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    Hello from Southeast Asia!

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    2 hours ago, Demonerosso said:

    Hi there, thanks for the tips! Yeah I've gotten to buying spree when I finally able to connect my local cards here with the payment. Ended up with some useless pricey stuffs 🤦

    Where can you find the informations about new avatar etc, simply actively looking or there exists like a place etc? I met some new people where some of them are kindly enough to show me some stores suited to their taste (for AO etc), but is there like a mall where everything's there?

    Try this:

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/

     

    I'm looking for a ''Modeling'' job.

    in Inworld Employment

    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    17 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

    If she were looking for a job in the prostitution field, she could have said so.  We're all grown ups here. 

    You really ought to include a tag letting new people know you run a prostitution establishment so they don't need to visit your website unprepared.  I know you need the visits but it's kind of rude to new people who don't know you.  The link should at.the least say NSFW.

    @0piaPinkif you're interested in escorting or erotic photos, which is what Caroline does, there are plenty of those types of jobs in this section, also.  

     

    Wait a minute

    I did not post a link, or are you refering to the signature ?  I am not desperate for clicks. I get 80% of my traffic from Google. Forum-Links are a very small portion of traffic for any website. Actually my main busines is not the "prostitution establishment" but publishing adult content and monetize it with affiliate marketing. The actual Escorts website (Yes, it was a website not an establishment) is closed now, due to lack of sufficient revenues.

    Back to topic:

    In some countries (i.e Germany) we do actually use the term "model" as a synonym for prostitute, especially when advertising such services. For models, as in wearing pretty cloth and get photographed, there is not really a market in sl.

    The only media company that uses models I know is Deans Studios (Formerly Chic Studios). They do actually pay the models. But it is really a setup for the boss to get to f*ck girls in or after the casting.

    Time Off at Takeda Media | For Reasons

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    Thats what I just did send out in our groups. In case it doesnt reach everybody here we go:

    Dear guests, dear members, dear clients and foremost dear  staff,

    As of Monday my sl-online times will be very limited. Possibly weekends only  (if that much). That obviously applies to my ALT Candy as well.

    I decided , due to the current situation in the Ukraine, to dedicate time to  refugee  shelters in Berlin. I can easily afford to dedicate some time  to people that are not as fortunate as myself and I feel I have to do the little I can.

    The tier for the hotel and the rent for the shops are payed way in advance (three month), so don't worry about that. I will give Anna estate rights to manage things during the week, I am sure she can handle the usual "situations", diplomatic and strong at the time.  Same applies to  Bran our Project Manager for the Hideaway. 

    Hug you all and wish me luck please. Hope when I come back it's all the same as I left it (or better?)

    In (really!) urgent cases, please send e-mail to: caroline@takedamedia.com

    See ya soon. Hopefully.

    Caroline Takeda

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    What SL teaches about other countries/cultures

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    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    19 hours ago, Sukubia Scarmon said:

    How German do you feel? 

    That question can not really be answered.

    Germany is a compound of different historical roots, cultures, mentalities and dialects.
    The different Germans are in mentality and lifestil more similar to their respective direct neighbor countries than to people from other parts of Germany.

    Bavarians are more like Austrians than like people from Northern Germany. 
    Berlin people are closer to the Polish than to Western Germans.
    The Saarland is heavily influenced by the French. 
    People around the Lake of Constance even speak similar as Swiss people.
    Cologne People have a lot in common with Dutchies.

    All of feel German and not.

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    How To Combat Harmful Technology: Should Ads Be Banned?

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    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    12 hours ago, Istelathis said:

    @PaulsianSecond Life's Marketplace will not load without cookies, they are kind of like Santa in that way.  I get the same result in my desktop browser if I disable cookies, I'm not sure what the redirects are due to.  

    /me rolls eyes

    Some cookies are technically necessary to run any online shop. We call those "session cookies", which will be deleted after you close the browser. The don't spy on you, they don't harm your computer, the don't eat your kids.

    How to combat "harmful" technology: Get off the internet. Hide in your basement.

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    How To Combat Harmful Technology: Should Ads Be Banned?

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    But none of that matters to this thread, or my response about why 'personal pages' don't appear to do very well.

    Because they typically do not produce content that matches a users intention. There is no reason to rank those well. 

    Lets look at Second Life related blogs as an example.

    There are hundreds of those so-called fashion blogs. They almost always consist of a few pretty pictures and the credits. What user-intent do they satisfy? What problem  are they solving? None! The only thing they satisfy is the bloggers narcism.

    Hence why should they rank well?

    On the other end you have blogs like Strawberry's, Nalates and SLA(mine). They do rank well, because they do exactly that: They deliver answers to questions, solve problems of Second Life users or simply are entertaining (the later being a huge user-intent).

    All the hard work that did go into those is monetized by....

    << insert drum roll here >>

    ...advertising!

    Thats is how we get paid for solving problems or entertaining people. So should ads be banned? I don't think so, unless people are prepared to pay us to read our stuff. (Spoiler: They are not).

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    How To Combat Harmful Technology: Should Ads Be Banned?

