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Eric Baudais

@Dargus

Daily updates of Eric Baudais. I am an avid advocate of data analytics, SEO, SEM, internet privacy, space exploration & history.

 Oklahoma, USA
linkedin.com/in/ebaudais
Joined August 2008
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Last year, while conducting audits on SDKs installed in mobile apps for @SafeTechLabs, a popular SDK installed in thousands of apps called “Pushwoosh” started to raise some odd questions, was it secretly Russian? Reuters has an explosive story out today: reuters.com/technology/exclu…🧵
EXCLUSIVE: EXCLUSIVE Russian software disguised as American finds its way into U.S. Army, CDC apps

EXCLUSIVE: EXCLUSIVE Russian software disguised as American finds its way into U.S. Army, CDC apps

Thousands of smartphone applications in Apple and Google's online stores contain computer code developed by a technology company, Pushwoosh, that presents itself as based in the United States, but is...

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Simo Ahava@SimoAhava12 Aug 2022
Folks running Google Analytics 4 through #GoogleTagManager, there's no need to go through the clumsy dL.push({ecommerce: null}) (developers.google.com/analyt…) between ecommerce pushes. Instead, build your "items" variable with this template: tagmanager.google.com/galler…
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Amazing excelformulabot.com from @bresslertweets! 🐍💥 It's a free #AI tool built with @OpenAI #GPT3 that provides the Excel formula for any problem! No ads. No cost. Only accepts donations to fund the project, so consider donating if you use it :) excelformulabot.com/
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Simo Ahava@SimoAhava14 Jun 2022
This is interesting - it’s basically partitioned (3P) cookies, but they don’t mention Storage Access API which would relax the 3P cookie restriction for enabling certain use cases (SSO, embedded content). Next step is probably total 3P cookie block? blog.mozilla.org/en/products… – at Haarlemmermeer, Nederland
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Simo Ahava@SimoAhava31 May 2022
I wrote something: 10 Truths About Data - Revisited simoahava.com/analytics/10-t… #measure #tongueincheek
10 Truths About Data - Revisited

10 Truths About Data - Revisited

After working with data for most of my life, it's time to visit some truisms about the world of empiricism and data wrangling.

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If a web page listing is elevated into the featured snippet position, we no longer repeat it in the first page of results. This declutters the results & helps users locate relevant information more easily. Featured snippets count as one of the ten web page listings we show....
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Cyrus SEO
@CyrusShepard2 Jul 2019
Big announcement from @googlewmc 1) As of now, robots.txt "noindex" officially NOT supported 2) Google will make content marked "disallow" less visible in the future (making "disallow" potentially more powerful) "A note on unsupported rules in robots.txt"webmasters.googleblog.com/20…
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📯 Mobile-first indexing will be enabled by default for all new, previously unknown to Google Search, websites starting July 1, 2019 -- thank you for making websites that work well on mobile from the start! ✨ webmasters.googleblog.com/20…
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12 reasons your SEO traffic is plateauing and how to fix it bit.ly/2W4tiTX
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Google admits they need guidelines on A/B testing and search - here are some recommendations from @JohnMu seroundtable.com/google-need…
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Google confirms core search ranking algorithm update selnd.com/2Gov1st via @sengineland
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Check out Google showing answers in the people also ask box - nice catch @sergey_alakov seroundtable.com/google-answ…
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Moz@Moz1 Mar 2018
Google's Walled Garden: Are We Being Pushed Out of Our Own Digital Backyards? mz.cm/2CMy4XD by @dr_pete
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Paul Shapiro@fighto22 Feb 2018
For the demo, I converted one of @rustybrick’s Forum Recaps into an AMP Story. Check it out 👉 searchwilderness.com/example… xitter.cf/fighto/status/96664881… – at Boston, MA
Paul Shapiro (@fighto) profile picturePaul Shapiro@fighto22 Feb 2018
My latest on @sengineland -> Making your first AMP Story: Google’s answer to Snapchat and Instagram searchengineland.com/making-…
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Google Clarifies How Much Structured Data is Enough - Search Engine Journal itseo.org/2semYuA
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Malte Ubl
@cramforce9 Jan 2018
💥 You don't like google.com/amp URLs? Neither do we👊 And so we are making the changes to no longer need them while retaining the performance & privacy benefits of AMP. Read this post for details & thanks so much for all the feedback! ❤️amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/0…
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Google: Fetching Content From Other Web Sites Does Not Add Value ser.bz/2DuxD5g
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Google Maccabees Update Analysis: Sites Targeting Many Keyword Permutations ser.bz/2BEL1UE
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Smart Content & Smart SEO: Mastering Audiences & Architecture - @seotulsa searchenginejournal.com/smar…
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Google Now Suggests You Should Update Your Meta Descriptions For Longer Snippets ser.bz/2ASnpvo
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