#intimidating but the last update is back in april so you have plenty of time

[ikatako38]

Happy 2-Year Anniversary to TPWCH!

The last few weeks and months have been a bit rough for me, so I don’t have anything else ready to show you today, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have plenty to look forward to!

OC Memes - Technically not for the anniversary, but rather to celebrate 300 kudos. I’m almost done with these! Here’s a WIP!

Anniversary Art ’24 - I’m working on a group photo for all the important characters in the TPWCH universe—including the sequel—so we’ll finally have exact visual representations for every important character beyond Picrews! I’ll be sharing a WIP soon.

Tako’s Getting Treated for ADHD - I’m taking the test tomorrow and have my follow-up next week. My ADHD has held me back since the very beginning of the fic and even before, so if everything goes well I might be able to be somewhat more productive on the fic going forward!

Ship Wars Ahead - A Tumblr poll tournament coming in April!

And now for the big one…

TPWCH is getting crossposted!

Okay, hold on, put the pitchforks down for just a second…

I know FFN is dead and Wattpad is cringe. But each site has its strengths that AO3 doesn’t quite cover. Particularly, I’ve always liked the format of Wattpad making it feel easier to comment and encouraging discussion among readers! FFN also holds a lot of sentimental value to me, and I’ve been wanting to return there for a while. Since I’ll be reposting chapter by chapter, it also allows new readers to ease into the story like many of you did when the fic was first coming out on AO3, instead of having to commit to such an intimidating 150,000-word chunk of fic all at once. And if the fic takes off on one or both of those other platforms, it’ll be a good thing for everyone! Not only will the TPWCH community continue to grow, but also—try as I might—I’m only human and more comments/interaction will automatically motivate me more to write and get chapters out for all of you! Skimming, dividing up, and posting old parts of the fic is also a minimally stressful way to get myself to engage with the fic and increase motivation.

Somehow I already had accounts on both of these platforms. Here they are! I’ll be getting my FFN profile pic and Wattpad bio fixed in the next few hours, and I’ll have a teaser for the TPWCH launch up in the next day or two.

FanFiction.Net Account

Wattpad Account

Both crosspostings are starting on 3/8

3 & 8 day!

From then on…

- FFN will update with one chapter every Friday, with any half chapters posted on the intervening Wednesday.

- Wattpad chapters will be broken up into ~3,000-word chunks and will update three times a week—Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday

Let me know what you think!

[vixendoesstuff]

Have y’all read this CWTV DC fanfic “To Hell And Back?” It’s hella engaging, and it’s fairly recent (if you count recent as in about 6 months ago).

So the premise is basically Oliver Queen, Barry Allen, Kara Zor-El and Kal-El got stranded on Lian Yu together (it’s not just Oliver), some angst happened, then they got recruited into the League of Assassins so they have little to no hesitation on murder, and they just—different from their OG counterparts, both the show and the comics.

Without spoiling anything, it takes the events of canon (from all of their respective shows; Arrow, The Flash and Supergirl respectively) and twist them to fit the narrative, and hell yeah it is good. Just—if you’re somewhat familiar with the shows, I highly recommend this fanfic to read on your leisure, it is *chefs kiss* awesome.

[neoniverse]

heal me. | chapter III

disclaimer: this series is a work of fiction. any businesses, events or incidents are products of my wide imagination. all of the character’s personality does not reflect and has nothing to do in real life.

warnings: smut, angst, usage of strong language, mentions of death, alcohol & drugs, cheating issues and lots of flashbacks (read each chapter carefully)

pairings: jung jaehyun x reader

a/n: i want to thank y’all for sending me messages regarding this series, i’m so overwhelmed with the support i’m receiving. :( heal me is ending in four more chapters so the next update might take long to write again for i will write the last chapters longer than the usual. again, thank you sooooo much :’( 

song association: storm - ruelle

« CHAPTER II / CHAPTER IV »

“You’re taking my heart, by storm

I’m lost in your love.”

The cold breeze of the whole fancy floor embraced a minimal exposed skin of my shoulder, allowing me to fix my white fur shawl to its place. I make my way down the carpeted hallway, knees quivering, and my heart in my throat thumping an unusual differing beat.

I am going to have a dinner with Taeyong Lee, and I don’t even like eating dinner—not to a place like this. But he kept on insisting earlier so I had to accept his offer.

“Bonsoir. Réservation pour Lee,” Taeyong pleasingly said to the lady in the desk, her hair was styled in a neat bun.

“Par ici, Monsieur.”

Another woman escorted us to a private room. Everything inside the restaurant shimmers, screams elegance, and luxuriance. I feel like a mere outsider, knowing that the man walking casually beside me is known to be really well off.

When we arrived at the dining room, the plates were already set. As if it forethought that there will be two people dining in. Taeyong pulled the chair so I could sit. He sat in front of me afterwards.

“So, are you Jaehyun’s girlfriend or ex-girlfriend?”

Taeyong randomly asked before putting the spoon inside his mouth. Just as I was about to swallow, he drifted his dark brown eyes to mine—making me choke on the food.

He forthwith poured water on the tall drinking glass; I immediately drank from it, hand over the chest.

He smirked. “Sorry. Based on your reaction, I really think you’re damn indeed my brother’s girlfriend.”

I shook my head miserably and smiled. Taeyong is softer and light to talk to than his brother. Though he immensely intimidates my soul; those dark stares, brow raise and playful grin is really something.

“What made you jump to that?” I asked him while my eyes were on the utensils I’m holding.

He went silent for a moment, giving me his infamous stare. I gave him back a look and felt my face heated so bad.

“Oh—holy shit,” He cursed softly. “You’re the one from Johnny’s house party two years ago!”

I tried to hide my smile but then, failed. Taeyong put his utensils down to hold his chin, as if enthralling.

“May I also ask now?”

He leaned back. “Yeah, sure. As what you are allowed to do so, gorgeous.”

I remained silent for a couple of seconds, thinking of the question that has been bothering me since the day I met him.

“If Jaehyun is your brother, how come you’re not a Jung?”

His brow shot up and fixes me with his dark stare. Oh, God. Did I, in any way, offend him? His mouth quirks up, and he stares quietly. If I tell you I was terrified, I do mean it.

“I—I didn’t mean to uhm, nevermind. You don’t need to ans-”

“Well, he’s my half-brother,” His lips curls in a wry smile then continues. “Father introduced him to me when we were eight. And I know what you’re thinking. I don’t hate him, Y/N. Jaehyun being my half-bro, and hating him for that is just so shallow and childish. But of course, I did hate him when we were little ones but he ended up becoming my best friend.”

I felt bad.

“I’m sorry for asking such an insensitive question,” I muttered.

Taeyong slightly shook his head sideways and proceeded to eat. He even joked about something that made me laugh. After the fancy dinner, he drove me back to the hotel I was staying at, and apparently, he was also staying there.

“When will you go back to Korea?” He asked before sitting on the solo sofa inside my hotel room. I insisted him to stay for a while.

“The day after next,” I sighed. “I have plenty of works to do.” I answered and dropped my white fur shawl on the edge of the bed.

“There is something about you that keeps me intrigued, Y/N.” He squinted his eyes that made me chuckle.

I shot my brow up. “Yeah? What is it?”

“Are you really a human or some type of goddess that walked to this planet?” He says, like a curious kid.

“That’s a secret for me.”

“Ah, whatever. I’ll go ahead now. Might be ruining your supposed beauty rest already.” He shrugged and stood up.

“Taeyong.”

“Hm?”

“Thank you, so much, for tonight. I really had so much fun.”

“Pleasure’s all mine, gorgeous. Have a good night.”

He smiled widely and winked before walking out of the room. The day after next, I went back home. Johnny fetched me from the airport and welcomed me with piles of paperwork.

“And here are the papers from Mrs. Han’s office. God, she annoyed me for the whole two days you were gone!” He continously rants. “She even told me, ‘Why did you left my poor Y/N alone”, when I’m not even fucking invited!”

 I let out a laugh. “Well, Mr. Johnny, it’s because Mrs. Han treats me like Sodam. You know how much she misses her,” I smirked. “Besides, be thankful that she didn’t make you fly to Paris just for updates about me.”

“Hm, yeah. Really thankful,” He rolled his eyes.

“By the way, I heard you went out with Taeyong.”

I froze on my swivel chair. Did someone saw us and mistakenly thought we were out on a date?

“Nope,” He answered, as if he read my mind. “Someone just told me.”

“Ah, yes,” I glanced at him. “I accidentally bumped into him when I was about to leave the event. He just compensated.”

I went silent, thinking of who could possibly saw us that night.

“Don’t worry, I’ll keep it as a secret.” He winked playfully.

I glared at him. He raised his hands—as if he committed. He probably thinks there’s something going on between me and Taeyong. I let out an exasperated sigh and before finishing the paperwork. Much for a productive day.

After Taeyong’s appearance on the site three weeks ago, I never saw Jaehyun again. Perhaps he’s also taking his distance from me. Which is something I should be least cared about. Until the following days turned into weeks then turned into months. April ended like a blink of an eye.

