@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Email Gone After Forced Logoff:

We were, it is back now. Took a good half of the day with support to get them to the point that they were able to turn it back on.

Hey at least you didn't lose anything.

It's a great idea.

Amazing they haven't had it up until now.

Makes using OneDrive or ODfB so much easier if you can sync locally.

These are the kind of things you think someone would catch.

Not like it's some random 3rd party app on some 3rd party OS on some 3rd party host.

Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, and The Wire

@scottalanmiller

@jaredbusch said in Current Status of SEO:

@minion-queen said in Current Status of SEO:

The market there is a PITA to deal with.

We love you anyway

Yeah I noticed that as well.

You must like @Minion-Queen ... anyone else would have received a much harsher reply,

I'd like to see...

MS adds versioning to Onedrive, and versioning can help if you get infected with malware

Of course, in a sexier title!

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Alexa now offers house wide voice broadcasting. Basically a consumer version of overhead paging.

Great now my kids can ignore Alexa, too.

If I said to you

"Cloud Storage Service XYZ now offers virus protection" ... what would you think that means?

@scottalanmiller said in MS Adds Ransomware Protection to OneDrive:

@brrabill said in MS Adds Ransomware Protection to OneDrive:

Well, most people upon reading that title would assume the OP meant the files themselves were protected from ransomware while on OneDrive.

That doesn't even mean anything. Why would people think something like that?

Because no one else thinks like MLNEWS? (I'll leave you out of it. )

@scottalanmiller said in MS Adds Ransomware Protection to OneDrive:

@brrabill said in MS Adds Ransomware Protection to OneDrive:

You are stipulating that by adding versioning to OneDrive, THAT additional functionality is protecting the user from malware.

It does.

Right.

@scottalanmiller curious as to how you feel about paid advertising, such as Facebook ads and Google AdWords

Well, most people upon reading that title would assume the OP meant the files themselves were protected from ransomware while on OneDrive.

You are stipulating that by adding versioning to OneDrive, THAT additional functionality is protecting the user from malware.

@scottalanmiller said in Current Status of SEO:

@brrabill said in Current Status of SEO:

Or do you really think good content will just find it's way up the search pages on its own?

Yes, consistently this is what people have found. SEO is an attempt to get ranked like good or popular content without being good or popular. SEO is a way to keep selling services to those that can't make good content. Those with good content never needed it. Search engines work continuously to prioritize good content and punish those attempting SEO.

What do you consider "good content"

Would say at its very basic level, SEO means optimizing your content to appear higher on search engines.

Now, there may be "good" and "bad" ways to do that.

But at the core, that is all it means.

Not what I was expecting.

I see what you did there.

Do you believe that optimizing your "good content" to appear higher on search engine results is valuable?

Hence, designing for search engine optimization?

Or do you really think good content will just find it's way up the search pages on its own?

@scottalanmiller said in Current Status of SEO:

SEO is a real thing and valuable, but it comes from good content. SEO Optimization and consulting is, and always has been, a scam.

So do you feel using things such as keyword searching to optimize "good content" is a scam?

Or just the consultants who sell it?

I saw an article yesterday titled something to the effect of "The 30 Minute Crash Course to Keyword Selection" from Moz.

In the comments sections, it was an interesting mix of people basically saying either "wow what a great article" or "SEO is dead the only way to get traffic is by paid advertising" ... typical of an Internet comment page.

I know from past ML threads and also talking with people offline that there is a bit of a mix here as well. Some of you think any concept of designing around SEO is meaningless, and SEO itself is snake oil selling at best. Though some of you have also supported it.

So, just curious here in April of 2018: what do you think? Is it vital to today's marketing? Or is it dead. (If you believe it ever even was alive.)

If you had a friend who came to you and said "I want to do SEO and online marketing" what would you say to them?

Curious to those of you who used a cloud VM to install it on ... did you also install a SSL cert?

Right, I mean when the careless CEO leaves his laptop in an airport and you're just trying to protect the goods from a 14 year old kid with a Windows 10 ISO.