Sums up my experience growing up
@ilovecomputers Iʼm old school. Our content is still content. Screw “SEO”, Big Tech, and the surveillance economy. I saw the peak and refused to downgrade. We even took off tracked ads.

@jackyan @ilovecomputers SEO was the beginning of the death of the usable web.

Proud to say that in all my web-based endeavors over the years I have never once used SEO. It's fucking evil.

@retrosponge @ilovecomputers I agree, and Iʼm like you. Unless you count having honest meta tags as SEO. Iʼve published web stuff since the 1990s, and it gets found without resorting to any tricks.
I would even go so far as to say I hate “SEO”. For nine months in 2024, "SEO” arseholes got their “AIs” to write at least one BS article about me per day. I wrote this early in the year, unaware that I still had seven months of this shit ahead:

https://jackyan.com/blog/2024/02/read-all-about-the-seo-algorithm-that-i-developed-for-google/

Read all about the SEO algorithm that I developed for Google

P.P.PS., May 31, 2024: Since this post keeps getting linked by people posting disinformation, and seemingly by those using LLMs and are illiterate themselves, let me make things very clear to those who can read: there is no such thing as a Jackyan algorithm. The whole point of the title was to take the mickey

Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog

@retrosponge @ilovecomputers I sometimes send this to the idiots who enquire about “SEO” with us, even though we say we donʼt do guest posts or “outreach” on our contact pages:

https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/02/we-do-not-do-paid-or-guest-posts-and-heres-why/

We do not do paid or guest posts—here’s why

I don’t know how much more abundantly clear we can make things on our sites when we say, for instance, at Lucire: ‘We receive multiple enquiries from SEO or “outreach” companies about paid or guest posts each day, and if you fall into this category, please do not contact us: it’s going to be no.’

Jack Yan: the Persuader Blog