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I have to thank you guys the most - if you didn't show support for this fic I wouldn't be led to do this, so remember that you readers are at the very top of this audio drama's thanks!
Dedicated writer who loves to work and think of new ideas. I hope you like my fanfics - my readers are very precious to me!
Check out the first episode here!
I have to thank you guys the most - if you didn't show support for this fic I wouldn't be led to do this, so remember that you readers are at the very top of this audio drama's thanks!
Hey readers!
The time has nearly come; the first episode of the Teenage CMC audio drama is upon us in time! I have all my primary VAs, my artist and my musicians ready to do their part towards the episodes. As such, here is a sneak peak of the series in what I think is a pretty cool way, I present to you the extended version of the audio drama's theme song!
The shorter version will be played in episodes. The first of which you should expect around Mid-June, so keep a lookout! (Suscribe to the channel, watch EQD, etc!)
Thank you and I hope you enjoy! New chapter will come once I'm done with the first episode of this!!
Hey there readers! Just blogging to let you know, over on the voice acting community, I've started a project for a TCMC audio drama series.
It will basically follow the same chapters as the fic with some exclusive stories and stuff too.
I'll be needed accurate and creative voices for this, so if you're interested take a look here:
Good luck and enjoy!
PS. New chapter soon! I'm about halfway done with it!
Just a quick note, I've made some minor edits to The Residential: Day 1 to coincide with the events of the new episode of Friendship is Magic. It now mirrors the major change introduced in the episode but does not change the chapter much at all.
Of course, it's always possible that this change could be undone in season 4, which is why I've saved a copy of the original text just in case.
New chapter soon, happy reading!
Hey guys, just a quick shoutout for Ecthellion_Yuda's My Little Pony Vs.......... .
Being a close personal friend of the author, I was more than happy to write content for his big crossover fight fic and who has better superpowered, explosion-filled and level jumping battles than Digimon? (except maybe the super saiyans)
So please go and check his fic out, it's brilliant with lots of recognisable cross-continuity characters. I'll be writing guest chapters in the future and anyone is welcome to write them too, just contact the author beforehand.
My chapter pits Rainbow Dash against Shoutmon and his commerades from the Digimon Xros Wars series and includes the evolution sequences from the show. Hope you enjoy!
A few days ago I was contacted on Fimfiction by Skytail asking if he could do a reading of Pony Showdown for YouTube. Not one to say no, I accepted and here it is! It's absolutely brilliant and I look forward to more!
I'll have a new Pony Showdown chapter at last very soon, the fic isn't dead yet! I've just had a lot of things going on between writing (college etc) but I still have plans. For now, enjoy the reading!
Okay, so I feel I need to talk about some of my fics since A LOT of them haven't been updated in MONTHS. I'll address every one I will be continuing with here.
Stories of the Teenage Cutie Mark Crusaders: Easily my most prized fic. The one I want to update the most. I actually have plans for chapters all the way to the end of the fic so you don't have to worry about any writers block. I have up to 20 chapters logged onto Fimfiction so far (but none of them beyond The Residential: Day 1 written) all with titles. 'Season 2' of the fic will have 9 chapters plus a multi-parter (which is the only part of the fic I need to think of a plot for). The Residential will last 4 chapters; they are the end of 'Season 1'.
Pony Showdown: Another one of my most prized fic. I am, admittedly, at writers block with this. I have about 6 chapters planned, plot and all, but not sure how to develop the ideas. May call in for a co-writer soon; but I will try and get the next chapter up when I can.
Pony Tail: This fic is one I want to get done regularly. I started writing the second chapter today; it should be up some time next week!
What Happens in Las Pegasus: I doubt I'll be updating this any time soon. I know where I'm taking it; I just need to work it out. It will be updated in time.
The Ponies who Flew from the Sun: I always see this being favourited out of nowhere; it's encouraged me to do more work on it. Expect a third chapter very soon!
Expedition: I'm planning for this to be one of my biggest fanfics in terms of meaning and feels. I know exactly where I'm taking it; I just need to work on taking it there. Expect a third chapter in time.
My Cats go to Equestria: Same situation as Las Pegasus. I know where I'm taking it; I'm just not inclined to write it at the moment. It will be updated though, I assure you.
luke comes to equestria: I have the final chapter ideas in my head; I'm figuring out how it will play out. Maybe expect it early next year.
An Unexpected Arrival: Sheer writers block. This is a hard fic to write as there are so many characters at one time; but I do have plans for it. Expect an update very soon.
Tourretes Guy Visits Ponyville: Expect that Christmas special I've been promising soon!
An Apple Against Apples: I am planning to rewrite this soon. For now it's cancelled until I finish some more fics. I know where I want to go with it.
The Saga of Shan Widow: Pony Vampire: I don't know. I might rewrite it; it's based off my favourite book series. The fic was sort of a disaster. It was late at night when I wrote it and kinda rushed. I might redo it soon.
FANFIC.DOC: If you want more, say so, and I'll write another story!
So that's about it for fics that will be updated. I have some new fics in the works but I want to finish some fics before I get down to them. Heres some stuff you can expect:
-A huge crossover fic consisting of 50 short chapters. Have you read Ecthellion_Yuda's 'MLP VS......'? It's kinda like that but without fighting. And only one MLP character.
-A spinoff to Teenage Cutie Mark Crusaders. This will start at season 1 finishes.
-A Doctor Hooves fic about Hearts and Hooves Day. Will star Derpy and Colgate both as assistants.
-A long Doctor Hooves fic about the Doctor and Derpy in Equestrian medieaval times. Sort of inspired by Sonic and the Black Knight.
-Another Doctor Hooves fic involving Gilda.
-An dark retelling of Friendship is Magic Parts 1 and 2.
-A horror story based off an OC some friends and I came up with during a brony meet.
Well, that's all from me! Prince Luna signing out!
Have some supplimentary information about the original characters of the fanfic! I hope you enjoy!
