 2. I mean this is as meta as it gets!!

How can you participate? Listen to the podcast, Reblog with your own commentary! Send asks to @broomsticks! 

HP Astro for Snape/Sirius Black.

@danpuff-ao3​ does everything. Reads/writes/recs/podcasts/discords/mods fests... But on top of that she’s also doing HP ship synastry charts. Synastry is probably the biggest word I used on this blog. But anyway! If you got ships/characters you want to check chemistry for you know where to check. Also she is good at sorting you. I am a Puff! 

How can you participate? Go check out the astro meta and you can also ask her for more details on your favorite pairings/characters because her astro asks are open!! Divination time <3

Now we are doing the crazy recs. Apparently fandom also happens outside Tumblr. On Dreamwidth!! I mean. Everybody’s got their own kink I guess. These next three recs are from Dreamwidth Q&As.

3. Q&A with eldritcher

Gosh. This is their 15 years in fandom anniversary Q&A. I really love hearing about their writing and fandom experience. They were probably in the rare group of late millenials who got their writing start on older fandom sites. Their writing process!!!! I mean there is process and then there is this! eldritcher is incredibly brilliant and also one of the best writers out there. Their sensitivity + precision is just next level.

How can you participate? This is active/ongoing and allows anon. You don't need a Dreamwidth account. So definitely check out/read/ask/comment if you vibe with the discussion/leave some love if you know their fics. The discussion already was really, really happening when I checked last.

I write stories in sets. I've very rarely done one-offs. Sets are easier for me because I think in sets and graphs. When I am interested in a new canon, I make a list of the characters, arrange them on a board with a canon relationship graph, start etching out canon character profiles for the ones I find interesting, identify the closest cluster of other characters my character-of-choice interacts with.

(continued in Q&A)

Q&A with pauraque

pauraque is my favorite writer in rare ships/rare fandoms and I really, really love the sensitivity in their characterizations. They don’t even write Snape but I am like so 100% sold on everything they write and follow their works in whatever fandom.  Their discussion about their writing process is my all time fav. The detail and the clear thinking in their answers is just next level.

How can you participate? Comment!! <3 They allow anon. So you don’t need a Dreamwidth account. Definitely read and comment and leave some love if you know their fics/vibe with the discussion! It's an older discussion yeah, but meta like fic doesn't really expire :D

I always try to figure out how each character feels about the other and what they're getting out of the relationship. Especially if I'm stuck or the events of the story feel like they're not flowing naturally, I'll stop and go over in my mind what each character is feeling, what they want, and why they're drawn to the other person. I probably wouldn't spell it out that overtly in the text of the story itself, but as the author I feel like I need to be able to clearly articulate why these characters would get together (no vague stuff like "it just happened" or "it was destiny"—that's only convincing for people who already ship a pairing). If I have that solidly explained in my own mind, it'll show in the story.

(Pauraque Q&A )

 Q&A with Delphi

Delphi!!!! <3 Delphi wrote Snape/Dumbledore and I became a lifelong fan. I have followed their works in some totally canon blind fandoms, I read their Snape/OMC work which also is the best Snape character study ever. YMMV. Anyway, hero worship is a thing + don't meet your hero is a thing. But definitely zero regrets after getting to do this Q&A with Delphi because they are honestly the best of fandom. Love them so much. <3

How can you participate? Comment!! <3 They allow anon. So you don’t need a Dreamwidth account. Definitely read and comment and leave some love if you know their fics/vibe with the discussion! It's an older discussion, but meta like fic doesn't really expire :D

I read my first Harry Potter fics between CoS and PoA, on a mailing list for rare book-based fandoms - something that still seems wild to me in retrospect. There was absolutely no sense of it being a phenomenon in the making in those conversations, or even anything particularly notable. Someone just said, "Hey, my kid is reading these stories, and there are some interesting adult characters and a nice sandbox to play in." I remember reading a couple of early Snape/Dumbledore stories before I read the books, as well as a few Percy fics. Hilariously, I also remember a conversation about how maybe there would eventually be some Harry/Ron futurefic, but Snape/Dumbledore would obviously end up being the biggest slash ship for the fandom. I read the first two books then, and I kept on reading whatever fic landed in my inbox, but I wasn't driven to search elsewhere for more at that point.

