#sean bean headers

[streets-in-paradise]

The most accurate thing in the film is the height difference between Ajax and Odysseus

[sotwk]

Dear Eomer and Boromir Superfans:

I know my blog pfp and header seem to indicate that I am Thranduil-centered, and that is technically true. But the reality is my simping heart actually belongs primarily to Eomer/Karl Urban and Boromir/Sean Bean. I have definitely enough shitsimp posts to prove it. And a humble fic here and there.

Please give this post a shoutout or reblog if you want to be simping friends. (If we're already Moots and you're reading this--how ya doin' my loves!)

[atopvisenyashill]

🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇷🐢🏝️ i got tired of complaining constantly on my main blog (@thewingedwolf is me!) about how sansa and rhaenyra did nothing wrong and also i needed a way to organize my theories and stuff. yes i have read all the books. yes i have (unfortunately) seen the whole show. yes i have seen all of hotd as well. so here we go. my stances are this, so you have an idea what to expect:

i am a catelyn, sansa, brienne, elia, lyanna and rhaenyra stan FIRST and a person SECOND

i would die for Gaemon Palehair, Lady Essie, and Sylvenna Sand, those are my canon OCs, and that’s why they’re my header.

Sansa and Bran are my favorites! I am a Sansa will be Queen in the North truther and a Bran will be the King in Harrenhal conspiracy theorist, It Is Heavily Foreshadowed In The Text and I stand on that!!

I'm well aware Rhaenyra has plenty of faults, I am saying that the greens (as in, the characters) do not like her because of her gender, and not for stuff she does that’s actually wrong, also, idc that she did all of that i simply think she’s fun.

Helaena really IS the one who did nothing wrong tho.

i am a Dark Daenerys believer. no, i don’t hate her - in fact, i really love her, although i do hate her show counterpart - I just think her arc is heading towards a dark path and being a villain protagonist is the more interesting route for her character.

House Martell will rise or I will piss in old man germ’s cornflakes.

I Will talk about the racism Dorne faces in the text and outside of it and neither your favorite house nor my favorite house is exempt from this. If you have a problem with that, keep it to yourself bc i do not care 🙏🏽

i multiship!! just bc i ship it doesn’t mean i think it’s gonna happen in the series, i just like the dynamic!!

i am in fact the annoying book jonsa truther they warned you about. i will Stay bitter about this. argue with the wall.

with that said, i also like theonsa, throbb, daemyra, laenyra, rhaewin, nedcat, braime, briensa, and a million other ones. faves listed here. several of them are dead dove-esque; what can i say, that's just george's style.

you decide whether it’s romantic or platonic when it’s an incest one, my opinion changes by the hour & im gonna fight grrm for making me think this much about incest.

i don’t like jonerys!!!!!! i'm sansan & sanrion ambivalent and i simply do not care about littlefucker like that. i would say i’ve thought positively about basically every other ship.

i’m in the middle of a reread, as of this moment (april 2024) i’ve kinda stalled on the beginning of a dance with dragons but i Have started a rewatch of the tv series as a form of torture.

i first read this series when i was 16 in like 2012-2013. i love to bitch about the takes i’ve seen. i sometimes reblog really old ass graphics bc they deserve new life even tho the creators are long since deactivated. i sometimes make graphics that look like they’re from 2014 bc we should bring that style back dammit i hate the typography movement going on rn.

big on tagging triggers so lmk (i’ll tag for all characters & major triggers but i’m fine with adding a specific one if asked and don't worry about it being a "weird" trigger - if sean bean's face or knives or wolves or whatever trigger you, i'm happy to tag for that!). my spoiler policy is that i’ll tag everything from this season as “hotd spoilers” and any of the Big Events with “episode title spoilers” but i can’t guarantee I can be consistent longer than like 2 days though i will try!! i Will be talking about any book canon events tho, the books have been out for years either you know how to avoid them or you know everything, i’m not tagging that.

i have a tag page that is more organized than the slapdash nonsense on this post, feel free to check it out here.

i may sound angry but i promise i am genuinely just here for a laugh. i just have resting bitch voice and no feel for tone and use the word fuck too much. it’s fine and unserious.

[rexxmako]

: ̗̀➛ 🗲 my love, are you the devil?

