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Web, SEO &   Growth.

Performance, Core Web Vitals, search after LLMs, analytics, conversion. Making digital products reach actual people is half technical and half psychological — and the ground under it keeps shifting. These are notes from two decades of building and ranking sites, updated for the current thing.

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Send a recipe, not a specification

When the people who will implement your tracking do not work for you and cannot ask you questions, the instruction has to be executable without understanding the goal. A two-block find-and-replace, the case where it breaks, and why I write it that way.

Mar 17, 2020 · 4 min