(continued in Q&A)

[machine-saint]

i grew up watching animutations online.

for those of you who aren't internet old, like me, animutations are a style of flash animation that would basically be a "music video" for a song with frenetic animation using assets ripped from random websites (anime gifs, random stock photos, pictures of George Bush), extremely crudely drawn eyeballs and mouths, and heavy heavy use of flashing. making sense is optional and often discouraged. a recurring theme is using a song in a non-english language and misinterpreting the lyrics: "aimana style" from polysics's "new wave jacket" becomes "Einstein must die!", "opblaaskrokodil" becomes "old blue Scot called Dill", and so on. actual original art assets are vanishingly rare. Colin Mochrie is weirdly prominent. it's essentially the precursor of the YTP.

the animutation form was popularized by Neil Cicierega; many of the "classics" (such as Colin Mochrie vs Jesus H Christ) are attributable to him, to the extent that the word "fanimutation" arise to describe an animutations not made by Neil himself. he would, of course, later be well known for his mashup albums and songs, and we see the same pattern here: his work is made entirely out of other people's work, but with enough creativity to give it a new spin. mashing up the Inception soundtrack with YMCA, cutting up "My Name Is" by Eminem to give the impression of an amnesiac wandering an abandoned city looking for any other life, and so on.

horse_ebooks was a twitter spambot that would post random snippets of random ebooks in between linkspam to make itself look less like a bot. there is no attempt to pick "catchy" or coherent quotes (until it gets bought in 2011), but the hits are indescribably funny. quotes like "Everything happens so much" and "I will make certain you never buy knives again" enter the collective consciousness of the internet.

and then in 2023 I see people reacting to machine learning generative models by saying that it's impossible to be creative just by transforming and modifying other people's work because the AI "can't come up with anything new" and i can't help but imagine a world without these things.

[queenlua]

extremely annoying that i get to deal with Tumblr’s new post editor the exact night i decided to sit down and do a massive linkspam

like really.  links.  how did the new post editor fuck that one up!!!  worked totally fine for years and now i gotta pop open the HTML editor to make it usable!!!  and it’s still a regression from what we had before even then lol

[queenieofaces]

Today this blog turns 10 years old!  Absolutely wild that I’ve been here for a decade (even if I’ve been pretty quiet on this blog the last few years).

Some quick updates from me before I vanish once more into the ether:

I’m using she/they pronouns these days, if you haven’t already heard

I am officially Dr. Queenie!  Dissertation is submitted to ProQuest and everything.  If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been, the answer is writing 115k of text.  Also, yes, the conclusion to my dissertation is about queer futurity.

This fall I will be Professor Queenie!

In related news...Pacific Northwest aces...I may be darkening your meet-up groups (we’ll see if I can circumvent social anxiety)

I feel like I should end with a linkspam or something but I gotta work on a conference paper that’s due on Monday so please imagine your ideal linkspam in your mind (and then build it--you too possess the linkspamming power).

[sabakos]

Always baffled by fake linkspam guides like "How to paint your stairs for under $200" buddy I just spent under 60 dollars and it would have been fifty if I hadn't sprung for the fancy VOC-free primer. I got a new brush and bucket and everything too for good luck it's not the tool cost.

I don't know where you went wrong.

[fashionhungary]

Google Frissítés SpamBrain

A Google 2022. decemberi linkspam-frissítést adott ki Ez a frissítés a következő néhány hétben elérhető, míg a hasznos tartalmak még mindig elérhetők. Barry Schwartz Amikor már azt hitted, hogy a Google Keresés frissítései elkészültek a 2022 évre, a Google kiadott egy 2022. decemberi linkspam-frissítést. Ennek a Google-algoritmus-frissítésnek a bevezetése körülbelül két hétig tart, és globális…

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, April 7, 2024

My posts

This week feels like it has been a hundred years long (not in a bad way). 

Somehow we joined together to balance the seesaw just right so Ava Gardner and Jean Seberg could both go through in the Hot Vintage Lady polls (percentages rounded). Like, I’m wearing the Ava jersey and even I encouraged people to vote Jean when necessary. Honestly, I just wanted to see if it could be done. And it COULD. 

Round three has begun. It is already horrific. This is the first round that’s really going to hurt because we spent the last one really getting down in the dirt and championing our ladies, or learning about actresses we’d never heard of before and getting attached to them. And now? We are reminded: memento mori. Everyone loses but one. 

