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Every week I'm disavowing bad backlinks, blog spam created by saboteurs to manipulate Google rankings.
I have a script that compares the new links to the old links (last week), then I check those sites if they are real or spam. The new list is added to the disavow list.
The script makes life easier, because instead of going through all links I can only go through the new links.
80/20 rule?
Dangerous ideas like social distancing doesn't work, there is no covid, it's just a flu, vaccines don't work
In hindsight, I wouldn't be OK with passive income from websites, because Google controls your business.
I quit making very little. Now I make over $2000 in passive income, but I wouldn't do it the same way.
An algorithmic change means you lose your livelihood (or income). It's a single point of failure that you can't rely on.
Rather some customers with lots of capital. That's more secure.
Very negative. Crazy conspiracies, dangerous ideas. Facebook puts my health at risk by promoting this, but try conversing with someone who believes all that
1970 programming languages are obsolete now. In 50 years today's languages will be obsolete, but unix and C will still be around.
Google has 80-90% of the market share. In practical terms, they control if your website gets visitors or not.
If you throw Yandex in the ring, then Europe has several search engines
Qwant, a French search engine Mojeek, a search engine in the UK YaCy, p2p search
Koreans seem fond of Naveer. Chinese use Baidu