“Hey, you seem to be so occupied,” Rosé removed her hard hat and sat beside me. “What’s bothering you?”

I looked at her. I don’t even know what’s keeping me off. Maybe because time flies so fast.

“I really don’t know, Rosie. Something’s just bothering me lately.” I softly smiled. “It’s already October.”

She patted the top of my head and did a short storytelling of her embarrassing moments when she was still in college. She was full on energy and talkative. I listened to her jokes but I still felt like floating and tired.

“Let’s go out for drinks tonight,” She squealed. ”My treat, I swear!”

She pulled me to the near mall after work. Whenever I’m about to pay, she just hands me the paper bag and shows her black card. I wasn’t even dumbfounded about it. She came from a wealthy family, after all.

After the short shopping, we decided to go home and just meet at the club. I called Johnny to join us but he said he has to be somewhere else. While Seolhee, all I know is she’s in Chicago for a short leave.

The blasting music from the club was already heard from the parking. I took a quick glance to the rear-view mirror before going out of my BMW. I decided to wear a black lace bralette, short fitted leather skirt, and a pair of black opyum sandals from YSL.

“Holy shit, Y/N!” Rosé stood up when she saw me walking towards the reserved table. She gave me a kiss on the cheek. “You look bomb, babe, just so you know.”

I laughed. “And we both know you’re the head-turner here.”

She poured vodka in the shot glasses and gave me one. I tucked a stray lock of hair behind my ear.

“Cheers!”

I was about to tale the shot when someone snatched the glass from my hand. My eyes widen up when I saw Taeyong straightly drank it. He placed the glass back to the marble table, making a noise.

“Hey, gorgeous,” Taeyong greeted. He’s wearing oversized stripped long sleeves, two buttons are unbuttoned, and his hair was dyed with color green. Which I find hideous.

I smiled and tapped the space beside me. 

Rosé cleared her throat and stood up. “I’m leaving you two alone, I’ll look for my boyfriend.”

I nodded then turned to Taeyong. “What brought you here? It’s been months since I last saw you,” I asked before taking a new shot of vodka. “Your new hair color is so fucking hideous, by the way.”

His brows furrowed then he pulled his hair down to look at his hair. “You’re such a bully, y’know.” He put his elbow to the table and rested his chin to his hand.

“And I’m not a loner,” He joked. “Come with me, I’ll bring you to our table.”

We went to the VIP floor of the club, and as we walk, he was greeted by different people, most of them are socialites or models. Taeyong swiftly placed his hand on my waist that I didn’t even notice at first.

“Meet my dumb folks,” He softly tightened his hold that made me look at him but he just winked.

Winking is his signature move.

The table was filled with five boys, one of them was familiar to me and one girl. I glanced at his friends until I saw Jaehyun in the middle, staring at me. Down to Taeyong’s hand on my waist. His jaw clenched and he looked away. The girl beside him placed her hand to his thigh.

“Y/N, this is Yuta, Lucas,” Taeyong said, looking at the two guys who were laughing on the left. They stopped when they heard their name.

I gulped nervously when I felt Jaehyun’s bored eyes at me again. My hands was trembling and it was probably obvious but they didn’t seem to notice it when I took their hands.

“Oh, right. Taeyong-hyung’s babe,” Lucas said as he took my hand and shook it. He pressed his hand.

“Doubt that,” I answered. Taeyong chuckled and guided me to sit beside the familiar guy. “He has plenty of ‘babe’ for me to add in and join the crowd.” I continued, and gazed to Jaehyun.

God, he makes me so fucking nervous.

“The two on your right are Doyoung and Mark,” He continued. “Mark is Johnny’s cousin.” He motioned to the two guys beside me.

I gave them a smile. “Yeah, I know Mark. Johnny introduced him to me before.”

“Don’t drink too much if you don’t want to make things you will surely regret tomorrow morning,” Taeyong whispered, making me chuckle. He just smirked.

Jaehyun suddenly stood up and left the table. His jaw clenched when he looked at me then he went downstairs. I excused myself for bathroom break but I just followed him.

I realized we were already outside, at the parking lot. He approached a grey Aston Martin. Even if the area was a bit dark, I can still see his ears turn red.

“Hey, Jaehyun,” I grabbed his arm.

“Fuck!” He hissed, pulling his arm back. “What is it, this fucking time, huh?”

I bit my lower lip. “Let’s just talk, please.”

He scoffed sarcastically before releasing his hand to the car handle. I gazed down.

“Why are you being like this? Are you drunk?” I said softly.

“Are you for real, asking me why am I acting out like this? You left me and you came back again,” He pushed his hair back in frustration. “Bullshit!”

I looked at him with disbelief. “I left because I had reasons, and I never wanted to be back. It was you who keeps on wanting me near you!”

“Then run away.” He looked at me with a mocking smirk. “Run fucking away. I’m so tired and done of this shit, anyway.”

My throat felt dry. I couldn’t talk. I wanted to slap him across the cheek but somehow, I just can’t. He let out a frustrated groan before kicking his car door that made me flinch. Tears are starting to form at the corner of my eyes.

“Run away from me, Y/N. Run until you’re far and unreachable for me to follow.” His jaw clenched, for God knows how many times already and shook his head.

“Why do you want me to be far from you then?” A fresh hot tear fell from my left eye.

“Because I’m so tired of the chase. I’m so tired of running for you,” His voice broke. “I tried to forget you, I tried to remove you out of my system. God knows what my fucking limit is, baby, and there’s nothing more painful to that.”

He entered his car and stayed inside. While I was left dumbfounded, someone pulled me. My traitor tears started falling—no one was even able to stop it.

Taeyong, being the great savior that he is, ended up driving me back to my condominium. He remained silent whilst I muffled my sobs inside his car. When we got inside my unit, he told me to get a nice warm shower before sleeping. He even got himself the cotton pads and makeup remover on my vanity just to remove the remaining makeup on my face.

“I will leave once you’ve fallen asleep,” He said while putting the damped cotton to my face.

I just stared at him with desolation. My heart weighed down with sadness, causing my eyes to burn with tears. He cupped my face and wiped the shed tears away.

“I don’t know why you’re doing this,” I remained my eyes to his. “But thank you, Taeyong. I’m really thankful.”

He just gave me a soft pat on top of my head as a response that made my heart thump hard. I slowly closed my eyes, begging for the darkness to fill and enclose me in.

February 9, five years ago.

Johnny’s 20th birthday bash was definitely boring—or atleast for you because you feel like you don’t belong there. Johnny is a really famous guy ever since you met him when you were freshmen. Most of his friends are either models or socialites. As you feel the boredom reaching out, you left the ballroom to go to the hotel’s rooftop to wind up and inhale fresh air. At first, you thought you were alone.

A tall guy was standing near the edge, hands inside the pockets of his black jeans, eyes gazing the view of city lights. You crossed your arms over your chest before walking towards the man. But he just remained his eyes to the busy Seoul.

Minute has passed and no one even dared to speak. You were about to leave when the unknown man finally had the guts to talk.

“Would you mind me telling a story?” He said, his back was still facing you.

You don’t know what pulled your shit together into joining and listening to him. But you decided to stay because you didn’t want to go back downstairs and act as if you’re sociable.

“My father, he got fucking mad at me just for a petty reason,” He smiled. “I left the home I thought I would claim as my own. I feel useless just because for a fucking small mistake. I hate him so much. He cheated twice, now he’s doing it again. A fucking manipulative cheater—something I will never do or even try to be.”

“You also got daddy issues. Nice.” You scoffed. He locked gazes with you. “I’m Y/N.”

He laughed and a set of deep dimples appeared. “Mhm, your name suits you well. The name’s Jaehyun Jung.”

An hour has passed without the both of you knowing. You both shared shitty stories that happened to your lives while admiring the city lights and night sky. Things like this bored you to hell before, so it was very unlikely of you.

“And you know what’s shittier than that? My father—my own father abandoned us. I have like, zero knowledge to that man.”

“Holy fuck, we’re so fucking broken,” Jaehyun scoffed sarcastically.

“I don’t feel broken, though,” You looked at him. “Did my fucked up life story atleast, helped you forget what happened to you?”

“Pretty much, yeah. Now I’m thinking if you’re some angel sent from above to heal me for a moment.”

“Allow me to heal you further, then.” You gave him a small smile.

The night was so young, and you never thought a mere stranger would also help you forget your own problems. You already knew it from the very start.

You were the reason why he wanted to be loved by people and you—to heal him as he also heal the wound of your poisonous past.

[concerthopperblog]

The Acacia Strain with Rotting Out, Creeping Death, Chamber, and Fuming Mouth

The Acacia Strain recently made a stop at The Masquerade in Atlanta and they brought a few friends for this sold-out party. Along for the tour were Rotting Out, Creeping Death, Chamber and Fuming Mouth. ConcertHopper nestled in amongst the packed crowd to bring you our thoughts as well as photos from what was an incredibly fun evening. We hope that you enjoy.