(I personally pitched in for Sara Montiel. “BUT JUST LOOK AT--” Yeah, I did, thanks.)

Reblogs of interest

April Fool’s Day: You were here for the Boopening, yes? The whole thing was that you only got badges for giving boops, not receiving them, which is a great way to not reward popularity contests, but also means that every last one of us was out here trying to figure out who to bap with a cat’s paw 1000 times. I said, listen, my notifications are already trash garbage today. I’ll take the bullet. Boop at will.

The Activity graph isn’t too clear on this point, but it looks like I had something like 65,000--hits? engagements? boops?--that day. Listen, I got the black paw badge too. We all did what we had to do in the Boopening. 

A Shakespearean boop of goodly length: “And, Meowntague, come you this afternoon, to know our further pleasure in this case, to old Food-bowl, our common judgment-place.” 

I had to go lie down awhile after a pun like “The Purrge.”

--

I had just gotten up from that pun and then I had to go lie down again.

Account security gothic

The Canada griffin

Dinotopia nostalgia

Two pairs of spectacles, one made from slices of emerald, and the other from slices of diamond

An old favorite: Cerberus as a puppy, guarding the gates to heck

I feel like these two posts have the same energy: Time cops will not let you travel back to the Titanic and bloodthirsty gazebos are currently in a dormancy period.

The birds are still troubled

PSA: The best sunscreens for your face

Video

A collection of various American Indian/indigenous American languages, including Navajo, Tlingit, Lakota, Colville Okanagan Salish, Cherokee, Yucatec Maya, Greenlandic, Mohawk, Yup'ik, and Mi'kmawi'simk. 

A trans health-and-wellness fundraiser (Mercury Stardust, Point of Pride, and friends) kept getting banned off Tiktok due to assholes. Here’s how to donate; I saw a few “here’s how they helped me” notes, so it seems like these programs are both legit and effective. 

You think you’re going to sit staring at this video because Chocolate Guy is weaving chocolate. Then you get into it, and it just keeps going.

“Too Sweet” is doing hilariously well on the charts for a song that didn’t even make the album proper. Hozier’s bees would like to thank you for your support.

I know I said that Stevie Nicks would make you sing backup on your own haunting, but late in this 1997 live performance of “Silver Springs,” she makes Lindsey Buckingham, the man she wrote this song about, look her in the eye while she belts it at him. This specific performance was released as a single (I was there, Gandalf) and nominated for a Grammy. Watch the video and you will see why.

The Women Those ‘Evolution Of Beauty’ Videos Leave Out

I don’t really know how to describe this rubberhose-style cartoon of Cab Calloway as a singing nightmare clown. Betty Boop is also there. “You just described it!” No, I really didn’t. 

How movable type worked 1000 years ago, from scratch.

Unrestrained seasonal yak fun

A snowy raven photoshoot

The sacred texts

I don’t know how to explain this double Sacred Text about ominous dreams that comes with its own comic, except to say that they’re so iconic that I first saw both posts in lo-res Pinterest screencaps.

April Fool’s: The ultimate sacred text.

Personal tag of the week

Wet beast Wednesday, which had both a headshake stickflip and bears on a swan boat.

[ajitahan3]

What is Link Spam – All You Need to Know

What is link spam?

Have you ever come across embedded links in posts that redirect you to some page that the post was not even related to? You can find these links everywhere on social media, and they are spammy links.

Link spams are used by brands to embed links into posts for promoting their content, regardless of what the post is about or where it was posted. This process is quite popular amongst social media channels and is usually used by businesses to increase the number of external backlinks to their website in order to improve their SERP rankings.

Spammy links are mostly used by businesses for their money-making web pages or cornerstone content. Since the number of external backlinks can improve the rankings of web pages, this is a common practice employed by site owners.

However, link spamming does not affect other ranking factors by search engines for web pages. They offer zero additional value in terms of increasing the quality metrics of the linked page. Search engine algorithms do not judge the quality of a page with link spam, and neither do the readers. This is why link spamming should be executed very carefully by site owners to ensure that it does not send a negative signal to search engine algorithms about your website.

So, what types of link spamming should you avoid in order to stay safe? Let us find out.

