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The Housekeeper Part 6 (The End)

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Geralt x Reader

Modern!AU

Warning: mention of sex, smut and swearing

Summary: You moved to the big city not too long ago. And you became the housekeeper to the handsome bachelor, Geralt Rivia. At first your relationship is purely professional, but what happens when you start developing feelings for him?

And finally, Geralt saw a little bit of light in his lonely life and all he can do is thank you for it.

You changed his life and perspective of life.

You moved into his penthouse after four months of dating. Waking up next to such a handsome and kind man was all you ever wanted and more.

“I’m thinking about hiring a new housekeeper.” Geralt said one morning as he made breakfast while you waited for him, sitting at the table.

“What?”

“A new housekeeper, you can’t clean this place, work and plan our wedding at the same time.” Geralt wasn’t wrong, it was a bit too much, a month ago, he asked you on a fancy date, which you gladly accepted. You went to the restaurant only to find it empty since he rented the whole place. You weren’t exactly surprised that he proposed to you, with the way he treated and looked at you, you were basically already his wife.

“I sure can! Don’t underestimate me, Geralt.”

“I’m not underestimating you, My Love. All I’m saying is that you don’t need the stress. I just, I don’t want in the future when you think back to our wedding, for you to only remember the stress of the preparation.”

“Anything but a housekeeper, Geralt.”

“Hm?”

“I don’t want someone to come here every day, get all wet and bothered by you walking around shirtless. I don’t want someone to replace me. I can clean the house and work and plan the wedding.”

“My Love, no one will ever replace you. Never. Ever.” Geralt understood your concern since his love for you blossomed when you were his employee. “Then how about a wedding planner?”

“That might be a better idea, but I want you to have some saying in it. Don’t just leave it up to me as you did with our home.” It was true, Geralt completely leaned back and let you redecorate his home, he always said “If you like it, so will I.” and just left it all to you. But for the wedding you wanted him to participate, choose colours, flowers, decorations and if he wanted something, he should say it.

“Hmm.” was all he said and you rolled your eyes with a smile on your face. His usual response to 90% of the things was the low ‘hmm’ that only he could do so perfectly.

***

To your surprise, Geralt actually looked rather interested in planning the wedding. He even argued about the colour of the tablecloth. You were quite surprised when he mentioned that he always wanted his wedding to be in a nice mansion that is surrounded by nature.

Your wedding planner, Natasha, found just the place. A gorgeous old mansion with a huge garden far away from the city. It was the perfect place, but only once you saw it all decorated and ready for the wedding when it all sank in.

You were about to marry Geralt Rivia. The millionaire, handsome, muscular and silver-haired man. The one and only. He was like a collectible, the rarest kind. But of course, those were only the materialistic things, the surface of who Geralt really was.

Geralt was the man who fell in love, yet decided to deny it. And only when his jealousy got the best of him was he able to confess.

Geralt was the man who you went on a three day trip for your anniversary into a skiing resort only to get snowed in. Geralt was the man who made sure that even if you couldn’t leave the bungalow, you were still comfortable. He was the man who you had numerous baths with and passionate yet rough sex to keep you warm.

Geralt was the man who bought you tampons and ice cream when you were on your period and you were in too much pain to move.

Geralt was the man who brought you a new car, just so he would be assured that you are safe in the traffic.

Geralt was the man who let you redecorate his whole place and all he could concentrate on once it was done is the light in your eyes and the smile on your face as you walked around.

Geralt was the man who tried his best not to let a single drop of tear escape his eyes once he was you in your beautiful dress walking towards him, to become his wife. He was the man who once you were alone, let that tear out, but only for you to see, and you were the woman who caught that tear with your thumb as you leaned up to kiss him.

And Jaskier was the man who let all his tears out on the wedding, concerning the guests, even the priest if he was okay. But once Jaskier was on the stage, singing and playing his guitar as you danced with your husband, he stopped crying and started smiling.

***

Two years after the wedding, Geralt and you were happily married. Sure, your new job had some concerns and co-workers that Geralt didn’t like, you worked it all out.

And now, with a baby on the way, you wondered what your husband will say. Despite being together for so long, children and the topic of a family was never brought up which might be strange but it was true.

One night, you were sitting on the couch, watching a movie. The movie was a family film, so you decided to bring the topic up.

“I don’t understand why did they have so many children? They can’t even control them.”

“Hmm.” was all you heard so you needed a new technique.

“I quite like the little girl though.”

“Yeah, she’s cute.”

“Geralt, would you want to have children?” this seemed to surprise him.

“Well, to be honest, I didn’t. But I never wanted to get married either, so I don’t know anymore. I mean I don’t completely hate the idea, but I might not want right now. Why are you pregnant?” his question was a joke, but when you didn’t laugh with him, he knew something was up.

“You say you are not ready and you want to wait right?” he could only nod as he listened to you intensely. “Seems like the little one has different ideas,” you say and wait for him to get it.

“Fuck.” was all he said. To be honest he sounded more nervous than angry which was a good sign.

“Don’t swear! The baby will hear you!”

“How long?”

“How long have I known or how long into the pregnancy I am?”

“Yes.”

“I have known for two days now. My doctor discovered it during my regular check-up and since he couldn’t predict how long I was and sent me to the appropriate doctor, I will find out tomorrow. But if I had to guess, I’d say about three weeks? When we did it in-“

“In the shower.” he finished your sentence.

“Yes. Are you angry?”

“No, why would I be? Shocked? Yes. But not angry.”

“Well, seems like your pull-out game is not as strong as you might have thought. But I’m happy. Are you?”

“Hmm.” Geralt was deep in thought. He contemplated whether he would be a good father or not, so many thoughts ran in his head.

“I was scared when the doc told me. I was scared of your reaction but more about myself. I’m still not sure if I’m ready to be a mother, or if I will be a good one. But I’m very sure about the fact that I will keep this baby. I think we will be able to do it, I mean Jaskier was a tough one but we managed him, right?” Geralt smiled a little.

“I want a girl.” he said.

“We will have to wait to get to know that, but I’m happy. Are you.”

“Yes. I’m happy. I’m going to be a father! We are going to be parents, Love! I need to read books, and we will need a house! A big house! I’m not stopping at one child! I want a whole army of them! All girls, as gorgeous as you are My Love. And the boys, strong like me!”

You smiled as your husband went on and on about his plans. It was great to see him so excited after how concerned he looked a moment ago.

He stood up, gesturing around, to be honest, you stopped listening to him after he started coming up with names.

You stood up grabbed his face and kissed him. It didn’t take him a moment to get his hands on your hips as he pulled you closer to himself.

“I love you, Y/N.” he said when he pulled away and looked into your eyes. His gold ones glistening in the sunlight.

“I love you too Geralt.”

From a simple housekeeper to his wife and now to the mother of his child. You went a long way, but your love for him and his love for you never changed.

And never will.

A/N: The last part is nothing but fluff, since Geralt deserves that. Hope you enjoyed the series!

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How to Keep a House Clean Every Day of the WeekHow to Keep a House Clean Every Day of the Week

Keeping your home tidy might seem like an impossible task—but it doesn’t have to be. We put together some of the best tips so you and your family can learn how to keep a house clean every day of the week.

The average American spends one hour a day cleaning their house, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Between work, errands, parenthood and the chaos of everyday life, learning how to keep a house clean can be one of the toughest lessons we learn. While it sometimes seems impossible to manage everything on your plate, there are some quick and easy tips to help you get your house (and your life) in order. Read on for everything you need to know about how to keep a house clean.

How to Keep a House Clean Tip #1: Put everything away after use.

This might seem like an obvious tip, but failing to put away your belongings is the main culprit of untidiness. As you move from one room to another, do a quick scan to see if there’s anything that you can take with you. Go out of your way to make sure that anything you wear, use or move ends up where it belongs. It’s easy to leave a pair of shoes near the front door, a few shirts on your bed and some dishes in the sink until tomorrow. Remember, those tiny piles can quickly turn into big messes.

If you’re lacking space, consider some DIY closet organization ideas like tension rods and shower curtain hooks. Use over-the-door organizers to extend existing spaces in your bedrooms, bathrooms and hall closets. Corral your smaller belongings with decorative baskets and organize your paper items with a mail sorter. And remember: it takes much less time to put away your belongings each time than to frantically run around looking for them when you need them again!

How to Keep a House Clean Tip #2: Do one room at a time.

The easiest way to keep your entire house clean is to tackle one room at a time. By splitting up the cleaning by room (and by day), you can accomplish a little bit at a time instead of tackling every task at once.

Here’s how to keep a house clean by focusing on one room at a time:

Bathroom

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From toothpaste dribbles and mirror stains to wet floors and shower grime, the bathroom will endure a variety of messes throughout the week. Because we constantly use it each day, it’s easiest to clean up after yourself instead of waiting a few weeks later for a bigger mess.

Areas to focus on for a clean bathroom:

Clean the sink

Scrub the shower, tub and toilet

Remove mirror spots

Mop the floors (don’t forget those corners)

Looking for a natural, easy-to-make cleaner for your home? DIY cleaners are a cost-effective way to keep your house clean.

Try this simple DIY cleaner recipe:

2 cups water

¼ cup baking soda

2 tsp. dishwashing liquid

3 tbsp. white vinegar

10 drops essential oil

After you use the sink or step out of the shower, take your natural cleaner and spray down the surface. Run the water again to wash all the cleaner off. Voilà—you’ve prolonged your time until you have to do a deep clean in your shower! The essential oil will also keep the room smelling fresh for several days. For best results, ask everyone in your household to make this a habit.

Bedroom

The key to keeping bedrooms clean is all about storage. If you have proper places for all of your clothes and accessories, you’re more likely to keep your personal space clean.

If you’ve noticed that you don’t seem to have enough space, invest in storage containers or baskets that can fit under your bed. Having a complete change of linens under your bed also makes it easier to change them while your other set is being washed. Picking the right nightstand helps to keep your room more organized as well. Store your journals, books and magazines in the drawers. If it’s large enough, it can double as a work desk.

To keep your bedroom clean, make a habit of these steps:

Make your bed

Fold blankets and throws

Put away clutter in appropriate locations

Dust desks, nightstands and shelves

Vacuum floor and area rugs

Kitchen

Dishes tend to be the culprit in a messy kitchen. Have family members who like to let dishes “soak?” Simply prepare one side of your sink with water and few drops of dish detergent. Throughout the day, add dishes to the soapy side and it will lift most of the grease and food off of the dishes. By the time you wash the dishes or put them in the dishwasher, they’ll be clean.

The kitchen is a great place to apply the 20-minutes-per-day rule. Spend a few extra minutes cleaning your kitchen after each meal, and you’ll never have to deal with a huge mess in one of the most important rooms in your home.

Focus on these areas when it comes to cleaning your kitchen:

Put away dishes—always have an empty sink!

Clean countertops

Organize your pantry and refrigerator

Sweep and mop the floor

Use steel cleaner for appliances

Living Room

The living room receives some of the most traffic in the house. If you’re not careful, it can easily become littered with an assortment of everyday items. Make sure you place your items where they belong so your living room can leave a great first impression on your family and friends.

Simple steps to regularly take for a clean living room:

Clear the room of any clutter (toys, games, books)

Fluff pillows and fold blankets/throws

Dust mantel, coffee tables and end tables

Vacuum floors and couches (especially if you have pets!)

Storage solutions like these will keep this area of your house clean:

Shoe rack. If your living room is carpeted, the constant foot traffic can wear your carpet down significantly. Make sure you have a place for your family and guests to store their shoes before they tromp dirt and grass through your clean home.

Hidden storage. If you don’t have a home for items like toys, books and games, vertical shelving can help display your things in an organized way. Storage ottomans are also perfect for minimizing clutter and storing things out of sight.

How to Keep a House Clean Tip #3: Stick to a schedule.

It’s one thing to give each room a thorough clean, but how do you make sure your house stays clutter-free every day of the week? Believe it or not, easily: a cleaning schedule. Create a list to keep on your fridge, your wall or your desk to help keep you and your household organized. Your schedule should include not just what needs to be done, but when it needs to be done.