As you may or may not have noticed, after every chapter I update the description of the fic to include a character code to use on GeneralZoi's Pony Creator so you get a good idea of what the original characters look like beyond my own description. Here's who I have so far:
Shiner: 343M005010DBDBDBFEF99E02900003FD3UN173C040201001W0540000FF7FFF05107F3FCC004CB2
Applebrown: 2A1D00100089883DFFC49D0040100FE48UN183722B40000081CC8304FEDB8009107F3FCC004CB2
Uncle Applcore: 372A004000D3A900FFC49D0290000BB96UN1333014200020C06D5252FF7FFF0F107F3FCC004CB2
Aunt Applestalk: 352S0S600029EF4DFFC49D0070100BB96UN183702800100190824B4BFF7FFF0O107F3FCC004CB2
Quick Quilt: 2Y4T000100E0DEFEFFC49D00A0100BB96UN1837501000000A1CC0000FE808004107F3FCC004CB2
Mr.Stitcolt: 3K37004200EEFE00FFC49D037000C00BAUN183710B000500R1000000FFFFFE06107F3FCC004CB2
Prince Regal Crown: 1O2I000210FEE0FDFFC49D0300015FC00UN1935108000001N000098CFF7FFF06107F3FCC004CB2
Chemist Carpenter: 3B2S00510093A541FFC49D0090000FE1AUK173B009000102I1FFFFFEA1A1A019107F3FCC004CB2
Mr.Baker: 324B007000AFAFAFFFC49D0240000BB96UN331411900000070000000FF7FFF0T107F3FCC004CB2
Scribble Dibble: 34350D4010001693FEC59E0390000AA2BUN1837002000002I0000000FF7FFF0A107F3FCC004CB2
Buckingham Ghost Pony: 2Z5K004010FE7575FFC49D00040BAF0FEUN313430000000180F2E8FEFF7FFF0A107F3FCC004CB2
Heavy Metal and Stellar Spike don't have codes because they are the OCs of my friends; however I have pictures of them both. This is a thing we have going. Scribble Dibble and Heavy Metal have been mentioned in Ecthllion Yuda's (the creator of Heavy Metal) 'An Old Timer's Tale' and Stellar Spike is a main character in Sonic The Pony's (creator of Stellar Spike) 'Daring Do and the Pegasus Pendant'.
Speaking of those three...expect a related project after the Residential Arc regarding them!
This is a commision of Heavy Metal that was made for my friend who created him. Note that Heavy Metal is made younger in TCMC, he is 16 in it but in other works he's an adult.
And this is Stellar Spike as he was when my friend Pony Creator'd him
Hope you enjoyed that! I might do random things on the fic like this in the future.
One Bad Apple:
The Cutie Mark Crusaders are crushed when Apple Bloom's cousin, Babs Seed,
rejects their invitation to become a fellow Crusader and instead becomes a bully determined to make their lives miserable.
Second chapter of TCMC, anypony?
So guys, I just looked quickly because I was bored at college and now TCMC has 1000 views! Gotta say I'm proud! Maybe this means we'll be on the feature box soon...!
So yeah, because you guys are so awesome and I love this fic so much, here's a preview of the next chapter!
The Residential: Day 1
Apple Bloom made her final preparations to set off on residential. Applejack and Big Mac were helping her get her cases to the door. Just as the last case settled on the wall, Mac released it from his mouth's grip and sighed with relief.
"What've y'got in these cases anyways, Apple Bloom?" Applejack asked, "there's two of 'em and they're heavier than ol' Bessie's cowbell collection."
Apple Bloom's nervousy was thankfully subtle; she didn't have the heart to tell her siblings that she'd packed equipment to face off against or rescue from an unknown and evil supernatural force in an apparently haunted and dangerous manor house in another county.
"It's just clothes, sis! We need a lot if we're gettin' down and dirty in our activities," Apple Bloom explained.
"Well, whatever. You just take care, 'kay?"
Apple Bloom embraced and nuzzled Applejack and Big Mac, "o' course I will! I'll see y'all in a week. Bye now!"
She then stormed out the door with her bags attached to her back as she galloped towards Ponyville Train Station. A tear made up of both pride and sisterly worry worked up in Applejack's eye as the teenage mare happily made her way off.
"They grow up so fast," Applejack noted to Big Mac with a smile.
"Eeyup," the stallion replied.
Rarity quickled hastled to prepare the rest of Sweetie Belle's clothes. With a huge repitoire at hoof, she was struggling to find something suitable for the activities described in the residential letter.
"I honestly don't have much that can get dirty, Sweetie Belle! Everything here is just too precious and delicate!" she cried.
"I know that," her sister replied, "and I knew before we packed anyway. Just pack normal stuff, Apple Bloom said she'd lend me some of Applejack's old clothes for the walks and stuff."
Now Rarity was worried, "Applejack's clothes? Oh dear, oh dear, that won't do! They're all scruffy and...ick! I wouldn't want you wearing her 'fashion style'."
"They're just gonna get dirty anyway..." Sweetie Belle noted.
This didn't occour to Rarity. If she'd thought of that before she wouldn't have blabbed about her friend's choice of clothes. This was embarrasing and she wanted the moment to clear quickly, so she pushed Sweetie and her many bags out of the door quickly.
"Now have a nice time, be careful, don't get too dirty and wash and brush your mane every night! I love you, bye now!"
And the door shut. Sweetie Belle giggled then, with what magic she could use, she lifted her five bags from the ground and levitated them around her as she made her way to the station.
Scootaloo's parents had already left her house down in Ponyville for work this morning, but Shiner was coming to pick the pegasus up. Scootaloo tiredly plopped herself on a sofa in her dawn-filled living room, looking at the dust dance around the light flooding through the windows. She glanced at the clock, seeing that Shiner was a few minutes late. She rested her eyes, but just as her eyelids met, there was a hasty knock on the door. Scootaloo hopped off the sofa she had just sat upon and opened the door with a wing, then smiled at the sight of her boyfriend behind the door, wings aspread.
"Are ya ready to go?" Shiner asked with a smile.
"Of course!" Scootaloo replied, quickly hovering towards her single suitcase. Though she could not fly, Scootaloo had mastered hovering; she never got any bashful comments on her lack of proper areial activity. Scribble Dibble, another flightless pegasus, had cleared up that controversey a year or so ago.
"And that's everything?" Shiner asked before Scootaloo could turn around.
The mare paused for thought. She had obviously forgotten something if Shiner was asking that. Her eyes then fully opened in rememberance. She dashed upstairs and quickly galloped back down with a rolled up orange piece of fabric. The sleeping bag that Sweetie Belle had made for her. The Crusaders all promised to bring them to this trip.
"There we go!" Shiner laughed and opened the door wider for Scootaloo to exit.
Once the two had begun their trot to the station, Scootaloo asked Shiner why he was late.
