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Speaker, as the province is still fighting the scourge of the COVID-19 pandemic, I think everyone in this house will agree with me that the farmers of the Eastern Cape, both commercial and emerging, have done sterling work in ensuring food security amidst this very trying time. I want to personally thank each and every one of them for their commitment to the wellbeing of the people of the Eastern Cape.
This yet again proves that the agricultural industry truly is the foundation of a developing country and why it is so important to create an environment in which our farmers can prosper.
Considering the aforesaid, we have to ask ourselves whether this provincial government and more specifically DRDAR, is providing adequate support to the agricultural industry in order to create an enabling environment for farmers.
Provincial Treasury has already indicated that the agricultural industry in the province is set to decline by some 4,4% during the year at hand, thus indicating that even our farmers will not escape the scourge of COVID-19.
When considering the budget before us today we have to ask ourselves whether this budget will thus support and enable the industry to grow and develop.
The fact that the department will be budgeting to spend close to 56% of its entire budget on the cost of employment should be a cause for great concern. Whilst our staffing costs continues to rise, our budget for goods and service for our core business operations is getting smaller. This year the budget for goods and services is being reduced by a whopping 19.7%. This does not bode well for our business operations and is a very concerning trend. As cost of employment continues to rise, eventually there will be no more money for our core business.
Against this backdrop one has to acknowledge upfront that there is an urgent need to review the organogram of the department. This is a fact that is highlighted by the committee report.
In order to create an enabling environment for farmers, Speaker, DRDAR must become far more responsive towards the needs of our farmers in the province. If we look at the recent response of the department towards the crippling drought that the Eastern Cape is experiencing, the department was certainly found wanting. The chaotic means by which drought relief was procured and distributed was unacceptable, and in certain regions really frustrated our farmers.
In this regard having perused some of the procurement documentation as well as the distribution list, I want to request the MEC to institute an audit in respect of the drought aid that was distributed in the province. There has certainly been a number of discrepancies that would warrant such an audit.
The province certainly did not get value for money from many of the service providers from which lucerne and grass were procured and in certain instances paid up to four times the going rate for such feed.
This is totally unacceptable and must force us to revaluate how we support farmers during such drought stricken times. In this regard I want to also suggest that we introduce a coupon system for drought relief in future, similar to the one that has been previously successfully utilised in the Sarah Baartman district as well as the Western Cape.
In certain regions within the Saarah Baartman district, farmers are still grappling with this ongoing, crippling drought and the department has done nothing in recent months to assist these farmers. The drought is certainly far from over and the budget before us unfortunately does not seek to provide support to these long suffering farmers.
Whilst on the subject of the protracted drought in Sarah Baartman, the department has also been non-responsive to the disaster currently unfolding in the Gamtoos Valley. The Department of Water and Sanitation has cut the normal water allocation for agricultural use from the Kouga Dam by 80% as from 1 July 2020. These severe water restrictions will decimate farmers in the region as the significantly reduced water allocation that farmers are now receiving will not be sufficient to keep their orchards alive over the coming months.
These farmers are some of the biggest producers of citrus fruit in the country, and citrus exports from this area is a significant contributor to the provincial GDP.
Thousands of hectares of citrus could be affected, which will have a devastating impact on jobs in the region. This will cause untold hardship for people who are already battling in the current economic climate.
I have written to the Honourable Meth and requested her to intervene in this looming crisis and as such reiterate my plea for assistance to these farmers.
Speaker, the state of local government in rural Eastern Cape is fast becoming a threat to the agricultural industry as support industries are increasingly leaving our rural towns and districts because of the dysfunctionality of municipalities.
Speaker, last year I raised concern that this department has neglected its key mandate of rural development. Those same concerns remains valid today as there continues to be no meaningful policy creation or joined developmental planning between DRDAR and other provincial departments, local governments or national entities such as SANRAL in order to facilitate future development in rural Eastern Cape. The budget before us once again bears testimony to this fact.
The Democratic Alliance agrees with the committee report that the department can no longer afford to fund our two Agricultural Colleges. These colleges remains an unaffordable albatross around the neck of the provincial government and I would urge the Honourable Premier to personally start engaging with the Minister for Higher Education, Science and Education in bid to have these facilitates transferred to the national department in the very near future.