By splitting your small household tasks into daily, weekly and even monthly routines, you can keep your house in perfect shape year round.

How to Keep a House Clean Daily

Most people wait until their house is messy to start cleaning. The trick is to put in a small effort every day to keep your house as tidy as possible. These daily tasks are small but effective reminders of how to keep a house clean.

Six easy ways to go to sleep with a tidy home each night:

Make the bed. The best way to start your day is by making your bed. Simply making your bed each day will have a domino effect, allowing you to keep everything else neat and tidy.

Clean as you cook. As you learn how to keep a house clean, pay close attention to clutter in the kitchen. Throw out scraps and empty packages as you use them. Wash pots and utensils while dinner roasts in the oven. Make sure dishes are put away before sitting down after meals. Cleaning as you go saves time and keeps your kitchen in tip-top shape.

Grab as you go. Make it a mission to minimize clutter by picking up your belongings whenever you leave a room. Bring a pair of shoes with you when you go upstairs, pick up the coffee cup on the counter and take dirty laundry with you on your trip downstairs.

Wipe up messes as they happen. Try not to leave any spills or small messes unattended. Take a few minutes to wipe them up with a damp cloth so you’re not dealing with set-in stains at the end of the week.

Sort the mail. We receive mail every day, and most of that mail turns out to be junk. Instead of letting it pile up in your mailbox or on the counter, sort it the second you walk in the door. Place bills, coupons and personal correspondence in their appropriate places the moment you bring in the mail and recycle junk mail.

Sweep the kitchen floor. The kitchen often sees more traffic than the rest of the house, meaning the floor collects a lot of dirt and debris. Spend a few minutes each day sweeping the floor, and you won’t see dirt being dragged through the house all week long.

How to Keep a House Clean Weekly

Never underestimate the power of a weekly cleaning! No matter how successful you are with the small daily tasks, you’ll still have a few 20-minute tasks to complete once a week.

While a weekly cleaning schedule isn’t necessarily a one-size-fits-all solution, it’s an easy way to carve out one room at a time. As long as you follow a routine that permits you to focus on one major section of your home each day, you’ll never feel overwhelmed. Cleaning your home will practically take care of itself!

Example weekly cleaning schedule:

Monday: Laundry and dusting Tuesday: Bathrooms and vacuuming Wednesday: Living room and mopping Thursday: Bedrooms Friday: Kitchen Saturday: Organizational and miscellaneous tasks

Aside from consistent daily and weekly cleanings, you should also keep monthly and quarterly cleanings in mind. This could include mattresses, lint lines, air filters, blinds and more. By starting with your smaller tasks, you can fill in the gaps with these larger, less frequent tasks.

How to Keep a House Clean Tip #4: Believe in a “power clean.”

Nobody likes to go to sleep knowing their house is a mess. By spending 10-15 minutes on a nightly “power” cleanup, you can prevent piles of clutter from forming in your home.

If you can involve your family members, the more the merrier! Put on a timer, have some fun with it and focus on your top cleaning priorities. Focus on the items that pose the biggest mess (whether it’s your kitchen, kids’ bedroom or foyer) first. Then chip away at the areas that see the most traffic.

Here are some key areas to keep in mind:

Shoes in the entryway

Dishes in the sink

Items on the bathroom counter

Coffee table clutter

Toys on the living room floor

Think you’ve mastered how to keep a house clean?

Figuring out how to keep a house clean may seem like one of life’s many mysteries. With a little time and effort, you can easily create great cleaning habits to keep your nest tidy year round.

How do you keep your house clean? What are some of your most useful tips? Let us know in the comments below!

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My lengthy defense of the most hated Persona game

Here’s my grand defense for the most hated game in the series: Persona 1, AKA Revelations: Persona. I know it’s too late to try and rehabilitate the game’s reputation on the internet, but I’m hoping that by rambling in modestly structured form for a bit, at least some folks might be able to look at Persona with a fresh perspective. It would be cool if everyone could try to understand what the game did so well and why it resonated so strongly with me and 2 or so other people. If you are the kind of person that thinks games age and become archaic, then I probably don’t have any hope of reaching you, but still, try to put yourself in the right mindset and approach the game on its own terms, and maybe you’ll discover something quite special.

So, Persona. Persona does very interesting things with choice. As the first Megaten rpg released in America, the negotiation system was a revelation (har har), providing the choice to talk your way out of battles and into rewards is a natural D&D element that never got a foothold in countless videogame conversions of the game, and in the first Persona these elements are at their peak. With every demon having four moods, four series of animation and four sets of voiced sound effects, the expanded options really let you get into the headspace of the demons you’re conversing with, unlike traditional SMT’s more spare binary system. Getting into the thick of things with complex sets of reactions (Joy + Interest, that’s what’s up) makes for a fun simulation.

The theme of choice is also really built into the game’s fabric, it’s the reason why in old usenet postings, Persona was recommended to folks who were fans of Gold Box games, during a time when RPG labels were more porous and that sneaky “J” hadn’t yet latched itself omnipresently to the term. Choice here also extends to the fifth character in your party, a friendly way to promote replay value without new game plus, and certain choices locking you out of giant chunks of the game, an unfriendly way of getting you through the game again. In a world though where developers are desperate to ensure that gamers experience all content (so many buzzwords!), the chutzpah of Persona being willing to lock you out of huge swathes of the game is something I actually admire.

It’s easy to underestimate the impact of the modern day setting in a post Persona 3/TWEWY/Alpha Protocol world, but dungeons that were hospitals and police stations and high school students snarling “EAT THIS” with MIGs in pitched street battles felt revelatory. Exploring the comically low-rent polygonal city (is this another reference to the abstracted icons of SMT1 and 2 world maps?) was actually fun, as ridiculous as waiting for traffic to pass might seem. There are also many complaints about the first person perspective dungeons, even though the rest of the game is third person, but the setting variety is nice and many of the wall patterns are quite evocative (Deva Yuga looks like Persepolis!)

The game also does PSX-era philosophizing in a tasteful and generally thoughtful way, while contemporaries were drawing from Evangelion, Persona looked to Zhuangzi and Jung. Not very high-falutin, true, but at least middle brow enough such that my 14 year old Sophie’s World reading self was entranced. The game has something neat to say about loneliness and identity and the way we construct the world around ourselves (all hinted at in the moody intro. The story is very nice and very Kaneko, even if he’s overestimating the literary quality in this interview, I’m very fond of it and it is my franchise favorite.

Here’s where I alienate the remaining people who might have been on board with me so far: if you ignore the loss of the Snow Queen Quest, a 20 hour alternate version of the story that takes place in a series of SMT:If... like towers, Revelations: Persona is actually the superior game. “Lunarvale,” a hodgepodge of America and Japan cobbled together by localizers attempting to mask the game’s origins, is actually more weird and interesting than the Mikage-cho that appears in Persona PSP. This bizarre mashup, combined with a nonsense translation attempt, somehow manages to better fit the lurid dreamscape vibe the original developers were going for. I can’t undersell how one-of-a-kind and wonderfully unsettling the game’s atmosphere is in the PSX version, and this is helped along of course by the sound.

Here are excerpts from some things I wrote on the music in this game:

Revelations: Persona has the best soundtrack in the franchise, possibly the best soundtrack ever made. In raw quantitative terms it's ridiculous, 113 songs and 3 hours of music without being looped, and all without doing Persona 2's trick of repeated (but still awesome!) remixes. Two majorly sweet leitmotifs for the two major quests, employed creatively and thoughtfully, four fantastic composers on four discs, cohesive and thematically coherent when by all rights it should feel disjointed as fuck, this is a generous OST!

Hidehito Aoki (R.I.P.) composed the dungeon music, which is exquisite. Lengthy songs that are moody, elegant, just plain beautiful and get you PUMPED! The iconic Deva Yuga Monochrome: School Revisited Dream-like, synthy, catchy, beautiful, quintessential Persona sound. Pandora's Den (Deepmost Area): The climax at 1:12! Ice Castle/Black Snow The twists and turns in this one, so effing good. Sebek Music, Karma Palace 90's music is the best!!! Misaki Okibe's range is ridiculous, she composed some of the most memorable, interesting tracks in the whole game. Reverse Dream World: You think you have this song figured out in the first few seconds, but stick around to see where it suddenly veers off to around :30, hilarious and awesome. Theme of Nemurin's Love: The intro! The power of a simple lovely melody, a little Uematsu-esque. Augustia's Wood: The save music, so memorable, I love the grumbling. City 2 Accident: Do you remember wandering the streets in the town, disoriented, listening to this gorgeousness, thinking about how Lunarvale suddenly seemed so scary, like an unsettling dream? Bar Attacked by Harem Queen: A bit of jazzy beauty. And most important of all of course, Misaki Okibe is the composer of the Pharmacy Music, featuring vocals by one Hidehito Aoki of all people. Satomi Tadashi Drugstore Song In our heads forever, teaching us about item use since 1996.

More alienating for readers who have gotten this far: the “whitewashing” character designs were all improvements, Kazuma Kaneko redrew everything himself and it’s easy to tell that a lot of thought was put into the redesigns. Finally, Mark is also >>>> Masao, everyone’s always yelling about the jive-talking but to me he came across as quite smart and savvy. I dunno, maybe this is just a Flavor of Love/Outsourced minorities just wanna see themselves effect operating here, leave me alone you guys! So yes, the franchise’s current fanbase might not be fond of them, but the cast is comprised of characters that are meant to be iconic and not friends you wish you had in real life, a cast that, FFVI-like, is meant to evoke broader themes and not follow the typical arcs of many RPGs these days. Check out the classiness of Yuki’s design, and allow me to quote some more stuff on how Tsuchiya, master of the character theme, nails it for each party member.

The sign of a good character theme is when you can extrapolate from instrument choice and melody to personality. Here Tsuchiya is the man, no one does it better this side of Uematsu. I hear these songs and I've got a perfect picture in my mind of each cast member. It's what I think of when I think of "videogame music" ha, here are my personal favorites, I could listen to these endlessly. Mary/Maki: Cheerful, just a hint of melancholy in the notes, love that slap bass. Yuki: Starts a bit slow, but soon we learn that Yuki's cool but determined. Alana: The song tells me she's brassy, energetic, fun. Chris/Reiji: Dangerous, exciting, a bad-ass delinquent. Ellen/Elly: Classy, elegant, confident.

Some also rag on the dungeon design, but it seems unfair to expect centerpiece labyrinths along the lines of Strange Journey or Etrian Odyssey in a game going for something completely different. Nevertheless, you’ve got tricky mazes with dead ends that test resource allocation skills and provide a sense of accomplishment. Encounters are tough and require thought, careful consideration of when to flee and negotiate is imperative for dungeon survival. This is something that gets lost a bit in the PSP remake as the encounter rate is increased but battles are a bit easier. Exploiting elemental weaknesses isn’t as elegant as in later games, but with a ludicrously high 14 damage types breadth supersedes depth. And there’s even a positioning system to consider that the developers decided to drop from later games rather than refine. In the end, surviving the dungeon and beating the boss is an RPG staple that just plain works, although yes you will probably grit your teeth at some of the loading times.

And finally, you don’t have to take my random word for it. Parish really liked it too! How’s that for an appeal to authority?

For series buffs, it’s fun to trace this game’s historical lineage, as one of the earlier spinoffs of Shin Megami Tensei, it's easy to spot the mainline series influence: the occultism of the opening ritual, the hospital as first dungeon, the first person perspective for dungeon travel, BLUE POINTER MAN, and the omnipresent danger of demons in town and dungeon alike. Revelations: Persona is drawing from a rich and storied history, but manages to recast SMT traditions in interesting new directions. Again, the atmosphere is really unbelievable and something I haven’t come across in other games. It’s more than a simple curiosity and it doesn’t deserve dumb dismissal or sneering derision for its flaws. Revelations: Persona is a real marvel, modern games ought to draw more inspiration from its lessons, and the game belongs in the RPG canon, there I said it!

