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aroace-poly-show · 6 months

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Hi you said you want to ramble, could you ramble some more about hollow ☆ wonderland i tried looking through your blog but search is. not working. so i failed to find anything at all

HEHEHEHEHH OF COURSE!!! and the reason for that is probably bc i haven’t posted very many details about them!! most of my rambles have been contained to dms with two of my friends and a currently 2.4k word doc of word and idea vomit 👍

anything posted before the most recent ask hasn’t been tagged correctly either, iirc i had a brief summary of the group a while ago though, tagged with “nightcord wxs” i think?? cause i didn’t have a name for them yet at the time. not changing it cause i’ve figured out more stuff since then so it’s sort of outdated. there’s probably a few posts lost in the marlo’s stuff tag, though that i didn’t tag properly but it’s okay those rambles are probably somewhere in my google doc.

anyway, since you didn’t rlly specify something in particular i’m probably just gonna ramble about whatever comes to mind. once again under the cut cause i can tell this is probably gonna get a bit long:

hollow ☆ wonderland is an online music group, and their videos are like kikuo style ones. but not necessarily ones like you are a useless child and aishite, more ones like and then you became the moon, welcome to the star inn, don’t look at me in that way, etc. pretty cutesy and happy sounding with a cute art style and then the lyrics tell a pretty dark story. that’s their general vibe. there’s a few songs i associate with them like judas by abuse (like i mentioned before) but i can’t confidently say it’s the kind of music they’d make. maybe that’ll change though we’ll see.

the group is composed of hoshi (tsukasa) the main lyricist, koki (emu), the artist, tako (rui) the animator and eventual co-lyricist, and kurage (nene), the composer.

they’re all silly online friends who like making music videos together and while none of them really talk about their issues pre-main story given that they’re not super close/don’t know each other super well yet, they still enjoy doing this together and care at least a little bit about each other.

i’m still figuring out how exactly the main story goes, but i’ve definitely made more progress now so HOPEFULLY i figure out a coherent story soon. i rlly do want to write a fic for them but don’t get your hopes up too much.

a few basic ideas i do have currently are some stuff like tsukasa, despite also being on his last hopes like the rest of them, is going to be the one to really encourage them all to start theater again. their sekai is a rundown theme park with lots of fireflies around, all the plushies are still there but they’re also worn down and have lots of patches and stuff on them. wonder stage has been closed down already, but it hasn’t been like torn down or replaced with a new attraction or anything. will it make a comeback? will hw be using it? we will see :)

i think the world hasn’t even started yet is still gonna be their untitled too. i’m thinking for their unit fits it’s gonna be something similar to the circus jester set cards? or at least the face paint thing. i’m absolutely giving them the face paint thing. and then there’s some other plot ideas i have but i’m not totally sure about them yet and i dunno how much sense they make on their own so i’m not gonna add them here.

uh. tsukasas name is hoshi since it means star iirc? so obviously he gets that name. koki meant something like to glitter, to shine, and i think emu would have liked that enough to choose it. and i already mentioned why rui and nenes names are what they are 👍

that is all for now. once again i’m more than happy to answer any other questions (like seriously i was so giddy and happy getting asked about them) so yknow feel free to ask. might answer a bit late cause i’m in school atm and have a lot to say but i will answer it eventually :3

#asks #hollow ☆ wonderland

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gilmesc1 · 4 years

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Furiousgoldfish post 4: The fishening

I was feeling creative. Sue me.

Ok. So yeah I've written 3 furiousgoldfish posts already, so if you want a more in depth review of past stuff check those out, but if you're lazy, I'll do a quick recap here:

So angry fish's blog is an abuse recovery thing where they talk about their experience with abusive narcissistic parents while posting helpful(?) tips for coping and general umbrella terms with vagueness that would make a politician scream. They also may be a system(?)

Angry fish uses umbrella terms and generalization which renders much of what they say as useless runny bullshit you shouldn't touch, examples being the famed meme worthy "narcissists should be sterilized" statements. So the crime (I'm also dramatic. Sue me.) so far is harming others (but hey all cluster b's are aiming to destroy everything so it's fiiiiine) and posts that represent certain individuals as harmful shitty people, which is not the case with many on tumblr.

Is fish on the level of their abusers? hmmm...

Anyways minus the DID thing, I've covered a lot of it, plus just searching furious goldfish brings up the same stuff with the necessary evidence. But today friends, I'm gonna talk about the rumors a lot of you threw in my ask box. And trust me. Not pretty are they.

Narcissists do have a track record for being horrible, so yes some stigma is obviously going to arise. Can fish truly be blamed while they themself are traumatized? That may be an out there but not for this. You see, our lovely all knowing fish may in fact be a terf.

If you don't know what a terf is, get thee to google and join in the collected groan of disgust. The views of terfs cannot be blamed on trauma, they are clear discriminatory, harmful, hateful and honestly sickening.

Where is our proof? Well let's lay it out. If you check out fish's profile you'll see that you can't see who they follow. Allegedly this is because there were several confirmed terfs that they were following. Additionally you can check notes and tags on some of their posts and see some fairly gross things.

If you go to my mess of a profile you'll see a post retaining to this that I reblogged that contains a lot of the screenshots of this. So if you haven't seen that, check out the evidence.

Now is it all true? are they a confirmed terf? While there are some suspicious tags floating around, I don't think it has ever fully been confirmed, however I think at the very least their association with terfs is. Is this enough to condemn them?

In my personal opinion yes. Terfs on tumblr are highly vocal and focused on their fuckery and i don't think one can asscociate with them without agreeing with some of their views.

Additionally, with the amount of fishcourse that goes on, I highly doubt that furiousgoldfish has no idea about the allegations. What's interesting to me is that they've never made a statement on it. If you were accused of being this disgudting type of person, wouldnt you want to deny it?

I couldn't find any direct answers from fish when questioned as they seem to love ye olde block button, meaning that its fairly open ended.

I personally find it a little ironic. Can one be a good source of abuse recovery while potentially being a member of a group that abuses others?

Tell me your thoughts guys, feel free to show any evidence or yell at me if I've gotten something wrong. Again the evidence is in a reblog on my blog, but I can post them again if needed.

Finally as much as I love a good internet fight, this still isn't confirmed. Additionally I don't want anyone getting hurt by rushing in and attackimg the fish. I've tried to be respectful but quite honestly the respect is slipping.

