One of the themes which is recurring a little for me in work life is the idea that organic search is changing a lot – and not necessarily for the better.
AMP
AMP is the Google-launched fully Open Source mobile page speed project and service which is an abbreviation of the phrase “Accelerated Mobile Pages”.
Capable of being served directly from Google, or other search engines, without ever hitting your server, AMP pages are very very light pages which load really fast on handheld devices like smart phones and small tablets, to facilitate a speedy mobile web, even over bad and slow connections.
A Twenty Seventeen Child Theme
A while back I wrote a thing about using the More tag in Twenty Seventeen theme, and because this site uses a (hastily put together) child theme of WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme, and I described that in a little detail, people started coming into this site looking for that.
Hey isn’t there a simple Twenty Seventeen child theme I can just download and get hacking away at? I wondered. There wasn’t. At least, I couldn’t see one.
So today, I released my own.
Let’s discuss about it!
More spam from Steve Blackmon arrived today. Delightful. If you got a similar message to this, it is 100% spam.
SIDEBAR – interestingly, people actually looking up the phrase “discuss about it” are landing here, I think looking for grammatical advice. Those people, “let’s discuss about it!” is (basically) “wrong” grammatically speaking, because “discuss” itself means to talk about something, rendering the word “about” in this phrase redundant. “Let’s discuss it!” would be sufficient. Don’t Repeat Yourself. DRY.
In any case, the spam had this grammatically incorrect title is copied in below. Because I for some reason decided to publish these here spams… perhaps because they get past my spam filter.
24 Hour Live Streaming The Inbetweeners
So anyway, apparently, this is a thing… The UK’s Channel 4 is now 24 hour live streaming The Inbetweeners on YouTube… well, “Best of the Inbetweeners“.
Genuinely modern business banking from Revolut
A quick post to make a recommendation of a banking product for business which is not truly horrible.
Notable Changes in Search Engine Rankings – August 2018
Some recent changes in search I’ve noticed recently include:
The need for site speed
I just talked about binning Google Analytics, so it seems appropriate to show the speed impact that this action has had on this site.
Almost a year with no comments…
I’ve recently been thinking about turning a few things off.
In fact, I have recently actually begun turning things off. For example, Google Analytics.
Steve Blackmon had a “Quick look on your website”
So Steve Blackmon got in touch again today, this time from a new gmail address, this time he said:
“No code” and client services: developer, be less rockstar
Kelsey Hightower made the following excellent statements on “no code” (in relation to a wider discussion about serverless and Kubernetes, here which I highly recommend giving a listen to):