First to take the stage were Fuming Mouth, hailing from Massachusetts. Fuming Mouth has carved their own path in the world of heavy music, blending together death metal and thrash inspirations to create their own unique sound. The band garnered critical acclaim from the metal press as well as fans with their inaugural release, The Grand Descent last year. It wasn’t log before they were gathering the claim from those in attendance at The Masquerade either as they started the show off right and inciting plenty of moshing along the way.

Next up were Nashville natives, Chamber. Having also released their first album last year, Ripping/Pulling/Tearing, the band immediately drew comparisons to other metal and hardcore heavyweights like Knocked Loose and Spite. Despite these comparisons, the band manages to inject their own fusion and uniqueness to the genre. For our money, those who had never heard most of the bands were surprised the most by Chamber who, with no frills, simply set out to melt everyone’s faces. Judging by the circle pits that ensued, we would say they succeeded.

Next up were Creeping Death who are among an onslaught of heavy bands finding their footing in their home state of Texas before unleashing their brand of metal destruction on the masses. Having previously toured with High on Fire and Power Trip, they are a versatile act, capable of blurring the lines between hardcore/post-hardcore music and more traditional metal. The band has released two albums and two singles, the latest coming last September in the form of their album Wretched Illusions. All of this gives them a larger stable of songs to play for the masses and they tore through them with vigor and energy that was infectious.

Los Angeles hardcore band Rotting Out were next to take on the stage. Immediately the band cuts an intimidating posture as the giant looming figure of frontman Walter Delgado takes to the stage, LA Dodgers hat pulled low over his eyes. Certainly, being on tour again has to feel like a second chance at life for everyone involved but perhaps none more than Delgado. It had been announced they had broken up in 2015 and the next year Delgado was arrested and served 18 months in prison (a fact which he interviewed with Kerrang about.) All of this led to what, for all intents and purposes, appeared to be a band thankful to be on the stage. And very happy to pour out their energy while on stage and to address issues in everyone’s daily lives while promoting a message of positivity. All of this was well received by the crowd who responded in-kind with perhaps the most aggressive and fierce moshing of the night.

Then it was time for the headliners, The Acacia Strain, to crush a home run from the tee ball all the other bands had set up for them. If there’s nothing else to be said about The Acacia Strain, they set up incredibly diverse tours when they headline affording a chance for the fans to experience new music. This tour was no exception and it seemed that the gloves were off as frontman Vincent Bennett posted on Instagram that fans were welcome to come on stage, grab the mic, scream along and to find their new favorite band, the only rule was that there were no rules. This seemed to be heard loud and clear by those in attendance as numerous times fans were on stage, quickly making their way airborne back into the crowd or leaning for an outstretched microphone from Bennett. When fans weren’t taking part in the mayhem in this fashion, they were getting blasted by Bennett’s trademark water blasts as he used water bottles from on stage like Super Soakers. In the midst of all of this, the band still managed to slam out their brutal music covering their catalog and including songs from their new album and new LP (It Comes in Waves and D respectively.) Amidst all of this Bennett implored with the crowd to push any negativity out of their lives, embrace the good and reminded everyone that they were all one big family.

The future of the tour currently hangs in the balance like so many others during this time with the Coronavirus pandemic putting much on hold. We recommend keeping an eye on The Acacia Strain’s Instagram for updates. Tickets for the shows still planned can be purchased at https://www.ticketmaster.com/the-acacia-strain-tickets/artist/1023801.

March 15 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ 1720 * (Canceled due to Corona Virus.) March 16 – Berkeley, Calif. @ Cornerstone * (Canceled due to Corona Virus.) March 17 – Portland, Ore. @ The Hawthorne Theatre * (Canceled due to Corona Virus.) March 18 – Seattle, Wash. @ El Corazon * March 20 – Salt Lake City, Utah @ The Greek Station March 21 – Denver, Colo. @ Marquis Theater March 22 – Lawrence, Kan. @ The Bottleneck March 24 – St Paul, Minn. @ Amsterdam Bar March 25 – Chicago, Ill. @ Subterranean March 26 – Indianapolis, Ind. @ Hoosier Dome March 27 – Columbus, Ohio @ Skully's Music Diner March 28 – Detroit, Mich. @ The Sanctuary March 29 – Toronto, Ontario @ Hard Luck Bar March 31 – Ottawa, Ontario @ The Brass Monkey April 1 – Montreal, Quebec @ Bar Le Ritz April 2 – Syracuse, N.Y. @ Lost Horizon April 3 – Worcester, Mass. @ Palladium April 4 – Brooklyn, N.Y. @ The Kingsland April 5 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Underground Arts

*No Creeping Death As always, please feel free to browse around ConcertHopper’s website further and to check out our articles covering a wide variety of topics. Please also check us out on social media on our Facebook and Instagram pages. Life is a beautiful thing and music only adds to that beauty, make some time to get out and celebrate beauty and life with a community of like-minded individuals at a concert soon, it’s always worth the price of admission.

[seungcheolrk]

UPDATE: APRIL 2019 !

LAST UPDATE MARCH 2019

* CONVEX —

the month starts off on possibly the worst note for seungcheol — april fools’ pranks. seungcheol hates april fools mostly because it’s just been used as an excuse over the years to mock his fears, but recently, he hasn’t really had to worry about it so it slips his mind when they’re being taught this unusual dance that he’s sure isn’t right. when it’s revealed it’s just a ploy by minwoo and the ‘fronting’ team, he’s really hurt by it and, having the chance to fester, his negative feelings about the experience only grow. 

it puts a dampener on his entire month because it resurfaces a lot of old bad feelings and amplifies his insecurities with his dancing. it feels like unnecessarily wasted time and it takes him a while to stop doing the wrong dance they’d been taught so it lingers most of the month, even as they actually comeback. 

april 5th marks the shooting of their music video! even though it was a ridiculously long day, he really enjoyed it partly because didn’t have to think about his worries but mostly because it was the final kick that things were really happening. once they’ve recorded the music video and all the songs, they’re basically ready to release it, so it makes everything feel more real to him. he also has more scenes that he ever expected to, so that’s a really nice surprise for him!! 

on april 11th, they record the dance practice for ‘very nice’, to be released on the 25th. it’s still so soon after his fight with jihoon and the prank that he’s really not comfortable with his dancing ( or his feelings in general, or himself, actually ) but he does his best to hide it and smile lots for the camera. he enjoys just dancing and recording, rather than getting any specific feedback in a class-like situation. he gets through it smoothly and when he watches it back at the end of the month when it’s released, he’s actually a little proud of himself because he feels like he doesn’t stand out ( skills-wise ) as much as he thought he did at the time. it’s not cured him of his worries but it’s a small step along the way.

the follow day, the 12th, they start their vlive promos. seungcheol’s in the ot12 vlive on the 12th and the first of the teaser groups with taeyong and jinki on the 13th. he’s too hot in his hoodie to cover his hair ( even if it didn’t change ) but he really enjoys being able to talk to fans, more so in the smaller group since he can focus more on comments and the other two members and it’s just overall much less chaotic. 

on the 19th, the music video and album are released at 6pm, an hour after their comeback showcase starts. he really enjoys the showcase for the same reasons he’s been enjoying everything else — a chance to just perform and not think about any of his worries and just enjoy being an idol and having the honour of being part of convex. it’s also really great to get to have their first watch of the mv with fans and he’s pleased to see he does have more scenes than he expected still, and that he wasn’t cut almost entirely from the final product. 

on the 20th, they record an episode of ‘run to you’ at jeonbuk girls’ high school which he loves because it’s so much more informal than music shows and big events. they get to really see the crowd and it’s just overall a lot less intimidating on his fragile heart. it also prepares them to start their music show promos, so he’s grateful for the small but present build up. 

promotions last from april 21st to may 18th. he loves promoting so much but boy is he exhausted.

they recorded their ‘very nice’ dance relay on april 25th, whilst in the waiting room at m!countdown and he was ridiculously exhausted but he really enjoyed the relay! having so many members meant he didn’t have to go to the front too often, so he doesn’t have to worry about making mistakes too much. he does bump into someone whilst at the back of the line but it’s happily laughed about and forgotten. 

finally, the best day of the month, april 30th, convex get their first music show win! it comes as a complete surprise and really rounds off what had been an overall tough month on quite possibly the happiest note imaginable. he cries like a baby. 

his focus in training in april has been hip-hop/rap unit related ( ach leadership, pts rapping ) ★

* RELATIONSHIPS —

had his first ever major fight with jihoon. he’d been sensitive and upset since the april fools prank and ended up losing his temper for the first time in... possibly forever after pointing out jihoon had made a mistake whilst practising together. 

it was really all just one big, emotion-filled misunderstanding, though. jihoon thought seungcheol was being patronising, seungcheol thought jihoon’s reply meant he thinks seungcheol is a bad enough dancer that he should be more worried about himself. jihoon then says seungcheol is a bad dancer and only good at rapping, seungcheol says jihoon doesn’t care about him anymore... 

it’s a mess and it’s tense for a little while but they eventually talk it out and make up and in a way, seungcheol’s grateful, because it made them stronger and it was also getting ridiculous how long they’d been friends without ever fighting. it had to happen at some point, so he’s glad it was over something stupid like their abilities as idols ( when they both know they wouldn’t be idols if they weren’t capable ) even if it cut incredibly deep at the time. 

he didn’t tell his parents about the fight, and honestly, pretty much avoided them for the month and used being busy as an excuse because he knew with being so on edge after the prank, he would continue to say things he’d regret and he really didn’t want to fight with all of the most important people in his life. 