Just stay safe, share thoughts, and don't be a judgemental moron like our favorite tumbler terfs. I hope all the anons are satisfied.

That's all I got.

#Did #DID #dissociative identity disorder #didosdd #did system #npd #furiousgoldfish #actuallydid #actuallytraumagenic #actuallynpd

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growingstrongorsomething · 5 years

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1. A Letter to Future Aliens

Original Prompt:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/b0pesi/wp_all_humans_on_earth_voted_to_assign_you_the/ “Now, we will turn to New York City, where United Nations assembly are reviewing letters and emails from the shortlisted candidates.”

My family are watching the news stream live from my computer. We lounged about in front of the computer, as it is placed on a coffee table. We aren’t very rich, but I managed to turn a small profit from blogs and Youtube channels. Truth be told, there are also a lot of professional writers, journalists, and philosophers sending their applications. Their names are listed on UN website, and my name is the 1065th.

“Thank you, Azizah. As you can see, the world leaders are busy reviewing the papers. I was told that eloquence of writing isn’t the only prerequisite to be selected. Prospective writers to this letter must also have active participation in aiding the hardcore poor and marginalised communities throughout the whole world.”

“The list will further be shortlisted to fifty best choices, and anyone throughout the whole world are free to vote for the best writer.”

My younger brother lies down on the tiled floor with a huff. “Mom, it’s boring. Why do I have to watch this?”

My mother lightly grabs his head and squeeze it a bit. “So that you know how the world works.”

The wait is filled with speculations by some experts thinking who could be the chosen fifty. Many names are from Africa, some from Europe, and a few from China. I think JK Rowling are also discussed, though I am more surprised that George R.R Martin aren’t included. He’s a sci-fi writer, he should at least be considered.

“The results are in, Azizah. We are now ready to broadcast the names chosen to be voted on by the Earth’s population.”

And the names are read aloud by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. He says many names I don’t know about, and a short list of their achievements, which I often see on Facebook or Instagram. The news is getting long, and my mother is already at the kitchen getting some fried banana fritters and black coffee to pass the time.

It took an hour before we turn our heads back to the stream. There has already been thirty names. “And for the thirty first name, we choose Januarius anak Idrus, a citizen of Malaysia. Born in Sabah, he has aided a lot in educating stateless children through the use of wireless connections and even funded internet availability for extremely rural areas.”

They took my bluff! It’s just my grandfather’s village. But my parents are esctatic, hugging me tightly and do I hear a sniffle?

The streaming continues, but my family are already too excited to bother.

“Start writing the letter, son. We will see Januarius name soar across the world!”

“We will help you all we can, but be quick, later people will beat you to it.”

I sleep soundly, too tired to take in the stress. My parents are laughing and loving each other throughout the night.

My younger brother wakes me up the next day. “Jan, jan, wake up!”

“What, why Felis?”

“Newspeople are coming! They want to interview you!”

The journalist is a petite woman. She sits in a single person sofa, comfortable in her seat. I on the other hand, is rummaging through my hair so it will look a bit more presentable.

The interview is embarassing. I barely have anything to say, haven’t researched anything, and worst of all, my face is sagging like rumpled carpet when they took my picture! By the way, what should I write anyway?

“Hello, my name is Maisarah. So, is your name is Januarius bin Idrus?”

“No, it’s Januarius anak Idrus.”

“I would like to ask a few questions. Firstly, how did you knew about the contest to write a letter to the aliens?”

“Well, me and my friends are browsing the internet when one of them, Saiful, shows me a Facebook post. It shows the contest, but I thought it’s a joke. So I write just a generic email and send it to them. World peace, economic equality, less pollution, all the good stuff. I also have to send some resume, so I hope I got at least a job out of it.”

“Will you send the same letter to the aliens, or will you rewrite a new letter?”

“I think I will have to. Apparently NASA does have correspondences with the aliens, but I have no idea what exactly they are offering.”

“Will you be consulting anyone to help with writing this letter?”

“Of course! I have no idea how to start this time. I don’t think I can answer you any more questions, since I haven’t prepared anything yet.”

“That’s alright. Will you let us interview you, next time?”

“Yes, yes please. Please give me a call first.” I wrote down my phone number and give it to her.

Now the problem of what to write is getting bigger in my head. Should I ask for world peace? End of poverty? Beginning of space travel? The silent whirr of my laptop fan might as well be a loud engine hum. Everyone is at work or school, and I am here staring at a blank Word document. Might as well call a friend.

“Hey, Hisham, can I go to your place?”

His place is a school. Not of brick and fresh paint and strong zinc roof. But of throwaway planks and board, lacking paint and old zinc roof with holes here and there. But the school is filled with children singing the alphabet song. Hisham is leading them, his smile shining bright from half a mile away.

I waited until his class is over. Hisham grabs me by the shoulder. “Hey, you have become fatter! How have you been?”

“Been healthier every day. Have you started building new school?”

Hisham leads me to a chair by a table. “We have just contacted a social advocacy group willing to help build one.”

We ate a few fried banana fritters as we chat. Hisham keeps spilling the beans. “Of course, we do have our own money, and have free volunteers too. You want to join?”

I would like to reject, but I haven’t been carpenting for weeks. “I will when I am free. If you are about to start, tell me.”

“Of course. But, what brings you here?”

I don’t know my face is obviously showing when asking for something. “Well, I have been chosen by the UN to write a letter to aliens, asking for help.”

Hisham pours more coffee to his cup. “You know our situation here in Sabah. You should speak about that.”

“But I am representing the Earth, not just Sabah.”

“There are many marginalised people. Stateless, minorities, hardcore poor, culturally oppressed, you name it. I do my little part. You expand it to the whole world.”

The visit is good, but I am not satisfied with the answer I get here. I walk back to my car when a kid is cupping his hands to me. I give her a ringgit. She shouted, and a horde of children suddenly appeared. At least, I still have enough money left for oil.

And now I am staring at the damn blank page. I try typing something. “Dear aliens ...”

No, too darling.

“To aliens of Planet Xenoniah I humbly...”

Eugh, grovelling.

“Greetings to leaders of Planet Xenoniah ...”

Isn’t that too formal? Am I supposed to be formal?

I am about to ram my head to the tabletop, but laptop is in my way. So I move it forward, then introduces head to desk. The pain is fogging my sight even more. Mentally, fortunately. My eyesight is still as clear as it always been without glasses.