"It was only a few minutes, Scootie...besides I got a little caught up reading my book," Shiner explained.
Scootaloo rolled her eyes, "the kid's book?"
Shiner narrowed his eyes in return, "Daring Do and the Pegasus Pendant is not a kid's book, Scootie. Loads of adults read the series! Even Rainbow Dash wrote one!"
"Yeah, yeah," Scootaloo giggled as Shiner blushed.


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I just picked up my chili cheese fries off the ground ate them, and then licked up the cheese that was still on the concrete. Thank you Jagerbombs
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You still text quite well under the influence. (:
Incidentally, this is why you're in his phone as the fat twin.
Chili cheese fries are getting exspensive, I completely understand
I bet u were alone.
Hello stupid
Blame it on the a a a a a alcohol.
Damn you, House of Dogs!
A little dirt never hurt anyone! Just building that immune system!
can't blame the booze in that.
Leave it to a gander. And if it's from house of dogs, Well they have already been on the floor! Jk
I bet she has a cat
Jager.... <3
It's not the jager...
apparently you dont believe in the 5 second rule...
Feels like highschool
You better thank your immune system.
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I think what you are saying is that there is little value in automatically posting to networks you do not engage in. I agree with this. However where I think automation comes in handy is where you are already posting links to new posts in multiple networks that you engage in but want a way to optimize that process so you are not repetitively copying and pasting links or fiddling with multiple devices to get your posts posted! If done correctly, this can actually free up more time for increasing your engagement in all the networks you are automatically posting to!
I think good crawling will always be an art - part automated, part manual - as you have to combine the automated requests with physically checking out the site to see what the crawler is either missing completely or severely over-crawling, what with javascript links, AJAX, Flash and now HTML5 Content (and even if crawlers get smarter at handling all of today's edge cases, the forward march of technology means there will be new ones tomorrow).
Making sure you're not over-crawling what is essentially duplicate content is also simply polite to the server you're hailing, and (along with respecting robots.txt) decreases your chance of being blocked altogether.
"I realize that there's a few folks in the gray hat, black hat world who have been doing this and been having a little bit of success with it on and off, which is just sort of modify the dates on the page of publication to fool Google. I don't know why it seems to work sometimes."
Agreed, and it's really hard not to give it a try, although the best argument not to is that it would quickly confuse your real users.
The whole idea of "implicit" queries is huge, and I wonder if makes the privacy concerns of "(not provided)" quite a bit more believable. If we're just thinking in terms of explicit queries we think, what's the big deal with getting the search keywords? But if we think in terms of implicit queries as well, I can understand how a user might not want a website to know their search terms plus the fact that they're going 30mph on a bus in Midtown at 5 am on a Monday morning. On the other hand, we've always been able to glean lots of location/device/etc information from Google Analytics anyway...
So true about the tunnel vision! It's so natural for us tech savvy folks to just want to change things from our computer screens without getting out in the real world to see how actual visitors are reacting to our sites. You may not think you have the resources to do that sort of thing but it can easily pay off with big takeaways like the ones mentioned here. Setting up some A/B testing is a really helpful way to identify improvements in responses to your site, but you still have to know what changes to try!
Just wanted to note that unfortunately Google Alerts does not seem to work very well these days, though there are some alternatives listed here (some of which you also mentioned as well)
"One of the most important SEO things to do is to ensure that your old pages 301 redirect to the most relevant new page. This will mean that the history that the old pages have will get passed onto the new pages."
It's also important to make sure this is working BEFORE you update any URLs in third-party ads/websites/etc. Better to have someone get harmlessly redirected because they clicked your "old" Twitter bio before you updated the URL (or got the person in the company with access to that account to get around to updating it) than having someone click the "new" link that doesn't work yet!
Good question, and I don't know that there's a standard answer. But as a rule of thumb I would probably be most skeptical of data involving traffic less than 1,000 per month. For example, between two months on one site I had hits from Detroit go from 240 to 160 - that's a 33% drop! But hits for the whole state of Michigan went from 2700 to 2600 - roughly the same. So the smaller number might be more noisy.
Great idea to drill down into specific areas to optimize marketing. One thing I would caution though is trying not to read too much information out of data that's just random noise, especially if your sample sizes are small. For example, if you had enough data, you could look at the previous 12 months of each city as well to verify that the highs and lows are similar.
That's a good idea, but unfortunately if you represent a smaller/newer brand that isn't "notable" enough for Wikipedia you may have trouble getting an article for your brand on there. It's great that Google is showing more brands in the KG and not just the big ones, but for now it still seems pretty arbitrary for the small man trying to compete.
Looks like there are a lot of strong opinions going both ways on this one. One thing that I do find interesting is that I rarely see plus.google.com OR facebook.com OR twitter.com links in the list, or anywhere near the top of the list, of recognized and/or valuable links for my sites whether checking them in Open Site Explorer, ahrefs, even GWT... I don't have a lot of followers yet in most of those cases, though, so it may not be a relevant sample size.
Interesting that EMD correlates higher with higher-volume search terms. I wonder if this is simply because any given domain name is more likely to use high volume search terms than low volume search terms, so they are naturally going to make up a larger percentage of the results. Obviously not every domain name uses high volume terms, but pretty much any high volume term is going to be in lots of domain names.
Good stuff. It's about time I started experimenting with those GA custom variables.
As for fixing the ugly URLs without making the link not work OR having to use a #, you should be able to get the rewrite to only get rid of everything from the "?utm" and on. So, in your example above, if you could rewrite this:
to just this:
Then everything would be just perfect (I think - exceptions would be sites where other parameters after the question mark affect the script that loads the content, but for most blogs and other places I've seen the utm_source stuff used, that's not an issue).
The variety and quality of information available in Google searches is quickly rivaling that of Wolfram Alpha. I recently discovered the Knowledge Graph is a lot of fun when you speak your questions into a Google search from a tablet or phone because it speaks the answers back to you. For example, if you ask for the spouse of a famous person who has been married several times, it will say "[Person's] spouses include, Wife A, from these dates, Wife B, from these dates, and others"
The downside to all of this for website owners, of course, is that any answer Google satisfies itself means fewer clicks and hits for us. To be honest, though, a lot of these basic informational searches used to pull up sites that were thrown together just to get ad views by answering such simple questions, not adding much value (how many times have you googled for a simple question and tried to find the answer in a description without clicking on a site anyway?).