・ i would worship you instead of him ・i have no time for confession ・ for i'm too busy committing sins ・ my love, you're something special ・ i've never met someone like you ・ you'd make me fall from heaven ・ but i know just what i do ・

𓆩⟡𓆪 names i go by: jay, rex, mako, maybe even soda or echo ❣

𓆩⟡𓆪 pronouns: they/them

𓆩⟡𓆪 🏳‍🌈: bi, enby, aroace

𓆩⟡𓆪 fandoms: lotr, percy jackson, hermitcraft, m@w, tbb

・❥・ sean bean simp

・❥・ honestly just gay as hell

・❥・ the geneva convention should fear me

・❥・ im also neurospicy

current custom tags: # rexx rants

do not interact

with my 18+ posts if you are a minor

If you are homophobic

If you are transphobic

If you are queerphobic

If you are ableist

If you are racist / sexist

If you have any intentions to harass / assault / bully / discriminate me for any of my beliefs, my gender and/or sexuality, the things I like, the things i create or make, etc

If you are someone who ships problematic ships

If you are an empty blog (because I'll mistake you for a porn bot lol)

if you support isra3l, gen0cide, etc

CREDS: moon divider | black n white headers | red headers | top image | bottom image

[nedlynstan]

some nedlyn headers part 2!

i hope you enjoy these <33

idk why anyone would use these, but feel free to; id be so happy!

and if you wanna see more stuff like this , just lmk!! id love to do more

[ if you didn’t like the filter I used {or if it doesn’t match your theme} lmk! they are %100 customizable. (same goes for the texts and the placement, they are %100 customizable)

[laidzart]

15ème Version du forumRpg “Californication”

[tasksweekly]

[TASK 170: LUMBEE]

In celebration of November being Native American Heritage Month, here’s a masterlist below compiled of over 90+ Lumbee faceclaims categorised by gender with their occupation and ethnicity denoted if there was a reliable source. The Lumbee are a Native American tribe from North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. If you want an extra challenge use random.org to pick a random number! Of course everything listed below are just suggestions and you can pick whichever faceclaim or whichever project you desire.

Any questions can be sent here and all tutorials have been linked below the cut for ease of access! REMEMBER to tag your resources with #TASKSWEEKLY and we will reblog them onto the main! This task can be tagged with whatever you want but if you want us to see it please be sure that our tag is the first five tags, @ mention us or send us a messaging linking us to your post!

THE TASK - scroll down for FC’s!

STEP 1: Decide on a FC you wish to create resources for! You can always do more than one but who are you starting with? There are links to masterlists you can use in order to find them and if you want help, just send us a message and we can pick one for you at random!

STEP 2: Pick what you want to create! You can obviously do more than one thing, but what do you want to start off with? Screencaps, RP icons, GIF packs, masterlists, PNG’s, fancasts, alternative FC’s - LITERALLY anything you desire!

STEP 3: Look back on tasks that we have created previously for tutorials on the thing you are creating unless you have whatever it is you are doing mastered - then of course feel free to just get on and do it. :)

STEP 4: Upload and tag with #TASKSWEEKLY! If you didn’t use your own screencaps/images make sure to credit where you got them from as we will not reblog packs which do not credit caps or original gifs from the original maker.

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FOR THIS TASK -  examples are linked!

Stumped for ideas? Maybe make a masterlist or graphic of your favourite faceclaims. A masterlist of names. Plot ideas or screencaps from a music video preformed by an artist. Masterlist of quotes and lyrics that can be used for starters, thread titles or tags. Guides on culture and customs.

Screencaps

RP icons [of all sizes]

Gif Pack [maybe gif icons if you wish]

PNG packs

Manips

Dash Icons

Character Aesthetics

PSD’s

XCF’s

Graphic Templates - can be chara header, promo, border or background PSD’s!

FC Masterlists - underused, with resources, without resources!

FC Help - could be related, family templates, alternatives.

Written Guides.

and whatever else you can think of / make!

MASTERLIST!

F:

Rhiannon Giddens (1977) Lumbee, Occaneechi, Seminole, African-American, Irish, Scottish - singer-songwriter, violinist, fiddle player, and banjo player.

Jana / Jana Mashonee (1980) Lumbee / Tuscarora - actress, singer-songwriter, and author.

Charly Lowry (1983) Lumbee - singer-songwriter.

Queenetta Moore (1983) Lumbee, Unspecified Black - instagrammer (naturallyqueenie).

Stacy Layne Matthews (1984) Lumbee - tv personality. - Trans!

Carmen Hart (1984) Lumbee - actress, model, and former porn actress.

Maria Sturm (1985) Lumbee, Tuscarora, German - filmmaker and photographer.

Grace Askew (1986) Lumbee / Ojibwe - singer-songwriter.

Mackenzie Rosman (1989) Lumbee, Scottish, English, Swedish, Alsatian German - actress.

StyledbyKami (1990) Lumbee, Cherokee, Unspecified Black - youtuber.

Candace Lowry (1992) Lumbee / Unspecified White - youtuber.

Aminah Sane' Ghaffar (1994) Lumbee, African-American - dancer, poet, storyteller, and activist.

Alexis Raeana / Alexis Raeana Jones (1995) Lumbee - singer-songwriter, model, and Miss Lumbee 2015.

Ava Sambora (1997) Lumbee, Scottish, English, German / Polish - actress and model.

Ashton Locklear (1998) Lumbee - instagrammer (_ashtonlocklear) and gymnast.

Raven Dial-Stanley (1998) Lumbee - model, dancer, and Miss Indian North Carolina 2018.

Page Danielle (?) Lumbee - youtuber.

