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App: List of Google Business Profile Categories (Searchable)
One of the most overlooked aspects of local search optimization is the category you assign to your business in Google Business Profile (GBP). While your business name, address, phone number, and hours are obvious details, your category quietly drives how and when your profile appears in Google Search and Maps. Choose wisely, and you’ll attract the right customers. Choose poorly,…
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Five Lessons and One Big Secret to Blogging Faster (and Better)
After twenty years of publishing and more than 5,000 articles, I’ve learned that speed isn’t just about typing faster or shaving minutes off your outline. Sustainable speed comes from decisions you make before you write, systems you rely on while you write, and habits you practice after you publish. The five lessons below form the foundation of how I consistently…
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Scraping Without Friction: Engineering a Crawler That Lasts
29.9% of all online traffic is bot traffic that’s scraping or retrieving data. Cloudflare Radar Web scraping is often portrayed as shady. In reality, it underpins many legitimate business activities. Companies scrape to migrate websites, capture competitor pricing, monitor their brand mentions, enrich data, and even re-purpose their own content across platforms. Because approximately one-third of scraping activity is malicious,…
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App: Convert CSV to JSON or JSON to CSV
Working with data isn’t always as seamless as we’d like. Some platforms still rely on comma-separated values (CSV) files, which are human-readable and straightforward but not always flexible. Others are increasingly adopting JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), a format that is lighter, structured, and widely supported by modern APIs and cloud services. If you find yourself bouncing between the two, the…