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5 Most Effective Off-Site SEO Strategies for 2020

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For those who aren’t familiar with search engine optimization (SEO), it is a digital marketing technique that focuses on creating higher traffic, and in some cases increasing conversion ratios, for websites. SEO is as old as search engines themselves, and just like they’ve evolved to the behemoths they are today, SEO saw its fair share of development as well. There are 3 main branches of SEO that anyone looking to optimize their overall website health should focus on.

First, there is technical SEO, which includes handling domain, hosting, landing pages, error pages, and loading time; followed by on-page SEO, providing control over the website’s data like the descriptions, internal links, and others, and the last branch, which we will be discussing in detail, is off-page SEO. Its main role is to induce more visibility for the website on the internet by focusing on various digital channels. To help you properly handle off-site SEO, we’ve listed 5 of the most effective and popular strategies used by experts.

1. Creating the Right Content

This may sound quite easy but creating shareable content isn’t always the priority of many beginners. Even though its effect is quite impressive thanks to its reach on social media platforms, it can be underestimated by those who solely focus on on-page and technical SEO. For that reason, content is said to be the king of SEO, and that is quite true in an age where content can be easily shared on dozens of platforms.

The content you create shouldn’t be just for the visitors of your blog, but it should be for a market audience who has never heard of your website and stumble upon its great content. This ensures that you’re taking a piece of the untapped-potential pie in your market. If you want to create content that has effective and natural backlinks, you’ll need to make sure your content is well-researched and constantly updated.

2. Backlinks

In 2020, there are endlessly available SEO building practices that can completely change your business website game. Backlinks rank high on top of this list as one of the most effective used tools to add credibility to your website while increasing the traffic. Without having to change your website, SEO specialists who provide white label link building agree that guest blogging on bigger and more established websites has a higher payout among many other building techniques. You are basically building a relationship with higher influencers and websites to open the door for many opportunities for your business.

3. Fix 404 Errors

User experience is highly affected by how smooth your website works. If users get too many 404 errors, they are more likely to stop trusting your website for a credible business. Some users might get too frustrated and stop using your website altogether. That said, broken links don’t only affect off-page SEO, but they also add a big red flag for website crawlers. The outreach might also cost you potential customers. This is why fixing 404 errors is always on top of any SEO checklist. By fixing these errors, you will enhance user experience and prevent outreach opportunities from reaching your competitors.

4. Paid Ads

Promoting your content to ensure that more people are seeing it, is essential for the nourishment of any business. Without this essential step, you will be left with a limited pool of customers that already know and trust your business. Promoting your content with paid ads, on the other hand, widens your reach and increases traffic. This way, you will rest assured that more people are getting familiar with what you have to offer. Paid ads such as Google Ads or using other social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram get the job done quickly when it comes to getting the most value out of your off-page SEO.

5. Guest Authoring

Contributing to other blogs and websites as a guest author is one of the most effective off-site SEO techniques that is used by many popular bloggers. If you’re still trying to launch your blog off the ground, there is no quicker way than appearing on a more popular website with high traffic to redirect some of the people that may be regular users.

You don’t exactly have to network your way into these websites to contribute as a guest thanks to the many blogs and websites that readily welcome guest posts. As a guest author, you should focus on the quality of the links you use rather than the quantity because you’ll want to leave a good impression on the reader. Try to diversify the type of blogs you post in to avoid restricting yourself to one or two blogs only.

In our modern-day, ignoring the importance of having a strong online presence isn’t even a possibility. Without a strong website and some powerful SEO techniques, you are more likely to lose to even small competitors. Building an effective SEO strategy isn’t all plain sailing, yet it’s definitely worth it to live up to the competition in our digital-driven world.

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12 Things NOT to do in Japan

I won't lie. I didn't know a whole lot about Japan before I got here. I actually did most of my reading about Japanese etiquette on the horrific 12-hour flight between Los Angeles and Tokyo. And I've pretty much just winged it ever since. In hindsight, there are a lot of things I know now that I would've done well to comprehend before I got here. I've taken half a month of experience in the field and compiled it into this list of "12 Things Not to do in Japan." So, when you're on your flight here, you needn't worry about reading about cultural etiquette; you can sit back, relax, and enjoy the in-flight entertainment.

1.) DON'T eat & drink while walking

Walking down the street while eating and drinking isn't illegal; you're not going to get shouted at and you're not going to get arrested. What you will get is the stare of disapproval. A lot of people don't know this one until they get here and never see anyone doing it. What you'll find is, if someone wants to eat or drink something quickly outside, they'll buy it at the convenience store and then eat it or drink it outside in front of the store. Same with vending machines; if they buy something from the vending machine, they'll drink it there and then next to the vending machine. The main reason is, people are very conscious about keeping the streets clean here, and you don't want to ruin someone else's day by having them walk through your spilled coffee. That said, all you need to do to avoid the stare of disapproval is to just stop and eat and drink whatever it is there and then. Maybe it's on a bench, maybe you're just standing at the side of the road, whatever. Just don't walk while eating and drinking and you'll be all right.

2.) DON'T do various things with chopsticks

Three things to point out here. Number 1: Never put your chopsticks upright into the rice, as this is part of a ritual conducted at funerals when offering rice to the spirits of the deceased. Similarly, number 2: never pass things from chopstick to chopstick because, again, this is done during funerals to pass the bones of cremated relatives. That kind of imagery doesn't go down well over dinner, as you'd expect. Probably best not to conjure up imagery surrounding death before you've even had your lunch. And thirdly, don't do the rubbing of the chopsticks. You know, when you open wooden chopsticks and you like to do that to get rid of the splinters and just because it's fun. Everyone loves doing that. But don't do it in Japan because it's seen as rude to the owner because you're basically saying, "Oh, your chopsticks are probably cheap," which, let's face it: they probably are. In fact, they usually definitely are.

3.) DON'T tip

This is probably the greatest thing about Japan ever and is the reason that I eat out several times a week, just because I save 20% automatically. In Japan, it's believed that customer service should always be exceptional, with staff giving 120% every time. It's not necessarily rude to tip someone. It just creates this awkward situation where the worker, the staff, would feel like you're assessing their performance and they could potentially lose face. You might think you're being nice by giving someone a tip, but you're not. You're just creating an uncomfortable situation for the worker and they'll probably just reject your tip outright, so don't be tempted to do it.

4.) DON'T use your phone on public transport

There's a real emphasis on being mindful when you're using public transport in Japan that's often completely absent in many countries. Numerous are the times that I've been riding a bus in the States and someone nearby has been screaming at their partner down the phone and I felt like I was part of the argument, like some kind of unpleasant 4D experience. But, given Japan's density, it's especially important to be mindful when you're stuffed in a train alongside fellow commuters, many of whom are sleeping, as well. With that in mind, don't ever talk on your phone on the train. That's a massive NO thing to do here. Even talking loudly is looked down upon. If you're on a local train or a subway train and you get a phone call, just ignore it until you get off. If you're on a bullet train, you can go to the little compartment in between the carriages and take your call there.

5.) DON'T underestimate the importance of business cards

I remember whenever someone handed me a business card, I was utterly terrified because until then, business cards, to me, had always just been a bit of paper, a bit of card, with some writing on. But in Japan, they are so much more. Once you've exchanged business cards, the trick is to imagine you've just been handed the lost treasure of El Salvador or something. First, study it meticulously: the name, the job position, the details. Then either put it in your business card holder, or just put it on the desk if you're at a business meeting. Just put it on the table. Never play around with business cards or put them in your back pocket because they're seen as a physical extension of the person themselves. You don't want to stuff somebody's physical extension down your back pocket. If you're doing business in Japan, always carry business cards. You don't want to be that awkward foreigner who's stood there writing out their name and number 50 times in one hour on the back of a tissue. And for the record, I AM usually that awkward foreigner scribbling down my details because I do forget to bring them and subsequently, I hate myself when it happens.

6.) DON'T blow your nose in public

If you've got a runny nose, standard procedure here is just to keep sniffing or just to find a toilet or a broom cupboard to hide in. Blowing noses in public is pretty rude. Interestingly though, handkerchiefs are pretty popular here; not in the way you would think, though. People use them to wipe sweat off in the hot summer weather or, even more commonly, to dry their hands in public toilets. Surprisingly, many public toilets in Japan don't have any hand-drying facilities, despite having space-age toilets that reside in the same room. It's quite a weird contrast that I don't quite understand.

7.) DON'T get physical

Physical contact in Japan isn't really a thing. You'll bow a lot. You'll nod enthusiastically daily. Occasionally, you might shake hands with someone if they're a good friend or a business client that you get along well with. But generally, I avoid it unless someone makes the first move. Hugging, in particular, doesn't go down well. It's just met with expressions of awkwardness and despair. Among couples, public displays of affection are phenomenally rare here. Don't be surprised if you get the stare of disapproval if you're kissing your partner frantically in the street.

8.) DON'T be overly opinionated

If you're the sort of person who feels the need to have a debate or an argument about things or throw your opinions out there constantly, people will find you obnoxious and dislikeable and probably just avoid you. Embedded heavily within the culture is this idea of keeping harmony and avoiding conflict at all costs. It's a lot easier to do that when people aren't at each other's throats, throwing around opinions. If there's one reason I've never seen a fight anywhere in Japan in the last half month, it's probably this reason. The people are a lot more careful about expressing their opinions and holding back what they really think.

9.) DON'T forget to take off your shoes

Everyone seems to know this one already. When visiting someone's house, or entering a public building like a school, or going to a hot spring, you take off your shoes and switch to slippers before you go in. The easiest way of knowing if you have to change your shoes is there will be a change in elevation in the floor. When you go in, there''ll be a little stair and that's when you know. This is the one thing on the list where failing to stick to the rules will have noticeable results. A friend and I visited a public bathhouse recently. We went in and you're supposed to take your shoes off. For some reason she didn't. I don't know why. I don't think she noticed or saw. There was a little old woman sitting behind the entrance counter where you pay, and when we walked in, she saw that my friend still had her shoes on and she shot up with terrifying energy and ran over and grabbed my friend and took her to the front and was like, "Get your shoes off! Get your shoes off!" That image has stayed burnt into my mind. This quiet little old woman suddenly becoming so alive and animated by this...terrible event. Ever since then, I've never forgotten to take my shoes off when entering a building.

10.) DON'T litter despite the frustrating absence of bins

For whatever reason, rubbish bins and trash cans are disturbingly rare in Japan. Outside of convenience stores, it can be a nightmare to find one. I've wandered through Tokyo for up to 20 minutes, sometimes, just in search of a bin and can't find one. The streets though, despite that, are shockingly clean here because people -- if they can't find a bin, they just take the rubbish home with them. It can feel like some kind of mini-game, sometimes, going in search for a bin; because when you do find a bin, you feel a real sense of achievement. Despite that, don't be tempted to litter. Just keep trying and you'll find a bin one day.

11.) DON'T cross on a red (even in the absence of traffic)

Seems like a fairly obvious addition to the list, and yet in the States, we just cross the street whenever the hell we want; whenever there's an opening in traffic, as opposed to waiting for the green light -- same as many countries. In Japan, however, people do not cross the road on a red light. It's incredibly rare and it's one of the greatest ways of seeing this sense of order and obedience to the law that exists in Japan. If you stand at a roadside in Japan and there's no cars coming, you can't see any cars whatsoever, people still will not cross the road until it goes green. This is the thing that shocks foreigners the most: the idea of not crossing the street when there are no visible cars there; the idea of abiding by a rule that doesn't seem necessary. For me personally, the main reason I abide by it is, you don't want to stand out; you don't want to be this stereotypical rule-breaking foreigner. As well as that, you don't want to run the risk of getting caught out by the police. Those are two things worth taking into consideration before you dash across the seemingly empty road.

12.) DON'T worry about not knowing anything about Japanese etiquette

As I said earlier, there aren't gonna be any real consequences to not following any of these points -- apart from maybe the footwear one. The reason I say don't worry too much is because a lot of people come here and they're very nervous and very anxious about following etiquette; etiquette they don't really comprehend. That includes even me when I came here. I didn't know anything. I was constantly anxious and nervous that I was making mistakes. Really, as a foreigner in Japan, you get kind of a free pass to make mistakes. People are understanding and they're kind and they will let you off, so don't become too nervous about following all the rules. Do your best, but don't become a nervous wreck.