Quania Love Jones (?) Lumbee, Serrano, Miwok, Ohlone, Mexican, African-American, Louisiana Creole - actress, model, and socialite.

Ruby Star Shaman (?) 1/8 Lumbee, 1/8 Cherokee, 3/4 Unspecified Celtic - actress, singer-songwriter, poet, storyteller, and medium.

Jatana Jackson (?) Lumbee - model, Ms Virginia 2018, and Ms Virginia 2015.

Rachel Stewart (?) Lumbee, African-American / Tuscarora, African-American, Irish - visual artist and jewelry designer.

Daphne Coriz (?) Lumbee, Kewa, Yaac Haa’nu - model, makeup artist, and hairstylist.

LotusInWonderland (?) Lumbee, Cherokee, Choctaw, Lenape, Melungeon, Lakota Sioux, Pawnee, Shawnee, Metis, Cree, Chickahominy, Muskogee, Powhatan, Kuči - instagrammer (lotusinwonderland).

India Lowery Jones King (?) Lumbee - model.

Nikki Jacobs (?) Lumbee - plus-sized model (instagram: nikkiplusmodel).

MelodicWaters / Melody The Mystic (?) Lumbee, Muskogee, Choctaw, Sioux, Puerto Rican [Taino, Afro-Puerto Rican] - singer, poet, and reiki master.

Jiffy Caywood-Williams / Jennifer Caywood-Williams (?) Lumbee - reality tv personality, celebrity chef, artist, and designer.

Heather Parker (?) Lumbee, Yakama, Tulalip - singer-songwriter and fashion designer (instagram: urthychurchygirl).

Glenda Bean (?) Lumbee, Catawba - actress.

Nikki Carter (?) Lumbee - plus-sized model.

Kayla Jean Oxendine (?) Lumbee - actress and Miss Indian North Carolina 2017.

Tabitha Leviner (?) Lumbee - model and trainer.

Britt Watt (?) Lumbee, African-American - model, athlete, and trainer (instagram: bwatt3000).

Layla Rose Locklear (?) Lumbee, Tuscarora / Oglala Lakota Sioux - singer.

Amelia Locklear (?) Lumbee - rower.

JoJo Brooks Shifflett (?) Lumbee / Unspecified - author (instagram: alumbeegershom)

Sable J Locklear (?) Lumbee - model (instagram: sablejeanette).

Malinda Maynor Lowery (?) Lumbee - filmmaker and writer.

Linda Cox (?) Lumbee - singer.

Vincea Locklear (?) Lumbee - martial artist.

Chasity Lowery (?) Lumbee - model.

Ashley Minner (?) Lumbee - artist.

Tonya Holy Elk Locklear (?) Lumbee, Oglala Lakota Sioux - artist.

M:

Joe Taylor (1939) Lumbee - football player.

Gene Locklear (1949) Lumbee - baseball player.

Kelvin Sampson (1955) Lumbee - basketball player.

Chief Iron Bear / Harold Collins (1957) Lumbee - powerlifter.

Tatanka / Chris Chavis (1961) Lumbee - wrestler.

Clint Lowery (1971) Lumbee / Slovakian - singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, drummer, and producer.

Corey Lowery (1973) Lumbee / Slovakian - singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, and producer.

Jammie Deese (1977) Lumbee, Unspecified White - football player.

Dylan Kage (1980) Lumbee - wrestler.

Sean Locklear (1981) Lumbee / African-American - football player.

Kenwin Cummings (1986) Lumbee - football player.

Ryan Van Natten (1987) Lumbee / Dutch - ice dancer.

Keenan Allen (1992) Lumbee, African-American - football player.

Michael Goedel (1993) Lumbee, Yakama, Tulalip - model and dancer.

Lakota John / Lakota John Locklear / John Lakota Locklear (1997) Lumbee / Oglala Lakota Sioux - singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Robby Cummings (?) Lumbee / Cherokee - singer-songwriter and keyboardist.

Noah Hunt (?) Lumbee - singer and guitarist.

Ryan Dial-Stanley (?) Lumbee - flutist and spoken word artist.

Kenny Wingle (?) Lumbee / Polish - comedian.

Efrain Colón (?) Lumbee, Unspecified Latine - screenwriter.

Realbk (?) Lumbee - musician.

Matty Strongbeaux (?) Lumbee, Cherokee, Samoan - rapper.

Gordon Ison (?) Lumbee - actor and filmmaker.

Abraham Thomas (?) Lumbee / Oglala Lakota Sioux - singer-songwriter.

Mark McKinney (?) Lumbee - singer and guitarist (Mark McKinney & Co.).

Andrew Locklear (?) Lumbee - singer and percussionist (Mark McKinney & Co.).

Jonathan Locklear (?) Lumbee - guitarist and bassist (Mark McKinney & Co.).

Dolphus Ramseur (?) Lumbee, Unspecified White - musician and producer.

JaseLVO (?) Lumbee - rapper.

