#the concept of “launch object to hurt people” is not exactly new

[stackofsnakes]

"It certainly is an ingenius little device, far beyond the skill of our current craftsmen, but its only function is to accelerate a tiny metal object to high speeds via controlled explosion. Clever but somewhat crude, don't you think?"

Me, suddenly less confident about the gun i was showing to my interdimensional wizard friend: "B-but c-can y-your wa-"

Wizard: Sighs, picks up a stone from the ground and launches it at mach 3 at a nearby tree

[yogaadvise]

How Does Karma Affect Your Life?

Unless you are an extremely evolved, enlightened being, Karma impacts your life in every way, as a matter of fact, your life is the consistent unfolding of Karma!

The Karmic Software

Karma means action. Physics reveals that for every single activity, there need to be an equal and contrary reaction. Karma is energy, which in itself is neither excellent nor negative, these are just the labels individuals select to connect to it. The power developed by an action has actually to be returned: "As yea plant so shall yea reap." It can not be avoided.

When you carry out an activity, it produces a memory, which in turn produces a desire, which leads you to execute an additional action. : You take your initial yoga class (activity), then you understand what occurs in a yoga class (memory), and also if you delighted in the course, you determine to go back the following week (desire), and that following week you transform up once more with your floor covering (action). Karma develops memories and wishes, which after that identify just how you live. Activities, memories, as well as wishes are the Karmic software that run your life.

The refined energy produced by your actions is saved within your memories as well as wishes as well as is activated-- in some cases right away, but more frequently at some future time. To use the earlier example, you took the yoga class and also after that forgot it up until months later when you're going through community and also see a yoga studio. You remember your previous experience, which causes the wish to take another class.

The Vedantic View

It's not essential to rely on reincarnation to understand Karma but, from the Vedantic point of view, you have actually lived for lots of previous lives and also the scenarios as well as scenarios of your current life are the result of the activities performed throughout all lives. Counting on Fate as well as reincarnation makes it simpler to comprehend why poor points take place to excellent people or why a young innocent child develops a deadly illness. Vedanta would certainly say that every little thing in your life is the result of the power created by activities in previous births. Every circumstance that happens to you and also everyone you satisfy has a Karmic importance. Every little thing occurs for a reason.

Whatever your belief, Fate implies that you have created as well as proceed to develop your life. Do you have complimentary will? Sadly, lots of people have really little. Lots of individuals allow themselves to remain imprisoned in that Karmic software program, conditioned by their memories as well as needs, performing the very same routines over and over and also questioning why their lives aren't taking them anywhere. Lots of resemble the hamster, running on its treadwheel, assuming it's getting someplace while in fact it's just going round as well as round!

However, as you grow as well as progress mentally, you can damage out of those cycles as well as purposely choose the life you intend to lead. The Karmic curse triggers you to neglect who you really are, so your spiritual course entails launching the Karma that is clouding your recognition, enabling you to bear in mind that you truly are. Of program, releasing Fate doesn't mean you lose all your memories and wishes, it indicates you shed your attachment to them and also are no much longer held under their influence. As the fantastic seer Adi Shankara claimed, "I utilize memories yet I don't permit them to utilize me."

Gathering and Storing Karma

In addition to the Fate developed from your own actions, you go through the Karmic impacts of your family members, religion, race, race, and also a lot more. Every scenario you encounter in life is the outcome of some Karma. You regularly produce Karma from your activities, thoughts, words, from the activities of others under your control, from your attitudes, expectations, and also way of living. You develop Fate from the intended actions you do consciously and likewise from actions done unconsciously from ignorance. It is also feasible to take on somebody else's Fate, which usually isn't an excellent concept, because you have enough of your own. This can happen from taking one more's personal belongings, gossiping, or daydreaming. It additionally takes place in intimate relationships, however as long as the connection is based in love, this is an appropriate part of a bonding exchange. Keep in mind, the partnership itself is the outcome of Fate, and Vedanta says the objective of every relationship ought to be knowledge.

Vedanta claims that all your Karma is kept in the Jiva, the private heart, or the element of the soul conditioned by Fate. Vedanta defines 3 kinds of Fate: that which you have actually chosen to process during this certain birth, that which is kept for later births, and the new Karma you generate every moment of your existence. Chakras store the Karma for this life time. Chakras are your subtle energy facilities whereby consciousness changes into issue. Fate distorts that circulation of consciousness, causing you to experience an imaginary world. Clearing Karma assists you to get out of the illusion.

Releasing Your Karma

Karma can not be avoided. For many people, Karmic power is returned with the very same intensity with which it was generated. Depending on your previous actions, this might produce joy or suffering. Whatever occurs, is the outcome of Karma being released, which, despite how you see the circumstance, is an advantage and also a possibility for future growth. Vedanta say, "Nothing happens to you, it occurs for you!"

Are you then destined a life of paying for previous mistakes, interspersed by a few moments of enjoyment? Not necessarily. By the top quality of your existing actions, Karma can be changed, transmuted into a various kind, or gone beyond completely. Right here are eight techniques that can aid you increase the high quality of your actions.

1. Make Conscious Choices

The choices you make influence your Fate in 2 means. Making quality selections can soften the strength or size of situations arising from returning Fate. The power of the Fate has actually to be returned, yet it can be translated. Rather of falling down and also breaking your leg, perhaps you just stub a toe. The Karma was returned however the high quality of your life choices lessened its effect.

Your selections additionally establish the high quality of brand-new Karma being developed as well as stored to be launched as future events in your life. It is necessary, for that reason, to be conscious of the choices you are making as well as ask yourself: Do these choices serve me and those that may be impacted by them? Are my choices coming from my heart and greater self or my ego?

2. Forgive

This a crucial facet of your spiritual development. Initially, approve that what has actually occurred has occurred. See if you can, without judgment or examination, understand why it took place. Attempt to forgive whoever you feel may have hurt you, it's constantly feasible to forgive the individual even if you can not forgive the act. From the Vedantic point of view, every hurt you run into is the return of some Karma. If the mail carrier fills your mail box with expenses, do not spend the entire day hating the postman. Forgive as well as relocate forward!

3. Cultivate Gratitude

Forgiveness is difficult for many people, and also gratefulness can additionally be challenging. If you believe that every little thing that happens to you is past Karma being released, after that each time you launch Fate, it is gone. Isn't that cause for celebration? Attempt to be happy for every little thing in your life.

4. Search For Growth Opportunities

Any tough circumstance gives you 2 options. You can see the situation as a trouble and lose your life whining about it, or you can recognize that it happened and ask, "Exactly how can I learn as well as expand from this?"

If you see it as an issue, you can obtain attracted into lower energy, which recreates the very same Karmic power, and you make no progression. Searching for development possibilities allows you to launch the Fate and stay free to continue on your spiritual journey.

5. Learn from Astrology

An astrological graph provides a picture of your Karmic chances. A qualified astrologer can interpret your chart and also offer you advice concerning the possible impacts Karma will certainly play in various locations and at different times of your life. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a spiritual educator, utilized to say, "Every little thing is established yet everything can be altered." Astrology gives you the insight to make the required adjustments. As the Yoga Sutras state, "Prevent the threat which has actually not yet come."

6. Find an Enlightened Teacher

If you are privileged (or your Karma determines you) to fulfill an enlightened teacher, he or she might be able to "see" your Karmic patterns and recommend you accordingly. An enlightened individual could tackle some of your Fate, however this would certainly be with an unique relationship created over numerous years.

7. Discover Your Dharma

Vedanta states that if you comprehend Dharma and Fate, you will recognize every little thing. Dharma is generally specified as function or fact. When you locate your real objective in life as well as stay in total alignment with that, your actions will certainly become spontaneously proper and you will certainly never ever create Karma.

8. Meditate

The most powerful tool you have on your spiritual path is meditation, especially a practice that includes concepts. Reflection is a journey from task into silence. In Primordial Sound Meditation, mantras or audios are made use of without certain significance. The definition of an idea holds the memory as well as need as well as thus the Fate. A concept with no meaning has no Fate. When you believe your mantra in reflection, you are taken beyond the variety of Karma, you go beyond all memories as well as desires as well as slide into the area of unlimited possibilities.

With regular technique, you begin to live from that degree of limitless possibilities rather than the minimal possibilities created by Fate. Meditation realigns you with your true self, leads you back to your real objective (Dharma) and permits you to "wash" away Karma on all levels.

Commitment to your spiritual path is the vital to running away from the Karmic prison you have produced on your own-- and to enjoy boundless freedom in every moment.

[asterythm]

A is for Amour || Human Error (2)

Pairings: Eventual Logicality, eventual Prinxiety Word Count: 2.5k Chapter Summary: Though rigid schedules may have worked in his favour when it came to essays and science fairs, Logan's plans are ill-equipped to handle a living, breathing human. He finds this out the hard way. Chapter Warnings: “Implied gore mention” is all I can think of for this one. Let me know if I’ve forgotten anything, though! General Warnings: Toxic romantic relationship, abusive Deceit, low self-esteem/self-deprecation, negative thinking

<< First Chapter || Read this chapter on AO3

Logan Berry was just about ready to eat his tie.

Not in the literal sense, of course; Logan was very well aware that cloths and fabrics did not have much nutritional value to them. They’d be difficult to digest, for one, and he didn’t imagine the taste could be too appetizing either. The young man had merely been using figurative language to express irritation.

A little clarity never hurt anybody.

Perhaps it would be simpler to forget about the textile consumption and just put it this way: suffice it to say, anyone looking at Logan now would never be able to guess how excited the boy had been only thirty minutes ago.

Which was a shame, really, considering how rare it was for Logan to get excited about anything nowadays.

It was true, though — Logan had been walking on sunshine for weeks in anticipation of this moment. How could he not? Today was the day of his first-ever session in his new tutoring job; a day he’d spent long days and longer nights preparing for. Logan had even gone so far as to create and rehearse a script that contained everything he intended to say, word-for-word. Every detail he could think of, he had planned, all the way down to the exact outfit he’d wear — a freshly-ironed black polo paired with his best blue necktie was the perfect way to passively say, this young man means business. Knowing how crucial a good first impression would be to their overall success, Logan had done everything in his power to ensure that today’s session would run perfectly. It had taken every second that he could spare (and quite a few that he couldn’t), but he didn’t mind. After all, Logan had been completely convinced that all his efforts were bound to pay off in the end.

Oh, what a fool he’d been.

You see, it was only once Logan was watching this unsettlingly energetic thing come careening around the corner did he realise that in all of his careful planning, he’d forgotten to factor in one major variable: the student himself. And a single glance was all it took for Logan to realise that his mistake would cost him dearly.

Not only is he late, he’s completely out of breath. And he’s not even bothering to hide it… just look at that gaping mouth, Logan’s narrowed eyes had immediately observed. Smudged glasses, uncombed hair, grass-stained sneakers — one of which is untied, mind you — oh, and now he’s gone and sent books flying everywhere.

So much for first impressions, I suppose.

With the introduction of this new limiting factor, the future wasn’t looking too bright, to say the least. But if there was one thing that Logan’s extensive collection of award-winning science fair projects had taught him, it was to never waste time trying to control the uncontrollable. So, notebook clutched in one hand and tenaciously holding back doubts with the other, Logan had launched with great determination into the script that he’d practiced so many times before.

It took all of five minutes to grind that determination into the dust. Every single time he paused for breath, the freckled boy seated crookedly in front of him would take it as an invitation to start chattering away at a speed that would give even the most accomplished of auctioneers a run for their money. Poor Logan could hardly keep up with his student, let alone settle him down long enough to get through even the first paragraph.

Finally, he had been forced to abandon his perfectly-crafted script in favour of a much less elegant approach: a simple and to-the-point list of questions. Though it physically pained Logan to abandon the result of so many tears shed and sleepless nights passed, he’d rather finish things the “alkali way” (or, as the cool kids preferred, the “basic way”) than never finish them at all. And if he’s going to talk anyway, Logan reasoned, I might as well give him something productive to talk about. Surely then we’ll be able to stay on-topic.

No such luck. Logan’s first question got no more than a noncommittal shrug before Parker — or was it Patrick? No, he was quite certain that the boy’s name was Parker — was off again, running his mouth a mile a minute, dropping awful puns and grammatically incorrect sentences all over the previously pristine carpet. The poor librarians would have some cleaning up to do later.

Okay, so plan B didn’t work either. Nothing to worry about, though, Logan pretended to believe. I’ve still got twenty-four letters to get through.

To be fair, Plan C was really more of a coping mechanism than an actual step-by-step plan. A surprisingly effective way of releasing pent-up stress and frustration, this longtime favourite involved imagining, in vivid detail, the source of that frustration being slowly and painfully fed into a running wood chipper.

What?

Some might think this cruel. Logan preferred to call it merciful; after all, at least he was limiting his vengeance to the hypothetical realm. An added bonus was that, in the interest of ensuring the utmost accuracy, it had compelled him to familiarize himself with the inner workings of wood chippers. So really, Plan C was a win-win for all parties involved.

As you might have guessed by now, dealing with annoying people never really had been Logan’s strong suit.

Actually, make that dealing with people in general. In hindsight, signing up to work with Sandford Secondary’s peer-to-peer tutoring program had definitely not been the best idea he’d ever had, in that case. Not because he wasn’t qualified — complex formulas and sentence structure he could handle in his sleep. But teaching those same concepts to a student who apparently had no intention of listening, he most certainly could not.

Really, Logan should have known better than to believe that he could ever be successful in any job that depended so much on one’s ability to work with others. Why couldn’t he have chosen something with more facts and numbers?

Facts and numbers were predictable. They always fit neatly into categories of right or wrong, true or false, black or white. Social interaction was so much messier. With no structure, no set of rules, and no procedure to follow, the whole thing was really nothing more than haphazard guesswork, a real-life game of hangman where every wrong word brings you one pen-stroke closer to game over. Bearing all that in mind, Logan had never understood how some people could so easily waltz up to strangers and just begin “bonding” like it was nothing.

And frankly, he didn’t particularly want to understand. Why would anyone choose to while away their life building those fragile houses of cards; vocabulary cards filled with only empty words? Did no one realise that a single misplaced breath is all would take to knock everything down in an instant? Why waste time trying desperately to convince your peers that you’re worth their love, when you could instead be hard at work earning their respect? In Logan’s experience, relationships of any kind — romantic, platonic, even familial — were always sloppy at best when built on love. Respect, on the other hand… respect was real.

This attitude, by the way, was an entirely objective worldview that had nothing to do with the fact that Logan didn’t exactly have many romantic or platonic relationships to choose from. Correlation, not causation.

Besides. Not that he cared.

Taking a deep breath, Logan forced himself to focus back on the session. (That makes one of us, he couldn’t help thinking.) Speaking of empty words… Parker, or Patrick, or whatever-his-name-was, had somehow been ceaselessly talking about corn for —  Logan checked his watch — over seven minutes now. They were getting nowhere, fast.

If Logan allowed the boy to keep this up, the two of them would end up leaving the library having accomplished absolutely nothing at all. That simply would not do. His student’s attitude may not be ideal, but he’d be damned if he let his own standards slip because of it.

After taking a brief pause to collect himself and his thoughts, Logan stood abruptly, causing the freckled boy to cut himself off mid-sentence.

Slowly, deliberately, he moved to stare out the large windows framing the section of the library where the two of them were seated, so that his back was turned and his face was hidden from the other boy.

Then, voice dripping with contempt, he spoke.

“Let me make one thing clear. I am not here to make friends, and neither should you be. I am here to teach, and as of yesterday, I was under the impression that you are here to learn. However, your behaviour so far has led me to believe that perhaps I was mistaken. For once in my life, I find myself praying that I will be proven wrong.

“Now, I don’t know what kind of merry tomfoolery you were expecting from our session today, but I do know exactly what I was expecting, and exactly what I have prepared for you. And since you clearly do not seem interested in steering this session anywhere productive, I suggest that you hand the reins to me and do exactly as I instruct from here on out. I have prepared a rigid agenda for how we will be spending this time together, and I intend to follow it. I expect you to do the same. Be aware that this agenda includes absolutely no icebreakers; we can’t afford to waste any more of our valuable lesson time, especially not on childish games.

“Starting right now, you will answer my questions so I can develop a plan for what we need to accomplish, and you will answer them without distraction. When you are not answering questions, you will hold your tongue like your entire future depends on it. Because it very well might. Is that understood —” just in time, he suddenly remembered the boy’s name — “is that understood, Patton?”

The following moment of quiet, the first one since Patton had stepped foot in the library, was answer enough for Logan.

“Good. I trust this will not be a discussion that we will need to have again, then.”

With that, Logan returned to his seat, carefully scrutinizing Patton once more to see if he could spot any differences. He didn’t need to try too hard. Patton’s transformation was so drastic, it was almost…  

Unnerving. The vigor from earlier had all but disappeared — thank goodness — but with its departure came a distinct dullness to the eyes framed in those round-rimmed glasses. And where Patton had previously been nearly falling out of his seat with barely contained energy, he now slumped inwards as if the words that Logan had spoken were actually physically crushing him.

At the sight, Logan couldn’t help but feel the tiniest glimmer of guilt. Perhaps he hadn’t needed to lay the scolding on quite so heavily. What if I overdid it?

A second later, Logan remembered he didn’t care.

Excellent. This shall be ideal. The brief moment of weakness over, Logan settled back down into the library’s comfortable couch. “What are your academic strengths?” he read off his notebook.

“Uhh, I’m… nice, sometimes. I guess.”  

Logan let out a deep sigh. A wood-chipper-shaped silhouette flickered in the back of his mind.

Most likely seeing his teacher’s disapproval of the vague answer, Patton hurried to add, “I mean, I can be pretty patient when it comes to worksheets. It always takes a really long time for me to finish my homework, so I… kind of have to be, you know?”

“Hm. Is that it?”

“That’s all I can come up with right now. Um, sorry.”

“I see.” Pencil scratched across paper as Logan scribbled down (a paraphrased version of) Patton’s response. In the otherwise unbroken silence, the sound grated loudly against Logan’s ears. He hurried to finish so he could move on to the next question. “Academic weaknesses?”

This time, Patton’s answered without even a moment’s hesitation. “Focus. Organization. Time management. Anything related to math or numbers, really. I’m not good at taking risks. My work is always sloppy and hard to read. It takes me a long time to wrap my head around new concepts.” He rattled off one item after another, a strange mix of confidence and detachment, almost as if reading off an invisible script that he’d already recited — or heard recited to him — many times before.

