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I find most of the Thai brands to be too sweet. I prefer the Huy Fong as it has less sugar (I tried to compare the nutrition facts but the Huy Fong one is a bit BS).

However I find most Asian products in the UK always seem to have crazy amounts of sugar in them which I'm not a huge fan of.

From the reviews I've seen over the years for the Rk3399, even when the software side is all working, it seems to be a bit of a disappointing chip.

My guess with a lot of RK3399 devices popping up is due to a couple of things: 1. The limited supply of budget SoCs due to the chip shortage and 2. Rockchip trying to clear stock for when RK3588 boards finally start to ship. Of course, we'll be back to square one on the software part.

I do see the Jasper Lake mini PCs getting cheaper and cheaper, and I see that as more of a competitor to SBCs as there doesn't seem to be as many stock issues compared to Rpi4's and by the time you buy a Raspberry Pi, SD card, heatsink and power supply it does end up being not much cheaper.

I also get heaps of crap like that. Mostly I get people trying to sell me "leads" and "lists" which I imagine half of them are from breaches or just passed on a zillion times so their open/bounce rate must be atrocious.

LinkedIn sells all your data via their sales navigator tool. The more you pay, the more data you can get.

Gotta agree. Don't like how UK marmite has a sweet taste to it.

L&P is indeed carbonated. Used to be reasonably easy to get in the UK, but almost impossible since covid.

You won't find non carbonated, yellow lemonade in NZ. As mentioned above, you'll just get sprite.

It's already been mentioned in a few comments, but I imagine a big part of this purchase was influenced by the SEO power of the domain. CSS-Trick is a crazy powerful domain [1]

Google loves old domains with authority, and still, to this day, it's a lot easier to rank a site built on an aged/expired domain than it is on a fresh domain.

Buying powerful domains on auction sites has shot through the roof in the last couple of years. Here's a couple of example on Godaddy (Godaddy auctions tend to have the most powerful domains SEO-wise) https://www.godaddy.com/domain-auctions/gutenberg-net-414405... https://uk.godaddy.com/domain-auctions/freewebtemplates-com-...

I imagine they will eventually 301 the domain to the main DigitalOcean domain.

[1] - https://imgur.com/a/8XHWry9

I imagine they'll put links into their strongest pages and then eventually 301 the domain. In a comment above they mentioned DO has also acquired Scotch. io and that 301s to DO now.

Scotch.io redirects to Digital Ocean Community site when I checked just now. I imagine a big reason it was acquired for the sweet domain authority for SEO.

You can see that Scotch.io was dying off in traffic [1] - I would assume it wasn't getting new content regularly enough. The domain is pretty powerful, so even pushing some traffic to Better.dev [2] via 301's would have helped both sites out.

I imagine better.dev would have agreed to promote DO and put some links on their top pages to give the DigitalOcean domain even more SEO power.

[1] - https://imgur.com/a/ashZPDa [2] - https://imgur.com/a/Wd9kzJt

Our company Adwords got banned a year ago, hours after our creatives got approved. The reason was our site was "phishing" and trying to steal people's data.

After appealing the ban multiple times with no luck, we weren't getting anywhere. I talked to a couple of people I know who work at Google (one works in Adwords) and basically said there's nothing you can do.

What we did find out is that the ban was completely automatic, and the most likely reason was that it couldn't render the content on the Angular (wonder what company created that) site we were pushing the ads to.

Since we have all our emails on GSuite, we've tried getting a few different people in the office to signup, and they get instantly banned after they signup.

We try every few months to appeal but get the same old "policy violation".

Looking on the bright side, I now don't get random calls from angry people in India demanding I need to "optimise" my ad campaigns.

Fun fact, Jimmy Wales (Co-founder of Wikipedia) also is the co-founder of Fandom which is a for profit company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom_(website)

The C70 has the same sensor as the C300 MKIII so that could be why. But then you question why isn't the A7s III or FX3 approved when the FX6 is approved and they all share the same sensor.

I had a look at this, and it looks to me like it's a 301 from another domain. Typically when domains get a manual penalty (primarily for spam), they drop in rankings overnight. So to counter this, you register a new domain and redirect it and overnight, your rankings bounce back. This technique is super common for blackhat sites like illegal streaming sites.

If the redirect is done as a meta refresh, then you can block it in your robots.txt from being picked up from SEO tools like Ahrefs, SEMRush etc.

These types of sites are called doorway pages and have been around for ages. They are most popular in Russia and on Yandex, but you do see them on Google for super longtail keywords with 0 competition.

The other important thing to remember is that doing SEO in any language that's not English is a walk in the park. Lots of SEO influencer types have case studies showing how much extra traffic they get by translating their content. [1]

[1] https://neilpatel.com/blog/seo-trend/

Oh sorry I missed that comment. But yes good idea to remove them. I can't see any embedded SVG however, just 3 base64'd pngs and 2 base64'd jpgs

I just had a look on Ahrefs and couldn't notice anything weird.

One thing I did notice, is that you have your jpg's inline. McAfee and other virus protection apps are completely trigger happy anytime you encode a substantial amount of "code" (yes it's an image). I would try removing the inline images and linking them and see if that makes any difference.

It's fine to leave them. The people who create these forum profile links will be doing it manually. Whether they're nofollow or dofollow, people will still try to build these links.

Nofollow is another thing that isn't important as used to be. Sure dofollow does give you more link juice, but nofollows are still good. If you have 99% dofollow links to your site it's going to look unnatural, so a good mix of dofollow and nofollow always heps.