Types of Link Spam to Avoid

1. Cleansing Domains 

Also referred to as “301”, cleansing domains are a form of link manipulation that is regarded as a “black-hat SEO” technique. The chances of your actions being discovered and penalised by search engines with black hat techniques are very high, so this is a very risky link spamming technique.

This technique basically uses the redirect method in which new links to any domain are redirects, which is not natural link behaviour. Just because it can go undetected now does not mean it will remain that way. If Google finds out you are employing this method, actions like Penguin (turning 301 redirects to 404 immediately) are taken.

2. Article Marketing 

Low-quality content in itself indicates to search engines that a website should not be ranked high. But article marketing takes it to a whole new level. Do not make articles with the only purpose of getting a link. If all your followed links on the website are self-generated and not endorsed by external and authoritative sources, it might prove to be harmful to your rankings and diminish user experience as well. It is suggested to not invest in creating mundane or low-quality articles just for the sake of generating links.

3. Single-Post Blogs 

Single post blogs are also termed Web 2.0 Blogs. These are generally small blog pages on sub-domains of platforms like WordPress or Tumblr which are already not performing well. These are usually freehubs for content, with the sole purpose of acting as “link juice” for websites through social bookmarking.

Basically, replacing links that have no impact on your page with links that host decent-looking content would not accomplish anything. It is quite easy for Google to weed out these spammy links, as they are already underperforming.

4. Site-Wide Links 

This used to be a widespread practice employed by almost everyone just a few years ago. Site-wide links are usually used in the footer section of web pages, which are paid links or Google Bombs.

This practice was crippled by Google as it employed the Penguin action to the overuse of any type of anchor text with paid links on websites. This practice is no longer safe and should not be used by site owners.

5. Paid Links 

While there are no foolproof methods to detect every single paid link on pages, link spamming them might become an issue for you. Search engines can easily detect the footprints of paid links on pages if they are done in bulk.

The game here is to not make it obvious for the search engine algorithms. You have to entrust in the sellers that they are not linked spamming your paid links. Make sure that all your buyers of links follow this, as if even one of them buys links in bulk, it can be easily detected and be tracked back to your website.

6. Link Exchanges 

Exchanging links is a safe practice, but yet again, it should not be done in bulk. This process requires you to put faith in complete strangers to acquire external links for your website. This is often termed as a “link wheel”.

Link wheels are a very risky way to acquire links as they are only as strong as the weakest links. If you are smart and careful enough to create valuable content, then you can generate much better results with the content, with little to no risks compared to link exchange.

7. Link Bait and Switch 

Tricking users into visiting pages they do not wish to visit is clearly not a good practice. Search engines do not appreciate this tactic and flag or penalise you for doing this. The bounce rates for linkbait and switch techniques are very high and often lead to frustrated users reporting your pages.

This is not done too often but is a bad practice to follow by all standards. Instead, use ethical methods to promote your links in bulk like smart links, which can generate repeat success for your pages.

8. Low-Quality Press Release Syndication 

Press releases should be of high quality and convey the brand message accurately. This is why high-quality syndication services come with fact-checking, comprehensive editorial guidelines, and costs. On the other hand, low-quality syndication providers do not check the content. This leads to the links not getting indexed at all by search engines or counted very low on ranking factors.

Make sure to not use these service providers to publish press releases, as they will not generate good results for your brand and might even end up reducing your rankings on SERPs.

9. Directory Spam 

There is an oversaturation of directories on the internet, and search engines like Google have stopped giving any attention to links on many of them. In the best-case scenario, the lower-ranking directories will help you only a little bit. How can you identify which directories to not choose? Just ask this question – Are the listings on this directory website quality sites and will they ask for money to be listed? If the answer is no to either part of this question, it is not worth spamming your links on these directories.

10. Link Farms 

If two or more site owners cooperate and share links with each other to put them up on their websites, then it is called link farming. Link farms are used by site owners to build multiple backlinks for their websites. However, this practice is not considered authoritative by search engine algorithms.

What ends up happening is that the backlink profile of link farmers are not indexed. In the case of extreme spamming, sometimes the entire site can be flagged as spam by search engines.

11. Forum Spam 

Forums are also a place where you can find a lot of links. However, their effect has basically been null and voided by search engines. When you post follow or no-follow links on forums, it has zero effect on your link-building authority.

