Neil McCarthy

YouTube video by Odys Global Title: Black Hat AI Manipulation: it’s so f*cking simple (no B-S from Alan Cladx)

@lilyray.nyc you should watch this to get a glimpse of black hat AI manipulation youtu.be/9Lu6CzAM9zY?...

Tu as fait une photo after ? Ou tu ne veux pas montrer les lignes jaunes 😀

By not launching it in France

Just to update on this, @johnmu.com very kindly looked into this and solved it for me. The French belgian pages were showing up on a URL without "www". As an example HREFLANG referenced www.mysite.be but the site also existed (and was indexed) as mysite.be
My faith in HREFLANG is restored ;-)

There's not a problem with 0 results. Pages from .fr domain are showing first, then pages from the .be domain. Ideally we don't want French users seeing the Belgian site in Google and HRFLANG has prevented this happening in the past. It may be specific to this one site. I'll check.

Hey @johnmu.com, is Google ignoring HREFLANG instructions? For an international client I am seeing links to French belgian pages showing up in searches from France with this explination. HREFLANG indicates that these pages are for fr-be audience only. Any similar experiences @aleyda.bsky.social ?

Google happy with AI results but studies show reasons not the be cheerful - Google News April 2025 Although Google is visibly proud of new AI features in search results, studies released in April 2025 are showing that the direct impact is less traffic for sites

Good Google SEO News roundup from last month www.seopress.org/newsroom/seo...

It is worth noting that Google hasn’t identified as a search engine for a long time. It calls itself an answer engine.

But I though the old acronym was dead🤔😉

Work or personal? Or both?

Great job on that article. Enriching and inspiring

Half a Million Dollars in Annual Recurring Revenue - 2024 Review - SEOPress The time has come for our traditional end-of-year review. Our best year thus far! $500,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR) crossed 🎉 (+100K compare to last year) The milestone of $2 million in cumul...

Similar product, SEOPress says €500K recurring annual revenues. www.seopress.org/newsroom/fea...

So 7 months old :-/ Although in my capture they have taken the site name out of the grey background.

Google SERP with new favicon

Hey @rustybrick.com something funny going on with favicons in Google SERPs. Rounded an placed on grey background. Is this new?

Unfortunately mine won’t be out until January 8th. But it will be my 15th year of Google Search predictions.

Be nice if Bing would put the site name in the object of the mail they just sent from Webmaster reports. Where to begin ?

There are detection tools www.seopress.org/newsroom/fea... and responsible AI content producers use watermarks deepmind.google/discover/blo...

If it ain't broke…

A Google homepage for every month since its launch.

Screenshots courtesy of the Internet Archive which helps preserve the internet.

For those who shit where they eat, I think it’s poetic justice

Il faudrait attendre le 8 janvier 2025 pour mes prédictions Google 2025. Primeur à la CCI Bayonne Pays Basque www.bayonne.cci.fr/evenements Pour plus d’infos

David not on blue sky yet? Must be a Celtic fan

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are grey (that's grey not blue)
You'll never know dear, how much i love you
Please don't take my sunshine away