Whilst we are on the subject matter of Provincial Entities, we simply have to find a way of ensuring that our entities are being run far more efficiently. In this regard, the portfolio committee will have no choice but to start vigorously interrogating the different projects and functions of its entities.
In this regard I specifically want to caution the House that the Agricultural Loans issued by the ECRDA is cause for concern. It recently came to light that an amount of R28.6 million in respect of irrecoverable loan funding has been written-off by this entity over the last number of years.
Even more concerning however is the fact that the repayment rate of these loans have been on average only 75.5% over the last decade. This will likely mean that tens of millions of Rands in irrecoverably loan funding will still have to be written-off by the ECDRA in coming years. This type of wasteful expenditure is just adding to the departments' financial woes and has to be stopped forthwith.
In addition, there should also be cause for concern that our entities are not managing projects as well as they should. A visit to the Mbizana Red Hub earlier this year highlighted how dwindling crop yields over the last number of years have negatively affected the operations at this facility. Whilst the concept is absolutely brilliant, the project is limping along because of inadequate management by the ECRDA. It should be a cause of concern that the ECRDA does not readily solicit the advice or involvement of experts to assist them in the management of these facilities and projects. We see similar problems at most of our Red Hubs
The viability of the Magwa and Majola Tea plantations remains a cause for huge concern as these projects continue to bleed money without any viability within the foreseeable future. In this regard I want to make it very clear that the department still does not have a workable solution for these plantations. We are failing the people of Magwa and Majola because we are unable to find solutions to the problem. These projects are doomed to fail if we don't find credible solutions and workable, funded turnaround plans very soon. Just merely throwing money at the problem is also not going to resolve the myriad of problems these projects are faced with.
Speaker, creating an enabling environment for farmers must be our number one objective within the department. Farming is a passion, a way of life, not just a way of making a living. If we create a conducive environment for our farmers to prosper and to lead a value life, there are certainly plenty of opportunities in this sector for growth and job creation.
Sadly, the budget before us will do little to create that enabling environment. The Democratic Alliance does not support Vote 8 in its current format.
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The Effects of Teen Pregnancy on Children Essay -- The Adverse Effects
There are many obstacles for children of teenage mothers to face. These children have serious disadvantages in contrast to those children who come from nuclear families. Often they lack a father figure, have a high poverty rate, and there are incidents of depression and mental health problems. Many people are blaming the sex education programs in schools and the additional federal aid being offered to single parents as major causes for the countryââ¬â¢s high rate of teen pregnancies (Carole). Although, the real purpose of sex education and federal aid is to help empower the mother and child so they can eventually lead productive lives. The lack of a father figure in the home is the cause of many major problems, which builds into a chain reaction. The child may suffer emotional problems when there is no father present; these problems may be hazardous to their future. Many children tend to be effected mentally because these powerful emotions have the potential to do permanent damage to the childââ¬â¢s life. Children who do not have a father present in the home often feel unloved. Parental rejection is a very traumatizing event in a childââ¬â¢s life. ââ¬Å"Children who lack a father figure in the home may experience sadness and depression, aggressive behavior, frequent illness, difficulty in school, eating problems, and sleeping disordersâ⬠(Jacobs). Males and females are affected differently by the absence of a father. To be able to learn how to become a man, a boy needs a male role model in his life. Oftentimes, children choose unpleasant characters to mold themselves after if they do not have a good role model. Males that grow up in one-parent homes may gain negative personality traits like immaturity, laziness, and disrespect f... ...en resort to drugs and crime as outlets. These outlets lead to dead-end jobs, jail, and sometimes early death for single parent children. Many of these children end up having kids of their own at an early age; therefore carrying on the vicious cycle of poverty, poor education, joblessness, and lack of hope for the future. Bibliography: Carole, Morgan, George N. Chapar, and Martin Fisher. ââ¬Å"Variables Associated With Teen Pregnancy.â⬠Adolescence. June 1, 1995: NA. Electric Library. Archbold Community Library. 19 March 2015. Jacobs, Joanne. ââ¬Å"Children Who Are Having Children.â⬠San Jose Mercury News. Apr. 2, 1989: 7C. SIRS Knowledge Source. Archbold Community Library. 19 March 2015. Young, Tamera M., et al. ââ¬Å"Internal Poverty and Teen Pregnancy.â⬠Adolescence. Vol. 36 (Summer 2001): 16. EBSCOhost. Archbold Community Library. 19 March 2015.