Searching Google about child education is quite a chore. Half of it is about how to develop a child’s mind. Which is rather useless as my little brother taught me middle-school level math. Then I searched about education for stateless and hardcore poor in countries throughout the world.

Many groups are already working on it. One research even shows how older children can help younger children learn English with apps and videos. But there is something missing in all this.

I try to find what the children do or became after they’re adults. There seems to be some classes on entrepreneurship for adults, but they seem to not bring the children in.

The next day, my handphone falls on my head. It should only be a small nuisance, if not for the fact that my handphone is the brick phone Energizer recently launched.

“Hello?” I can feel the heft of my phone on my forehead and cheek.

“Yo, congrats on your short selection! Have you wrote something?”

“Is that Eric over there?” I look at my phone screen. “Of course you are. I have no idea really.”

“Have you tried writing about poverty?”

“Poverty’s too big an issue. Can you be more specific?”

“You know microloans? Try to ask for that.”

“You want me to write a letter so they lend us a hundred dollars?”

My phone erupts with laughter of many people from the other side. “Try that. For the lols.”

“Heh, lol.”

Eric talks some more about how the soup kitchen he is running isn’t actually lacking in potential food waste. But they lack cars or trucks to carry all the leftover food quickly before they become prime source for compost.

“So I should ask for faster than light travel?”

“Wormholes. Something like Doraemon’s As-You-Like Door.” Eric is referring to a door gadget which opens immediately to a new location.

“Well, I try to make it sound formal.”

My parents return home for lunch, as usual. My sister cooked them some chicken in soy sauce and onions. And the vegetables are sauteed cabbage. The smell is heavenly. And the lunch is somewhat calm.

My father breaks the silence. “Have you started writing?”

“Nah, I don’t know what to write.”

My mother swallows her rice. “Try writing for world peace.”

“Isn’t world peace up to us?”

My sister removes the chicken bones from the flesh. “Try asking for a lot of money to pay both sides to be at peace.”

“I don’t know, that makes us look very greedy.”

“You’re saying we aren’t?”

Well, now I have three ideas. Education for marginalised, wormholes, and money.

The next interview with the journalist comes a few days later.

Maisarah points the microphone a bit too close to me. I readjust myself to the back and she gives some distance. “Please tell us what your letter is about.”

“I want to ask for tools to build a type of school.”

“School?”

“Yes, it’s an odd school. Children went there to learn how to read, write, and count, the usual. But adults learn how to do crafts, such as carpentry, weaving, smithing. Some schools may even teach coding and business basics.”

“Don’t we have the same system here?”

“Well, the schools we have now are for the citizens of our countries. There is no infrastructure for the stateless of our countries. There are classes set up by social advocacy groups, but it’s for children and they don’t have enough funds to teach more people. There is no funds to buy tools and supplies to teach adults.”

“So, you want to ask for funding to build schools? Will it be any different from our system now?”

“Yes, for one thing, we receive outside funding, literally! Secondly, the schools are going to be borderless. Any stateless people or hardcore poor can join in from anywhere.”

“Anywhere, even from other countries?”

“Yes.”

“But, how will they travel to the schools?”

“For one thing, we know Planet Xenoniah can make wormholes. Set up some wormhole doors so people can travel from their villages to schools by literally walking a few hundred meters away.”

We don’t watch the final selection on TV, as we are invited cordially to Geneva to witness the event. At the end, the judges decide to compile three most popular letters to one. The end result is this:

“To our friend, the leader of Planet Xenoniah Coalition, Babluk Xinaphah Waristi,

We thank you for your offer of help, and we have prepared with our requests.

Firstly, we ask for wormhole technology, some funding and supplies, to build schools to teach our marginalised people skills and carfts to help them provide their communities with jobs and products.

Secondly, we would like to learn your knowledge on terraforming. We have chosen our first step to be the atmosphere of Venus, while we build Mars to be more Earthlike. Hopefully, we could expand the reach of our species and provide more resources for further advances.

Thirdly, we would like to visit your fine planet and host you. We would like to know how your culture functions and the history.

We thank you again for your aid, and may our alliance blossoms for as long as our civilisations exist.”

For my problem, I get a goodie bag with some Swiss chocolate and kopi luwak. And the letter will be sent by Chris Pratt, aboard a provided spaceship. Unfortunately, he’s just the one to give the letter at a mothership stationed near Jupiter, not the one actually piloting it. That is other people’s job.

I never think about the letter after that day. I am still rather jobless, helping around with social advocacy groups, and sometimes teaching at Hisham’s school. But one day, just as I am watering the plants, there is a sudden flash of light. Hisham steps out of the light, which have transformed to a gate.

“Hey, come! Class is about to begin!”

“You better start paying me.”

“How does RM 3 000 a month sound?”

Well, I have no excuse now. I grab my wallet, phone, and some books. “Let’s go.”

#short story #r/writingprompts

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mccullytech · 5 years

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Photography SEO: How to optimize your images

Have you read my post on image SEO? On that post, I got this comment from Jerry, a professional photographer: “In galleries, do you have any suggestions about what the ALT text should look like? The main concern is that we don’t want to be perceived as keyword spamming; using the same keyword in all the images of a given gallery.”

That’s a good question about photography SEO. When thinking about the optimization of photo galleries for Google, I could actually only come up with one main comment: write more text to accompany these photos. You might even start a blog about your work and your photos. In this post, I will go over a number of random photos and explain what direction I’d go with that text and photography SEO. There might be some personal preference in this, but I’m sure this will help you to find a way that will allow you to easily add that text yourself as well. Keep in mind that you don’t need to be a copywriter to write appealing text ;)

Table of Contents

Why would a photographer want to rank with images

Single photos and SEO

Photo galleries and SEO

Wedding photography SEO

Stock photos and SEO

Food photography and SEO

EXIF and ImageObject

Why photographers hate SEO

Why would a photographer want to rank with images

Recently, a friend of mine received a claim for using an apparently copyright protected image. This photographer stuffed his website with copyright warnings, but also exposed all of his photos of very common objects on Flickr.com (although using an ‘All rights reserved’ status). I’m curious what the outcome will be.

