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Tab hoarder. Wrangler of GA4, dashboards, and SEO for nonprofits. Happily married with 3 sons. Overgrazer of ice cream, podcasts, and the Steelers.

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Well positioned with market share of devices and browsers.

25.02.2026 18:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Implicit Queries in AI Search Back in 2015 I wrote about Google’s reliance of user behaviours signals for ranking purposes. In that article I already covered their use of implicit signals, but now there’s an update! While investig...

Google patent for an AI search based on what you're doing and assumed intent without you even searching.

Instead of User intent β†’ type query β†’ receive result

New: Device observes behavior β†’ system infers intent β†’ generates query β†’ retrieves results β†’ pushes AI summary.

dejan.ai/blog/implici...

25.02.2026 18:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Selfie outside church with my ashes

Selfie outside church with my ashes

It’s Ash Wednesday so I’ve got my #ashtag to kick off Lent

19.02.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance Reports Go Live A couple of weeks ago I reported Bing was beta testing a new AI performance report within Bing Webmaster Tools. These reports are now available as a public preview for all to see. Plus, Bing Webmast...

Some AI performance data is now in Bing Webmaster Tools -- pages cited and some kind of partial grounded query (root topic?) A good start from Bing. Not expecting Google to follow but would be thrilled to be mistaken. www.seroundtable.com/bing-webmast...

11.02.2026 18:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But is it sustainable?! πŸ€ͺ

27.01.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sounds like Ginny Redish’s Writing for the Web approach, which helps the humans as well!

06.01.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Details disclosure element can now auto-expand using the browser's find on page feature All major browsers now support the hidden=until-found attribute on the Details disclosure element, allowing visitors to search and auto-expand hidden text on pages without JavaScript.

All major browsers now support the hidden=until-found attribute on the Details disclosure element, allowing visitors to search and auto-expand hidden text on pages without JavaScript.

coywolf.com/news/seo/det...

#WebDev #HTML

06.01.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Me, my wife and son

Me, my wife and son

Happy new year! Hope it’s a great 2026!

01.01.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Redirects for me but wow how the once-mighty have fallen.

27.12.2025 00:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT Query Fanout Analyzer (Bookmarklet) - JC Chouinard This Bookmarklet will help you parse the conversations data from your ChatGPT prompts including the fan-out queries, which URLs rank and what entities are Learn Non classΓ© by JC Chouinard

Handy bookmarklet for pulling query fanouts and sources from ChatGPT via AI Notebook newsletter
www.jcchouinard.com/chatgpt-quer...

18.12.2025 15:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Twitter.new: The New Twitter Social Media Platform Twitter.new: The public square returns + AI verification to evolve the social media experience you can trust #BackWithYourEx

A Virginia company is trying to grab the Twitter trademark on abandonment grounds. Are you reserving your handle just in case? www.twitter.new

11.12.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Top 50 podcasts cont.

The Tucker Carlson Show
NYT The Daily
Huberman Lab
Good Hang With Amy Poehler
The Diary of a CEO With Steven Bartlett
Up First from NPR
NPR News Now
Wall Street Journal’s The Journal
Rotten Mango
Candace
Modern Wisdom
Bad Friends
New Heights With Jason & Travis Kelce

03.12.2025 19:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Spotify Unveils Top 50 Podcasts of 2025, Led by Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Mel Robbins Spotify, as part of Spotify Wrapped, released the top 50 podcasts of 2025 -- with Joe Rogan coming in at No. 1 for the fifth straight year.

Most listened podcasts of 2025 are mostly comedy, commentary, and crime. 6 of the top 10 have video and 24 of the top 50.

The Joe Rogan Experience
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy
Crime Junkie
The Shawn Ryan Show

variety.com/2025/digital...

03.12.2025 19:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Staying informed just got easier. Get bitesize commentary on the most important developments and happenings within the world of SEO delivered directly to your inbox every Thursday.

The Rich Snippets newsletter always teaches me something new. Great info on Web Guides and Gemini 3.
trafficthinktank.com/rich-snippets/

20.11.2025 15:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🫑

18.10.2025 17:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Couldn’t resist posting this one

18.10.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
WSJ headline: Meta Will Begin Using AI Chatbot Conversations to Target Ads
While users won’t be able to opt out from the new policy, the content of some conversations will be automatically excluded

WSJ headline: Meta Will Begin Using AI Chatbot Conversations to Target Ads While users won’t be able to opt out from the new policy, the content of some conversations will be automatically excluded

"Free" AI

01.10.2025 17:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow!

26.09.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pumpkin spice or nah?

26.09.2025 18:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Haven’t seen that combo on a menu but heirloom plate + shared food from a neighbor = good moment

26.09.2025 18:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can this be handled through the .htcatcess file?

26.09.2025 12:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Google Classicℒ️

26.09.2025 12:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yay! Bluesky has bookmarks now! Whether I’ll revisit them is another matter, but I like the feeling of aspiring to do so.

23.09.2025 18:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
I started typing Here is a list of and OpenAI suggested books you should read in 2024

I started typing Here is a list of and OpenAI suggested books you should read in 2024

OpenAI offering keyword suggestions like an SEO tool, including the expired dates that appear in both

22.09.2025 21:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m sorry. Also, I own that book. 🧌

18.09.2025 15:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes the Gospel reading for the day throws down a challenge.

11.09.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Throw in open web is dying, too.

They better fill that comms role soon!

10.09.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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CrUX Dashboard deprecation Β |Β  Blog Β |Β  Chrome for Developers We're planning on deprecating the CrUX Dashboard after the end of November 2025. CrUX Vis is a newer tool that visualizes historical CrUX data that has many advantages over the older CrUX Dashboar...

Bye Bye CrUX Dashboard, I'll always be nostalgic for your stacked bars of Goodness: developer.chrome.com/blog/crux-da...

You can use tamethebots.com/tools/cwv-hi..., the cruxvis.withgoogle.com or one of the many other great free tools that use the CrUX History API.

10.09.2025 11:05 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh that link trips me up all the time, too!

04.09.2025 10:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of 90125 CD

Cover of 90125 CD

Back cover with song list 
1) OWNER OF A LONELY HEART
2) HOLD ON
3) IT CAN HAPPEN
4) CHANGES
5) CINEMA
6) LEAVE IT
7) OUR SONG
8) CITY OF LOVE
9) HEARTS

Back cover with song list 1) OWNER OF A LONELY HEART 2) HOLD ON 3) IT CAN HAPPEN 4) CHANGES 5) CINEMA 6) LEAVE IT 7) OUR SONG 8) CITY OF LOVE 9) HEARTS

Happy Yes Day! It’s 9/01/25 (US) and I’m listening to one of my all-time favorite albums. Blasted the heck out of this in my youth. Already loved classic progressive Yes but my friends and I embraced the new sound of 80s and the original intense Owner of a Lonely Heart video on MTV.

01.09.2025 20:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0