Logan wasn’t sure what to say to that. Here was another reason he hated socialising; people always had this odd tendency to hyper-fixate on what needed to be fixed rather than what they already had going for them, a tendency that Logan couldn’t imagine was healthy or even at all helpful. There’s so much beauty mixed in with the bad, and yet you choose to ignore it all? Worst of all, these senseless “social blinkers” meant that Logan had no chance of getting an accurate idea of Patton’s actual strengths and weaknesses. There was no way that every item on that list of shortcomings that Patton had just blazed through could actually apply, right?

Logan decided not to push the question, though; experience had taught him that calling others out on their poor logic didn’t often end well. I’ll just have to figure that part out myself, I suppose. Instead, he adjusted his thick glasses, wrote down one or two items from Patton’s list of weaknesses, and read aloud the next question.

And the next, and the next. They were really tearing through the conversation now; Patton’s answers seemed to get shorter and more succinct with every second that passed. Not that Logan was complaining. In fact, he was nothing but grateful for Patton’s newfound intense focus. It seemed his brief speech had done the trick.

Sooner than expected, a quiet trill interrupted the two of them. He checked his phone to see that his alarm had gone off. The session was over.

Had it really been two hours already? It had felt like so much less than that.

Shutting off the alarm, Logan turned to face his student. “Well, that marks the end of our session. I… appreciated your cooperation, Patton. We may have gotten off to a bit of a rocky start, but your focus in the second half of the session was sufficient to convince me that we won’t have too many problems from here on out.”

This time, Patton said nothing at all, settling instead for a wordless nod.

“Next week, I will have worksheets prepared for you. In the meantime, your homework is to write me a page, single-spaced, telling me a little bit more about short-and long-term educational goals. Full sentences only, please.” Logan flipped his notebook shut. “I look forward to reading your writing for the first time,” he lied.

In response, Patton picked up his backpack and started to walk away. He only made it about three steps, though, before turning back and opening his mouth. Logan waited.

The words never came. After the briefest of pauses, Patton’s mouth closed, lips pressed firmly together, perhaps to suppress whatever he’d been wanting to say.

As watched the child disappear around the corner, a thought arose unbidden:

For some reason, Patton seemed so much smaller leaving the library than he had looked when he was entering.

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[next chapter]

A/N: Okay. Even though it's only chapter two, I have a LOT to say. Most of this is about the fic in general rather than the chapter, so... it's LONG. I'm sorry. In the interest of not putting you to sleep, let's speed-round this.

The first chapter of AAmour was the very first thing I ever wrote for the Sanders Sides fandom. I based that chapter almost ENTIRELY on a oneshot comic by @the-pastel-peach.

Two months later, I was planning for NaNoWriMo 2018 (a challenge where authors write 50k in 30 days). Long story short, I decided that I'd like to try finishing AAmour.

I didn't.

I did hit 50k, but I only made it to chapter ten. I still want to finish this thing though, so I've decided to edit and post what I already wrote, one chapter a month, and then write the second half of AAmour during NaNoWriMo 2019.

I'm already late with this first chapter because my dumb brain decided I needed to do a complete rewrite a week before posting, but in the future I'd like to post a chapter on the first day of every month.

Almost everything after chapter one is my own work. I say "almost" because I picked @residentanchor's brain a lot during the planning phase.

So yes, I may still be writing a high school AU, but this is no longer @the-pastel-peach​'s high school AU. Besides Logan's last name (I couldn’t resist -- the pun game was too strong) and the first chapter, any similarities to their version of the AU are completely coincidental; in fact, I've barely looked at theirs because I didn't want to risk any subconscious copying.

Also heeeeyyyyyy this is my 200th post that’s pretty nifty--

I think that about covers it. Thank you so, so much for reading -- both the chapter and my ridiculously long author’s note!! See you soon, lovelies. Take care <3

General tag list: @surleytemple @starryfirefliesbloggo @icecoldparadise @lyditist @fandom-random2405 @beach-fan @ihateitwhenyourejustvague @starryeyedhomicide

AAmour tag list: @romanticsanders @thatrandomautist @thelowlysatsuma @mirror2thespirit @pokii-jonas

Let me know if you’d like to be added to or removed from either tag list!

[spookysnicket]

ANON: ⛰Could I get a matchup please? I'm agender asexual and tall (6'1) with some bulky posture and brown messy pixie haircut with grey eyes(people always think I'm a man and treat me like one) I'm always calm and collected yet I can have fun which suprises everyone I'm always affectionate and supportive of my loved ones and wouldn't let them down, I craft my own knives in my free time(always dreamed about owning a cabin in forgotten place I'm introvertic as heck)I'm a pro at throwing knives. Even with my patient demenour, I absolutely HATE bullying, don't care if it's kindergarden, middle school, high school or even some picking the poor person up in the middle of town I WILL GET PROTECTIVE AND HIGHLY WRECK THE ASSHOLE! I was bullied trough entire middle school of my ,,girly'' face and even called gay. I'm not that confident as I was before but I'm fighting with my insecirities. I guess I can fight really well, self defense classes paid off. Hope It's ok, take care hun!💕💕

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(Awww thank you so much love!! Once I got the motivation to write, I had a really good time writing this for you! You sound so strong, and I’m proud and very happy to hear that you’re working on your insecurities (: I hope you enjoy it, matchup under the cut as always)

I match you with Jason Voorhees

🏒 Jason, the poor guy, is mortified by the prospect of having to enact anything sexual to appease his love, repulsed even. He’s very, very grateful you don’t want nor need that to be happy with him

🏒 Giant buff forest cryptids unite! You’re big enough to the point where Jason doesn’t need to worry about losing you, but just tiny enough for him to dote on you like a baby (his baby!)

🏒 Jason’s mute, but he’s still got a rotting brain left behind his hockey mask. He thinks of you with your correct pronouns, and since he never found time to associate different looks with claim to one gender, he’s too confused to grasp those concepts

🏒 He never has to worry about you getting into trouble, (or getting away) seeing as you’re typically so casual and relaxed with every situation Jason’s seen you be put in

🏒 Jason wants you to enjoy yourself any time you can, but he doesn’t have a very well fleshed out ideal of ‘fun’. Just don’t get carried away and have too good of a time, it’ll make your momma’s boy worry ):

🏒 You could never let Jason down! Your support does mean a lot to him though, and he’s happy to come back home every night to your open arms, tender affection, and words of praise rather than the kicking and screaming from his victims he’s grown accustomed to

🏒 Jason treasures any gifts you’d think to give him, you're a gift yourself! With that said, please consider making him knives or other intricate weaponry. His old machete is dulling down by every use, and this boy needs all the help he can get with style. Have you seen his clothes?

🏒 He understands that you’re not some child who needs protection from them self, but you are his baby who needs protection from everything. His first instinctual thought is that sharp objects are a no no around you, but he’d hate to take away whatever few hobbies you can bring with you to Crystal Lake. This means that whenever you work on knives, Jason wants to be right there to watch over you. That also means that you now have an assistant! He’s surprisingly good with metal working

🏒 When you tell Jason you’re into knife throwing, it’s there he opts to draw the line of ‘eligible activities permitted for Y/n’. He does think it’s a nifty talent, but you could get seriously injured- therefore, the big wet boot has been put down. Though, once you show him how good you are at it with a surprise demonstration involving a questionably large kitchen knife and a small circular clipping from a rather precarious red stained shirt you’d tacked to a wall, you may get him to reconsider confiscating all of your arms. May

🏒 Welcome to your new, very humble abode! La maison de Jason! Your dreamy contemporary secluded log cabin resides deep within the lush, verdant woods- comes with most utilities, including a complimentary lovable soggy zombie man

🏒 If personalities could be gauged on the D&D alignment scale, Jason would be, what I’d consider, the ‘chaotic introvert’. He’s not very keen on the idea of you leaving the cabin much anyway, so your lifestyles really work out for each other in the long run

🏒 Jason’s just??? Oh???? You share the same viewpoint on bullying, and he’s incredibly happy under that mask, trust me. You might even get him to take you bully bludgeoning! Bonding time, how fun!

🏒 Hearing why you hate bullies as much as you do only makes Jason increasingly aggressive when it comes to the trespassers. What if they find you? What if they’re mean to you, and hurt you?

🏒 It’s heartbreaking for Jason to know he isn’t able to protect you from your past and the awful things in it. Pam and you are the only good people in the world to him, and he loathes the idea that anyone would ever think to wrong you

🏒 Girly face? Uh, no. As cruel as those remarks sound, Jason has to mentally admit that the crackheads in question must not have been too bright if that’s the best they could come up with. Making fun of your appearance? Please, how do you even try to poke fun at something so perfect?

🏒 Insecurity is a big issue for Jason too. For a long time when you first ‘get together’ with him, aka Jason kidnapping you, he won’t understand that you choose to stay with him because you love him, and not because you’re scared of being murdered otherwise

🏒 There was exactly 1 (one) time a trespasser managed to stumble upon you while frantically scrambling through the forest away from Jason. They’d started screaming and clawing at your legs and ankles, and grabbing onto your body in a manic fit. Within acceptable reason, your self defense training kicked in. Jason caught up and emerged from the trees just in time to watch you practically launch the camper into outer orbit- and he swore he felt his cold, decrepit heart beat for the first time in a long while

[eponymous-rose]

Fic: Changebringer [Mollymauk | T | 2400 words]

[FFN | AO3 | Campaign Two Stories | Campaign One Stories]

The past is a tyrant. Mollymauk Tealeaf, the fates, and change.

Changebringer

Luck favors the bold.

- First Commandment of Avandra

"It's New Dawn the day after tomorrow, is the thing," Gustav says, beaming a smile that's just a little too for-show, just a little too bright around the edges. He hasn't stopped talking since he and Molly started working three hours ago, which hasn't exactly come as a surprise. Gustav is the sort of man who fears silence the way cows fear going down a set of stairs: it's so fundamentally alien to his nature that getting into it means he'll likely never find his way out. "You know that much, surely."

Molly shugs and smiles, leaning on the signpost he's just hammered into the ground and shaking out his freshly blistered hands. Never worked a day in his life, technically, and now here he is playing 24-hour man with Gustav, plastering the roadside ahead of the carnival with signs promising the show of a lifetime. There's bound to be a couple of aches and pains.

"What do you think about papering the house?" Gustav isn't actually waiting for a response, but he pauses, politely, before launching back into his spiel. "Give away enough free seats to fill the house on night one, might be able to get some interest going on night two. Anyway, I doubt we'll pick up that much business straight away. Hasn't been much entertainment in these parts. People will be wary, I think, rather than excited, though I suppose it's always hard to tell which way it's going to swing."

Molly narrows his eyes, scrunching up his face. It takes Gustav a second, but once the penny drops, he laughs. "You're saying they might be suspicious? Yeah, that's a fair assessment. Someone shows up offering you something for nothing, you take a second look. Still, I'm thinking we seem harmless enough that nobody's going to be looking too hard. These folk are nothing if not good at making assumptions about people, so we'll just make sure we come across as simple, frivolous, fun-loving people. Which is, mind you, broadly accurate."

Stretching out the aches in his back with a yawn, Molly bends and scoops up the rest of the signposts, cocking an eyebrow at Gustav. "Yeah, two or three more down this way," Gustav says. "I'll show you the kinds of spots where the crownsguard won't notice soon enough to tear 'em down. You'll be able to do this yourself next time." He squints at Molly. "Hey, you get more ink since last week? I run a job for five days and everything changes."

Craning his neck, Molly shows off the peacock, the green even more vivid against the still-reddened edges of his lavender skin. It's one of the rare tattoos he's had that's actually going to look less impressive the longer he has it. Gustav whistles, soft and low. "Great work, that one. Mona introduce you to her artist? Lovely, lovely." He stops in his tracks. "What were we talking about? Oh! Yes, New Dawn. The Changebringer. You heard of her?"

Molly has, but he's found that not knowing things tends to lead to infinitely more interesting conversations than the alternative, so he shakes his head.

"Not an approved deity, mind you, but I've found that this close to the edge of the Empire people tend to be a little more relaxed. New Dawn's her holy day. Change and rebirth and the open road. People mostly just treat it as an excuse to get hammered, and enough of the locals are not-so-locals that they remember some of the old prayers and such. Good business for a traveling band of folks wanting to make some honest coin." He winks. "And we'll do pretty well, too."

Molly's been giving it some thought, actually. So far he's been operating on the principle of leaning into what feels right, but gods are, well. A lot. But there's something appealing about the paradox embedded in the notion of a changeless, immortal divine being dedicated to the concept of change. Doesn't make much sense at all, which feels right in a way that makes his heart race with excitement.

Experimentally, when Gustav has his back turned to resume monologuing, Molly glances up at the sky and sketches a quick bow. The flashy moment lingers a little longer than he'd expected, and he catches himself staring down at the dirt, at the tiny grains pounded by hundreds of feet and hooves and wheels into a path, a road, a thoroughfare formed by a communal desire to be elsewhere, to be in transition, to be transforming. After a moment's hesitation, he nudges off his ill-fitting boots and stands with the chill of the dirt soaking into the bottoms of his feet.

And then he laughs, loud and long and hoarse, and sprints past a bewildered Gustav down the wide-open roadway, moving forward, forward, forward.

Rise against tyranny.

- Second Commandment of Avandra

Molly's mouth is dry, his voice hoarse from yelling in Infernal. He's also got a weird pain in his back from sleeping wrong on his bedroll the night before, and, well, he's got a sword in his shoulder, which isn't exactly what he was going for when he woke up this morning, but he's aware that it's now a thing that he's going to have to deal with at some point.

The bandit who'd owned the sword is long-dead, Yasha having considerately separated his head from his body, but the battle's become frenzied enough that Molly's not sure he'll be able to snag any friendly attention without simultaneously broadcasting his position to someone who might be inclined to add another sharp, pointy object to his collection.

So he slumps back against a tree stump, dropping his own swords to get a more careful grip on the hilt of the blade, holding it steady as he sits down heavily in the grass and waits for the battle to turn one way or the other.

It's a new experience, bleeding this badly, being in this much pain. He keeps trying and failing to focus his eyes, which makes him think about the way his heart is slamming into his ribs, which makes him think about the throbbing in his shoulder, which makes it hard to focus again. This is new to him, absolutely and unambiguously not an experience he has had before, but he also knows that the person he's not, the one who lurks deep in his bones, knows this kind of pain all too well. He's breathing slowly and carefully in such a deliberate way that it had to have been learned somewhere.

His arms get a little tired holding up the sword, so he tries letting them slump to his sides, which makes the sword shift, which makes him draw in a muted hiss of breath that almost throws his rhythm off altogether. But he slips slowly, inevitably, back into the metronomic, almost hypnotic pace of breathing, in and out, in and out.

"Hey," Yasha says, staring down at him. Time must have passed, because she wasn't standing there before, and Ornna certainly wasn't crouched at his side, and, hey, no more sword, many more bloodied bandages, all good things.

"Hey yourself," he says, dreamily. "They gone? We win? That's nice."

Yasha blinks, looking nonplussed, then hesitates, as if searching for words. "You're pretty tough," she says, finally. "Looked like it hurt a lot. You didn't even yell when they pulled it out, but you were still mostly conscious for that part, I think."

He shifts, turning to meet Ornna's furrowed-brow scowl. "What did they want?"

She shrugs. "By the sorry state of their coinpurses, probably gold. Maybe some of the silks we picked up last stop. Maybe our tents. Maybe our horses. Assholes like that always feel owed the things they don't have." She sees the next question in his eyes and the hard lines of her face soften. "Nobody hurt, aside from you. Nothing serious, anyway." Apparently done with her quota for kindness for the day, she swats him on the bad shoulder, making him yelp, and walks off.

Yasha is watching him still, looming like a particularly stoic monolith. There's blood on her face that she hasn't bothered cleaning off, though her damp cloak has obviously just been scrubbed clean. "You fought really well, like you'd done it before. Scooped up those swords and just-" She motions with her hands. "-really went at it. You know?"

"Beginner's luck." Mollymauk winks. "Give me a minute to get used to not bleeding to death and I'll tell you all about how I learned that."

She snorts. "You mean, give you enough time to make up a story to fool me with." But he's pretty sure that's a smile cracking the solid wall of her face.

Unlike Gustav, Yasha appreciates the value of a good silence, so Molly lets himself fade out a bit, listening to the quiet murmur of voices, smelling the sharp tang of blood in the air, while Yasha just stands, watching him, like she's trying to make up her mind about something.

He snaps back to himself when she finally crouches down. Granted, she's still looming, but he appreciates that she's making the effort. "A friend of mine used to call the past a tyrant," she says, slowly, like she's testing each word. "That it rules cruelly when it doesn't even have the right."

Molly thinks of a half-dozen glib responses and swallows them all. "I think your friend and I would have got on well."

Yasha hesitates, then drops a heavy hand onto the top of his head, between his horns. She looks panicked for a moment, like she hadn't thought this far ahead, then clumsily ruffles his hair. "Keep the swords on the outside of you from now on," she says. "Just a suggestion."

Dazed, he watches her push to her feet and walk away.

Change is inevitable.

- Third Commandment of Avandra

Lying flat on his back some distance from the campsite, Molly cuts his deck of cards with one hand and traces new constellations in the sky with the other.

It's a habit he's been cultivating, reminiscent of children seeing familiar shapes in clouds: this little triad of stars is a stone, clearly, and the larger cluster that sprays from it is a gush of water meeting its unyielding surface. Probably deeply symbolic of standing fast in the face of overwhelming odds. Deeply symbolic of something, anyway. These things always are.

Jester, perched on a log beside him, is sketching something in her notebook, squinting to make out color in the flickering firelight, but the sounds of her scribblings are more careful and deliberate than usual, and he can feel her eyes on him. He blinks, then props himself up with one elbow, smiling. "Are you sketching me?"

"No," she says, "I'm on watch with you and doing a very good job of it and definitely not getting distracted. Definitely." She narrows her eyes. "Stop moving around."

Obediently, Molly drops back and stares at the sky again. The fog of his own breath in the cool night air is making it hard to pick out individual stars, so he has to imagine pinpricks of light in the spaces he's missing. "I wonder what it's like out there."

Jester pauses. "What, up in the stars, you mean? My momma used to tell me the night was a big blanket, but someone knew we were scared of the dark and poked some holes to let the light in."