* PERSONAL —

the prank really hit him hard and upset him a lot more than it should have. he didn’t let it show at the time because he knew they were being filmed but he really just wanted to go home and curl up in a ball and sleep for the rest of eternity. 

he didn’t care for the secrets or the fact that it was a prank overall — he’d have been quite happy if they’d have punk’d them in any other way, even jump scares — it was how it made him feel about his dancing, as if he was stupid for realising something was wrong. 

( which is also why his fight with jihoon hits so close to home. ) 

even though he’s made significant progress, he’s still deeply insecure about his dancing, so wasting a day on a prank and making him look like a fool doing the wrong thing and learning the wrong thing ( especially seen as it took a while after for him to untrain himself doing those wrong moves ) felt really patronising and cruel to him. 

he’s someone who always tries his best to see the good in people and situations, so he understood from the start that that wasn’t the intent, but it doesn’t change that he still felt that way, especially in the heat of the moment. having to sit down and share the surprise food gave it time to bubble inside of him, instead of being able to talk it out and reassure himself that he’s doing well ( and have other members reassure him because he trusts their support more than his own ). 

he has plenty of happier times throughout the month, though,  even if overall, it’s quite a downer on the month and his mood when he hasn’t got anything to distract him. their music video shooting is one of these times, since he really enjoyed being in front of the cameras again and even got really confident with the Loud confetti cannons!

* OBSESSIONS —

music beautiful by jessica jiu

score march of the resistance by john williams ( from star wars: a force awakens )

misc any chance he can get to sleep,, please sphere,,, let the boys rest,,,

* IMPORTANT DATES —

1st — april fools ; hates the dance prank, wants to curl up in a ball and wake up in may.

5th — very nice music video shooting ; a very long day but totally worth it. 

11th — very nice dance practice recording ; relieved he can just dance and not be scolded or mocked in any way.

12th — ot12 vlive ; convex begin teasing fans about the potential of a comeback.

13th — first teasers, smaller vlive ; seungcheol’s teaser is released, beginning the countdown. he, jinki and taeyong do a vlive together to celebrate their teasers being released.

19th — album & mv release, comeback showcase ; happy comeback, convex! 

20th — run to you recording ; visit to jeonbuk girls’ high school to promote the new comeback.

21st — promotions start ; lasting four weeks, performing ‘rock’ in addition for the first week.

25th — very nice dance practice released ; proud of himself, but it’s short-lived.