But on the other hand, Google seems to be relentlessly expanding its knowledge into deeper and deeper things, and maybe it's not fair that it seems to be grabbing a lot of this information from other websites and then effectively rewarding them by eliminating all their traffic... There's definitely an uneasy tension here, and I have a feeling it's not going to go away anytime soon.
Interesting TTFB results, gives me even more incentive to keep optimizing the database queries that often slow down big e-commerce websites. However I still feel like all of these graphs are trying to tease some causation out of correlation, when we already know there are many other factors larger than site speed, and it's hard to know how much site speed is a factor without accounting or correcting for the other ones (for example, do sites with less authority tend to take longer to load already, or do we see the same TTFB/site-rank correlation among sites around the same authority levels?)
One way you could try to check this (free YouMoz post idea!) is to try to set up a few pages with unique gibberish, give them the same backlink profile and on-page optimizations (or as close as possible), but set some of the pages to artificially load slower with a sleep() command or something similar, and then see how they rank!
Definitely checking out some of these resources. Here's one of my favorite little apps, although it's a little more of a webmaster tool than directly an SEO tool: TinyPNG.org - quickly compress the size of your image files to keep those page load times down and keep those crawlers and visitors happy!
1) "Disallow" crawling of sections that aren't important - hopefully the spider will spend less time there and then have more "crawl budget" for the sections it's missing
2) Make sure the sections it's missing are being submitted in sitemaps
3) If you're already doing 1 and 2 and it's still not crawling the pages you prefer, look at how your site is laid out and consider making the links to those sections more prevalent and higher up the page. You can try to build external links to those sections as well.
I love me a good technical post. You helped me discover that Google is crawling a lot of links that aren't that relevant and not crawling some directories that are. (Interesting to see that the bot will follow form buttons to a contact page from product pages around the site but barely make it to some of the folders that get linked on every page but only from the footer.) I'm adjusting our robots.txt and thinking about new strategies for the site layout, too!
Wow, thanks. Responsive is definitely the way of the present and the future, whenever possible. It's easier for blogs than for e-commerce, but we've done it (BeltFrog.com). We have an older site with separate mobile/desktop versions where we haven't had the resources to rewrite responsively. I have canonical links for the mobile pages but I had no idea there were new recommendations about bi-directional alternate linking on the desktop pages as well. Thanks for that important info!
"Want to add an article, revise a product description, fix a typo? You've doubled your workload"
If you have a separate site, your workload is doubled for designing new sections or functionality for your website, but a properly designed site should have mobile and desktop versions that plug in to the same database, so things like adding articles and fixing typos can still only need to be done once.
I do agree with you on the annoyance of websites whose mobile versions only have a subset of features. I'm seeing less of the tragic redirection to home page than I used to, but there's still plenty of it out there. If you're going to do a mobile site right (and I still think full responsive is the best way to go whenever possible) I think every desktop URL should at least have a mobile URL equivalent, and with easy links for switching.
Both can work equally well for SEO but there are tradeoffs to either choice depending on your preference and what works best for your site - I have done it both ways.
Responsive design has a much simpler structure as the URLs are always the same, making it easier to maintain and easier for users to share URLs regardless of their device. Browsers across devices are all getting really good at handling responsive CSS as well, and as the lines blur between desktop, tablet, and phone I think it makes the most sense if you can do it. The downside is it can be hard to organize the same content on desktop to appear on mobile. You can hide elements but they still take time to download.
Having separate mobile URLs have the advantage of only loading elements you want to show on the mobile site and being easier to optimize the organization of what displays for mobile users. The downsides are basically having two sites to maintain and more things to get right with canonical URLs and redirects.
I love #2 (Manual outreach to first customers). I just read an essay by Paul Graham talking about the same thing. Use your smallness as an advantage that lets you personally reach out, both to find initial customers and make and keep them happy: "That's one advantage of being small: you can provide a level of service no big company can."
That's not a bad idea, but I'm not sure that's something Google can implement. First, not all websites sell stuff, and there would be a dangerous chance of false positives of identifying sites that aren't making sales because there aren't any to be made! Second, Google the Search Engine doesn't know what people do on a site once they go to it. Now, I suppose it's theoretically possible that Google is smart enough to reliably determine e-commerce sites (look for checkout or cart links/buttons, fewer or no ads, etc), and also possible that Google Analytics and Google Chrome can report back enough data to Google the Search Engine to do something like this, but as far as I know there is zero evidence at this time that Google is considering internal conversion rates as a ranking factor. In my opinion it's too much of a gray area.
Interesting stuff. At the end of the day it doesn't matter so much what your "ranking" is numerically but 1) what page your link is on, and 2) how far down on the page your link is. [and I guess 3) what words and images are showing up with your link to make people want to click on it]
That being said, understanding how the different systems intermingle on the SERPs is crucial to understanding what opportunities you have for improving your positions on the pages.
While it's all changing all the time, it's clear that many parts of Google still think in terms of ranking numbers, as you've shown by your "start" parameter explorations. I also notice that Google Webmaster Tools still shows simple numbers in "Avg. position" search traffic tables... have you done any exploring or have any hunches about whether those are taking into account Local and other listings as well?
Not surprising, perhaps, though it is interesting to note that the 2011 study gave 0.28 for Page Authority, and 2013 has 0.38, which may suggest that Moz has gotten better at their correlating!
But it also sounds like Page Authority is more focused on links as opposed to the other signals. ("Page Authority a machine learning model inside our Mozscape index that predicts ranking ability from links") So might the increase also suggest that Google is returning more to link-based signals after going too far in other directions? Methinks I doth speculate too much...
Interesting survey results. This would be harder to measure, but I would also be interested in long-term effects. Sometimes "exciting" headlines make me more likely to click on them, but if the headline is all hype and the article disappoints, I'm less likely to frequent that site in the future. (For example, The Weather Channel has a lot of good information, but all the sidebars seem to be devolving into "YOU WON'T BELIEVE" click-bait these days...)
Basically, make sure you use an interesting headline that will get people to read your awesome articles, but even more importantly, make sure your awesome articles live up to your interesting headlines!
Awesome guide! I've known some of these things but I'm definitely going to be implementing some I'd never heard or thought of, you can never have too many layers of security!
Just a couple of cautionary points... I would not recommend limiting your log-in page to your IP addresses UNLESS you have a static IP. Many businesses do but the average residential consumer gets constantly updated IPs from their ISP, and it may get updated frequently enough to be too annoying to keep changing the file. Of course, YMMV.