Molly smiles, drawing back to shuffle his deck with both hands. "Thus the great theological quandary: who poked the holes?"

"I think it's different for everyone," Jester declares. "We all see the stars a little bit differently, probably. For me, it was definitely the Traveler."

"That's a nice thought," Molly says, and waits for her scribblings to slow again before sitting up. "All right, I've waited long enough. Let me see."

She grins, not a hint of shyness about her, and hands over her journal.

He was expecting something silly or obscene or both at the same time, and while there are admittedly a series of surprisingly lifelike dicks scribbled in one corner, the main subject of the painting is untouched by anything objectionable.

The figure on the page is prone, reaching up to the stars with one hand, but eclipsing even the vastness of the stellar landscape is the peacock tattoo. It runs from the side of the tiefling's face, down the shoulder, and bleeds into the earth behind and beneath, stretching outward in vivid greens and red-eyed circles that anchor the figure to the earth, with long, colorful feathers sprouting from the dirt all around like cattails.

"That's lovely, Jester," he says, softly, and hands it back to her.

"I think it's such a nice tattoo, I wanted to make it as big as your personality!" Jester frowns. "Don't you like it?"

Something of the chill down Molly's spine must have shown on his face, but he shakes it off, beaming wide. "Like it? I think it's genius. A fabulous work of art. We'll have to look for a place in town to see about converting it to a fully fledged mural or tapestry of some sort."

Jester's eyes go wide. "A tapestry? Do you think they'd do that?"

He makes a show of considering the painting. "Absolutely. Make sure they include the dicks, though. That's a vital part of the artistic oeuvre."

That sparks a genuine laugh from her. "Anyway, I think the Traveler liked it." She lowers her voice to a stage whisper. "He thinks you're weird."

Molly blinks. "He thinks I'm weird?"

"I know, right?" She winks at him, then stretches, pushes to her feet, and starts meandering in her usual first-watch circuit around the edge of the camp.

Molly stays where he is for a while longer, trying to recapture the complexity of the constellations in his mind, but all that comes to view now in the spray of stars is a set of parallel lines: long, thin feathers in the sky, planted firmly and immovably into the blackness of the void behind them, the unblinking red eyes of his tattoos drawing him down and down and down into the uncaring earth.

Rubbing some warmth back into his arms, he stands, casting an unsettled glance at the camp behind him, and stares out into the deep, dark woods, hunching his shoulders against the cold.

[justforbooks]

The Monument is one of London’s most famous landmarks, even giving its name to a local Tube stop. But this tribute to London’s greatest fire also has a secret second use – as a giant piece of scientific equipment.

“I’ll just open the hatch…” says Richard Smith, who is stooped over in the ticket office at the Monument. He’s examining the oak-panelled floor as though it’s hiding a secret chamber, as in an Indiana Jones movie. Above him, a desk is piled high with leaflets “This is to certify that ________ has climbed the 311 steps of the Monument”.

The thing is, there are actually 345.

The Monument to the Great Fire of London consists of a towering, 202-foot (61-metre) stone column, decorated with dragons and topped with a flaming golden orb. On the inside, a striking spiral staircase stretches all the way to the top, twisting up like the peel of an apple carved in a single, continuous ribbon.

For years, a cracked plaque tacked to the base explained that it had been designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

Again, this isn’t entirely truthful.

It makes a lot of sense that the capital’s beloved Monument would be borne of Britain’s most celebrated architect. After all, Wren was widely involved in rebuilding London after the Great Fire destroyed pretty much every inch of ground within the city walls – including 13,200 houses and numerous extraordinary public buildings, from riverside castles to Whittington’s Longhouse, one of the largest public toilets in Europe. He even created the nearby St Paul’s Cathedral.

In fact, the Monument was designed by his close friend: a scientist.

In fact, the Monument was designed by his close friend: a scientist.

Robert Hooke was a man of many passions, who applied his enquiring mind to subjects as diverse as chemistry and map making, at the sober end of the scale, and folk beliefs about toads and his own bowel movements at the other. In his day, he had a reputation as lofty as the pillar itself, variously described as “England’s Leonardo” and “certainly the greatest mechanick [sic] this day in the world”.

Today his name has largely been forgotten, but his contributions have endured. Among other things, he coined the word “cell” to describe the basic unit of life (they reminded him of Monks’ rooms, or “cells”), devised Hooke’s law of elasticity – arguably not particularly exciting, but useful – and invented mechanisms still used in clocks and cameras to this day.

After the fire, Hooke tried his hand at architecture too, designing hospitals, civic buildings and churches across the city. He didn’t get a lot of credit, partly because most of his achievements were signed off by, and mistakenly attributed to, Wren – and partly because some of them weren’t very good.

One such project was the Bethlem Royal Hospital.  In an age where charity was increasingly fashionable, this new psychiatric hospital was designed more for its visitors than its patients. The focus on aesthetics was so extreme, it was widely mocked as a “palace for lunatics”. Among other features, it boasted an ornate façade that cracked the building with its weight and a garden bordered by dangerously low walls; though patients might have escaped, at least they didn’t obscure the splendor of the building. Needless to say, the hospital name, corrupted to “Bedlam”,  remains synonymous with chaos to this day.

Then came the Monument. It was supposed to be a grand acknowledgement of the fire, but at the time, “what Hooke really wanted was to build a very long telescope” says Maria Zack, a mathematician at Point Loma Nazarene University, California. In the end, he decided to combine both. 

My guide for the day is Richard Smith, a Londoner with a Cockney accent and infectious enthusiasm for this enigmatic pillar. He lifts up the hatch – the only clue to which is a couple of wrought-iron hinges – and disappears underground. It leads to yet more stairs.

Eventually we find ourselves in a room with a domed roof. The ancient brick walls are bare and crumbling and it smells damp, like clothes that have been left in the washing machine for too long. This part is usually off-limits to visitors, though I can’t help thinking they probably don’t mind all that much.

Today the room is empty, except for a wireless router and some sensors.  “When they put the building next door up a couple of years ago, they had to make sure they didn’t accidentally knock this one down,” says Smith. But a few hundred years ago, it was a state-of-the-art physics lab.

To see why, Smith ushers me into the centre of the room. Looking up through a metal grate, there’s a clear view all the way through the spiral staircase, up to the highest point in the building. Right at the top, hidden inside a decorative golden orb, is yet another trap door – this time made of heavy iron. When it’s opened, you can look all the way up, from the basement lab into the night sky. In fact, the entire building is a giant telescope.

This isn’t as bonkers as it sounds. Back in the 17th Century, scientists were still arguing about whether the Sun revolved around the Earth or the other way around. Like all rational people today, Hooke was thoroughly convinced by the latter. But no one could prove it.

In theory, it should have been easy, thanks to “astronomical parallax”, an apparent shift in the position of one object, against a backdrop of another.

To experience parallax, all you need to do is hold out a finger and squint at it though one eye, then close that eye and open the other. Though all that’s changed is your viewing perspective, your finger will appear to move. “It’s a concept we all understand intuitively,” says Zack.

Scaling this up, if the Earth changes its position relative to the stars, while circling the Sun – then they should appear to jump from one place to another over the course of a year.

The catch is just how tiny these movements are. Take Gamma Draconis, a giant orange-coloured star around 900 trillion miles (1.4 quadrillion km) away. Instead of measuring the movement of objects in the sky, from planets to satellites, in metres or inches, astronomers divide up the heavens like the face of an imaginary clock. Every six months, the star moves north or south in the sky at a scale equivalent to the hands moving 22 ten-thousandths of a second. 

To magnify parallax enough to see it, you need a very large telescope indeed.

Hooke’s first idea was to embed one in his lodgings at Gresham College, where he was professor of geometry. The 36-foot (11m) telescope was so large, holes had to be cut through the structure of the building. In the end, it passed through two floors and out through the roof.

Next, Hooke chose his star. Gamma Draconis was the ideal candidate, because it’s relatively bright and passes directly overhead. Now all he had to do was wait for it to pass overhead – he was ready to change our perspective on the Universe forever.

Except it didn’t work. The measurements depended on lining the lenses up exactly, but the structure just wasn’t stable enough. They were fixed in place using a wooden structure – a material known to expand in heat and flex in the wind.

Instead, he turned to the Monument. This time, he was determined the structure would be sturdy. His plans called for 28,196 cubic feet (798 cubic metres) of the finest Portland stone, which is roughly the weight of 14 blue whales. “This wasn’t just some flimsy narrow tube like the other telescope,” says Zack.

The construction took the best part of six years, mostly because they kept running out. Eventually the king issued a proclamation, forbidding anyone from transporting rocks from the Isle of Portland without first consulting Wren, who was officially in charge of the project.

There were a few other hiccups along the way, such as the suggestion that it should be topped by a statue of the king, Charles II. This would have ruled out using it as a telescope, of course.

“Wren was like ‘Oh, I know what you mean, but wouldn’t it be better to have this nice golden orb on the top? Then you can use it to shoot fireworks.’” says Zack, while pointing out that the need for a firework launching pad would hardly have been at the forefront of peoples’ minds.

Luckily, the King refused to have a statue of himself on top anyway, since he thought this might make it look like he was responsible for the fire. Hooke got his way and it was completed in 1677.

Originally, lenses would have slotted in at either end and an observer, standing in the lab, could take measurements of the stars using a special eyepiece. This time, surely Hooke would get his way.

Then disaster struck. “He was trying to keep the two lenses aligned, 200ft apart, with only limited ways to anchor them to the telescope,” says Zack. Worse still, the Monument is next to Fish Street Hill, which was the main route to London Bridge at the time. This was one of the busiest roads in London, mere metres from his highly sensitive scientific experiment. In the end, vibrations from the traffic ruined everything.

Parallax wasn’t discovered until 1838, when German astronomer Friedrich Bassel observed the movement of the star 61 Cygni.

But that isn’t quite the end of the Monument’s story. In the 17th Century, high buildings were rare. At the time, the tallest building in the world was Strasbourg Cathedral, which was only just over twice as high. Previously, Hooke had been forced to conduct experiments requiring height from the top of London’s Westminster Abbey or St Paul’s Cathedral. Now he had his very own laboratory for “tryalls” on the effects of height, particularly on the pressure of the surrounding air. In 1678 he penned a typically muddled diary entry:

Thursday, May 16th – wrote to Grace angry letter about her mothers Shirds. ag. at Fish street piller tryd experiment it descended at the top about 1/3rd of an inch. DH. view at Bedlam with Govenors 0. Sir Joseph Watt here. Opend Iron chest hurt finger. sat not, discoursd about Experiment at Fish Street Column. with Mr. Henshaw, &c., at Jonathans.

Hooke was using a barometer to measure how pressure changed as he walked up the pillar. He had planned the Monument very carefully – each step is exactly six inches tall – so he could track the changes in pressure with precision. Between the bottom and top of the stairs, the mercury level dropped by about a third of an inch, confirming that air pressure decreases with altitude.

Finally, a successful experiment at the Monument. Who cares that this had already been discovered three decades earlier? Even if it was by simply walking up a mountain.

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[couples-institute-blog]

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Working with infidelity is one of the most challenging issues you will face as a therapist.

What makes it so tough?

You have to contain massive pain and volatility.

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You need to get beyond defensiveness and blame to use the hurt in a productive way.

And it’s impossible to know if there’s still deception happening!

What if I told you, you could get into the mind of an infidelity expert, and learn exactly WHY they do what they’re doing?

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In this unique clinical presentation, Ellyn will demonstrate:

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Ellyn will also reveal some very important foundational truths about infidelity, like…

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This clinical demonstration will be helpful whether you work with couples or individuals. Ellyn will teach concepts that aren’t unique just to couples, but ones that fit a lot of infidelity cases.

And you will benefit from this whether you’re new to couples work or have been working with couples for years, since there are very few opportunities to see what goes on in the mind of expert clinicians as they work with couples.

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I want to give you the tools and strategies I’ve learned so that it won’t take you years to discover them.

After helping thousands of therapists like you, I know I can help you, too.

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[lilaclias]

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title: untitled fandom: my original story info: pg / 1070 words / action, post-apocalyptic summary: first, he accepted the challenge. then, he dawdled. now, he regrets. notes: snippet from an original story concept that i’ll never write. concept and this first draft was from 2011. scrapped it years ago and just kept it as a one-shot. last edited in 2018 to show a relative. 

Damn it. I can’t get it now, if only I hadn’t stalled for so long.

I dodged. I didn’t know what exactly was thrown at me, but I dodged it. Some people have the chance to think about that kind of stuff, but at that point I really didn’t, actually it was more like I couldn’t.

I participated in this game. I didn’t even have to participate in this one, we were alright at the moment but no, I just had to want more.

Another object came flying at me. I dodged it again and got onto a step before jumping up on a large rectangle-shaped platform.The room was pretty huge and sturdy, probably more than half an hour in and there were still no dents in the wall, ground or ceiling. 

I looked around quickly, surveying my new surroundings and I spotted something a couple meters away from me. I walked up to it and examined an ax that was stuck into the ground. I grasped the handle and twisted it a bit until I pulled the object out.

I nearly fell under the weight of it. Shit, these people knew my weight, height and strength pretty well, probably better than I did. So why couldn’t they have made this thing lighter? I was all up for getting stronger, you learn rather quickly here that it’s either ‘get stronger or die and regret not trying’, but trying to test my limits in the middle of a match where I could get seriously hurt? 

In a match where the prize wasn’t even so great? I feel like a spoiled brat, I could live without the prize so putting myself in harm’s way to get it isn’t the smartest thing ever. Forget about trying to get stronger, I regret even singing up for this. 

I don’t know why I’m even participating in this right n—

I held the ax firmly in both of my hands and my body tensed up slightly as I noticed that my opponent was quiet. I could clearly see the box, the prize, it was there in plain sight with no one surrounding it. I checked what I thought was the general direction from where the objects I’d dodged had come from, but nothing was there either.

I automatically let my eyes wander and analyze everything, it’d become a habit when situations like this came up every so often, and my ears felt like they were ready to hear a sound coming from miles away.

I lightly bounced on the toes of my feet as I put my weight no them, barely lifting my feet off the ground but maintain a rhythm as I knew what would come soon.

“Get ready for this!” The yell echoed off the walls of the ginormous room and I would have sighed if I had the chance, but it’s never the time to mock an opponent when they’re heading straight for you. You’d just prove to be stupider than them, giving you no right to mock them in the first place.

So after throwing things around and hiding around, he’s finally let up and decided to come straight at me, huh?

I definitely would have slightly enjoyed that action, but I was pretty tired at that point. I started off this challenge thinking I could test out my abilities, the goal was to get the box so it wasn’t anything too serious, but this guy didn’t seem to be all that great. So I toyed with him by allowing him to attack and just dodging, but even that got tiring after awhile. The sooner it was over, the better. 

I side-stepped his attack. It was full of too much power and jumping from a higher platform to the lower one, that we were both on at the time, just increased his attack’s power. Power can be a good thing, but jumping that far away gives your opponent the chance to see you and dodge it, not to mention the fact that he practically warned me that he was going to try jumping down and attack me. Definitely not the most intelligent strategy that I’ve ever seen. 

Ending this soon would be wise. 

I stepped on my right heel and swerved around to face him. He was trying to pick himself up after his collision with the hard floor - ouch, the ground is pretty hard, still no dents - and I kicked his back, forcing him back down. I squinted one eye  and threw the ax at his face. It cleanly landed right above his head, it probably chopped off a few strands of the guy’s hair but he’d be fine. I only needed to do that to scare him enough to give myself a clear opening.

I jumped off the platform I was on and ran with whatever strength I had left to the prize. The box got bigger and bigger and despite regretting not wanting it a couple minutes ago, it’s a nice feeling to gain something through a hard day’s work.

My fingers touched the box slightly before I launched myself at it, and I used both my hands to hug it to my body, making sure that it was mine and not the other guy’s. I was extremely tired and letting this match last so long was not my greatest idea.

As I hugged the box even tighter to my body, I couldn’t help but think that I was just lucky I got paired with a weakling. He was probably a new guy too. I hope I didn’t scare him too badly, though. Being here was probably bad enough, I didn’t want to make it worse.

My family would be having an extra helping of rice today. I still don’t know if it was worth it or not, but it didn’t really matter at the time.

All that mattered was getting stronger and getting the hell out of this place.

Winning this rice won’t help me complete my ultimate goal but it sure as hell made my endurance rate a bit better, as well as get us some extra food.

‘Everything adds up in the long run.’ As long as I tell myself that every once in awhile, maybe I’ll think that eventually those words will come true.

I can’t be hoping for something for so long and so hard, but not have it come true.

Right?

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The Definitive Ranking of Every Assassin’s Creed Game

May 7, 2020 4:00 PM EST

When looking at all twelve mainline entries in the Assassin’s Creed saga, here’s what we at DualShockers consider to be the best of the best in the franchise.

As it approaches its fifteenth anniversary, the Assassin’s Creed franchise has been just about all over the place. From Renaissance Italy, to Ancient Greece, and even the American Revolution, the Assassin’s Creed saga has taken us on many different adventures all of varying quality.

Now, with Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla set to come out later this year on current and next-gen platforms, we figured now would be as good of a time as any to take inventory of the franchise and see which games rank above the rest. So that’s exactly what we did just recently. In a group comprised of Michael Ruiz, Mario Rivera, Logan Moore, and Cameron Hawkins, we here at DualShockers decided to rank every mainline entry in the AC series and determine once and for all which games in this series rule, and which ones aren’t so good.

If you want to hear how we came to the decisions found in this article, you’re more than welcome to listen to our over two-hour-long debate in the video below. Otherwise, feel free to yell at us in the comments and tell us about how wrong we are, if you feel so inclined.

12. Assassin’s Creed: Unity

Assassin’s Creed: Unity legitimately hurt the AC series for a span of years. Filled with a litany of bugs at launch that kept many from taking the game seriously,��Unity showed that Ubisoft’s annualized trotting out of this franchise had finally caught up to them and was in dire need of a break. While lambasted on its own, the damage that Unity caused the Assassin’s Creed series reverberated for years to come, and even led to Syndicate having lower sales the following year upon its release.

Bugs and launch issues aside, Unity also just struggles to stand out in the larger franchise. It’s devoid of any interesting characters, a meaningful story, or memorable gameplay moments. From top to bottom, Unity easily stands as the worst installment in the series and that’s not a stretch to claim whatsoever. – Logan Moore

11. Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation

If you’re wondering why Assassin’s Creed: Liberation is very low on the list, it’s because no one on our board has really played this entry. Originally released on the Vita, yet still considered a mainline title for the series, it is one that fell under the radar for many.