Aaron Locklear (?) Lumbee - guitarist, keyboardist, and drummer (Dark Water Rising).

Corey Locklear (?) Lumbee - guitarist (Dark Water Rising).

Q LeNar / Quincy LeNar (?) Lumbee, Cheraw, Cherokee, Tuscarora - filmmaker.

Zeus Tha God (?) Lumbee, African-American - rapper.

DtK / daveth3king (?) Lumbee - rapper.

Daniel Chavis (?) Lumbee, Unspecified Black - singer-songwriter, poet, and illustrator.

Brandon McLean (?) Lumbee - singer.

Jamie K. Oxendine (?) Lumbee / Muskogee - musician, storyteller, writer, and artist.

Tis Mal Crow (?) Lumbee, Hitchiti, Cherokee - artist.

Hayes Alan Locklear (?) Lumbee, Tuscarora - artist.

Isaac Dial (?) Lumbee / Navajo - artist.

Christopher Simmons (?) Lumbee / Afro-Panamanian - boxer.

Donte M. Williams (?) Lumbee - producer.

Shannon Lowery (?) Lumbee - artist (instagram: mudlowery and ibeshannonlowery).

Jamie Locklear (?) Lumbee, Unspecified Black - podcast host.

Edgar Villanueva (?) Lumbee - author and activist. 

James Bixby (?) Lumbee - skater and video creator (instagram: bixbyfilms).

NB:

Qwo-Li Driskill (1975) Lumbee, Lenape, Cherokee, Osage, African-American, Irish - Two-Spirit (Ze/Hir/Hir’s) - performer, author, and poet.

Problematic:

Heather Locklear (1961) Lumbee, Scottish, English, German - actress. - Domestic violence.

Anybody Killa / ABK / James Lowery (1973) 3/4 Lumbee, 1/4 Cherokee - rapper. - Blackface, appropriation of cornrows, and appropriation of bantu knots.

[sempiternalsandpitturtle]

What is an SEO specialist?

For the uninitiated, search engine optimisation (SEO) can be like black magic – inexplicable, otherworldly and a tad scary.

If these three letters have you reaching for your broomstick in order to beat a hasty retreat, hold up just a minute. There’s someone who can help – an SEO specialist. Never heard of them? These are the white knights behind every company website killing it in Google’s rankings, and they can help you too.

In this article we’ll answer the following questions:

What is an SEO specialist?

How can they improve your website?

What are black hat SEO tactics?

Is it possible to learn SEO quickly?

Wands at the ready. Here. We. Go.

What is an SEO specialist?

An SEO specialist is responsible for analysing a website and suggesting changes to improve how that site ranks in internet searches for relevant terms. You may also see this title shortened to simply ‘an SEO’.

Quick definition of SEO: SEO aims to boost the amount, and the quality, of traffic to a website from organic search results.

We’ll look at some of the key features of a site that an SEO specialist would review in the next section, but first let’s explore the skills and attributes these individuals need to possess:

Keyword research – Despite what you might hear, keywords are still hugely important for SEO strategies. Therefore, an SEO should be able to conduct thorough keyword research, and use the terms ‘naturally’ in your business’ content. Natural usage is the opposite of keyword stuffing – something we’ll cover in our black hat tactics section later on.

Website analysis – Understanding the website elements that contribute to search engine ranking, and staying on top of best practices are essential to an SEO’s role.

Search engine knowledge – Search engines are constantly evolving. SEOs must stay on top of the latest algorithmic updates to boost website performance and avoid ranking penalties.

IT know-how – A solid grounding in CSS, HTML and other programming languages, as well as experience with tools such as MOZ Keyword Explorer and SEMrush is crucial to an efficient SEO workflow.

An analytical mind – The ability to identify problems and implement effective solutions based on hard data is meat and drink to your SEO specialist.

Strong communication skills – If online marketing and SEO are new avenues for your business, chances are your SEO specialist will need to be able to explain its importance to key stakeholders to get buy in at all levels.

Keywords are like Sean Bean - no matter how many times people try to kill them off, they just won’t die. Here’s why they’re still crucial to your #SEO #strategy https://t.co/jbEF82XriL pic.twitter.com/3WEzeWHH0B

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 11 April 2019

What roles can SEO specialists take?

The above skills position SEO specialists perfectly for a number of roles within a business’ digital marketing team:

Content writing – In addition to crafting perfectly poised prose, SEO is a big part of modern content writing. Google’s Penguin update highlighted the importance of writing for humans instead of search engines, but understanding how to organically deploy keywords is a key SEO consideration for content writers.

Website developers – High numbers of backlinks to your website from other reputable online sources is an important ranking factor in search. They show Google that your site is considered to be a useful resource and help crawlers to find it. Website developers are also crucial for ensuring your pages are correctly tagged, another indicating factor for Google of a high quality site.

Strategists – There’s a strategist behind every successful digital marketing campaign. Understanding, and improving, the SEO performance of your site is a big part of what a strategist brings to the table, so expertise in search engine ranking is crucial to the role.