30th — #convexfirstwin ; mtv the show gives convex their first win! aju NICE

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How to Use SEO to 2019

Whenever I mention SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, people always ask, what will be SEO? These three make certain that the content that we all put out is high-quality, superior, and SEO-friendly. Pro tips: From MyTasker, we have seasoned content material writers and SEO experts which can assist you to up-date your old blog posts centered on the trend. DA is SEO firm Moz's rank showing how respected a website is, based upon its link profile and various other factors (i. e. the quantity of backlinks pointing to a few site from another site). Leveraging voice search is usually another among the top SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends that will be impacting search engine optimization in 2018. You should outline your NAP data for your business at the start of your Local SEO campaign and keep it consistent. Right now plenty of SEO experts have observed that only building a big number of links will never assist in ranking a website within the long terms. SEO will gain importance over all else as it assists you drive quality traffic, obtain visibility, boost your brand plus lend your business the reliability it requires to succeed. So, I would certainly declare 2018 is a problem for Google, just as very much as it might be regarding SEOs. We have several good rankings, but we are usually always planning to improve and notice what the future holds regarding SEO. In 2018, the user experience is the particular center of development as nicely as the key point intended for the SEO strategies. SEO remains king of the Internet, plus businesses will continue to require valuable, and unique content that will will meet the need associated with their company in the yrs ahead. Backlinks are one of the most significant SEO factors. In order to give you a head begin, here are the SEO tendencies and techniques we expect in order to dominate in 2018. Debbie A. Everson is the particular CEO of, experienced SEO Professionals and Search Engine Optimization Company to 2, 000 small companies. Off-Page SEO refers in order to all the things that may be done directly OFF your own website to help you much better search engine positions, such because social networking, article submission, community forum & blog marketing, etc. SEO stands for search engine optimization. Sometimes SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is simply a matter associated with creating sure your site is usually structured in a manner that will search engines understand. SEO can also stand for internet search engine optimizer. Before this change, the particular best practice was to prevent hidden content at all expenses as it wasn't as efficient for SEO (it was possibly too hard to crawl for that bot in some cases or even given less important by Search engines in others). In 2018, SEO strategies are usually oriented towards creating a long lasting relationship, helping brands to produce solid networks and links which may remain active for a lengthy term. Social media marketing platform is one of the particular most important ranking signal aspects for boosting your SEO rating and also increasing your SERP visibility factor. The professional SEO agency will appear at the site and create recommendations to boost your search motor ranking and site traffic. The thing that was troubling regarding 2017, so that as we all head into 2018, is the particular new wave of organizations simply bolting on SEO as the service with no real understanding of structuring site architectures plus content for both humans plus search engine understanding. Excellent it's time to focus specifically upon content creation for off-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. It after that follows that black hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION involves techniques which are believed to be tricks and secrets and cheats, whereas white hat is thoroughly clean, honest SEO- the kind helpful to humans and much favored by search engines. Yet according to the SEO craze 2018, today page speed may focus on mobile searches as well. Which means that will SEO will have to concentrate on producing content that solutions multiple intents to be capable to maximize the odds plus increase ranking probability. As we've seen, 1 of the major advantages associated with SEO is getting more visitors because of better search position. The main premise to obtain out of this is the particular fact that speed is a good important factor for Google plus one of the important SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends to consider. SEO trends evolve year-after-year and so you should maintain up with the pace in order to influence Google algorithm and remain up in rankings. This new paradigm associated with users relying on voice lookup for many of their research needs will be a video game changer for SEO. The internet users are just about all excited to know how brand-new SEO trends could affect their particular business this year. It's the job to stay ahead associated with digital marketing trends so check out out these 9 SEO forecasts. The process associated with manipulating your content so Search engines and other search engines normally return your page near the particular top of the organic research is what SEO is almost all about. As Rand Fishkin pointed out in a Whiteboard Friday, content that is enhanced for keywords still holds important SEO power. 9 forecasted SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends that will shape your own digital marketing strategies. Some SEO experts and bloggers say that brief URLs ranks better in Search engines. Amazing article i don't know regarding youtube SEO but after reading through this article i fully realize how to rank video on the web and google also. Subscribe in order to the Single Grain blog right now for the latest content upon SEO, PPC, paid social, plus the future of internet marketing and advertising. Traditional SEO techniques are usually still effective, but taking in to account these trends could considerably increase your relevance on the particular search landscape. As digital assistants exceed smart phone devices, there is a excellent opportunity both for SEO plus content, taking advantage of the growing market that connects the particular brand with a user in the unique but still relevant plus useful way. SEO plus SEM both heavily rely upon keywords to operate a vehicle traffic to company websites and webpages. The first issue raised is that, when people expect SEO to become a magic potion for immediate on line success and profit, ” they have a tendency to be sorely disappointed and frustrated. ” Other issues discussed range from the time it takes to focus on SEO, the technical aspects that can seem intimidating, the possibility of receiving a penalty for doing something inappropriate and more. Right here is the trick, attach the link within your content of your own target website, helping your focus on audience in reaching your web site, increasing traffic and impacting SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. SEO optimized posts have a tendency to rank high in research results in comparison those unoptimized articles. The factor about YouTube Google rankings considering that April 2014 Google had the major update, many vseo have got been crying however the remedy is pretty simple. If a person have just started your SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION campaign to get a brand-new website, after that you should focus on long-tail keywords. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, alone, is not enough in order to guarantee success and content marketing and advertising, alone, is not enough in order to guarantee success. We believe by now, most associated with the principles of SEO are usually more or less well realized by people that have performed their amount of time within the trenches since 1999, even though new platforms and data forms arrive all the time maintaining the need for ongoing exercise or testing even more essential than in the past. Hazel, SEO Advisor and founder of SEO+, functions with businesses throughout the UNITED KINGDOM. She's passionate about making sites work effectively and has the reputation for increasing traffic, potential clients and sales. I first started promoting the mobile first” approach to SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION back in March of 2015, when I dubbed Google's impending mobile update Mobilegeddon”. A successful SEO effort demands to move beyond building articles to rank on highly explored keywords and should possess the heavy focus on providing solutions for genres of unique inquiries that lots of people may search by voice. The particular SEO tools in this particular roundup offer tremendous digital marketing value regarding businesses, but you should try not in order to forget that we're residing within Google's world under Google's continuously evolving rules. Along with the rise of voice lookup, over half of Google queries coming from mobile devices, the particular impending mobile-first index, and mobile-friendliness being a ranking factor, a person simply can't afford to disregard mobile SEO anymore. In today's rapidly moving world, SEO techniques can modify on the dime—and the most severe part is that you merely might not even know this. Hacks which could have gained you a front-page result simply because recently as 2016 are outdated now, but they may actually hurt your website's rankings. It's a really wonderful and knowledgeable blog to enhance your SEO ranking. Take some time plus find out about your Meta titles, description, URL readability plus how to earn featured clips and site links SEO's about the globe are taking click through rate seriously claiming it in order to be one of the best ranking signals. Bing has confirmed that will they track unlinked brand says and use them as the ranking signal — and the patent by Google (along along with observations from many SEO experts) indicates that Google may end up being doing this as well. I've seen success with producing videos lately and am searching forward to making use of your SEO ideas to help my videos position on page 1. Plus SEO professionals are absolutely thrilled about this new opportunity since featured snippets provide a opportunity for low-ranking pages to access the particular top of search results along with almost zero effort. Along with an increasingly crowded online room, staying on top of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends and adapting to all of them can help you beat away the competition. Here are usually the most important SEO adjustments you need to integrate in to your 2018 content strategy. Just remember in order to pay attention to solid content material creation and copywriting fundamentals, employ your viewers deeply, and remain abreast of technical trends such as backlinks, SEO health, site velocity, and schema. Lookup Engine Optimization (SEO) is the particular scientific art of optimizing your own website around specific keywords within order to rank higher looking results, such as Google. Gianluca will be a Moz Associate, blogger, owner of the Web Marketing meeting The Inbounder and an SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and Digital Strategist independent expert together with his company, a single of the Agencies recommended simply by MozYou can find Gianluca upon Twitter sharing the best regarding web marketing and blabbing furthermore about space, politics and football. SEO or search engine marketing is a complex science amongst all other dominant Google algorithm's 200 or more factors. Nevertheless, the bottom collection is that SEO is accountable for bringing you on best of the search engine ratings as well as the increased you rank, the more guests and customers you end upward with. If I say voice research optimization will be among the particular top five SEO trends within 2018, I wouldn't be exaggerating the fact. Regarding example: I used to use a web dev company, plus one of our own clients suddenly tanked on Google search listings, on further investigation an unscrupulous SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION company had purposely been by means of directory listings and purposely transformed the name of the company and the address, and furthermore went through creating a group of unrelated duplicate listings upon those sites. Sometimes, this can be hard to figure out which updates will actually impact our SEO efforts and straight impact rankings. Despite a few concerns AMP is generating among some bigs news sites, internet owners, and SEOs, it won't seem that Google will decrease pressure for a large quantity of websites to adopt this. A person can use this configuration in order to improve your mobile SEO concerning providing users best design intended for all devices. Many people try to consider their SEO strategies into their particular own hands, but this may lead to a waste associated with time and resources. SEO Check - which may test out your website plus give you tips for much better search engine optimization. If you need to find out more, check this infographic through Digital Marketing Philippines, which talks about the very best trends that will you should know if a person want to increase your SEO technique this 2018. Having a common sense approach in order to SEO, you can do your own personal keyword research and do SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION yourself. Since the niches are fairly wide, I'm fortunate to have the lot of keyword opportunities (as opposed to doing SEO regarding a local business). Within this post, we've broken lower the top SEO techniques to assist you skyrocket your rankings plus boost your variety of monthly website visitors. With most that said…SEO is still regarding content and links. Use long-tail key phrases, full sentences and questions : although your present keywords are usually still important and play the big part in SEO, even more people are choosing to research in full questions now, since they're speaking, instead of within short term. This is the component of an SEO strategy that will focuses on building quality exterior referral links that trust the given site as an specialist or source in the focused categories. Eliminated are the days where very much of what one did with regard to SEO was purely for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (link building, highly optimized content material, content only for the various search engines, etc). Well, backlinks are the particular evergreen ranking factor of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, there's no doubt about this. But times are changing plus so does the things. I've been ranking movies last few weeks for key phrase like SEO Outsourcing” and Wp training London” and some SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION agency terms here. In the sixth chapter of our SEO intended for beginners guide, we will talk about backlink - one of the particular most important aspects of search engine optimization. Exactly what you are going to discover is that you simply require to do a bit associated with SEO search engine optimization. 50 Best On-Page SEO Techniques to rank within the 1st page with absolutely no Back links. We were trying in order to rank once with one associated with our article for the key phrase SEO tips”. Google and additional major search engines take the particular SEO title and display this within the search engine outcome pages. Remember, it will take time to generate good SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION rankings. Listed below are the top six SEO styles that, I believe, will control in 2018. Therefore I realize that many of a person sometimes wonder, "Gosh, it seems overwhelming to try and clarify to someone outside the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION profession how to get an internet page ranked. " Well, perform you know what? The particular importance of user experience with regard to SEO is here to remain this 2018 and it really is one of those SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION changes you must take in to account. All of these types of strategies wrapped up are recognized as SEO, or seo. At the most basic degree, SEOs need to think regarding the fact Google can considerably closely imitate what a individual user can do. Search engine optimization has in order to evolve with the times, yet not in the way nearly all people describe it. Every period I see someone write SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION has changed a lot within 20 years” I laugh out there loud. Keyword research is one associated with the most important aspects associated with SEO. It's that will period of year again, whenever we see an influx associated with SEO articles forecasting trends in order to look for in the brand-new year. I proceed into much more detail within SEO Page Titles: 15-Point Guidelines for B2B and B2C Manufacturers, which explains the best methods to work in relevant key phrases that accurately reflect the web page content. The main thing, however, is usually that Local SEO is almost always cheaper and more efficient than traditional marketing. Research Engine Optimization; short for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, is a process coping along with the optimization of websites within a way that they can get high ranking within the particular search engines. SEOs will start to optimise content for incredibly defined user locations, like about certainly one of their shops or within a cafe district, to assure they capture every potential experienced lead. But along with the most recent changes in the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION industry, getting this coveted #1 spot may not be plenty of to get you all the particular traffic that you might want for your company. While it's impossible in order to keep pace with every up-date in your efforts to boost your own page ranking, there are several key SEO trends and strategies to follow in 2018. SEOs conveniently call this effect ‘domain authority' and it also seemed to end up being related to ‘PageRank' - the device Google started to rank the particular web within 1998. Ranking for seo” is hard. An accessible URL is definitely an important SEO ranking element. Key word research is an important portion of SEO. Google's CEO Sundar Pichai announced that will voice searches make up in order to 20% of mobile queries, which usually puts new challenges in front side of SEO experts. As a result, I would say that 2018 is a challenge for Search engines, as much as it may be for SEOs. This also ties in to another hot SEO trend : voice search. If you click upon the link for his or her post, Exactly why SEO Is Not Going Away…But Will Change - Here's Precisely why #155, ” you can select to pay attention to the particular site's 155th digital marketing video clip or read the transcripts. If you don't take treatment of SEO, you can obtain lost among the trillions associated with links out there. Search engine methods are closer than ever in order to mimicking a human understanding associated with query intent based on synthetic intelligence; therefore the focus associated with all facets of SEO want to be biased toward customers with an emphasis on relevance, quality, and engagement. If you started 2018 along with a strong SEO campaign, yet aren't too sure if this is worth your time plus effort, it's time to contact Knoxweb. For hyperlink building in 2016 and over and above, the ability to understand these types of external website concepts and furthermore to use effective off-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION techniques can help you along with in influencing a website's standing power. SEO a lot more usually discuss domain trust plus domain authority based on the particular number, type and quality associated with incoming links to a web site. As electronic assistance gets more accurate right now there is a great opportunity each for SEO and content, reaping helpful benefits from a growing market that develops the brand with a consumer in a unique but nevertheless relevant and useful way. Not simply search engine algorithm changes yet also the way in which usually people search keeps changing, therefore, considering the above 10 SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends- digital marketers and company owners could make their internet site ready for ranking high within 2018. Whenever you look at huge manufacturers like Amazon and Walmart, a person see how powerful SEO may be. When you search intended for just about any consumer product on Search engines, Amazon and Walmart are even more than likely to appear upon top. In the similar vein, you can't go to an SEO blog at the particular moment without seeing a function on Voice Search. As a matter associated with fact, the power of any kind of website lies in the DE UMA. Domain Authority is SEOmozs determined metric for how well the given domain will probably position in search results. SEO training courses will create you well-versed with various SEO methods like link building, keyword study, optimizing content by using the particular right keywords, optimizing the web site structure, off-site SEO, PPC marketing and many more. Therefore in addition to adapting the particular SEO technique of writing articles based on keywords, it is usually SEO 2019 Slide important for businesses to develop a responsive website, both regarding mobiles and computers. SEO” stands with regard to Search Engine Optimization - SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is the process of obtaining your website to rank increased in search engines. The best thing a person can do to assist your own local SEO ranking is in order to make certain that all existing listings possess the correct Name, Address and Phone Number (NAP) and web site URL.

