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by butler14 9y ago
I think the chap has been incredibly calm about the whole thing. I'd be in my local branch every day refusing to leave until they take the necessary steps to re-open the account. This really struck a nerve with me, as I've had sim
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by butler14 9y ago
they can and often do -- code your own bespoke lightweight A/B testing software that'll be the easy bit, of course, the hard bit will be influencing people to part with the £silly amount of money it'd likely cost vs. off the
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by butler14 10y ago
they respect it, but because it's so frequently misused or plain broken, it's basically sidelined vs. more optimal methods for preventing indexation, or getting an already-indexed piece of content removed, such as the noindex tag.
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by butler14 10y ago
An ad agency did this 3 weeks ago https://www.t-3.com/works/the-trump-and-dump-bot/
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by butler14 10y ago
At a glance, I can only see them in place on your respective homepages, where it only has limited value. It should ideally be across all pages of all sites, so as to declare all 'sibling' pages, e.g. https://www.fortsu.
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by butler14 10y ago
i'd recommend adding sitewide hreflang across all your ccTLDs to the list ;)
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by butler14 10y ago
It's not for 'drill-down', it's for dashboards and data viz.
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by butler14 10y ago
I've already sold this to two clients. Can't see it going anywhere. But I've been wrong before...
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by butler14 10y ago
probably worthwhile the world powers reminding themselves that policies of nuclear deterrence rely entirely on rational agents
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by butler14 11y ago
seasonality doesn't really come into it with A/B split testing - if it changes for one group it changes for both.
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by butler14 11y ago
Saying something is overrated isn't necessarily saying it's inferior to alternatives, just that it has too much importance placed on it relatively speaking. Seems like his ego got hurt and he's out for revenge. He also seems
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by butler14 11y ago
Only on HN.
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by butler14 11y ago
Mostly because the vast majority of adverts are showing against commercial/transactional search queries, not informational ones.
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by butler14 11y ago
yea there is sod all choice outside of the US from what I've seen. most RFID wallets seem to be an extension of Kickstarter's obsession with them a couple of years ago, and most manufacturers and sellers seem to be North American-
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by butler14 11y ago
For those inclined, you can get neat little leather sleeves that have two pockets, one protected, one not, here https://www.faradaystore.com/rfid-blocking/wallets/ . Helps me keep my debit/credit card safe(?),
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Guy spotted wandering London Tube skimming contactless cards with POS device(facebook.com)
148 points by butler14 11y ago|80 comments
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by butler14 11y ago
This is pretty fun to play around with. Especially the lowest rated pairings. Seaweed and unsalted butter is on the menu for this evening.
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by butler14 11y ago
-- But when people in tech and media company meetings say “social,” they really just mean “Facebook.” -- And when you say "Internet" you actually mean "Web". Also, you've omitted Google entirely from your somewhat w
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by butler14 11y ago
No love for spaces in passwords? i.e. spacebar presses
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by butler14 11y ago
chin up - it was funny, and behind the humour is some truth, irrespective of whether you find its delivery in poor taste
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by butler14 11y ago
This was quite excellent. You could just as well find & replace "IT" with "marketing", too.
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by butler14 11y ago
there's an unnervingly high degree of overlap between spying and digital marketing 'selectors' instead of 'attributes', 'targets' instead of 'users/audiences'... and both are terrible at usi
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EAStarWars.com cybersquatted (SFW / autoplay music)(eastarwars.com)
1 points by butler14 11y ago|0 comments
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by butler14 12y ago
I wonder how long it's going to take for: - modern warfare to evolve (devolve?) into something that has more in common with a RTS video game than 'conventional' warfare, where soldiers have more in common with today's pr
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by butler14 12y ago
This reads like a poor attempt at a software engineer dabbling with SEO. 'Growth' team indeed. Hire an SEO - or at least a digital marketer with SEO credentials - and do some proper optimisation.
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by butler14 12y ago
Whoever wrote this doesn't understand what a strategy is or a tactic is. Makes reading on difficult.
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by butler14 12y ago
Really nice extension. Sorry if these have already been suggested, but here's a few ideas from me: When selecting "Other" in the heuristics dropdown allow you to enter your own in a text field. 4 levels of severity seems unne
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by butler14 12y ago
Absolutely - it's also a complete waste of time from and SEO perspective, and represents a poor cost vs. benefit if your goal is to reduce bounce rate / increase conversion rate.
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by butler14 12y ago
Yes search engines make their money from adverts, but without decent organic listings (where ~90% click volume still goes), there's going to be no one to click to ads. It's a fairly simple mechanic. SEO is likely depreciating grad
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by butler14 12y ago
all this work seems to span 7 years, and your only significant success was $250k (split ~7 ways) - ouch. definitely some interesting stories and some ballsy attempts - albeit that there was probably too much focus on opportunistic copy &#x2

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