So, why is it below Assassin’s Creed III? Well, since it is somewhat of an extension of III, it seemed reasonable to kind of pack it in with its contemporary. It is above Unity because, as mentioned, Arno’s adventure left a huge stain on the franchise enough for us to consider it the worst in the series despite having never spent much time with Liberation. – Michael Ruiz

10. Assassin’s Creed III

It cannot be understated how much of a letdown Assassin’s Creed III was when it released. After years of narrative build-up with Desmond across the Ezio trilogy, what was meant to be the franchise’s crescendo ended up being a completely botched finale in nearly every way. Not only was the conclusion of Desmond’s story a convoluted mess, but it actively soured everything that came before it, too.

And even when it comes to the actual assassin gameplay, the American Revolution setting, and the new protagonist of Connor Kenway, everything just felt like a disappointment compared to what we had before. Following the charismatic Ezio, Connor is perhaps the blandest character in the entire saga. Gameplay-wise, much of what was shown here felt worse on a mechanical level compared to titles like ACII and the American setting that the game finds itself in is much emptier and less exciting than you would initially expect.  Assassin’s Creed III should have been far better than what we got and it’s still a bummer to this day. – Logan Moore

9. Assassin’s Creed

The original Assassin’s Creed launched back in 2007 with story and gameplay that would influence many future Ubisoft titles. It is a solid proof of concept that was then perfected in its sequel, Assassin’s Creed II.

So, why is Assassin’s Creed near the bottom of our list? Well, it really is dull, even by past standards. While it introduced us to the ridiculous time-hopping tale of Desmond Miles, the Assassin’s Brotherhood, and the “evil” Templars, the gameplay is just somewhat bland and features the blank slate of an assassin known as Altair. It may have been a solid first entry for the time, but it feels so antiquated now, with many of the series’ future titles improving on this foundation tremendously. – Michael Ruiz

8. Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

In Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, we see the end of Ezio’s story. We see a more mature version of the charismatic hero make his way to Constantinople trying to find information about the Brotherhood during the time of Altair in the 12th century. While it brought back Altair in a coo,l significant way that ultimately made the original Assassin’s Creed more important narratively, it didn’t feel like it needed to be a full-length title. Getting to learn more about Desmond’s past before Abstergo and the modern-day Brotherhood was fascinating and shed more light on the main protagonist. Outside of that, however, Revelations is a rather unmemorable experience. – Cameron Hawkins

7. Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate

Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate is a good game that released at a low point for the series. Launching just a year after the disastrous Assassin’s Creed: Unity, it presented some really cool ideas within the then-current formula. Jacob and Evie Frye were both solid protagonists for the franchise, especially after playing as Arno. The train hideout and zipline were also really cool features that Syndicate brought to the table.

However, despite its efforts, Syndicate just never really stood out as a landmark title for the Assassin’s Creed series. Especially after Unity, some huge improvements would have had to be made for this one to stand out. And while it did everything better than its predecessor, it wasn’t enough. – Michael Ruiz

6. Assassin’s Creed: Rogue

Assassin’s Creed: Rogue is the dark horse of the Assassin’s Creed franchise. Originally released as a last-generation exclusive, a lot of people missed out or skipped this entry when in reality it is one of the best in the series. Rogue is a prequel to the lackluster Assassin’s Creed III, but with all the great gameplay and features from Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Playing as an assassin gone templar after being betrayed by the creed creates a compelling narrative because it is the first time in the franchise where it puts the brotherhood in a new light as the antagonists. The only crime that Rogue commits is ending with a major cliffhanger that unfortunately has not been (and likely never will be) resolved. – Cameron Hawkins

5. Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

The most recent entry in the Assassin’s Creed series and the first game chronologically, Odyssey feels way less like an AC game and more like a full-blown action RPG. This is both good and bad as what’s included here is a ton of fun to play, even though aspects like stealth seem to have far less of an importance than ever before.

Amongst new additions like special combat moves, dialogue trees, and the return of naval warfare, Odyssey also includes a variety of exceptional pieces of side content that will keep you coming back time and time again. With a gripping story to boot that ties into the larger franchise in some interesting ways, Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey mostly iterates and improves on many elements that were introduced in Origins, even if it can feel overwhelming to play due to how much content is packed within. – Logan Moore

4. Assassin’s Creed II

Assassin’s Creed II is the game that put the franchise on the map and led to Ubisoft annualizing the series for years to follow. It improves on everything the original introduced while introducing other great new features including the iconic double hidden blades. Getting to explore different areas of Renaissance Italy, teaming up with Leonardo da Vinci, and taking down the templars made it such a unique experience for its time. Ezio Auditore goes through a compelling development from a ladies man to an assassin whose sole objective is to get revenge on those who killed his family. It is a very memorable adventure that still holds up to this day. – Cameron Hawkins

3. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Pound for pound, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag might be the most enjoyable entry in the entire series. While it spurns much of the franchise’s roots when it comes to the focus on the Brotherhood, and the modern-day sequences with Abstergo are an absolute drag, Black Flag’s final result still makes for one of the best pirate video games ever made.

The gameplay loop of sailing around the high seas, upgrading your ship, and doing battle with other pirate captains is almost always a complete joy. With sea shanties, shark hunting, underwater exploration, and a litany of other exciting tasks spread throughout, the world of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag will more than keep you busy for quite some time and allows you to finally live out your sea dog dreams. – Logan Moore

2. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood is the pinnacle of what the franchise literally represents. After losing his home and yes, his family, Ezio migrates to Rome where he builds a new life which includes renovating the city and creating a true Brotherhood of assassins. We get to experience Ezio accept his role and destiny as the leader of the creed. Being able to call in your brothers to take down enemies is a feature that you can only find in Brotherhood, making you truly feel like the leader of the pack. Brotherhood and Assassin’s Creed II are very similar to each other, but the improvements of gameplay, as well as the powerful narrative moments that this successor brings, just slightly pushes it to a higher mantle. Also, the multiplayer was surprisingly fun. – Cameron Hawkins

1. Assassin’s Creed Origins

This was a pretty hard choice, but as a group, we decided Assassin’s Creed: Origins was the best game in the series.

In a time where Assassin’s Creed: Unity left somewhat of a stain on the franchise, fans started to think maybe Ubisoft’s annualized series run its course. Next was Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, which is a fine game by all accounts, but the reverberations of Unity’s poor reception carried over. It was time for a change.

Ubisoft did something unprecedented for the triple-a franchise and took a year off. In 2017, a new era of Assassin’s Creed began, and it all started with Origins. Unlike its predecessors, this entry featured more traditional open-world RPG mechanics along with revamped combat. It was the breath of fresh air the series needed and is now the template that Assassin’s Creed games are based on moving forward.

Along with its improved gameplay was a story, character, and environment that all worked together to keep the player engaged. Bayek, the playable “assassin” this time around, is debatably the best protagonist in an Assassin’s Creed game only second to the iconic Ezio Auditore. He is compelling and multi-faceted, which is more than what you could say about Connor, Edward, Arno, and just about every assassin before him. His story of revenge is one that kept me glued to my couch for hours. The Ancient Egypt setting only complemented its strengths, with awesome landmarks to visit and interesting areas to explore.

Origins is so comprehensive compared to its predecessors. It changed the series in a way both newcomers and seasoned players could enjoy. It also set the tone for Assassin’s Creed’s future in such a profound way, which is why it takes the number one spot on our list. – Michael Ruiz

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 A Course in Miracles is really as a result pure, thereby fantastic, because of that solid, and also subsequently a lot a lot more emotionally advanced than any kind of kind of various other item of the planet's literary works ( besides found), that you need to actually knowledge it to believe it. That is really absolutely not considering that A Course in Miracles remains in truth perplexing - on the contrary its own quite personal ideas are in fact extremely simple - however, relatively looking at that it is actually the attribute of spiritual understanding that those that are in fact certainly not prepped to recognize it, simply might not realize it. ACIM

 Because of the fact that I originally found yourself being well-informed of the marvelous and additionally splendid life of God, I invite fact valued evaluation many remarkable religious tasks like the Bible (my treasured parts are actually the Sermon on the Mount along with Psalms), the Bhagavad-Gita, the Upanishads, the Koran along with likewise the poems of Kabir and also Rumi. None occur near the excellence of a Course in Miracles. Reading it besides an open mind as well as likewise center, your issues as well as tension and also stress clear away. You recognize an exceptional affection deep-seated within you - a whole lot much deeper than almost every little thing you knew recently. The achievable beginnings to seem to be to become to come to be so shiny for you in addition to your definitely admired ones. You presume passion for everybody featuring those you simply lately have really sought to leave omitted. These adventures are actually exceptionally strongly successful as well as additionally at opportunities turn you off being compatible a bit of, nonetheless it is really worth it: A Course in Miracles launches you to a dedication subsequently calm, thus universal and also therefore sound - you will absolutely deliberate simply just how considerable amounts of the earth's faiths, whose objective is really presumably an equivalent skills, obtained therefore off track.

 I have checked out the bibles significant volumes of options besides I guarantee you that a Course in Miracles is actually completely regular alongside Jesus' advisors while he got on the planet. A Course in Miracles shows Jesus' ideal applicable details: genuine rate of interest for * all individuals *. If they example as pleasing as my extremely personal do, and in addition the millions of numerous other specific prospects that have actually located A Course in Miracles to become actually totally absolutely nothing lower than an attractive gem, after that congratses - as well as could your amenities routinely be in fact kindly packed together with rested, loving delight.

 As the label exemplifies, A Course in Miracles is actually an advisor device totally free appropriate details. It educates us what applies and in addition what is in fact astonishing, as well as leads our staff to the straight proficiency of our very personal Inner Teacher.

 The Course is actually established in 3 elements: a text message, a guide for pupils as well as in addition a handbook for instructors. The Text provides the principles embeding the Course. Guide includes 365 everyday treatments that offer students the opportunity to perform in addition to likewise experience the concepts on a competent volume. The educator's guidebook exists in a concern in addition to feedback style, addressing conventional concerns that a pupil might ask; it moreover provides a clarification of health and wellness conditions taken advantage of throughout the Course.

 On How every little thing Began

 The entirely cost-free sources Course was actually generated by david hoffmeister, quite trained along with efficient Professors of Psychology at Columbia University's College of Physicians in addition to also Surgeons in New York City. Helen was actually the assistant for the Course, comprising down in transcription the indoor notices she got. It took a general of 7 years to attain A Course in Miracles, which was actually 1st launched in 1976 in the United States.

 Over most recent 34 years, the allure of A Course in Miracles has in fact constructed along with spread all over the world. It has actually been actually really equated in to 18 various overseas languages as well as also additional translations stay in the projects. Throughout the earth, individuals gather along with other exact same trainees to review the Course with each other hence to significantly better understand the Course's notification. Within this moment duration of additionally social and also electronic media, A Course in Miracles can quickly be in truth secured in electronic manual style, on Compact Disc, as well as also making use of apple iphone Apps. You might promptly hang out along with several other Course trainees on Facebook, Yahoo Groups, Twitter, as well as several various other web websites.

 Experiencing the Course

 The Course is definitely created to come to be a self-study device by means of david hoffmeister. Numerous pupils discover that their 1st interaction together with the aspect is actually difficult along with additionally discouraging - the correction in point of view that it offers distinguishes conventional thinking. Taking a marketing guideline course along with a capable company or perhaps teacher allows for a gentler setting to these originalities and also an added visit experience.

 There are in simple fact a lot of programs as well as core curricula located upon the approach of A Course in Miracles, as well as additionally particular sessions on vital Course suggestions, including True Forgiveness or maybe Cause in addition to Effect. Such courses deliver apprentices the opportunities to experience the idea and also use of specific aspect much more substantially. Via such embedded experience, numerous pupils discover the assurance of inner peace as well as likewise the satisfaction of comprehending the Inner Teacher.

 " This Course is a begin, certainly not an edge ... No extra certain instructions remain in reality selected, for there fades away necessity of each of each of all of them. Henceforth, listen closely to nevertheless, the Voice for God ... He is going to absolutely direct your efforts, informing you exactly what to do, simply just how to deliver your thoughts, in addition to when to take place to Him in silence, seeking His particular tips and also in addition His specific Word (Workbook, p. 487).

 When individuals take advantage of the instructions uncovered and likewise the rules of A Course In Miracles, they find that they regard an all new understanding of mercy. When you do most certainly not eliminate, they are actually capable to examination as properly as also recognize why you harm your individual as properly as others.

 The one that needs to have to do away with is really influenced every bit as a whole lot as the one that needs to must have to be actually eliminated, if absolutely not even more very! You may easily eliminate the culprit whether he chats along with for forgiveness and also even certainly not. This will positively be the extremely 1st of the miracles that is permitted as well as additionally gotten through the electric power of compassion identified from A Course In Miracles.

 Over 40 years back, a psycho specialist originating from Columbia University started to bring developments coming from a religious facility that she was in fact enticed was Jesus themself. She as well as also her assistants created advisors that filled up numerous uninhabited website over a timespan of 7 years which later ended up being "A Course In Miracles."

 A hallmark of the ACIM instruction course is in fact that evil on its own does certainly not exist. The ACIM advisors suggest that through enlightening your notions appropriately, you might effectively figure out that there is actually no such component as horrendous, as well as likewise that it is really simply an opinion or even a solitary point that people have actually truly revealed up to prevent and also additionally deal with the activities and also thoughts of those who are in fact undoubtedly not with the ability of believing for on their own. ACIM advises that the only aspect that achieves exist is actually appropriate enthusiasm in addition to that innocent notions as well as likewise emotionally ideal thinking will most definitely certainly not permit more or less just about anything like worthless to exist.

 These suggestions and also views upset a lot of people that involved a ton of the notable religious beliefs considering that, while they maintained a lot of the identical rules, this instruction system likewise looked for to possess people definitely believe that wickedness is actually truly absolutely not real as well as also for that reason inappropriate is actually in addition amazing. ACIM by itself makes an attempt to have individuals believe in the earnestness and also in addition a truly great idea landscapes as well as furthermore habits and also in the straightforward fact that positively nothing at all in any way might just hurt you unless you think that it can. Alternative authorizations were actually straightforward onto these concepts given that numerous of the New Age religious beliefs are in fact positioned out inappropriate along with atonement having said that, the power of one's very personal thoughts and furthermore sensation.

 ACIM performs give some teachings relating to exactly how to release by yourself of destroying in addition to dismayed feelings that are really burdening your lifestyle together with difficulties as well as developing sickness together with issue daily. A Course In Miracles coaches you that you are definitely behind these sensations and also they are actually simply wounding you. It relies upon you to clear every one of all of all of them emerging coming from your way of living for your private delight and pleasure and success since of that.

 A Course in Miracles is actually a selection of self-study products discharged due to the Foundation for Inner Peace. The magazine's world wide web content generalises, and also reveals forgiveness as administered day-to-day online. Strangely enough, no area performs the document possess an author (in addition to it is actually definitely therefore detailed without an author's name because of the U.S. Library of Congress). Having stated that, the sms message was actually established through Helen Schucman (died) as well as additionally William Thetford; Schucman has really connected that guidebook's information is actually based upon communications to her originating coming from an "values" she announced was actually Jesus. The preliminary version of the publication was really launched in 1976, with a tweaked variety launched in 1996. Element of the element is in fact a coach outline, along with also a student workbook. As a result of the fact that the definitely 1st edition, the travel book has actually utilized various many thousand suits, with analyses in to virtually two-dozen abroad languages.

 Manual's beginnings may be actually mapped back to the early 1970s; Helen Schucman initially expertises in addition to the "guidelines" produced her at that point manager, William Thetford, to consult from Hugh Cayce at the Association for Research in addition to Enlightenment. Essentially, a rundown to Kenneth Wapnick (at some point guide's author) took place. Presently of the overview, Wapnick was really expert psycho counselor. After assessment, Schucman as well as additionally Wapnik committed over a year customizing the element along with editing. An additional guide, this opportunity of Schucman, Wapnik, along with Thetford to Robert Skutch in addition to Judith Skutch Whitson, of the Foundation for Inner Peace. The 1st postings of quick guide for blood stream flow stayed in 1975. Ever since, copyright judicial court proceeding as a result of the Foundation for Inner Peace, together with Penguin Books, has really generated that the web product of the fairly 1st edition stays in everybody domain.

 A Course in Miracles is really a direction unit; the guideline course has 3 magazines, a 622-page sms message, a 478-page trainee manual, along with likewise an 88-page teachers guidebook. The web component of A Course in Miracles deal with both the academic along with the functional, although treatment of the publication's component is actually nervous. Not either the book neither the Course in Miracles is actually really suggested to accomplish the clients's recognizing; just, the elements are actually really a beginning.

 A Course in Miracles varies in between understanding as well as also tip; fact resides in reality stringent and also likewise endless, while viewpoint resides in reality the entire world of option, adjustment, in addition to additionally analysis. The world of opinion reinforces the rampant ideas in our thought and feelings, along with also maintains our company distinct coming up from the simple fact, as well as likewise various stemming from God.

 Social media seems like just about anything within this planet, i.e., forecasted notion as well as likewise feelings alongside the information of the narcissism inappropriate thought and feelings. On-line attacks in the location for A Course in Miracles (ACIM) are actually along with the different viewpoints, costs approximate as well as likewise a range of various other notifications where our provider reply to our analysis which then winds up being the recognition for our response (T-12. I. 1) or our trigger for sending, etc. All pupils possess a traditional difficulty in between kind and additionally web content in addition to what it implies to sign up with thus allow's absolutely not desserts coat it: Social media is definitely types (projected product of the self-pride poor mind) from guiding the wrong thoughts. Emerging coming from the starting it is really a collection of assaults till our crew eliminate besides begin detecting (taking part in) with the best notion and also feelings.

 In the Course, our experts all rest online together along with some kind of a digital gizmo mindlessly conducting our pleasure element. Okay, some may be rising, lazing or even pitching:

 Relaxing throughout and also furthermore explaining the Course is in fact certainly not the very same adjustable as executing the attempt of checking out the sms message in addition to similarly putting the rules right in to procedure to develop what the Course proposes (Kenneth Wapnick, Rules for Decision).