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How to Use SEO to 2019

Whenever I mention SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, people always ask, what will be SEO? These three make certain that the content that we all put out is high-quality, topnoth, and SEO-friendly. Pro tips: With MyTasker, we have seasoned content material writers and SEO experts that can assist you to up-date your old blog posts centered on the trend. DA is SEO firm Moz's rank showing how respected a website is, based upon its link profile and various other factors (i. e. the amount of backlinks pointing to a few site from another site). Leveraging voice search will be another among the top SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends that will be impacting search engine optimization in 2018. You should outline your NAP data for your business at the start of your Local SEO campaign and keep it consistent. Right now plenty of SEO experts have observed that only building a big number of links will never assist in ranking a website within the long terms. SEO will gain importance over all else as it assists you drive quality traffic, obtain visibility, boost your brand plus lend your business the reliability it requires to succeed. Without a doubt, 1 of the biggest trends that will has already begun to consider place and will continue nicely into 2018 is the loan consolidation of niche MarTech players simply by larger content cloud vendors, along with the role and importance associated with SEO increasing significantly throughout this particular transformation. The essential to successful SEO is focusing on long-tail keywords you would like to be along with all those search results because even in the event that you have thousands even hundreds of thousands of social media following, this still won't be as eective as ranking high on the particular SERPs for your target key phrases. While obtaining as many pages indexed online was historically a priority intended for an SEO, Google is right now rating the quality of webpages on your site and the particular type of pages it will be indexing. As mentioned earlier around 95% of general population will certainly not move beyond the initial page SEO search results, therefore as a business you require an in-depth knowledge of the particular latest SEO techniques and begin incorporating them in your company today. SEO stands for search engine optimization. Sometimes SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is simply a matter associated with creating sure your site is definitely structured in a manner that will search engines understand. SEO can also stand for internet search engine optimizer. Before this change, the particular best practice was to prevent hidden content at all expenses as it wasn't as efficient for SEO (it was possibly too hard to crawl for that bot in some cases or even given less important by Search engines in others). In 2018, SEO strategies are usually oriented towards creating a long lasting relationship, helping brands to produce solid networks and links which will certainly remain active for a lengthy term. Social media marketing platform is one of the particular most important ranking signal aspects for boosting your SEO rating and also increasing your SERP visibility factor. The professional SEO agency will appear at the site and create recommendations to improve your search motor ranking and web site traffic. The thing that was troubling regarding 2017, so that as we all head into 2018, is the particular new wave of organizations simply bolting on SEO as the service with no real understanding of structuring site architectures plus content for both humans plus search engine understanding. Excellent it's time to focus specifically upon content creation for off-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. It after that follows that black hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION involves techniques which are believed to be tricks and tricks, whereas white hat is thoroughly clean, honest SEO- the kind helpful to humans and much favored by search engines. Yet according to the SEO pattern 2018, today page speed will certainly focus on mobile searches as well. Which means that will SEO will have to concentrate on producing content that solutions multiple intents to be capable to maximize the odds plus increase ranking probability. As we've seen, 1 of the major advantages associated with SEO is getting more visitors because of better search rank. The main premise to obtain out of this is the particular fact that speed is a good important factor for Google plus one of the important SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends to consider. SEO trends evolve year-after-year and so you should maintain up with the pace in order to influence Google algorithm and remain up in rankings. This new paradigm associated with users relying on voice lookup for many of their research needs will be a video game changer for SEO. The internet users are most excited to know how fresh SEO trends could affect their particular business this year. It's our own job to stay ahead associated with digital marketing trends so check out out these 9 SEO forecasts. The process associated with manipulating your content so Search engines and other search engines normally return your page near the particular top of the organic research is what SEO is just about all about. As Rand Fishkin pointed out in a Whiteboard Friday, content that is improved for keywords still holds important SEO power. 9 forecasted SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends that will shape your own digital marketing strategies. Some SEO experts and bloggers say that brief URLs ranks better in Search engines. Amazing article i don't know regarding youtube SEO but after reading through this article i fully realize how to rank video on the web and google also. Subscribe in order to the Single Grain blog today for the latest content upon SEO, PPC, paid social, plus the future of internet advertising. Traditional SEO techniques are usually still effective, but taking directly into account these trends could considerably increase your relevance on the particular search landscape. As digital assistants exceed mobile phone devices, there is a excellent opportunity both for SEO plus content, taking advantage of the growing market that connects the particular brand with a user within a unique but still relevant plus useful way. SEO plus SEM both heavily rely upon keywords to push traffic to company websites and webpages. The first issue raised is that, when people expect SEO to become a magic potion for immediate on line success and profit, ” they have a tendency to be sorely disappointed and frustrated. ” Other issues discussed are the time it takes to focus on SEO, the technical aspects that can seem intimidating, the possibility of receiving a penalty for doing something inappropriate and more. Right here is the trick, attach the link within your content of your own target website, helping your focus on audience in reaching your web site, increasing traffic and impacting SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. SEO optimized posts have a tendency to rank high in lookup results compared those unoptimized blogposts. The issue about YouTube Google rankings given that April 2014 Google had the major update, many vseo possess been crying however the answer is pretty simple. If a person have just started your SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION campaign for the brand-new website, after that you should focus on long-tail keywords. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, alone, is not enough in order to guarantee success and content marketing and advertising, alone, is not enough in order to guarantee success. We believe by now, most associated with the principles of SEO are usually more or less well recognized by people that have performed their amount of time within the trenches since 1999, even though new platforms and data forms arrive all the time maintaining the need for ongoing exercise or testing even more essential than in the past. Hazel, SEO Specialist and founder of SEO+, functions with businesses throughout the UNITED KINGDOM. She's passionate about making internet sites work effectively and has the reputation for increasing traffic, network marketing leads and sales. I first started promoting the mobile first” approach to SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION back in March of 2015, when I dubbed Google's impending mobile update Mobilegeddon”. A successful SEO effort requires to move beyond building articles to rank on highly explored keywords and should possess the heavy focus on providing solutions for genres of unique inquiries that lots of people may search by voice. The particular SEO tools within this roundup offer tremendous digital marketing value with regard to businesses, but it is necessary not in order to forget that we're residing within Google's world under Google's continuously evolving rules. Along with the rise of voice lookup, over half of Google queries coming from mobile devices, the particular impending mobile-first index, and mobile-friendliness being a ranking factor, a person simply can't afford to disregard mobile SEO anymore. Many business individuals find checking up on the particular "moving target" of SEO distracts them from daily priorities a lot more than they ever imagined, for that reason it is good to seem closely at why is feeling for each business. Your readers are always the almost all important part in regards in order to a blog post, so by no means compromise writing quality for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION benefit. But mobile SEO is various in terms of search habits, quality signals, levels of consumer engagement, and above all, position algorithms. For this particular to happen a variety associated with local SEO strategies, need in order to be implemented to have the site rated on search engines like Search engines, business directories such as Yelp, Superpages, Google My Business list etc. This will be a development opportunity for content marketing-specific firms and a necessary and validated budget line item for in-house SEO teams. According to experts, Content is usually the most critical element associated with SEO trends in 2018. The objective of a increased ranking in the SERP t is to increase quality plus quantity of the visitors the site by creating content plus resources that are relevant in order to target audiences searching for specific information-SEO helps businesses get discovered online. Within this guide I'll demonstrate just how to get the most SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION value out from the Google Keyword Advisor. As a CMO, you more than likely cringe when you hear the phrase SEO” (search engine optimization), because a few face it — it's not one of the most pleasant marketing tactic to program, strategize and execute. First, understand that schema markup is one of the particular most powerful, least used components of SEO today Schema are usually basically brief snippets of information that can give extra details to find users and search motors. We already understand that User Experience for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION will become increasingly more important within 2018, such as UX is usually a major ranking factor. Along with increasing your transformation rate, reviews may also assist to increase the effectiveness associated with your SEO efforts, because user-generated content is a consistent resource of unique and fresh articles that you didn't have in order to pay an employee or service provider to write for you. SEO or search engine search engine optimization is a complex science amongst all other dominant Google algorithm's 200 or more factors. Nevertheless, the bottom collection is that SEO is accountable for bringing you on best of the search engine search positions as well as the increased you rank, the more guests and customers you end upward with. If I say voice lookup optimization will be among the particular top five SEO trends within 2018, I wouldn't be exaggerating the fact. Intended for example: I used to make use of a web dev company, plus one of our own clients suddenly tanked on Google search listings, on further investigation an unscrupulous SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION company had purposely been by means of directory listings and purposely transformed the name of the company and the address, and furthermore went through creating a lot of unrelated duplicate listings upon those sites. Sometimes, this can be hard to figure out which updates will actually impact our SEO efforts and straight impact rankings. Despite a few concerns AMP is generating among some bigs news sites, internet owners, and SEOs, it will not seem that Google will decrease pressure for a large amount of websites to adopt this. Regardless of the fact that SEO offers the highest ROI of any kind of ecommerce marketing campaign, most on the internet shops are put together along with little to no consideration associated with search engines like google. Consider these points while producing SEO strategy to get higher ranking in search results. The particular term SEO in relation in order to seo is also used from times to make reference in order to search engine optimizers, who are usually consultants that mange and assist in the development and completion associated with search engine optimization projects for his or her clients. The faster you realize why Google will be sending you less traffic compared to it did last year, the particular sooner you can clean upward and focus on proactive SEO that will begins to impact your ranks in a positive way. Obviously, keyword ranks is another very important metric to track if you are usually analyzing your SEO efforts. Tone of voice search is one of the particular latest SEO trends in 2018. My SEO definition is the concentrate on strategies that may lead to placement within the research engine results pages (often known to as SERPS) when the user performs a search (query). I agree with the particular point you made of making use of LSI keywords and long-form content material as part of the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION strategy. Thinking associated with local search only as MyBusiness optimization may limit the possibilities businesses (especially local businesses) may have to earn SEO presence and traffic. 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Should I buy a Kwikset Obsidian smart lock?

