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by Moggy » Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:31 am

Squinty wrote:There was a twitter thread comparing all running candidates to taxidermy. I wish I could find it.

Edit - Found it. Pretty funny.

https://twitter.com/YesMissMurphy/statu ... 86694?s=19

I fail at adding tweets so a URL will have to do.


This one is better:

twitter.com/iamsammypanther/status/1138418510701502465


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by KK » Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:18 am

Press Gazette wrote:Mail Online has seen its traffic from Google halved after an algorithm change, according to its head of search engine optimisation.

The news website’s SEO director Jesus Mendez revealed in a Google support forum post that an update on 3 June to the search engine led to Mail Online seeing its daily traffic from Google fall by 50 per cent.

A Mail Online spokesperson confirmed that the details revealed in the post had come from Mendez.

Mendez said in the post: “The day after the broad core algorithm update (3 June) we saw a massive drop in search traffic from Google (lost 50 per cent of daily traffic).

“This was a drop over the course of 24 hours and we have not made any changes to the site. Further, we saw our discover traffic drop by 90 per cent and has not improved. This is across all verticals, devices, AMP and non-AMP.”

He went on to say the decline in search traffic was “much more pronounced” in the UK compared to the US.

Mendez added: “This is weird because the UK is our home region and historical drops have always been much more prominent in the US.”

A Mail Online spokesperson said the update had had an impact “but only on our non-brand search”.

They added: “We have been working with Google to figure out what is going on but the people we are speaking to there are as baffled as we are.

“But they assure us the Mail has not been specifically targeted and we are working together constructively to figure out what is happening.

“It will take several more days for the core update to take full effect so we will have to wait to see how it settles down.”

The spokesperson continued that while loss of traffic beyond the outlet’s control was “frustrating”, impact on revenue had been “negligible because we make the vast majority of our money from direct traffic to our home pages and apps which are unaffected”.

“Indeed, this episode, once again, underlines the wisdom of the strategy of concentrating on our own audience rather than relying on third party platforms,” they added.

SEO firm Sistrix published a blog earlier this week that claimed Mail Online saw its visibility fall by 43 per cent as a result of the Google Search algorithm changes.

But it also claimed that the websites of several other UK outlets – including The Sun, Mirror Online and The i Newspaper – saw a boost to their Google visibility after the update.

https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/mail-onl ... hm-update/

BTW, The Sun website was broken for hours yesterday, the whole site instead directing exclusively to WWE wrestling related news stories.

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Drumstick » Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:38 am

What a shame.

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by <]:^D » Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:39 am

as much as i want to care about this, im just happy that fewer people are visiting the Mail Online

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by satriales » Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:41 am

The algorithm is designed to push fake news or clickbait further down the search results. A 50% drop in Daily Mail traffic shows it is probably working as intended.

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Moggy » Wed Jun 12, 2019 10:52 am

The Sun was only linking to WWE stories? Far more truthful than their usual output.

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Moggy » Wed Jun 12, 2019 11:24 am

twitter.com/lbc/status/1138748219826028547



Potentially (she’s got no chance) our next leader. :lol:

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Jenuall » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:07 pm

"One of the continents"! :fp:

Esther McVey? Ester Mc-Vague more like! ;)

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Lagamorph » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:09 pm

Jenuall wrote:"One of the continents"! :fp:

Esther McVey? Ester Mc-Vague more like! ;)

I wouldn't be remotely surprised if she thinks the UK is a continent.

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by Kezzer » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:28 pm

more to the point, the runway is meant to face into the wind...

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Oblomov Boblomov » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:31 pm

Summoning all of my weather expertise here but doesn't the wind change direction?!

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by Kezzer » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:33 pm

the runway is built on a massive turn table

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Jenuall » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:33 pm

McVey is the one who was misleading Parliament right?

I mean obviously they've pretty much all been doing that for ages, but she was actually pulled up for it!

Kezzer wrote:the runway is built on a massive turn table

Air traffic controllers are basically just DJ's now. :datass:

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by That » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:35 pm

I mean, if it did happen (it blatantly didn't) I guess it probably will've been on one of the continents. As opposed to, like, on the moon.

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Lagamorph » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:43 pm

Karl_ wrote:I mean, if it did happen (it blatantly didn't) I guess it probably will've been on one of the continents. As opposed to, like, on the moon.

That's just what they want you to think. Wake up sheeple!

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Cuttooth » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:48 pm

twitter.com/dlknowles/status/1138754980536619008



- Isn't foreign aid

- Isn't a continent

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Moggy » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:53 pm

Cuttooth wrote:

twitter.com/dlknowles/status/1138754980536619008



- Isn't foreign aid

- Isn't a continent


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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Kezzer » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:55 pm

Jenuall wrote:McVey is the one who was misleading Parliament right?

I mean obviously they've pretty much all been doing that for ages, but she was actually pulled up for it!

Kezzer wrote:the runway is built on a massive turn table

Air traffic controllers are basically just DJ's now. :datass:



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ha! this will foil that pesky wind!

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edit: I don't think this will *ahem* take off...

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by KK » Wed Jun 12, 2019 1:44 pm

If the Lib Dems pick even a half decent leader later this year then I could easily see them having their best GE performance ever.

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PostRe: Politics Thread 5
by Jenuall » Wed Jun 12, 2019 2:29 pm

Kezzer wrote:
Jenuall wrote:McVey is the one who was misleading Parliament right?

I mean obviously they've pretty much all been doing that for ages, but she was actually pulled up for it!

Kezzer wrote:the runway is built on a massive turn table

Air traffic controllers are basically just DJ's now. :datass:



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ha! this will foil that pesky wind!

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edit: I don't think this will *ahem* take off...

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KK wrote:If the Lib Dems pick even a half decent leader later this year then I could easily see them having their best GE performance ever.

Whilst I would like to hope that was the case I still think there is a lot of residual anger towards the Lib Dems from the coalition times. Really uncertain who this half decent leader would be either - charasmatic and effective LD politicians don't exactly seem to be beating down Vince Cable's door at the moment.


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