Secondly, while it's cool to know how to completely deny specific IPs, I would caution against it for the same reason; it's hard to ensure that the IP isn't going to eventually be handed to a legitimate user who now can't visit your website. The (simple and excellent!) "Limit Login Attempts" plug-in should handle all of that, anyway.
Finally, while you link to resources that mention this, I just want to highlight a "security through obscurity" database tip that I think is just as important as avoiding wp_ prefixes - renaming the administrator account from the default "admin" to something else. Guessing the password to your account is one thing (especially if you're limiting login attempts), but if they don't even know the username, it's going to be exponentially harder.
I can't remember the last time I heard an SEO idea that had nothing to do with the Internet, but that magazines idea is fantastic! It's even better than a general strategy that some people might have still trouble applying to their specific industry. It seems like pretty much every industry has some kind of magazine... I've been surprised by the kind of stuff out there that has a market, but they manage to come up with content on a regular basis! No matter how "boring" your niche is, I bet there is at least one industry magazine full of content ideas. With all of our online tools and apps and engines it's easy to overlook a brilliant offline tactic that could be staring you in the face!
That's an interesting question... Low-quality comments certainly aren't going to help the commenters attract natural links by making people interested in their comments, but could they add value by adding more text to the page? (And sorting comments by popularity helps reduce the downside of readers needing to scroll past them to get to the valuable ones.)
It seems plausible, but I'm skeptical it would be noticeable. For one thing, low-value comments tend to be very short, so even 70 of them may not add half as much text as 30 quality comments, and they're probably going to have a lot of vague, repetitive wording that's not going to help any keyword rankings. Does Google literally parse and compares the number of comments on different sites and give more weight to those with higher numbers, regardless of content length or value? I doubt that such numbers would offset the low value of the comments themselves. But do readers come back more to sites with higher numbers of comments? Again, I doubt that such effects would offset the negative impression of the low-value comments themselves.
So in summary I think it's something that is interesting to think about, but very hard to measure accurately, and in my opinion not very likely to be a net win for the blogger, commenter, or other readers. (As far as this blog is concerned, I think a lot of people are just fishing for some extra moz points!)
I agree with what you say about the 'law of diminishing returns' regarding trust seals. These days there's another reason to limit your seals: there's not enough room to show very many on a mobile phone! Responsive/mobile design comes with enough challenges in the e-commerce space already, and you may have to redesign something to fit even one trust seal logo on the screen. This makes it all the more important to identify whether or not a seal has positive value for your site and which seal is the most important, although fortunately this is not too hard to do with some careful A/B testing.
Do you know anything about how this works with filtering out search crawlers and other bots? In general bots aren't as good at using javascript so they tend to automatically get filtered out of a lot of analytics, but might a bot be much more likely to see the img src and try to crawl it, thus getting picked up as a hit? If the nostats solution connects to Google Analytics I might assume that GA would still be smart enough to filter that stuff out like it generally does (because there are bots out there that *can* run GA scripts, too). But it is something to keep in mind if you're rolling your own solution.
Good info - I've seen similar numbers... Although it is important not to just look at the differences right now but how they have changed. We are seeing fast growth in hits from mobile devices - even if mobile is still not large it is becoming larger very fast. I suspect in most industries mobile will generally continue to convert worse than desktop, but the more important question (which is a little harder to answer) is: do mobile-optimized sites convert better on mobile than traditional sites do?
Good tips. If you need to use PNGs to preserver alpha transparency, use TinyPNG to reduce their filesize.
Indeed. So getting a warning might mean you get penalized but it might not, and NOT getting a warning might mean you get penalized but it might not, so the only way to tell if you're penalized is... when you get penalized. So the warnings are... useless?
Danny Sullivan has a good writeup on the new batch of link warnings: "I predict this is all just going to cause greater confusion and panic, not more clarity and calmness." What's the point in telling people there's a chance they may suffer if the only way they can know for sure is after they already see themselves suffering?
They should all have their own canonicals, but they should not be showing the same content, especially if you have multiple posts on the home page or in your categories.
Most blogging software allows you to use a summary or display only the first portion of the blog post on the home page or category filters - look at seomoz.org/blog for instance. This will reduce duplicate content issues (and assuming your intros are compelling, encourage more views on your blog posts).
The only exception would be if you have a popular blog that consistently generates dozens of comments. Then it may be OK to show the full content on grouped pages because you will have enough unique content in the comments. In most cases, though, I would recommend only showing summaries/intros on home and category pages to keep each link unique.
Great idea for a tool.. I like how you put as many factors as possible into your juice-per-link calculation based on all the available knowledge we have, and it's lightning fast too! Couple of thoughts:
1. You said you've seen rankings improve for many keywords when you removed navigation links. Did these include keywords that were not in the nav links, or (for example) just keywords related to specific products that were not already in the nav? What if you have 200+ links in your global navigation flyout but they are also the most important terms you want to rank for?
2. We've heard about Google devaluing site wide links, footer links, that kind of thing. I wonder if that improves the linkjuice of the other links or if it is more similar to treating those links as if they were "nofollows." I would guess the latter but I'm not sure if we have any documentation and/or experiments hinting either way.
I don't know, but most comments I see on YouTube are very much of the "drive-by" nature, offering little value and quickly being replaced by other comments. However, if it is a smaller video where there are not a hundred new useless comments every hour, then it could be just as valuable as commenting on blogs - if you do it right.
Great ideas... E-commerce is often very challenging, and everyone probably thinks their particular niche is even more challenging than other e-commerce niches. The key is to be creative, which can be harder for business-minded thinkers than those with a more artistic flair, so it's always helpful and encouraging to read ideas and execution from others in the e-commerce space.
Also remember that if you feel you have been unfairly affected Google has created a form for that. Hard to say how effective that will be in reality, but it's worth a shot.
Good points. If your site doesn't offer much value and doesn't truly "deserve" to rank well, then you can try black-hat tactics that come with risk, or white-hat tactics that come with slow progress because nobody wants to honestly link to you. Either way some people seem more focused on trying to "work hard" at SEO to outrank the position they deserve instead of also trying to increase their value and deserve a better position.
Great ideas. I would add Hacker News (if your niche is technology related), Inbound.org (if your niche is marketing related), and Reddit (if your niche is anything that has a subreddit). Of course, these are pre-curated sources, so you have to find a balance and know your audience and make sure you're not just giving your followers links to stuff they've already seen.
