Did you know there are 1,700+ words invented by Shakespeare used in his plays and poems? Shakespeare Birthplace Trust says he did this “often by combining words, changing nouns into verbs, adding prefixes or suffixes, and so on.” Perhaps even more interesting is although these words and phrases were invented in the 16th century, many […]
While most of know filler words based on speeches and using “um” or “uh”, but writing can also have a ton of filler words. Filler words can distract from your main message and make your writing not look as serious as you think it does. Keep in mind the type of writing you do and […]
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter, “when it comes to web pages in Google Search, hashtags are just words, they have no special meaning or effect.” So if you are big into #hashtagging everything, Google will consume it as just content on the page. Here are those tweets: I’m not sure where you mean; when […]
What Common Social Media Algospeak Words Actually Mean by Adam | January 31, 2023 The topline Last weekend, actress and influencer Julia Fox apologized after she misread a TikToker’s reference to “mascara,” not knowing it was “algospeak” for sexual assault, the latest misunderstanding caused by code words used on social media devised to avoid algorithmic […]
Google’s John Mueller said on mastodon that the Google Search ranking algorithm does not look at words per section or the word count in different sections of your page. He said word count per section is not an SEO factor. John wrote, “FWIW there’s nothing in Google’s algorithms that focus on a certain number of […]
I was talking to an acquaintance in Toronto when she told me she had just moved from Sydney and was trying to find a job. She bemoaned how difficult it was to find work and I nodded along sympathetically. Then she said: “It’s hard. I wish that something would just fall into my lap.” Whoa, […]
Google announced it has changed how it displays search results for queries that use queries. The search snippet will now display the portion of the page where the quotes match, so the searcher knows where to look on the page when clicking through to the URL. Google’s Yonghao Jin wrote “Now we’re making quoted searches […]
“How many words in a novel?” is a question many writers ask. “My memoir is 270,000 words long.” I heard these words during a breakout session I led at a local writers’ conference. An editor friend of mine, Shayla Eaton with Curiouser Editing, was sitting in on the breakout. We gave each other knowing glances, […]