SEO itself is fine - it’s just optimising your website website for whatever a search engine considers important.

The problem is that search engines’ seem to have absolutely garbage metrics for what is important and worth it.

An example of search engines failing me miserably last month:

I wanted to hire a photographer, so I started searching using keywords like “wedding photographer MAJOR_CITY_NAME”, “photography MCN”, “event photographer MCN”, etc. The top results I got were all mostly along the lines of “top ten wedding photographers in MCN” i.e. listicles with links to a few photographers who probably paid the listicle creator? There were maybe one or two links to a photographer’s website itself in the first page.

I’m okay with ignoring the first page of results and moving on to following pages. But rather than giving me individual photographer’s websites in subsequent pages, I started getting listicles for “top ten wedding photographers in OTHER_CITIES”. I’d click through multiple pages of results to find maybe 5 direct website links.

What actually helped me find a photographers eventually was entering the exact same key words on Instagram. Almost every single one of them that I found on Instagram had an excellent website and the city name, and their addresses were mentioned clearly on their websites. So, it wasn’t a case of them not having enough information on their website. It’s just that search engines chose to prioritise listcles of photographers from other cities rather than giving me links to individual websites of photographers in my own city.

In this case, I got lucky because photographers have a presence on Instagram which has a functional search engine. What if I want to find a plumber, or someone else? I’m forced to just trust a listicle creator because search engines don’t want to give away links to single purpose websites and only want to keep us on websites with a shit ton of content (that may or may not be what you need) and ads.

/rant

No, you’re a boring pussy.

/s

I was scared of reflog too. Had to use it for the first time recently after I accidentally’d a branch that I hadn’t pushed to remote yet. I was so glad that I could recover it all in <5 commands.

Your mom never existed.

C has some uses other than K/S. The usage in "ch"ess, for instance. We’ll have to shoehorn some other letter here if C is eliminated.

Some guy got stabbed on the subway in Toronto a few months back because he asked a guy playing music to turn it off. It really is a crazy world out there.

a monarch with - as was exposed a couple of years ago - real power

What is this in reference to?

but you don’t got bankrupt over a medical problem

That seems to be a US centric comment. People who came to Canada from other countries are fine even after moving back due to health reasons. And, even otherwise, I’m sure that I’d be happy to be alive and broke than dead and not-broke.

only have a few cities with good mass transit, high housing, wages are only high if you are in a wall street scumbag

Again, a US centric comment. People can move to Germany/UK/France etc. A lot of “third world countries” have decent enough infrastructure too. So people may choose to just move back to where they originally came from rather than be stuck here - which is the point of the article we’re commenting on.

Lack of healthcare availablity, lack of good transit connectivity outside of like 3 cities, insane housing cost, low wages - especially compared to the US… The list is long.

I love it here, but it’s not even close to utopia depending on your circumstances. I personally know 2 recent immigrant families (I’m an immigrant too, so I run into a lot of them in community events etc) who went back to their home countries within 2 years of immigration because they were diagnosed with medical conditions that needed attention which the healthcare system here could not give.

Magic is purple! * Throws chair *

Sub to a bunch of hobby communities and browse only those rather than the “all” content if you want to get rid of the doom. You’re gonna have lesser content to consume, for sure, but that’s just a bonus in my book.

Dept of Transportation would be “dot”, no?

69 isn’t “the funny” number because it’s an ambigram. It’s the “funny number” because it’s the sex position number.

You’re one of that’s 10000: https://xkcd.com/1053/ :)

Fair enough, and I do agree that everyone should have free (or reasonably cheap) access to healthcare, education and shelter. (I’m “commie” as fuck, depending on whom you ask)

That said, if all the existing benefits aren’t enough to attract good people into the army, I see why the government would want to keep increasing benefits till they get their fill of soldiers – all in the name of national security.

Also, these things tend to have knock on effects, no? If private sector starts losing out on his employees because they’d rather work for the government as long as it’s a remote job, then the private sector is welcome to change rules to attract employees too! It’s a “free market” of labour after all.

I’ll be the first one to criticize militaries and the interests that control them (and I’m not even American)… but I do acknowledge the fact that not having a good army can fuck your life up big time. Well, just look at the three conflicts around us and how each one of those countries is surviving.

Yes, most soldiers might never see a war, but is it possible to measure how many countries would’ve tried to invade your country, or your allies, if you didn’t have that large army to act as a deterrent? That’s why this one shitty employer gets special treatment.

Rules that make joining the army attractive/mandatory to people who have other options is obviously good for the nation at large. This is just a move in that direction, and I totally get it.

Wouldn’t you?

Honestly, the terminal is probably not going to be that hard to use for you. Considering that you’re on lemmy, you’re probably ahead of the curve in tech skills. Maybe don’t go picking something in the deep end like arch though.

/j I use arch btw.

Thanks!

Can you even create an account on ddg? What data do they have on you?

Not being argumentative, I’m genuinely curious.