"Pro tip: Don't take any single day's "site:" count too seriously – it can be unreliable from time to time. Look at the trend over time."
Definitely. It can all over the map. You can query pages in a subfolder too, not just the whole site, and sometimes the counts in a subfolder will be more than the counts in the folder above it. In general Bing's numbers seem to be a little more unstable (and generally smaller) than Google's, at least in my experience, but it's getting better too. I've been weekly tracking some "site:" counts in an Excel spreadsheet for over a year along with the Webmaster Tools sitemap counts, and monitoring those trends together helps me know I'm moving in the right direction.
Great ideas. I try to do a lot of these already but the best advice for me was #8. I tend to be long-winded and find myself spilling out large blocks of text with awkwardly long sentences in an attempt to get across the interesting points I find myself wanting to get across!
So thanks for the great reminder about the short attention span and distractions of online and especially mobile use... if you can break long paragraphs into short ones (and maybe delete a few sentences in the process), it's a lot easier for someone to figure out where they were if they have to leave and come back.
SEO involves so many variables that it's easy to become fixated on any single one you hear a lot about, which is why I think some people have become obsessed with bounce rate. I think "Dwell Time" makes a lot of sense. Besides, if a large percentage of its users click on your site and then come right back to Google, Google the Search Engine doesn't even need to look at Google Analytics to learn that your site has a high bounce rate.
Followup.. I can confirm this personally. Last weekend one of the accounts I manage tweeted a link to a blog post that got retweeted by someone with 30K followers, resulting in about 500 visits. When I look at the Analytics for that site, I see a spike in Direct hits by the Mozilla Compatible Agent on that day, which makes sense if those "Direct" hits are really referers from Twitter apps that send no referer data and thus get a default treatment of direct. Furthermore as Michael suggests it makes sense that visiters from mobile apps would bounce at a higher rate than other users, especially as they may be eager to get to the next tweet in their stream and the mobile embedded browser experience in many apps is often subpar.
Great information! I like you how not only presented conclusions but also noted where there were caveats that could limit how much stock to put in those conclusions... They're not silver bullets, but it's way better than just theorizing with no data at all, and paves the way for others to experiment and confirm for themselves.
One thing I'm a little confused on is the "in-house" category on Theory #2. I don't think you mean in-house of the partner, but if you mean in-house of your own agency I'm not sure how that's different from agency. Just a little unfamiliar with the way these things tend to work.
But once again, thanks for gathering a lot of data and taking the time to format it into helpful information.
Yeah I have suspected this as well. I would love to see a study on the anchor text distribution of posts that have gone viral - which means they usually have hundreds of links from good sources with anchor text that is all the same as the title of whatever the thing is, but they also probably have resulted in many non-targeted links like the ones discussed in this post.
I often have trouble remembering "pws" without looking it up because the letters aren't obviously related to "personalization" or anything. Here's a choice of acronyms to help you remember (depending on your personal preference :)
Patriots Will Score
Patriots Won't Score
Packers Will Score
Packers Won't Score
Or, if you're not into American football:
Panda Will Slap!
I think Google is trying to stop rel=author gaming by having Google+ users link to the websites that will have their rel=author tags (see here). Though I haven't got it all figured out yet!
The title does seem a little linkbaity because they are going for the equivalent of expensive keywords, and many of us may not be, but the general principle is very insightful and something that I have not seen discussed much here. That principle is this: there are always going to be keywords that would cost you more than you would benefit, but if you can achieve organic rankings for them, you can get almost as much benefit without any of the costs.
Exactly. I can't believe people still rely on Alexa data. Just by installing the Alexa toolbar in our browsers, my brother and I alone have been able to get the primary site we use to rise from a rank of 300,000 to 120,000, although it's leveled off recently and it probably takes more than two people to rank in the top 100,000 (but how high could 10 people get it, etc). Obviously it's going to be more accurate for sites much higher, but they are going to be disproportionately techie/SEO/marketing related because those are the kinds of people that install the toolbar to see what the toolbar says... and thus also end up contributing to what the toolbar says.
Nice graphic. Like others have mentioned I was initially confused by the descending graph but once I figured out it was just a month reference I didn't mind it at all, and I liked the way it organizes the content boxes with the border colors. It's stunning to look at a lot of the things on that list and think, "Wow! That happened less than a year ago?" We are in a fast-changing world, for sure.
My only constructive comment... is that Kung Fu Panda in the background? Just don't want you to get accused of copyright misbehavior with your infographic (although I could be wrong, and even if it is, maybe it doesn't matter... anybody out there versed in what is considered fair use of images for infrographics?)
I predict we're going to see even more evidence that Google understands javascript when it comes to content and links, and we're going to begin to see some evidence that Bing is trying to understand it as well.
I predict that the next social network to generate buzz will be something that we haven't heard of yet, and maybe doesn't even exist yet.
I'm also hoping SOPA and/or PIPA doesn't pass and lead to even a fraction of the collateral damage that most tech leaders are afraid it will enable.
How do you think this information plays into deciding whether or not to turn off comments for blog posts older than X days or years? I've seen a lot of active blogs that disable comments for very old posts, which in some ways makes sense from a user perspective because it can be confusing to follow a conversation that spans several years and often the material in the old post becomes outdated and any new comment would be much more relevant on a newer post about the same topic.
But on the other hand, this information seems to encourage keeping the comments on because it increases the potential of the number of pages on your blog that will keep having fresh content.
Doh! I think you're right... Or... maybe I'm just not sure of anything anymore.... :)
But I suppose it could be possible that on average fewer Bing searches result in clicks to pages but that more of those clicks result in conversions... I bet it would be hard to confirm either way though.
This is interesting because Duane Forrester of Bing has claimed on this very site that Bing has higher conversion rates than Google. I suspect what we are really seeing is a tale of two number crunchers.
Yes, it is a failure by Google, but by knowing the keywords I have the potential to fix that failure for Google and creaet a win-win-win for me, Google, and my visitor. But I also definitely agree that a lot of people abuse that data for "black hat SEO stuff." Maybe Google thinks that they won't really hurt people who already know how to create good content for the keywords they're expecting (e.g. when Google doesn't fail), but they will give a big blow to the super-optimizer grey/black hats throwing up low-value-add sites for cash cows from Google's own ad system.... *shrug*
"What sort of benifit would someone searching google get with Google providing this information?"
