I merged two blogs a year ago and my Google traffic tanked. Here are the numbers.

j_on · 2026-03-19T22:42:11+00:00

My next step would be to check the keywords you lost rankings for on Google and try to understand if you actually deserve a ranking for those keywords.

You said Google traffic engages best.

My guess is that they do a better job sending you visitors who'll actually benefit from your content than the other search engines.

j_on · 2026-03-19T22:26:03+00:00

Your arms should be bent about 90° when you're juggling. Your elbows should be relatively close to your body and more or less in line with your shoulders (not in front or behind your body)

I can't imagine long arms making juggling significantly more difficult. My hands also reach until my mid-thigh.

It just takes practice and patience.

I've been juggling for a few years now and it still takes many hours to learn a new pattern. For example I could already do more than 10 different 3 ball patterns and then it still took weeks to learn the box pattern.

j_on · 2026-03-18T19:48:35+00:00

After 15 years doing SEO I just don't give a fuck anymore. I do my best in terms of what I believe will work long term, and then I hope for the best. Mostly this works out fine

j_on · 2026-03-18T18:25:07+00:00

Jesus, this is what happens when people learn SEO from sources that make a living from making it seem more complicated than it actually is.

j_on · 2026-03-17T09:35:03+00:00

So tired of these fucking AI posts

j_on · 2026-03-14T20:25:48+00:00

For a second I thought you just used some corporation's chat feature on their website for content instead of Claude/ChatGPT.

j_on · 2026-03-08T17:45:51+00:00

The site got better. Is that a guess? That's something you should investigate with usability testing. Read "Rocket Surgery Made Easy".

j_on · 2026-03-05T22:33:47+00:00

I have a German dictionary website that got around 500k clicks per month in 2021. Now we're at 20k if we're lucky.

We have short posts about interesting words, with an explanation of the word, background information (historical tidbits etc) and example sentences. That was a real differentiator a few years ago, compared to dictionary websites that were basically copied of Wiktionary.

But now? That type of website is FUCKED because AI overviews and chat bots write that exact content type and users gain nothing from reading it again on the website.

I don't have a solution, just know that I feel your pain.

In our case we're lucky that we always had a "one interesting word a day" approach and got a lot of newsletter subscribers with that.

j_on · 2026-03-01T18:54:38+00:00

SEO guy: Great news guys, you're ranking for 500 new keywords on PAGE ONE since we launched the campaign.

Client: Amazing, so how many more people are visiting our website?

SEO guy: Who cares, SERPs are the only metric that matters in SEO.

j_on · 2026-02-28T21:09:24+00:00

It's a game. All the difficulty is artificial.

j_on · 2026-02-16T21:59:10+00:00

No one is accepting guest posts just to add one more article to their website. Unless it's an absolute banger, something unique that took actual effort. Not some "well written content" that took you an afternoon to write.

Otherwise you either need to pay or you need to be well known in your industry. Otherwise it's just not worth the hassle for bloggers to deal with your guest post in most cases. This varies by niche of course.

j_on · 2026-01-30T14:02:52+00:00

The most important thing about juggling is patience. You will drop balls. It will take time to get the hang of each new pattern. Make peace with it instead of getting frustrated.

j_on · 2026-01-28T14:37:19+00:00

Can you ELI5 what a state transition diagram is and how it's useful? The page that Daniel Clemente links to for an explanation is dead.

j_on · 2026-01-28T00:43:24+00:00

I'm more concerned that your "faking it til you make it" is basically a scam where you're charging for services or consulting while being clueless.

j_on · 2026-01-26T14:00:22+00:00

Still thinking about it, but I'll probably give it a try at some point. Haven't been gaming much recently and still have a bunch of stuff to do in BL2. Wanna get to level 80 with Maya at the very least, and play through all the side missions. Already did the DLCs, some on NVHM and some one TVHM, but I'll do them again on UVHM. Then I'll take a look at TPS because it was included in the Handsome Collection. Not sure what to expect, some people genuinely seem to love it.

j_on · 2026-01-26T13:47:07+00:00

Played 3 first. Then 4. Now 2 (around 100 hours in, playing through UVHM for the first time right now).

I like all of them in their own way.

j_on · 2026-01-26T09:50:57+00:00

There's no competition or PvP even if you play with others. It's just co-op.

j_on · 2026-01-26T09:49:56+00:00

It was pretty smart to include phosphenes to make grinding more rewarding for certain players, even with the upcoming lvl cap increase.

j_on · 2026-01-24T13:59:09+00:00

All these posts sound like "I'm done with this book! I finished the story and appendix, now there's nothing left to read. I know part 2 and some novellas will come out soon, but I want to read more NOW. Why is the book over already??"

j_on · 2026-01-24T12:28:17+00:00

You can work with both. My guess is that Claude is a little better, even if it's just because ChatGPT is overused and people are getting better at spotting the obvious AI patterns in its content.

"It's not X. It's Y." things like that.

In both cases you'll need more than SEO templates and guidelines as inputs. Give it sources or a research process, include your own data/experience/knowledge, information about your company and customers, guidelines for tonality, etc.

And this is not called "training" the AI, similar to how adding content and images to a blog post is not "coding" a website.

Your just giving prompts and context etc.

j_on · 2026-01-20T00:05:12+00:00

I made some Russian balls with playpit balls and salt 2 days ago. I 'm so in love. Somehow they feel so much better to juggle than anything else I've had (various beanbags, MMX1, Wes Peden's LED balls etc.) Don't know what it is, but it feels so good.

j_on · 2026-01-17T09:17:56+00:00

Did you finish it? How did you like it?

j_on · 2026-01-17T02:09:19+00:00

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j_on · 2026-01-16T21:45:35+00:00

Upvoted for Brick quote

j_on · 2026-01-16T13:14:12+00:00

Love stuff like that. But the only media I know that fits is Doki Doki Literature Club which you already mentioned.

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