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Integrating new knowledge without catastrophic interference: Computational and theoretical investigations in a hierarchically structured environment
According to complementary learning systems theory, integrating new memories into a multi-layer neural network without interfering with what is already known depends on interleaving presentation of the new memories with ongoing presentations of items previously learned. I use deep linear neural networks in hierarchically structured environments previously analyzed by Saxe, McClelland, and Ganguli (SMG) to gain new insights into this process. For the environment I will consider in this talk, its content can be described by the singular value decomposition (SVD) of the environment's input-output covariance matrix, in which each successive dimension corresponds to categorical split in the hierarchical environment. Prior work showed that deep linear networks are sufficient to learn the content of the environment, and they do so in a stage-line way, with each dimension strength rising from near-zero to its maximum strength after a delay inversely proportional to the strength of the dimension, as previously demonstrated by Saxe et al. Several observations are then accessible when we consider learning a new item previously not encountered in the micro-environment. (1) The item can be examined in terms of its projection onto the existing structure, and whether it adds a new categorical split. (2) To the extent the item projects onto existing structure, including it in the training corpus leads to the rapid adjustment of the representation of the categories involved, and effectively no adjustment occurs to categories onto which the new item does not project at all. (3) Learning a new split is slow, and its learning dynamics show the same delayed rise to maximum that depends on the dimension's strength. These observations them motivate the development of a similarity-weighted interleaved learning scheme in which only items similar to the to-be-learned new item need be presented to avoid catastrophic interference.
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Jay McClelland received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. He served on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego, before moving to Carnegie Mellon in 1984, where he became a University Professor and held the Walter Van Dyke Bingham Chair in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. He was a founding Co-Director of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, a joint project of Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh. In 2006 McClelland moved to the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, where he served as department chair from fall 2009 through summer 2012. He is currently the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, and the founding Director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Computation at Stanford. Over his career, McClelland has contributed to both the experimental and theoretical literatures in a number of areas, most notably in the application of connectionist/parallel distributed processing models to problems in perception, cognitive development, language learning, and the neurobiology of memory. He was a co-founder with David E. Rumelhart of the Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) research group, and together with Rumelhart he led the effort leading to the publication in 1986 of the two-volume book, Parallel Distributed Processing, in which the parallel distributed processing framework was laid out and applied to a wide range of topics in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. McClelland and Rumelhart jointly received the 1993 Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the 1996 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (see citation) from the American Psychological Association, the 2001 Grawemeyer Prize in Psychology, and the 2002 IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award for this work. McClelland has served as Senior Editor of Cognitive Science, as President of the Cognitive Science Society, as a member of the National Advisory Mental Health Council, and as President of the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and he has received the APS William James Fellow Award for lifetime contributions to the basic science of psychology, the David E. Rumelhart prize for contributions to the theoretical foundations of Cognitive Science, the NAS Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and the Heineken Prize in Cognitive Science. McClelland currently teaches on the PDP approach to cognition and its neural basis in the Psychology Department and in the Symbolic Systems Program at Stanford and conducts research on learning, memory, conceptual development, decision making, and mathematical cognition.


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Submit website to directories (limited use). Professional search marketers don't submit the URL to the major search engines, but it's possible to do so. A better and faster way is to get links back to your site naturally. Links get your site indexed by the search engines. However, you should submit your URL to directories such as Yahoo! (paid), Business.com (paid) and DMOZ (free). Some may choose to include AdSense (google.com/adsense) scripts on a new site to get their Google Media bot to visit. It will likely get your pages indexed quickly.
Be sure to re-evaluate these keywords every few months -- once a quarter is a good benchmark, but some businesses like to do it even more often than that. As you gain even more authority in the SERPs, you'll find that you can add more and more keywords to your lists to tackle as you work on maintaining your current presence, and then growing in new areas on top of that.
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Heading tags are the title elements that you can use to separate your text content. These headlines give search engines a better understanding of what your page is about. Plus, people tend to go through the headings first to see if your content is what they're looking for before actually reading it. So, you want to use headings to your advantage and make sure they're descriptive and explain what your content is about.