The benefit is that web admins can learn how to better tailor their sites to tangent queries that somehow lead visitors to their page, which in turn improves the overall web. For example, on a music-related site sometimes I somehow get hits from searches for "is [musician] married" even though my post about that musician said nothing about their marriage status.
So this means that this visitor searched the term, clicked on my site because s/he thought it might have the answer, and since it did not have the answer they must have gone back and clicked on another site. However, if I know the answer, I can edit my text to include that information, and any future visitor who stumbles on my site with the same query will now need to visit fewer websites than before. Voila - better hits for me, better experience for the user, better appreciation for Google serving up good results... all in all: a better Internet.
Can't do that if I don't know what my visitors were searching for. It doesn't stop me from continuing to produce good content, but it hurts my efforts to make existing content even better.
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying. We know from multiple studies that higher ranking positions have higher click-through rates, but of course we also know that there is plenty of variance in any given sample. And where are you getting your Rank values from, anyway? Rank was hard to pin down in absolute terms even before search engines started introducing personalization, local/image/video results, instant results, and the like...
I guess, in summary, I would not expect a 100% correlation of course, and I doubt that you can calculate a correlation with a high degree of certainty anyway.
I think it's important to note that part of the reason the IIS 7 chart is increasing so much is likely because IIS users are upgrading from older versions (compare with the site's IIS 6 chart). But I was also surprised to see that Apache use seems to be dropping somewhat. Anyone have any insight as to why?
Nice tool, nice British humor (or should I say "humour"?) The horse colloquialism bit reminded me of a tweet I read recently from Switchfoot on tour in your isle, where their local manager asked "Why do you American say 'horseback riding'? Where else would you ride a horse?!"
In general, I would be cautious about taking too much from slight discrepancies in test results like this. Still, if you find a glaring difference in something, that might be an indication of something to puruse further.
Thanks for that data! Danny Sullivann covered the https issue at some length, and it sounds like the https trick doesn't work here:
For example, if you used Google Encrypted Search and clicked on a result to come here to Search Engine Land, because we don't run encryption, the referrer isn't passed along. But Cutts said that if we did run encryption — or if any site did — they they would get the referrer data passed along.
The new service entirely blocks referrers, at least from non-ad links...
There has been a general belief in the past that Google understands things based on the order of the code (such as experiments about the first link counting for anchor text). This might suggest that you could put your ads in divs at the bottom of the code and use CSS to put those divs at the top of your page.
Agreed, but don't forget that this does not apply to ALL keywords. Google claims that with this update they are getting super smart about what kind of searches deserve fresh results, and what kinds don't. I suspect that for the types of queries where most recent isn't relevant, Google won't serve fresh results. And I suspect they will require some authority for some of the results to queries that are fresh. But we'll just have to wait and see how things end up turning out...
The QDF concept is not new so it's interesting that Google felt the need to announce the world that they are making big changes to the amount of Queries that deserve freshness and/or the amount of Freshness that these queries deserve. Will be interesting to see over the next days what kind of results webmasters report they are seeing.
"I've used the Bing Toolbox when it was released and haven't really played with it since."
You should play with it some more. I was underwhelmed with it compared to GWT when it was first released but there have been multiple updates that have greatly improved it, including some GWT-like features that were previously missing and some unique features as well. I still spend a lot more time with GWT, but I've been spending more time with Bing's as they continue to improve it.
Learned something new regarding the "old sitemap" tip. We changed some URLs about a year ago for optimization purposes and while overall the new URLs have been beneficial, it took awhile for Google to drop all the old ones despite our redirects, and Bing still has thousands of the old ones, although it's getting better. I wonder what Bing would be thinking now if we had let it crawl the old sitemap first and get redirected instead of taking it down at the same time as the new one and just assuming that Bing would figure out the redirect if it ever tried to crawl the old URLs already in its index (but no longer coming from our sitemap)
I have done #1 manually before and successfully achieved a link, although of course tools makes that kind of thing exponentially easier.
I do think as you say that #3 is a little grey hat but I think the level of greyness depends in how you do it. If you say "this site is moved" that is pretty much a lie, but if you say something like "this site no longer exists but you might be interested in this site" then I think it may be less grey hat. Definitely both clever and fuzzy, though.
Awesome tutorial, quick question though: On the graphic with the access key circled in red, is that a legitimate active key that you're showing? Right below that circle the shot says "For your protection, you should never share your secret access keys..." Might wanna blur that key if that's the case.
When you have content that you want to rank for multiple keywords and synonyms, has anyone tried slightly varying the wording of the title / h1 / url to see if you can get more mileage out of more words that way, or does it just dilute all three of them and make it harder for you to rank for the ~70 chars you would if all three had the same words? It's something I think about every now and then but I haven't done any experimentation in that regards.
I think it's a fairly common term because I've seen it before but I don't think I've ever seen it defined anywhere I've seen it, either. Based on context I've grown to assume it has somehing to do with Small Businesses, but I was never sure if the M had its own meaning or if it was just something like "SMall Business." So thanks for light-bulbing the "Medium" part for me!
Love the 1-word keyword list! I've been learning some RegEx recently but I'm still completely baffled by the logic underlying this statement, except that perhaps 0 refers to the number of spaces:
Similarly, Anthony Nelson's comment suggests using the following for 4-7 keyword phrases:
^[^ ]+( [^ ]+){3,8}$
So I replaced the {3,8} with {0} and I got the same thing as result #1 but it looks a lot cleaner:
^[^ ]+( [^ ]+){0}$
Since \s is an escape for the whitespace character, is there an advantage to using one or the other or does it come down to preference? (the first example being less ambiguous about what the string is exactly and the second example being shorter and easier to type?
Very interesting... As an English speaker with primarily English-speaking targeted audiences, this is not something I usually think about, but it opens up a whole new world of interesting possibilities. Do you or anyone else know if this holds true for Spanish as well (the tilde on the n, accents on vowels, etc)? What about Asian languages that have entirely different alphabets?
It's cool that you can do these things with domains if your niche calls for it, but it's quite difficult for me to go to some of those special character websites without clicking on a link. I can go to "Cafe.fr," but if I try to copy your Café.fr text into my browser (Google Chrome, which you think would be up to date on this), I see some punycode flash up before getting a sever error...