Search engine marketing (SEM) – In many ways SEO and SEM are opposite sides of the coin. However, keyword understanding as well as the organisational and analytical mindset that SEO specialists have position them well for running and reviewing paid digital ad campaigns.

So what is SEM, and how does it relate to #SEO or #contentmarketing? We’ve written your new go-to guide, covering these questions and more. https://t.co/41RSTevbCD pic.twitter.com/W4qzC56z3H

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 1 May 2019

How can an SEO specialist improve your website?

Now we get into the real sorcery. Here are some common tactics an SEO specialist will use to improve your site’s search ranking:

Using tags: You need to remember that search engines speak their own language – and your website needs to too. HTML tags are key in helping crawlers identify different elements on a given page or blog post, and will be a high priority for your SEO specialist. Among the most important are:

Title tag – This tells the search engine what each page is about. Your title tag absolutely must contain the keywords that page is targetting. On a search engine results page (SERP) this is where users click on to select a result. Tip – Limit your title to around 60 characters to avoid clipping.

Meta tag – Directly beneath the title tag on a SERP comes your meta. This is a couple of sentences (ideally 130-160 characters) that acts as additional bait for would-be clickers.

Header tags – Divvying your content up with prudent use of H1, H2 and even a cheeky H3 tag not only makes it easier on the eye, but also benefits SEO ranking. These headers are behind those bulleted snippets you see at the top of SERPS (#goals).

Alt tags – Did you know that Google can’t read images? As we’ll see, the right pictures are important ranking factors – but without alt tags, search engines won’t have the foggiest idea what they show.

Adopting keyword best practice:  I could write a whole e-book on keywords (in fact, one of my colleagues did), but here are the most salient, SEO related points:

Find the right ones: Your SEO specialist should know which tools to use in order to find keywords that receive good traffic.

Think about placement: Try and get keywords into your title tags, subheads, opening paragraph, URLs and image alt tags.

Be organic: Unnaturally cramming keywords into the above (or anywhere else for that matter) could see you penalised by Google Penguin. Let the keywords serve the content, rather than distract from it.

Creating cornerstone content: Cornerstone content consists of posts or pages that comprehensively cover one topic. Its primary aim is to help you rank for specific keywords (Google loves takeaway-heavy articles). Your specialist can help you identify areas to target, and use purpose-built tools such as Market Muse to establish competitive word counts.

Including rich media: Rich media includes elements like video, custom images, social media embeds, and polls and quizzes. As well as making your page more visually interesting, these features can help your ranking.Just remember to add the appropriate tags!

Optimising links: Google attaches significant value to links – after all, they help its crawlers get around and establish connections between different pages and sites. Indeed, a study by NinjaOutreach showed how a tiered SEO linking campaign can boost traffic by 40 per cent. An SEO specialist will understand the different types of links, and how to use them effectively for SEO.

Targeting features snippet – AHREFS found that, on SERPS where they appear, 8.6 per cent of clicks go to featured snippets. These SEO jackpots aren’t chosen at random – an SEO can help you tailor content towards capturing them.

Getting local – Your SEO specialist can tweak your SEO to capture the local market, and this is no small fry.

Getting to grips with voice search – By 2020, 30 per cent of internet browsing will be done without a screen, predicts Gartner. Voice search is already playing a role in this shift, so you need an SEO who can update your site for these latest trends.

Voice search is here and it's changing the way that we search, so what can digital marketers do to adapt? https://t.co/AFoG2nsGCF pic.twitter.com/Ivdx7R5Ell

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 18 January 2019

What are blackhat SEO tactics?

If your SEO specialist suggests any of the following blackhat tactics, it’s time to book them a one-way ticket to Azkaban. Many of the following could see your site penalised by search engine rankings:

Keyword stuffing  – Until relatively recently, you could get away with unnaturally high frequencies of keyword use. However, now Google values quality of content over quantity of keywords. An example of keyword stuffing could be:

Looking for nose warmers in Alice Springs? We sell nose warmers in Alice Springs, so get in touch with one of our experts in Alice Springs to buy a nose warmer today.

Duplicating content – If you copy and paste content from another site, or within your own, you’re likely to fall foul of Google Panda. This algorithmic update seeks to weed out poor quality or duplicated content.

Content automation – Compelling content is important in many aspects of digital marketing. However, if you’re tempted to get machines to do it for you – think again. Firstly, the stuff they produce will lack value, formatting and images. Secondly, Auntie Google doesn’t like automated content, and will penalise your site.

Cloaking – This refers to showing one page to searchers, and another to search engines. This allows spam websites to rank for content that isn’t relevant to their content and mask the garbage they’re putting out.

Link farms – The number of links to your site is a key ranking factor. For this reason, some bright sparks set up so-called link farms – websites that exist solely to supply links to sites that someone wants to rank highly. Unfortunately, link farms are easily identifiable for search engines, and should be avoided.