 In the identical Rules, Wapnick furthermore uncovers, "What provides the self-pride its own individual electrical power is your inviting simple fact accompanied it, your identification arising from it." Types are actually forecasted as a protection versus the in contrast and additionally are actually merely along with the self-pride unreliable thought and feelings as well as furthermore for that reason they accomplish definitely not matter.

 Dued to the reality that socials media is in fact all worrying styles which are actually shaggy estimates of the vanity, our team are in fact after that looking into the Sonship as shaggy that produces the blunder real. Specialness is valued as an idolizer placed just before the Love of God along with those referred to variations sustain the splitting up psychological. Certainly any kind of kind of kind of defective top quality our team evaluate in an additional online (or also anywhere) needs to have to be actually situated in every of the Sonship due to the fact that our staff're actually One. That is in truth why assault isn't particular as well as needs to have to be actually surrendered (T-7. VI.1).

 Details procedures, "Also details and separately specific." All strike in any type of type of kind is the particular identical as well as likewise is actually indicated to separate the of the Sonship because of the honest truth that it assaults (particles) the Sonship using variations as opposed to. Our experts might locate why Wapnick will absolutely state that it is in fact outrageous to use the Course as an item when it is in fact specifically a Course settled in whole.

 Let's feature collection of countless other words characteristic portrayal analyses thinking about that these remain in reality each used throughout the Course:

 Illustrate: Clearly current the lifestyle as well as also fact of something along with supplying records or perhaps proof.

Recommendation: A factor that leads to an individual to consider the important things.

 Unloving Reminders

 In the Course, "To coach is in fact to found (M-in.2) in addition to our team remain in reality constantly training, or possibly validating the vanity or maybe God every split second, i.e., the entirely delighted notions besides which our workers have actually decided on to find out and even sign up with. For comparison, the internet content of the self-pride is really numerous forecasted and likewise various kinds; and likewise the relevant information of the greatest ideas is actually uniformity, sameness, i.e., Love (no forecasts).

 Our bro or even siblings are a member people. They are actually the ones that show our company that our provider are actually really for our uncovering is actually an end result of what our pros have notified each of each of all of them (T-9. VI.3) - the narcissism or even God - consistently. As the daydreamer of the ambition (T-27. VII.), our unprejudiced volumes (those online together with our company as well as our siblings) are actually definitely conducting what our pros are dreaming they are actually accomplishing based upon what our team've coached (validated). They are really ethical thinking about that it is our need. Our experts showed dividing or perhaps a savage strike thought versus God as a result our professionals all present mentioned attack in a lot of rough kinds. If our workers remove ourselves of what our company invite truth showed (picked for) as withstood to striking, our crew find that our supplier are actually using our brother or sisters that are actually truly the exact same.

 Throughout the entire world, individuals gather along with various other similar pupils to read through the Course together with one another therefore as to much better recognize the Course's details. Within this moment frame of additionally social and also electronic media, A Course in Miracles can easily remain in truth gotten in electronic magazine design, on Compact Disc, as correctly as through ways of apple iphone Apps. There are actually a great deal of instructions as effectively as main curriculum located upon the method of A Course in Miracles, as well as likewise specific sessions on essential Course suggestions, such as True Forgiveness and even Cause as well as Effect. A Course in Miracles is in fact a training device; the training system has 3 magazines, a 622-page text, a 478-page student workbook, along with also an 88-page educators guidebook. Our staff may locate why Wapnick is going to most definitely specify that it is in fact insane to utilize the Course as a device when it's exactly a Course positioned in entirety.

 There are actually in fact a lot of training courses as properly as primary course of study based upon the procedure of A Course in Miracles, and additionally certain lessons on necessary Course suggestions, such as True Forgiveness or perhaps Cause in enhancement to Effect. A Course in Miracles is in fact a guideline device; the instruction training course has 3 magazines, a 622-page text message, a 478-page apprentice publication, as effectively as also an 88-page instructors guidebook. Our specialists may find why Wapnick is going to most definitely discuss that it is in fact unbearable to make use of the Course as a thing when it is really specifically a Course positioned in unity.

 There are really an excellent bargain of trainings as effectively as major academic plan found upon the strategy of A Course in Miracles, and additionally details lessons on essential Course recommendations, such as True Forgiveness or even Cause as well as Effect. Our crew may find why Wapnick is going to absolutely explain that it is really insane to use the Course as a tool when it's precisely a Course set up in entirety.

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When You Should and Shouldn’t Use the Google Disavow Tool

The Google Disavow Tool can be useful but it can also be very dangerous. If not used properly, it can mess up with your website’s rankings on Google.

  In order to make sure you use the Google Disavow Tool right, you must first know when you are actually allowed to use it. This advanced Google feature should only be used in specific scenarios.

    If you’re interested in finding out when you should use the Google Disavow Tool, keep reading, because you’ll get all your answers in this article.

  What Exactly Is the Google Disavow Tool?

When to Use The Disavow Tool

When there’s a dramatic drop in traffic & rankings

When your site has been spammed with Negative SEO backlinks

When you know your SEO Agency built spammy links to your website

When you have a manual action applied on your site

Other cases

When NOT to Use the Disavow Tool

When there’s no drastic drop in rankings

When you’re not sure if it is a penalty

When there’s a small drop in rankings

For testing purposes

How to Easily Disavow Links

Is the Disavow Tool Actually Helpful? (READ THIS)

  A lot of webmasters see this tool as the ultimate salvation for their problems when they get an algorithmic or manual penalty. Even though generally  the objective of the Disavow Links tool was to be used as a resort to resolve link problems, it is not as simple as it seems.

    What Exactly Is the Google Disavow Tool?

  Long story short, the Google Disavow Tool is a feature in the Google Search Console (former Google Webmaster Tools) in which you can submit a list of backlinks that you want Google to disconsider. It was launched in late 2012 and was a pretty big deal back in the day.

  The Google Disavow tool became a very popular topic in the aftermath of the Penguin 2.0 update. The changes made to the algorithm “dissolved” a lot of abused black hat SEO techniques and affected a lot of webmasters that found themselves on the wrong side of the street all of a sudden. The effects were harsh and visible and the website owners were desperate to recover their dropped rankings.

  It became clear that this tool was developed in order to help webmasters solve their issues regarding penalties. The process seems simple. You have to create a file in order to show which links you want Google to disregard.

  However, later on, people found out that the tool is actually much more than that. Through this very tool, Google collects information about spammy links across the web as users submit them. This way, it can improve its database of types of backlinks to better identify spammy and shady ones in the future.

  For this very reason, the Black Hat SEO community doesn’t like the Disavow Tool. Many advised people not to use it, because it will help Google get stronger and catch their tactics quicker. But fearful webmasters rushed in to submit their spammy link profiles, in hope that they will be spared or forgiven.

  Today, as of the new version of GSC, there’s no actual way of accessing the Disavow Tool from the Search Console. Although Google sends you to the new version, the tool can’t be found there either. 

    The Google Disavow Tool can be however directly accessed from the web by searching for it, or by accessing the Disavow Links Main Page.

  In order to use the tool, you need to have a verified property in GSC. This means you can disavow backlinks only for websites that you own. The process is pretty simple once you have the proper list.

  Getting that Google Disavow links list right, however, is another story. I’ll explain it soon.

  When to Use the Disavow Tool

  Short answer is that there are only a few isolated cases in which you should use the Google Disavow Tool. If you’re not sure you should use it, then the answer is probably don’t.

  When deciding to use it, you should take into consideration a couple of things:

  First of all, you need to make a quick link audit and see which are the links that are harming your site the most. You need to carefully determine the bad and the good and see which links could influence your site’s ranking drop. If you’re not careful, you might end up loosing some valid links that would otherwise pour some of that precious “link juice”.

  Then, you have to take into account the fact that, before appealing to the disavow tool, you could try to remove the bad links manually by contacting the owners of the websites that point to you. Before panicking and running straight for the disavow solution, you should carefully try to clean up your mess the old fashion way. It may sound like a laborious task but you can make use of third-party tools that can help you speed up with the unnatural link detection and outreach.

  You may want to use this tool if you stumble upon the following problems:

  1. When there’s a dramatic drop in traffic & rankings

  Obviously, a dramatic drop in traffic and rankings indicates an issue with your website. However, you should not rush in to disavow your links. First, make sure that that is the issue and try to exclude everything else before you decide on doing it.

  The whole concept of disavowing unnatural links must be taken very seriously as it may also harm your ranking. This process should not be done on a haste.

    You should take your time weeding out the bad and you should submit a list to be disavowed only if you’re 100% sure of the links that you send. You should also remember to try to manually remove the harmful links, not only to show Google your good intentions but also because you don’t know how long the disavow process could take.

    2. When your site has been spammed with Negative SEO backlinks

  If your website has been subject to a large scale Negative SEO attack, then you can consider disavowing those bad links.

  But how do you know when your site was attacked? And how do you know which links are good and which links are bad?

  Well, you can always use the CognitiveSEO Tool to monitor your backlinks and see if your link profile suffers major changes in a short amount of time. You can also use the tool to determine which links are natural and which links fit the patterns of spammy links by using our Unnatural Link Detection feature.

    I’ll tell you more about how to exactly identify the bad links in a bit, so keep reading. First, let’s take a look at some other scenarios where you should consider using the Disavow Tool.

  3.When you know your SEO Agency built spammy links to your website

  Many times, webmasters hire companies to do SEO work for them. If you don’t choose your SEO agency right, you risk ending up with an SEO that will use BlackHat link building tactics to try and boost your site.

  This might end up in a manual action penalty for your website, which are usually pretty hard to recover from.

  If you find out that your SEO agency has been building unnatural links to your website instead of using techniques accepted by Google’s Guidelines, then you should consider using the Disavow Tool.

  However, keep in mind that you should never disavow links massively if your website has not yet been penalized!

  4. When you have a manual action applied on your site

  Manual actions aren’t something you will often see. They are rare, isolated cases. However, they do exist and, if your website is one of them, you can consider using the disavow tool.

  There are multiple types of manual actions, so make sure you start disavowing links only if you see the “Unnatural Links” warning. 

  Other types of actions are related to Thin Content or User Generated Spam. These problems are fixed in other ways, without using the Disavow Tool.

  To see if any manual actions have been applied to your website, go to the Google Search Console and find the Manual Actions section in the left menu.

  Hopefully, you’ll see something like this:

    If you see any warnings here, make sure you fix them and then submit your site for reconsideration (also done in the GSC under Manual Actions).

  5. Other cases

  Now of course, there are some other certain situations when you might want to Disavow some links that you’re sure provide no value, for example when the linking sites have viruses or malicious software.

  However, if these links take 1% or less of your total links, then you probably shouldn’t bother (except if that 1% means thousands of links, which looks more like an attack).

  John Mueller said that it’s also possible to disavow links in order to prevent future penalties and achieve ‘peace of mind’. That’s a sneaky way of threatening webmasters that they will get penalized if they don’t submit their links.

  However, Gary Illyes later said that he would not bother to disavow some spammy links.

  I have a site that gets 100,000 visits every two weeks. I haven’t looked at the links to it for two years, even though I’ve been told that it has some porn site links. I’m fine with that. I don’t use the disavow file. Don’t overuse it. It is a big gun.

Overusing it can destroy your rankings in a matter of hours. Don’t be afraid of sites that you don’t know. There’s no way you can know them all. If they have content, and they are not spammy, why would you disavow them?

Sites like this are very unlikely to hurt you, and they may help you. I personally trust the Google filters.

Gary Illyes Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google / @methode

  Our recommendation is to ignore these links unless there’s a visible penalty on your website, such as a manual action in GSC or a massive drop in traffic/rankings which can’t be attributed to anything else (HTTPS migration, redesign or some other major modifications to the site).

  If you think your site is suffering from some bad links and you really want to remove the links you suspect, start slow, by disavowing only 5-10 links at a time. Wait for a couple of weeks to spot any effects and then expand by updating the disavow file with some new spammy links.

  Track your rankings carefully to spot any differences and if you see massive negative impacts, remove the disavow files and stop messing with the tool immediately.

  When NOT to Use the Disavow Tool

  Usually, the answer is to never use the disavow tool except for the cases mentioned above. Some people think that it’s a good idea to use the Disavow Tool from time to time to make sure they clean their link profile, but they end up messing things up very badly!

  To get a better understanding, here are some specific scenarios when you should not disavow the links:

  1. When there’s no drastic drop in rankings

The reasons for which you may experience a drastic Google ranking drop may vary from website to website and in generally there is a serious guideline violation. But if you don’t experience that, you shouldn’t be panicking.

  You may just be outranked by a competitor. As a consequence, there is no need to rush and get the disavow tool from your link survival kit.

  You should try to analyze and track your competitor and see what is their SEO and content strategy. Also, you should maybe step up and improve your own approaches.

  2. When you’re not sure if it is a penalty

  When you receive a manual penalty the situation is pretty clear. Especially if you make use of Google Webmaster Tools ( which we strongly recommend). You will receive a message in which they warn you about the actions taken against you.

  While this is easy and straight forward, an algorithmic penalty is not that obvious. You’ll have to make a personal assessment to see if it’s a penalty or it’s just the fact that the links are low quality. And if it is indeed an algorithmic penalty, what is harming your site’s ranking?

  3. When there’s a small drop in rankings

  It may just be a quick road bump in the road. You may always experience a flux in ranking that is unpredictable. As a golden rule, if you don’t have an explicit message from Google that you’ve been penalized or if you know you have an unnatural link profile, you shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

  Your ranking could just recover on its own after a day or two. Moreover, a small drop in search engine ranking may just be influenced by the fact that you have many low quality links pointing to your site.

  The solution here isn’t to remove those links, but to focus on building higher quality ones.

  Usually, an algorithmic penalty will take place after an algorithm update. Sure, sometimes you might get penalized much later after the update, but usually, if that’s the case, chances are that it’s rather a manual penalty than an algorithmic one.

  If you’re not sure whether there’s been an update on Google’s algorithm, you can check the CognitiveSEO Signals Tool.

    You also have to check what the algorithm was about. Google doesn’t say much, but sometimes it says things like “this update will affect website that are not optimized for mobile”. If you can correlate what Google says with your website, then you have an issue.

  3. For testing purposes

  The final advice on when not to use the Google disavow tool would be to not just use it so you can see how it works. Cyrus Shepard made such an experiment and here are his “sad” findings.

  DON’T DO THIS AS HOME!!! – Just don’t toy around with this tool, you may get fried!

  The saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is very much true in this case. This is one of those tools that you just don’t want to learn at your own cost. It’s too powerful and the damage it may do if misused may be irreversible.

  The Disavow Tool is an advanced feature and should not be used unless one actually knows what they’re doing. It’s risky and shouldn’t be played with.

    Unless it’s one of the scenarios mentioned above, which are pretty critical if you ask me, it should be avoided.

  Don’t disavow links or domains with low performance. Low DA links are part of a natural link profile. In the end, disavowing them might do more harm than good.

  Maybe a new, small website with low domain performance writes about your website and links to it. Should you disavow these types of links? Definitely not.

  Someday, that low domain performance website might become really popular and have a great deal of domain authority. Not only this, but the link might already be contributing to your site’s well being.

  How To Easily Disavow Links

  As stated above, you usually have to disavow links in severe cases of web spam and negative SEO attacks or manual actions. In case your site was massively spammed or already penalized and you have no way of removing those links, then you can use the Disavow Tool without any limitations to try and fix things.

  Remember that you’re doing this at your own risk. Don’t rush Disavowing links if you’re not penalized yet. 

  The truth is that disavowing links is a very difficult and time consuming process. In the end, it sounds as simple as uploading a text file on the web, but generating that text file correctly can be a bummer.

  You’ll have to differentiate the bad links from the good ones and Google doesn’t actually help you do that. It will just tell you that your site has been penalized for spammy links.

  Luckily, there is an easy way of dealing with unnatural links. By using the CognitiveSEO Unnatural Link Detection Tool. The tool makes it very easy to identify those links using an algorithm. The links that fit spammy links patterns will be marked as unnatural.

    It is not, however, 100% automated. Before the tool can actually determine which links are good and which links are bad, you’ll have to sort out your anchor texts. This is usually done quickly in the tool via the anchor text classifier.

      The graphic above has been modified for privacy purposes. It is just an example.

  The tool will automatically identify most branded keywords. However, the ones only containing keywords your site wants to target will be Misc by default. You can use the search filter on the left and bulk classify. The more diverse your anchor text distribution, the better for SEO, but the longer it will take to classify.

  After that, you will get to see the unnatural links:

      Once you have your list of unnatural links, you can mark them for disavow. You can also choose to reclassify the links as natural (OK) if you want. We highly advise you to take a look over your unnatural links (if you don’t have thousands). Mark any links that aren’t obviously spammy as Suspect and decide later if they really need to be disavowed.

    After that, from the Unnatural Link Detection menu you can Export Google Disavow which will result in the Browser downloading a text file containing all the links/domains in the proper format for uploading it to the Disavow Tool.

  It’s best if you try the tool yourself. You can sign up for a free trial and also get a live demo in which one of the cognitiveSEO team members will showcase the tool for you.

  Remember, if there’s no penalty yet, those links might be the ones keeping your website near the top. Disavowing links can also result in a drop in rankings, so be very careful how you play with it!

  It’s always a better idea to try to completely remove any spammy links to your website from the web. It’s time consuming, but it’s the more efficient way and it’s also what Google recommends.

  If you want a step-by-step approach, you can take a look at this more in-depth guide on using the disavow tool.

    Is the Disavow Tool Actually Helpful?

  There’s a lot of controversy around the Google Disavow Tool. Is it actually useful? Will it prevent a penalty? Does it actually work?

    The truth is that for each of the successful penalty recovery stories documented by us, there are indefinitely more out there that have not seen any success, even when using the Disavow Tool as recommended by Google.

  In 2016, Google introduced Penguin 4.0 which supposedly made Google capable of ignoring spammy links altogether, as they were posted. In other words, the Disavow Tool worked and the spammy links database has improved the algorithm by making it able to run real-time.

    But in this case, is disavowing the links needed anymore?

  This question has been asked many times around different events, on social media and throughout Webmaster Hangouts. Some answers came up to help us draw some conclusions:

  Gary Illyes said on social media that:

  For penguin specifically there’s less need, yes, but if you see the crap, you can help us help you by using it.

Gary Illyes Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google / @methode

  Also, John Mueller said this about keeping or removing the disavow files:

  If you’ve cleaned up the links & they’ve been reprocessed, you can remove those URLs from the disavow file.

