simoncox, to SEO
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heysannidhi, to SEO
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"My recommendation would be not to focus so much on the absolute count of links. ... over-focusing on links will often result in you wasting your time doing things that don't make your website better overall."

John The Mueller

https://old.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1brhrvo/why_are_my_backlinks_not_showing_up/kx932wb/

#SEO

ai6yr, to music

New York Times article about a musician who has posted thousands and thousands of (ridiculous) random songs in an SEO bid to Spotify etc... which actually works that he makes a leaving from random streams of those random songs. (Gift Article) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/magazine/spotify-matt-farley.html?ugrp=u&unlocked_article_code=1.hE0.ejmt.J_ag76Di5g4s&smid=url-share

ai6yr,

"Farley is 45 and lives with his wife, two sons and a cockapoo named Pippi in Danvers, Mass., on the North Shore. For the past 20 years, he has been releasing album after album of songs with the object of producing a result to match nearly anything anybody could think to search for. These include hundreds of songs name-checking celebrities from the very famous to the much less so"

mjgardner, to ai
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I just realized that “prompt engineering” is just SEO (“ optimization”) in reverse.

spams unique language into specific content in hopes of raising the latter’s rank when querying a corpus indexed by an opaque non-deterministic algorithm.

spams unique language into a query against a corpus indexed by an opaque non-deterministic algorithm in hopes of returning specific content.

heysannidhi, to SEO
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maxleibman, to SEO
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"But SEO is just giving people what they want!"

False.

Patient zero: if I search the web for a phone number, what I want is to know whose phone number it is.

The top results should be pages that contain that phone number and information about what person or business it belongs to (including, if it's a business, their own web site).

What I don't want—what NOBODY wants—are spammy, scammy, for-pay reverse phone lookup companies.

#SearchIsDead #enshittification #SEO

maxleibman,
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  1. Find information that already exists for free (or that is extremely cheap to get)*.

  2. Either put it behind a paywall or wrap it in ads until it is virtually unusable (or both).

  3. Find a way to increase the search ranking of your version.

This is not a business model, this is ruining the web for money.

  • ~ Also, some aren't even doing this (e.g., like a reverse phone lookup service that PRETENDS to have data it doesn't).

#SearchIsDead #enshittification #SEO

maxleibman,
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Me in 2000: Google is the new Alta Vista! [in that it has become my go-to search engine]

Me in 2024: Google is the new Alta Vista! [in that everything is much harder to find than it should be and the relevance of results is plummeting]

#SearchIsDead #enshittification #SEO

pch, to SEO
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The Google Spam Update Is Done And It Was A Bloodbath For Some https://gmwd.us/Bz

#seo #analysis #google #update #thoughts #MarketingJunto

elias, to SEO
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Just got my badge for @brightonSEO

Who else is coming?

I'll be spending a few weeks in London after that. Let me know if you want to have a coffee, tea, drink...

#SEO #DigitalMarketing

nhoizey, to SEO French
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Je vois souvent des URL contenant un "slug" où l’apostrophe est supprimée sans être remplacée par un "-".

C’est pas idiot côté #SEO ?

Bien sûr, là, "d-ou" ou "dou" ne doit pas changer grand chose.

Mais voir par exemple "dhabitude" dans une URL, ça m’interpelle.
https://rss-parrot.net/u/www.numerama.com/status/1711304644224114619

irreverentmike, to SEO
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👨‍🚀🔭🚀

Anyone here mess with Astro?

I'm planning on doing a little Astro live coding tomorrow morning on my YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/live/wyJYInvZya8?si=EalOoi1AsyF6I4nC?sub_confirmation=1

See you there!

heysannidhi, to ContentCreators
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The fact that AI tools like ChatGPT et al., generate low unsatisfactory content is a testimony that most of the web content is of low quality. Of course, it depends on algorithms, but radically depends on input too.

Garbage in, garbage out. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ErikJonker, (edited ) to SEO
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Best fascinerend hoe beeldvorming van rechtse partijen als VVD en PVV volstrekt niet gelijk loopt met de economische realiteit van wat asielzoekers kunnen betekenen in een economie als de onze.
Overigens andere experts bevestigden al eerder hun bevindingen. Maar ja, voor rechtse partijen past het niet in de communicatie "frame" richting de achterban.
https://www.seo.nl/publicaties/ruimere-werkmogelijkheden-asielzoekers/

simoncox, to SEO
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i do check the Twatters for DMs occasionally and this absolutely brilliant video popped up of @MordyOberstein trying Marmite for the first time! @optimisey sent him some.

https://x.com/MordyOberstein/status/1770359961878482998?s=20

#seo is like Marmite

simoncox,
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@MordyOberstein @optimisey
Also I have to say Mordy was never going to like Marmite - he has the constitution of a damp tissue and Andrew knows this - so well played Andrew!!
👏

#seo

simoncox, to SEO
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Oh hello new bit of shiney Regex help in Google Search Console!

Regex presets in Google Search Console - very handy!

simoncox,
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And the page one you can quickly look for pages over a certain depth in the site! Really interesting.

#seo
#gsc

optimisey,
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@simoncox Ooooh fun! I was literally just doing some regex filtering in GSC and didn't see this. Is it on all your sites?

Also, cue the next raft of #SEO experts using this as evidence that 'Everything should be at the top level' of the site structure... again. 🙄

simoncox,
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@rustybrick

False alarm of course.
It was indeed an extension.

Not even sure how I had turned it on.

••glum that I will never get a Barry prize••

#seo

MikeBlazer, to SEO
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I just saw a thread on Reddit where the OP says they won't hire an SEO whose own site doesn't rank well (or who doesn't even have their own site).

❓Question: Should SEOs have to rank their own sites at all to be considered good at #seo ?

dwsmart, to SEO
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New Episode of Search Off the Record, with @lizzi, @methode and little old Moi!

I had a blast talking crawling: https://youtu.be/xVg9LcrSwyQ?si=r6qE1pU9qyG0VST6
#seo

mobileatom, to SEO
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Via Yoast: SEO basics: SEO fact or fiction? https://yoast.com/seo-fact-fiction/ #SEO

matttutt, to random
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Greetings of the day!

I've created a survey for SEOs to complete on the topic of climate change:
https://forms.gle/ZnQQXWniWvmSRPLj9

I'd be grateful for any responses, and/or re-shares!

Thank you! 💚

simoncox,
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@matttutt Excellent work Matt! Great read.

#seo

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