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6 Life Skills That Will Set You Up for Success and Happiness

Succeeding in life isn’t an accident.

It is often the outcome and results of developing life skills that are discovered, nurtured and acted on over decades.

But often our parents, family and school teachers never told us.

The curriculum often didn’t include anything much beyond the 3 “R’s”. And learning by rote and committing facts to memory was the education that was often demanded.

In today’s world Google has provided us with a global memory bank and resource that means that memorizing is a life skill not much in demand.

So what are 6 core life skills that you need to learn, nurture and nourish if you want to succeed?

1. Quality relationships

In our crazy busy digital world and modern society we are often told that more is better.

The media bombards us with messages telling us that if we have or buy “this” we will be happy.

We are told that life will be a nirvana if we are, slimmer, fitter and more attractive.

Modern society is often saying.

More money, more stuff and….just more.

The problem?

The more you have the more you have to worry about and the more anxious you become.

You become afraid of losing it. That’s why we insure things.

We worry about having our stuff stolen or damaged.

But often less is more.

Keeping things simple and reducing clutter in our minds and in our physical world is key to “more” well being.

And there is also a simple solution to being happier.

What does the science say about the secret to happiness?

In a TED Talk Robert Waldinger revealed the secret to true happiness and also being healthier.

And it is not about more toys and more stuff. And it is not about the external material factors that we often delude ourselves are the solution.

In 1938 at Harvard College they tracked the lives of 724 men. And every year they asked about their work, home lives and their health.

It is the world’s longest study in happiness.

And the clearest message that we get from this 75-year research is this:

“Good relationships keep us happier and healthier“.

So what were the key lessons?

And how do you develop quality relationships.

Read more about it here >>> What Does Science Tell Us About The Key Secret To Happiness

2. Persistence

I walked into the shop and there they were. Lining up. Handing over the coupon.

Their expectant faces were hopeful. Maybe this was the moment.

Dream realized?

Most were sure this was “the” day.

But they all left disappointed.

Back to reality.

The chances for success were low.

A professional betting man wouldn’t bother paying the price. Despite that they keep hoping for that pay day when their numbers came up.

Winning the lottery is “that” big dream for many.

That quick fix.

A solution to their financial desperation.

But it rarely is.

The long game

According to Bill Gates “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”

Playing the long game is a trait that many can’t sustain. But it is the secret to success.

Having the patient persistence to hang in there and keep strapping yourself in and doing the work. Winning at business and life requires patience. That overnight success is rare. Normally it is decades in the making.

Building life transforming habits grow from perseverance.

Patience is boring

Success is a game of patience and whether you are a digital marketer, professional or entrepreneur there are some key activities that are worth investing in.

But they take time.

Social media offered a seeming magical solution to our marketing problems and it sometimes can. But the free lunch is turning into a mandatory paid strategy.

The quick fix of instant traffic can be intoxicating but you need money for that. And many small businesses don’t have that spare cash floating around.

But earning traffic, leads and sales can be done. Winning at business is not a lottery. Designing and building a life worth living and celebrating is not found in a coupon.

The secret to success isn’t a quick fix.

It requires patience. There is no other way. It is essential and often boring.

Here are some skills that you need to earn and persevere with to succeed in a digital world.

Read more about persistence here >>> This One Trait is the Secret to Success

3. Resilience

“There’s only one thing that’s worse than having an unhappy childhood, and that’s having a too-happy childhood.” – Dylan Thomas

Research shows that the majority of successful people have had tough times.

But we can’t choose that. That just happens.

Is being happy overrated?

The reality is that some of us have more resilience than others dialled in. And that is due to either your DNA or life’s experiences.

The human condition

As humans we play on the edge of success, chaos and tragedy.

This often happens while we are planning our lives.

That is the human condition.

The unexpected intersects with stability and security.

Events beyond our control.

We need resilience to ride over these speed humps.

But many of us aren’t prepared for those events.

Building muscle

Being born with resilience is one thing. But most of us need to work at it.

You can develop that muscle.

There are routines and habits that allow us to manage our emotions, handle situations with some clarity and ride out the storm.

Being resilient is a range of skill sets.

Born out of experience, necessity and an attitude to never settling.

Persisting.

Never giving up.

Finding a way.

You are not alone

Many have gone before us.

Risen above what life has thrown at them.

Laughing at the enemy.

Smiling at the intruder.

What is it that allows them to thrive?

Instead of being overwhelmed.

Or paralysed with fear.

An opportunity?

Challenges should be seen as an opportunity to grow.

That is mindset.

It is also an approach and set of success habits that will help you build your resilience to life’s tests.

If you are an entrepreneur or you are still breathing then this life skill will be called on.

Stuff happens to all of us when we least expect it.

But when it shows up you can be prepared.

Here are some tips to being resilient and rising above the pain, torment and trauma that will show up.

Read more on the 7 secrets to resilience in the article >>> The Secrets To Resilience

4. Daily action

As children, we are born to dream.

Of being Superman, a singer or whatever captures our young imaginations.

But many of us don’t act on our dreams because of fear, doubt and the fear of being judged.

The need to get it just right or perfect before we share our creations.

The requirement for perfection or getting it just right is a noble aim. But this will often stop us starting or finishing before we share our creations with the world.

As Voltaire said – “Best is the enemy of the good”

Trying to plan that fail proof business, write the ultimate book or start a perfect project can be the biggest hurdle to starting.

Waiting to get it just right will stop you acting and action trumps hope.

Every time.

I discovered the power of showing up every day 10 years ago and taking action despite not feeling like it.

Just take a small step every day.

You will be surprised by what shows up in 10 years.

Then overnight success will be yours.

Read more on the power of the life skill of daily action in this article >>> The One Habit That Transformed My Life

5. Communication skills

Some people seem to have it and others don’t.

It is a skill and a science that can change your life.

It requires an awareness about yourself.

And others.

It is an expertise that is essential for engaging and connected communication.

Excelling at it will attract people to you.

They will want to hang out with you.

Seek your wisdom and insights.

The art of “listening” and communicating with focused attention is both a business and life skill worth learning and nourishing.

When that is mastered then you can communicate with powerful connectedness.

It then demands attention.

What’s compelling listening look like?

Just being…

With someone’s soul.

As if…they are the only person on the planet.

Can you listen without thinking about your distracted minds contribution?

Without searching for your next input to the conversation?

Your opinion?

It takes discipline.

Practice.

Focused eye contact.

It also means suspending ego.

Not judging.

When we start judging we stop listening.

Our inner chatter overrides our ability to hear.

Learn from a master

One of the masters at this art of communicating with active listening is Bill Clinton.

He has the skill and the intent to make you feel like you are the only person in the room.

How does he do that?

One on one he makes focused unwavering eye contact and actively listens. Asks questions.

Also as one of the highest paid speakers on the planet he has the ability to scale this compelling communication intimacy even from the stage.

According to Simon Mainwaring, in a Forbes article, who has spoken at the same events with Bill Clinton and observed the master at work up close and personal, this is how he does it.

From the stage he singles out one person in the audience and makes eye contact. Once that connection takes place he moves onto another person and repeats the process.

The result after 15-20 minutes of these individual exchanges is that the whole unite around a feeling of personal and influential connectedness.

Listening is all about connectedness.

And that can be done one on one or even from the podium.

So….

How do you master the skill of powerful compelling listening?

Read more about the key elements needed to build the life skills of powerful communication in the article “The One Skill That Will Transform Your Life”

6. Life design

Many of us stumble into life.

We go to school, complete our degree or grab the first job opportunity that shows up.

Often we follow the paths of our parents.

But there is a life skill that offers us a better future should you decide to learn and hone it.

The messy process of designing a life, a business or a startup is something many of us contemplate. But often put off as it is seen as too hard or too expensive.

But in the last decade the opportunity to do it with less risk and greater opportunity has now exploded the possibilities and the potential for all of us.

You can design and build a business while still turning up to your day job. I started my online publishing business while working a 9 to 5 job.

The world of digital, mobile and social now provides the resources to start and build a business with little risk and with little or no budget.

It’s all about you

Let me start with what the process isn’t.

It is not looking at it from a distance.

Dreams and reality are two different things.

Sure…dream but then leap in and test it.

Act.

Do.

Also, it isn’t what your parents want for you.

They designed their lives.

We are unique human beings.

Your path is not their path.

The mantra?

“When I grow up I want to be me”.

And….

You are not Steve Jobs.

Building Apple was his life mission.

Find yours.

You are you.

Your idols?

Inspiration is what they provide.

But “their” habits and routines can be emulated.

You bring your own skills, passions and innate ability to the table.

Dig deep. Find them.

The messy process of life designing

So here it is from 30,000 feet.

It starts with some questions.

What are my strengths? This is easy to say and sometimes hard to grasp. But by starting you will discover strengths you maybe didn’t expect. What do I love doing? What makes your heart sing. Awareness is needed here. Reflection and listening and feeling your emotions when working and playing. What is my expertise? Reflect and look back at what you have learnt over the years. Where do they all intersect? It will often not be apparent. It is messy and often hidden from view.

After asking those questions then there are some steps you can follow that can help you design a life you dreamed of.

Read the article and discover the 7 Steps to Design a Life (and Business) That Makes you Happy

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Why I’m Afraid

“The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms—he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point. Like religious millennialists he expresses the anxiety of those who are living through the last days and he is sometimes disposed to set a date for the apocalypse.” Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style, Harpers, 1964.

“How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice - "Resist the beginnings” and “consider the end.” But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men? Things might have changed here before they went as far as they did; they didn’t, but they might have. And everyone counts on that might.“ Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45

Reason #1: Because I’m a White Liberal Coastal Elite Unaccustomed to Losing

We joked the race would be called for Clinton by the time our election-watch party started at 6:30. Which was fine, because who wanted to watch Wolf Blitzer stall for five hours while vote tallies streamed in? A gleeful gmail thread counted down to the party. Who was bringing the kleenex? There would be tears of joy to mop up. We wondered if Clinton would find a maze on the inside of Trump’s head when she scalped him. A Trump piñata was going to be on hand.

We gathered at a friend’s Echo Park home, “I Voted” stickers slapped over our hearts, half-surprised the election wasn’t yet in hand. Trump and Clinton were still tracking even in Florida, but needless to say that would change when the urban areas started reporting.

We were graduates of good universities, many of us working in or around Hollywood, who yes, read The New Yorker, and had been listening to Keepin’ it 1600 and joked about Donald Drumpf and told everyone they had to see Moonlight because it’s just incredible. We wanted more diversity at the Oscars and used the right pronouns when we talked about transgender people, and talked about firewall states and paths to 270 electoral votes and how as soon as Clinton won Florida and North Carolina, it would be over.

We flipped between CNN and MSNBC, watching stables of pundits on expensive sets dance around touch screens as they tried to divine the arcana of obscure suburbs. Trump was winning in counties Obama had won in 2012. The pundits scratched their heads– the polls were getting some things unnervingly wrong. Every so often they’d give a projection, a picture of Trump appearing on the screen with his smug smile, a check mark under his name. The map kept getting more red, Trump’s electoral tally creeping towards 270. We looked at each other– what the hell was happening? We poured more wine as we realized Clinton wasn’t going to win Florida, or North Carolina, or Ohio, or Iowa. Even New Hampshire seemed to be in doubt. I pulled up pathto270.com on my phone and did the math... Wait a minute: if Clinton didn’t win Michigan, she was finished. We broke out a moments-away-from-being-legal pre-roll to take the edge off.

And then Wisconsin started to turn red. And then so too did Pennsylvania. Suddenly it was Clinton who needed to surge ahead in five different states. We changed the channel to Fox News because we suspected that MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki wasn’t being entirely upfront with us. Sure enough, they had already called Michigan for Trump. "It’s over, isn’t it,” someone said despondently.

Those fucking deplorables, in their fucking baskets. Did they realize what they had just done to our country?

We looked at the Trump piñata in the corner. We were too devastated to go near it, or acknowledge how wrong we had been. I don’t think a piñata’s ever had the last laugh at a party– but it was that kind of night.

