Ben Johnston
@benjohnston.bsky.social
SEO | Analyst | Coder | Copywriter | Problem-Solver | Cyberpunk | Guitarist | Loud Music Fan | Bringing Data Science To Digital Marketing
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Ben Johnston
@benjohnston.bsky.social
· Nov 24
Ben Johnston | SEO, Data Analytics & Digital Marketing In London
Hi, I'm Ben Johnston, an SEO Director, data analyst & copywriter in London. Join me on my blog and let's bring data science to your digital marketing.
www.ben-johnston.co.uk
New to Bluesky from Twitter. If you're following, thanks & let me introduce myself, I'm Ben, I've been working in SEO and digital since 2008, starting as a copywriter. I've also trained as a data scientist and I talk about using the R language for SEO a lot on my site www.ben-johnston.co.uk
I have a genius new business idea and am seeking investors:
Cloudflare but just for MS Teams, Slack and other "work-based" instant messaging tools.
It will fall over regularly so people can get their work done in peace.
Who's in?
Cloudflare but just for MS Teams, Slack and other "work-based" instant messaging tools.
It will fall over regularly so people can get their work done in peace.
Who's in?
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I have a genius new business idea and am seeking investors:
Cloudflare but just for MS Teams, Slack and other "work-based" instant messaging tools.
It will fall over regularly so people can get their work done in peace.
Who's in?
Cloudflare but just for MS Teams, Slack and other "work-based" instant messaging tools.
It will fall over regularly so people can get their work done in peace.
Who's in?
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Yeah, thanks Chrome. I didn't need any of those dozens of extensions you just randomly disabled or anything. Super helpful.
March 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Yeah, thanks Chrome. I didn't need any of those dozens of extensions you just randomly disabled or anything. Super helpful.
I'm on a bit of a roll with my R for #SEO series, and just dropped part nine, where I'll teach you about #webscraping with #rlang and #rvest. Check it out www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-pa...
R for SEO Part 9: Web Scraping With R & Rvest
Welcome back to part 9 of my R for SEO series, where we’re talking about web scraping using R the rvest package. Check it out.
www.ben-johnston.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I'm on a bit of a roll with my R for #SEO series, and just dropped part nine, where I'll teach you about #webscraping with #rlang and #rvest. Check it out www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-pa...
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Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future.
www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
Deep Impact
Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So
In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos.
This won’t be a lengthy, tech...
www.wheresyoured.at
January 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Newsletter: The DeepSeek situation is a moment that should fill Silicon Valley with shame, a monument to the lack of vision and herd mentality of the American tech industry. OpenAI and Anthropic have no moat, no business, no innovation, and I believe no future.
www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/
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I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
January 29, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks.
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
www.ft.com/content/a0df...
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Accurate geolocation of any individual by exploiting Cloudflare caching 🧠
gist.github.com/hackermondev...
gist.github.com/hackermondev...
Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform
Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform - research.md
gist.github.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Accurate geolocation of any individual by exploiting Cloudflare caching 🧠
gist.github.com/hackermondev...
gist.github.com/hackermondev...
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SEO: Rank tracking is pointless, why bother.
Also SEO: OMG Google killed the rank trackers.
Also SEO: OMG Google killed the rank trackers.
January 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
SEO: Rank tracking is pointless, why bother.
Also SEO: OMG Google killed the rank trackers.
Also SEO: OMG Google killed the rank trackers.
First new blog post in a while, but we're back with part 8 of my series in using #rstats for #SEO, where we're talking about the various apply methods in R, including apply, lapply, sapply and mapply. Have a read, shares appreciated
www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-pa...
www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-pa...
R For SEO Part 8: Apply Methods in R, Lapply, Sapply, Mapply
In part 8 of my R for SEO series, we’re looking at the various apply methods in R, including apply, lapply, sapply and mapply. Have a read.
www.ben-johnston.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
First new blog post in a while, but we're back with part 8 of my series in using #rstats for #SEO, where we're talking about the various apply methods in R, including apply, lapply, sapply and mapply. Have a read, shares appreciated
www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-pa...
www.ben-johnston.co.uk/r-for-seo-pa...
The world's biggest scraper taking further measures against scraping. The irony www.seroundtable.com/google-block...
Google Blocking SEO Rank Checking Tools As Volatility Continues
For the past week, we've been discussing how most of the third-party tracking tools have been showing much calmer and cooler search ranking volatility. This is all while the chatter within the SEO co...
www.seroundtable.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The world's biggest scraper taking further measures against scraping. The irony www.seroundtable.com/google-block...
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It continues:
After growing from the 98th to 3rd biggest website in Google's organic search results over the past 2 years*, Reddit has begun to see its biggest drop in years.
(* @sistrix.com visibility data)
After growing from the 98th to 3rd biggest website in Google's organic search results over the past 2 years*, Reddit has begun to see its biggest drop in years.
(* @sistrix.com visibility data)
January 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It continues:
After growing from the 98th to 3rd biggest website in Google's organic search results over the past 2 years*, Reddit has begun to see its biggest drop in years.
(* @sistrix.com visibility data)
After growing from the 98th to 3rd biggest website in Google's organic search results over the past 2 years*, Reddit has begun to see its biggest drop in years.
(* @sistrix.com visibility data)
I wrote this huge guide to using Git for Data Analysis a couple of years back. Resurfacing it today as I found myself referring back to it for a couple of bits at work. Hopefully it'll be useful for you too. www.ben-johnston.co.uk/git-for-data...