You would think Google's Spam Team would be on top of this kind of thing, but I had another thought considering the nature of the term we're talking about. The type of spam this site is engaged in, while easily detected by you, is still fairly subtle compared to many other types of spamming. You say this site has ranked #2 for a long time, but have you checked into sites #3-#10? (obviously that would take some time) Perhaps lower ranking sites are simply engaged in even sleazier spammy techniques. After all, what kind of sites should rank for a term like that? Still, I agree that this kind of spam should be easily detected and devalued.


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Civil war is no longer possible in the U.S. because, in a desire for "security", the citizens allowed the government to take all the power.
In the days of the American Revolution, ragtag rebels were able to fight and defeat the greatest empire on Earth, ONLY because they were both on the same weaponry plateau.
guns, cannons, ships
Both sides had 'em, both sides could make 'em.
Now, the establishment government has control over the infrastructure, over communications, they have stealth bombers, rocket propelled grenades, bunker busters and nuclear weapons.
There is no way a citizen-based separatist group opposing the U.S. government, could compete, because they couldn't gather the resources to produce a comparable number of troops, guns, tanks, satellites, stealth bombers or nuclear weapons.
American Civil War Pt. 2: Electric Bugaloo, is a fantasy scenario.
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Yes there is a way to have a civil war.....
Its for people everywhere in the USA to stay home, don't pay taxes....just have a massive sit out...Nothing runs, no trains, planes, buses, and taxis....
The country would totally shut down.....
That is a civil war where nobody kills anyone, unless the government comes barging into your own home.....
Sends a clear message to the lawmakers, who is in charge...
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"Isn't it always about the money??" (Just ask any crooked Federal Judge and Federal Prosecutor)(who usurp Federal Laws given to an U.S. Citizens and break reserved U.S. Constitutional Laws and "besmirch/slander defendants" in the MSM News, and Federal Judges and Federal Prosecutors who act in cahoots and collateral for "Political and Career Advancements of up and coming Federal Prosecutors, even at the expense of lying on the "Constitution afforded to U.S. Defendants") and when defendants beat the Feds out at their own game, can't mention a thing about it! (Ain't that something!).
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"Without the rescues and foster homes to help out, it would make it more difficult. Right now, we're getting into the busier part of the year," said David Jones, the assistant director of the Hall County Animal Shelter.
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While the casual observer may fear for the Patriots, I'm sure that their fan base hasn't lost much sleep. With Bill Belichick and Tom Brady at the helm, the Patriots have yet to post a losing season. Dating back to 2001, the Patriots have gone a combined 146-46, with 5 Super Bowl appearances and 3 rings. Their offense has always been a strength, and the 2012 season was no different.
The Patriots finished first in overall offense in 2012, averaging a whopping 426.9 yards per game. The passing offense finished 4th in the NFL, with their rushing in 8th. This new-found rushing prowess was a welcome relief for Patriots fans, as they hadn't had a running back worth writing home about since Corey Dillon. Stevan Ridley led the charge with 1,263 yards, with Danny Woodhead and Shane Vereen chipping in as well. This improvement in the running game only aided their passing game more, as defenses finally had a feature back to worry about.
Tom Brady once again stole the show, passing for 4,827 yards and 34 touchdowns, with just 8 interceptions (a bit high for him, but great by human standards). Wes Welker was his go-to guy for the umpteenth season, catching 118 balls, while Brandon Lloyd caught 74 passes as the number 2 receiver. The Boston TE Party (Gronkowski and Hernandez) regressed a bit after their supernatural 2011, but still posted a great year with 106 catches, 1273 yards, and 16 touchdowns between them.
Now, these old statistics are great, but the future only raises questions. Welker has gone to Denver, Woodhead's a Charger, Lloyd is a free agent, Gronk is still recovering from surgery, and Hernandez is probably going to be in prison for the rest of his life. All of a sudden the Patriots phenomenal offense looks a bit different.
As we've established, the passing game has always been the Patriots' strength. The Patriots completed 402 passes in 2012. However, 301 of these passes were caught by players that won't be wearing a Patriot uniform next season. Welker caught 118, 74 for Lloyd, 51 for Hernandez, 40 for Woodhead, 16 for Deion Branch, and one each for Kellen Winslow and Donte' Stallworth. 74.8% of their receptions are now gone, so who will pick up the slack?
Health worries aside, conventional wisdom will point to Rob Gronkowski picking up most of Hernandez's production. However, when you take a look at what Hernandez brought to the table, you'll quickly see that he and Gronk are completely different players. According to Pro Football Focus, Hernandez lined up out wide on 59% of his snaps last season. We even saw him take snaps at running back too. Gronk is more of a traditional, in-line tight end, not one of these fancy new "Jokers" we're seeing around the league. Someone a little shiftier than Gronk will have to fill Hernandez's role.
The problem is, the Patriots do not have another tight end like Hernandez. Jake Ballard is coming off of knee surgery, and he was far from nimble before the injury. Michael Hoomanawanui was technically Hernandez's direct backup, but he isn't half the athlete that Hernandez is (4.77 forty and 7.77 3-cone compared to a 4.64 and 6.83). Undrafted free agent Zach Sudfield has turned a few heads over the offseason, and is an intriguing athlete at 6'7″, 255. He'll be one to watch in the coming years, but it's doubtful that he'll make a significant impact as a rookie.
In all likelihood, the backs and receivers will end up absorbing Hernandez's role, while also filing the void left by the departing Welker, Lloyd and Woodhead.
The Patriots drafted two wide receivers this April- Aaron Dobson in the second round, and Josh Boyce in the fourth. Dobson will likely slide in as the no. 2 receiver, while Boyce fights for the number 3 or 4 job. New England also brought in Danny Amendola from the Rams this offseason. While many fans equate Amendola to Welker based solely on skin color, the two players have some differences in their game. Amendola is faster, while Welker is better after the catch. Both are excellent route runners, but Amendola's speed will allow him to play on the outside more than Welker did. Amendola comes to town with some baggage, as he has struggled with injuries throughout his career. If he can stay healthy, he'll be in for a big year.
Other players to look out for in 2013 include Julian Edelman and Shane Vereen. Edelman is a former college quarterback, who has stuck around in New England mostly for his special teams play. Although he has struggled with injuries, "Welker's Mini-Me" is an adept punt returner, and even played some defense in 2011. This year, he has a great opportunity to play in the slot, where his shiftiness could be put to good use.
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