There may be a ceasefire in Gaza, but Israel has not stopped killing Palestinian families in 2026. An estimated 630 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the ceasefire took place last October. Today, Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world, and both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused Israel of committing genocide since 2024.
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Chances are, you found this website through a search engine. For the stories at Blurred Bylines, search engine optimization (SEO) is about publishing deeply researched and empathetic longform articles that explore people, events, and historical trends in the U.S. which typically receive less mainstream coverage.
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At Blurred Bylines, there are no third-party ad servers on the stories you read here. No annoying pop-up ads, video advertising, or paywalls either. The purpose of the articles here is simple: provide well-sourced, trustworthy pieces of information that anyone with an internet connection can access, no strings attached.
High-quality search engine results have the ability to genuinely help people learn about an idea, person, trend, or historical event. In this way, I think SEO can even be a public good. But search engines need to produce the best information possible because, for better or worse, the whole world relies on online search to figure out just about anything.
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About Shari Rose
I started Blurred Bylines in late 2016 as a writer. At the time, I was working as a newspaper copy editor and wanted a space to host my own writing as the events of that election year unfolded. As I published more stories, I learned about SEO and began to recognize how search engines could grow my audience to numbers I’d thought to be out of my reach.
The longform articles I write tend to focus on the LGBTQ+ community, people of color, and survivors of violent crime with intersectional angles of social justice, personal identity, and American history. One of the main goals I have for these pieces is to outrank a steady drip of spammy, low-quality content that some websites produce on these topics. Because for all of the trustworthy online sources out there, plenty others are not – and they can rank in SERPs too.
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The stories I write on Blurred Bylines often focus on marginalized communities where mainstream coverage can be minimal. These articles typically spotlight individuals who are fighting against systemic oppression or an egregious injustice, survivors of violent crime who have rebuilt their lives after the unthinkable, forgotten figures in American history, and volatile laws that seek to eliminate rights and criminalize people for being who they are.
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