We all know an image will be used at some point if you don’t make sure it’s useless unless bought. Watermark your photos if you don’t want people to use them. Otherwise, people will find your photo and use it on a blog or whatever. If you’re not watermarking, that could be one reason to make ’em rank: making money off people stealing your photo. But I think that’s an odd business model ;-)

I think the main reason you want your images to rank is because you are proud of your photos. And you want people to notice these, so they will hire you. That should be the main reason to invest in photography SEO in my book anyway. Your photos sell you as a photographer.

In the sections below, I’ll go over five common photography cases and explain how I would optimize these for Google.

Single photos and SEO

I mentioned optimizing single images / photos in my Image SEO post already. For photography SEO, obviously a lot is the same. Here’s a quick summary:

Pick the right file name for your image

Make sure image dimension match the image size as displayed

Reduce file size for faster loading

Add a caption for easier scanning of the page

Use an image alt text, title text is not really necessary

Add OpenGraph and Twitter Card tags for the image

Use structured data when necessary

Don’t break the left reading line using an image

Use images in your XML sitemaps

In all this, it really helps to add text with that photo. Search engines can ‘read’ an image, but they use the context you provide to really make sense of it. The article mainly mentions images to make text richer, but it works the other way around as well. If you want to rank your image, you need to add relevant text.

Photo galleries and SEO

You must have wondered how to rank all of these photos. They are pretty much the same. In the example, you see a BMX rider in a skate park. Jumping. I’m sorry if you are a BMX rider and know all the names and nicknames of these jumps, for the larger part of the world it’s a BMX rider jumping. How to optimize your photography SEO for that?

Well, this is a great reason to add text! You have probably spent the day with these guys, tested a number of lenses, tried to play with white balance and perhaps even some ISO values. You have created great stills from dynamic poses. Changed motion blur and shutter speed during the day (and that is where my photography knowledge ends). There is a story in this and that story shows your knowledge, so go write that blog post! It could show your passion for this niche of sports photography. It will tell the visitor in words that if they want great photos like that, they should contact you. The gallery page could already have a call-to-action for that reason.

In short: If you have created a gallery, write about it.

Back to Jerry’s specific question about the ALT text in galleries, as mentioned in the first paragraph of this article. In an ideal world, you would create unique ALT texts for all these images. Would that be keyword spamming? Not if you can use long tail keywords per photo, instead of repeating the same ALT text over and over again. Note that if your gallery is a hundred photos, you should ask yourself a) if that gallery isn’t too large, and b) if it wouldn’t be easier to set up a separate page to rank for the keyword (if any) and not try to rank that specific gallery page at all.

For more information, here’s an image SEO post about optimizing the alt tag for images.

Wedding photography SEO

Oh, the emotion on that wedding day. So beautifully captured in photos. A couple stealing a quiet moment with only the photographer as a witness. It’s just that, I think. What makes you a great wedding photographer? Are you the always present kind that parties along with the guests and is invisible for that reason? Or are you actively involved in the day and present photo moments along the way? I can’t be the judge of your USP, but your subjects, the bride and groom, probably can.

We have done a nice post on testimonials and increasing trust a while back, and I think it works the same with wedding photography. If your wedding couple doesn’t mind their photos used on the internet, these great images could lure people to your website looking for the same style of photography. It’s not per se SEO that is optimized this way, but if you add a genuine testimonial to the wedding gallery/photo(s), that would help your conversion, right?

Of course, you could also write an additional post about how you ‘operated’ during the day.

Stock photos and SEO

If you’re a professional in the stock photo business, you have probably done some photography SEO already. There are some general guidelines:

You’ve probably chosen one or more niches;

you’re doing all the right image optimization and more, as mentioned in our article on image seo;

of course, you’re trying to rank watermarked images, not the originals.

There is one more issue to consider when thinking about photography SEO. If your main business is selling stock photos, you probably don’t want to do that via your own website. There are plenty of well-visited websites that specialize in selling stock photos. Images in this article are from various photographers at 123RF. Using websites like that, and for instance, Shutterstock or iStockphoto will bring much more attention to people looking for these kinds of photos.

If you want your photo to do well in these on-site search engines, you want to focus on the image description. Use the right keywords. The file name will probably be changed anyway. If you can tag the image, do so using the right tags, not a surplus of tags.

One more thing: most websites allow for a photographer’s bio as well. Tell me who you are. If I can relate to your story, it’s so much easier to spend money on your photos.

Food photography and SEO

Food photography SEO is a whole different ball game. The topic is so popular that you want to make sure all images are set for sharing. Yes, that means giving away (a number of) these for free. Especially for photos that have baked, cooked, or otherwise processed food, the recipe will help your rankings. Even if it’s a magazine shoot, you can probably either use the recipe or come up with a related one.

Social platforms that help a lot with ‘spreading’ your image on the web are obviously Pinterest and Instagram. For instance Pinterest, it pays to add OpenGraph data to your image. If you have never heard of that, you are probably new on this website. OpenGraph image tags look something like this:

Be sure to add at least that one. On a side note: for the recipe, you should use Schema.org markup to improve your photography SEO as well.

EXIF and ImageObject

Although I wanted to write a post that would make photographers think about texts, I can’t leave out a bit of technical optimization. Especially for photographers, that understand EXIF and other data and would like to include that as well in their online images, please check http://schema.org/ImageObject.

There is another reason to include that EXIF data: for SEO. In the video below, Matt Cutts from Google clearly states that Google is very capable of reading this EXIF data and according to him, Google ‘reserves the right to use it as a ranking factor’. So make sure that your EXIF data is optimized for your keyword, or the subject of your photo, as well.

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Besides exifData, you can also include things like copyrightHolder and copyrightYear. It will make it easier for search engines to grab that data. Will the copyright make you rank better? Probably not. But I would understand the wish to include that data.

One more thing regarding EXIF data: we frequently recommend using file size reducing software like JPEGMini and ImageOptim. Exif data is preserved in most of these applications, but please check the FAQ or changelog on their websites, like here, to make sure of this.

Why photographers hate SEO

I might be mistaken, but in my opinion, most photographers hate SEO. Why do I think photographers hate SEO? Because it simply has less to do with photography, and loads to do with extra, textual content or code.

Maintaining a website isn’t simple. You preferably need to know a bit of everything. We have seen a lot of photography websites over the past few years. To be honest, it would be a lot if two out of all these websites actually had decent content accompanying the images.

It all comes down to this: if you want your photos to tell a story, please tell that story to Google in writing.

