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pawnednow··on [dead]
If you had like to get a feel of the quality of the course, feel free to view a sample on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/OqN7Cbti0-c

Author here and have posted two other free courses here including a free course on SEO & a free course on landing pages. I have a decent experience running paid ads.Feel free to ask any question

pawnednow··on [dead]
Author here. My second free course after the landing pages that convert course which is also free. You can head over to https://zenacademy.com.au/course/landing-pages-that-convert/ and take that course.

I have split the lessons into 3-5 minutes video and covers most of the important part about SEO foundation for a startup.

I intend to do a few more courses around paid ads, LinkedIn and so on. Let me know if any feedback.

pawnednow··on Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate
Is this really necessary ? Its true for every other country.
pawnednow··on Show HN: How attractive is your website? Check using Visual Mind AI
my site https://hackerspad.net scored a 26 while the tool itself scored a 60. Furthermore, for both scores it says and I quote

  You can further improve it by using better images and considering little denser layout.
So as far as I think, we all have been had by this well designed funnel.
pawnednow··on Facebook news threat risks 'big stick' tax hit
Facebook runs the risk of getting slugged with a general tax on all internet transactions if it goes ahead with its threat to remove all news content from its platforms to avoid sharing revenue with Australian media companies, former competition regulator chairman, Professor Allan Fels, has warned.
pawnednow··on Yoast SEO cripples WordPress 5.5 functionality
Thomascloer put it nicely. Don't know why they would choose to disable a wordpress core function and then feign ignorance on the matter... They also marked it as resolved while clearly it is not.
pawnednow··on An Update About Changes to Facebook’s Services in Australia
Australian government and more specifically Rod sims, the chair of ACCC should get some counselling. Really good counselling. They clearly don't understand how publishing works and have a biased understanding of who is benefitting from this relationship.

However, the entire Australian media has been nothing but puppets controlled by murdoch. The one true less biased source is ABC which has been muddied by constant federal government censorship and budget cuts almost to a point where independent journalism and Australia cannot be spoken in one sentence.

I hope they move forward with this code and I hope that both Google and FB remove news from their site so that newscorp can die quickly. It a shame they are doing this. Come next election I am voting against both SCOMO and the likes.

pawnednow··on Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’
Maybe Facebook should go make phones and then try and waive fees that help third parties build momentum that they will eventually capitalise on..

I can understand the 30% tax being tough for indie publishers but when I see companies like hey.com and FB & Epic taking this stance, I feel like they are being treated exactly how they will treat others if they were in position of power in the relationship.

pawnednow··on New York Times ordered 59M publishing assets on a laptop using Go
The author says

>>>As I reviewed the previous work and struggled to understand the queries, I felt like SQL wasn’t the right tool for the job — it was getting in the way of progress. So I paused, took a step back and looked for an alternative approach.

Not sure why the author thought SQL wasn't the right tool as he glosses over this justification. It seems to me like a time series or sorting problem. The challenge was inserting meta data and then sorting. This relates to problem with query language but the article seems to imply the problem was somehow solved with GO. Either way my knowledge on this subject is limited and probably much shallower than the author.

pawnednow··on Ask HN: How do you drive traffic to your side projects?
Cloudflare aggressively deters bots and Google's bot usually get caught out in this due to their automated behaviour. I have seen cloudflare strangle and limit Google bots activity leading to lower crawl on most sites using cloudflare.
pawnednow··on Ask HN: How do you drive traffic to your side projects?
Some self-promo before I start, I just started - https://hackerspad.net

Here is my plan

  - First code out the part of the site relating to alternatives. About 80% there
  - Next slowly start listing in startup communities that will like this project. I started with small subreddit , then Show HN, then some more startup communities before I go to indiehackers and producthunt
  - Focus on organic traffic. Improve internal linking on my content which dramatically improves crawl rates
  - Submit sitemap to google,bing and Yandex. Don't forget the latter two. They help big time.
  - Next leverage some traction I will have gotten to reach out to atleast 50 people on linkedin. Offer them something for free or ask for a review for a free trial. I will make this as targeted as possible.
  - Look at FB communities which can be a huge source of traffic. Entrepreneur, startups communities are all worth their time.
  - If i was running a saas focussed on a specific audience, I would develop content on the site via those topics that may interest the audience.
  - Build a community around the site. I have just coded a hacker news like option on my site under news and now will improve engagement via emails I have collected so far.
  - I do intend to list at some competing sites but that is after I have some traction just for the backlinks.
Its not very hard. For content specific sites, organic traffic is still the best. Don't add cloudflare if you wish Google to crawl your site aggressively.
pawnednow··on Nano 5.0
Nano has always been my go to editor. It comes natively with most install and is very easy to use. It has all the shortcut listed on page so it is quite user friendly out of the box.

After learning vim for a bit, I find nano quite superior for my use case mainly editing files inside terminal on remote servers.

pawnednow··on Show HN: Curated Software alternatives and comparisons with no ads
Bookstack is my favourite piece of software. Easy to manage on a $5 DO droplet and easy to udpadte. It is also something that I recommend everyone to use if they have some server management experience. I featured your software on the site.
pawnednow··on Show HN: Curated Software alternatives and comparisons with no ads
Created this as a part of an experiment learning some tools like python, PHP, wordpress, Redis, Nginx and so many more.
pawnednow··on Show HN: I compiled book recommendations from 1300+ leaders
Great work. It looks absolutely polished and really well done. Can you describe the tech stack and how did you go about collecting images ?

Also, did you fetch the titles via Amazon ?

If you would like to be featured on https://hackerspad.net, please let me know.