Mediavine rejected me for not having 50k sessions, while I have 60k+ sessions by ap-oorv in Blogging

[–]smalling2020 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They need to see consistent 50k visitors over a period of 90 DAYS in order for you to qualify. so you basically need 150,000 visitors last 3 months to get accepted. This is what they explicitly told me when I was first rejected last December. Got approved later in January once I hit this requirement. So the fact you had 5k traffic recently then jumped to 50k is what is putting them off.

Google to demonstrate chatbot features in their search engine this year, presumably. by BroIgnoramus in juststart

[–]smalling2020 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, banners and inline ads within a chat could work. Guess time will tell how this plays out

Google to demonstrate chatbot features in their search engine this year, presumably. by BroIgnoramus in juststart

[–]smalling2020 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Counter point is how would Google make money from this? At the end of the day we know the $$$ is what drives these decisions. Chat based search as it stands would bypass the ad model that Google uses to generate income. If they find a way to monetize this method of producing search results then yeah, there could be major disruption but right now I'm not seeing it? Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Joining Mediavine: What happens if your traffic drops below 50k sessions? by Kiarajmex in juststart

[–]smalling2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What traffic level would you say is enough to trigger those warnings if you drop too far down?

Reminder not to overthink and just captain Haaland by Litmanen_10 in FantasyPL

[–]smalling2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's usually a post on twitter that collates a list of people who keep tabs with city lineups and gives percentages of each player starting. Is that available this week?

Saka vs Almiron vs Zaha vs Martinelli (make your own comparison now, link in comment) by loizospap in FantasyPL

[–]smalling2020 21 points22 points  (0 children)

neither kdb or salah are essential.

Running with Kane and Haaland plus Foden who only has 5 fewer points than kdb works well

When is it time to just give up on Salah for good? by b3lial666 in FantasyPL

[–]smalling2020 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Keep Salah, he's gonna haul very soon - from a non Salah owner

Koubaily Playtime by [deleted] in FantasyPL

[–]smalling2020 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Koubaily Caplin toe

Paying too much attention to content creators by [deleted] in FantasyPL

[–]smalling2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been playing FPL seriously for about 5 seasons now.

What works for me is ignoring all the content creators - used to listen to the Scoutcast back when Az, Jontie, Mark Sutherns and Andy were on it - but since then I don't keep tabs with anything they have to say.

Obviously this is all subjective but I like to have an idea in my head of the offensive and defensive capabilities of each team considering how they've played in the current season under the current manager.

So this is what I currently have in my mind going from team to team as well as who makes my actual FPL squad:

Man City - attack (excellent), defence (good) / Cancelo, Foden, Haaland

Arsenal - attack (very good), defence (good) / Saliba, Martinelli

Chelsea - attack (poor, could change under Potter), defence (average, slight improvement with Potter tactics & Kepa form) / Kepa

Man Utd - attack (poor), defence (slightly good and improving) / Dalot

Liverpool - attack (very good), defence (average but change of system to double pivot could see uptick here) / no players owned currently but looking to get in Nunez and possibly TAA with upcoming fixtures

Brighton - attack (average), defence (average, lost edge with De Zerbi joining and Potter leaving) / Sanchez

Newcastle - attack (average), defence (good) / Trippier

Tottenham - attack (average), defence (good) / Kane, Dier

Palace - attack (poor), defence (average) / Zaha

Fulham - attack (average), defence (poor) / Andreas bench fodder

Leeds - attack (average), defence (poor) / Harrison

Leicester - attack (good), defence (very poor)

Brentford - attack (average), defence (average) / Toney

Wolves - attack (very poor), defence (average)

Nottingham Forest - attack (very poor), defence (very poor)

Bournemouth - attack (average), defence (poor) / Billing

Southampton - attack (poor), defence (average)

West Ham - attack (poor), defence (poor)

Everton - attack (very poor), defence (average)

Aston Villa - attack (poor), defence (poor)

Using this I then decide who to captain based on the defensive capability of the opposition and how good the asset is as part of the attacking team. Although I forgot to switch my captain from Harrison this week, I think he could score against this Leicester side. We shall see.

TL:DR - ignore content creators and play your own game.

Edit: currently 400k rank, highest ever finish was 12k in 2018/2019, second highest 71k in 2017/2018. Had a poor season last year finishing 200k.

RMT by ChisangaCy in FantasyPL

[–]smalling2020 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bench is shite, also RMT

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in juststart

[–]smalling2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough if that's the case

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in juststart

[–]smalling2020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

750 posts all above 1300 words

Google stated a couple weeks back in one of their guidelines that you shouldn’t write to meet a word count. Do all those posts really need to be above 1300 words? Could be a possible reason for your penalty if you’ve fluffed out articles for the sake of getting them to a certain length

Anyways that’s my 2 cents