— John (@JohnMu) October 28, 2016

  The question wasn’t really about cleaning the links, but about the necessity of keeping the disavow file post Penguin 4.0. However, John’s answer instead reminds us that the spammy links should still be removed from the internet, which is something Google mentioned when they first launched the Google Disavow Tool.

  Eric Kuan from Google said that “Google may not process them (disavowed links) if they don’t see you making a serious manual attempt at removing those links.” If you’ve spammed the website yourself, that makes sense. However, if you’re the victim of a negative SEO attack, it’s kind of unfair, don’t you think?

    The truth is, there’s no guarantee that using the disavow tool and submitting your site for reconsideration will remove a penalty. The best way to not get penalized is to not do anything that will get you penalized. However, it’s worth a shot in critical situations.

  In the end, you have to consider that the Disavow Tool:

  Takes time: If you want to do things the right way, you’ll have to spend a lot of time researching your link profile and making sure that you’re not disavowing any useful links (remember, the CognitiveSEO Tool can help you speed up this process)

Can mess things up: Remember, the Disavow Tool is an advanced feature and should only be used in specific cases. You shouldn’t waste your time with it if you’re not 100% sure it’s the right way to go.

Has actual guarantee it will work: Even if you know what you’re doing, there’s no guarantee it will help. Who knows, it might actually make things worse.

  Conclusion

  The main point that you should remember is that this tool shouldn’t be used if you’re not 100 percent sure how it works. Disavowing links is a powerful and irreversible process that may resolve your ranking drops or may throw your site into search engine oblivion.

  Even though the Google Disavow Tool proves to be an invaluable asset to use in times of need, it can very well be misunderstood and easily used for the wrong purpose.

  If you couldn’t prevail at removing unnatural links through traditional methods, you should obviously try disavowing them. But the tool should be used only in specific situations, such as a Manual Penalty. If you’re unsure how to use it and what it’s capable of doing, you should avoid it. However, if you think you’ve tried everything else, it’s worth a shot.

  By adding smaller amounts of links at a time to the disavow file, you can avoid messing things up very badly, although this process is more time consuming.

  What are your experiences with the Disavow Tool? Have you successfully recovered from a penalty? Did it not do anything at all? Have you used it to try prevent any future penalties? Let us know in the comments!

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When You Should and Shouldn’t Use the Google Disavow Tool

The Google Disavow Tool can be useful but it can also be very dangerous. If not used properly, it can mess up with your website’s rankings on Google.

  In order to make sure you use the Google Disavow Tool right, you must first know when you are actually allowed to use it. This advanced Google feature should only be used in specific scenarios.

    If you’re interested in finding out when you should use the Google Disavow Tool, keep reading, because you’ll get all your answers in this article.

  What Exactly Is the Google Disavow Tool?

When to Use The Disavow Tool

When there’s a dramatic drop in traffic & rankings

When your site has been spammed with Negative SEO backlinks

When you know your SEO Agency built spammy links to your website

When you have a manual action applied on your site

Other cases

When NOT to Use the Disavow Tool

When there’s no drastic drop in rankings

When you’re not sure if it is a penalty

When there’s a small drop in rankings

For testing purposes

How to Easily Disavow Links

Is the Disavow Tool Actually Helpful? (READ THIS)

  A lot of webmasters see this tool as the ultimate salvation for their problems when they get an algorithmic or manual penalty. Even though generally  the objective of the Disavow Links tool was to be used as a resort to resolve link problems, it is not as simple as it seems.

    What Exactly Is the Google Disavow Tool?

  Long story short, the Google Disavow Tool is a feature in the Google Search Console (former Google Webmaster Tools) in which you can submit a list of backlinks that you want Google to disconsider. It was launched in late 2012 and was a pretty big deal back in the day.

  The Google Disavow tool became a very popular topic in the aftermath of the Penguin 2.0 update. The changes made to the algorithm “dissolved” a lot of abused black hat SEO techniques and affected a lot of webmasters that found themselves on the wrong side of the street all of a sudden. The effects were harsh and visible and the website owners were desperate to recover their dropped rankings.

  It became clear that this tool was developed in order to help webmasters solve their issues regarding penalties. The process seems simple. You have to create a file in order to show which links you want Google to disregard.

  However, later on, people found out that the tool is actually much more than that. Through this very tool, Google collects information about spammy links across the web as users submit them. This way, it can improve its database of types of backlinks to better identify spammy and shady ones in the future.

  For this very reason, the Black Hat SEO community doesn’t like the Disavow Tool. Many advised people not to use it, because it will help Google get stronger and catch their tactics quicker. But fearful webmasters rushed in to submit their spammy link profiles, in hope that they will be spared or forgiven.

  Today, as of the new version of GSC, there’s no actual way of accessing the Disavow Tool from the Search Console. Although Google sends you to the new version, the tool can’t be found there either. 

    The Google Disavow Tool can be however directly accessed from the web by searching for it, or by accessing the Disavow Links Main Page.

  In order to use the tool, you need to have a verified property in GSC. This means you can disavow backlinks only for websites that you own. The process is pretty simple once you have the proper list.

  Getting that Google Disavow links list right, however, is another story. I’ll explain it soon.

  When to Use the Disavow Tool

  Short answer is that there are only a few isolated cases in which you should use the Google Disavow Tool. If you’re not sure you should use it, then the answer is probably don’t.

  When deciding to use it, you should take into consideration a couple of things:

  First of all, you need to make a quick link audit and see which are the links that are harming your site the most. You need to carefully determine the bad and the good and see which links could influence your site’s ranking drop. If you’re not careful, you might end up loosing some valid links that would otherwise pour some of that precious “link juice”.

  Then, you have to take into account the fact that, before appealing to the disavow tool, you could try to remove the bad links manually by contacting the owners of the websites that point to you. Before panicking and running straight for the disavow solution, you should carefully try to clean up your mess the old fashion way. It may sound like a laborious task but you can make use of third-party tools that can help you speed up with the unnatural link detection and outreach.

  You may want to use this tool if you stumble upon the following problems:

  1. When there’s a dramatic drop in traffic & rankings

  Obviously, a dramatic drop in traffic and rankings indicates an issue with your website. However, you should not rush in to disavow your links. First, make sure that that is the issue and try to exclude everything else before you decide on doing it.

  The whole concept of disavowing unnatural links must be taken very seriously as it may also harm your ranking. This process should not be done on a haste.

    You should take your time weeding out the bad and you should submit a list to be disavowed only if you’re 100% sure of the links that you send. You should also remember to try to manually remove the harmful links, not only to show Google your good intentions but also because you don’t know how long the disavow process could take.

    2. When your site has been spammed with Negative SEO backlinks

  If your website has been subject to a large scale Negative SEO attack, then you can consider disavowing those bad links.

  But how do you know when your site was attacked? And how do you know which links are good and which links are bad?

  Well, you can always use the CognitiveSEO Tool to monitor your backlinks and see if your link profile suffers major changes in a short amount of time. You can also use the tool to determine which links are natural and which links fit the patterns of spammy links by using our Unnatural Link Detection feature.

    I’ll tell you more about how to exactly identify the bad links in a bit, so keep reading. First, let’s take a look at some other scenarios where you should consider using the Disavow Tool.

  3.When you know your SEO Agency built spammy links to your website

  Many times, webmasters hire companies to do SEO work for them. If you don’t choose your SEO agency right, you risk ending up with an SEO that will use BlackHat link building tactics to try and boost your site.

  This might end up in a manual action penalty for your website, which are usually pretty hard to recover from.

  If you find out that your SEO agency has been building unnatural links to your website instead of using techniques accepted by Google’s Guidelines, then you should consider using the Disavow Tool.

  However, keep in mind that you should never disavow links massively if your website has not yet been penalized!

  4. When you have a manual action applied on your site

  Manual actions aren’t something you will often see. They are rare, isolated cases. However, they do exist and, if your website is one of them, you can consider using the disavow tool.

  There are multiple types of manual actions, so make sure you start disavowing links only if you see the “Unnatural Links” warning. 

  Other types of actions are related to Thin Content or User Generated Spam. These problems are fixed in other ways, without using the Disavow Tool.

  To see if any manual actions have been applied to your website, go to the Google Search Console and find the Manual Actions section in the left menu.

  Hopefully, you’ll see something like this:

    If you see any warnings here, make sure you fix them and then submit your site for reconsideration (also done in the GSC under Manual Actions).

  5. Other cases

  Now of course, there are some other certain situations when you might want to Disavow some links that you’re sure provide no value, for example when the linking sites have viruses or malicious software.

  However, if these links take 1% or less of your total links, then you probably shouldn’t bother (except if that 1% means thousands of links, which looks more like an attack).

  John Mueller said that it’s also possible to disavow links in order to prevent future penalties and achieve ‘peace of mind’. That’s a sneaky way of threatening webmasters that they will get penalized if they don’t submit their links.

  However, Gary Illyes later said that he would not bother to disavow some spammy links.

  I have a site that gets 100,000 visits every two weeks. I haven’t looked at the links to it for two years, even though I’ve been told that it has some porn site links. I’m fine with that. I don’t use the disavow file. Don’t overuse it. It is a big gun.

Overusing it can destroy your rankings in a matter of hours. Don’t be afraid of sites that you don’t know. There’s no way you can know them all. If they have content, and they are not spammy, why would you disavow them?

Sites like this are very unlikely to hurt you, and they may help you. I personally trust the Google filters.

Gary Illyes Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google / @methode

  Our recommendation is to ignore these links unless there’s a visible penalty on your website, such as a manual action in GSC or a massive drop in traffic/rankings which can’t be attributed to anything else (HTTPS migration, redesign or some other major modifications to the site).

  If you think your site is suffering from some bad links and you really want to remove the links you suspect, start slow, by disavowing only 5-10 links at a time. Wait for a couple of weeks to spot any effects and then expand by updating the disavow file with some new spammy links.

  Track your rankings carefully to spot any differences and if you see massive negative impacts, remove the disavow files and stop messing with the tool immediately.

  When NOT to Use the Disavow Tool

  Usually, the answer is to never use the disavow tool except for the cases mentioned above. Some people think that it’s a good idea to use the Disavow Tool from time to time to make sure they clean their link profile, but they end up messing things up very badly!

  To get a better understanding, here are some specific scenarios when you should not disavow the links:

  1. When there’s no drastic drop in rankings

The reasons for which you may experience a drastic Google ranking drop may vary from website to website and in generally there is a serious guideline violation. But if you don’t experience that, you shouldn’t be panicking.

  You may just be outranked by a competitor. As a consequence, there is no need to rush and get the disavow tool from your link survival kit.

  You should try to analyze and track your competitor and see what is their SEO and content strategy. Also, you should maybe step up and improve your own approaches.

  2. When you’re not sure if it is a penalty

  When you receive a manual penalty the situation is pretty clear. Especially if you make use of Google Webmaster Tools ( which we strongly recommend). You will receive a message in which they warn you about the actions taken against you.

  While this is easy and straight forward, an algorithmic penalty is not that obvious. You’ll have to make a personal assessment to see if it’s a penalty or it’s just the fact that the links are low quality. And if it is indeed an algorithmic penalty, what is harming your site’s ranking?

  3. When there’s a small drop in rankings

  It may just be a quick road bump in the road. You may always experience a flux in ranking that is unpredictable. As a golden rule, if you don’t have an explicit message from Google that you’ve been penalized or if you know you have an unnatural link profile, you shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

  Your ranking could just recover on its own after a day or two. Moreover, a small drop in search engine ranking may just be influenced by the fact that you have many low quality links pointing to your site.

  The solution here isn’t to remove those links, but to focus on building higher quality ones.

  Usually, an algorithmic penalty will take place after an algorithm update. Sure, sometimes you might get penalized much later after the update, but usually, if that’s the case, chances are that it’s rather a manual penalty than an algorithmic one.

  If you’re not sure whether there’s been an update on Google’s algorithm, you can check the CognitiveSEO Signals Tool.

    You also have to check what the algorithm was about. Google doesn’t say much, but sometimes it says things like “this update will affect website that are not optimized for mobile”. If you can correlate what Google says with your website, then you have an issue.

  3. For testing purposes

  The final advice on when not to use the Google disavow tool would be to not just use it so you can see how it works. Cyrus Shepard made such an experiment and here are his “sad” findings.

  DON’T DO THIS AS HOME!!! – Just don’t toy around with this tool, you may get fried!

  The saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is very much true in this case. This is one of those tools that you just don’t want to learn at your own cost. It’s too powerful and the damage it may do if misused may be irreversible.

  The Disavow Tool is an advanced feature and should not be used unless one actually knows what they’re doing. It’s risky and shouldn’t be played with.

    Unless it’s one of the scenarios mentioned above, which are pretty critical if you ask me, it should be avoided.

  Don’t disavow links or domains with low performance. Low DA links are part of a natural link profile. In the end, disavowing them might do more harm than good.

  Maybe a new, small website with low domain performance writes about your website and links to it. Should you disavow these types of links? Definitely not.

  Someday, that low domain performance website might become really popular and have a great deal of domain authority. Not only this, but the link might already be contributing to your site’s well being.

  How To Easily Disavow Links

  As stated above, you usually have to disavow links in severe cases of web spam and negative SEO attacks or manual actions. In case your site was massively spammed or already penalized and you have no way of removing those links, then you can use the Disavow Tool without any limitations to try and fix things.

  Remember that you’re doing this at your own risk. Don’t rush Disavowing links if you’re not penalized yet. 

  The truth is that disavowing links is a very difficult and time consuming process. In the end, it sounds as simple as uploading a text file on the web, but generating that text file correctly can be a bummer.

  You’ll have to differentiate the bad links from the good ones and Google doesn’t actually help you do that. It will just tell you that your site has been penalized for spammy links.

  Luckily, there is an easy way of dealing with unnatural links. By using the CognitiveSEO Unnatural Link Detection Tool. The tool makes it very easy to identify those links using an algorithm. The links that fit spammy links patterns will be marked as unnatural.

    It is not, however, 100% automated. Before the tool can actually determine which links are good and which links are bad, you’ll have to sort out your anchor texts. This is usually done quickly in the tool via the anchor text classifier.

      The graphic above has been modified for privacy purposes. It is just an example.

  The tool will automatically identify most branded keywords. However, the ones only containing keywords your site wants to target will be Misc by default. You can use the search filter on the left and bulk classify. The more diverse your anchor text distribution, the better for SEO, but the longer it will take to classify.

  After that, you will get to see the unnatural links:

      Once you have your list of unnatural links, you can mark them for disavow. You can also choose to reclassify the links as natural (OK) if you want. We highly advise you to take a look over your unnatural links (if you don’t have thousands). Mark any links that aren’t obviously spammy as Suspect and decide later if they really need to be disavowed.

    After that, from the Unnatural Link Detection menu you can Export Google Disavow which will result in the Browser downloading a text file containing all the links/domains in the proper format for uploading it to the Disavow Tool.

  It’s best if you try the tool yourself. You can sign up for a free trial and also get a live demo in which one of the cognitiveSEO team members will showcase the tool for you.

  Remember, if there’s no penalty yet, those links might be the ones keeping your website near the top. Disavowing links can also result in a drop in rankings, so be very careful how you play with it!

  It’s always a better idea to try to completely remove any spammy links to your website from the web. It’s time consuming, but it’s the more efficient way and it’s also what Google recommends.

  If you want a step-by-step approach, you can take a look at this more in-depth guide on using the disavow tool.

    Is the Disavow Tool Actually Helpful?

  There’s a lot of controversy around the Google Disavow Tool. Is it actually useful? Will it prevent a penalty? Does it actually work?

    The truth is that for each of the successful penalty recovery stories documented by us, there are indefinitely more out there that have not seen any success, even when using the Disavow Tool as recommended by Google.

  In 2016, Google introduced Penguin 4.0 which supposedly made Google capable of ignoring spammy links altogether, as they were posted. In other words, the Disavow Tool worked and the spammy links database has improved the algorithm by making it able to run real-time.

    But in this case, is disavowing the links needed anymore?

  This question has been asked many times around different events, on social media and throughout Webmaster Hangouts. Some answers came up to help us draw some conclusions:

  Gary Illyes said on social media that:

  For penguin specifically there’s less need, yes, but if you see the crap, you can help us help you by using it.

Gary Illyes Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google / @methode

  Also, John Mueller said this about keeping or removing the disavow files:

  If you’ve cleaned up the links & they’ve been reprocessed, you can remove those URLs from the disavow file.

— John (@JohnMu) October 28, 2016

  The question wasn’t really about cleaning the links, but about the necessity of keeping the disavow file post Penguin 4.0. However, John’s answer instead reminds us that the spammy links should still be removed from the internet, which is something Google mentioned when they first launched the Google Disavow Tool.

  Eric Kuan from Google said that “Google may not process them (disavowed links) if they don’t see you making a serious manual attempt at removing those links.” If you’ve spammed the website yourself, that makes sense. However, if you’re the victim of a negative SEO attack, it’s kind of unfair, don’t you think?

    The truth is, there’s no guarantee that using the disavow tool and submitting your site for reconsideration will remove a penalty. The best way to not get penalized is to not do anything that will get you penalized. However, it’s worth a shot in critical situations.

  In the end, you have to consider that the Disavow Tool:

  Takes time: If you want to do things the right way, you’ll have to spend a lot of time researching your link profile and making sure that you’re not disavowing any useful links (remember, the CognitiveSEO Tool can help you speed up this process)

Can mess things up: Remember, the Disavow Tool is an advanced feature and should only be used in specific cases. You shouldn’t waste your time with it if you’re not 100% sure it’s the right way to go.

Has actual guarantee it will work: Even if you know what you’re doing, there’s no guarantee it will help. Who knows, it might actually make things worse.

  Conclusion

  The main point that you should remember is that this tool shouldn’t be used if you’re not 100 percent sure how it works. Disavowing links is a powerful and irreversible process that may resolve your ranking drops or may throw your site into search engine oblivion.

  Even though the Google Disavow Tool proves to be an invaluable asset to use in times of need, it can very well be misunderstood and easily used for the wrong purpose.

  If you couldn’t prevail at removing unnatural links through traditional methods, you should obviously try disavowing them. But the tool should be used only in specific situations, such as a Manual Penalty. If you’re unsure how to use it and what it’s capable of doing, you should avoid it. However, if you think you’ve tried everything else, it’s worth a shot.

