Recent content by jfist

My take is that slow and steady wins the race. Google has been combating spammy links since its inception and it does a MUCH better job today than it did years ago. You can be certain many features of your link building efforts are being tracked and used in a machine learning pipeline to rank...

No magic wand. Just a powerful technique with engineering challenges and limitations. I work in the field and am quite aware that it can't do everything I want. :) But I find people's thinking is often detached from reality both in their expectations as well as their perceived limitations. As...

Ahrefs does this quite well, but it's expensive. You could use SimilarWeb to get a very crude look at how a competitor is doing.

How about: Automated link building Article generation Automated A/B testing Automated planning of keyword targeting, including experimentation and editing I think the final point is very interesting. Imagine an AI that tracks keywords driving traffic to various pages, hypothesizes changes to...

Early tests I did on Articoolo were not encouraging. It pulled in a lot of quotes from other documents rather than generating unique sentences. I am working on a text generator based on deep neural networks (deep learning) that will attempt to duplicate the results of OpenAI's DPT-2 system...

State of the art natural language generation using deep generative models can produce text that sounds somewhat coherent and has decent grammar, but it lacks the clarity, flow, and purpose that a human writer can produce. I don't believe this points to an inherent flaw in the AI as these...

Most article spinners generate garbage that Google can easily detect. I would recommend that you test the output of spinners by running them through SpinMeNot (search for this). It will give you a score for how likely the content is to be spun, which helps estimate how Google may be viewing...

The advice and expectations of SocialManager are spot on. Expect it to take one to three months just to come up on the first page when users search for the name of your website -- and that's if the name you are targeting is unique and you are using SEO best practices.

I can't imagine that Google doesn't already detect and then disregard/penalize content. SpinMeNot (Google it) shows that it's not difficult to do even without Google's resources. But the new "Deep Fakes" may be much harder to detect.

This definitely changes things for content spinners. I wonder if SpinMeNot can detect this as spun?

I'm very sorry to hear about the drop. That is very frustrating and downright sad. I've switched over several sites to SSL and didn't experience any signficant drop, but there were some incidents caused by SSL breaking certain things and degrading the experience of others, so be sure to do a...

Thanks. That's good advice. I'm already into a couple of discussions, so it's smooth sailing now. :)

Here's a couple ways that I've benefited from: 1) Man the Inbox A lot of businesses try to outsource customer support interactions to the lowest paid staff or virtual assistant. As a serial entrepreneur, I've found great value in the founder/CEO handling most or all of the customer support...

I'm new to BHW, but have seen many posts come up on Google searches over the years. I figured it was finally time to join.