Reason #2: Because I’m Sheltered from Injustice and feel Entitled to Happy Endings

All around me, in communities real and online, in group-texts with friends and conversations with strangers, there’s an unquantifiable sadness. At a hip Silver Lake coffee shop the day after the election, baristas had become de facto grief counselors, each customer arriving at the cash register with a sorrowful sigh.

“How are you?”

“Oh... you know.”

Sigh. “Yeah.”

I was in Los Angeles on 9/11. The mood on November 9th, 2016 was bleaker.

Losing elections is one of the despairs of living in a democracy. Every few years you’re liable to feel like your country has been wrested away from you, and that you’re powerless to stop it. But Trump’s victory left us feeling far more bereft than if McCain had won in 2008 or Romney had won 2012.

Part of it is the dissonance between where we thought our country was and where we’ve found it. We had our phones out, ready to record the moment when we burst through the glass ceiling into an era of a more tolerant, cosmopolitan, liberal, inclusive America. After 43 white male presidents, we’d have an African American and now, a woman. John Oliver had joked during the campaign that if Democracy was a computer game and Clinton was completing women’s 100 year-quest to get the oval office, Donald Trump made for a fitting final boss. We could endure his white nationalist chauvinist worldview and categorical unfitness to be President when it seemed like his campaign was a gross-out Farelly Brothers comedy and his defeat was an afterthought.

We had believed in a myth of the teleology of liberal progressivism and placed faith in the ultimate goodness of “the American voter.” Clinton’s victory would be the triumph of forward progress over restoration, togetherness over division, high roads over low ones, love over hate.

So it’s no surprise we were crushed. When a Republican beats a Democrat, that’s politics. When it seems like the forces of evil have triumphed over the forces of good, that can feel like tragedy. Especially to people not used to the world treating them with indifference. Perhaps we’d been standing upside down the past eighteen months– the glass ceiling we thought we’d been looking up at was actually a floor, and we’d just fallen down through it.

But there’s also something more sinister in the air. A cosmic foreboding. A greater trauma has taken place, something menacing and chilling that makes you think “something’s different this time.” My body is tense, an epigenetic voice that’s seen demagogues and persecution in another life, warning me to be on high alert because somehow, I know how this one ends. It was only a hundred years ago that my grandfather bribed a boarder guard and dressed like a girl to flee pogroms in the Soviet Union.

Reason #3: Because I’m Being Reactive and Underestimating America

Cooler heads will cite America’s resilience: “We’ll survive because we always do.”

We’ve had bad presidents. It hasn’t meant the end of the republic. We’ve emerged from wars, economic downturns, and attacks on our freedom. We’ve seen demagogues, and rebuffed them. If a president’s terrible, he won’t get reelected. Everything’s cyclical. The system can be slow and ugly, but it reacts and corrects.

This is by no means the first time a party has controlled all three branches of government. Republicans did it in 2000. They proceeded to lose Congress in the 2002 midterms, and narrowly lost their senate majority in 2006. They may have charged into a few ill-advised wars that killed hundreds of thousands of people and ballooned the deficit and accelerated global warming and brought moral shame upon us with secret torture prisons and warrantless wiretapping and aggravated wealth inequality with tax cuts for the rich and the deregulation of banks and fostered conditions for the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression along the way, but that whole mess brought us Obama, and the republic survived.

And when Democrats took the White House and a majority in the house and senate in 2008? Republicans curled up in an obstructionist ball for two years, and took back congress in the 2010 midterms. It is the greatest gift the founding fathers gave us– a system that errs towards gridlock, which has protected us against the forces of tyranny for some 240 years.

The Cooler Heads will cite reasons why this will be the case for Trump. They cite the fact that Trump’s Republican coalition is unwieldy at best. That Trump isn’t even really a Republican– his campaign was against Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and the Republican establishment as much as it was against the Democrats. Once the Republicans cut taxes for the wealthy, appoint a few conservative judges to the courts, roll back Obamacare, Dodd-Frank and the Clean Energy Act, Trump’s coalition is going to start to fracture.

Trump didn’t win the election because he broadened the Republican coalition and attracted new voters to the Republican party– he won because voter turnout was down. Trump had a million more votes than Romney in the states he won that Romney lost– Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, and Michigan (with Wisconsin virtually the same), but total voter turnout was lower than it was in 2012 in all of these states (except for Florida, where voter turnout was up 8% from 2012 and Trump outperformed Romney by 11%). Longterm demographic trends still favor the Democrat’s coalition, and if Trump governs as poorly as we fear, democratic voters will be ignited to turn out for the midterm elections in 2018 and to take Trump down in 2020.

The Cooler Heads will also note there are mechanisms for the minority party to obstruct the governing one from getting things done. The Republicans don’t have the 60 votes they would need to force things through the senate. Democrats will copy the Republican playbook from the past eight years and at the very least, they’ll manage to stop Trump from doing anything that puts the country in existential danger.

As for Trump’s campaign of intolerance and the wave of white nationalism he rode into office, cooler heads will argue that while he may hold views that are racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic, he’s more empty vessel than ideologue. His rhetoric during the campaign was designed to make the election about identity. But it was a cynical marketing strategy, not an ideology.

The Cooler Heads might even pontificate that a Trump presidency might not be all bad. I think they’re wrong, and getting there requires a cocktail of denial and privilege, but they might reason that while Trump’s a demagogue and a narcissist with designs to use the presidency to enrich himself and his family, perhaps he’ll have a business man’s savvy about running the government. Maybe he’ll pass a big infrastructure bill that doubles as a stimulus, with Democrats ensuring its inclusive and a chastened media monitoring for corruption and graft. He’ll promulgate business-friendly policies that enrich banks and corporations and increase wealth inequality, but the American economy hums as high corporate profits propel the stock market upwards.

Mike Pence and Paul Ryan try to push through a radical Republican agenda, but run into gridlock. They don’t have the 60 votes they need repeal Dodd-Frank, they repeal Obamacare through budget reconciliation but delay when the repeal goes into effect because no one can figure out how to replace it, as Republican voters realize through a haze of misinformation that Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are the same thing, that repealing it would mean no longer being able to afford their cancer treatment, and that everything they don’t like about Obamacare was the result of Republican obstructionism and sabotage. Republican lawmakers stop short of Trump’s craziest proposals, which do indeed prove politically unworkable. If Silicon Valley keeps innovating and a policy of isolationism keeps America out of a clash between Europe and the Middle East, Trump could even end up being remembered as a middling President, a tier above George W. Bush and Millard Fillmore.

Reason #4: Because the Real Best Case Scenario is Actually Terrible

Even if Trump was a normal politician, his platform would be dangerous. His incompetency and illiteracy and the fact that he processes the world like a five-year old child is enough to spell disaster.

Trump’s stance on climate change alone could be, by definition, apocalyptic. If he walks away from the Paris Accord, it could be a decade before the world cooperates on climate change again. We could look back on his presidency as the moment when we accelerated environmental degradation and doomed the planet.

Trump’s complete ignorance about diplomacy and geopolitics could also rapidly throw the world into turmoil. He’s exhibited minimal understanding of how the world works or America’s place in it. He’s volatile, reactive and vengeful in a fragile world that manages order only through predictability and diplomacy. Our allies are frightened they can no longer rely on American support, and if we drive them away, they’ll find protection elsewhere.

Trump’s belief in protectionism will cut economic ties that foster cooperation and American soft power. Trump’s plans to walk away from the TPP will cripple American influence in Asia Pacific, and cede influence in the region to China, and his plans to declare China a currency manipulator and use Taiwan as a bargaining chip could escalate tensions with China and make Sino-US relations openly hostile.

Trump and the alt-right’s categorical condemnation of Islam and hardline approach to fighting terrorism, including a Muslim immigration ban, the astonishingly unconstitutional Muslim registry, the resumption of torture and black sites, and even the semantic obsession with saying “radical Islamic terrorism,” threaten to alienate moderate Muslims and foster more extremism, while compromising American values and diminishing our standing around the world. Trump could be the buffoon who brings the clash of civilizations to fruition.

Trump’s volatile temperament is at this point well-documented. He’s reactive and vindictive, prone to late-night Twitter rants that spew invective without any basis in fact. What happens when he takes aim at a foreign leader? What happens when he decides to escalate a Twitter War into a real one? U.S. foreign policy has never been in more reckless hands, and the possibility for a misstep that threatens our security, weakens our standing in the world, or triggers an international crisis have seemingly never been higher.

There’s a current of fear sweeping America and Europe, as white people without a college educations outside of major cities who are culturally and economically alienated from the forces of globalization, who never recovered from the 2008 financial crisis and in whom a fear of Islam and terror have been ingrained since 9/11, are turning to right-wing nativist movements that promise a return to a more prosperous past. Countries across Europe are being strained by the influx of refugees, and nationalist parties in Finland (18% of the vote), Denmark (21%), Austria (35%), Hungary (21%), France (14%), and Switzerland (29%) are gaining support on the back of anti-immigration platforms that call out Islam by name.

This is the sentiment that loomed over the Brexit referendum, which saw British voters upend polling expectations and vote to leave the European Union. On the day of the Brexit referendum polls showed a 3-4% lead for “remain” that was within the margin of error, only to have an unexpected victory for “leave” that was spearheaded by the turnout of non-college white people in the heartland, who longed to reclaim some imagined “past greatness,” felt the loss of “national identity,” and scapegoated immigrants for taking jobs and straining public services. Five months later, the US election has followed the exact same script.

Trump spent the campaign stoking fears that America was hurtling towards the apocalypse. Now that he’s the president-elect it’s tempting to invoke the same kind of hyperbole. I’m nervous Trump’s administration is going to be one of unprecedented corruption and division, that serves one part of the country at the expense of others, that brings out the worst in us and represses what’s best.

But even in this scenario, the country would survive. Our system, our principles, our resolve have always allowed us to weather these storms. Progress doesn’t move in a straight line. We’ll survive this and come out stronger on the other side, because we always do. Sure the idea that Trump could be the end of the 240-year American experiment is the thinking of the paranoid conspiracist.

But god, if there was ever a moment to wonder if we’re in uncharted territory, it’s now. Because there’s something dangerous about the “we’ll survive because we always do” axiom: it holds true until it doesn’t.

Because this Time’s Actually Different

There is a critical difference between the 2016 Presidential election and the 57 that came before it: we’ve never elected a demagogue like Trump to the office of the President.

Of all the demagogues that have emerged in the course of US history–Huey Long, George Wallace, Joseph McCarthy, Charles Coughlin– Trump is the only one to seize our highest office. We’ve watched him closely for 18 months. He’s not bound by any norms, or decency or sense of shame. His politics are dangerous.

In Trump, we’ve elected the tyrant our founding fathers feared and designed our democracy to defend against. The populist who could rise to power by appealing to base emotions and making promises to the working class that couldn’t be kept. Soon-to-be-boycotted by the alt-right founding father Alexander Hamilton warned that it was democracy’s greatest vulnerability in Federalist #1: “Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.”

A vengeful narcissist who believes he’s above our norms should not be in the Oval Office. Trump’s campaign followed a demagogue’s playbook– drumming up fears of terrorism and national decline, scapegoating minorities and immigrants, shamelessly lying and promising the impossible. He’s announced intentions to jail his opponents and sue his accusers, incited violence at his rallies and shown a preference for confrontation and vengeance over compromise or resolution. He’s declared the rights to freedom of speech, religion, and assembly to be annoyances he could do without.

The institutions and norms that were supposed to keep a demagogue out of the White House have already failed us. This puts the United States in uncharted territory, and the possibilities of a Trump presidency should be considered in that light.

Trump’s consistently demonstrated a belief that the rules don’t apply to him. For 25 years as a private citizen, he stiffed contractors and creditors, committed infidelity and sexual assault, and evaded taxes. Most disturbing, Trump maintained during the campaign he wouldn’t accept the election results if he lost, a statement he modulated but never retracted. The peaceful transition of power is the most fundamental and singular political feat of American democracy. It’s the reason any of this works. If Trump was prepared to challenge these precedents as a candidate who was expected to lose, what might he do when he’s in office? It seems not a matter of whether Trump will abuse power– it’s how brazenly and destructively.

