I’ve been writing my personal blog for a while now. Previously, I was content as long as it was accessible, without much concern for speed. Recently, when accessing it myself, I felt that the page loading speed was quite slow, significantly affecting the experience. Moreover, slow loading also affects search engine rankings. So I set out to perform a series of optimizations on the blog to improve page loading speed. I encountered quite a few pitfalls along the way, which I’ll record in this article, hoping it will be helpful to others.

Recently, while using Google search, I discovered that black hat traffic-generating content appeared on the first page of search results. My search keyword was “Shanghai to Nanjing network latency,” and the first page showed traffic-generating posts for escort services, as shown in the image below:

It’s worth noting that Google built its reputation on search technology, and its search results have always been highly accurate. The fact that black hat traffic-generating posts have appeared this time suggests that these operators have indeed found vulnerabilities in the SEO ranking algorithm and have effectively exploited them. Let’s try to guess how they’re doing it by looking at the search results.

It’s undeniable that 2023 has been a year of technological breakthroughs. The beginning of the year brought us the astounding ChatGPT, and as we approach the end, Google Gemini has sparked our imagination once again.

According to Google’s official introduction, Gemini is the first model to surpass human experts in MMLU (Massive Multitask Language Understanding). Its capabilities in reasoning, mathematics, and coding also surpass those of GPT-4. Moreover, it’s a multimodal model that can simultaneously process text, images, sound, and video, with evaluation scores higher than GPT-4V.