Website owners recognized the value of a high ranking and visibility in search engine results,[6] creating an opportunity for both white hat and black hat SEO practitioners. According to industry analyst Danny Sullivan, the phrase "search engine optimization" probably came into use in 1997. Sullivan credits Bruce Clay as one of the first people to popularize the term.[7] On May 2, 2007,[8] Jason Gambert attempted to trademark the term SEO by convincing the Trademark Office in Arizona[9] that SEO is a "process" involving manipulation of keywords and not a "marketing service."
Link building is not JUST a numbers game, though. One link from a "trusted authority" site in Google could be all you need to rank high in your niche. Of course, the more "trusted" links you attract, the more Google will trust your site. It is evident you need MULTIPLE trusted links from MULTIPLE trusted websites to get the most from Google in 2019.
"Easy Internet Services have up to this point been an amazing company to work with. The mark of truly good customer service comes from someone not just going above and beyond their required line of duties, but them being happy to do so. In my eyes this description perfectly encapsulates how I feel about SEO Rankings. I have engaged them to redesign my website, which they have done an amazing job of. It is beautiful and functional. In addition to this I have asked them to do my SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and have seen rapid results. I have total faith that in the near future they will have me at the top of my desired search terms. they are fast, efficient, friendly, very well priced and the proprietors of functional, effective and beautiful work. You will not go wrong putting the desires and dreams for your business in their hands."
SEO may generate an adequate return on investment. However, search engines are not paid for organic search traffic, their algorithms change, and there are no guarantees of continued referrals. Due to this lack of guarantees and certainty, a business that relies heavily on search engine traffic can suffer major losses if the search engines stop sending visitors.[61] Search engines can change their algorithms, impacting a website's placement, possibly resulting in a serious loss of traffic. According to Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, in 2010, Google made over 500 algorithm changes – almost 1.5 per day.[62] It is considered a wise business practice for website operators to liberate themselves from dependence on search engine traffic.[63] In addition to accessibility in terms of web crawlers (addressed above), user web accessibility has become increasingly important for SEO.
Analysis is the key to SEO – Monitoring your ranking on search engines is key to getting better results. Start by tracking the most important website metrics to set a baseline for your performance. Make small content changes and see if you notice a boost in your site traffic or rankings. Avoid making several unrelated changes simultaneously so you can always keep track of what was responsible for improved performance.
It's important to check that you have a mix of head terms and long-tail terms because it'll give you a keyword strategy that's well balanced with long-term goals and short-term wins. That's because head terms are generally searched more frequently, making them often (not always, but often) much more competitive and harder to rank for than long-tail terms. Think about it: Without even looking up search volume or difficulty, which of the following terms do you think would be harder to rank for?
Many search engine marketers think who you link out to (and who links to you) helps determine a topical community of sites in any field or a hub of authority. Quite simply, you want to be in that hub, at the centre if possible (however unlikely), but at least in it. I like to think of this one as a good thing to remember in the future as search engines get even better at determining topical relevancy of pages, but I have never actually seen any granular ranking benefit (for the page in question) from linking out.
Onsite, consider linking to your other pages by linking to pages within main content text. I usually only do this when it is relevant – often, I'll link to relevant pages when the keyword is in the title elements of both pages. I don't go in for auto-generating links at all. Google has penalised sites for using particular auto link plugins, for instance, so I avoid them.
OBSERVATION – You can have the content and the links – but if your site falls short on even a single user satisfaction signal (even if it is picked up by the algorithm, and not a human reviewer) then your rankings for particular terms could collapse – OR – rankings can be held back – IF Google thinks your organisation, with its resources, or 'reputation, should be delivering a better user experience to users.
I added one keyword to the page in plain text because adding the actual 'keyword phrase' itself would have made my text read a bit keyword stuffed for other variations of the main term. It gets interesting if you do that to a lot of pages, and a lot of keyword phrases. The important thing is keyword research – and knowing which unique keywords to add.