For instance, forums on Bing’s webmaster have become a cesspool of anchor texts and phrases marked with spammy links, but they do not carry any weight as authentic or authoritative links.

12. Profile Spam 

Links posted on authority domains often go through a phase of unintended follow links, which makes profile spam another victim of link spamming. This type of link spamming is abundantly present throughout the web. Search engines like Google find it difficult to impose any tough limits or actions on profiles as it prevents the imitators and spammers from exploiting a brand’s name.

13. Comment Spam 

Websites with authority have started using classifiers in their comment sections to weed out any link spam. Classifiers devalue any links posted in the comment sections. So, if you post any links on an active blog that has about 500 comments, you already would not generate any value from 1/500th of the link juice on the blog. But a classifier will even take that away and your links would not have any value whatsoever.

14. Hidden Links 

Have you ever come across blogs or articles with hidden hyperlinks in the texts? These are called hidden links. Hidden links can be put in texts, images, or the site code of the website so that the algorithm can detect them. Linking conversion pages in these hidden links is a common practice but can be a bad experience for users who did not want to be redirected to another page. 

15. No-follow Links 

If you have an abundant number of nofollow links on your page, search engine algorithms will consider them as link spamming. There are automated link-building software out there that try to do this by using random links to improve the site’s backlink profile to avoid getting detected by Google spam detectors. 

But since Google released its Penguin update, it has become very hard to do this. Penguin evaluates all the links on the website based on their context and quality, rather than focusing on quantity. This makes it almost impossible to go undetected with nofollow link spamming.

[bibliotech-but-with-more-ope]

Koo Is Filled With Hate

[violetemerald]

Carnival of Aros - October 2021 "Friendship" - Round Up of All Submissions

Carnival of Aros – October 2021 “Friendship” – Round Up of All Submissions

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Carnival of Aros in October! I sincerely apologize for being a-week-and-a-half late with this roundup post. It’s been very hard for me for all of 2021 to be timely with things, for a variety of factors… and I already struggled a bit with it, it’s just exponentially worse now. Nevertheless, I am very sorry for leaving people waiting!!I tried to check…

[queerascat]

Hello! I don't see a lot of content about LGBTQ+ people in japanese pop culture and when I see people represented it's not always in a healthy/respective way or it's always romantic underground content which is good but doesn't get much attention. Do you know of any case of like popular fantasy work or something like that with LGBTQ+ people?

hi there,

it’s 5 months later that i’m finally responding to this ask… i’m really sorry about that. i don’t know that this is even something that you’d still like answered, but…

in recent years there’s been an increasing amount of mainstream media with canon LGBTQ+ characters / real-life LGBTQ+ people—both for better and for worse. i don’t have an exhaustive list of such media, but i have randomly blogged* about instances that i personally have come across in the past…

[manga/anime] Yagate Kimi ni Naru

[manga] Miss Kiryu Doesn’t Know What Love Is

[reality tv] “adventures in Japanese TV: “Gathering of 13 Trans Women””

[reality tv] “gender non-conformity sure does make for good entertainment for cis people, huh Japan?“

[news] “spotted: LGBT 101 on Japanese TV”

[tv drama] “Ie Uru Onna Gyakushuu S2E3: “A home that is accepting of all [kinds of] love?!”“

[reality tv] “transphobia & non-binary erasure in Japanese media”

[news] “spotted: same-gender marriage feature on Japanese news”

[docu series] “NHK Heart Net TV to air feature on non-binary people“ (see: 2017 episode featuring non-binary people in JP)

i think that it’s been within the last two years or so that i’ve noticeably been increasingly caught off guard by Japanese mainstream media randomly including queer-coded or even canonically gay (always gay) characters as a means of random-plot-twist (click), comedic relief/plot driver (fucking Ossaannnn ughhh click-click), or queerbaiting (click), but i haven’t always gotten my feathers ruffled by it enough to pointedly take note of it in the form of a blog post or Twitter rant, so…

while i hope the above helps answer your question, i’m sure that Google-sensei could provide you with much more helpful information. posting this publically just because i know others may be interested in this inadvertent linkspam.

*note: because Japanese media outlets are ridiculous about leaving past content intact, some links to Japanese websites included in the above posts will no longer work.

[st-aurafina]

Tiny yay!