Personal blog networks – Like link farms, personal blog networks aim to make it look like a website has lots of links. These are authoritative sites that form a network where each links to the target site, but not to each other.

Paid links – Building links with authority sites is an important SEO tactic, but you need to play by the rules. Buying links, or exchanging them for goods, isn’t allowed under Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, and both the buyer and seller can be penalised if caught.

Website redirects – Similar to cloaking, this involves sending crawlers to one page, and users to another. Only use redirects for their intended purposes – for example, when you’ve changed domain name and want users to find your new site.

Spamming blog comment sections – In the past, Google and other search engines would count links from blog comments among their ranking factors. While this is no longer the case, you’ll still find plenty of people advertising their blog commenting services to boost your SEO performance. Ignore them.

The days of quantity over quality in terms of #socialmedia posting are over. Today, your content needs to hit the mark every time. Here’s why. https://t.co/qwxWMfziox pic.twitter.com/2J1lHjIPcw

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 25 February 2019

How long does SEO take to work?

Precisely 49 minutes.

Okay, sadly that’s a lie – you can’t put a timeframe on how long it will take your SEO tree to start bearing tasty click-through fruit. This is because the results of your tactics depend not only on the skills of your SEO specialist, but also what your competition is doing.

It also matters what industry you’re in. For example, business selling laptops in Sydney are going to be up against tougher opposition than those flogging Wallabies rugby shirts in Auckland. More people targeting the same SERPS and keywords can mean it takes longer for you to see tangible results from your SEO campaign.

Can I learn SEO fast?

Given that 71.3 per cent of searches result in a page one organic (unpaid) click, according to Moz, SEO is something that businesses really can’t afford to ignore.

If you’re interested in learning SEO for yourself, there are a number of great resources out there to start improving your knowledge. These include

Moz.

Search Engine Journal.

Search Engine Land.

Marketing Land.

ClickZ.

Search Engine Watch.

The good news is that a lot of the basics of aren’t hard to understand, and you can start practicing immediately by implementing some best practices on your own site.

Learning through doing is definitely the trick when it comes to SEO.

71.3 per cent of Google searches result in a page one organic (unpaid) click.

However, much like FIFA, you can never complete SEO. And this is where business owners tend to fall down when trying to tackling this aspect of digital marketing alone,on a long term basis. It’s one thing to get your site optimised, but you then need to continually review and tweak in accordance with changes to what the search engines want to see.

Modern digital marketing agencies have a lot to offer. Here’s our comprehensive guide to their services, and how they can help you. https://t.co/jz6AXdDvOl pic.twitter.com/gsOOsPR6aX

— Castleford Media (@castlefordmedia) 18 April 2019

Why outsource SEO to an agency?

For these reasons, many businesses outsource their SEO concerns to agencies. Here are some of the benefits they bring to the table:

Expertise – From strategists to writers, digital agency personnel are well versed in the latest updates to search engine protocol. In addition to actioning change to your site themselves, they can also help you expand your own understanding of all things SEO.

Access to tools – As well as an in-depth understanding of SEO, agency staff will have access to and experience using the tools needed to review and improve your site’s performance.

Accountability – To prove their tactics are working, any agency worth its salt will provide a plethora of reports and walk you through the results. This means that even if you don’t fully grasp every detail of what they’re doing, you get full visibility over whether it’s achieving the desired results.

Time-saving – Once you’ve found an agency you like working with, they can get on with SEO work in the background while you focus on the business itself.

from http://bit.ly/2LDcGhl

[wikipress01]

Andrew McCabe Begs Congress Not To Send Him To Jail

Andrew McCabe has despatched a letter to Congress pleading them to not prosecute him for intentionally mishandling the Hillary Clinton e mail investigation. 

In a last-ditch effort to keep away from serving jail time, McCabe’s legal professional Michael Bromwich despatched a letter to Chairman Grassley requesting immunity from prosecution in trade for spilling the beans on the Obama administration and former FBI director James Comey.

Thegatewaypundit.com reviews: Chuck Grassley requested Andrew McCabe testify subsequent week at a Congressional listening to on the FBI’s and DOJ’s (mis)dealing with of the Hillary Clinton e mail investigation.

In a Three web page letter to Chairman Grassley, McCabe’s legal professional Michael Bromwich satirically complains about leaks from the DOJ doing harm to his shopper.

On web page 2 of Bromwich’s letter, the lawyer argues damaging leaks about McCabe’s felony referral by the IG have executed harm to the previous FBI Deputy Director.

Bromwich then states McCabe’s authorized crew requested an investigation into the DOJ’s supply of leaks.

Oh the irony.