This December update was quite significant, as I know a few peoples sites tanked as well, so you're not alone.

I still think the main problem for you is thin content. Google doesn't seem to be as strict as they are about duplicate content. But if you're taking the movie/episode description from TMDb, there are most likely thousands of other sites doing it too.

Google could have put you in a category of thin content [1], you may have got a notification in Search Console (but unlikely, I'm not a fan of the new Search Console since literally all the data in there is so vague which makes it not very helpful).

Another thing is that when I look in Ahrefs for pages with the most links [2], they are forum profiles that have been hit with spammy Xrumer/GSA link. They're referred to as profile links. They are pretty useless, but people still build them as there is literally $0 cost to do so.

If I were to offer my advice, my first step would be to build some content. First, add some content on the homepage (if you get SurferSEO it will tell how many words to write based on your competition) and then if you're willing to build a blog in (you seem to be a developer). You could write some roundup articles that are SEO focused and then link to the relevant Show/Movie, which would also help your internal linking.

If you wanted to explore building backlinks (depending on if you want to go on a whitehat or greyhat road) - you can look into paid guest posts or niche edits.

[1] https://www.vertical-leap.uk/blog/what-is-thin-content-why-d... [2] https://i.imgur.com/xZ8VEJQ.png

John Mueller even said himself: https://twitter.com/johnmu/status/913222203071594496

This is not an isolated thing, negative SEO attacks happen on a daily basis, mostly intention but I bet you there are some accidental ones too.

If neg SEO still worked efficiently, then SEO's would be focusing on spamming their competition instead of investing in quality content and backlinks.

Like any case, disavow the links if you need, then move on and continue to build content Google likes with quality backlinks.

I'm sorry to say, but the neg SEO didn't drop your rankings, it was to do with the Google algorithm update [1]. Check the screenshot from Ahrefs [2], and your traffic drops on 3rd of December which is when the update went live. [1] https://moz.com/blog/googles-december-2020-core-update [2] https://i.imgur.com/DBkdUEk.png

Google's algorithm is smart enough to recognise Neg SEO attacks. Sure five years ago you could buy a blast of spammy links using Xrumer or GSA with some viagra anchor text and boom you're competition is gone.

From a quick glance, most of your pages have pretty thin content, and I assume it's pulling from an API, so none of it is unique. If there was one thing I would do is try to build some content on pages. A great tool to analyse and develop content that is SEO friendly is SurferSEO - highly recommend it.

I'm surprised your forum doesn't rank as well as your main site as it looks fairly active. However, I'm not sure about how PunBB does SEO wise.

Contabo are quite cheap, but BuyVM's storage slabs at $5/month for 1tb seem cheaper and probably have better performance: https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/

As many have said, LowEndBox is a great resource. However it's not as updated as frequently as it used to be. The forums however are still very active: https://www.lowendtalk.com/

https://www.serverhunter.com/ is a solid site for searching for providers, much easier than using LEB.

BuyVM https://buyvm.net/ are my go to provider. Been using them for years and they are probably one of (if not the highest) ranked providers on LEB/LET. The recently upgraded all their nodes to Ryzen 3900X's and NVME SSD's.

Their block storage is stupid cheap at like $5 per 1tb - https://buyvm.net/block-storage-slabs/

The Odroid HC4 also came out today which has a PCIe to SATA controller onboard which looks like a near-perfect NAS box:

https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=40609

ETA Prime already did a emulation, seems to have enough grunt to run some GameCube/Wii games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xrRxz5633I

Compared to him testing on a Raspberry Pi 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4TyYU9Xhcs

(note both those videos are a old so results could be different now)

The video is a year old, but I imagine there would be less bugs now. With this cheaper board coming out, there might be a bit more of development activity.

Exactly, there's more than 1 factor while his campaign didn't work at all.

As mentioned in other comments, his ad spend was pretty low anyway, you can't come to conclusions if a campaign is successful from 11 clicks.

The main problem is that his creative/lander or his copy didn't convert.

Having the clicks differentiate from the ad source compared to your tracking tool is pretty common as well. If you're using just GA to track it, the numbers are going to be wildly different with people having Adblockers.

I've worked on some large B2B ad campaigns on LinkedIn, some of them we only ever got 1 lead, but that lead was worth a lot more than that the campaign budget, so that was a success for us.

When I went to Poland earlier in the year, I even saw they sponsor a massive Arena: https://g2aarena.pl/

I just don't understand why you would even reach out in the first place if you have no intentions of actually making the call. As you say, it's a waste of time.

And yes it was more being curious.

Funny enough their Head of HR reached out to me last month for a call. After rescheduling multiple times because she failed to join the call - I think I'm going to give up with them.

When they came out in 2018 I remember they advertised heavily for a few months. But since then I have not seen any advertising in the last year or so.

I use Monzo as my main account but I have got a Nationwide Flex Plus account which gives you really good phone, travel and breakdown insurance for £13/month

Yes, you are correct, you only really need proof of address once you start offering credit (running hard credit check).

And you're also correct in terms of AML - once a person crosses over a certain threshold or raises and risk alarms, they'll be required run further AML checks. Eg. if you were to signup to Monzo and then put 50 grand in there from a foreign account.

What Monzo has to do since they are new, is keep a squeaky clean record with the authorities. This is why Monzo usually blocks or even bans anyone that buys Cryptocurrency eg: https://www.reddit.com/r/monzo/comments/avdw8o/notice_regard...

Source: I work in Crypto