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Web security on MICROTRANSACTION.ZONE, pt. I

Hi! Simon here. I’m one of the co-founders of MICROTRANSACTION.ZONE. I’m also the one who insisted on branding it “MICROTRANSACTION.ZONE” in all caps, so if you think that’s annoying, you now have someone to point at and go “what a tosspot”.

One of the things I’ve wanted to do with this project for as long as it has existed, is using it as a springboard to talk a bit about various web security technologies and how they’re implemented on the site. This isn’t going to be another site update post—if you don’t think internet security is very interesting, you have my blessing to close this tab and look at some cat videos instead.

This blog post will be the first of several, divided up into sections detailing various kinds of vulnerabilities, and what specifically I’ve done to prevent those vulnerabilities from impacting our site. It’ll probably be easiest to understand if you have some grasp of basic web technologies, but I’ll try not to get too bogged down in irrelevant technical details. All that said, let’s just dive right in.

Man-in-the-middle (MITM)

If you’re on an unencrypted connection (e.g. if you’re visiting a website over HTTP instead of HTTPS), then the data that’s being sent back and forth between you and that website is fully visible to anyone on the same local network as you, to your ISP, and to any number of other machines on the way between you and the server that hosts the website. Not only can they see it, but there are a number of nefarious tactics available that will let them alter the content of the pages you visit - letting a sneaky attacker who’s on the same wi-fi network as you insert a cryptocurrency miner into any unencrypted website you visit, or letting your ISP insert giant notices about copyright infringement on any site you visit that isn’t protected by HTTPS.

HTTPS prevents this by encrypting all traffic travelling between you and the machine where the website is hosted in such a way that it’s useless garbage to anyone except you and them - all the people i mentioned before can still intercept it if they want, but it’s completely worthless to them. However, it’s not enough for a site to simply support HTTPS - it’s equally important to make sure that it actually gets used. By default, any webserver that serves content over HTTPS will still quite happily let visitors browse the site over HTTP unless they manually type “https://...” into their address bar - obviously, we’d rather that didn’t happen. The solution to this is two-pronged - the first part is to automatically redirect everyone to HTTPS if they try to access the site via unencrypted HTTP. The second part is a technology called “HTTP Strict Transport Security”, or “HSTS”.

Even when we automatically redirect a user to HTTPS, there’s still an unencrypted HTTP connection happening while the redirect is taking place. HSTS fixes that. It’s an HTTP header that gets sent to your browser on every page you load over HTTPS, and it basically tells your browser “stay on HTTPS whenever you visit this site for the next little while”. This means that, once you’ve visited our site over HTTPS even once, your browser will automatically redirect itself to HTTPS any time you visit our site for the next month, before it ever even tries to load the page.

We’re going to get the site added to the HSTS preload list in the near future - once that’s done, this automatic redirection will happen even the very first time you visit our site, on every major browser.

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS (see here for a basic primer) is one of the most dangerous website vulnerabilities out there, in terms of the damage it can do to a user’s own device - a site with an unchecked XSS vulnerability lets an attacker run any JavaScript they want on a visitor’s machine, letting them do anything from using your computer to mine cryptocurrencies, stealing your website cookies, displaying malicious advertisements, replacing the entire page with whatever content an attacker desires, or even (gasp) letting them lie about what tags a game has on our site.

Unfortunately, there is no magic cure-all for XSS. You have to put up a layered defense; even if one of your defensives measures is defeated, you still have several others rendering the attack useless. A short list of some of the things we do on MICROTRANSACTION.ZONE to prevent XSS attacks:

ASP.NET, which our site is built on, has built-in defences against XSS in form input. Unless you manually disable it (we haven’t), it will error out if it detects something that even smells like HTML tags.

We never reflect the user’s input back at them directly. For example, on our search page, we do not write “Your search for [query] returned these results”. That would involve reflecting user input, which is a bad idea wherever you can avoid it.

This is also one of many reason we do not have a comments-section for each game’s page, as well as one of the reasons we manually vet each submission.

All cookies on the site are marked as “HTTP Only”, meaning that they are not accessible to JavaScript (please do not be alarmed over the word “cookies” - the only cookies we give our normal visitors are “RequestVerificationToken” cookies which are used to help prevent CSRF attacks - more on that specific vulnerability later...)

We have a very restrictive Content Security Policy (CSP). Like HSTS, this is another header - one with the purpose of instructing your browser which places it is allowed to load which types of content from. One of the most important features of our CSP is that it blocks inline JavaScript completely - only JavaScript loaded as external files from a specifically whitelisted range of domains may be run. This means that, even if an attacker should find an XSS vulnerability in our site, they would be powerless to exploit it unless they also managed to upload actual JavaScript files to our web host, or to Google or Twitter. In which case, we’d have bigger problems. CSP is supported by basically every major browser, so as long as you’re not running Internet Explorer or Opera Mini, you’re protected by this additional layer of defense.

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I Tried Instagram Automation (So You Don’t Have To)

By Evan LePage

Type “How to get more Instagram followers” into Google search and you’ll find a lot of media and blogs, including our own, offering tips and tricks for how to grow your community. You’ll also probably find a lot of content about paying for new followers.

Most people see these as the only two options for succeeding at Instagram: figure it out, or shell out. The first one is for the ‘good guys,’ and the second is for spammers, or at least that’s how it’s generally perceived. In truth, there’s a third option: Instagram automation.

More and more people are turning to automation tools, or bots, in order to boost their Instagram followings. These bots work in several ways. They can Like photos on your behalf; they can follow people on your behalf; they can even comment on your behalf. These actions can be targeted based on specific hashtags or even specific users.

All of this engagement is intended to boost your following with real people, as opposed to the spam accounts you’re likely to get when you buy Instagram followers. It’s an appealing pitch: save time and avoid buying fake followers. But you know what they say about things that seem too good to be true.

That there’s a downside to this approach almost goes without saying. That’s why I tested two of these automation services, for three days each (we’ve also tried buying followers, which you can read about here). Using my personal Instagram account, I discovered the pitfalls of relying on bots, so you don’t have to. While they more-or-less live up to their promises, I wouldn’t recommend them for anyone, especially not brands. Here’s why.

What happened when I tried Instagram automation

A tale of awkward comments

My journey starts with about 338 followers. I followed about the same number of people at the time also. I didn’t set a goal for followers because I really had no basis on which to set one. I had no idea if this would work at all.