http://www.internetunleashed.co.uk/?p=3702 Should I buy a Kwikset Obsidian smart lock? - http://www.internetunleashed.co.uk/?p=3702 The bottom line The Kwikset Obsidian Electronic Touchscreen Deadbolt is one of the best smart locks currently available. It’s a stylish and secure replacement for your standard deadbolt, and it’s completely keywayless—so don’t forget your master code. Depending on the model and color, you’re looking at anywhere between $120 and $230 for the Obsidian deadbolt, or $280 for the Alexa-enabled Obsidian bundle with Amazon Key and Amazon Cloud Cam. If you want to lock your door remotely with your smartphone or have Alexa do it for you, you’ll want to invest in the more expensive option. Even with the non-smart home option, though, you’ll still get a secure, sleek touchscreen lock that prevents would-be thieves from using your fingerprints to guess your password.  Kwikset Obsidian: what you need to know The Kwikset Obsidian smart lock kit provides the pieces you’ll need to uninstall your standard deadbolt and mount the exterior touchscreen and interior latch. But if that sounds intimidating, you’ll have to shell out an additional $99 on Amazon for “expert installation”. The touchscreen and front half of Obsidian matches its name (solid black), while you have two options for the back half that rests against the door: bronze and nickel. The base edition lets you make 16 user codes and one overriding master code, while with the Alexa edition you can create up to 30 user codes. You’ll have to create or delete codes via the touchscreen for the former, while you can control this via the Alexa app for the latter. Obsidian eschews keys entirely, so your only point of entry is the touchscreen, which runs on four AA batteries. If the batteries die, you can tap a 9V battery against the contact terminals on the bottom to temporarily turn it back on. To replace the batteries, you have to partially disassemble the lock to access the battery compartment. So, keep your installation manual handy and invest in long-lasting batteries, because some users report them dying every six months or so. Normally, touchscreen-only locks get smudged over the numbers you use most, which people could use to guess your password. But Kwikset’s SecureScreen tech randomizes the numbers every time you try to unlock it, solving the fingerprint issue. Obsidian also has an option to auto-lock after 30 seconds, provided the door is closed. But, it has no security alarms to detect when a door is left (or forced) open.  Amazon Cloud Cam and Home Connect editions Kwikset released the Amazon Key edition of Obsidian, along with two other locks, this April. It also plans to release a Home Connect Obsidian deadlock “soon” that will support Z-Wave smart home devices and Samsung SmartThings (no official date announced yet).With the Amazon Obsidian edition, you can connect your Amazon Echo or Alexa app to your deadbolt, and ask Alexa to check whether it's locked or unlocked, and lock it remotely if necessary. You can also create or delete codes using the Alexa app, or assign specific codes temporary access or recurring schedules based on your needs. Plus, with the Amazon Cloud Cam connected to the deadbolt, it will automatically videotape clips of anyone entering or leaving the house. You need the Cloud Cam connected in order to enable Amazon Key and let delivery drivers into your home, although keep in mind that Amazon Key may have security issues that could leave your house vulnerable. The Home Connect edition will reportedly cost the same as the Alexa model ($230), and will feature wireless connectivity and encryption, online firmware updates, SmartThings support and IFTTT support for smart light control, CNET reports.  Should I buy it? That depends a lot on what smart home ecosystem, if any, you subscribe to. Google Home and Apple HomeKit users, for example, may want to pass on Obsidian, since Kwikset has no announced plans to add support for either smart speaker or their respective smart tech families. Samsung, Wink or Iris proponents, meanwhile, should probably be patient and wait for the Home Connect edition to come out, or should look into the Schlage Connect smart deadbolt instead. Amazon Prime subscribers and Echo owners, on the other hand, have little reason to pass up on the Alexa model if they’ve been waiting for a smart lock. It ties in perfectly with the tech and services they’re already familiar with, and has plenty of security measures to keep them safe. If you don’t want to go through the hassle of replacing your deadbolt entirely, or lose the option to use a manual key, then we’d recommend looking into August Home Smart Locks instead, since they can simply attach directly to the deadbolt you already have. On the whole, however, we think Kwikset Obsidian could be one of the slickest, most secure touchscreen option on the market.  The best smart home devices your smart lock will protectHere are the best smart locks in 2018 Source link

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Should I buy a Kwikset Obsidian smart lock?

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Should I buy a Kwikset Obsidian smart lock?

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Kwikset Obsidian Touchscreen Deadbolt

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Kwikset Obsidian Touchscreen SecureScreen

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Kwikset Obsidian Touchscreen and Deadbolt

Kwikset Obsidian Touchscreen Deadbolt

Stylish security mixed with Amazon Key support

Anti-fingerprint security measures

Up to 16 guest codes (standard version)

Amazon Key integration

No Google Home or Siri support

No security alarm settings

Tricky to install

The bottom line

The Kwikset Obsidian Electronic Touchscreen Deadbolt is one of the best smart locks currently available. It’s a stylish and secure replacement for your standard deadbolt, and it’s completely keywayless—so don’t forget your master code. 

Depending on the model and color, you’re looking at anywhere between $120 and $230 for the Obsidian deadbolt, or $280 for the Alexa-enabled Obsidian bundle with Amazon Key and Amazon Cloud Cam. 

If you want to lock your door remotely with your smartphone or have Alexa do it for you, you’ll want to invest in the more expensive option. 

Even with the non-smart home option, though, you’ll still get a secure, sleek touchscreen lock that prevents would-be thieves from using your fingerprints to guess your password. 

Kwikset Obsidian: what you need to know

The Kwikset Obsidian smart lock kit provides the pieces you’ll need to uninstall your standard deadbolt and mount the exterior touchscreen and interior latch. But if that sounds intimidating, you’ll have to shell out an additional $99 on Amazon for “expert installation”. 

The touchscreen and front half of Obsidian matches its name (solid black), while you have two options for the back half that rests against the door: bronze and nickel. 

The base edition lets you make 16 user codes and one overriding master code, while with the Alexa edition you can create up to 30 user codes. You’ll have to create or delete codes via the touchscreen for the former, while you can control this via the Alexa app for the latter. 

Obsidian eschews keys entirely, so your only point of entry is the touchscreen, which runs on four AA batteries. If the batteries die, you can tap a 9V battery against the contact terminals on the bottom to temporarily turn it back on. 

To replace the batteries, you have to partially disassemble the lock to access the battery compartment. So, keep your installation manual handy and invest in long-lasting batteries, because some users report them dying every six months or so. 

Normally, touchscreen-only locks get smudged over the numbers you use most, which people could use to guess your password. But Kwikset’s SecureScreen tech randomizes the numbers every time you try to unlock it, solving the fingerprint issue. 

Obsidian also has an option to auto-lock after 30 seconds, provided the door is closed. But, it has no security alarms to detect when a door is left (or forced) open. 

Amazon Cloud Cam and Home Connect editions

Kwikset released the Amazon Key edition of Obsidian, along with two other locks, this April. It also plans to release a Home Connect Obsidian deadlock “soon” that will support Z-Wave smart home devices and Samsung SmartThings (no official date announced yet).

With the Amazon Obsidian edition, you can connect your Amazon Echo or Alexa app to your deadbolt, and ask Alexa to check whether it’s locked or unlocked, and lock it remotely if necessary. 

