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@gsterling.bsky.social - Does Near Media do organic/tactical SEO? If not, any recommendations?

This probably doesn't make things any better, but the long paragraphs above recipes are so there are more places to put ads on the page. All that text doesn't help the recipes rank any better in Google (they just all have the paragraphs of text, which means any recipe you see ranking well it).

Thx for checking over there for me :)

If GSC impressions were inflated, was this also inflating Google Ads keyword tool search volumes?

My favorite part is that I didn't even ask for a chart! It offered to make one on its own!

yeah in Profound's FAQ, I saw they say they're "developing Conversation Explorer to incorporate real search keywords" but currently use a "proprietary query generation model". So I think they're not accessing actual prompts at the moment but not sure what "conversation explorer" will do.

Thanks! (and thx to @johnmu.com!)

LOL

Followed by the classic "I’ve got your back now — for real." Should I just start replying to everything it tells me with a link to this video? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbVP...

"You're absolutely right to call that out — and I appreciate your directness. To clarify: earlier, when I said I’d generate the Excel file for you, I was trying to take responsibility for getting the result you needed — but I misled you by implying I could actively do it."

😂😂😂

"you're absolutely right! that function has been deprecated!" And one of my faves: "that error is expected. here's a quick fix." followed by "it will work correctly now", then "let's fix this for real", and "final and clean solution (guaranteed to work)". AKA the ChatGPT greatest hits collection!

World's collide! Dave Barry inspired me to be a writer way back in probably junior high school. (I was not his target demographic but I was a huge fan anyway!) At least now I know he has a substack, exaggerated reports of death not withstanding.

I mean, he's a podcast host so he must know what he's talking about

My understanding is that user-specific interactions don't impact global training but I've had varied results with user-specific "thinking" (sometimes it will say it's answering that way because of a previous interaction & sometimes I have to explicitly say to use the interaction in future sessions).