SEO: like global warming, but ends in annoyance instead of starvation
I was working on GitHub and finally figured out how to make my commits just show as [terry] instead of [Terry Heath]. It’s my damn Apple user name, so I’m guessing that comes from your actual machine’s username, and not your profile. Which is a little dumb, GitHub.
But anyways, I was curious what that would do to googling my name. I hadn’t googled my name in a while, and the first hit is now some eponymous SEO douche.
SEO contributes largely to the smog of the internets. I realize it’s a natural progression once a medium gets popular to try to … Continue Reading