  By adding smaller amounts of links at a time to the disavow file, you can avoid messing things up very badly, although this process is more time consuming.

  What are your experiences with the Disavow Tool? Have you successfully recovered from a penalty? Did it not do anything at all? Have you used it to try prevent any future penalties? Let us know in the comments!

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When You Should and Shouldn’t Use the Google Disavow Tool

The Google Disavow Tool can be useful but it can also be very dangerous. If not used properly, it can mess up with your website’s rankings on Google.

  In order to make sure you use the Google Disavow Tool right, you must first know when you are actually allowed to use it. This advanced Google feature should only be used in specific scenarios.

    If you’re interested in finding out when you should use the Google Disavow Tool, keep reading, because you’ll get all your answers in this article.

  What Exactly Is the Google Disavow Tool?

When to Use The Disavow Tool

When there’s a dramatic drop in traffic & rankings

When your site has been spammed with Negative SEO backlinks

When you know your SEO Agency built spammy links to your website

When you have a manual action applied on your site

Other cases

When NOT to Use the Disavow Tool

When there’s no drastic drop in rankings

When you’re not sure if it is a penalty

When there’s a small drop in rankings

For testing purposes

How to Easily Disavow Links

Is the Disavow Tool Actually Helpful? (READ THIS)

  A lot of webmasters see this tool as the ultimate salvation for their problems when they get an algorithmic or manual penalty. Even though generally  the objective of the Disavow Links tool was to be used as a resort to resolve link problems, it is not as simple as it seems.

    What Exactly Is the Google Disavow Tool?

  Long story short, the Google Disavow Tool is a feature in the Google Search Console (former Google Webmaster Tools) in which you can submit a list of backlinks that you want Google to disconsider. It was launched in late 2012 and was a pretty big deal back in the day.

  The Google Disavow tool became a very popular topic in the aftermath of the Penguin 2.0 update. The changes made to the algorithm “dissolved” a lot of abused black hat SEO techniques and affected a lot of webmasters that found themselves on the wrong side of the street all of a sudden. The effects were harsh and visible and the website owners were desperate to recover their dropped rankings.

  It became clear that this tool was developed in order to help webmasters solve their issues regarding penalties. The process seems simple. You have to create a file in order to show which links you want Google to disregard.

  However, later on, people found out that the tool is actually much more than that. Through this very tool, Google collects information about spammy links across the web as users submit them. This way, it can improve its database of types of backlinks to better identify spammy and shady ones in the future.

  For this very reason, the Black Hat SEO community doesn’t like the Disavow Tool. Many advised people not to use it, because it will help Google get stronger and catch their tactics quicker. But fearful webmasters rushed in to submit their spammy link profiles, in hope that they will be spared or forgiven.

  Today, as of the new version of GSC, there’s no actual way of accessing the Disavow Tool from the Search Console. Although Google sends you to the new version, the tool can’t be found there either. 

    The Google Disavow Tool can be however directly accessed from the web by searching for it, or by accessing the Disavow Links Main Page.

  In order to use the tool, you need to have a verified property in GSC. This means you can disavow backlinks only for websites that you own. The process is pretty simple once you have the proper list.

  Getting that Google Disavow links list right, however, is another story. I’ll explain it soon.

  When to Use the Disavow Tool

  Short answer is that there are only a few isolated cases in which you should use the Google Disavow Tool. If you’re not sure you should use it, then the answer is probably don’t.

  When deciding to use it, you should take into consideration a couple of things:

  First of all, you need to make a quick link audit and see which are the links that are harming your site the most. You need to carefully determine the bad and the good and see which links could influence your site’s ranking drop. If you’re not careful, you might end up loosing some valid links that would otherwise pour some of that precious “link juice”.

  Then, you have to take into account the fact that, before appealing to the disavow tool, you could try to remove the bad links manually by contacting the owners of the websites that point to you. Before panicking and running straight for the disavow solution, you should carefully try to clean up your mess the old fashion way. It may sound like a laborious task but you can make use of third-party tools that can help you speed up with the unnatural link detection and outreach.

  You may want to use this tool if you stumble upon the following problems:

  1. When there’s a dramatic drop in traffic & rankings

  Obviously, a dramatic drop in traffic and rankings indicates an issue with your website. However, you should not rush in to disavow your links. First, make sure that that is the issue and try to exclude everything else before you decide on doing it.

  The whole concept of disavowing unnatural links must be taken very seriously as it may also harm your ranking. This process should not be done on a haste.

    You should take your time weeding out the bad and you should submit a list to be disavowed only if you’re 100% sure of the links that you send. You should also remember to try to manually remove the harmful links, not only to show Google your good intentions but also because you don’t know how long the disavow process could take.

    2. When your site has been spammed with Negative SEO backlinks

  If your website has been subject to a large scale Negative SEO attack, then you can consider disavowing those bad links.

  But how do you know when your site was attacked? And how do you know which links are good and which links are bad?

  Well, you can always use the CognitiveSEO Tool to monitor your backlinks and see if your link profile suffers major changes in a short amount of time. You can also use the tool to determine which links are natural and which links fit the patterns of spammy links by using our Unnatural Link Detection feature.

    I’ll tell you more about how to exactly identify the bad links in a bit, so keep reading. First, let’s take a look at some other scenarios where you should consider using the Disavow Tool.

  3.When you know your SEO Agency built spammy links to your website

  Many times, webmasters hire companies to do SEO work for them. If you don’t choose your SEO agency right, you risk ending up with an SEO that will use BlackHat link building tactics to try and boost your site.

  This might end up in a manual action penalty for your website, which are usually pretty hard to recover from.

  If you find out that your SEO agency has been building unnatural links to your website instead of using techniques accepted by Google’s Guidelines, then you should consider using the Disavow Tool.

  However, keep in mind that you should never disavow links massively if your website has not yet been penalized!

  4. When you have a manual action applied on your site

  Manual actions aren’t something you will often see. They are rare, isolated cases. However, they do exist and, if your website is one of them, you can consider using the disavow tool.

  There are multiple types of manual actions, so make sure you start disavowing links only if you see the “Unnatural Links” warning. 

  Other types of actions are related to Thin Content or User Generated Spam. These problems are fixed in other ways, without using the Disavow Tool.

  To see if any manual actions have been applied to your website, go to the Google Search Console and find the Manual Actions section in the left menu.

  Hopefully, you’ll see something like this:

    If you see any warnings here, make sure you fix them and then submit your site for reconsideration (also done in the GSC under Manual Actions).

  5. Other cases

  Now of course, there are some other certain situations when you might want to Disavow some links that you’re sure provide no value, for example when the linking sites have viruses or malicious software.

  However, if these links take 1% or less of your total links, then you probably shouldn’t bother (except if that 1% means thousands of links, which looks more like an attack).

  John Mueller said that it’s also possible to disavow links in order to prevent future penalties and achieve ‘peace of mind’. That’s a sneaky way of threatening webmasters that they will get penalized if they don’t submit their links.

  However, Gary Illyes later said that he would not bother to disavow some spammy links.

  I have a site that gets 100,000 visits every two weeks. I haven’t looked at the links to it for two years, even though I’ve been told that it has some porn site links. I’m fine with that. I don’t use the disavow file. Don’t overuse it. It is a big gun.

Overusing it can destroy your rankings in a matter of hours. Don’t be afraid of sites that you don’t know. There’s no way you can know them all. If they have content, and they are not spammy, why would you disavow them?

Sites like this are very unlikely to hurt you, and they may help you. I personally trust the Google filters.

Gary Illyes Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google / @methode

  Our recommendation is to ignore these links unless there’s a visible penalty on your website, such as a manual action in GSC or a massive drop in traffic/rankings which can’t be attributed to anything else (HTTPS migration, redesign or some other major modifications to the site).

  If you think your site is suffering from some bad links and you really want to remove the links you suspect, start slow, by disavowing only 5-10 links at a time. Wait for a couple of weeks to spot any effects and then expand by updating the disavow file with some new spammy links.

  Track your rankings carefully to spot any differences and if you see massive negative impacts, remove the disavow files and stop messing with the tool immediately.

  When NOT to Use the Disavow Tool

  Usually, the answer is to never use the disavow tool except for the cases mentioned above. Some people think that it’s a good idea to use the Disavow Tool from time to time to make sure they clean their link profile, but they end up messing things up very badly!

  To get a better understanding, here are some specific scenarios when you should not disavow the links:

  1. When there’s no drastic drop in rankings

The reasons for which you may experience a drastic Google ranking drop may vary from website to website and in generally there is a serious guideline violation. But if you don’t experience that, you shouldn’t be panicking.

  You may just be outranked by a competitor. As a consequence, there is no need to rush and get the disavow tool from your link survival kit.

  You should try to analyze and track your competitor and see what is their SEO and content strategy. Also, you should maybe step up and improve your own approaches.

  2. When you’re not sure if it is a penalty

  When you receive a manual penalty the situation is pretty clear. Especially if you make use of Google Webmaster Tools ( which we strongly recommend). You will receive a message in which they warn you about the actions taken against you.

  While this is easy and straight forward, an algorithmic penalty is not that obvious. You’ll have to make a personal assessment to see if it’s a penalty or it’s just the fact that the links are low quality. And if it is indeed an algorithmic penalty, what is harming your site’s ranking?

  3. When there’s a small drop in rankings

  It may just be a quick road bump in the road. You may always experience a flux in ranking that is unpredictable. As a golden rule, if you don’t have an explicit message from Google that you’ve been penalized or if you know you have an unnatural link profile, you shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

  Your ranking could just recover on its own after a day or two. Moreover, a small drop in search engine ranking may just be influenced by the fact that you have many low quality links pointing to your site.

  The solution here isn’t to remove those links, but to focus on building higher quality ones.

  Usually, an algorithmic penalty will take place after an algorithm update. Sure, sometimes you might get penalized much later after the update, but usually, if that’s the case, chances are that it’s rather a manual penalty than an algorithmic one.

  If you’re not sure whether there’s been an update on Google’s algorithm, you can check the CognitiveSEO Signals Tool.

    You also have to check what the algorithm was about. Google doesn’t say much, but sometimes it says things like “this update will affect website that are not optimized for mobile”. If you can correlate what Google says with your website, then you have an issue.

  3. For testing purposes

  The final advice on when not to use the Google disavow tool would be to not just use it so you can see how it works. Cyrus Shepard made such an experiment and here are his “sad” findings.

  DON’T DO THIS AS HOME!!! – Just don’t toy around with this tool, you may get fried!

  The saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is very much true in this case. This is one of those tools that you just don’t want to learn at your own cost. It’s too powerful and the damage it may do if misused may be irreversible.

  The Disavow Tool is an advanced feature and should not be used unless one actually knows what they’re doing. It’s risky and shouldn’t be played with.

    Unless it’s one of the scenarios mentioned above, which are pretty critical if you ask me, it should be avoided.

  Don’t disavow links or domains with low performance. Low DA links are part of a natural link profile. In the end, disavowing them might do more harm than good.

  Maybe a new, small website with low domain performance writes about your website and links to it. Should you disavow these types of links? Definitely not.

  Someday, that low domain performance website might become really popular and have a great deal of domain authority. Not only this, but the link might already be contributing to your site’s well being.

  How To Easily Disavow Links

  As stated above, you usually have to disavow links in severe cases of web spam and negative SEO attacks or manual actions. In case your site was massively spammed or already penalized and you have no way of removing those links, then you can use the Disavow Tool without any limitations to try and fix things.

  Remember that you’re doing this at your own risk. Don’t rush Disavowing links if you’re not penalized yet. 

  The truth is that disavowing links is a very difficult and time consuming process. In the end, it sounds as simple as uploading a text file on the web, but generating that text file correctly can be a bummer.

  You’ll have to differentiate the bad links from the good ones and Google doesn’t actually help you do that. It will just tell you that your site has been penalized for spammy links.

  Luckily, there is an easy way of dealing with unnatural links. By using the CognitiveSEO Unnatural Link Detection Tool. The tool makes it very easy to identify those links using an algorithm. The links that fit spammy links patterns will be marked as unnatural.

    It is not, however, 100% automated. Before the tool can actually determine which links are good and which links are bad, you’ll have to sort out your anchor texts. This is usually done quickly in the tool via the anchor text classifier.

      The graphic above has been modified for privacy purposes. It is just an example.

  The tool will automatically identify most branded keywords. However, the ones only containing keywords your site wants to target will be Misc by default. You can use the search filter on the left and bulk classify. The more diverse your anchor text distribution, the better for SEO, but the longer it will take to classify.

  After that, you will get to see the unnatural links:

      Once you have your list of unnatural links, you can mark them for disavow. You can also choose to reclassify the links as natural (OK) if you want. We highly advise you to take a look over your unnatural links (if you don’t have thousands). Mark any links that aren’t obviously spammy as Suspect and decide later if they really need to be disavowed.

    After that, from the Unnatural Link Detection menu you can Export Google Disavow which will result in the Browser downloading a text file containing all the links/domains in the proper format for uploading it to the Disavow Tool.

  It’s best if you try the tool yourself. You can sign up for a free trial and also get a live demo in which one of the cognitiveSEO team members will showcase the tool for you.

  Remember, if there’s no penalty yet, those links might be the ones keeping your website near the top. Disavowing links can also result in a drop in rankings, so be very careful how you play with it!

  It’s always a better idea to try to completely remove any spammy links to your website from the web. It’s time consuming, but it’s the more efficient way and it’s also what Google recommends.

  If you want a step-by-step approach, you can take a look at this more in-depth guide on using the disavow tool.

    Is the Disavow Tool Actually Helpful?

  There’s a lot of controversy around the Google Disavow Tool. Is it actually useful? Will it prevent a penalty? Does it actually work?

    The truth is that for each of the successful penalty recovery stories documented by us, there are indefinitely more out there that have not seen any success, even when using the Disavow Tool as recommended by Google.

  In 2016, Google introduced Penguin 4.0 which supposedly made Google capable of ignoring spammy links altogether, as they were posted. In other words, the Disavow Tool worked and the spammy links database has improved the algorithm by making it able to run real-time.

    But in this case, is disavowing the links needed anymore?

  This question has been asked many times around different events, on social media and throughout Webmaster Hangouts. Some answers came up to help us draw some conclusions:

  Gary Illyes said on social media that:

  For penguin specifically there’s less need, yes, but if you see the crap, you can help us help you by using it.

Gary Illyes Chief of Sunshine and Happiness at Google / @methode

  Also, John Mueller said this about keeping or removing the disavow files:

  If you’ve cleaned up the links & they’ve been reprocessed, you can remove those URLs from the disavow file.

— John (@JohnMu) October 28, 2016

  The question wasn’t really about cleaning the links, but about the necessity of keeping the disavow file post Penguin 4.0. However, John’s answer instead reminds us that the spammy links should still be removed from the internet, which is something Google mentioned when they first launched the Google Disavow Tool.

  Eric Kuan from Google said that “Google may not process them (disavowed links) if they don’t see you making a serious manual attempt at removing those links.” If you’ve spammed the website yourself, that makes sense. However, if you’re the victim of a negative SEO attack, it’s kind of unfair, don’t you think?

    The truth is, there’s no guarantee that using the disavow tool and submitting your site for reconsideration will remove a penalty. The best way to not get penalized is to not do anything that will get you penalized. However, it’s worth a shot in critical situations.

  In the end, you have to consider that the Disavow Tool:

  Takes time: If you want to do things the right way, you’ll have to spend a lot of time researching your link profile and making sure that you’re not disavowing any useful links (remember, the CognitiveSEO Tool can help you speed up this process)

Can mess things up: Remember, the Disavow Tool is an advanced feature and should only be used in specific cases. You shouldn’t waste your time with it if you’re not 100% sure it’s the right way to go.

Has actual guarantee it will work: Even if you know what you’re doing, there’s no guarantee it will help. Who knows, it might actually make things worse.

  Conclusion

  The main point that you should remember is that this tool shouldn’t be used if you’re not 100 percent sure how it works. Disavowing links is a powerful and irreversible process that may resolve your ranking drops or may throw your site into search engine oblivion.

  Even though the Google Disavow Tool proves to be an invaluable asset to use in times of need, it can very well be misunderstood and easily used for the wrong purpose.

  If you couldn’t prevail at removing unnatural links through traditional methods, you should obviously try disavowing them. But the tool should be used only in specific situations, such as a Manual Penalty. If you’re unsure how to use it and what it’s capable of doing, you should avoid it. However, if you think you’ve tried everything else, it’s worth a shot.

  By adding smaller amounts of links at a time to the disavow file, you can avoid messing things up very badly, although this process is more time consuming.

  What are your experiences with the Disavow Tool? Have you successfully recovered from a penalty? Did it not do anything at all? Have you used it to try prevent any future penalties? Let us know in the comments!

  The post When You Should and Shouldn’t Use the Google Disavow Tool appeared first on SEO Blog | cognitiveSEO Blog on SEO Tactics & Strategies.

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Professional SEO providers can lift your site over your competition. Join us for a new three-day, one-track conference full regarding forward-thinking, tactical sessions in SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION, growth marketing, the mobile scenery, analytics, content marketing, and a lot more. The objective regarding SEO is to get some sort of website ranked as high while possible on search engines, like Google. In the event that you are improving user expertise by focusing primarily on the particular quality of the MC associated with your pages and avoiding -- even removing - old-school SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION techniques - those certainly are usually positive steps to getting even more traffic from Google in 2018 - and the type associated with content performance Google rewards is definitely in the end largely with least about a satisfying consumer experience. For instance, when I'm logged in to Google+ and I actually search for SEO, I obtain the following in my top 5 search results. Black head wear SEO practice involves breaking just about all of the rules and rules of the search engine. Every time you notice or hear the phrase research engine optimization, ” substitute exactly what create quality and indicating relevance” and you'll have the correct mindset permanently SEO work. SEOs conveniently call this effect ‘domain authority' and it appeared in order to be related to ‘PageRank' -- the system Google started in order to rank the web within 1998. In case you have more time plus are keen to follow the particular SEO industry, subscribe to Moz and Search Engine Land. Integrating these keywords into the write-up allows you to add range while still retaining SEO energy.