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    Posted · Edited by Caroline Takeda

    11 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

    If that's true, it doesn't surprise me. But 'heart' or not, it is still a major part of ranking pages. I'm reading things like "PageRank sits at the heart of the Google algorithm and determines the relative importance of web pages in search results." (2019) and "Google axed their public PageRank score in 2016. But PageRank is still a core part of their algorithm" (2020). They were written not long ago so I assume they are applicable.

    But none of that matters to this thread, or my response about why 'personal pages' don't appear to do very well.

    I'm sorry to correct you but inbound links were essential in Google's early days. They did have a form to submit pages for a few years, but it didn't really work. They majored on IBLs.
     

    Oh! And did I mention that I was considered to be one of the top SEOs in the world back then? ;)  So much so that Microsoft invited me, among others, to go to Seattle to help when they were responding to Google's success and developing their own search engine, which became known as Bing. They didn't have their own engine before then. In seo, I predated Google's launch. If you were around the seo business back then you would have known my real name. You may even have learned from me! A lot of SEOs did :)  I stopped quite some ago though, so changes don't surprise me.

     

     

    I never argued that backlinks were essential in Google's early days. It was that thing that actually made Google different from all the other search engines. 

    Yes, I was around back then, when all you need to do is stuff the page with keywords and get as many as possible backlinks. Back then (we are talking 2002 ish). It was all about tricking the search engines algo.

    Remember the little green bar showing PR? Gone! Gone because less relevant..

    I was doing it as well, including redirects from expired domains with many links. Doesn't work anymore.

    Today backlinks are still important, but the concept of Pagerank was widely replaced (or emballished upon) by an "evaluation system" for links (Penguin) and content (Panda). They nowadays evaluate the expertise, authority, and trustworthiness of the content, the author, and the websites linking to that content. 

    You could have millions of links and Google might simply ignore them, but you could also get that one link that turns out to be a game-changer and pushes your rankings almost overnight.

    In recent years the algorithm evolved towards becoming an AI, able to match content to the user's intention behind the search query. A technology called "Rankbrain". This was one of the biggest moves forward and away from relying on PageRank or keywords.

    Modern SEO doesn't just optimize for keywords and PageRank. You optimize for user intent and user context.

    @allothers

    If you ask 10 SEOs a question, you get 12 opinions.

     

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    How To Combat Harmful Technology: Should Ads Be Banned?

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    2 minutes ago, Phil Deakins said:

    Pagerank was never the sole criteria for ranking pages, or anywhere near it. It was probably never the biggest criteria, but it was, and still a criteria when ranking pages. Google described as the "heart" of their system and they still use it.

    The point I was making is that a page does not get indexed, and therefore doesn't get ranked, unless it has at least one link pointing to it. The website that the page is part of does not get its pages indexed and listed unless it has at least one link from outside linking to it. The 'personal" pages' that were mentioned are more likely not to have links pointing to them, which is why I explained it all.

    Nope

    Pagerank is NOT the heart of the system anymore. Since years actually. 

    Indexing also does NOT require a link to the site. This is just plain wrong what you say there. Yes links do help to get indexed, but its not a requirement (it never was). You can also get listed by creating an XML sitemap and send that to Google via the Google Search Console.

    Did I mention I used to work for Google? And I am an SEO/SEA Consultant in RL. 
    I know this stuff very well, I even do train people on that stuff.

     

    How To Combat Harmful Technology: Should Ads Be Banned?

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    8 hours ago, Phil Deakins said:

    The heart of their method was, and still is, called Pagerank. Pagerank puts huge emphasis in links between webpages - both inbound links and outbound links.  Without inbound links, no webpage can be indexed, let alone listed in the search results.

     

    Phil,

    that is very outdated information.

    Google the following terms to get a bit up to date:

    • Search Intention
    • Rankbrain
    • Hummingbird
    • MUM
    • Search and Entities
    • Sentinetal Search
    • EAT in Google Rankings
    • PANDA technologie

    The times when Larry's Pagerank was the main criteria for rankings are long gone.

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    How To Combat Harmful Technology: Should Ads Be Banned?

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    On 2/11/2022 at 2:43 PM, Sid Nagy said:

    Producing content costs money.
    That money has to be raked in somehow. So one has to pay for the content to watch, hear or use. In a brick and mortar store you pay for a licence and a copy. Online you pay for a subscription or when it is a "free" service it is payed by the advertisements. Same goes for radio and TV.
    Or the government has to step in somehow like with the BBC in the UK and ARD and ZDF in Germany. Than you pay extra taxes.
    There is no such thing as a free lunch.

    Product placement is one of the used techniques to rake in money for the production.
    And yes, production companies are normally in it for the money, so they try to make a profit from it as well.

    Those are all basics.
    So why is it discussed in the first place?

    This is exactly how it works.

    Somebody else here made a very stupid comment:
     

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    I pay for my internet

    Do you also pay the servers Google, Youtube (which belongs to Google), Facebook (or myself on a small scale) need to produce their services? Do you also pay their employees? Their offices? Their taxes?

    No you don't. You pay your internet provider to be able to actually access the internet. Mo more no less.

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