SEO is not an appropriate strategy for every website, and other Internet marketing strategies can be more effective, such as paid advertising through pay per click (PPC) campaigns, depending on the site operator's goals. Search engine marketing (SEM) is the practice of designing, running and optimizing search engine ad campaigns.[56] Its difference from SEO is most simply depicted as the difference between paid and unpaid priority ranking in search results. Its purpose regards prominence more so than relevance; website developers should regard SEM with the utmost importance with consideration to visibility as most navigate to the primary listings of their search.[57] A successful Internet marketing campaign may also depend upon building high quality web pages to engage and persuade, setting up analytics programs to enable site owners to measure results, and improving a site's conversion rate.[58] In November 2015, Google released a full 160 page version of its Search Quality Rating Guidelines to the public,[59] which revealed a shift in their focus towards "usefulness" and mobile search. In recent years the mobile market has exploded, overtaking the use of desktops, as shown in by StatCounter in October 2016 where they analyzed 2.5 million websites and found that 51.3% of the pages were loaded by a mobile device [60]. Google has been one of the companies that are utilizing the popularity of mobile usage by encouraging websites to use their Google Search Console, the Mobile-Friendly Test, which allows companies to measure up their website to the search engine results and how user-friendly it is.
Hi Noya, all the info suggests that dwell time IS taken into account in search ranking, and we know that Google measures time on page and bounce rate in Analytics, too. Plus the search engine gets smarter all the time. With the machine learning component of RankBrain, we wouldn't be surprised if Google can tell the difference between sites where visitors stick around, bounces where the visitor gets an answer immediately, and bounces where the visitor keeps searching.
The reality in 2019 is that if Google classifies your duplicate content as THIN content, or MANIPULATIVE BOILER-PLATE or NEAR DUPLICATE 'SPUN' content, then you probably DO have a severe problem that violates Google's website performance recommendations and this 'violation' will need 'cleaned' up – if – of course – you intend to rank high in Google.
Google and Bing use a crawler (Googlebot and Bingbot) that spiders the web looking for new links to find. These bots might find a link to your homepage somewhere on the web and then crawl and index the pages of your site if all your pages are linked together. If your website has an XML sitemap, for instance, Google will use that to include that content in its index. An XML sitemap is INCLUSIVE, not EXCLUSIVE. Google will crawl and index every single page on your site – even pages out with an XML sitemap.
QUOTE: "(Google Panda) measures the quality of a site pretty much by looking at the vast majority of the pages at least. But essentially allows us to take quality of the whole site into account when ranking pages from that particular site and adjust the ranking accordingly for the pages. So essentially, if you want a blunt answer, it will not devalue, it will actually demote. Basically, we figured that site is trying to game our systems, and unfortunately, successfully. So we will adjust the rank. We will push the site back just to make sure that it's not working anymore." Gary Illyes – Search Engine Land
Link building is not JUST a numbers game, though. One link from a "trusted authority" site in Google could be all you need to rank high in your niche. Of course, the more "trusted" links you attract, the more Google will trust your site. It is evident you need MULTIPLE trusted links from MULTIPLE trusted websites to get the most from Google in 2019.
One thing Google has indicated it likes to do is penalize sites or stores or companies that consistently have poor reviews, so if you have many poor reviews, in time Google is going to figure out not to show your site in their rankings because Google doesn't want to show those sites to their searchers. So prove to Google's algorithm that you are trustworthy. Get other highly authoritative websites to link to you. Get newspaper articles, get industry links, get other trusted sites to link to you: partners, vendors, happy customers—get them to link to your website to show that you are highly credible and trustworthy.
SEO techniques can be classified into two broad categories: techniques that search engine companies recommend as part of good design ("white hat"), and those techniques of which search engines do not approve ("black hat"). The search engines attempt to minimize the effect of the latter, among them spamdexing. Industry commentators have classified these methods, and the practitioners who employ them, as either white hat SEO, or black hat SEO.[50] White hats tend to produce results that last a long time, whereas black hats anticipate that their sites may eventually be banned either temporarily or permanently once the search engines discover what they are doing.[51]
When you write a page title, you have a chance right at the beginning of the page to tell Google (and other search engines) if this is a spam site or a quality site – such as – have you repeated the keyword four times or only once? I think title tags, like everything else, should probably be as simple as possible, with the keyword once and perhaps a related term if possible.