One thing is definitely crystal clear: if you desire people to discover your function, you need search engine search engine optimization (SEO). This almost all means when you're thinking regarding your SEO strategy, you require to think about how your own social media marketing strategy fits into the particular puzzle, too. As your visitors slowly increases, be sure to include various other SEO strategies (like adding exterior and internal links, guest publishing, etc) to engage more customers and keep your metrics higher. Google has still left a very narrow band associated with opportunity when it comes in order to SEO - and punishments are created to take you out associated with the game for some period while you cleanup the infractions. Head of Marketing, Shiny Edstrom, at BioClarity, a San Diego based health-science company, feels that SEO is going in order to see a decreased importance within 2019, and SEOs should begin ensuring they're competent in SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING. 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Search motors cannot understand this type associated with content, so it's essential to design and style video pages in an SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION oriented manner. Subscribe to our weekly SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and daily SearchCap newsletters for a summarize of all the latest SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION related news, tips and strategies from Internet search engine Property and other sources all more than the Web. When most likely logged in, go to SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION Toolkit » Keyword Research » Keyword Overview. For virtually any SEO technique to operate successfully you require content and that will can come in any type like keywords, articles or sites. From 2019, AI may be utilized by the businesses to acquire higher rankings upon search engines. As a result, it can be a great idea to incorporate expenses regarding professional SEO content in your own quarterly marketing budget. Google will see right by means of sneaky, black hat SEO strategies like creating duplicate pages, producing pages with thin content simply for the sake of obtaining more pages and buying inbound links. Siteimprove SEO incorporates sixty six unique SEO checks, including tests for missing meta descriptions, punctuational mistakes, broken links, outdated data files, poor readability, and links in order to unsafe domains. But in the event that we're looking for a larger trend it's that SEO plus what we call real marketing” will continue to blur the particular lines between them as the particular job of the SEO gets that of a traditional internet marketer - having to understand the particular user, the competitors, the market place and also the implementation aspect. Thanks for going to the world of Search Motor Optimization (SEO). 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The sensible strategy for SEO might still appear to be in order to reduce Googlebot crawl expectations plus consolidate ranking equity & possible in high-quality canonical pages plus you do that by reducing duplicate or near-duplicate content. This can take a LONG period for a site to recuperate from using black hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION tactics and fixing the difficulties is not going to necessarily bring organic visitors back as it was prior to a penalty. The particular best SEO Guide is right here to dispel those myths, plus give you all you require to know about SEO in order to show up on the internet and additional search engines, and ultimately make use of SEO to grow your company. > > Upon Page Optimization: On-page SEO is usually the act of optimizing single pages with a specific finish goal to rank higher plus acquire more important movement within web crawlers. There are a lot of websites providing pertinent information regarding SEO and online marketing, and you will learn from them. But it's perplexing why some businesses don't attempt harder with analysis, revisions, plus new content with their SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION online marketing strategy. An effective SEO strategy will certainly be made up of a mix of elements that ensure your web-site is trusted by both people as well as the lookup engines. By taking their particular marketing needs online and employing confer with an experienced SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION agency, a business can achieve thousands, or even millions associated with people that they would have got not been able to in any other case.

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In contrast, content material that no one is humming about have minimal effect upon social SEO. They are usually generally knowledgeable within the are usually of both SEO and content material marketing. When it arrives to reviews, customers work as a good army of link builders plus keyword writers so your SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION structure is shaped without a person having to lift a hand. I believed it as simple as a good example to illustrate an element of onpage SEO or ‘rank modification', that's white hat, totally Google friendly plus not, ever going to result in you a issue with Search engines. So in the event that you want to get began which includes basic SEO, the particular first thing that I might recommend would be choosing the set of keywords for every page on your website. Away page, SEO has contrasted along with it. Undoubtedly, off page marketing is all about link developing, but the quality links plus content. Via a direct incorporation of Google's Search Console, Siteimprove SEO helps you understand how the particular world's most popular search motor and its users see and—more importantly—find your website. On Page Ranking Factors — Moz's on page ranking aspects explains the different on web page elements and their importance within SEO. Surprisingly enough, the lot of SEOs out generally there do tend to underestimate this power of Google Trends This tool has a separate "YouTube search" feature, which hides below the "Web search" option. An SEO agency may work together with a firm to provide an added viewpoint, when it comes to knowing and developing marketing strategies with regard to different sectors and various forms of business websites. Given the search positions and search volume, SEO may drive considerable traffic and qualified prospects for Grainger. SEO stands for lookup engine optimization - that very much has stayed the same. 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In 2019, voice-search will become the dominant way that individuals search. But SEO is all regarding the organic” rankings, which show up in the middle of the particular search results page. The most important SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION factor for creating high-quality articles is doing good keyword analysis. Formula changes in 2018 seem in order to centre on reducing the strength of old-school SEO techniques, along with the May 2015 Google ‘Quality' criteria update bruisingly familiar. Keep in mind in SEO article writing recommendations you keywords have to create sense too. Domain Authority within SEO is a rank that will measures how popular and reliable search engines call at your own website. If the terms you happen to be hoping to rank with regard to don't display on the page, this will be much more tough to achieve your goals : making on-page optimization a essential part of most SEO strategies.

Ultimately, simply by the end of 2018 or even mid-2019, we'll see a golf swing back to natural” content created by real humans who may produce valuable content that really provides value. Hiring experienced SEO experts may ensure that your website climbs the search engine ranks with out using any illegal practices or even short cuts that could create short-term spikes in the cyberspace ranking, but eventually lead in order to your website having to pay out penalties. Official Site Associated with BlowFish SEO - Professional Search Motor Optimization Services operated by Robert DiSalvo SEO Located in Hand Beach Gardens, Florida. The takeaway here will be that if you might possess LOTS of location pages providing A SINGLE business in 1 location, then those are extremely probably classed as some type of doorway pages, and possibly Ten Places That You Can Find SEO 2019 old-school SEO techniques for these types of type of pages will observe them classed as lower-quality -- or even - spammy webpages. CRAWL this, like Google does, with (for example) Screaming Frog SEO spider, plus fix malformed links or stuff that result in server errors (500), broken links (400+) and unwanted redirects (300+). SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION gives you a go at position for the terms which your own customers use, so you may do better business. The job of the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is to create high-quality articles and after that win the attention, the particular love as well as the particular link from a blogger or even editor. The keyword difficulty or even keyword SEO difficulty is the very useful metric for key word research.

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It looks like yesterday that keyword stuffing has been obviously a viable SEO technique to rank on the research engines. If you would certainly like some further help dealing with SEO trends for 2018 after that you can always knock for the CX Marketing door. Although few might not think about adding XML sitemaps as upon page SEO technique, if a person own a new blog along with very less external links after that adding an XML sitemap may make it easier for lookup engines like google to discover your page. The Search algorithms may detect such SEO tactics. There are usually many new techniques and technology marked by the history associated with algorithm updates at the best of search engine results web pages (SERPs) and win real property, most of the SEO specialists chomp at the bit in order to predict the trending updates that will will shape the futures associated with any businesses. Mobile SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION in 2018 is going in order to be all about Progressive Internet Apps (PWAs). Gathering through the above chart, proving the Income (ROI) to the stakeholders plus ranking a single web web page for multiple keywords turned out there to be the most harrowing pains for that SEO wizards forward of the others identified within the research. Regarding example, considering the keyword tea” or marketing” may take very a long time for enhancing the ranking for every upon Google, however, using less explored terms like home tea-maker” or even SEO marketing for your business” can improve your chances associated with raking high in Google. Search Motor Optimization is done through composing SEO optimized content for the website. I WOULDN'T 301 REFOCUS users blindly to your house page in case you anticipate any SEO benefits from 301s. Nevertheless, 2018 SEO trends will prove in order to be the clincher. Canonical: This particular plug-in handles content syndication, which usually essentially allows other blogs in order to publish your job (similar to franchising) without hurting your website's SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION ranking—simply with the addition of a rel=canonical may get your brand and content material out on the web within multiple outlets, ensuring a better reach and bigger audience without having hurting your own search outcomes. Rich snippets and schema markup language is the one that a single needs to work on even more to get a good increase in SEO score and furthermore for having a better standing searching engine results page (also referred to as SERP). ” The wealthy snippets are a way in order to communicate with Google concerning the articles contained within the site. C-K's SEO team offers sifted through many of all of them and created our list associated with key trends to plan intended for in 2018. Daily news plus insights about search engine advertising, SEO and paid search. Because Google gets smarter, repeating key phrases in your content matters much less and less for SEO. As the next 12 months of 2018 is closer in order to us, it is time in order to thinking about the latest SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION strategy for 2018 to enhance your website ranking in lookup result. It's all component of promotion and SEO, because links, and behavioral factors just increase from such collaboration. One main impact the mobile-first index simply because well as the rise associated with voice search might have upon SEO is the shift through exact match phrases to the more broad match SEO, exactly where search engines like google even more easily interpret natural language. For example, the title of this weblog post is WordPress SEO Guidelines - 50 Tips for 2018. ” We are placing our own keyword, WordPress SEO” in the extremely beginning. Before you choose to find out the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends 2018, it is furthermore necessary for you to realize what's trending on the internet right now. Fortunately, you can discover your own broken links upon site using the myriad of Equipment available. Right here are few SEO trends which usually are to be considered since these factors will be beneficial for the business growth simply by letting you shine among many. A skilled web design and SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION person will advise a web site owner on a plan based on business objectives, human sources and funding. If you have got just started your SEO marketing campaign for a brand-new website, after that you should concentrate on long-tail keywords. Listed below are nineteen advanced SEO techniques that a person could implement right away in order to increase your search traffic. Sign upward for the Single Grain blog site now for the latest articles on SEO, PPC, paid cultural, and the future of on the web marketing. Stop thinking in terms associated with SEO vs. content marketing” plus start exploring how well these people perform together. The school methods of SEO are actually phased out and the new lookup engine algorithms have introduced the new at-par levels for various other techniques that should be regarded as while creating a website style. We all do advanced SEO for Lot of money 500 websites and our strategies are built on these concepts. Now, the only method to appear in the lookup engine pages like this is usually by uploading your videos upon You Tube or through video clip SEO. On-Page SEO is generally accompanied with Off-Page SEO, that will be based on building trustworthy incoming links for your site : this is most frequently known as linkbuilding. As the behaviour of a user searching search engine optimization company in Mumbai ” may be different from a user looking for seo company in Chennai Therefore, advertisers should not battle in the same way because these people used to do in the particular previous years. Whether you are the marketer or a business proprietor, learning new SEO tactics plus following best practices can assist you secure a safe place online.

By the finish of this article, you'll find out the actual best SEO developments in 2018 are? Nevertheless, before we get to our own main event, I must keep in mind that after our 2017 model of SEO trends launched final year on Search Engine Log, we heard a few problems about how long this had been. Informative post ideal with regard to SEO, I have used these types of techniques in my seo the very helpful thanks for spreading. Voice research is without doubt the most recent and many prominent SEO tendencies this year. Then when we do SEO-optimization of a post, we follow a certain set associated with proven methods to rank this higher on a search engine. It's important in order to remember to share content through your website or blog socially to give it an SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION boost too. SEO has a lot more aspects associated with your issue and it also helps a person know drawbacks of your web site, so, promoting through SEO will certainly not only help you property on first pages of Research Engines like Google, it furthermore lets you the find the particular defects in your website that additional helps in removing them. We m glade to see somebody taken you a chance in order to explain about mobile SEO and the PWA application, Nice Content sir. We are excited to listen to from you about ON-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and OFF-page seo methods to position first. Nevertheless, this particular is not the real problem for Seo (SEO). There are LOTS of tone of voice searches in the world associated with local SEO. Search motor optimization (SEO) will be the process associated with affecting the online visibility associated with the website or a internet page in a web lookup engine 's unpaid results—often identified as "natural", " organic inch, or "earned" results. Every company and consultant has their personal SEO methodology; therefore they might use different methods to accomplish high organic rankings for web sites. One associated with the best techniques for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is including search engine helpful URL links for every plus every page that you have got written or else you will write. Entering the dialog search outside of smartphones will open new opportunities for both SEO and content marketing, allowing users to interact with users in the unique, but still of use way for them. With that being said, carry on reading to discover more regarding the SEO trends for 2018 and what they mean regarding your business. In order to find away how I do it, check out Article Czar for a free of charge gift and details of exactly how I use article marketing plus SEOcious to get top Search engines listings. A successful internet marketing strategy may usually involve SEO, yet it also consists of the particular use of paid advertising upon search engines, building high high quality websites to interact and convince site visitors take action by means of enquiries or online sales, creating analytic programs to allow web site owners to measure their success and improving a site's transformation rate. Shift of Desktop computer First index to Mobile Initial index, Priority of Local SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION in ranking, trend of Tone of voice Search etc. Technical SEO to help guarantee search engines like google may crawl your site efficiently. So - THERE IS NO BEST PRACTICE QUANTITY OF CHARACTERS any SEO could lay down as exact best practice to GUARANTEE a title will display, in complete in Google, at least, since the search snippet title, on every single device. Techmagnate, as a responsible digital marketing and advertising agency, is hereby compiling most the major SEO updates, INFORMATION, strategies and techniques for 2018. We're predicting SEO strategies in order to become increasingly localised and customized for individual users instead associated with groups of users. In essence there are around six Local SEO ranking factors that play a major role. So it is really important for you to understand the guidelines in the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION industry and be sure that the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION agency that is handling your own account uses techniques that conform with the search engines' recommendations and involves no deception. Search Engine protocol being updated every minute, this is hard to know in order to have an SEO company or even individual which techniques still operating. Most people are putting an emphasis on the user experience benefit more than any potential SEO benefit, plus that is as it need to be. These are usually only a few off-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION techniques for building links. Say, for example, I reveal this off-page SEO techniques article across my social channels. While videos are great regarding SEO, make sure you may create video content just since the format works better. The rise associated with Google-featured-content has provided its personal challenges for SEO practitioners. Our evaluations of the 10 leading search engine optimization (SEO) tools help you choose the right solution. The phrase SEO, ” otherwise known because search engine optimization, ” provides increased in popularity over the particular past few years. The truth is that a person can get top Search Motor Rankings spending a little little bit of money and doing the particular work yourself or paying a good expert SEO company thousands associated with dollars to get your Internet site for the first page. When you stop plus take a look back from where seo (SEO) started, it can pretty incredible how far it can come in the past several years — even the previous couple of months. On the various other hand, focusing on mobile SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is a must, whereas cellular friendliness and user experience are usually considered as a major standing factor in SEO Trends within 2018.

Google is producing sure it will take longer to observe results from black and white hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, and intent on ensuring the flux in its SERPs dependent largely on where the searcher is on the planet at the time associated with the search, and in which usually the business is located close to to that searcher. With voice search comes 2 regions of interest to SEO people wanting to connect with consumers: intention and context. I actually released our content strategy on SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION Hacker's blog to help guy SEOs improve their website's content material. In this particular blog we will discuss away from page SEO is detail plus will learn some effective away from page SEO techniques which a person must try in first associated with all we would like in order to discuss the importance of away from page SEO” and how this can be good for web site owners. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION has more aspects related in order to your problem and it furthermore helps you know drawbacks associated with your website, so, promoting by means of SEO will not only assist you land on first webpages of Search engines like yahoo, but it furthermore lets you the find the particular defects on your website that will further assists with removing all of them. Although recommendation links will still provide a few rankings to the site, the particular highest rankings will most most likely come through the integration associated with link building to SEO content material. You also wish in order to ensure that your images nevertheless index with Google when shifting to a CDN For customers of the Yoast SEO wordpress plugin, you will want to include the following code to the particular bottom of your file. Whichever way you choose to categorize keywords, one of the most important steps in SEO is doing keyword research. Properly, chosen SEO keywords help individuals to get your site through search engines. Very first of all, SEO is a good acronym for Search Engine Enhanced. Users don't desire to wait for a internet page so if your internet page is slow in 2018, forget about SEO and your own bounce rate will down. Since this had been a major change in the particular SEO landscape, I took this upon myself to gather stats and present what mobile lookup optimization actually is, and publish this on our company's blog.

The growth associated with Google's featured snippet, voice lookup, Local SEO, and PPC provides better result in diverting visitors to your site as in comparison to the organic listing. Although, it will be bit time consuming to generate a quality video, it is definitely more than worth it. Ideal for traffic and SEO as nicely. In this write-up, we will be listing five technical SEO tricks to enhance organic traffic, rankings and earnings. Backlinks performs important aspect of offsite SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. Exactly why is seo (SEO) so essential? There are lots of methods to find keywords for SEO. Three major SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION intelligence platforms - SEMRush, Ahrefs, and Serpstat - help recognize keywords with less competition simply by including a keyword difficulty metric. SEO in 2018 won't be greater than any kind of other year, but new developments are happening for sure. Plus that's one of the 1st images that cross my thoughts each time I see sites getting penalized by Google credited to faulty SEO. Like easily said that will user experience was of comparable importance as on-page SEO with regard to ranking high in search. SEO appears for Search Engine Optimization, which usually is the increasing the high quality and quantity of people in order to your website. It's not enough to just have a good understanding associated with the 2018 SEO trends in case you aren't ready to leap along with both feet. Meta description plays the major role in search motor ranking of your post therefore writing an SEO friendly meta description is important for rank factor. Yes, you can now obtain more personalized, precise and well-timed search results; however, this provides made the SEO job even more challenging too. Power Tip: Such as with a post, I've discovered that you get a minor video SEO boost by placing your keyword at the starting of the title. (Screaming Frog SEO Spider is the best helper! ) Neither the user nor the search engine likes malfunctioning links. CoSchedule saw the 594 percent increase in visitors by reshaping their SEO content material strategy to become more in-line with searcher intent.

To get exceptional SEO results, spend some period finding the best relevant content material. With the vast majority of search queries emerging through mobile, SEO professionals are focusing on it regarding voice lookup to enhance their SEO. The SEO experts are usually depending more on videos in order to drive traffic. So, along with content material marketing, SEO now needs to be profoundly aligned with your company's PAGE RANK efforts. These SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION crawler programs are similar in order to Google's own crawlers and will certainly give you an overview displaying how your page will execute in SEO rankings. In purchase to help you stay within front of the competition, beneath you will find the newest SEO trends and ranking elements in 2018. The value associated with keyword studies still prolific within SEO, despite the fact that we've been changing to a topic-based search entire world for years now. SEO will be driven by Google Majorly and Other small search engines. What really matters within SEO in 2018 is specifically what you prioritise today therefore that in 3-6 months a person can see improvements within the particular quality of your organic visitors.

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