Trump plans to have his children run the Trump Corporation while he’s in office, and has put his children in charge of the transition team that will make all key hires for his administration, an unconscionable conflict of interest. I’m not about to pretend that U.S. politics haven’t always involved horse trading and corruption. I’m sure the alt-right has corruption anecdotes about the Clintons and the Obamas– but what Trump’s trying to get away with is unprecedented.

Never before has there been such an obvious channel for directly bribing the President of the United States. Foreign leaders with holdings in foreign companies could award lucrative deals to Trump Corp to influence U.S. policy. Trump’s recently opened hotel in DC seems poised to become a direct channel for foreign countries to bribe Trump, and puts him in violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause. Trump’s children headed his campaign and have chaired his transition team– there is no separation between them and Trump. The idea that a “chinese wall” could exist between Ivanka Trump, who heads Trump Corp, and her husband Jared Kushner, who Trump has challenged anti-nepotism laws to bring into his administration, is ridiculous.

When a company or foreign government meets with Trump Corp, it will be hard not to imagine it’s also dealing with the United States government. It’s a dangerous line that at best opens the door to unprecedented corruption and at worst leads to Donald Jr. igniting a cyber war when he threatens a well-connected Chinese Developer. As Matt Iglesias reasons in one of the most chilling articles written since the election, given Trump’s philosophy of rewarding loyalists and punishing his rivals, Trump could turn the U.S. into a post-Soviet style kleptocracy. A pay-to-play system in which fealty to Trump’s administration is necessary for doing business, while businesses that voice dissent find themselves on the wrong side of regulations, losing government contracts, or embroiled in federal investigations.

He’s already begun to set the stage for this kleptocracy, with his deal with Carrier “to save a thousand jobs from being shipped to Mexico.” The narrative on the right is that Trump met with Carrier and convinced it to keep a plant open in Indiana, thereby saving a thousand jobs before he’s even arrived in office. Obama would have been pilloried by the right if he ever boasted about “saving jobs from leaving.” He can’t even get credit for creating 16 million jobs during his presidency. No matter that 6,000 Carrier jobs are still leaving, and that Trump has merely slowed the inevitable. This isn’t an economic policy– it’s a precedent for companies to hold the government hostage– “cut our taxes or we’ll leave.” But of even greater concern, Trump has taken the first step towards his kleptocracy, and disguised it in a triumphant and politically-difficult-to-argue-against story about saving manufacturing jobs. A world where he picks winners and losers, singling out private companies to reward or punish on a case-by-case basis. Like the most dangerous demagogues and paranoid psychopaths, Trump keeps a list of his enemies. He has shown no hesitation in using his Twitter account to attack them and seems to relish the power his tweets have to move markets.

As for Trump’s unwieldy Republican coalition– I want to believe there are reasonable Republicans that might serve as a check on Trump. That party cooperation with Trump’s agenda will slow after they’ve implemented the top agenda items of the Republican establishment and done their best to erase any trace that Obama was in the White House. But if Republicans were too spineless to condemn Trump during the campaign, how can we expect them to stand up to him when he’s returned them to power, touts a voter mandate, and uses the oval office as a bully pulpit?

These are the same Republicans that began undermining our institutions earlier this year, when they abdicated their constitutional duty to give a hearing to Merrick Garland. A week before the election, Republican senators were vowing to obstruct any Supreme Court nominees appointed by Clinton, abandoning any pretense that this was ever based on even the most rickety of precedents. Our institutions are all that hold our country together. When they cease to transcend any one person or party, our entire republic is threatened.

Normally the losing party regroups after an election and begins to work towards winning back legislative control in the midterm elections. Bush lost his Republican majority in the house and senate in the midterm elections of 2002, and Obama lost his in 2010. But while a lot can change in two years, the 2018 midterm elections don’t seem to offer democrats that possibility. Republican gerrymandering will aid Republicans in holding the house for the foreseeable future, with many Republicans more afraid defeat will come from “getting primaried” from the right than from a Democrat challenger. In the senate, only eight Republicans are up for reelection, seven of them from solidly Red states, while 25 Democrats are up for reelection, ten of whom are from states won by Trump.

Even more than gerrymandering or specific senate races though, the Democrat coalition faces a longterm structural and geographic problem. Democrats enjoy a voter majority, but their support is inefficiently distributed in a system that awards political power based on geography. For the second time in five elections, the Democrats won the popular vote and lost the electoral college. Clinton won California by 4.3 million votes, and won its 55 electoral votes– Trump won Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, and North Carolina by about 800,000 votes, and won 108 electoral votes. Representation in the senate is also geared towards geography– the 40 million people in California get the same number of senators as the 600,000 people in Wyoming. The arithmetic of congress and the electoral college was set up to create a buffer between voters and their elected officials and to prevent any one region from becoming too powerful. But with democrats clustered in cities and on the coasts, the arithmetic currently cedes disproportionate representation to Republicans, and even as demographic trends favor the democrats, it could be a while before demographics catch up to geographic distribution. Add to that the fact that Trump can appoint a partisan crony to chair the federal reserve in 2018 to grease monetary policy in the run up to the election in 2020 and that Republicans will delay the repeal of ACA until after the midterms, and the Republican hold on power could end up increasing in 2018.

Trump’s early cabinet moves also portend an Orwellian state, rendering every department’s name into cruel irony. The Environmental Protection Agency will be led by a fierce climate change denier who works for the oil and gas industry, the Department of Labor will advocate pro-business policies that aid in worker exploitation, the Federal Trade Commission will encourage monopolization and consumer exploitation, the Department of Justice will condone civil rights abuse and exact revenge on Trump’s opponents. Trump has appointed a white-nationalist anti-semite to a Bismarckian role exempt from congressional approval, and seems intent on filling most other positions in his cabinet with plutocrats and alt-right loyalists. Instead of emptying the swamp, Trump’s filling his cabinet with muck from the bottom of it. People is policy, and Trump’s administration is shaping up to be an intersection of the Christian right, white supremacists, Trump loyalists, and cronies of the oil and gas industry.

And what happens when a demagogue who doesn’t play by the rules decides he doesn’t want to relinquish power? For now, a 60-vote supermajority is needed in the senate for key appointments and legislation, which will allow Democrats and key Republicans to moderate Trump’s agenda. But what happens when Trump grows annoyed with the filibuster, and pressures the senate to blunt the tools of minority opposition? And makes dangerous appointments with a 51 vote majority approval that turn the courts from a check on his power to a rubber stamp? And declares war on the the press, limiting White House access to conservative media of his choosing, and expanding on the precedent set by his friend Peter Thiel in the lawsuit that ruled against the first amendment and led to the shuttering of Gawker? And helps the passing of discriminatory voter suppression laws (the 2010 reinstatement of which already helped to sway the election for Trump) under the guise of addressing voter fraud, and deregulates campaign financing, while making Breitbart a state-sponsored TV Channel to be transmitted to every home and be built-into every American-made iPhone, which by the way, will now transmit all of your private information to the Department of Freedom. On one hand, it sounds unthinkable. On the other, everything that’s happened since Trump declared his candidacy has seemed impossible– until it wasn’t. It may be time to assume the worst about him and prepare accordingly, rather than being surprised with every new offense that pushes us incrementally closer to an autocratic kleptocracy.

This is all without even mentioning Russia. At the very least, it appears Russia hacked the DNC and leaked information in an attempt to sway the election towards Trump, with the Trump campaign taking advantage of the leaks that dogged Clinton throughout the campaign. Remarkably, Republicans who used to call themselves patriots are now happy to condone interference in an American election by a hostile foreign power. Which is insane. But at worst, all of this goes much deeper. Multiple intelligence agencies seem to believe that Russian intelligence taped Trump getting peed on by prostitutes when he visited Moscow in 2013, giving Russian intelligence blackmail to wield against him. This theory would hold that the Kremlin systematically coordinated with and funded the Trump campaign, working through Paul Manafort, who took over Trump’s campaign over the summer of 2016 before disappearing back into the shadows and whose ties to Moscow are well-documented, and it would mean Russia has a puppet in Washington DC for the next four years. Trump’s consistent pro-Russian stance, his obsession with Putin, and his nomination of Exxon Mobil CEO and Russian Order of Friendship Recipient Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State further suggests treasonously deep ties between Trump and Moscow. Trump continues to deny all of this, even the universally agreed upon fact that Moscow hacked the DNC. If there’s unrest in Latvia in the next few years, and Russia blocks security resolutions to intervene but moves in unilaterally as a peacekeeper, and Trump doesn’t do anything about it, we’ll know the tape is real.

Because This Could Go From Bad to a This-Is-The-Darkest-Period-In-American-History Worse

There was speculation during the campaign that Paul Ryan and Mike Pence were more ideologically extreme than Trump. “Sure, Trump’s got some crazy in him,” the thinking went, “but at least he used to kind of be a democrat.” If Trump was to end up being impeached, be it due to allegations of treason, perjury, violating the constitution, or demonstrating with finality that he’s unfit to hold office– or if he succumbs to a heart attack because of his incredibly poor health– there was an idea that the devil we knew might be better than the devil we didn’t. It was Pence, after all, who backed a law in Indiana that would force women to have a burial for their aborted fetuses, and spearheaded the charge to leverage Hurricane Katrina to pass policies that lowered labor standards and gave handouts to oil and gas companies.

I’m offended by most of their politics, and would no doubt look upon their agenda in horror, but I’d accept this was our democracy playing out. Red vs Blue, D. vs R., hollywood liberals vs bible belt conservatives, with a lot of filibustering, fundraising, and shouting at each other on Sunday shows on the way to relative gridlock. But I would believe that no matter the appearance of corruption, religious fervor, or even bigotry, that they believe in democracy, the constitution, and the rule of law.

But in Trump, we’re faced with a new set of concerns. I’ve spent a lot of words talking about alarming implications of Trump’s temperament, his policy views, and his incompetence. But the only scarier thing than Trump’s blustering incompetence is that he, and more likely Steve Bannon, are in fact maniacally competent.

For the past eight years, Democrats and Republicans have had a philosophical battle over whether our system worked. Obama tried to navigate unprecedented partisan gridlock to pull levers that nudged the country in the direction of a progressive liberal agenda, even if the movement was sometimes slight. With the nomination of Hilary Clinton, Democrats continued to stake out a belief that change could be affected within the current system. The Republicans, radicalized with the ascendence of the Tea Party, became the party of revolution– they decided they didn’t believe the current system worked, and they wanted to overturn it. This made the Tea Party well-suited to be an opposition party, because it was always ready to play the game of chicken. Either it would get its way, or it would lose and take the whole government crashing down with it– and it was perfectly fine with either outcome. The Democrats would never have risked jeopardizing America’s credit to gain a policy victory, as the Republicans did when they threatened sovereign default unless Obamacare was repealed. But instead of being thrown out of power for needlessly threatening to throw the global economy into chaos, Republican lawmakers expanded their hold on both federal and state legislatures over the past six years. There was a time when conservative Republicans could at least be counted on to be patriots and believe in upholding the constitution, but Republicans have become the party that is willing to abandon those tenets for other ideological gains.

The country’s susceptibility to autocracy is made more challenging by the “post-truth” environment in which we now live. The fact that “post-truth” is now a term we throw around and accept is itself ludicrous and dangerous, but seems to be the only way to adequately describe the current political and media landscape. The polarizing impact of social media networks, the death of the local newspaper, the erosion of civil society, the divide between people with a college education and people without, between secular liberals in the cities and religious conservatives in the heartland, have made it so that Democrats and Republicans no longer inhabit the same reality, and have no mechanism for even communicating with each other. As of 2016, 72% of Republicans still doubted whether Barack Obama was born in the US. Over 60% of Republicans still didn’t believe global warming was due to human activities. If we can’t agree on objective facts, we open the door to unspeakable horrors, with no way to hold those who propagate them to account.

Republicans have denounced every news outlet that follows basic journalistic standards as an ideological arm of liberal elites. Meanwhile, many Trump supporters get their news from Breitbart, the propaganda organization of Trump’s top advisor, Steve Bannon. No US President has ever had a news organization for directly misinforming his supporters. State-run news organizations are hallmarks of autocracies.