Excerpt of web page 2 Bromwich to Grassley:

He [McCabe] has a reputable and compelling story to inform. However, as the results of a stream of leaks from the Department of Justice, it’s now well-known that the OIG has made a felony referral to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. As you understand, the grounds for such a referral is the very low customary of “cheap grounds to imagine there was a violation of Federal felony regulation.” 5 U.S.C. App. 3 § 4(d). Even so, and despite the fact that Mr. McCabe dedicated no crime, these leaks have pressured us to acknowledge the felony referral. And, sadly, the stream of leaks has continued: As just lately as final Thursday, further leaks led to the reporting of particular investigative steps allegedly taken by the United States Attorney’s Office in response to the referral. We are outraged by these leaks and final Friday requested an investigation by the Department of Justice’s Office of Professional Responsibility into the supply(s) of the leaks.

On web page 3, Bromwich requests the Senate Judiciary Committee grant McCabe immunity from prosecution in trade for his testimony due to his felony referral. (screenshot beneath)

If McCabe shouldn’t be granted immunity, he’ll invoke his fifth Amendment rights, continued Bromwich.

McCabe can invoke his fifth Amendment rights, nonetheless; this will immediate lawmakers to situation him a subpoena and in the end threaten contempt fees.

Chairman Grassley responded to Bromwich’s letter stating he would take into account granting McCabe immunity:

I’m keen to debate with the Ranking Member your request that the Committee take into account in search of a courtroom order compelling you to testify beneath a grant of immunity. However, beneath 18 U.S. Code § 6005, in search of such an order requires a two-thirds vote of the Committee, and even when that had been to happen, the Justice Department would then have a proper alternative to delay any testimony and try to influence the Committee to not proceed. Before even starting to think about whether or not to provoke that course of, the Committee would want to know much more concerning the anticipated scope, nature, and extent of your testimony. The Committee might then informally seek the advice of with the Department to solicit its views earlier than deciding whether or not to proceed formally.

Grassley additionally wrote a letter to the FBI on Tuesday requesting Andrew McCabe be launched from a nondisclosure he signed that’s blocking him from releasing emails and paperwork to the Committee.

The Senate Judiciary listening to will now happen on Monday, June 11th; it is going to be live-streamed for public viewing.

Sources are saying the IG report on the FBI’s seventh ground beneath Comey’s Directorship is totally damning and “worse than expected.”

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David Norton’s turbocharged 2002 Lincoln: What a Luxury Performance Car Should Be

David Norton’s 900-horsepower wide-body Lincoln LS is an “if only” car. Imaginary auto executives fantasize, “if only they would let me build cars like that, I could fix Lincoln!” New car dealers dream, “if only they would ship me some of those, I could charge double the MSRP!” And the tetchy bean counters, anonymous committee persons, and bus-riding bureaucrats gleefully posit, “if only I could veto such outrageous, expensive engineering excess!”

Showroom-stock 2000 to 2006 Lincoln LS sedans did not typically spark such passionate thoughts. Sharing the DEW98 platform and engines with a forgettable Jaguar in Ford’s ill-fated Premium Auto Group (and in 2002-05 with the flaccid revival of the two-seat boulevardier Ford Thunderbird), the Lincoln LS was supposed to make a generation of young Europhiles forget about decades of Continental Mark-series mobile isolation chambers.

Although the LS triggered a round of nasty attorney letters between Toyota and Ford over whether anyone would confuse it with Lexus LS400s, the car did too little to shake young junior executives and fashion-plates out of their 5-series BMWs. In an age when average soccer moms wanted high-riding equipment for the Rubicon trail, and dads wanted to pretend the daily traffic jam was on the King Ranch, the underpowered Lincoln LS just never broke through the clutter. Then, as part of Ford’s “Way Forward,” the no-fun committee bureaucrats and penny-pinching bean counters killed it in favor of a cheaper, V8-less, front-wheel-drive Ford platform.

An LS was not David Norton’s first choice for a souped-up Lincoln. Norton, proprietor of SPEC Clutch in Bessemer, Alabama, has a history of building hot road-course iron, including a wide-body Porsche 944 turbo, a 700-horsepower Nissan 240, and an equally powerful BMW 135. Yet his initial conception for a “hot rod Lincoln” trended more toward Kennedy Continentals. “I sought but could not find a decent mid-‘60s coupe,” Norton reported.

Norton switched his attention to the lithe Lincoln LS. Norton admired the lines of Helmuth Schrader’s German-inspired design. “These chassis have a good wheelbase and rigidity for handling bigger power, and feature a 50/50 weight distribution,” Norton explained. Another advantage was that Norton found a one-of-2,331 LS equipped with a Getrag 221 five-speed manual transmission, which reduced the amount of fabrication necessary to fit the TKO600 gearbox behind the turbocharged Terminator DOHC V8 that the car should have had to start with.

An old friend who had been part of a defunct effort to campaign a Lincoln LS in Sports Car Club of America World Challenge racing supplied the final parts of the design. Norton took some broken, one-off fiberglass body components and shirt monogram artwork left over from the racing project, and had the wide-body design revamped for molding in featherweight carbon fiber. Norton’s team added a new carbon fiber hood, doors, bumpers and side skirts to complete “what we imagined a race car would look like.”