One of my colleagues put me onto the scent of Instagress, one of the most popular Instagram automation services. Instagress allows you to enter specific hashtags you want to be associated with and then automatically like photos or follow people based on those hashtags. The service allows allows you to enter preset comments which the bot will then post on photos on your behalf.

Instagress costs $2.00 for 3 days, $5.00 for 10 days or $10.00 for 30 days, so it is really affordable. The service also offered a 3-day free trial, which was perfect for this little experiment I was running.

I decided from the get-go that I wouldn’t use the “liking” features, since this was a fairly simple process and I felt it wouldn’t impact my following very much. I wanted immediate results, like most people who use these automation services.

Instead, I focused on the commenting functionality. I chose the hashtags that my bot would search through, a mix of geographic ties, my interests and generic ones (#Canada, #Montreal, #Vancouver, #PNW, #Fishing, #Water, #Awesome). Then I chose the comments that my bot would post. I tried to choose generic comments that would apply to any situation:

“Nice one!” (This works for about 90 percent of photos)

”Damn!” (same idea, but cooler?)

“I’m jealous!” (I thought this would apply to those beach sunsets and vacation pics)

and “your pics > my pics” (complementary, and encourages them to look at my pics for proof)

With all my targets set, I pushed start.

Within 12 hours, I only had 6 new followers, around 40 new likes on my photos and about 25 new comments. Not bad for literally zero work on my part, but fairly underwhelming.

Far more concerning to me was that my comments had caused a string of awkward situations with random people who were now wondering what my problem was.

In one case I had commented “damn!” on a random bride’s wedding photo (she graciously said ‘thank you’ instead of calling me a creep). I had also written “I’m jealous!” on a photo of a man beside a very ugly painting that he was clearly ridiculing (What was I jealous of? Did I want the ugly painting? Did I want to be ridiculed?). And, the worst of the bunch, I commented “your pics > my pics” on a selfie of a boy who was clearly in middle school. In fact, his account was composed of only four pictures, three of them selfies. I felt uncomfortable. The teenage boy told me I was being modest.

Between these situations, a few question marks from people wondering why this random guy was commenting on their pictures, and comments on photos I generally would have avoided (religious quotes, Chris Brown songs), I quickly learned the risks of automated commenting. It was immediately clear to me that a business could not risk putting itself in these questionable situations.

Still, I was committed to my experiment. I changed a few of my comments, ditching “I’m jealous” altogether and replacing “Damn!” with “woah” and the complimentary one with “sweet.” Sophisticated stuff.

Then I turned on the automated follower. Six new followers in 12 hours just wasn’t cutting it.

So you want some new followers?

The follow functionality worked much better. Over the next 24 hours I gained just over 70 followers. In the last day and a half that I ran Instagress I gained another 170 followers or so, bringing my total following to 584.

Admittedly I was impressed. I went from 338 to 584 followers, almost a 250-follower increase in three days without really lifting a finger. After my trial ended I also waited a couple of days before continuing my experiment in order to see if my new followers would quickly drop off.

They didn’t.

I posted a photo that garnered about 70 likes within 12 hours, far more than it would have without my 250 new ‘friends’.

A #latergram from yesterdays hike in Lighthouse Park

A post shared by Evan LePage (@evlp) on Mar 9, 2015 at 5:42pm PDT

Still, the downsides were a little tough to deal with. In addition to the awkward, cringe-worthy comments, my actual Instagram feed was ruined.

To earn those 250 followers the bot followed over 1,400 people in less than three days. Following 1,740 people on Instagram makes your feed useless garbage. Mine was filled with accounts that shared terrible photos while my friends and the users I was actually interested in got buried. Unfortunately many of the accounts I auto-followed were also pure spam accounts that used generic hashtags in order to promote their spam services.

You might read this and think “who cares about the feed, I’m here to promote my own photos.” This is a fair argument.

If your goal is to have a large following with low engagement. Engagement is a big part of building an Instagram community that actually supports your content, and the feed usually helps facilitate this engagement. I couldn’t have found a really engaged follower in my feed even if I wanted to. How can I show my appreciation to my followers when they’re no where to be found? Individually clicking through my follower list and liking photos is a time-consuming and unrealistic alternative.

So yes, I gained a lot of followers. But I lost what I, as an individual, love about Instagram. And I lost one of the main tools a brand might use to engage followers.

Turn it up to 11

I wanted to try another Instagram automation service to see if the results were comparable. I settled on Instamacro, which was a bit more expensive at around $10.00 for three days.

This bot didn’t have commenting functionality, which was fine because we all saw how well that went. Instead, I focused it entirely on automatically following people. I chose the same hashtags as my previous experiment and decided to take this experiment up a notch. See, Instamacro lets you choose how many people you want to follow per minute. Your choices are slow (1-2 people/minute), normal (2-3 people/minute) or fast (3-5 people per minute). If you do the math, even at 3 people per minute that’s over 4,300 follows per day. That’s absurd, which is exactly why I chose fast.

The hashtags I chose narrowed the field so the bot couldn’t follow quite that many users. Instead, in the first 48 hours it followed about 2,600 people which is good since Instagram actually limits the amount of accounts you’re allowed to follow to 7,500 (Instamacro offers to unfollow accounts when you hit that limit so you can keep up a continuous follow/unfollow loop of nonsense).

If I thought my feed was garbage before, I had another thing coming. The amount of spam this excessive following brought into my feed was ridiculous. There were strings of 5, 10, even 15 of the same spam posts in a row. In between all that spam were countless NSFW photos and people selling clothing (body shaping garments are so in right now).

In the middle of my second day I counted the amount of photos posted in a 10 minute span. It was 78. How could you possibly enjoy that much traffic in your Instagram feed. It was terrible.

But I pressed on. By the end of my three days on Instamacro I had around 1050 followers and followed about 5,300 users. Oh, and I went from checking Instagram about 5 times a day to once, just to track these numbers. It wasn’t fun.

Lessons learned from using Instagram automation

There are a few clear lessons that stand out from this experiment.

First, if you want to use Instagram bots, be prepared to lose your home feed. I wasn’t, but if you don’t use your feed to learn about your followers you may be alright with this.

You can’t automate comments. The potential for awkward or damaging situations is just too great. You don’t want to be posting on teenager selfies. You just don’t.