The Great Con of the Republican party is that it relies on the support of people its policies don’t particularly help. It’s not just democratic campaign rhetoric that Trump wanted to cut taxes for the wealthiest 1% and deregulate banks and enrich businesses at the expense of their workers– that’s really the crux of their plan. Trump added a populist spin that won him the election– but I’m against his policies because I’m confident they’re going to leave the country worse off.

So the scary part of a Trump presidency happens when his policies fail to make a difference in the lives of his supporters. When it turns out that fixing health insurance wasn’t as simple as selling plans across state lines. When protectionist policies increase the prices at Walmart. When putting tariffs on Mexico doesn’t bring back post-WWII manufacturing jobs, but rather accelerates the pace of automation. When the Affordable Care Act is repealed and people can no longer pay for their cancer treatments. When Americans realize they’re worse off, and Trump faces a rising tide of disapproval and charges of incompetency, and begins to scramble to deflect his failures from his administration and place them somewhere else.

This is the point when a lot of presidents would lose reelection. But this is where Trump and his demagoguery set up a different dynamic. Trump has proven uniquely adept at speaking to his supporters, and distracting them from policy by fanning the flames of intolerance and xenophobia. He has a strong cult of personality and commands blind allegiance from a base that puts faith above reason. They have perhaps been failed by our society-- left behind by our economy and education system, they are unequipped to understand their own self-interests or confront ideas that challenge them-- as Errol Morris mused, the "a stupid person is a person who treats a smart person as if he is stupid.” Their shame leaves them angry, their resentment leads to tribalism. Those bright red Make America Great Again hats recall a tactic used by other fascist movements to identify their supporters– badges of allegiance that serve as a mechanism of deindividuation and embolden those wearing them to express their most base and intolerant beliefs.

But it may not just be a matter of incompetency. Trump has expressed his admiration for Putin’s regime, and Steve Bannon subscribes to William Strauss and Neil Howe’s theory that every 80 years America has a major crisis, when the system gets remade. Trump and Clinton were both viewed so unfavorably that the 2016 election was often framed as a contest between the lesser of two evils. But we may have actually seen the triumph of a deep-seated white-Christian authoritarian world-view. Trump might be inviting crisis.

I’m afraid we’re about to see the most cynical version of disaster capitalism. Employed by the Bush administration after 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina (and documented by Naomi Klein in The Shock Doctrine), where the Trump administration welcomes disasters and leverages them to implement policies that roll back our freedom, weaken our institutions, enrich government contractors and cronies, and try to remake the world order. I’ve already mentioned why Trump’s bluster towards Islam is strategically flawed– we risk alienating moderate Muslims we need as allies in the fight against radical Islamic terrorism, and ending up in some sort of clash of civilizations. But there’s another, scarier scenario– given Trump’s clear racism towards Muslims, the many mentions he made of killing terrorists and their families during the campaign, and his belief that the mistake in Iraq was not securing the oil– I wonder if Trump is seeking out this clash. If he’d invite another terrorist attack on American soil, blame Obama for being too soft on terror, and use it as an excuse to partner with Russia to create a white Christian world order that wipes parts of the Middle East from the earth. Scarier still, I’m nervous his supporters would welcome it.

It would seem I’ve assuredly veered into the realm of paranoia and conspiracy that I set out to avoid. I hope we’ll laugh about it one day– I’ll be happy to get a boozy, yuppie brunch in Silver Lake with all of my liberal elite hipster friends in two years, after the Democrats retake the house in 2018, a Sunday edition of the New York Times on the table with a headline “Trump Card: Congress to Begin Impeachment Hearings,” as Trump sits at 18% in the polls. We can laugh about how I was a directionless millennial– a “whiny loser,” as Trump would say– who was prone to conspiracy theories and didn’t have enough faith in American institutions, which truly do always win out in the end.

But I can’t help but watch what’s happening and think we’re living through that fateful, chilling, divergent moment that will appear in history books. The kind of moment of which historians will ask, how did this happen and why didn’t anyone stop it?

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Expand Home’s Value With Basement Renovation

Create rooms within rooms with furnishings in a finished basement featuring an open floor plan.

If the “Stay Home” orders of 2020 had your family begging for more room, maybe there’s a basement renovation in your future. Or there should be. Almost all houses in and around Sun Prairie have basements. In many cases the space is unfinished. It’s the place for furnace, hot water heater and “junk.” Finishing or updating your lower level adds value to your home. And it dramatically increases the enjoyment you get out of it. All without changing its original footprint. Consider the space you have on your first floor. Gaining almost all that area in new living space would be great, right?

When it comes to including your basement in daily activities, possibilities are unlimited. Consider that vast space beneath your living room as a blank canvas. Get creative. There’s more to a finished basement than a new ceiling and drywall. Have you wanted a home office, a room for hobbies or maybe a dedicated workout space? The concept of the “man cave” and home theater are alive and well in lower level designs.

Basement Renovation Options

A finished lower level adds value to your home – when it’s time to sell, and for the family every day. You get a significant amount of family-friendly space for a relatively small investment.

Consider the possibilities for a new basement plan:

An additional bedroom – as the family grows additional bedrooms are valuable, as are guest rooms for friends and family. NOTE: this may not be possible for every home because building codes require two forms or egress (ways to get out) and that usually includes a large enough window for a person to fit through. Your remodeling contractor knows the laws and will advise you on the best options.

An extra bathroom – when the whole family is home are bathrooms crowded and in demand? Adding a bathroom – a half-bath or complete facilities – is one of the best ways to expand you living space. If you’re adding a workout area having a shower “next door” would be great, right?

A family ‘hangout” – transform a dark, dreary storage space into a game room, media center or play room for the kids. The space “below decks” is ideal for the themed get-away space you’ve always wanted. Ready for your Bucky Badger Bar?

Efficient storage – finishing the basement doesn’t mean doing away with vital storage space. It means making it efficient, clean and accessible.

A Finished Basement – High-return Investment

A walk-out lower level provides even more high-end design and finishing opportunities for a basement renovation.

There are subtle ways finishing your basement pays dividends. Consider:

Solid ROI –a finished lower level may not be factored into the overall living space when it’s time to sell, but there’s no disputing it’s a positive feature in the eyes of buyers. National real estate organizations suggest finishing a basement will return 70% to 75% of its cost when you sell. You get all the benefits right now and almost all of it back when you sell.

Use all your space – when you need more living space and cannot build up or out because of zoning and lot restrictions, your basement is waiting.

High return from lower costs – a basement can be finished with style and plenty of “wow” factor without using high-end, costly materials. Hardwood floors are poor choices for basements. Functional materials combined with colors and textures make the space your own.

Create A Basement Remodel Outline

After you’ve researched possibilities through all the many media available, sit down and put pencil to paper. Create an outline of what you really want to create in your dream basement. Once you’ve completed your list it’s time to get hands-on. This is the most interesting part. Consider these steps to putting your thoughts on paper:

Measurements – get a good tape measure and measure all the existing walls in the basement. The dimensions of your foundation dictate your limits. If there are existing partitioning walls, you’ll want to know sizes of the ones you plan to keep.

Scale drawing – you’re not an architect, but you can still make pretty accurate drawings of your basement layout based on your measurements. Use ink to mark the foundation and pencil to draw in existing walls and where you think new rooms should take shape. Pencil because you’ll change more than once. Don’t forget doors and windows.

Details, details – a typical unfinished basement has very few electrical outlets. On your personal plan, mark where you think outlets should go. You’ll find electricians charge per outlet for some jobs so be prepared to revise your plan – but better to start with more than you really need.

Plumbing – if you’re planning to add a bathroom locate existing plumbing so your new room will connect easily. Many newer homes have plumbing connections for additional bathrooms “roughed in” so you may be limited to location.

Sound and video – advanced planning to hang the big flat-screen TV and wire rooms for Internet access or cable/satellite connections saves time, money and headaches when construction begins.

Simple Dos And Don’ts For Basement Rooms

Interior design specialists offer suggestions for basic things to do when planning basement rooms. As well as a few things to avoid.

Begin with a “to do” list;

Function comes first – making the basement space functional for your entire family should be the No. 1 goal. Whether that’s for better storage, family fun, workouts or doing laundry the new layout needs to “work.” There are two consideration to keep in mind:

Any area that needs privacy need a walls. Bedrooms, bathrooms are “no brainers.’

Separate utilities from activities – protect heating/AC units and hot water heaters, softeners, etc.

Embrace the “open concept” – your basement may already be one big room, or at least one space larger than the rest. Nowhere does and open floor plan fit better than in the basement. You can break up space and traffic patterns with furnishings to create rooms within the room.

Next comes areas of the planning process you should avoid:

Don’t discount aesthetics – while function is the No. 1 priority, nobody suggests you should overlook making the space special. Color is the key. Light colors brighten a space with few, small or no windows. Dark hues are confining but work for theater or special effects. Don’t overlook the impact of wall art, striking furniture and colorful décor. Are you ready for your Badger room with a Motion W on the wall? Or maybe a green and gold Packers party room? You know exactly what you’d add first, right?

Don’t underestimate the need for lighting – basements go unused because they’re dark. A few bare ceiling-mounted bulbs barely light the way. Make sure you plan for plenty of lights – ceiling lights in the new rooms, well-lighted stairways, etc. include plans for more than one way to turn the lights on/off, too.

Professional Skills Add Value To Basement Renovation

Basement finishing projects are often considered ideal do-it-yourself projects. And they are – if you have a lot of time, all the right tools and the experience and skill to use them. If none of these apply to your situation call a pro. When it comes to a first-time basement finishing project or remaking an outdated effort, we’ve got the skilled craftsmen to do it right. Now that you’ve had weeks to recognize the need for more family space, give Sims Exteriors & Remodeling a call at 608-825-4500. Or email us to discuss the dozens of basement renovation options available for your Sun Prairie WI home.

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If You’ve Got $4,000 to Invest, Purchase These 4 Top Stocks Today

The trends that were powering these companies’ development are only accelerating due to the modifications wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The bearish market induced by the COVID-19 pandemic appears– at least for now– to be in hibernation, as the significant stock market indices have gotten between 19%and 29%given that bottoming out on March23 Those indices, however, are still down by 9%to 16%this year.

While it’s still unclear whether the bear has loaded it in for the winter season or is merely regaining its strength before delivering another rout, 2 things are particular: Investing uses the clearest course to generate wealth over the long term, and there are still stocks worth purchasing prior to the market goes back to setting brand-new all-time highs.

Presuming you have a sufficient emergency fund developed and $4,000(or less) that you do not expect to need in the next 3 to 5 years, here are four companies that will grow in the coming years

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1. Shopify: E-commerce is blazing a trail

While the most obvious recipient of the pandemic-fighting stay-at-home policies is Amazon, investing in the tech giant is not the only method to take advantage of the nation’s higher reliance on e-commerce. Rather than putting your money behind the most significant player, why not bet on about 1 million smaller entrepreneurs that will be up and running once the health crisis has passed?

E-commerce platform Shopify( NYSE: SHOP) provides financiers the opportunity to do just that.

An appearance at its most current profits report provides a preview of what to expect from the business in a post-coronavirus world.

While management withdrew its assistance due to the current financial uncertainty, Shopify reported that declining foot traffic at brick-and-mortar sellers was driving more businesses online– which will benefit it over the long haul. Shopify has likewise taken a variety of actions to assist its merchants, consisting of extended 90- day totally free trials, gift card accessibility, and supporting in-store and curbside pickup and delivery for its point-of-sale merchants.

It does not hurt that Shopify has a strong balance sheet, with $2.4 billion in money and no financial obligation.

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2. Activision Blizzard: The video games we play

One of the methods individuals are whiling away the seemingly unlimited days and weeks on coronavirus-induced lockdown is by playing video games.

The business is the purveyor of such top-selling franchises as Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, with each offering relatively endless permutations for their particular fan bases. Call of Responsibility: Warzone— its free-to-play, battle royale offering– boasted 30 million players less than 2 weeks after its March 10 debut.