The final result is hotter than anything Bill Stroppe, Fran Hernandez, and Clay Smith came up with back when Ford could be bothered to actually race Lincolns. “It is very reliable and handles power better than ever imagined,” Norton said. “It is easy to drive, gets great fuel mileage, and is comfortable. Just what one would expect from a Lincoln.” It is an “if only” car indeed – with no Mathew McConaughey stream of consciousness existentialism necessary.

Tech Notes

Who: David Norton What: 2002 Lincoln LS Where: Bessemer, AL

Engine: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada’s Sean Hyland literally wrote the book on Modular Ford V8 performance (How to Build Max-Performance 4.6-Liter Ford Engines (Cartech, 2003)), so when Norton decided to consign the powerless Jaguar AJ 3.0 V6 to the wastelands, Sean Hyland Motorsports (SHM) got the call. In the end, SHM supplied a balanced 0.020-over Ford Terminator DOHC V8, displacing 283 cubic inches. A quartet of SMH 2723 camshafts, featuring 0.482/0.470 lift and 225/235 degrees of duration at 0.050-inch, conduct the battle symphony from atop ported SHM race four-valve heads with 52cc chambers. From the inside, the SHM Terminator block houses an OEM forged Ford crankshaft, Manley Pro Series I-beam rods, and boost-friendly Manley 11cc dish pistons. ARP head studs clamp down MLS head gaskets from the rebellion of 25 pounds of turbo boost. A mid-frame Borg Warner S400 75mm turbocharger, exhaling into a Sullivan EFI intake manifold brings Norton’s Terminator one step closer to serious horsepower. Breaking the habit of detonation, boost is chilled through a custom charge air cooler based on a Spearco core. Custom stainless steel 1.5-inch primary headers supply spent gas drive to the turbo. A Big Stuff 3 engine controller barks electronic orders to ID1050x injectors, dual Turbosmart Compgate 40 wastegates, and crank-triggered LSx coils on MSD Power Grid brackets. NGK TR6 spark plugs touch off the power making conflagrations. With an Evans water pump, SPAL dual 11-inch electric fans, and a Mocal oil cooler, Norton is less likely to burn it all down. Squelching unwanted sounds are a pair of Borla Shootout mufflers on 3.5-inch stainless steel exhaust pipes.

Transmission: Norton pulled a SPEC PT Trim Super Twin clutch and SPEC forged billet aluminum flywheel from his company’s stock and surrounded them with a Quicktime bellhousing. The SPEC clutch feeds the outpouring of SHM turbo power to a Pro Motion TKO 600 five-speed manual transmission, into a Driveshaft Services custom 4-inch driveshaft.

Rearend: Instead of waiting for the end of the light duty, OEM independent rear suspension, Norton had Barry Trivette and Harry Robinson of Robinson Racing Enterprises fabricate a custom four-link and Panhard bar, and fit in a lightweight Moser 9-inch Ford axle. The husky axle contains 3.50:1 final drive and hardened Moser axles.

Suspension: QA-1 Coilovers suspend all four corners of Norton’s Lincoln. Spherical links and polyurethane bushings firm up the OEM front and rear sway bars. The balance of the suspension and steering are Lincoln Wixom factory-issue.

Wheels/Tires: Stanley Chen of Toyo Tires supplied wide Toyo Proxes T1R tires in 235/35R19 (front) and 315/25R19 (rear) sizes to Norton’s wide-body project. Vincent Wong of I-Forged Wheels provided I-Forged Fortune 19×9.5 and 19×12 wheels to replace the spindly 17×7 Lincoln LS stockers.

Paint/Body: Lincoln ran out of clever names for the clearcoat black hue that cloaks the iridescent, custom dry carbon fiber wide body built by Goolsby Customs of Bessemer, AL. No castle of glass, the LS dry carbon fiber body parts are as much as 70% lighter than even lightweight wet carbon fiber without leaving out any strength. Goolsby Customs relocated the rear door jams to fit the Lincoln’s new wide look. A Fuel Safe fuel cell with a Sparco locking fuel door keeps the hydrocarbons-in-waiting secure.

Interior: Most “if only” enthusiasts will view the inside of Norton’s Lincoln as “somewhere I belong.” Augmenting the factory Lincoln leather-lined luxury is a custom Dakota Digital instrument package integrated into the OEM cluster. A Clarion NX706 head unit with an Arc Audio XDi 1200.6 amplifier, Arc Audio 6.2 and 5.2 components and two Arc Audio XDi 12D4 subwoofers, helping the listeners go numb. Danny Smith of Bessemer, AL handled the wiring. An Optima Yellow Top battery and a 1999 SVT Cobra alternator loose the juice for the entertainment system.

Performance: The potency of Norton’s Lincoln LS is not for the faint, with 900 horsepower at 5,800 rpm and 825 lbs/ft of torque at 5,500 rpm available at the wheels. Off-boost fuel economy checks in with a miserly 17 city/26 highway mpg. Top speed is drag limited to an estimated 200 mph.

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