In 2007, Google announced a campaign against paid links that transfer PageRank.[30] On June 15, 2009, Google disclosed that they had taken measures to mitigate the effects of PageRank sculpting by use of the nofollow attribute on links. Matt Cutts, a well-known software engineer at Google, announced that Google Bot would no longer treat any nofollow links, in the same way, to prevent SEO service providers from using nofollow for PageRank sculpting.[31] As a result of this change the usage of nofollow led to evaporation of PageRank. In order to avoid the above, SEO engineers developed alternative techniques that replace nofollowed tags with obfuscated JavaScript and thus permit PageRank sculpting. Additionally several solutions have been suggested that include the usage of iframes, Flash and JavaScript.[32]
Google knows who links to you, the "quality" of those links, and whom you link to. These – and other factors – help ultimately determine where a page on your site ranks. To make it more confusing – the page that ranks on your site might not be the page you want to rank, or even the page that determines your rankings for this term. Once Google has worked out your domain authority – sometimes it seems that the most relevant page on your site Google HAS NO ISSUE with will rank.
QUOTE: "The score is determined from quantities indicating user actions of seeking out and preferring particular sites and the resources found in particular sites. *****A site quality score for a particular site**** can be determined by computing a ratio of a numerator that represents user interest in the site as reflected in user queries directed to the site and a denominator that represents user interest in the resources found in the site as responses to queries of all kinds The site quality score for a site can be used as a signal to rank resources, or to rank search results that identify resources, that are found in one site relative to resources found in another site." Navneet Panda, Google Patent
QUOTE: "Over time, we've seen sites try to maximize their "search footprint" without adding clear, unique value. These doorway campaigns manifest themselves as pages on a site, as a number of domains, or a combination thereof. To improve the quality of search results for our users, we'll soon launch a ranking adjustment to better address these types of pages. Sites with large and well-established doorway campaigns might see a broad impact from this change." Google 2015
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Everything for Google these days comes down to "Customer Experience". Page speeds, table of content, the relevancy of content, length of content, uniqueness of content, jump links, video in the content, relevant headers, less broken links, customized 404 pages etc are all indicative of improving customer experience on th website and hence helps you rank better.
QUOTE: Each piece of duplication in your on-page SEO strategy is ***at best*** wasted opportunity. Worse yet, if you are aggressive with aligning your on page heading, your page title, and your internal + external link anchor text the page becomes more likely to get filtered out of the search results (which is quite common in some aggressive spaces). Aaron Wall, 2009
Congrats Floyd! To answer your question: a big part of the success depends on how much your content replaces the old content… or is a good fit for that page in general. In the example I gave, my CRO guide wasn't 1:1 replacement for the dead link. But it did make sense for people to add it to their pages because they tended to be "list of CRO resources" type things. Hope that helps.
Domain authority is an important ranking phenomenon in Google. Nobody knows exactly how Google calculates, ranks and rates the popularity, reputation, intent or trust of a website, outside of Google, but when I write about domain authority I am generally thinking of sites that are popular, reputable and trusted – all of which can be faked, of course.
So what are the rules of thumb here? First and foremost, it's very important that your content is easy to read. Of course, you should use your keywords in your text, but don't stuff your keywords in almost every sentence. In general, if 1 or 2% of all words of your copy, is your keyword, then you're not overdoing it. Make sure your keywords are well-distributed throughout your text. Don't put all your keywords in the first paragraph thinking you're done with that part of the optimization. Naturally spread the keywords throughout your page or post. Use your keywords in a subheading or a couple of subheadings, depending on the length of your page or post. And use the keyword in your page title, first paragraph and your meta description. You can find all of these recommendations in the SEO analysis of Yoast SEO.


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Quick edit: if you don't like Jojo, then don't bother commenting that on my jojo artworks. I'm not here to tailor my artwork to any users besides myself, so I will continue putting time into drawing great Jojo art because I love the series. Thanks :sparkling_heart:
This piece was totally unplanned. I didn't feel like finishing my semi-realistic WIP but I wanted to draw, so I began doodling. Soon enough, I found myself drawing this awfully sad thing, and the more I drew the more I realised I might as well blog about it. I have cried a few times throughout the process, I have to admit. It was very painful to draw, and I will be in pain every time I have to unlock my phone as it is my lock screen now :")
I was actually meant to put out a written blog in which I talk about Jotaro's and Kakyoin's friendship, but I have to finish writing a few more things so look forward to that :eyes:
Pretty big spoiler warning for those who haven't seen/finished Part 3 of Jojo - Stardust Crusaders.
