michaelthiessen

Hey all! I put a ton of time and effort into researching this article and making sense of it all.

I hope you learn something from it.

I'd love to know what you think about this question, where my reasoning doesn't make sense, and any other feedback you might have.

Cool

It typically takes me 2-3 hours for a well written ~1500 word post. These posts get 3k / mth organic views and many subscribers to my email list, so I know they perform well.

Spending an order of magnitude more time on each post seems ridiculous to me.

Exactly this.

The point of most on/off page SEO things like meta tags and link building is to help Google understand what needs your website can satisfy.

If your content solves problems effectively, and Google understands how to connect you to the people who have those problems, that's when things work.

Google has gotten very good at weeding out the hacks and tricks that black hat SEOs use (PBNs, spammy links, generated content, keyword stuffing etc.)

These days the most consistent way to get lots of traffic is to provide lots of value and help people.

Google can measure whether people bounce and keep clicking around for better answers to their queries.

A in my experience.

The goal is to answer the question or problem as best as you can.

Typically this means not just giving a one line answer, but expanding and elaborating, going into relevant details and explaining more in-depth.

Often this extra detail will overlap with extra detail from other questions. You can link between articles, but you can also rephrase / repeat ideas.

eg. If you're searching for "Redirect in javascript" or "Simulate link in Javascript", you'll want two separate articles.

You know that the answer is the same for both, but the searcher doesn't. And as you go more in-depth explaining how `window.location` works, you'll end up covering similar material in both articles (which is not duplicate content so Google won't penalize you).

Perhaps the 4 day week works best with knowledge work, which is significantly different than manual labour.

I used this to merchant in Falador! Such an awesome tool.

I am always blown away by this stuff, but it still applies some distortion to the image in a way that feels slightly unnatural.

It's similar to the effect that changing focal length on a camera has. eg. Wider angle lenses seem to squish far away objects and enlarge closer objects. However, this affects the entire image in a consistent way whereas changing focal length does not.

I wonder if this could be used to simulate focal length changes?

I found this blog a few months ago and then lost it. Thanks for posting this!