Matt Davies

Just dropped a sick reference to an episode of Arrested Development that is only *checks* 22 years old in June and total crickets! What's going on?!

In 2025 I turned 41 and got my first salaried job with colleagues for over a decade.

When did everyone else get so young?

Feels increasingly relevant.

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Hello everyone. Dropping in to tell you I've opened an Etsy shop. I'm starting off by selling 3D printed backlit photos... or at least, I'd love to get my first sale and review to get things kicked off.

They make lovely gifts, should you be shopping for one!

Shop at www.etsy.com/uk/shop/3DPr....

Deliveroo menu item labelled “normal spring rolls”

Immediately suspicious of these spring rolls

This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.

If I ever hire a celeb on Cameo, it'll be to tell the person I know who likes them the most to stop being a dickhead.

He's a lovely boy, was very pleased to pick one up on release. Now just wondering if / when SS86 Prime will ever again be available to buy in the UK.

Most bored of marketing platitudes?

Google always understates links.

All back to usenet, I reckon.

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Me listening to my normy friends' opinions on Transformers One.

I mean, I just Googled "True Romance" and you're two spots below Rotten Tomatoes..

Hey, me again. Professional curiosity... how do you think you could have lost all your traffic from your retained Google rankings? Where could it have gone?

This website has just been "reactivated" in the last 24 hours after "Google shut it down".

They say they'll be posting fewer news articles and focus on "complex commentary, recommendations, discussion, and opinions".

No mention of their plan for ongoing celebrity nude content.

This site is still begging for donations under threat of closure. They're about 33% of the way toward the target they NEED to hit or they'll shut down FOREVER, tomorrow!

I predict (a) they fail to hit their target, (b) they don't shut down and (c) they'll run the same grift this time next year.

Continuing down the "sad independent publisher" rabbithole... I've just seen the publisher of this site asking for donations since their traffic has, supposedly, dropped from 100,000 visits a day to 700.

Can't claim to have checked all their rankings but those I have seem to be holding up.

It's a SEMRush graph, so take with a pinch of salt. But traffic to this site for terms including the word "nude" seem as strong as it ever was.

I guess Google has just decided that this site now is a premier source of info on celebrity nudes and decided to ignore everything else. Boo fuckin hoo.

There's an "independent publishing" guy on the other site complaining that his "independent entertainment news and geek commentary" site has lost most of its traffic and that means SEO is dead.

Thing is, this site has been bolstering its traffic by optimising for celebrity nudes for years.

Had this exact same experience a couple of years ago at my daughter's Christmas play at school. I had no idea what was happening, why all the children had suddenly started singing in Spanish.

I switched my handle by doing the domain verification thing but Google seems to be taking a while to catch up.

Now that *is* weird!

What search term did you use to get that result? Mine was "matt davies SEO".

@rustybrick.com A pal of mine just suggested this might be the sort of thing you'd be interested in. Ever seen anything like this before?

Got my Bluesky ranking (bye bye Twitter). My handle is a .me domain that redirects to my business site. Interestingly (for people who's job it is to be interested) Google has described the listing with the opening paragraph from my business site. No doubt someone clever than me can explain why.

The response to this story over on LinkedIn has been WILD to witness. So many business wankers circling the wagons to protect one of their princes.

Big fan of SEO consultants that tell other SEO consultants that the trick to being a good SEO consultant is to stop doing SEO and become a brand consultant. Very helpful people.

I have unapologetically loved so much of the Marvel series. Even as the reliability has dropped off in recent years, I'm all in on it.

But it will be so funny to watch James Gunn and DC totally eat their lunch in 2025.