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Dark web and SEO

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Thomas Hawk - Google

Can you put a link to the site on the dark web for SEO purposes?

Let’s take this statement:

“The term dark web refers to encrypted online content that is not indexed by conventional search engines. Accessing the dark web can only be done using specific browsers, such as TOR Browser.”

Source: What Is the Dark Web and Should You Access It?

If the statement is true, in this case, Google will not see the link so it doesn’t affect you.

What happens if Google can access the link? If Google somehow sees the link, it matters a lot which site puts the link. It may be a legitimate site, and then the link helps, or it may be a dubious site, which at best does no harm, and at worst, if there are a lot of such sites that link, risk a penalty.

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Where to live in Europe?

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Elias Rovielo - The Tebinquiche Lagoon (Laguna Tebinquiche) at 2,400 meters (8,000 ft) above sea level, the Salar de Atacama, the Atacama Desert, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

My advice for picking a place to live in Europe is to find someplace with the sea next to it, either the Mediterranean or the Black Sea. If you like mountains, generally you can find solutions to go for a day or two, but if you live by the sea, you can get a good experience in the summer.

You can choose a small town, like I did. It’s nice if that place is also relatively close to a large city, so you can enjoy cultural experiences.

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Knowing English in Romania

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Follow-up: Conference - Norm and usage in the Romanian language II DOOM3 Case Study (2023.05.15, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

In Romania we used pirated software for a long, so big companies didn’t have the incentive to translate interfaces in Romanian. Also, it was cheaper to make a subtitled movie than a dubbed one. For these two reasons, for a lot of time, if you were in IT, you were forced to learn English.

What seemed initially a curse proved to be a blessing because nowadays a lot of people know English.

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We tend to like local things (food, music, places), although the world is BIG

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Onasill ~ Bill - Be Safe & Happy - Kingston Ontario - Canada - Cooke's Fine Foods and Coffee - Since 1865

People in Turkey like Turkish food.

People in certain areas of Romania like things specific to Romania and specific to their region.

If in a family, food is cooked in a certain way (a lot of salt, a a lot of sugar, even burned food), the family members will get used to that way of cooking.

To me, this is a bit paradoxical. I like to test new things to find out what I like.

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One small step

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Thank you note

Generally, in life, there are situations when even a slight change can lead to major outcomes.

A minuscule thing, a small thing, a tiny thing – all these could lead to big changes.

There’s only a tiny difference between something good or evil.

A rotten apple is still, basically, an apple.

A poisoned apple is mostly an apple.

That minuscule change changes everything.

And a quote by Nicolae Steinhardt – The Diary of Happiness:

Apa, dacă e pusă la fiert, începe a emite aburi pe la 60°, zice dr-ul Al-G., dar de fiert nu fierbe decât la 100° şi apa fiartă e cu totul altceva decât apa caldă sau apa care e aproape fiartă ori pe punctul de a fierbe. Fierberea e un fenomen nou, de neînlocuit, de neasemuit, e surpriză, motiv de mirare.

Virtue and sin are separated by a needle.

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Audentes Fortuna Iuvat – Fortune favours the bold/the brave

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J Swanstrom (Never enough time...) - Memory Without Emotion

I like this quote:

“Fortune favours the bold” – Wikipedia

When you want to start something, when you plan to do an action, when you try to do something from scratch, obstacles may arise.

But leaving yourself to fate will generally bring results, although perhaps unexpected.

This is quite the opposite of the black swan theory.

There’s always risk involved, bad things can and might happen, but you should always remember that nature favours the bold.

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Fuckup Nights Bucharest, 19th edition: Mihai Panfil – founder of Origo Coffee, Gina Matei – Leadership Coach and co-founder of Performant Company, Gabriel Diaconu – Psychiatrist and Matei Stănculescu – Psychotherapist and co-founder of Eka Center, reveal new perspectives on failure

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Fuckup Nights Bucharest, 19th edition

Psychiatrist Gabriel Diaconu: “Failure should help people become, not fall. Without failing, without falling apart sometimes, I wouldn’t be here today.”

Bucharest, November 15, 2023: Mihai Panfil – founder of Origo Coffee, Gina Matei – Leadership Coach and co-founder of Performant Company, Gabriel Diaconu – Psychiatrist and Matei Stănculescu – Psychotherapist and co-founder of Eka Center, share the obstacles and failures that have reshaped their definition of success at the 19th edition of Fuckup Nights Bucharest (FUN).

The event will take place at Stup on Monday 20 November, starting at 18:30. Registration is open and free of charge on the Stup platform, with limited seats available.

In a world where success seems the only currency, Fuckup Nights Bucharest explores the less glamorous but essential side of progress: failure.

FUN XIX brings together four successful people who embrace failure as an opportunity for growth and development. Mihai Panfil, Gina Matei, Gabriel Diaconu and Matei Stanculescu will talk openly about how they turned failure into an advantage, redefining failure as a fundamental element in their professional journey. Each talk will conclude with an interactive session, giving attendees the opportunity to enter an open dialogue with the speakers about the lessons of failure.

The event will be moderated by radio and TV journalist Julia Nagy. 

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