You can also create or delete codes using the Alexa app, or assign specific codes temporary access or recurring schedules based on your needs. 

Plus, with the Amazon Cloud Cam connected to the deadbolt, it will automatically videotape clips of anyone entering or leaving the house. You need the Cloud Cam connected in order to enable Amazon Key and let delivery drivers into your home, although keep in mind that Amazon Key may have security issues that could leave your house vulnerable. 

The Home Connect edition will reportedly cost the same as the Alexa model ($230), and will feature wireless connectivity and encryption, online firmware updates, SmartThings support and IFTTT support for smart light control, CNET reports. 

Should I buy it?

That depends a lot on what smart home ecosystem, if any, you subscribe to. Google Home and Apple HomeKit users, for example, may want to pass on Obsidian, since Kwikset has no announced plans to add support for either smart speaker or their respective smart tech families. 

Samsung, Wink or Iris proponents, meanwhile, should probably be patient and wait for the Home Connect edition to come out, or should look into the Schlage Connect smart deadbolt instead. 

Amazon Prime subscribers and Echo owners, on the other hand, have little reason to pass up on the Alexa model if they’ve been waiting for a smart lock. It ties in perfectly with the tech and services they’re already familiar with, and has plenty of security measures to keep them safe. 

If you don’t want to go through the hassle of replacing your deadbolt entirely, or lose the option to use a manual key, then we’d recommend looking into August Home Smart Locks instead, since they can simply attach directly to the deadbolt you already have. 

On the whole, however, we think Kwikset Obsidian could be one of the slickest, most secure touchscreen option on the market. 

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Part 2, Sunday, March 26th, 2017

International News:

--- "Iran has imposed sanctions on 15 U.S. companies for alleged human rights violations and cooperating with Israel, the state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, in a tit-for-tat reaction to a move by Washington. The agency quoted Iran's foreign ministry as saying the companies had "flagrantly violated human rights" and cooperated with Israel in its "terrorism" against the Palestinians and the expansion of Jewish settlements. It was not immediately clear if any of the companies, which included defense technology firm Raytheon, had any dealings with Iran or whether they would be affected in any way by Tehran's action, which IRNA said would include seizure of their assets and a ban on contacts with them."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-usa-sanctions-idUSKBN16X0DL?il=0

--- "A Kurdish and Arab Syrian militia backed by the United States has captured the town of Karama as it prepares for an assault on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa that it expects to take place in early April, it said on Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has trapped Raqqa in a shrinking pocket of territory on the northern bank of the Euphrates and has advanced toward it in a multi-pronged offensive over several months. Dejwar Khabat, a field commander with the SDF, said he expects the assault on Raqqa to begin in early April, affirming a timeline reported by Reuters earlier this month, after the U.S.-backed militia closes the gap on the city on more fronts...The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the SDF had almost completely captured Karama but that clashes between it and Islamic State were still going on."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-raqqa-idUSKBN16X0GJ?il=0

--- "Islamic State has warned that the Tabqa dam, which a U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militia is trying to capture from the militant group, is at imminent risk of collapse because of airstrikes and increased water levels. It also said in messages carried on its social media channels that the dam's operations had been put out of service and that all flood gates were closed. The dam, on the Euphrates about 40 km (25 miles) upstream from Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa, is the largest in Syria. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces has been battling to capture the dam from Islamic State since Friday. A Britain-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said it had also learned from its own sources that the dam had stopped functioning but that Islamic State remained in control of its main operational buildings and turbines."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-dam-idUSKBN16X0IR?il=0

Domestic & International News:

--- "U.S. President Donald Trump handed German Chancellor Angela Merkel a bill for money supposedly owed to NATO when they met last weekend in Washington DC, the Sunday Times reported. The gesture was “outrageous,” the paper quoted an unnamed German minister as saying. “The concept behind putting out such demands is to intimidate the other side, but the chancellor took it calmly and will not respond to such provocations,” the minister is further cited as saying. According to the Times, the bill handed to Merkel was thought to be for more than $300 billion. It was reportedly calculated by adding the amounts by which Germany have fallen short on annual payments to NATO since 2002 — and adding interest."

Source: http://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-handed-angela-merkel-outrageous-nato-bill-report/

Domestic News:

--- "U.S. Representative Mark Meadows, chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said on Sunday there is a possibility that his group could support a tax reform plan that is not revenue neutral. "Does it have to be, what they would say, revenue neutral? Or do you have to have an offset like with the border adjustment tax? ... I think there's been a lot of flexibility in terms of some of my contacts in conservatives in terms of not making it totally offset ...," Meadows said in an interview on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos.""

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-meadows-idUSKBN16X0L9?il=0

--- "Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, said on Sunday he has offered to testify before a congressional committee investigating possible Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and ties to the Trump campaign. Stone, an informal adviser to Trump, told ABC's "This Week" he had not received a reply from the House of Representatives intelligence committee on his offer of public testimony. Along with former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who has also offered to appear before the panel, Stone was among the Trump associates whose communications and financial transactions were being examined by the FBI and others as part of a larger investigation into possible links with Russian officials, according to a Jan. 20 report in the New York Times..."I reiterate again, I have had no contacts or collusions with the Russians," he told ABC, adding later, "There is no collusion, none, at least none that I know about, in Donald Trump's campaign for president." "

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-idUSKBN16X0RK?il=0

--- "Supporters of President Donald Trump holding a rally on a popular southern California beach clashed with counter-protesters on Saturday and four people were arrested, law enforcement said. Multiple fights broke out and at least one Trump supporter was doused with pepper spray when pro-Trump demonstrators marching along Bolsa Chica State Beach encountered a small group opposed to the Republican president who had gathered to denounce the rally. Four counter-protesters were arrested, three for illegal use of pepper spray and one for assault and battery, Kevin Pearsall, a spokesman for the California State Parks Police said on Saturday evening. The fights appeared to start in the early afternoon when around a dozen anti-Trump protesters dressed in all black refused to move from a bike path to allow a larger group of pro-Trump supporters taking part in the Make America Great Again rally to pass. The confrontation escalated into a fight with more skirmishes quickly breaking out."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-protests-idUSKBN16X009?il=0

--- "Republicans may have failed to overthrow Obamacare this week, but there are plenty of ways they can chip away at it. The Trump administration has already begun using its regulatory authority to water down less prominent aspects of the 2010 healthcare law. Earlier this week, newly confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price stalled the rollout of mandatory Medicare payment reform programs for heart attack treatment, bypass surgery and joint replacements finalized by the Obama administration in December. The delays offer a glimpse at how President Donald Trump can use his administrative power to undercut aspects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion that Republicans had sought to overturn. The Republicans' failure to repeal Obamacare, at least for now, means it remains federal law. Price's power resides in how to interpret that law, and which programs to emphasize and fund..."It seems that the Trump Administration now faces a choice whether to actively undermine the ACA or reshape it administratively," Larry Levitt, senior vice president at Kaiser Family Foundation, wrote on Twitter. "The ACA marketplaces weren't collapsing, but they could be made to collapse through administrative actions," he added."

Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-outlook-analysis-idUSKBN16X0IV?il=0

--- "Colorado's state legislature is considering an unusual plan to defend the state's marijuana industry from a federal crackdown under the Trump administration. The bill would allow growers and sellers to reclassify their recreational marijuana as medical “based on a business need due to a change in local, state, or federal law or enforcement policy.” The strategy is meant to keep marijuana businesses afloat if the federal government comes after them, even if it means the state losing hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. The bill represents a shift in how states might respond to what marijuana advocates say are an over-simplification of cannabis policy by the Trump administration. The Trump administration has indicated it is OK with medical marijuana, but not with the recreational use of the drug. Yet, most marijuana businesses cater to both the recreational and medical markets, meaning a crackdown would wipe out half of a store’s inventory while leaving the other half intact. If federal authorities start seizing recreational pot, Colorado's recreational marijuana entrepreneurs "need to be able to convert that product into the medical side so they can sell it," state Sen. Tim Neville (R), who represents suburban Denver, told the Associated Press."

Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2017/0326/Why-is-Colorado-risking-hundreds-of-millions-to-protect-its-marijuana-industry

--- "Last December, the Belle Fourche Pipeline in western North Dakota ruptured. At the time, the company estimated that 176,000 gallons of oil had been spilled before the pipeline was shut down. But according to an updated estimate, the amount of oil that leaked from Bell Fourche was significantly higher, making it one of the largest pipeline spills in the state's history. According to North Dakota's spill investigation program manager Bill Suess, the new estimate is that 529,839 gallons (or 12,615 barrels) of oil that have leaked out into the area around the pipeline. That's three times more oil than was initially estimated, and that doesn't even include the hillside area of the spill, which Belle Fourche estimates could contain up to 20 percent of the spill's total volume. Despite the bad news, spokeswoman Wendy Owen told NBC that the spill had been contained, and that 80 percent of the cleanup was already completed."

Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2017/0326/North-Dakota-pipeline-spill-larger-than-previously-thought