Investors shouldn’t underestimate the capacity of esports, which is expected to grow from a $694 million market in 2017 to $2.17 billion by 2023– a compound yearly growth rate (CAGR) of almost 19%– according to research study company MarketsandMarkets.

Activision Blizzard owns and operates 2 esports leagues tied to major franchises, namely the Overwatch League and the Call of Responsibility League. While the former is working to resume its city-based matches as soon as stay-at-home constraints are lifted, the Call of Responsibility League moved its inaugural season to online-only competition without missing out on a beat.

Activision Blizzard is also well-positioned to ride out the storm, with $5.8 billion in cash and simply $2.7 billion in debt.

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3. Netflix: Time to binge

Companies of stay-at-home home entertainment are seeing dramatic surges in traffic in a world beset by COVID-19, and streaming video services have actually experienced some of the biggest gains. While the trend was already well-established, many people who had been withstood the siren call are now gathering to platforms with the most significant libraries, and no platform has more content than Netflix( NASDAQ: NFLX)

A growing cadre of analysts has chimed in on the company in the weeks because the pandemic started. After deploying a range of analytical tools, they have actually all concerned the conclusion that viewers are flocking to Netflix in extraordinary numbers.

The most recent prognostication comes from analyst Matthew Thornton of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey. After analyzing a combination of search data, app downloads, and local information, Thornton believes Netflix will report a near-record high of at least 9.5 million new subscribers in the very first quarter, 2.5 million more than Netflix’s current forecast and 2 million greater than experts’ consensus quote of 7.5 million.

Thornton believes the company will see a boost in the second quarter as well, as more people who registered in March will roll off their totally free trial durations and become paying customers. Thornton also cites a strong slate of content– like the breakout hit Tiger King— along with the appeal of locally-focused programming in countries across the globe as factors that will not just draw in new subscribers, however keep them around long after this crisis is over.

Netflix has $5 billion in cash, however regrettably, its long-lasting financial obligation has swollen to $15 billion, so it’s heavily leveraged. The good news is that with more than $5 billion in new income each quarter and speeding up customer need, Netflix should be able to easily ride out the pandemic.

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4. DocuSign: Indication here

Another casualty of social distancing could be the custom of signing files in individual.

Its earnings grew by 39%in 2019, a velocity from its 35%gain the year before.

With work-from-home mandates stretching into the foreseeable future, services will be much more most likely to embrace DocuSign’s technology. And when they’re on board, chances are they will remain as customers.

The business’s balance sheet is slightly concerning: It has $656 million in money and short term investments, however $465 million in financial obligation. It deserves noting, however, that the debt is convertible to equity, so it represents less of a monetary danger.

Investing takeaways

Some financiers will ask the unavoidable question, “Why purchase now?” To that concern, I would respond, “Why not?” We can’t know if this volatile market has already reached its pandemic bottom or if it has further to fall– and anyone who declares otherwise is simply blowing smoke. Because the market invests more time increasing than falling, the finest time to buy stocks is always “now.”

For financiers who are not completely persuaded that now is the very best time to buy, I suggest another time-tested strategy: Relieve in slowly, buying some shares now and adding to your positions later on

Danny Vena owns shares of Activision Blizzard, Amazon, Netflix, and Shopify and has the following options: long January 2021 $22.50 calls on Activision Blizzard. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Activision Blizzard, Amazon, DocuSign, Netflix, and Shopify and recommends the following options: short January 2022 $1940 calls on Amazon and long January 2022 $1920 calls on Amazon. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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How to Do Effective SEO for your Construction Website in 2020?

SEO Simplified for Contractors: Steps to Start with SEO of your Construction Website

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93% of online experiences start with a search engine. SEO leads have about a 15% close rate, while outbound leads have about 2%. (Source: Search Engine Journal). So, when the discussion is about digital marketing for contractors, can we ignore SEO. Search engine optimization is the basis of digital marketing. And along with the right content strategy, it yields incredible organic results. Thus, here we are simplifying the very idea of web optimization and helping you out with how to do effective SEO for your construction website in 2020.

Step 1

Create an amazing website

It doesn't matter whether you are getting regular leads through common connections or word of mouth, even if you have two-three subcontractors with you, or you want to concentrate on small projects, a website is a must. It's secondary whether you wish to invest in SEO or do Google Advertising, a website that is fantastic in every sense is the basic requirement.

But don't get a website for the hack of it. A website is not just the online address of your company or brand. It is also a door to opportunities, leads, and hence conversions. So, your website should tick all the following boxes:

The construction website's interface should be user-friendly.

Design of the website be slick, suave and colors shouldn't be jarring to the eyes

Your website should definitely be better than the competitors'

It should run smooth and fast when opened on any multimedia phone even when it's not connected to wifi or poor net connection

Make sure 404 pages are not a recurring phenomenon

The look and feel of the website should match the dynamics of every smartphone, laptop, and tablet.

Your website is fantastic only when the user is taking away something from it. Be it the feel of the site, look, content, or interaction.

Why should a construction website be smooth and fast in functioning?

For beginners, a slow-loading website gets penalized. Google and Bing both prefer fast-loading websites as it gives the users a pleasant experience. This is co-related. If a visitor is coming to your website and not liking it, he/she will be off. This situation will certainly not help your website to rank better. A website that lacks in speed and is affecting user experience is certainly not going to help the business. If you are not getting the kind of website you need, it's better to get specialist SEO for contractors. The construction marketing service providers have skilled and talented designers to take care of your website.

Step 2

Optimize your Construction Website

Now the website needs to be optimized. How? It's not a one-day thing. It takes considerable time to be in place. With the use of Entity Salience Analysis, search engines looks at the various signals coming from each page of your website. As you understand the science behind the signals, stronger the better. The same way, for Google and Bing too, strong signals means you have done the optimization through keywords and content right.

Go with the right set of general contractor keywords to optimize the web pages. If you are a general contractor/interior designer trying to do SEO, focus on "Buying Intent" keywords like "general contractor services," "interior decor tips", "home renovations", "home remodeling" etc.

Step 3

Have a Google My Business Profile

If the website is your address, Google My Business Profile is needed for the users to reach out to you. There is no denying the fact that Google searches for your construction website will have your website on the first page. However, the recent updates have started showing the address on the top side of the search bar. Sample the following image with the search "contractors near me"

Thus, having your construction company listed on a google map is important. The next crucial move would be to update your company details with a full description, contact us number, opening hours, the link of the website and other information on Google My Business. Remember, Google values its users and wants to serve them with quality.

How to complete your Google My Business account?

After registering with Google go to https://business.google.com/locations, select your business and then select 'Info' on the left-side dropdown menu. Put all your details here and complete it thoroughly. It will ask you about your location, address, products, highlights, description of your business (in 750 words) and photos as well. Fill up the accurate details as this will also help your company to stay ahead in the SEO game with better ranking.

Step 4

Getting Google Reviews for validating the performance of your construction company

SEO for a construction company will get the required jump when your company can get good Google reviews. Now, you must be asking why reviews on Google are important. It is not necessary; all the clients might not get time to give you reviews. But, you ought to be having good reviews to better your website rankings and also your ranking on the maps.

How can a contractor get a good Google Review?

Obvious, good work! Get your job done on time to leave an impact on the client's mind.

Have a positive attitude towards the project and speak out about the matters concerning the project with the client very clearly. This helps in building the trust factor.

Follow up with the email, letter or personal meeting

Shower praises on the client and the project

Lastly, make an honest appeal

The best thing about this entire exercise is that the client also understands the value of Google reviews for his/her own company, and thus will not be hesitant to give you five stars. Keep in mind, the prerequisite for this is no shoddy work and on-time delivery.

Step 5

Social Media Optimization and Marketing shouldn't be missed

Don't underestimate the power of Social Media for your construction company. Social Media is a quintessential part of your contractor marketing strategy, as well as SEO. Social Media presence is one of the best ways to do organic marketing for your construction company.

So, what all social media platforms are best for contractors. Going by the statistics, of course, the top four, namely, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, are essential. However, you can even decide to go off the beat trying social media platforms like Reddit which is very popular these days in the US, Pinterest for flaunting your fantastic work and Houzz for getting a network of fellow contractors, remodelers and subcontractors. Social Media Optimization also helps in Social Signals.

Social Signals are nothing but a webpage's social media visibility, including shares and likes, as recognized by the search engines.

These activities contribute a great deal in improving any page's organic search ranking. It is also another form of citation, behaving similarily as backlinks. Social signals include:

Number of tweets and retweets and also the popularity of the followers tweeting

Facebook shares and likes

Mentions on community pages of Reddit, Tumblr and other community-based social media platforms.

All these have quite an impact on SERP. Thus, Social Media shouldn't be ignored when it is about SEO and especially when you are into servicing business.

Step 6

Building a network of Links and Citations

Being a contractor, you will be benefitted the most by local SEO. As mentioned previously, Google My Business listings will help your company when it comes to local searches. Now, let's talk about how to get back-links? Backlinking for many Construction SEO experts is outdated, but the quality links are always welcome. There are industry-specific magazines and the blogs of subject-matter experts where one can knock the door and can ask for back-links and vice versa.

Get a talented marketing blogger for a quality line of articles to be published on the other quality websites that have good DA. You must also be aware of your competition. Analyze what competitors are doing to get the links by using tools like Moz, Ahref, SEMRush - the best in the SEO now. Hiring an SEO expert for your construction marketing solutions here is the best bet.

Step 7

Track your SEO efforts

SEO for contractors will work only with proper monitoring. Here are the key metrics to do it?

Rankings - Check whether your website's rank is improving gradually.

Traffic - Slowly, the number of visitors should increase

Conversions - Are your leads getting converted to customers?

But before you start analyzing all this, you need to know how to start:

Get software to monitor your website's availability and performance. Pingdom is a free popular tool. Uptrends is another viable software available.

Have Google Analytics in place so that you can see who all are visiting your website. From where they are coming and what content is clicking with them.

Google Search Console is another helpful tool to monitor the ranking.

Bing Webmaster Tools shouldn't also be ignored. Bing is popular among the US netizens, and its users are considered high quality and usually convert

Another essential step after completing your website is to check whether your site is indexed or not. First search it on Google Search, if you can't find your website then come to Google Search Console.

You have your website's URL, right! Copy and paste the link to start the process.

After you hit the enter, google will do the trick.

If you see the page is not showing your website, click on 'REQUEST INDEXING'.

Do it for all the service pages if the pages are also not indexed.

You are good to go with your construction website now.

Also, get to know: How Marketers Fail to Score with SEO

Conclusion

A crucial step to do SEO for contractors would be the addition of blogs on your website. However, keep in mind that low-quality, not-well-researched, low-on-keyword-cluster blog will not take you anywhere. Still clueless as to how to do effective SEO for your construction website in 2020 to achieve great results! Have a contractor marketing services provider/agency to tackle the technicalities of SEO and other construction marketing solutions, while you concentrate on your core job.

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Five Common Myths About SEO 2019

The website that would like in order to stay relevant these days should definitely consider getting SEO. 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 without having using any illegal practices or even short cuts that could create temporary spikes in the home page's ranking, but eventually lead in order to your website having to spend 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 have got LOTS of location pages helping A SINGLE business in 1 location, then those are really probably classed as some type of doorway pages, and possibly old-school SEO techniques for these types of type of pages will notice them classed as lower-quality : or even - spammy web pages. 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 an attempt at rating 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 content material then 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 phrase research. 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Basically, SEO plans the keywords that will are to be delivered plus content provides them. So, when you are considering about applying SEO in the particular broad sense, you need in order to channelize its technical specifications by means of content marketing. In 2019, you can wager that White Hat SEO can have separated itself even more from Black Hat SEO, plus that above all else, supplying quality content will be the particular most important factor for companies ranking in search. The outcomes are not instant, you can use the time on attempting other Internet marketing techniques whilst SEO would go to function. The third major SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION ranking signal is Google's synthetic intelligence search ranking algorithm. Sometimes SEO will be simply a matter of producing sure your site is organized in a way that research engines like google understand. 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How To Get People To Like SEO 2019

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