How to get The Verge’s new print journal

Last yr, we revealed a sequence about what Google had accomplished to the online, capped off by a function about search engine marketing titled “The People Who Ruined the Internet.” It made various website positioning specialists upset (which was tremendously enjoyable for me as a result of I really like watching folks yell at Nilay on varied social platforms).

But a yr has handed, and we’ve had a change of coronary heart. Maybe search engine marketing is definitely a good factor. Maybe appeasing the search algorithm shouldn’t be solely a sustainable technique for constructing a loyal viewers, but additionally a strategic method to plan and produce content material. What are journalists, if not content material creators?

Anyway, website positioning neighborhood, take into account this our apology. And what higher method to say “our unhealthy, your trade shouldn’t be a cesspool of AI slop however a superb imaginative and prescient of what a helpful web might appear like” than accumulating all of the issues we’ve realized in a single useful print journal? Which is why I’m proud to introduce The Verge Guide to Search Engine Optimization: All the Tips, Tricks, Hints, Schemes, and Techniques for Promoting High-Quality Content!

Just kidding! (You weren’t fooled for a second, have been you?)

If you pull again the quilt, you’ll uncover the actual journal: Content Goblins, an anthology of tales about “content material” and the individuals who “make” it.

In very Verge style, we’re assembly the second the place the web has been overrun by AI rubbish by publishing a superbly designed, restricted version print product. (Also, the final time we printed {a magazine}, it received a really prestigious design award.) Content Goblins collects a few of our greatest tales over the previous couple years, capturing the cynical push for the world’s nice artwork and journalism to be diminished into models that may be packaged, distributed, and consumed on the web. Consider Content Goblins as our resistance to that motion. With terrific new artwork and images, we’re making the case that nice reporting is significant and enduring — and value paying for.