Prepare to live in fear. Using these Instagram bots to comment or follow for you goes against Instagram’s terms of service. I was constantly worried they were going to suspend my account, which is really a photo collage of my life for the last four years. For a brand, losing an account is obviously an even bigger issue, one probably not worth the risk.

You will gain followers, but followers don’t equal engagement. You still have to put in work to earn engagement on your photos. You can’t automate the kind of human interaction users will expect from brands.

Luckily it is possible to get a large Instagram following honestly.

Grow and manage your Instagram presence using Hootsuite. From one dashboard you can easily publish and schedule posts, engage your community, and track the success of your efforts. Try it free today.

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I Tried Instagram Automation (So You Don’t Have To)

What happened when I tried Instagram automation

A tale of awkward comments

“Nice one!” (This works for about 90 percent of photos)

”Damn!” (same idea, but cooler?)

“I’m jealous!” (I thought this would apply to those beach sunsets and vacation pics)

and “your pics > my pics” (complementary, and encourages them to look at my pics for proof)

With all my targets set, I pushed start.

Within 12 hours, I only had 6 new followers, around 40 new likes on my photos and about 25 new comments. Not bad for literally zero work on my part, but fairly underwhelming.

Far more concerning to me was that my comments had caused a string of awkward situations with random people who were now wondering what my problem was.

Then I turned on the automated follower. Six new followers in 12 hours just wasn’t cutting it.

So you want some new followers?

They didn’t.

I posted a photo that garnered about 70 likes within 12 hours, far more than it would have without my 250 new ‘friends’.

A #latergram from yesterdays hike in Lighthouse Park 🌅

A post shared by Evan LePage (@evlp) on Mar 9, 2015 at 5:42pm PDT

Still, the downsides were a little tough to deal with. In addition to the awkward, cringe-worthy comments, my actual Instagram feed was ruined.

You might read this and think “who cares about the feed, I’m here to promote my own photos.” This is a fair argument.

So yes, I gained a lot of followers. But I lost what I, as an individual, love about Instagram. And I lost one of the main tools a brand might use to engage followers.

Turn it up to 11

I wanted to try another Instagram automation service to see if the results were comparable. I settled on Instamacro, which was a bit more expensive at around $10.00 for three days.

In the middle of my second day I counted the amount of photos posted in a 10 minute span. It was 78. How could you possibly enjoy that much traffic in your Instagram feed. It was terrible.

Lessons learned from using Instagram automation

There are a few clear lessons that stand out from this experiment.

First, if you want to use Instagram bots, be prepared to lose your home feed. I wasn’t, but if you don’t use your feed to learn about your followers you may be alright with this.

You can’t automate comments. The potential for awkward or damaging situations is just too great. You don’t want to be posting on teenager selfies. You just don’t.

Luckily it is possibly to get a large Instagram following honestly. Grow and manage your Instagram presence using Hootsuite. From one dashboard you can easily publish and schedule posts, engage your community, and track the success of your efforts. Try it free today.

Learn More

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I Tried Instagram Automation (So You Don’t Have To)

What happened when I tried Instagram automation

A tale of awkward comments

“Nice one!” (This works for about 90 percent of photos)

”Damn!” (same idea, but cooler?)

“I’m jealous!” (I thought this would apply to those beach sunsets and vacation pics)

and “your pics > my pics” (complementary, and encourages them to look at my pics for proof)

With all my targets set, I pushed start.

Within 12 hours, I only had 6 new followers, around 40 new likes on my photos and about 25 new comments. Not bad for literally zero work on my part, but fairly underwhelming.

Far more concerning to me was that my comments had caused a string of awkward situations with random people who were now wondering what my problem was.

Then I turned on the automated follower. Six new followers in 12 hours just wasn’t cutting it.

So you want some new followers?

They didn’t.

I posted a photo that garnered about 70 likes within 12 hours, far more than it would have without my 250 new ‘friends’.

A #latergram from yesterdays hike in Lighthouse Park 🌅

A post shared by Evan LePage (@evlp) on Mar 9, 2015 at 5:42pm PDT

Still, the downsides were a little tough to deal with. In addition to the awkward, cringe-worthy comments, my actual Instagram feed was ruined.

You might read this and think “who cares about the feed, I’m here to promote my own photos.” This is a fair argument.

So yes, I gained a lot of followers. But I lost what I, as an individual, love about Instagram. And I lost one of the main tools a brand might use to engage followers.

Turn it up to 11

I wanted to try another Instagram automation service to see if the results were comparable. I settled on Instamacro, which was a bit more expensive at around $10.00 for three days.

In the middle of my second day I counted the amount of photos posted in a 10 minute span. It was 78. How could you possibly enjoy that much traffic in your Instagram feed. It was terrible.

Lessons learned from using Instagram automation

There are a few clear lessons that stand out from this experiment.

First, if you want to use Instagram bots, be prepared to lose your home feed. I wasn’t, but if you don’t use your feed to learn about your followers you may be alright with this.

You can’t automate comments. The potential for awkward or damaging situations is just too great. You don’t want to be posting on teenager selfies. You just don’t.

Learn More

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Increased My Vertical Jump Ability From 32 to 44 Inches

What’s going on guys my name is Alan from corebits.tumblr.com.

“Why My Story Will Shock You… And How I Increased My Vertical Jump Ability From 32 To 44 Inches Within Only 3 Short Months With No Additional Training Time, Equipment Or Supplements…”

If You’re Ready To Finally Say Goodbye To Spending Hundreds Of Hours On The Court And Gym, Wasting Time And Money To Useless Manuals Or Equipment With No Or Little Progress On Your Vertical Jump Abilities…If You Are Ready To Finally start Jumping Vertically And Gain The Envy Of Your Team Members and Opponents….My Story Will Be The Most Important One You Ever Read…

From the Desk of Vincent Evans, GA

If you’re thinking about buying jumpsoles, expensive supplements, or any other vertical jumping product to increase your vertical jump, I’m extremely relieved that you’ve found my blog. You will be amazed and even shocked as to how advanced, effective and different to anything else this method is that I have discovered after searching through tons and tons of material on the web and devouring almost every manual there is on how to jump higher. Yes, “almost” as there are still one or two manuals out there that I haven’t read. And I am glad I don’t have to waste any more money and time, because I finally found something that works and that is simply out of this world.

Forget about JumpSoles, forget about expensive supplements, heck forget just about everything you have ever learned about jumping higher!