Here is the final piece:
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Program: Clip Studio Paint Pro
Tablet: XP-Pen Artist 12
A Tale of Two Crusaders
There isn't much to say with how I got the idea to draw this. I guess I just started drawing and it came to me? Idk, but anyway, I began with a plain red sketch using the rough pencil tool, sketching out Jotaro sitting cross-legged, clearly recovering from some injuries. I decided to, on another layer, add in Kakyoin in blue with his arms wrapped around the other. I was going for something touching, but not necessarily romantic or too affectionate.
Initially this was going to be a very rough, pretty basic piece. But I began doing the linework and although it was on the rough side, I changed my mind - I wanted to put more effort so that this would make me cry. I used a custom brush to do the linework, doing it in a loose Araki style. I had to keep going back and forth between layers to make sure that the linework didn't cross where it shouldn't, like on Kakyoin's right arm and Jotaro's face. Generally speaking it was easy to draw, especially Jotaro who I've drawn quite a few times.
The colouring was simple. I began by using a G-Pen to fill in the base colours for both characters. I tried to stay close to the original colours as best as I could. Though I did have a bit of fun with Jotaro's shorts and the cherries on them, I felt like that was a cute touch.
For the shading, I had created two layers for each different base layer - a multiply and glow dodge layer for shadows and highlights respectively. First though I worked on the shadows, so I used the same custom brush as well as the soft spray and blur tools to add the basic shading. After that, I created a separate multiply layer to add additional, darker shadows. I wanted the light source to come from behind, as if Jotaro is sitting with his back to the light, which would be where Kakyoin is.
I followed the same process as above with Kakyoin. I had debated whether to keep the linework or not, but ultimately settled on keeping it since I couldn't be bothered adding all the detail and adjusting things without it.
For the highlights I began with Kakyoin this time. I started with the hair, deciding to try something a little different. I laid down loose stroked on the glow dodge layer, before using the finger tip tool to drag those out and create a slight impression of strands. Then, I created an extra layer set to add (glow), and created a few lighter strokes with the same brush. After that, I used the brush to erase the edges and create a circular indent on both ends to create a shine effect.
For the rest of him, I used the same brushes as for the shadows to add the highlights. There isn't much to say about this process really as it was simple with little refinements.
I followed the exact same steps as above for Jotaro, too. Though I feel like the extra shine didn't fit very well with his hairstyle, but oh well. Overall, I was happy with how it was coming along.
I wanted to add a yellow glow to show that Kakyoin was just there in spirit. Jojo tends to show the souls of those who have passed in yellow, plus it would fit nicely. I changed the opacity of Kakyoin to about 75% then on a layer set to screen, hsed the soft spray brush to create the light glow.
At first I wanted the background to remain plain or simple, but I had no idea what to do so I ended up having Jotaro sit in a tatami room at home. I first laid down the base colours for it using the line tool (to make straight lines) and the bucket tool. After that, I added some downloaded textures - wood for the wooden door, canvas for the tatami mats, and a fine texture for the door panels (?).
After that, I used a soft spray brush to add some light shading on the background, mostly switching between the blending modes multiply and overlay to also add some yellow tones.
I reduced the opacity of Kakyoin's glow, also making it a little smaller. I created an add (glow) layer and used the soft spray to outline Kakyoin to define him a little more as the linework gets lost in the glow.
Next I added another overlay layer and began adding in even more shadows, this time, including some more prominent ones where Jotaro would be blocking the light. I mostly switched between the soft spray and the custom brush for this.
Last but not least, I added in the light source in the form of rays of light entering the room and falling onto Jotaro. I set the layer to add (glow) to make it seem bright and all.
I ended up saving about 6 copies of this piece, each with Kakyoin at a different opacity. I wanted to make this into a gif, so I opened up a new animation file in CSP and began working on making one-
But the quality of it was pretty bad since the original jpegs were all like 20MB so I ended up creating 4 separate gifs on ezgif.com, then using another site to put them all together. This way, the gif would retain more quality overall.
Final Outcome:
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