#git #dataanalytics #gitforseo #gitfordata
#git #dataanalytics #gitforseo #gitfordata
Git For Data Analysts: The Complete Guide, R | Ben Johnston
If you're an analyst, you need to be using version control, but it can be intimidating at first. My guide to Git for data analysts will help.
www.ben-johnston.co.uk
January 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I wrote this huge guide to using Git for Data Analysis a couple of years back. Resurfacing it today as I found myself referring back to it for a couple of bits at work. Hopefully it'll be useful for you too. www.ben-johnston.co.uk/git-for-data...
#git #dataanalytics #gitforseo #gitfordata
#git #dataanalytics #gitforseo #gitfordata
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Some SEOs: "UsE ChaTGpT fOr EnTITy AnALysis"
Me: "ChatGPT, do entity analysis on this 404 URL"
ChatGPT: "nO pRObLem!" 🤡
Inspired by @jessthebp.bsky.social brilliant video which is linked below and you should watch if you haven't!
Me: "ChatGPT, do entity analysis on this 404 URL"
ChatGPT: "nO pRObLem!" 🤡
Inspired by @jessthebp.bsky.social brilliant video which is linked below and you should watch if you haven't!
December 6, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Some SEOs: "UsE ChaTGpT fOr EnTITy AnALysis"
Me: "ChatGPT, do entity analysis on this 404 URL"
ChatGPT: "nO pRObLem!" 🤡
Inspired by @jessthebp.bsky.social brilliant video which is linked below and you should watch if you haven't!
Me: "ChatGPT, do entity analysis on this 404 URL"
ChatGPT: "nO pRObLem!" 🤡
Inspired by @jessthebp.bsky.social brilliant video which is linked below and you should watch if you haven't!
The Web Almanac is always a great read. Here's this year's. Naturally, I jumped straight to the SEO section almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/seo
SEO | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive
SEO chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering crawlability, indexability, page experience, on-page SEO, links, AMP, internationalization, and more.
almanac.httparchive.org
December 6, 2024 at 10:09 AM
The Web Almanac is always a great read. Here's this year's. Naturally, I jumped straight to the SEO section almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/seo
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Google November 2024 core update rollout is now complete searchengineland.com/google-novem...
Google November 2024 core update rollout is now complete
This update took 24 days to roll out and was a typical Google core update.
searchengineland.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:33 PM
Google November 2024 core update rollout is now complete searchengineland.com/google-novem...
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Google Search piloting a new YouTube search experience with quick takes, key takeaways and more, customized to your query www.seroundtable.com/google-searc... via @glenngabe.bsky.social
#google #youtube #video #search
#google #youtube #video #search
December 3, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Google Search piloting a new YouTube search experience with quick takes, key takeaways and more, customized to your query www.seroundtable.com/google-searc... via @glenngabe.bsky.social
#google #youtube #video #search
#google #youtube #video #search
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The latest in SEO has been just sent via #SEOFOMO to +35.6K subscribers, featuring:
* Google Search Console recommendations now fully live
* DOJ Says Google Controls 91% Of Ad Market; Google Says 10%
* Google On Giving Prior Notice To Search Penalties
...
* Google Search Console recommendations now fully live
* DOJ Says Google Controls 91% Of Ad Market; Google Says 10%
* Google On Giving Prior Notice To Search Penalties
...
December 1, 2024 at 9:22 PM
The latest in SEO has been just sent via #SEOFOMO to +35.6K subscribers, featuring:
* Google Search Console recommendations now fully live
* DOJ Says Google Controls 91% Of Ad Market; Google Says 10%
* Google On Giving Prior Notice To Search Penalties
...
* Google Search Console recommendations now fully live
* DOJ Says Google Controls 91% Of Ad Market; Google Says 10%
* Google On Giving Prior Notice To Search Penalties
...
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We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
The Engagement Is Better on Bluesky - Bluesky
Bluesky is the lobby to the open web. Find and build your community here.
bsky.social
November 29, 2024 at 10:30 PM
We could go on about how we welcome publishers, we don't demote links, we encourage independent developers to build apps and extensions on top of Bluesky's network.... but instead, we'll show you.
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
All thanks to the incredible community here! 🦋
Just found out there's a Tweetdeck-alike for Bluesky. Oh, this is glorious deck.blue
deck.blue
Get the most out of Bluesky with a multi-column layout
deck.blue
November 27, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Just found out there's a Tweetdeck-alike for Bluesky. Oh, this is glorious deck.blue
New to Bluesky from Twitter. If you're following, thanks & let me introduce myself, I'm Ben, I've been working in SEO and digital since 2008, starting as a copywriter. I've also trained as a data scientist and I talk about using the R language for SEO a lot on my site www.ben-johnston.co.uk
Ben Johnston | SEO, Data Analytics & Digital Marketing In London
Hi, I'm Ben Johnston, an SEO Director, data analyst & copywriter in London. Join me on my blog and let's bring data science to your digital marketing.
www.ben-johnston.co.uk
November 24, 2024 at 1:59 PM
New to Bluesky from Twitter. If you're following, thanks & let me introduce myself, I'm Ben, I've been working in SEO and digital since 2008, starting as a copywriter. I've also trained as a data scientist and I talk about using the R language for SEO a lot on my site www.ben-johnston.co.uk
See you later, Elon.
November 23, 2024 at 1:31 PM
See you later, Elon.