I have been playing Basketball for over 15 years now. Being only 5,10” tall, I have always had quite a disadvantage over most of the other players I played with or against. I always had to emphasize on learning superb technique, which is the reason why I had to tackle one of the most important aspects of improving my game – the vertical jump. I thought it would be quite easy, so I just tried any conventional strength and quickness training methods I could get my hands on via Google and Amazon. However, I improved only marginally, and finally hit a plateau after 3 years of very, very intensive jump training. Have I reached my genetic potential? At 32 inches…”No way!” I thought!

Jumping higher is not about a lot of practice, or simply doing exercises over and over. It did not work for me and it won’t work for you! I thought by training really hard and trying out all those theories and manuals from the so called “Jump Gurus”, it would only be a matter of time and practice that I that would get to the top of all vertical jumpers – after all, I was training hard, by the book, and it also felt like effective training. And they say that persistence pays of, right? Wrong! I wasted so much time and energy (not to mention money), and it was an incredibly frustrating experience. So what does work? The quality of exercise, the right formula, and a very unique set of very advanced knowledge are required to get to the top. No wonder there are only so few expert vertical jumpers in the world, of which many are also “just” genetically blessed. Most of the advanced players in the NBA have access to the world renowned coaches, who are being paid literally millions of dollars to teach this. It is about working smart, not just hard. And in this case it actually is about working very smart.

But, what exactly do I mean by saying the right formula or simply a lot of advanced knowledge? Let’s first check out…

Why almost 90% of all written vertical jump material is simply misleading, obsolete or ineffective

I am totally not here to put other vertical jump manuals down. That is just not my place. However, I do want to share my experiences with The Jump Manual by Jacob W. Hiller and how it totally stands out in comparison to the rest of the material out there.

One of the reasons why most jump programs out there don’t work is since they are written by ghost writers hired by internet marketers. Most of them have never ever even trained in vertical jumping at all, but make it alluring to buy their manual in which they sell very general training ideas, that is normally readily available elsewhere.

Another reason why none of that stuff works to create what experts call “vertical explosions” is that most trainings just train one facet, while effective vertical jumping consists of a multi-faceted approach where 9 variables need to be trained for notable results. When added together, you build up massive effects.

Also, I found that some trainers are just focusing on their own personal experiences. But what these trainers often tend to ignore is that they belong to the few that are genetically blessed and that they could just do about anything that makes a bit of sense to increase their jumping ability (pretty much so as it is the case with bodybuilders on stereoids). And sadly for most people, these training programs yield little to no results.

Eventually, I found something that worked – fast and effectively

So let’s check out what is probably the burning question of yours by now. What IS actually working? What is the magic formula or that advanced training I have been speaking about all this while? Well, there is actually nothing magical about this method, it’s based on pure science and a lot of work with hundreds of athletes.

Having spent so much time, money and energy desperately trying to succeed with products that would help me with my ability to increase my vertical leap as fast as only possible and surpass the skill of anyone I played against, I am so glad that I found something that works this great.

I never heard of The Jump Manual before and I was a little sceptical due to my experiences in the past. However, after reading some complimentary reviews, recommendations and studying this subject more closely, as well as the fact that the costs to set up is so minimal, I decided to give it a try.

Jacob is not an internet marketer and I think that is the reason why there are still some products that are bought over his (as he is really a none-BS type of guy). He has trained NBA player, Olympians and professional dunkers and for the last 10 years has focused his entire time and energy to this one specialty – helping others to increase their vertical jump quickly. I first couldn’t believe the hype in the testimonials, but then I read his guarantee. He promises that you will increase your vertical by at least 10 inches or he refunds you. Since I could try it out for 60 days, why not!?

I used his methods, asked him questions when I did not understand anything, and in only 2 short weeks I had a 4" increase in my jumping ability! And after 3 months, I increased my abilites from 32 to 44"! At thispoint of time, I am just excited to even further improve my vertical leap.

You might be like my previous articles: - Plyometrics Exercises - Measure Your Vertical Jump

Some of the people I met in the forums actually come from very different angles. Some have experienced a plateau, just like me, and used the method to break through it immediately. Some needed an edge due to their heights, others are tall and have literally become inconvincible on the court with this further skill.

It is fun to see people’s faces that see me do a 360 dunk at 5,10” or block guys that are substantially taller. It’s impressive and this can be a lot of fun for you, too.

At a gist, this is what you get in the program:

Complete workout chart

Complete training video library

Exact nutrition plan

One-on-one training

Weight room alternatives

Much more

Here’s why I recommend it.

The reason why I recommend The Jump Manual is because I followed Jacob’s plan for a matter of weeks and the results were almost unbelievable. It yielded figures that many would have never reached or if lucky over the course of years!

Although it did take me longer to improve my vertical jump than some testimonials on Jacob’s website, I did manage to get an average of over 1 inch per week for around 3 months now, which I’m sure you’ll agree is nothing short of astonishing. And I am excited about where the journey will lead towards, as I am definitely not maxed out yet as I still aim at cranking the over the rim windmill! I finally managed to push through my plateau, which is a problem most people that train hard encounter sooner or later without this method. When I am on the court, I can’t believe how high I am jumping, and so can’t the other players. The improvement was just way too fast!

In my opinion, The Jump Manual is way more superior and far more effective than any of the other products I tried. Obviously, and I know that, everyone is different, but it has worked extremely well for me and I am excited to spread the word to everyone I know or don’t know.

The best part is that you don’t have to spend more time in the gym or waste money on things that don’t work, such as supplements and expensive equipment. Working smart, not just hard, is what you want. Yes, you will have to put in the effort to going trough the advanced material (and it really is advanced), and yes you will have to take the courage to try out something incredibly new and different than what you probably know or ever have heard of, but in matter of only days, you will realize very measurable first results. You will see changes almost immediatey, and with the coaching and help of Jacob, and other forum members (I actually got to meet some of the folks from the forum, which really is motivating and fun) it is really difficult to not succeed with this quickly.

Anyway, I hope you’ve found this information useful in which ever stage you are on your vertical journey, because if I had only known about the The Jump Manual a few years back, I would have saved a lot of trouble, money and headaches with all these other things I tried out, but well, you live and learn. I wish you every success!

#increase vertical jump #how to increase your jump higher #how to jump higher jumpsoles

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